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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Starmer kills

Fucking hell what now

off Rwanda plan

Oh okay

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This new presidential immunity ruling has gone too far already. 😀

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The UK is a monarchy unlike the US... wait.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but unlike the US, the UK doesn't have a constitution. Oh, wait.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The "Uk DoEsN't HaVe A CoNsTiTuTiOn" thing is so hilarious somehow, really gives off American civil religion vibes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Why is it so ridiculous to you?

The UK using a bunch of documents, some of which are hundreds of years old and largely invalidated plus a bunch of unwritten arrangements to run a country is imo not ideal to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

American civil religion

Am I the only one who recognizes this as simply a definition of β€œculture”?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Based.

Got the ball rolling on this, junior doctor strikes, and planning system reform on day one.

The manifesto was fairly unradical and didn't seek to rock the boat too much, but tbh I'm glad it wasn't just filled with unworkable populist stuff that they probably couldn't achieve (cough, Tory, Green, and Reform, cough).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Good news at last

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Does this mean that cruel Braverman woman will go away now for reals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The UK has already paid Β£270 million, with the latest Β£50 million instalment handed over in April. Nobody was deported, although two failed asylum seekers went to Rwanda voluntarily under a separate agreement that saw them offered a Β£3,000 incentive to go.

Just imagine what useful stuff could have been done with that money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They could have spent that on no PPE, or on not building a high speed railway, or failing to improve migration, etc.