Comment on British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs

• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t work out your political persuasion from that nickname for Sir Keith. There are reasons a right wing person would use it and there are different reasons for a left wing person.

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  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well it’s an epithet I use because it appropriately mocks a govt who were elected on a groundswell of “we’ve had the Tories up to the back teeth” and then preceded to do things even the Tories shied away from. I dunno where Starmer & Streeting got the idea that being a Poundland Reform was going to endear them to voters but the polls answer the question. That and the fact he’s filled his Cabinet and the Human Rights board with TERFs, cracked down on protests worse than the Tories have previously done and generally made the worse parts of the Conservative party seem like reasonable people. I can’t recall who it was but a former Tory minister criticised him a couple of weeks ago for going too far on authoritarian crackdowns. Hell the welfare changes he walked back were ones the Cameron govt considered and rejected for being too extreme.

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok, I understand where you’re coming from now!

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