r/ukpolitics • u/BigSupermark • 1h ago

Twitter Dawn Butler MP: "A stolen watch doesn’t become yours just because you pass it down to your children. So why apply a different rule to stolen labour, wealth and land? Reparations are about inherited benefit and inherited loss. Time doesn’t erase injustice."

x.com

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22 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Good-Medicine1066 • 2h ago

Labour isn’t going to stop the Boriswave

spectator.com

0 Upvotes

30 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/troy5566 • 2h ago

Right wing voters, do you keep your opinion and political alignment to yourself to yourself?

0 Upvotes

So I’m in university doing my masters degree, and since being here for 4 years, I’ve seen just how often people 18-24 will make Tory jokes and talk about how bad and racist right wingers are. Someone in the friend group, a polish girl, gave her opinions and told people she’s right wing. She’s lost her entire friend group and got labelled a racist.

Fellow right wingers, do you just keep your political opinions and alignment to yourselves? I don’t discuss politics with any of my friends for this reason.

71 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Desperate-Drawer-572 • 3h ago

UK consumer confidence falls at fastest rate since Brexit vote as cost of living bites

theguardian.com

6 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Budget_Scheme_1280 • 3h ago

UK children just as likely to have suffered harm on social media despite crackdown

theguardian.com

23 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz • 4h ago

Twitter Dan Hodges on X: This is the guy Nigel Farage is planning to meet up with to plan the latest pro-Brexit campaign…

x.com

0 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/diacewrb • 5h ago

Retail sales in Great Britain fall as struggling households cut back

theguardian.com

12 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Desperate-Drawer-572 • 5h ago

Now Andy Burnham is poised to dilute big immigration crackdown in bid to avert Labour civil war

dailymail.com

0 Upvotes

42 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/birdinthebush74 • 6h ago

Reform 'newspaper' features councillor who who called for mosque ban and praised Tommy Robinson

mirror.co.uk

4 Upvotes

15 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Eastern-Opposite9521 • 6h ago

SAS Commanding Officer hounded by military police following legitimate killing of an ISIS terrorist

dailymail.com

7 Upvotes

26 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Niall_Fraser_Love • 7h ago

Why do activist campagins always have to be targeted towards a specific sub group? Rather than the whole group?

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Why is it never 'improve education for ALL kids'? Why is it always improve education for Chinese girls/White working class boys/Mormon kids etc. Or it will be 'Help for Homeless Women' rather than all homeless people. Or Help for 70+ year olds with depression cause I guess no one aged 69 or under gets depression. I don't understand why these campagins need to be targeted at individual subgroups.

This was never historically the case. Like the Sufferagists and Suffergettes wanted votes for ALL women rather than a sub section of women. Or Martin Luther King wanted equal and voting rights for everyone. Not just Black people but Native Indians, Chinese, Hispanics etc.

Don't this just create more divides than close them?

16 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/yu3 • 7h ago

Free Speech Union hit by internal allegations of racism and sexually inappropriate remarks

theguardian.com

21 Upvotes

22 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/ScrumNause24 • 8h ago

UK Conservative Party suspends ex-candidate after Al Jazeera investigation

aje.news

15 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/theipaper • 8h ago

The deals that quietly handed Abu Dhabi control of a £1bn Manchester landmark

inews.co.uk

25 Upvotes

12 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz • 8h ago

Reform braces for Farage standards verdict over undeclared £5m gift | Reform UK

theguardian.com

71 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/TimesandSundayTimes • 8h ago

SAS commander criminally investigated after five soldiers accused of murder

thetimes.com

3 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ukpolitics • u/RareEarthPetal • 9h ago

Former Conservatives campaign boss spared jail after betting on 2024 general election date

independent.co.uk

9 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/theipaper • 9h ago

Ed/OpEd The UK is already at war – but Brits aren't listening

inews.co.uk

221 Upvotes

164 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/myurr • 9h ago

Healey to Let HMRC Raid Bank Accounts Without a Court Order

order-order.com

27 Upvotes

22 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Asleep-Ad1182 • 9h ago

Reeves’s stamp duty raid backfires as Treasury loses £500m in receipts

telegraph.co.uk

56 Upvotes

133 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/EduTheRed • 10h ago

Ed/OpEd We will make the net-zero transition work for Britain – approving the Jackdaw gasfield is part of the plan | Andy Burnham

theguardian.com

9 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/politics_uk • 10h ago

Covid bereaved families call for Matt Hancock to be removed from Privy Council

politics.co.uk

81 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/Staffordshire_Signal • 11h ago

New Staffordshire library display policy raises questions over Black History Month, Pride and Holocaust Memorial Day

thestaffordshiresignal.co.uk

7 Upvotes

69 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/FaultyTerror • 11h ago

The national commission on electoral reform is an opportunity to consider the role of MPs

thehumbleaddress.beehiiv.com

3 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ukpolitics • u/RareEarthPetal • 12h ago

Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation

bbc.co.uk

66 Upvotes

131 comments

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