• layla
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    2 years ago

    They are all functionality equivalent. This is similar (though not exactly like) people saying Trump was worse than Biden. Leftists know that he meaningfully isn't.

    Whoever replaces him is going to kill just as many poor/marginalised people here and brown people overseas, and will continue to help the rich get richer. This is basically just bourgeois infighting and we shouldn't be distracted by it (even if the drama is admittedly entertaining to watch).

    • Saint [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I actually disagree, I think there are far worse people than Boris who might take over

      • layla
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        2 years ago

        Priti Patel :sadness-abysmal:

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          There is absolutely zero possibility that the core tory membership vote for a leader that isn't white. They are racist af.

          • layla
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            2 years ago

            So many of the main contenders aren't white. Who else would it be? Liz Truss I guess? Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt?? Otherwise it'd have to be someone relatively unknown

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Liz Truss and Gove would be my frontrunners, in that order. It's her turn

              • layla
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                2 years ago

                It’s her turn

                Lmao :agony-shivering:

                I don't know much about her. How bad is she, from a scale of Starmer to Patel?

                  • layla
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                    2 years ago

                    :agony-deep:

                    • Awoo [she/her]
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                      2 years ago

                      Literally the worst possible candidate for trans issues. For everything else? She's utterly incompetent and the direction of the country will mostly be created by the people around her instead.

                      Also pretty sure she's a massive raging actual fascist.

                      • layla
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                        2 years ago

                        Literally the worst possible candidate for trans issues

                        It is guaranteed then.

                        • Awoo [she/her]
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                          2 years ago

                          :yea:

                          The UK under her will tighten up a new fascist power block in Europe that she's been working on, Poland/UK/Ukraine.

                          I suspect she'll go hard on WOKE shit as well. Bring in a lot of american right discourse.

                          • layla
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                            2 years ago

                            Bring in a lot of american right discourse.

                            :NOOOOO: Ffs we better not become all culture war-y. I'm still not over how much the right wanted to fuck the green M&M

                    • Awoo [she/her]
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                      2 years ago

                      It seems like war hawk fever might propel Wallace into the limelight though. I can't guarantee what Ukraine shit is going to do to the party...

            • Saint [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The tory MPs may offer them two non-white options.

          • CommCat [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            who cares? I'd rather they stick with a white tory leader, just the optics alone of a brown Tory leader gives their side a win. I thought we already went through with this with Obama?

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              I'm not suggesting it would be a good thing, just pointing out that it is absolutely not going to happen.