flyingrodent

flyingrodent.bsky.social

17 October 2026 17:40

Huge benefit cuts are so intensely unpopular that this government hid their plan to make scything cuts until they’d won the election. They may have cost the last PM his job. But the main parties, the press and military all agree: fuck you, we’re slashing benefits to buy missiles.

flyingrodent

flyingrodent.bsky.social

17 October 2026 11:24

Perhaps the head of the British Army should not be doing media appearances instructing the public to accept massive benefit cuts? Perhaps he should be fired for doing that, and replaced by a different Rupert who will keep his nose out of politics.

Sam Freedman

samfr.bsky.social

16 October 2026 20:39

The only minor redeeming feature of this foulness is that someone around Trump still has enough awareness of how bad this looks to brief against Musk.

elias isquith

eliasisquith.blog

16 October 2026 20:33

the more i think about this the more i feel like it's possibly one of the most outrageous scandals to happen in global politics in a long time. if it is what it looks like it's an absolute watershed crisis moment for the US and world.

flyingrodent

flyingrodent.bsky.social

16 October 2026 07:36

Yes, people in this country do not really have any idea quite how, uh, remarkable and distinctive the British media are