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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Iirc the issue was they said they wouldn’t and broke ranks for an opportunity.

    Lib Dems campaigned on student loans. They got seats and support because of it, and many felt betrayed. They rebrand themselves often. They’re the rich but nice party. Free market capitalism with a plastic carrier bag tax. You forget they enabled austerity, and supported health reform that lead to the nursing shortage. They could have held firm on their red lines but they got drunk on opportunity. The question is if they ever cared about Brexit or saw an opportunity to position the party and ran with it.

    Trust is a big thing in politics for lefties.







  • That would be a concern, the default should be that folk want to break in and damage. It’s our military readiness and first line of defence. Russians regularly run sorties close to UK space which we need to scramble jets for. They attacked 2 former Russian citizens on UK soil with Novachok and civilian(s) died. There was absolutely no grounds for complacency before the Ukraine situation and there certainly isn’t now. Especially as we supply them and know we could become a target.

    It definitely feels like someone should be fired for this, unless they raised it, requested funding and was denied, but even then, whoever was in charge of base security should know vulnerabilities and staff accordingly. If staffed adequately and personnel failed in their duty, this is disciplinary territory.

    Punishing anti war protesters because our armed forces cannot handle amped up hippies is weird and surreal. It looks insecure/incompetent at best, authoritarian at worse.