As the far right celebrates election success in Austria, this much is clear. It must be denied power
Can’t have a democracy where the people are allowed to make the wrong choice now, can we?
As the far right celebrates election success in Austria, this much is clear. It must be denied power
Can’t have a democracy where the people are allowed to make the wrong choice now, can we?
What the hell is ‘a teaching assistant professor’ when it’s at home?
Which it clearly isn’t, having burrowed like a tick into the US educational system.
By whom?
Reminds me of Matthew Parris, who, after the Brexit referendum, demanded that only intelligent people be allowed to vote. Because Mr Parris considers himself intelligent and therefore everybody would vote like him. To remain…
Yeah. In accord with his self regard, Parris should be lynched with a silk rope.
Well, pretend silk for a pretend Conservative.
“They must be denied power”
And after decennia of doing exactly that, the result is……. ?
by Farid Hafez
Why is this coloniser lecturing native Europeans on how they should be governed?
Ve haff vays unt means.
OT (But further on insufferable lefties)
I see someone’s taken a shot at Ian Hislop.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/02/private-eye-ian-hislop-caught-in-taxi-hit-by-bullet-london/
I think would have used a baseball bat. They don’t miss.
What Steve Said
Also point out to this self- appointed arbiter that his religion is Very far right and am guessing he didn’t write any Op Ed pieces bemoaning the coming of the ‘Muslim Block’ candidates in the UK – therefore unless he did, he can do one. He could also chivvy along Baroness Warsi, Sadiq Khan and Humza Yousuf while he’s on his merry way.
VP – Islamophobia, innit.
Decolonise Europe.
@BiS
It was (sadly) just the rear screen shattering, probably as a result of hitting one of London’s many potholes. It can be quite alarming when this happens, particularly if you’re covered in fragments from the sunroof!
@Chris Miller
Colour me aggrieved.
We need to keep bearing in mind how the definition of far right is now slightly less far left than we are.
Remigration is inevitable.
– Can’t have a democracy where the people are allowed to make the wrong choice now, can we?
Despite the Guardian headline rhetoric, Hafez only talks about coalition building amongst the parties elected to the new parliament; you know – the usual “joys”* of proportional representation. Nothing undemocratic or illegal is suggested.
*Hell, maybe we should try it. The UK and US both have (essentially) two party first-past-the-post which the unelected government has captured and turned into a uniparty system. You can’t kick the buggers out anymore. Nationalist and anti-immigrant parties have made headway in P.R. Europe and are making themselves felt in policy change even if they don’t gain power.
PJF said:
“proportional representation. … maybe we should try it”
Unfortunately the “PR” referendum they gave us was for a bastardised form of single-member STV that would possibly have been even less representative and more uni-party than first-past-the-post.
Well as Labour were so supportive of the introduction of PR whilst in opposition, it must surely just be a matter of time before Two Tier, Free Gier, Kier tables a bill to introduce it………Isn’t it?
Addoll,
And fully supported by the LibDems.
@ Richard T
The proposed “PR” system wasn’t actually PR – it was a device to convert any constituency without an overall majority for a single party into a LibDem seat and since the majority of the electorate has an IQ above 90 (the median is below the men but not *that far* below) people saw through it and rejected it.