You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

Kwasi Kwarteng/Liz Truss's emergency budget from some weeks back reportedly cost the UK upwards of 50B pounds only for it to be rolled back immediately by Jeremy Hunt who today warned that everyone is facing increased taxes to pay for the ludicrous actions.

And this is what is on Jacobs Rees Mogg's mind.

In the article he takes aim at the coming threat to the Tories opportunity to stay in power with the conversation around Proportional Representation growing in volume.

He is looking to maintain the scenario where they, with a minority of popularity in the country get to hold most of the power. Remember when he and others like he claimed that they needed to leave the EU so that 'the chosen elites' were not impacting on peoples lives in the UK who didn't vote for them. That is literally what he is calling for.

And coupled with the arrest of journalists covering recent Just Stop Oil protests by police using new powers granted to them in the recent policing bill which specifically looks to curb public protests, people should be paying very close attention to what this right wing mindset is attempting to do.

Yeah, Labour continue to have a battle between many at the parliamentary/party management level and a large number of their base. Jeremy Corbyn found out just how divided these groups are in certain ways, so too did Femi Oluwole when the party actively refused him the opportunity to become a member. Not a good sign for them in my view. Although, this being said, the fact that they adopted proportional representation at Conference is significant and a step in the right direction.

Keir Starmers recent response to Just Stop Oil protestors wasn't very different from that of Tories either and history won't judge him kindly for it.

Do you think scenes like this make it easy for people to go about their daily travel and work?

All these are from 2022.

We've tried ignoring the problem, do you think we just haven't tried ignoring it hard enough?

Rupert Murdoch has apparently told Trump that his network will no longer support him and his days in the White House are done.

This doesn't come as a surprise, and it remains to be seen exactly how it will playout, but its worth mentioning here in the context of the absolute power that Murdoch has, and continues to have in influencing the outcomes of many political battles.

Brexit would not have happened if he was in favour of it, neither would Trump have been elected the first time round IMO. And coincidentally, another strong influence in the occurrence of Brexit, Dominic Cummings, suggested last night that the Guardian should be blocked online because it is a source of lies. The Guardian of course being one of the platforms on which Carole Cadwalladr disclosed a lot of the shady goings on behind those pushing Brexit.

And of course the irony is that one of the strongest arguments Cummings and Murdoch media made in supporting Brexit was so as to prevent Britain being influenced by unelected elites....

For people born from around 1990, and who were leaving school, going to University etc from around 2008, while they might have hoped for prosperity and opportunity instead they have had to experience a global financial collapse, a xenophobic and racially driven Brexit vote, a completely inept Brexit implementation, a two-fingered approach to managing the Covid pandemic, continued climate inaction and now this. Very upsetting to have had this experience but Incredibly incredibly depressing when all along Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Paul Dacre etc blatantly lied to people about what they were experiencing, and who was responsible for it. And within the last couple of years, 2 TV stations were launched in the UK with a specific focus of 'straight talking' and being non-woke, and who spend their time diverting attention in the same. This is what the right wing led Tory Government has done to the country. This is the reality, not the faux BS that the Daily Mail, Sun and Express media have been telling people they need to get worked up about.

Recent heavy defeats for Conservatives in the US led to calls that people under 21 not be allowed to vote.

This is the situation in the UK.

The fact that young people (as old) can use other forms of ID for voting is not the point, this is clear age based discrimination that someone has made a conscious decision to implement. The question should be asked, why would it be made more difficult for a particular demographic to be able to vote?

'Intentional blinkered bias' he says, presumably with a straight face. 🤣

These are fcuking Nazi's. Self avowed. What, you think they were walking around looking for a late Halloween party.

Weren't you one of the people on another thread this past week adamant that Ron DeSantis isn't a Nazi? Why take that approach there if there's nothing wrong with being such?

I'm not one of the people who is only concerned about Nazi's on the street when they are explicitly braking the law. You obviously are.

An interesting position.

No surprise Lauren Boebert deleted this tweet in the wake of the tragedy.

There's a straight line between the hatred spewed from a particular section of conservatives and many of these events.

There's also some stories starting to spread about the individual involved in this incident which if true, will only increase the pain of those injured and the friends and families of those who lost people last night.