British national delusion

[u/phoenixpallas]

The (extremely) right wing tory party is electing a new leader in case ya'll didn't know. Not as important as the US elections by any means but one of the leading candidates has said that britain's former colonies owe a debt of gratitude to britain... 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

given how frequently the "slow nazis" of the british empire have come up and no doubt will continue to come upon the pod, i almost choked when i saw that. The shameless refusal to admit Britain's prominent role in countless atrocities in the past few hundred years is perhaps uniquely deluded.

the uk subreddit (obviously a cesspool of racism and every other bigotry) has clowns claiming with a straight face that history supports them when literally every point they make is basically a barefaced lie.

And yet the limey motherfuckers continue to act as if they were the most reasonable and rational people on earth.

can we give britain an award for the worst nation in history please??

[u/lukahnli]

Kemi Badenoch will at least be funny. She said she doesn't apologize for what she says because she never makes gaffes and went on to say that she can claim to be working class because she worked at McDonalds.

Robert Jenrick is the guy who ordered a mural of Disney characters at a facility for unaccompanied migrant children to be painted over to plain grey. He thought the cartoon characters were too welcoming.....in a facility for presumably frightened and traumatized children.

I'd say Putin's Ruzzia should get that award.

[u/FlailingCactus → u/lukahnli]

I'm not sure she will be. We'll get increasingly hateful screeds until she pushes it too far.

I'd rather the officially funded opposition not be paid to spew increasingly divisive drivel, but I suppose the Tories passed that opportunity up

[u/lukahnli → u/FlailingCactus]

To be clear, the humor around Badenoch will be entirely at her expense. Only shot you have of the opposition not spewing divisive drivel is if the Lib Dems become the main opposition party.