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Now we have it: the real reason why Boris Johnston won the election:

https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1ffsEXlI
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Starkey's a sharp guy, no doubt, but his "Rule Brittania" views are too much to sit through to get the interesting bits.
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The Labour Party in the UK are taking the piss again. Have a listen to this cringeworthy lot:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -socialism

What is it with the left of the party embracing the term 'socialism' as if the word has any chance of being reclaimed and capturing the contemporary imagination? Sanders is making the same mistake with his use of the phrase 'democratic socialism' in the US. Is it that hard for them to come up with a new term that leaves the Cold War behind? The fact they make such a point of this leads me to wonder if we're dealing with a stubborn cluelessness, not merely a bad sense of PR.
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Yeah nah, somewhere between David and Ptiddy.

The reason Sanders uses the term Socialism is simple, better to claim it than be labelled it.

Trying to avoid being termed socialist would just result in others picking at his policies, calling them socialist and forcing him to defend his labeling.

Adding in "Democratic" is a pisser though, as it's clearly meant to imply that Bernies version of Socialism is democratic, unlike all those other versions in places like, ummmmm, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Bibi romping it in in round 3.

http://dlvr.it/RR6bL7
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Someone needs to send Van Helsing down to the Knesset ASAP.
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Netanyahu doesn’t have a majority. Israel faces weeks of uncertainty at best and a fourth election at worst. In the meantime, Netanyahu may find it difficult to get to all the political appointments he’d like to keep, because his fraud trial starts in about 9 days.
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Meanwhile in Slovakia...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51693527
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^^ That's great news.
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Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the British Labour Party.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-30/ ... s/12829208
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^ I was too pissed off to post about that. #&€% Starmer and all his Blairite cronies.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... exit-polls
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Pretty dark stuff, that's for sure.
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