General British politics discussion thread

The strike was already on at the time. The far-left political tendency on the doctors' picket lines is alarming.

A senior doctor who stepped down from a BMA leadership role said the current leaders of the BMA haven't "read the room".

I'm not surprised by militancy in a trade union but it's not usually associated with physicians. One would have assumed they'd regard bolshevism as beneath them. Don't you think it's disturbing to see doctors in a democratic country having a militant worldview?! As for doctors being associated with the word "socialism", just think of a different part of Europe in the 1930s and put the word "national" in front. Oh, by the way, Che Guevara was a doctor.

What I meant to say is that doctors being far-left (as opposed to being social democrat) sounds familiar in Latin America, especially Cuba and Venezuela, but not in Britain and Ireland.

I think the case of that senior BMA figure cracking that horrific antisemitic joke is an example of the horseshoe theory in action.

@political analyst "doctors being far-left .... sounds familiar in Latin America...... but not in Britain and Ireland."

What about Noel Browne?

Has this thread been moved to CA/IMHO without me noticing ?

Daily Mail articles about Bolshevik doctors ffs. Conservative fans are really getting desperate.

Also, one of the 'caring' professions : ostensibly about helping people first and foremost and not necessarily all about making money. One would hazard a guess that right wing people might be more drawn to jobs where they can earn serious money and quickly.

There is another thread . . .

. . . for Brexit-related discussions; you might get a better response over there.

There doesn't seem to be any immediate reason to think that this particular thing is a "Brexit benefit", does there? There are 35 such plants open, under construction or being planned in the EU, so clearly EU membership or being subject to EU rules is no kind of barrier to projects of this kind. Have we any reason to think that this plant couldn't or wouldn't have gone ahead in Somerset if the UK were still in the EU?

80% of newspaper sales in Britain are of right wing newspapers (England in particular is a largely right wing country, certainly among the older population). Whatever their faults, the Guardian are pushing against a toxic media landscape.

You could argue that the right wing press has a serious love for GB alright, but only in a right wing English nationalist sense - they themselves absolutely despise everyone British outside their bubble (Labour, SNP, minorites, "the woke", immigrants, lefties, luvvies etc).

You think the Guardian would be anti a Labour led UK (or a Labour-Lib Dem coalition)? If not, in what way would that make them anti-UK or anti-British?

It's quite obvious that their issue is with the Tory Brexit regime (you could definitely argue they are anti-monarchy and anti-aristocracy too, but that is something of a separate discussion).

The comparison as per usual with America and Britain is incorrect. Britain has a public health service that is supported by the Tories in principle. The Americans do not believe in this principle. Nor is it believed in Ireland where half the population have private health insurance.