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[–] cyrano@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Cos boaty mcboatface was taken already

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who's on first joke names can't be good for SEO.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

SEO isn't good for SEO since AI. We might be in the death of the search engine.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Taken this long with booting out a lot of members too who ironically were involved from the ground roots, can't say I'm hopeful this is the face of the British left.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As I see it, Corbyn is a fool, he too wanted out of EU, he just wanted it without taking responsibility for it.
I am so happy we have 12 parties in parliament to choose from, and I think only 3 of the party leaders are about as stupid as Corbyn and Theresa May, which were the only 2 significant party leaders in UK when they chose to leave EU, and none of them are as stupid and dishonest as Boris Johnson when he was tasked with "managing" UK getting out of EU.

British politicians are sub par IMO.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Theresa May wasn’t a party leader when we chose to leave the EU.

David Cameron was the leader of the Conservatives at the time of the referendum, the one who promised the referendum to get votes for his party, the one who greatly underestimated the fight that was needed to be able to stay in the EU and the one who ran away from the steaming pile of shit that he’d created.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Theresa "Brexit means Brexit" May wasn't leader during the referendum but as PM she chose the hardest Brexit possible to appease the fanatics and fucked us forever.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can’t see how that’s true as she didn’t even get to a point where our own MPs agreed on what Brexit should be and didn’t have a big enough majority to push anything through. Then she proper fucked up by announcing a general election the result of which was that she had even less power.

In my view she simply wasn’t effective enough to have fucked us forever.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Check the Lancaster House speech where she set the most extreme conditions for departure I.e. Leaving the single market and customs union and the ECJ. Prior to this speech, there was no fixed idea about what the referendum meant in practice. After her speech there was no way back.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/what-is-the-lancaster-house-speech/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vmm3s

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Joke of a name for a joke of a party. Corbyn et al have already lost all credibility after the launch debacle.

Thankfully, the UK has more than one alternative to choose from, both the Greens and LibDems are shaping up to be strong left-challenges to the Uniparty and Reform.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're gonna sit there and tell me UK isn't a joke of a country? At least politics wise? And yes, I get the irony in this coming from someone who's president is Trump, but I'm on record as saying the country is a joke, our government a circus, and our president is a clown.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't say it wasn't? I just said the new party and it's leadership are a joke. I didn't say anything about the UK, itself.

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

He should just retire. Probably the worst Labour leader of my lifetime, he managed to somehow endorse Brexit and lose against Theresa May.