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This country is doomed

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 08:29

While the vote in Gorton and Denton may be described as a 'protest' vote the strength of both the Greens and Reform performance is something to worry all of us not just Labour.

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randomchap · 27/02/2026 09:40

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:37

He is a self hating Jew.

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That's a very loaded phrase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew

Self-hating Jew - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:40

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 27/02/2026 09:37

Apparently the G&D by-election result is a portend of the UK hurtling toward becoming an Islamist Theocracy. 🤔

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Nobody has said that. But the fact that a vote (even if a protest one) means these populist parties gain seats in Parliament is a worrying trend that we saw in the last GE.

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loislovesstewie · 27/02/2026 09:39

Sa11yCinnamon · 27/02/2026 09:37

Their leader is Jewish and they're antisemitic?

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He's in favour of a policy that would make his own mother a criminal. The motion being that Zionism is racism. He's a self hating Jew.

narkyspirit · 27/02/2026 09:39

It should be a wake up call to the Labour Party, they would have most likely won that seat had Burnham stood.

Keir starter is clinging on by his finger nails currently to his 'leadership' I hope he is ousted sooner rather than later.

Sartre · 27/02/2026 09:39

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:37

He is a self hating Jew.

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How exactly? Let me guess, because he spoke out against genocide.

My Grandma is a devout Jew and she also hates Zionism. I best go tell her she’s a ‘self hating Jew’.

PhaedraWas · 27/02/2026 09:39

BlueJuniper94 · 27/02/2026 09:21

It's not really communism though is it

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It is.

FiveMetresUp · 27/02/2026 09:38

The Greens… aren’t they just about trans people and Muslims these days?

ExtraOnions · 27/02/2026 09:38

LoveItaly · 27/02/2026 09:31

I know, it’s the refusal to face reality, and read up on where this has already happened, that is baffling and depressing. It won’t be too long before we are too late to change the trajectory.

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6% of the population is Muslim.

They are not a homogeneous blob, they don’t all follow the same rules, same beliefs, same politics. You have Muslims that support Reform.

Some Muslims have strong religious beliefs, some don’t, some are very secular.

I think we are some distance away from any sort of Islamic takeover.

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:37

Sa11yCinnamon · 27/02/2026 09:37

Their leader is Jewish and they're antisemitic?

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He is a self hating Jew.

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XDownwiththissortofthingX · 27/02/2026 09:37

Shuffletoesxtreme · 27/02/2026 09:33

Too late for what exactly? Struggling to parse exactly what you’re getting at.

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Apparently the G&D by-election result is a portend of the UK hurtling toward becoming an Islamist Theocracy. 🤔

the80sweregreat · 27/02/2026 09:37

Amber dreams sums it up for me. I am politically homeless too.

THisbackwithavengeance · 27/02/2026 09:37

The Green party candidates have clearly been taking too many of the drugs that they want to legalise. Ridiculous student politics. Free housing and open borders to any immigrant who wants to come in? Who’s paying for that? Where are all these houses coming from? I wish stupid people would stop becoming politicians. It’s a shame because I used to vote Greens occasionally if none of the others appealed.

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:37

Sa11yCinnamon · 27/02/2026 09:33

Oh god 🤦🏻‍♀️ I apologise!

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No need to apologise! I should have been clearer but it made me smile on this grim Friday. 😀

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Sa11yCinnamon · 27/02/2026 09:37

PhaedraWas · 27/02/2026 09:34

They're mad. And basically Communists. And antisemitic.

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Their leader is Jewish and they're antisemitic?

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/02/2026 09:36

Shuffletoesxtreme · 27/02/2026 09:33

Too late for what exactly? Struggling to parse exactly what you’re getting at.

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Yeah, right

Sartre · 27/02/2026 09:36

PhaedraWas · 27/02/2026 09:34

They're mad. And basically Communists. And antisemitic.

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Yes, a classic antisemitic party with a Jewish leader.

Sartre · 27/02/2026 09:35

No idea why everyone is so afraid of a multi party state, I think it’s exciting and important for democracy. It’s a sign people are looking for alternatives for once and thinking beyond what their parents voted for, and their parents before them. Historically those on the left would just vote Labour their whole lives through good and bad times and right wingers tories. I’m happy the tides are changing.

PhaedraWas · 27/02/2026 09:34

Wordsmithery · 27/02/2026 08:36

I've voted Green for years and would be delighted if they were successful at the next election. Obviously a Reform win would be highly problematic though. What's your issue with the Green party exactly?

They're mad. And basically Communists. And antisemitic.

BlueJuniper94 · 27/02/2026 09:34

Dweetfidilove · 27/02/2026 09:30

I'm not here to educate you. Not on this blessed Friday, and certainly not when my post had nothing to do with what you're asking. Peace out ✌🏾.

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Didn't think so. Shame. It would have done me good to be proven wrong.

dubbie · 27/02/2026 09:34

kalokagathos · 27/02/2026 08:48

I like greens a lot

I'm trying to eat more greens too.

Sa11yCinnamon · 27/02/2026 09:33

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:25

I was quoting the votes on my thread not the bielection!

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Oh god 🤦🏻‍♀️ I apologise!

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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 09:33

AmberDreams · 27/02/2026 09:29

The problem we have now is there are 2 groups of voters. The first vote on religious grounds and appear more concerned with issues that are nothing to do with the UK. Everyone else votes against the parties they don’t like rather than in favour of any specific party.

I’d love to see a party with candidates who I felt genuinely represented me and my view of the world but that pretty much never happens so I end up having to vote to keep out the worst alternative. It’s not a healthy state of affairs for any democracy.

I agree. Hence my view that we are 'doomed'

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Shuffletoesxtreme · 27/02/2026 09:33

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/02/2026 09:31

It’s been too late for many years.

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Too late for what exactly? Struggling to parse exactly what you’re getting at.

Dweetfidilove · 27/02/2026 09:33

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/02/2026 09:32

So no then 😂

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That's right 😂😂😂

HelenaWaiting · 27/02/2026 09:32

Teribus21 · 27/02/2026 08:48

A set of policies deliberately designed to appeal to idealistic students with limited life experience in other words. I expect Green policies will be subject to a lot more scrutiny during a general election. I am much more worried about Reform.

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I'm sorry, you can't do that. The Greens' policies are their policies. You don't get to rewrite them when faced with a few inconvenient truths. If a Labour Party supporter did that you would be, quite rightly, up in arms. As it is, the Greens are extremely dangerous and should be seen for what they are - radical populists and no less dangerous than Reform.