@BlobWarriorUK Mate, you have a billionaire sex offender as your profile pic, I don’t think you should be criticising anyone. Hannah is entitled to wear what she wants, I doubt she gives a shit what you think either.
The UK is about to have its 6th prime minister in 7 years because after 47 years of Thatcherism, nothing works any more. We're going to be stuck in an endless cycle of prime ministerial resignations until the failed neoliberal model is overturned.
@football_fwends@bigpicturepol@David__Osland There’s no point arguing with these people, they use the same inflation excuses every time and attempt to sound clever. Just vote Green and let’s see, doing the same things and expecting a different outcome is madness. We need to change how everything works. 💚
@michaelco_lis@David__Osland That’s fair and I agree totally, blanket solutions that politicians come up with are just that, I think it’s down to not having people with the right skills in politics hence I have stepped into that area to try and help. Most rational people listen and question.
@themoongru@bigpicturepol@David__Osland Maybe take your own advice and use some critical thinking. You have clearly failed on that, or maybe you actually don’t understand what critical thinking means 🤷♂️
@semuelman@michaelco_lis@David__Osland Do you take everything a politician says literally? It’s about starting a conversation and maybe we think about how we start addressing massive inequality in the UK. The divide between rich and poor is now out of control.
@michaelco_lis@David__Osland I think there is something that should be done to address the problem inequality is causing. I agree a blanket 10:1 is pie in the sky but that’s political gesturing to maybe start thinking about how we start to fix these things.
@michaelco_lis@David__Osland That’s fair enough, what about the case of big corporations paying huge sums to ceo’s that lose nothing if a company fails? I wouldn’t expect the same rules will applied to a small business owner. Take a water company ceo for example? They fail and are propped up by the taxpayer
@michaelco_lis@David__Osland I also don’t buy the cock on the block deserves big bucks, that’s generally untrue, failed ceo’s get rewarded handsomely for being incompetent it’s the employees that suffer
@michaelco_lis@David__Osland You may well believe everyone should earn a living wage. Fact is the majority don’t, how do we fix this in your view? Most companies won’t pay more than minimum wage because that’s what they have to do? More employee ownership of companies maybe?
@bigpicturepol@David__Osland Or here’s an idea they put the salary up of the people being paid peanuts and relying on benefits from the government to top those wages up. Everyone wins. It’s about reducing inequality same as a wealth tax in itself doesn’t work but multiple measures can change things.
@PutBritain_1st@BladeoftheS Only if said millionaires agree with the same ideology? If a successful millionaire tries to offer something different the inevitable reply is champagne socialists!
The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential.
Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc.
We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone.
But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate.
It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.
Something new and uncomfortable is happening on parts of the British right.
Religion is being rediscovered. Not as faith. As a political weapon.
1. Figures like Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and Tommy Robinson are increasingly framing politics in civilisational terms. Christianity vs. something else, Britain as a religious identity under threat.
2. But this isn’t a revival of faith. It’s a repurposing of it. Christianity is being used less as a belief system and more as a cultural marker. A way of drawing lines around identity.
3. That matters because it is, at its core, selective. The language of “Christian values” appears most often in opposition to immigration, to Islam, to social change. It is rarely accompanied by any serious engagement with the actual religion itself.
4. Genuine faith is inconvenient. It asks for consistency, humility, moral discipline. Political rhetoric is not. It is flexible, opportunistic and used when useful.
5. Which is why the current trend feels less like Reform have found God and more like hypocrisy. Religion is being used as shorthand for belonging, not as a guide to conduct.
6. There is also a clear political incentive. Framing issues in civilisational or religious terms raises the stakes instantly. It turns policy debates into existential struggles, where compromise looks like surrender.
The irony is obvious. Many of the loudest voices invoking Christianity are not known for deep religious observance. The appeal isn’t theological. It’s tribal.
7. And that has consequences. Once politics is framed in these terms, it becomes harder to have serious discussions about policy such as migration, integration and housing because everything is recast as identity conflict. It also risks degrading religion itself. When faith becomes a political prop, it loses credibility as a moral force.
Religion has always had a place in British public life. But there is a difference between faith shaping politics and politics exploiting faith.
What we are seeing now looks much more like the latter.