Nobody Cares about Britain

[detrius]

We fought a revolution just to then miss out on this?! I for one am appalled, disappointed, a little tired and truly hoping we start calling garbage cans "bins" here in America as a reaction.

What revolution?

 

[Free]

What revolution?

 

[Soen Eber]

What revolution?

You know! The ... uh ... ummmm land grab!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Free]

You know! The ... uh ... ummmm land grab!

Property is theft!

(I mean, if you want a revolution, that's the big one right there.)

 

[Tigger]

Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation

600 rape threats in one night: the daily reality of abuse faced by MPs

From the first article

Investigators are considering whether leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism (LASIT) played a role in the suspect’s alleged motivation

I'm curious why "single issue" and "anarchist" are rolled up together with left wing. Is anarchism a left wing ideology? I didn't think it was but I'm willing to be educated. And single issue is as likely to be right wing as left (I'd argue more so as there is far more violent rhetoric from the right in general)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

From the first article


I'm curious why "single issue" and "anarchist" are rolled up together with left wing. Is anarchism a left wing ideology? I didn't think it was but I'm willing to be educated. And single issue is as likely to be right wing as left (I'd argue more so as there is far more violent rhetoric from the right in general)

Historically anarchists have generally been on the anti-capitalist left rather than the right -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism -- and the related Libertarian Socialist movement There's also Individualist Anarchism and, more recently, Anarcho-Capitalists, but I think the left-wing flavours are far more prevalent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/ is worth a look for a deeper dive.

As I understand it, the police and security services categorise terrorist activities and groups in the UK as Far-Right, Islamist, Northern Ireland related, and Left-Wing, Anarchist and Single-Issue. Presumably these are the categories they find most useful.

I can see that the first three are pretty much self-explanatory and self-contained, while the last one is more "none of the above," and probably reflects the circles in which various groups of activists tend to move.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

The US has taken over bankrolling far-right UK thinktanks now that Viktor Orbán and Fidesz have been defeated in Hungary.

 

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Lessons from a cat about to outlast yet another prime ministe [The Economist by way of archive.today]

Around Westminster he is known as self-serving and territorial. “A little shit”, is how one minister has described him. Larry the cat, “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office” (to give him his official title), has been in post for 15 years and is on his sixth prime minister. As he prepares to turn his bottom to his seventh, Larry has lessons to offer his new housemate.

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

Meanwhile, the fascist piece of trash JKR (emboldened, of course, by the anti-trans "Labour" party) has targeted Amnesty International for criticizing her "cis women only" sexual violence centre.

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/jk-rowling-threatens-amnesty-international-uk-legal-action-anti-rights-report/governance/article/1964867

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Andy Burnham, our new PM, must be doing something right

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-foreign-secretary-trump-anger-white-house-b3018941.html

It should be remembered that appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US on the grounds that, for all his faults (or because of them), he'd be able to charm Trump ended up help costing Kier Starmer his job.

ETA Fixed broken link, I hope, but just in case...

Evernote Link

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Andy Burnham, our new PM, must be doing something right

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-foreign-secretary-trump-anger-white-house-b3018941.html

It should be remembered that appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US on the grounds that, for all his faults (or because of them), he'd be able to charm Trump ended up help costing Kier Starmer his job.

That link isn't working for me. But I can imagine where it might go... because yes, you can't appease someone like Trump without being fully subservant.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

That link isn't working for me. But I can imagine where it might go... because yes, you can't appease someone like Trump without being fully subservant.

Fixed the link, I think. Sorry about that.

The White House is “deeply concerned” about Ed Miliband’s appointment as foreign secretary, with a warning that Donald Trump has not forgotten scathing remarks the former Labour leader has made about him in the past.
New prime minister Andy Burnham has been cautioned that Mr Miliband has some “serious diplomatic repair to undertake” in the US, after his promotion to the role on Monday sparked anger from the Trump administration.
The former energy secretary has previously clashed with Mr Trumpover net zero and his attitudes to democracy and in 2016 he described the president as “a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper”.
One source close to the president told The Independent: “There’s genuine anger about this appointment.”

The two men have been attacking one another for more than a decade. Mr Miliband previously said of the president: “We must do our best at home and abroad to resist the worst of Trumpism… These are dark days for America and the world. There can be little solace right now.”
In 2017, he said Mr Trump had “lowered the bar for idiocy” and later joined a Stop Trump March in London. He also criticised the president’s "incredibly peculiar relationship with Russia" and accused him of lowering standards in politics.

The new foreign secretary has also described Mr Trump’s criticism on social media of the UK’s stance on drilling for oil and gas as “irrelevant”, with the president highly critical of his “net zero zealotry" and accusing him of blocking the UK from expanding oil and gas operations in the North Sea.
On Mr Miliband’s past remarks, one ally close to the president told The Independent: “Trump doesn’t forget. He will not forget. Miliband has some serious diplomatic repair to undertake.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose.

Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sam Bright (@writesbright)

All those immigrants, coming over here, reducing our crime rates. How dare they.

substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Looks like The Guardian's campaign is having some results

UK government reviews why police ceding criminal cases to US military

 

[Beebo Brink]

As Europe Burns, a Climate Cover-Up Continues | The New Republic

The U.K.’s Labour government seems afraid to talk about the climate emergency.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Just kick it into the long grass again, see what happens to long grass when it catches fire.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

As Europe Burns, a Climate Cover-Up Continues | The New Republic

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Andy Burnham has just taken over as PM (he's been in office a week) and he and his new team are going to be spending the summer deciding on a whole range of priorities, including the main direction of the next budget, to be announced at the end of October. They're not going to make any major announcements (and certainly not ones with major economic implications across several different cabinet portfolios) until October at the earliest.

The UK retains (and will retain) its legal commitment for the country to achieve net zero by 2050, which is strongly supported by Labour MPs, and with Ed Miliband, the former Environment Secretary and strong supporter of net zero as Foreign Secretary (and thus one of the most influential members of the Cabinet), will have a very powerful advocate in the cabinet.