Son you need to put down braveheart and understand you can be critical of tories and SNP. You'll be a better person for it.

around 90 minutes ago germany has gone back to the 20th century and shut down the last nuclear power plants

completely operational and safe for many years to come, massive brain drain and job loss will follow and decades of research just got wiped out to burn more coal and import nuclear power from the neighbours

I have not really posted in here, need to catch up on the entire thread, which i will do when i get a chance.

Anyway, Ireland, 2020: "Sinn Féin emerged for the first time in history the largest party in a general election in the Republic of Ireland, overtaking the two centre-right parties (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) that have dominated Irish politics since independence. The republican party has won the vote under a left-wing manifesto that proposes to begin a gradual process towards “securing” a referendum on Irish unity."

No party would go into government with them (as they are not a real political party) but it is expected that they will win more seats in the next general election (northern ireland and in the republic of ireland) noting the failed state of affairs in the north (thanks DUP), pun intended, and the ever increasing cost of living in europe (thanks USA). To quantify "cost of living crisis" for those living under a rock: last year your mortgage repayment was € 900 euro, the rates have gone up and currently your mortgage repayment is 1400 euro (this is an example, everything costs more).

The next general election in the republic is in march 2025, and Sinn Fein have 2 years therefore to find someone that they can partner with to go into government, which if they succeed with will cause a massive upheaval in irish politic's (my position is this will be bad).

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The SNP's former treasurer has said he did not know that the party had bought a luxury motorhome.

Colin Beattie, who was in the role for a total of nearly 20 years, was asked by journalists whether he knew about and had signed off the purchase.

He replied: "No, I didn't know about that".


The mad scramble to distance themselves from their self created clusterfuck continues for the SNP. What a mess. And this is who a minority want leading an independent Scotland.

Not a big deal when we see the Tories, i would say it's even ok to see politics getting caugh, even forced to resign, for petty things like this.

Bad for the Scottish Independence movement, but potentially good for Labour. Losing dozens of safe seats in Scotland to the SNP made the hole they had to climb out of post-2010 a lot deeper. If they can claw back those seats in Scotland, it puts Labour significantly closer to a majority in Westminster.

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Meanwhile, in Germany:

the shocking part is not that he campaigns in germany, given how many people with turkish citizenship live here. the shocking part is how many of them support him and his authoritarian regime, and think of him as this great leader. they should be made to live under his rule for just a month and see how "great" he really is...

To be fair, he stood at around 50% support in Turkey itself for most of his presidency, so it's not like those who had to live under his rule overwhelmingly rejected him and only some clueless idiots from abroad kept him in power. For the longest time, Turkey's opposition was a dumpster fire too. And he benefited from the lingering goodwill that he built with his early reforms, housing and infrastructure projects in poor/rural/peripheral places which really improved the living conditions of millions of Turks. He is, and always has been, awful, but I kinda get why the early Erdogan appealed to certain voters.

But yeah, nowadays, he's far beyond his "political expiration date" and long overdue for retirement.

he clearly outperforms his domestic results in germany though. it just rubs me the wrong way when people who enjoy and value their freedoms here, actively vote against them. if they had to live with the consequences, i wouldn't give a shit.