Curious to see how Starmer tackles the channel crossing problem. This policy was a gimmic but there were some signs that it was affecting migrant flows with more people appearing in the Republic of Ireland to claim aslyum. Additionally the scheme that Australia ran - which was much more brutal than the Rwanda scheme - did ultimately reduce small boats crossings to practically 0 within a few years. I think they might still even have people detained in Papa New Guniea like 15 years after their scheme ended.

Faster processing might help reduce the backlog but when people are coached as to what they need to say to be granted asylum claims it is borderline impossible to stem the ‘pull’ factor from that avenue alone. Often migrants arrive without their documentation so returning them to their country of origin becomes difficult since the countries want proof that the person is actually a citizen.

Pretty much the only way you can curb the issue without a 3rd country scheme is to get the French authorities to stop the boats before they set off. This is logistically challenging given the length of the coastline. Arresting the traffickers will only do so much when there is a lot of potential profit to be made.

idk willing to give Starmer a chance and trust him on this one. It’s a high profile and visible issue that a lot of the electorate care about. He needs to get on top of it to keep Reform from capitalising on it.

Yeah, he hasn’t been very good at hiding the fact that he basically wishes he was a Tory. A lot of his speeches regarding the subject sound like a jilted lover emphasising how “over it” they are.

+1 for Inscryption. It’s easy to “break” but that’s part of the appeal.

I’ve never heard of Bad North. Will need to check it out!

Edit: £3.83 in the steam sale so picked it up

The fault lines are appearing in the Tories over what the new incarnation of the party is going to be. Broadly it seems like it’s going to be Kemi Badenoch with a more traditional, philosophically grounded version of the party (Roger Scruton style), on one side. Then on the other we’ve got Suella Braverman who is wanting to reclaim the Reform vote by becoming a more European style populist party. Steve Baker, self described “brexit hard man” (lol) was making noises about running but realistically it will be one of the other two that will have the base within the party to make a proper run for leader of the opposition.

I suspect there could have been a 3rd option for the one nation conservatives if Penny Mordaunt had kept her seat but unfortunately the more centrist tories seemed to lose more seats than the right wing hardcore.

We could argue about the overton window or whatever but far-right seems descriptive given that he is to the right of our traditional centre-right party, the tories. The Reform manifesto was proposing completely dismantling the benefits system for example, which would be a “far-right” policy imo.

I agree with your other comments that he’s not a fascist though. Fascism is a really specifc political doctorine that basically claims that the needs of the state trump any specific individual’s needs. People online tend to use it like a blanket term to describe any opinion that they don’t like which is to the right of their own (ditto with “nazi”). The BNP were literally fascist, and there is a real difference between their position and the Reform one.

Threatening physical violence makes it seem like you’ve lost the argument

Agree with both points here but wrt. the possibility Kier lurching to the right I particularly agree. Left wing pals on whatsapp and folks online are being way too pessimistic about the prospects of the labour government not delivering left wing policies. Having played it safe during the campaign, Kier has a majority which gives him way more latitude to implement whatever policies make sense.

I wish people could be able to take the W and enjoy it for one night without cynicism or pessimism.

I think this analysis is spot on. People are complex and tend to be self-interested IRL; even moreso the older they get.

Like people might realise that there is a housing crisis but once they become a home owner, then the lure of being a NIMBY to maximise the value of their property becomes too tempting.

Carol Vorderman is completely plastered on the C4 programme lol

Chances of at least 2 of them being disqualified/resigning for saying something awful is like 100%. There will be by-elections in no time.

Is anyone watching the C4 programme? Nadine Dorries is made out of pure salt right now. Her and Alistair Campbell are scrapping at every opportunity. Chaotic but entertaining.

hahaha get fucked SNP. We are so close to putting all this independence pish to bed. It was still affecting my vote a decade after the referendum. So tired of having to prioritise the constitutional question over everything else.

Reform are peddling gutter politics but the BNP was explicitly a fascist party. You could argue that it’s a matter of semantics given that all the BNP vote has just switched over to Reform but “populist Tories” is a modest improvement over a party whose 1992 manifesto stated:

Fascism was Italian. Nazism was German. We are British. We will do things our own way; we will not copy foreigners.

Completely agree with this take. There are dozens of us!

shut up

lol didn’t realise Poettering had a lemmy account

Users were complaining that their terminal transparency was being broken by the nspawn container and that the colour for other applications like tmux were being affected by it. For example tmux was appearing in the same navy blue in the terminal emulator instead of its usual green.

Idk he’s just a hot take merchant basically. He has a particular hate-boner for distros that don’t use systemd as the default init system like void and gentoo (usually these are troll tweets as opposed to commit messages though).

I’m going to continue to keep avoiding Poettering software for as long as he continues to act like a jackass. Even his commit messages are dripping with condescension.

It’s more like a quality control thing I guess. Generated content is going to be derivitive by its nature so banning it internally is forcing the devs to be creative.

I live in the only longstanding Labour constituency in Scotland; their only competition is the SNP. I’m a member of another party but the constitutional question basically overrides everything… kind of annoying to be bounced into voting for a specific party but I guess the longstanding MP has been doing a good job in my opinion.

To be honest I think he’d make quite a good leader of the opposition with his schoolboy debating style. I don’t foresee he’ll be around for long though.