You might be interested in reading this; https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-statement-on-general-election/
This "However, there will be no blank cheques for Labour and we also challenge Labour to provide an alternative, coherent and credible economic strategy that radically challenges the current orthodoxy on spending and borrowing so that we can properly fund our industries and public services."
I'm not sure that I want to vote. I don't personally have a problem with Starmer not even Rayner, I'd probably mellow over time if I see the NHS and all the other shhite being fixed and just the satisfaction that our collected tax revenue is not being robbed blind...but do I put in a cross in the box...I might have nightmares, the thought of waking up from a dream where I joined a picket line ffs...Archers standing over me with a clipboard saying the next train is coming in at platform 9 3/4 - before I pick up my broomstick to go and play Quidditch. I'll probably post my vote and Royal Mail will go on strike....bastards.
Farage says it's our fault that Putin goes to war against Ukraine. @Saf you still fully behind farage who will be besties with Putin?
It was a bit more nuanced than that I think More like, they were poked a bit, but ultimately it's no excuse to wage a war.
Farage actually said the war was Putin’s fault. Nigel Farage has said the West "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards. The Reform UK leader told the BBC that "of course" the war was President Vladimir Putin's fault. But he added that the expansion of the EU and Nato gave him a "reason" to tell the Russian people "they're coming for us again".
Just cause he said ultimately its putins hes pretty much said we provoked him. Basically we are the bully at school he kept picking on the little kid til he fought back and got in the most trouble with the teacher. Thats what i got from him
So who does make the rules, who decided what's right and wrong - why is it not OK for Farage to say what he has. Maybe different words but it's what I've been saying for a long time. NATO and the EU have been advancing there pace across Europe for decades now, the next Román Empire. What if people don't want to live under this ideology of bombs of peace and us deciding who owns what land in this world or causing actions to the detriment of the populations within them. It's all well and good letting young Ukrainian men die on the front line, while we cosy up for the news of it on our sofas, but we've not truly helped anyone for a longtime, we've just brought people misery for our own ideology. Yeah yeah Putin is a fooking lunatic but Farages point is right, albeit he has a different agenda for saying it from mine. We should have kept our noses out but too late now, we are stuck in this meat grinder with no way out.. Fooking madmen the lot of them.
Farage can say whatever he wants, and it won’t bother the mugs and screwballs who are taken in by him one bit. Reform, rather like the Maga Republicans, isn’t a political party, it’s a cult. Cult leaders have a magnetic power over the weak minded, causing their followers to adore him even more, when the rest of the world condemns him.
I think it's so much more nuanced that British media and politicians are letting on. There's been political divisions brewing between Ukraine and Russia for about 25 years, it's just a deep cultural division brewing, especially since Ukraine is so heavily influenced by Poland as opposed to Russia. Ukraine is such a large place that for most of the population Russia is ****ing miles away. I think Putin in truth panicked, I think in their minds Xi Jingping and Jong Un probably consider Putins decision to invade as idiotic.
Anyway these are a few comments that I said just under two years ago, long before Farage even uttered any words on it, or certainly any words that I knew of... So Rishi can go fook himself, sometimes the truth hurts. I'd be happy if someone put a bullet in Putin, because he overstepped the mark, so this is not supporting him, it's merely saying we have a lot to answer for ourselves, as I said yesterday, every politician is a liar and I suspect Zelenskky even has a few skeletons in his closet.
When the Maidan revolution took place, Putins puppet President in Ukraine was removed from office and forced out of the country. He panicked as he saw the grip over Ukraine slipping and panicked to retake Crimea. When Ukraine looked to be interested in joining NATO I think he panicked again and sent in the army unprepared. Strategically the invasion has been a logistical disaster and so many young Russians have perished. It's been a terrible event.
