The good thing is the actual sway of public opinion in the UK is massively, *massively and overwhelmingly*, against the racist hooligans. They're a small minority here. The bad news is that various facts about our political system and media ecosystem may mean that fact doesn't matter.
How was yesterday, @warrenajb.bsky.social ?
Couldn’t be there today but my adopted home town doing the anti-fash proud. The far right humiliated. Nothing physical mind: numbers, voices, and the truth did the job.
Nigel Farage has confirmed during an interview with LBC that one of his first priorities were he Prime Minster would be to scrap the Human Rights Act. Here are the rights British people would instantly lose if he did that…..
Not consuming official snack-partner products, mind. Co-op Chipotle Tortilla Chips, NOM!
The VAR World Cup. It doesn’t have to formally intervene: it just has to make a ref think ‘this’ll be reviewed and they’ll find a way to say sending-off offence.’ No one’s convincing me any of those three reds, not just the second, are given without it.
