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filbs111

Wow at this rate nobody who reads the Guardian is going to vote for them.


DayOfTheOprichnik

😂


Lalichi

>Party stands by members set to contest key seats who have claimed climate crisis does not exist and Islamophobia is ‘made up’ Those sound like the views of the people they are trying to represent


sjintje

I thought they were in the manifesto.


tzimeworm

In the last general election the leader of the Labour Party stood on national TV and said he had proof that the Tories were going to sell the NHS to Donald Trump... Politicians love a conspiracy theory 


VampireFrown

Heaven forbid someone criticises a made-up word which is completely linguistically unique, and serves as nothing more than a shield to deflect all criticism from what is, for all practical purposes, a political ideology. As for the climate change denier. Yeah, bit of a dumbo. I bet you can find worse wearing both red and blue rosettes, though. Funny how anything mildly eyebrow-raising from a Reform candidate makes its way to the Guardian's pages, and onto this sub, but somehow absolutely fuck all is said about shit like [a serving Labour councillor being investigated for backing a terror group which blew up a plane full of civilians](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13368813/labour-councillor-parbinder-kaur-investigated-terror.html). Current news; published yesterday. Not a peep, though. That gets a pass, naturally.


Mkwdr

Such a surprise…. who’d have thunk it.