"Spoonman wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 4:12 pm I see Ms "I don't make mistakes" decided it was a good idea to promote the UK armed forces on Xitter by using footage from Bloody Sunday of all things.I just came here to post that, she really is having a good go at alienating the entire electorate, one demographic at a time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l2gnvd0lgo
She quickly took it down, but not before enough people noticed.
Oboogie wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 4:55 pmI just came here to post that, she really is having a good go at alienating the entire electorate, one demographic at a time.In fairness, a Venn Diagram where you have Conservative NI supporters in one circle and those supporting the victims of Bloody Sunday in another would barely overlap the edges.
"Spoonman wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 4:12 pm I see Ms "I don't make mistakes" decided it was a good idea to promote the UK armed forces on Xitter by using footage from Bloody Sunday of all things.Fuuuuuck....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l2gnvd0lgo
She quickly took it down, but not before enough people noticed.
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 5:41 pmWhale Sandwich.Spoonman wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 4:12 pm I see Ms "I don't make mistakes" decided it was a good idea to promote the UK armed forces on Xitter by using footage from Bloody Sunday of all things.Fuuuuuck....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l2gnvd0lgo
She quickly took it down, but not before enough people noticed.
Spoonman wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2026 5:26 pm In fairness, a Venn Diagram where you have Conservative NI supporters in one circle and those supporting the victims of Bloody Sunday in another would barely overlap the edges.Oddly enough I used to know a couple of ex-paras, one a WW2 veteran (dropped on D-Day and Arnhem), the other a little older than myself who served from the late 70s to the mid 90s. Each of them cursed Bloody Sunday as a stain on the Regiment and cross they had both at various times been expected to answer for despite neither having been serving at the time, let alone involved. I was relieved to have my own bias checked as I would have expected them, out of misguided loyalty, to have tried to defend it which couldn't have been further from the truth.
Conflict over identity politics in the UK could lead to civil war in the long term, Kemi Badenoch has said.
In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, England's Identity Crisis, the Conservative leader warned of rising tensions as groups on the left and the right direct "more and more hostility" towards people of every ethnicity.
The Conservative leader censured parties that use the political conflict to target voters from one community, an ingredient that she says could lead to an eventual civil war.
The interview was conducted before political tension erupted over policing, following the release of bodycam footage showing the handcuffing of murdered teenager Henry Nowak as he lay dying.
Both Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Badenoch have called for politicians not to stoke division following the outcry about the teenager's murder, and subsequent protests on the streets of Southampton.
Speaking to the BBC for the documentary before the sentencing of Nowak's killer Vickrum Digwa, Badenoch said: "This is not a racist country. But now we are seeing more and more hostility to people of every ethnicity, whether they're English or not English, because people are bringing political conflict into an area where we didn't have political conflict.
"And it's the political conflict, I think, that is creating this tension.
"This is why it's really important that politicians understand this properly and have policies that make a difference, rather than use the political conflict as a way to get some votes from one particular community.
"Parties which do that, politicians who do that, they may get to benefit in the short term, but in the long term, that's how you end up with civil war."
When asked whether she was saying that the way to avoid a civil war was to avoid "fracturing" in society, she said: "We definitely need to avoid that fracturing, but we also need to focus on assimilation."
- By davidjay
- By Watchman