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probablyasocialecologist · 11 months

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When Labour was elected with a big majority, there was a great sense of expectation of a sea change, and that the historical debt of the Labour Party to the miners would be redressed. There would be a serious program of social and economic regeneration for the former coalfield areas, hinging on the provision of decent, well-paid manufacturing jobs, not only for the current miners but also for the future generations. Then, it became clear that Blair’s view of regeneration was to sell these areas to mobile international capital. Some of it originated from the United States, some from Southeast Asia. Blair’s policy didn’t produce enough jobs, and the jobs that it did produce bore no comparison, in terms of wages, to those that had been available in the mines. Many of these jobs were not in manufacturing, but instead in call centers — they were poorly paid, part-time, and often precarious. The new economy that Blair’s government built up was not at all what people had expected, and it did not fit with what they were led to believe was Labour’s commitment to the coalfield areas. Having hit a high point in electoral support for Blair in 1997, the Labour Party had its support progressively eroded after that, as people became more and more disillusioned with the Thatcherite policies the Labour Party had pursued and the party’s inability to effectively combat the austerity politics of the Tory coalition in 2010. The opportunity to express disillusionment came with the Brexit vote. Those who had suffered as a consequence of industrial decline and the subsequent austerity policies of the previous two or three governments could voice their opposition to the political establishment. The Conservatives were largely in favor of Brexit. Senior figures in the Labour Party wanted to stay in Europe. In a sense, staying in Europe was seen as a sort of a class project — a certain fraction of the educated, middle-class political establishment had an interest in remaining in Europe. Brexit provided an opportunity for those in the areas that had suffered as a result of the previous thirty or forty years of economic policy to say, “If you’re in favor, we’re not. We’re not necessarily against our brothers in Europe, but we’ve had enough of being treated this way, and both major political parties have ignored our legitimate demands for decades.” This trend manifested in the subsequent election results. In 2019, Boris Johnson returned with a massive majority. In the North East, sometimes for the first time ever, conservative MPs were returned in districts like Blair’s, which had been solidly Labour for as long as anybody could remember. Something similar happened in South Wales: The Labour vote declined, but the opposition vote was split between the Tories and Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party. Labour held onto the seats, but Brexit was a turning point in Labour support in these areas. People wanted something different.

#labour party #uk politics #history #coal #brexit #tony blair

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unrestrainedbalderdash · 1 year

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#uk politics

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capnsoapy · 1 year

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someone asked if political party colours were backwards in the UK compared to the US and I got carried away explaining that uh

US:

UK:

it's a bit more complicated than that

this is all 14 parties in the UK which either have seats in the House of Commons, in the House of Lords, or who are currently polling at over 1% of vote share.

Across the top are the national parties; Greens, Labour, and Liberal Democrats on the left, and the Convervatives, Reform (neé Brexit), and UKIP on the right.

Along the bottom are the regional parties; Sinn Féin (Northern Ireland), Plaid Cymru (Wales), Scottish National (Scotland), Social Democratic and Labour (NI), Alliance (NI) on the left, and the Ulster Unionists (NI), Democratic Unionists (NI) and Alba (Scotland) on the right.

#ukpol #uspol

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captaindibbzy · 2 years

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Not reblogging the chain again cause I cba with talking and reading and really I don't have much more to say but someone replied to it that Finland has the same population size as Scotland and they're good.

Finland's main export is refined petroleum. Oil.

Followed by paper, cars and steel, and woodpulp.

Meanwhile Finland has lots of tech based jobs. Scotland does not.

They have infrastructure. Which is what I am saying about independent Scotland. They need infrastructure that doesn't just revolve around getting the North sea oil fields and making whiskey.

Scotland's current "main export" is petroleum and related products (£11billion) and Beverages comes in at £4billion but also it's linked to the union. And like with Brexit you can not guarantee that companies will stick around.

Like I said on that post I'm not against Independent Scotland. But I love the place and the people and I don't want them to make Brexit 2.0 cause Brexit 1.0 was garbage and what we did get out of it was dumb luck. You can't strong arm your neighbours in to giving you everything you want. Please what is your back up plan?!? What are you going to do about the boarder?!?

But everyone's stuck in this fantasy scenario where they are William Wallace facing the evil English in 1296 or whenever.

Plaid Cymru's plan for independent Wales revolves around, to borrow a government word, "leveling up" the country before going for it, improving infrastructure and education and job opportunities. You know, taking power out of London.

It's so fucking frustrating cause everyone is taking it in bad faith and wants to fight me like the holes in the plan are yours mate. Fill your fucking potholes before driving over them instead of pretending they're not there!

Anyway I won't be answering any questions about this, and I'm turning reblogs off because I can not be arsed, and I am not an expert and no one wants to answer my questions, they just want to eat me so I'm gonna go eat chocolate and read a book instead. >:(

#personal #norb4u

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gaoteeshirt · 7 months

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The only people who had a moral duty to comply were the MPs of the parties that backed it (Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP and Plaid) and the members of those political parties. And it was voted on by 650 people, unlike Brexit, PR or Scottish Independence. Sarz Hayes xori my lady I know this is abt covid buh I need to say sumtin am too attracted to u buh I don't know how or y,this is not the first tym have seen u comment am truly and deeply falling for u and I can't help em no more and trust me beautiful am no fraud or scam is just the real me crushing for u for weeks now.

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mubashirnews · 1 year

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Wales's message to Europe: 'We'll be back'

Three years since Brexit, the dire warnings of economic decline are coming to pass. The UK’s economy is shrinking, and Brexit job losses are biting. My party, Plaid Cymru — the party of Wales — is firmly a pro-European party. We didn’t want to allow the Conservatives to gamble with our economy in 2016, and our long-term aim continues to be for Wales to rejoin the European Union as a member state…

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news24fr · 1 year

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Ja droite américaine a cette semaine mis en scène un spectacle de clowns qui a eu des libéraux dans ce pays et au-delà en train de prendre une chaise et de sortir le pop-corn. Il y a eu un plaisir karmique à regarder les républicains qui ont pris le contrôle de la Chambre des représentants lutter pour terminer la tâche la plus élémentaire – l'élection d'un président – mais cela a également été instructif, et pas seulement pour les Américains. Car il a confirmé le sale petit secret de cette souche de politique populiste de droite qui se délecte de ce qu'elle appelle la perturbation : cela se termine toujours par des combats acharnés entre factions, le chaos et la paralysie. Nous, en Grande-Bretagne, devrions le savoir, car le Brexit a suivi exactement le même chemin.Commençons par le karma qui a vu les républicains de la Chambre se rassembler deux ans jour pour jour depuis qu'ils ont cherché à empêcher le transfert pacifique du pouvoir d'un parti à un autre : souvent oublié dans les souvenirs d'anniversaire du 6 janvier 2021, c'est que, quelques heures seulement après que les émeutiers aient pris d'assaut le Capitole des États-Unis, une majorité de membres de la Maison républicaine voté faire exactement ce que les émeutiers avaient exigé et annuler les résultats de l'élection présidentielle de 2020. Pourtant, il y avait ces mêmes républicains de la Chambre le 6 janvier 2023, ayant empêché le transfert en douceur du pouvoir d'un parti à un autre - sauf que cette fois, le parti qu'ils contrecarraient était le leur.La Chambre toujours sans orateur alors que McCarthy plaide les résistants républicains – en directLire la suiteCela aurait dû être simple. Les républicains ont obtenu une courte majorité à la Chambre en novembre, ce qui leur a donné le droit de placer l'un des leurs dans le fauteuil du président. Le problème était que, alors que la plupart soutenaient Kevin McCarthy, environ 20 rebelles ne le faisaient pas. Jeudi soir, ils avaient traversé 11 tours de scrutin – le la plupart depuis l'ère de la guerre civile – sans que McCarthy ou qui que ce soit d'autre ne remporte la majorité. Résultat : impasse.C'était une étude sur l'incompétence. Un parti demande à l'électorat de lui donner le pouvoir ; ils l'obtiennent puis gèlent, incapables de faire même le premier pas vers son utilisation. Il n'y a pas de logique politique claire dans l'impasse. Les rebelles sont des fidèles de Donald Trump, mais McCarthy lui-même est un sycophant infatigable de Trump – patronné par l'ancien président sous le nom de «mon Kevin» – qui a supplié et obtenu le soutien de l'orange. Les rebelles pro-Trump sont divisés entre eux : un a réprimandé Trump pour rester avec McCarthy, tandis qu'un autre voté pour faire de Trump lui-même le président.Il est révélateur que les demandes des rebelles ne portent pas sur la politique mais sur la procédure, cherchant des changements de règles ou des sièges de comité qui leur donneraient plus de pouvoir. Sinon, ils ne peuvent pas vraiment dire ce qu'ils veulent. Ils ont réussi à faire retirer les détecteurs de métaux de l'entrée de la chambre, de sorte que les gens peuvent maintenant marcher sur le sol de la Chambre avec une arme à feu, mais à part cela, et leur soif de commencer à enquêter sur les démocrates, y compris le fils de Joe Biden, Hunter, rien .Tout cela a une signification pour l'année à venir dans la politique américaine. D'une part, c'est une preuve supplémentaire de la diminution de la force de Trump parmi les dirigeants républicains, sinon encore parmi les fidèles du parti. D'autre part, si les républicains ne peuvent pas prendre une décision relativement facile comme celle-ci, comment vont-ils faire les choix difficiles mais nécessaires qui s'en viennent - comme autoriser les dépenses et la dette nécessaires au fonctionnement du gouvernement américain ?Le Premier ministre Rishi Sunak s'exprimant lors des questions au Premier ministre, mercredi 30 novembre. Photographie : Parlement britannique/Jessica Taylor/PAMais sa signification va beaucoup plus loin.

Car ce qui a été exposé cette semaine, sous une forme particulièrement florissante, est une souche politique qui a infecté de nombreuses démocraties, y compris la nôtre. Sa principale caractéristique est son plaisir à perturber, à promettre de bouleverser le système. C'était le sens des mouvements jumeaux de 2016, Trump et Brexit. Tous deux ont promis de balayer les élites, les experts, l'orthodoxie – que ce soit à Washington DC ou à Bruxelles. C'étaient de nouveaux mouvements, mais ils puisaient dans des racines profondes. Il y a quatre décennies, Ronald Reagan et Margaret Thatcher se présentaient comme des radicaux osant secouer la main morte du gouvernement.Nous ne pouvons donc guère être surpris que ceux qui s'insurgent contre le gouvernement le fassent si mal. Ils ont promis des perturbations, et c'est ce qu'ils ont livré. Aux États-Unis, c'était le chaos de Trump lui-même, et maintenant une maison de mini-Trumps qui ne peut pas attacher ses propres lacets. Au Royaume-Uni, cela semble différent : nous avons un Premier ministre en Rishi Sunak dont le discours est la compétence technocratique. Mais cela ne doit pas cacher deux choses.Premièrement, le parti conservateur post-2016 a provoqué autant d'agitation parlementaire et de division intra-parti que McCarthy et co ont servi cette semaine. Qu'il s'agisse de l'impasse des Communes des deux années précédant les élections de 2019 ou du psychodrame des trois années qui ont suivi, le conservatisme de l'ère du Brexit s'est avéré tout aussi déséquilibré que le républicanisme de l'ère Trump. Lorsqu'il s'agit de politique brûlante, l'aile la plus folle des républicains n'est que novice comparée à un maître incendiaire comme Liz Truss. Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni sont simplement à des points différents du cycle.Les démocrates de la Chambre devraient s'unir aux républicains modérés pour élire un président | Robert ReichLire la suiteDeuxièmement, même avec Sunak aux commandes, et bien que peint dans des couleurs moins vives, le torysme de l'ère du Brexit est tout aussi paralysé que son mouvement frère aux États-Unis. Les plan en cinq points dévoilés dans le discours du Premier ministre pour le nouvel an consistaient principalement en les bases de l'administration de l'État – la croissance de l'économie, la gestion de l'inflation – plutôt que tout ce qui équivalait à un programme politique.Et c'est principalement parce que son parti, comme les républicains, ne peut pas s'entendre entre eux. Considérez combien Sunak a dû abandonner, sous la pression de divers rebelles. Qu'il s'agisse de la réforme du système de planification, de l'engagement manifeste à construire 300 000 nouvelles maisons par an ou l'engagement éternel de saisir l'ortie de la protection sociale, Sunak a dû se retirer des tâches essentielles au bien-être du pays. Certes, il a évité les scènes farfelues qui se sont déroulées cette semaine à Capitol Hill, mais c'est uniquement parce qu'il a préféré préserver le vernis de l'unité plutôt que de forcer toute une série de problèmes. Le résultat est un Premier ministre qui ne peut pas proposer beaucoup plus que des cours de mathématiques supplémentaires, de peur de perdre la coalition agitée et agitée qui le maintient au pouvoir.Rien de tout cela n'est une coïncidence. C'est dans la nature du projet populiste de droite, en Grande-Bretagne, aux États-Unis et dans le monde entier. Le Brexit est l'exemple, une mission qui a fonctionné avec une grande puissance en tant que campagne, en tant que slogan, mais qui n'a jamais pu se traduire par gouverner, car il n'a jamais été question de gouverner. Il s'agissait de perturber la vie, de ne pas l'organiser - ou même de reconnaître les compromis nécessaires pour l'organiser. Il offrait la poésie de la destruction, pas la prose de la compétence.Les conservateurs sont plusieurs étapes plus loin sur cette voie que les républicains, peut-être parce que leur pouvoir a été ininterrompu tout du long. Mais dans les deux cas, et dans d'autres, le changement est indubitable.

Autrefois, les partis de droite se considéraient comme les gardiens évidents de l'autorité de l'État : le parti naturel du gouvernement. Maintenant, ils sont plus heureux de secouer leurs poings à ceux qu'ils insistent sont vraiment en charge. Ils deviennent le parti naturel de l'opposition. Jonathan Freedland est un chroniqueur du Guardian Avez-vous une opinion sur les questions soulevées dans cet article? Si vous souhaitez soumettre une réponse de 300 mots maximum par e-mail pour être considérée pour publication dans notre section de lettres, veuillez cliquer ici.

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news247worldpressposts · 2 years

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#Breaking: "#Britain's economic prospects are worsened... that is a fact"

#Breaking: “#Britain’s economic prospects are worsened… that is a fact”

"Britain's economic prospects are worsened… that is a fact" Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts challenges Rishi Sunak on comments made in a Bloomberg interview with Kemi Badenoch, who disputed OBR forecasts about Brexit's impact on tradehttps://t.co/ohrNc0fdCc #PMQs pic.twitter.com/XlMaAzNXUf — Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) November 9, 2022 Source: Twitter

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byzfox13 · 5 years

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UK (Wales): Populist Brexit Party (EFDD) finishes first place with 32.% of the vote, with pro-independence Plaid Cymru rising to second place with 19.6%. In its historic heartland centre-left Labour (S&D) falls to third place with 15.3%.

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1132776299439808513

#land of my fathers #eu elections #UK politics #wales #the brexit party #plaid cymru #plaid brexit #labour party #national populists #European politics

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generalelectionmusings · 5 years

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#remainer #general election #uk #politics #ge2019 #lib dem #plaid cymru #opposition #green #brexit shambles

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welshsidekick · 4 years

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Reasons Why Wales Should Get More Recognition and The Reasons it Doesn’t

We provide most of the UK (or, at least most of England)‘s water

Water they got by demanding the right to drown 3 different towns and forcing residents to move out despite protests, at least one of which wasn’t even used until relatively recently (see: Tryweryn)

We provide most of the UK (or, at least most of England)‘s electricity

We don’t get any money for either of these things because England underfunds us and so we have to sell our resources to big companies so what little money our government is given can go to other things, like trying to stop what little language and culture we have left from going extinct

YesWales is a movement for Welsh independence that has been gaining a lot of traction very quickly since it started, but is hardly taken seriously

Part of this is because most of Wales did, in fact, vote Leave and Tory

However, statistics apparently show (I haven’t double checked this though so correct me if I’m wrong) that the majority of voters in Wales who voted these were actually English people who had moved to Wales

I’m inclined to believe this because, from statistical maps, the areas that did vote these are, to my awareness, heavily anglicised, and the more heavily, traditionally Welsh areas (seen mostly around the coast and the very top and bottom of the country) voted Leave and Plaid Cymru (our equivalent of the SNP)

All of our mines (which was our and, for a long time, the UK’s primary source of income) were shut down long before they needed to be to save money, costing thousands of jobs and causing large protests

(There’s an interesting, rather heartwarming story about a crossover between this and LGBT activism if you ignore how horrible it was overall)

Our language is constantly disrespected in a way that no other language is, with it regularly being called pointless and stupid. An opinion which is completely flipped when it comes to poetry, funnily enough

Very similar history to the Native Americans (this applies to all Celts, and we get by a lot better now, obviously, since we’re white and all, but the history is quite similar otherwise)

People regularly forget that we exist and we’re constantly grouped together with England (e.g. statistics always show ‘England and Wales’ and hardly ever the two desperately) despite the fact that we’re not the same country and not the same people, with different laws and everything

Wales and the Welsh Government has been trying to get more freedom from England for years but they just keep turning us down for, as far as I’m aware, no good reason

We’re horrendously underfunded by Westminster (alongside Northern Ireland and Scotland)

You remember the original Brexit argument about all that money we were giving them that we didn’t get back? Yeah, most of that money came back to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Further proof that England gives little to zero shits about us - getting across Wales, a very small country, takes 3-4 hours. Yet I can get a train from North Wales to London in about 1-2 hours

(Extended point being: our roads and railways are messy and shit because Westminster don’t care about us being able to get around our own country easily, they on care about people being able to get to and from London as easily as possible. I have to take a 4-6 hour trip to get between home and uni because I have to go all the way up and around rather than there being an easy, probably 2 hour straight route)

Our royal line was taken away from us in an extremely brutal and unethical way (involving the murder, kidnapping and brainwashing of children), and the only reason the first born son of the king and queen is the ‘prince of Wales’ is because we protested and said we’d never accept a Prince who’s first language wasn’t Welsh, so the current king cheated and said his son fit that description because he was a baby and couldn’t speak any language yet

Wales is the only place you can find a certain species of fish (I forget the name) that have existed, mostly unevolved since the ice age. They’re found in 2 different lakes where fishing is now illegal, but will likely go extinct thanks to global warming heating up the water faster than they can adapt.

Probably way more than this that I can’t remember off the top of my head, but my point stands: stop treating Wales like shit. We already get enough of that from the people that are in charge of us.

#wales #cymru #yes wales #yes cymru #scotland #ireland #northern ireland #england #westminster #brexit #plaid cynru #yes we may not be perfect #and we’re definitely shit in some areas #but godammit at least let us be shit on our own

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benisasoftboi · 4 years

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Don’t normally like to do topical politics on here, but wanted to share these charts about the UK election as I don’t usually see the data get presented like this elsewhere. I think it’s a good illustration of what happened, and why our system needs change

#uk election #politics #uk politics #conservatives #tories #labour #lib dems #snp #greens #brexit party #plaid cymru #misc

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dappercyborg · 4 years

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This is Raab’s seat with today’s yougov mrp data, it’s a prime example of why tactical voting is so important, labour has no chance there so we need to vote Lib Dem to ensure one of the worst Tory’s is not returned

Above is IDS Lib Dem’s need to vote labour because that’s how this works, voting on the old tribal lines will return a Tory majority, yougov project 339 seats(edit)

people saying that those of us advocating tactically voting are doing it to hurt labour, to aid the Lib Dem’s, or because we are scared of a Corbyn majority need to open their eyes,

Corbyn didn’t stand a chance at this election, i say that as a party member who voted for him as leader both times, the first because I believed in him, the second because it wasn’t the time to change the leadership.

We get the Tory’s out as our first priority

#uk politics #brexit #general election #tories out #labour party #lib dems #snp #plaid cymru #green party

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tauman942 · 4 years

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