Sorry, that sentence got mangled by a poorly typed edit and was meant to read:
OMG he doesn't speak for me, nor many other left-voting folks. Why does a children's author have so much political clout? Oh it's the billionaires again, isn't it?
I'd probably get insta-booted off bsky if I said what I think about Starmer.
What about trans men, has he mentioned if they should use women's spaces? Because if he's only recognising birth gender isn't that discriminating against AFAB men? HOW IS HE SO STUPID!?
I'm about to participate in a UK election for the first time (flying over to help a friend get to whatever the voting place is), and boy howdy do all the options suck nearly everywhere on the goddamn planet at the moment
At least in the UK it's not a two party system, so you could always vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party, or if you're feeling really spicy the Lib Dems.
We're faced with multiple terms of a leader in power who will blatantly lie about the law so as to remove our human rights.
Yet people think he's going to make things better despite being more right wing than the Tories under Cameron and May.
Damn even a lot of southern states in the US are reluctant to pass bathroom bills because they are so impractical and cause so many enforcement problems and are genuinely unpopular. This is Olympic level capitulation.