Probably Angry Politics

Any political views stated on this blog are purely the half-minded ramblings of a moron who thinks he knows more than he does but is actually just an ill-informed bystander.

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There are only 2 bad things about the inauguration of President Biden:

He didn’t get the full crowd and all the usual pageantry of the occasion because of Covid.

It wasn’t Pete Buttigieg being inaugurated instead.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night wishing I could wind my life back to a point before I got into politics.

I feel like despite being the only thing I’m interested in that remotely matters to the actual world, all it has really done for me is made my anxiety and depression so, so much worse.

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Donald Trump is a one-term President!

I want everyone to just take a moment and savour those words. How good they feel to say, how much lighter they make the soul feel when you see them and know that they are true.

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He looks like he’s just asked to borrow his parents’ laptop and accidentally found their sex tape...

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Brexit: EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement

UK put on formal notice over internal market bill, which ministers admit breaks international law

Okay but are we sure the Internal Market Bill wasn’t entirely designed specifically to get this exact response?

Like, nobody voting for that thing could have genuinely expected everything to just sail through easy as pie when they were openly admitting they were breaking the law by doing it.

It really wouldn’t surprise me if this whole thing was a gambit to get the EU to do exactly this so they can continue to play the “oh poor old us, woe is us, look how mean the big nasty EU is being to poor wittle Bwitain” card to keep their voters on-side and loyal during the ongoing slow-motion car-crash that is their government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

It’s just the kind of pathetic nonsense the Tories would try because they’ve proven in the past to be perfectly happy to sell the entire country down the river to keep their own polling figures looking good.

For evidence of that see... literally everything to do with Brexit from the announcement of the referendum right up til now. It’s literally all they’ve been doing this whole time.

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Seen a lot of people excusing Jeremy Corbyn breaking the ‘groups of 6′ rule by whatabouting about Boris Johnson’s dad shopping without a mask.

Seen a lot of people excusing Boris Johnson’s dad shopping without a mask by whatabouting about Jeremy Corbyn breaking the ‘groups of 6′ rule.

Is it really so difficult to say they’re both idiots who should fucking know better and that to go out of your way to defend them to the hilt against charges of being idiots who should fucking know better just exposes you as a shameless ideological idiot even on issues that have shite all to do with ideology?

I hate how partisan literally every single bloody thing apparently has to be these days. It’s so tiring.

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The Home Secretary is getting into a feud with an ice cream company.

2020 can just absolutely go fuck itself at this point.

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And now a Foreign Office minister is joining in.

I’d like to say that if you told me last year that by August two prominent Tory ministers would be having Twitter beef with Ben & Jerry’s I’d have been surprised and not believed you, but the past few years of the terminal decline of the state of our nation’s politics honestly probably made this eventuality kind of inevitable.

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The Home Secretary is getting into a feud with an ice cream company.

2020 can just absolutely go fuck itself at this point.

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The English: You can’t tell me to wear a mask or stay indoors! This is England, the good old blitz spirit will see us through, we won a fucking war!

*infection rate rises*

The English: How dare these fucking Muslims and asians not take the rules seriously!

I fucking hate the English.

And yes that includes myself; I’ll never hate anything more than I hate myself.

[northern-punk-lad]

 normalise shopping in charity shops.

Unless your middle class we don’t wanna gentrified charity shops

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Used to volunteer in a charity shop.

Now regularly shop in them.

They have really good stuff, at really decent prices, and it helps a good cause at the same time. There is literally no downside to shopping in charity shops.

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Motivated by this I looked up when my old charity shop would be re-opening, only to find out that it won’t be and has been permanently shut down.

That’s actually really bummed me out.

Shop at charity shops more, people. Keep them alive!

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 normalise shopping in charity shops.

Unless your middle class we don’t wanna gentrified charity shops

[probablyangypolitics]

Used to volunteer in a charity shop.

Now regularly shop in them.

They have really good stuff, at really decent prices, and it helps a good cause at the same time. There is literally no downside to shopping in charity shops.

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Because my life is a constant joke and endless trial of torment and misery I somehow got drawn into a customer’s ranting about Scottish Independence at work today with no way to escape the situation*

Made me think that, to be honest, my own opinion on the subject is a total contradictory uncertain mess.

See I’m from Hampshire, I’m basically about as much of a southern English prick as it’s possible to be. The furthest north I’ve ever been is Oxford.

So on the one hand when it comes to Scottish Independence I find myself instinctively with a pro-union leaning, probably just ingrained in me from birth as a home counties resident from a disgustingly pro-Tory area, but nonetheless it is what it is.

But on the other hand whenever some new bit of horrible government news drops my instincts switch temporarily so that my reaction to Scotland wanting to leave is basically to scream “just run, save yourself! It’s too late for the rest of us!”

Because dear christ do I hate this Tory government more than I thought possible.

* still somehow only the 2nd worst time I’ve been caught up in the vortex of a customer’s political ranting. The worst time was a really good customer going off on one about how “these gays don’t need rights.”

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As someone who would very much like to see the Tories turfed out of government at the next election, I can honestly say I have very little time for a Labour MP trying to score ‘gotcha’ points on Twitter by talking about how much their respective fucking mugs cost.

The mug I use most often cost me whatever one cappuccino at a café I can no longer remember the name of runs to, because I stole it from said café while drunk.

[rashfcrd]

how do the tory government just get more stupid

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Has anyone who works at CCHQ or Downing Street checked for gas leaks recently?

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I’m pleased to announce that Dominic Raab has been selected as the winner of the prestigious ‘Stupidest Most Tone-Deaf Motherfucking Waste of Skin in UK Politics Today’ award.

Step on up and claim your reward you worthless shit!

[ayeforscotland]

A government with priorities*

*note for Scottish followers, ScotGov endure free school meals over the summer