They will call it “Freedomology” and you will like it.

If you dislike it, you will be taken away and reeducated until you like it.

Duckduckgo’s AI:

“The phrase “a lady butterfly meme a day keeps the doctor away” is a playful twist on the well-known saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” This original phrase suggests that eating an apple daily can contribute to good health and potentially reduce the need for medical attention.”

“In this variation, the mention of “lady butterfly meme” likely refers to a specific meme or a lighthearted, humorous image that brings joy or laughter. The implication is that engaging with fun or uplifting content, like memes, can have a positive effect on one’s mental health and overall well-being, similar to how healthy eating is associated with physical health.”

“Overall, it emphasizes the importance of humor and positivity in daily life as a way to maintain good health, particularly mental health.”

Seems like everything is these days.

Photograph it fully first etc, but a clean arm lets them draw another one next weekend.

It’s a long time ago now, but I believe I wrote the word “knobhead” and affixed it to the back of the collar of my friend/housemate’s coat.

If I didn’t do that first, I did it second.

Was it the flag of the Turk, St Georgios of Palestine, patron Saint of Ukraine?

Hahaha, I guess you must be Keir then.

So the press likes to tell us every day. I’d really think it was more down to the fact that a lot of people actually thought Boris Johnston was a good idea at the time (in the 2019 election) - compared to in 2024, when a lot of Tories/Undecideds (for a variety of reasons) voted for the UKIPs instead.

If you’d put Keir in the 2019 election, he would have done even worse.

These are first-past-the-post problems really, and problems of how boundaries are drawn.

Anyway, it’s all theoretical anyway - as you say, it’s hard to compare one election to another in this way - and it won’t change anything, we’ve got a right-wing Labour Prime Minister for a few years, whether we like it or not.

I know that’s what the news told us every day for years and years on end, but more people voted for Corbyn in 2019 (10.2 million) than Starmer in 2024 (9.7 million), and Starmer ended up PM with half a million fewer votes than Corbyn got. The difference between the two elections was that in the latter, the Tories got fewer votes.

If Starmer was electable, so was Corbyn.

[Edit] Also, Corbyn got 12.8 million votes in 2017, that’s 3.1 million more people voting for the “unelectable” man, than the apparently “electable” man.

Basically, yes. It’s all explained in the Epstein Files.

Labour aren’t meant to be like this. If Ed Milliband or Jeremy Corbyn had got in some years ago, this wouldn’t be happening.

Maybe some other shit would be happening, but not this.

Keir Starmer and his right-wing clique have taken over the Labour Party, and pushed anyone even slightly left-of-centre to the fringes, or out of the party.

The Tories are still even further to the right, and the UKIPs are even further right than that.

Sorry to upset people thinking of him dieing soon, but they’re going to sit him in a gold throne, kept barely alive, in suspended animation, then keep him alive and in charge for 40,000 years.

They’ll use AI every time they want him to “say something”.

I think that’s just squishy back-fat, folding over the back of the chair.

What looks really suspicious is his face - notice how his facial features are about twice the size that they appear normally, when you see them in memes.

I am Spartacus Banksy.

I hope nobody crops the image out of the many photographs, then gets it printed large on thousands of posters, then accidentally fly-posts it on every surface in the area.

(To clarify, I do in fact hope someone does this)

Where are these centre-lefts who have any power? The 1970s?

I think most of the people disagreeing with the post are from the USA, which has completely different costs/taxes/prices etc.

In the UK (as the original post is), it depends where you live - our mortgage is about £350 per month (5 bed terrace), but if would have been almost £500 a month without the deposit. Rent in the area is about £600 - £1500 per month, for similar or smaller properties.

Note that this is in Northern UK, in the sort of town sometimes described as “a bit of a shithole”. I could get a train to a town an hour away and the prices would literally double - but the ratio between mortgage and rent would be pretty much the same.

Even with the cost of repairs, and a tiny bit on insurance etc, it’s a significant saving. Also, the repairs actually get done, which was not the experience I had in rented accommodation.

I hope so too, though I’m not going to let myself get my hopes up too much.

In the larger scale of things, not really - but more left than most were expecting, and arguably has drifted leftwards from where it was under the Tories. Leanings towards possible nationalisation of (aspects of?) rail travel and production of renewable power, and had made quite a few pro-employees-rights policies around wages, terms and conditions etc (in favour of the worker, not the company owner).

Obviously moving leftwards from “very right” is still “right”.

Oh, fuck off with your fucking ID cards again.