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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UK, what the bloody hell is wrong with you.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Our current government is the labour party, the one of the big two that is supposed to be more left leaning. They haven't been left leaning in twenty years, they crept to centrist and now the creep to the right continues. They're not dissimilar from the democrats in America. Internationally, there seems to be a general move towards the right and we are certainly following it. Demonstrations and activism don't seem to help. Shit is fucked, basically.

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The UK government as effectively ignored all protests since the poll tax riots. The choice seems either start acting like the French or just sit down and shut up.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, and I've been on some actions that have kicked off, back in the day, fighting the lines of riot police. It was fun but achieved fuck all. Yeah we need many more people involved in aggressive protests. I don't know if that will help either, but at least we need to mobilise a broader section of the population.