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1. spaceb+ab[view] [source] 2026-01-13 13:50:35
>>robthe+(OP)
This is how you govern from a position of unpopularity.

The government knows they’re on the wrong side of many issues, to the point they know they can’t win an open debate.

So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional control becomes the focus of effort.

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2. justin+Kb[view] [source] 2026-01-13 13:53:27
>>spaceb+ab
This has been ongoing for a long time, its not at all specific to this government.
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3. ericho+vd[view] [source] 2026-01-13 14:03:50
>>justin+Kb
Huh? Starmer is the least popular Prime Minister, I believe, ever.
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4. tialar+yo[view] [source] 2026-01-13 14:51:41
>>ericho+vd
Right. When I'm at a counter-protest facing the local† Nazis (who in this incarnation have decided to call themselves "patriots") among all the rhetoric accusing us of supporting terrorists (no matter where brown people may come from they're apparently "ISIS" or "Taliban" these days) or rapists or any number of weird conspiracies, one thing they often yell about is that Keir Starmer is (to quote them) "a Wanker" and I have observed to other protesters that uniquely this is probably a widely shared viewpoint. Yeah, he is, but, why you are you being so racist, why do you want to terrify my neighbours, what does that have to do with Keir?

† Local in the sense of being the ones who turn up, my guess is that a good number of them travel by car from quite some distance, personally I live five minutes walk away.

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