George Carty
@gcarty80.bsky.social
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In Faragist-occupied County Durham
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In Faragist-occupied County Durham
I expect mostly the second, except for the narrow case of White Van Man for whom eastern Europeans were direct economic competitors.
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I expect mostly the second, except for the narrow case of White Van Man for whom eastern Europeans were direct economic competitors.
Leave.EU was a pure anti-immigration campaign, while Vote Leave started out old-school Eurosceptic before also turning anti-immigration.
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Leave.EU was a pure anti-immigration campaign, while Vote Leave started out old-school Eurosceptic before also turning anti-immigration.
SM implies FoM, and the "Brexit bastards" were hardly going to concede that when they won the referendum on an anti-immigration ticket!
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
SM implies FoM, and the "Brexit bastards" were hardly going to concede that when they won the referendum on an anti-immigration ticket!
Could avoiding the Syrian refugee crisis somehow have changed the outcome of the referendum?
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Could avoiding the Syrian refugee crisis somehow have changed the outcome of the referendum?
Boris Johnson was worse: legitimizing nativism in his pursuit of a stint in 10 Downing Street.
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Boris Johnson was worse: legitimizing nativism in his pursuit of a stint in 10 Downing Street.
I was asking more re what you thought of @theangelofhistory.bsky.social's claim that David Cameron should have defied the ERG's demand for a Brexit referendum, even if it resulted in the party being split.
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was asking more re what you thought of @theangelofhistory.bsky.social's claim that David Cameron should have defied the ERG's demand for a Brexit referendum, even if it resulted in the party being split.
I wonder what @mariosrichards.bsky.social's thoughts are?
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I wonder what @mariosrichards.bsky.social's thoughts are?
A split party is absolutely devastating under FPTP: the main examples in British history were the Conservatives splitting in the mid-19th century over the Corn Laws, or Labour splitting in the early 1980s over the EEC.
Not surprised David Cameron didn't want to be a 21st-century Robert Peel!
Not surprised David Cameron didn't want to be a 21st-century Robert Peel!
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A split party is absolutely devastating under FPTP: the main examples in British history were the Conservatives splitting in the mid-19th century over the Corn Laws, or Labour splitting in the early 1980s over the EEC.
Not surprised David Cameron didn't want to be a 21st-century Robert Peel!
Not surprised David Cameron didn't want to be a 21st-century Robert Peel!
Doesn't the 1930s (which saw both the Jarrow Crusade and an economic boom in the south east) show that economic concentration in the south east is England's natural state, especially now that we're in a post-coal age?
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Doesn't the 1930s (which saw both the Jarrow Crusade and an economic boom in the south east) show that economic concentration in the south east is England's natural state, especially now that we're in a post-coal age?
Cameron "stuck" to his side of the bargain precisely _because_ the Brexiteers had leverage over him, and I don't trust that the gay marriage quid-pro-quo wasn't just an attempt to conceal that!
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Cameron "stuck" to his side of the bargain precisely _because_ the Brexiteers had leverage over him, and I don't trust that the gay marriage quid-pro-quo wasn't just an attempt to conceal that!
I don't think direct switchers are the problem even the Red Wall, so much as switchers from Labour to abstention among benefit-dependent voters, and from abstention to Reform among working-class racists (the kind who would never vote Tory).
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I don't think direct switchers are the problem even the Red Wall, so much as switchers from Labour to abstention among benefit-dependent voters, and from abstention to Reform among working-class racists (the kind who would never vote Tory).
Specifically his shielding of the Tory core vote (retired homeowners) from austerity meant that his future warnings of how Brexit would damage the economy fell on deaf ears, as pensioners didn't believe said damage would hurt _them_.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Specifically his shielding of the Tory core vote (retired homeowners) from austerity meant that his future warnings of how Brexit would damage the economy fell on deaf ears, as pensioners didn't believe said damage would hurt _them_.
Cameron is not to blame for the fact of the referendum (the Tory Brexiteers forced him to promise one by threatening to split the party) but the policies of his government likely made a Leave win more likely.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Cameron is not to blame for the fact of the referendum (the Tory Brexiteers forced him to promise one by threatening to split the party) but the policies of his government likely made a Leave win more likely.
I'm guessing more generally that it's also why the far-right in Britain is most popular with boomers, while on the Continent it is most popular among Gen X.
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm guessing more generally that it's also why the far-right in Britain is most popular with boomers, while on the Continent it is most popular among Gen X.
And AIUI it's absurd to blame Corbyn for Brexit, as the minority of Labour voters who _did_ vote Leave were overwhelmingly anti-Corbyn.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
And AIUI it's absurd to blame Corbyn for Brexit, as the minority of Labour voters who _did_ vote Leave were overwhelmingly anti-Corbyn.
I often wonder if Clement Attlee and his government's Town and County Planning Act is a big reason why Reform is so dangerous now, as it prevented enough urban housing from being built to allow left-behind places to depopulate more thoroughly.
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I often wonder if Clement Attlee and his government's Town and County Planning Act is a big reason why Reform is so dangerous now, as it prevented enough urban housing from being built to allow left-behind places to depopulate more thoroughly.
And joking about the Holocaust also tags him as an apologist for German Nazism, which was what fatally discredited the National Front back in the 1970s and likely also has an impact with anti-German boomers today.
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
And joking about the Holocaust also tags him as an apologist for German Nazism, which was what fatally discredited the National Front back in the 1970s and likely also has an impact with anti-German boomers today.
The difference is that joking in the presence of Jews about the Holocaust represents not just racism but Nazi apologia, which is likely anathema for just the kind of WWII-obsessed anti-German boomers that likely helped deliver Brexit in the first place.
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The difference is that joking in the presence of Jews about the Holocaust represents not just racism but Nazi apologia, which is likely anathema for just the kind of WWII-obsessed anti-German boomers that likely helped deliver Brexit in the first place.
Labour aren't losing many _voters_ to Reform: more likely Reform has energized poor racists to vote for them (the kind that used to vote BNP if a BNP candidate was available) while Labour voters stopped voting at all out of a feeling of betrayal over WFA and disability benefit cuts.
December 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Labour aren't losing many _voters_ to Reform: more likely Reform has energized poor racists to vote for them (the kind that used to vote BNP if a BNP candidate was available) while Labour voters stopped voting at all out of a feeling of betrayal over WFA and disability benefit cuts.
I'd correct Adam's post to start with "If labour don't win back the CONSTITUENCIES they're currently losing to Reform..."
The problem in many of those places is likely that voters turned against Labour over WFA and disability benefit cuts, but didn't have an alternative progressive option.
The problem in many of those places is likely that voters turned against Labour over WFA and disability benefit cuts, but didn't have an alternative progressive option.
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I'd correct Adam's post to start with "If labour don't win back the CONSTITUENCIES they're currently losing to Reform..."
The problem in many of those places is likely that voters turned against Labour over WFA and disability benefit cuts, but didn't have an alternative progressive option.
The problem in many of those places is likely that voters turned against Labour over WFA and disability benefit cuts, but didn't have an alternative progressive option.
On Russia Corbyn is a useful idiot, not a paid shill like Farage or Galloway.
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
On Russia Corbyn is a useful idiot, not a paid shill like Farage or Galloway.
I didn't delete my account until Trump was re-elected, but I'd hardly used it for years at that point.
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I didn't delete my account until Trump was re-elected, but I'd hardly used it for years at that point.
I've seen an argument that the reason why evangelicals embraced the anti-abortion cause (until then mainly a Catholic thing) was that they were mad that abortion was destroying the supply of unwanted white babies for adoption.
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I've seen an argument that the reason why evangelicals embraced the anti-abortion cause (until then mainly a Catholic thing) was that they were mad that abortion was destroying the supply of unwanted white babies for adoption.
If you compare ICE to IDF won't their interpretation be just that Democrats are antisemitic?
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
If you compare ICE to IDF won't their interpretation be just that Democrats are antisemitic?