Submitted 17 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/08/the-brits-who-want-to-overthrow-the-state
We’ve experienced both street action and political violence, yes, and these are febrile times – but such things have never overthrown a government. Most of the time they don’t even change policy.
What a fucking shit take bootlicker article from the newstatseman.
This is not a country that’s ready to man the barricades. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Seriously is the author 12.
[Points to the history of Britain]
[Further points to the Pink Floyd reference]
The history of Britain has a moment of near revolution with the electoral reform in the mid 19th century. Also the suffragettes. Also multiple slave revolts in the empire.
And the Pink Floyd lyric is a classic that everyone who just discovered Pink Floyd resonates with. Throwing it in off handledly into a senseless article with no real analysis or thought just seems to me to try to add profundity to something mediocre.
We’ve experienced both street action and political violence, yes, and these are febrile times – but such things have never overthrown a government.
Uhh… might want to check out the Ukrainian maidan.
As it suggests, the Ukrainian Maidan was, well, in Ukraine.
It’s true that most of the English are feeble cowards, but I don’t think antagonizing the rest of the UK is going to spare you from what’s coming
I am a but amazed at the willingness of the avg English person to suffer the regime that hates it.
At least Scots and the Irish know the Delio...
Keep camp and get exploited pleb! Elite pedos rely on you doing the right thing
Where do I sign up?
IMO these commentators got addicted to swashbuckling, revolutionary language during Brexit and now can’t switch it off.
Labour party can’t call them out because the real politik is that it would be spun as them minimizing concerns about immigration.
Lemming421@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Of course we want a revolution.
We voted out the Conservatives after fifteen years, only to replace them with a Labour government who are indistinguishable from the previous regime.
All Starmer is doing is pandering to the even-more-right-wing Reform voters, further alienating the Left.
He’s a genocide denying, Israel and Trump supporting fascist who’s cracking down on peaceful protests and arresting 80 year old former magistrates for holding signs.
But the trouble with a revolution is you need to ensure that what you get afterwards isn’t even more authoritarian than what you got rid of.
That’s why you can’t just put the politicians and the billionaires up against the wall and let God sort them out. You need a Plan.
ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Arguably, due to the utter failure of conservatism, it is the responsibility of what was the “left” to protect and salvage what is possible from the UK’s culture, institutions and industry and create a path forward out of neoliberal and American hegemonic collapse.
This would be true reform. The danger is more extreme market liberals or fascists gain a foothold and irrevocably fuck the nation.
Lemming421@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sure, but due to us having the same problems with First Past The Post that the Americans do, we still end up voting against a party rather than for the one we want.
If I’d voted Green in the last election, it wouldn’t have been a vote for Labour, which (at the time) were the only party that had a chance of getting rid of the “safe” Tory in my constituency.
Now that Labour have destroyed any reputation of being “for the people” that they may have had in order to try and sway the Nazis that will vote Reform, they (hopefully) won’t be getting any votes from the left next time.
Hopefully the Greens and the new Corbyn/Sultana party will be sensible in where they field candidates so as not to split that voter base.
We’re too far out for me to guess if a Tory/Reform coalition might be possible next time, but it’s a terrifying thought…