Investor: I want freedom.
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- Anonymous Shrewd
- Manlobbi
Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
No. of Recommendations: 2
Don't think Keir Starmer is going to be in this job for much longer. Labour is being obliterated in local UK elections:
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-elections-2026-... Prime Minister Keir Starmer insists he’s sticking around but he’s already facing substantial losses as results from Britain’s biggest set of elections since 2024 pour in.
With counting still underway, Starmer’s Labour has shed more than 500 councillors in England, with Nigel Farage’s populist-right Reform UK the main beneficiary. Starmer — facing major questions over his leadership — has told reporters he won’t “walk away and plunge the country into chaos.” He’s braced for more pain in Wales imminently.
Reform has added more than 700 councillors to its tally — with the left-wing Greens and centrist Liberal Democrats also making modest gains. So far it’s been a rough night for the center-right Conservatives, who have shed scores of councillors, although can point to some brighter spots in London.
In play are more than 5,000 English councilors in 136 councils, including all 32 London boroughs; six mayors in England; all 129 members of the Scottish Parliament; plus all 96 members of an expanded Welsh parliament, the Senedd. It seems the Muslim immigrant vote that Labour was so desperately courting voted for the Greens and Independent parties. Whoops.
Who knew that attempting to describe the Union Jack as a piece of hate imagery would offend the normies so much?
No. of Recommendations: 3
Starmer’s Labour has shed more than 500 councillors in England, with Nigel Farage’s populist-right Reform UK the main beneficiary.
For those not familiar, Farage is the architect of Brexit, which arguably contributed to Britain’s current economic woes (trade with Europe suffered while those amazing new trade deals somehow never materialized) and led to more immigration (rather than less as promised by the campaign at the time).
Of course Farage maintained that was not a function of Brexit, but of Brexit not having been executed ‚hard enough‘… well, who said European politics is more logical than its US equivalent.
No. of Recommendations: 1
No. of Recommendations: 2
(trade with Europe suffered while those amazing new trade deals somehow never materialized)
The UK expected trade with the EU to be replaced by an "arty" deal with the US. But such and "arty" deal with Lord Trump would depend on how hard the Brits are willing to be rogered.
Of course Farage maintained that was not a function of Brexit, but of Brexit not having been executed ‚hard enough‘…
That's the same excuse offered when the supposed benefits of "supply side economics" do not reach the Proles: they having given enough to the "JCs" yet. Give the poor, struggling, Billionaires yet more tax cuts, subsidies, and protection from competition, and surely, the benefits will begin to flow, we are, repeatedly, assured.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
Of course Farage maintained that was not a function of Brexit, but of Brexit not having been executed ‚hard enough‘… well, who said European politics is more logical than its US equivalent.
Because it wasn’t. Labour has basically thrown their borders open, made flying the Union Jack a crime and have created a two-tier system of justice where immigrants can do no wrong but UK citizens get visits from the police over…tweets.
No. of Recommendations: 3
This is a wipeout:
https://election.news.sky.com/electionsReform gained 1,420 seats in local councils. They had 2 before.
Loads of local police are no longer going to go door to door to lecture citizens about X posts, I think.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Because it wasn’t. Labour has basically thrown their borders open, made flying the Union Jack a crime and have created a two-tier system of justice where immigrants can do no wrong but UK citizens get visits from the police over…tweets.
It would have been the same here in America had Trump lost the election.
Go ICE!
No. of Recommendations: 5
Labour has basically thrown their borders open, made flying the Union Jack a crime and have created a two-tier system of justice where immigrants can do no wrong but UK citizens get visits from the police over…tweets.
Nope on the first part.
Conservatives were in power from the 2017 Brexit vote throughout mid-2024. Actual Brexit shut down easy immigration for EU citizens, instead, those governments opened the doors wide to non-EU immigrants (UK JCs likely pushing), resulting in numbers going up rather than down, peaking in 2023. Labour on balance slightly tightened the rules.
A case can be made for the last part though.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Nope on the first part.
Who's in power right now?
Conservatives were in power from the 2017 Brexit vote throughout mid-2024. Actual Brexit shut down easy immigration for EU citizens, instead, those governments opened the doors wide to non-EU immigrants (UK JCs likely pushing), resulting in numbers going up rather than down, peaking in 2023. Labour on balance slightly tightened the rules.
Recall the reason why Reform exists: Basically the Tories were implementing the exact same policies Labour wanted. Hence Farage took his ball and went to start up Reform in the first place. The Tories are essentially finished as a national party; they ignored the base and became Labour-light. Now they're gone.
No. of Recommendations: 14
Go ICE! -Lurkermom
Lurkermom, who is exposed as a 'dummy' every time she opens her mouth,
very, very nasty, the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful woman.
She's so bad. She's so pathetic. She's so fucking bad.
Her views are those of a very dumb person, she is mentally impaired.
It's OK to talk to people like this right?
https://theweek.com/politics/things-donald-trump-h...
No. of Recommendations: 3
Lurkermom, who is exposed as a 'dummy' every time she opens her mouth,
very, very nasty, the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful woman.
She's so bad. She's so pathetic. She's so fucking bad.
Her views are those of a very dumb person, she is mentally impaired.
It's OK to talk to people like this right?
🤣 😂 😅
I don’t need to reply in kind, you’re just another example of how low a democrat can crawl. TSK
Go ICE!
