UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

SchizoDaemon · 15 de Jun, 2026

Dr J dijo:
Which is exactly why I roll my eyes when people say 'Oh, if only the Labour Party had a different leader. Things would be different/so much better!'

They're all the fucking same. Changing the party leader is like changing the deck chairs on the Titanic

It doesn't really matter if one of these tossers is wearing a red, blue, green or yellow tie, tbh. Go and look at old media in the UK and the USA and compare what was being said then and compare it to now.
Often people are making the same arguments, about the same issues.

There is very little incentive for politicians to do anything because quite often the problem existing in the first place is a prerequisite to getting elected.

All of these problems could literally be solved tomorrow if they wanted to.

DSP for president 2032 · 15 de Jun, 2026

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The problem with Starmer is that he has such a harmless looking face. He always looks like someone put him up to this, and he doesn't know what he's doing. I'm going to be sad when you guys hang, draw, and quarter him.

He just LOOKS innocent!

LXXVII Brigade · 15 de Jun, 2026

teriyakiburns dijo:
It'll be down the cutting to the south if it's anywhere. Looks like there's lots of undergrowth.

I'm still not conviced. All of the undergrowth around the station is actually fences off save for what you saw which is the old disused Platform 3. The station itself is actually below street level at the front entrance. That entire southern bit is in a massive ditch and most of that undergrowth is on steep slopes at either side. The post also said near (which granted is relevant but a local wouldn't say near the station if it was more than a few yards away) not in so it's unlikely to be on the old platform.

Trust me when I say i smell a bit of shite here.

Chunky Salsa · 15 de Jun, 2026

DSP for president 2032 dijo:
He just LOOKS innocent!

He looks like a teacher that fucks 6th form students.

Otterly · 15 de Jun, 2026

WelperHelper99 dijo:
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https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2066421329859936656
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Look at this smug fucking prick. He's just like you! Wearing a cheap zip up hoodie or whatever the fuck that is. He wants to save the children TM. This is the face of a

Giving children their childhoods back?

Terms and conditions apply. Rapist migrants will still be leering at you as you walk to school. Streets will not be safe for you to play out in.

Ted's Cabin · 15 de Jun, 2026

diroama dijo:
I think it's fundamentally a good idea.

diroama dijo:
It's genuinely baffling to me that the utterly banal statement "social media is bad for under 16s but I have concerns about how it will be implemented and abused" can result in suicide encouragement and allegations of being retarded.

You said "I think it's fundamentally a good idea." not "social media is bad for under 16s but I have concerns about how it will be implemented and abused".
Verifying the age of anyone under 16 requires verifying the identity of every adult using the internet who wants to access a shortlist of sites the government considers harmful. Just because we agree some websites are harmful doesn't mean this is fundamentally a good idea.

diroama dijo:
Maybe you can explain why having your access to children restricted makes you so angry?

You got called gullible and your response is to call people pedophiles? You are gullible, retarded and should kill yourself.

LXXVII Brigade · 15 de Jun, 2026

My final word on the whole Arbroath thing.

It's false, I have confirmed with a mate who lives there.

The initial report makes several mistakes that mark it making little sense and having come from someone who is not from the area.

It says five migrant men. This is unusual as Arbroath has a very small number of sandniggers compared to say Dundee.

It also says in the bushes by the train station. This is weird as for a starter no one would use the station as a point of reference beyond a couple yards, they're more likely to use the Westport or Keptie Street. Second there are no bushes near the station that aren't either fenced off or on the slope of the trench the tracks run through to get to the station.

The whole thing reeks of some cunt looking at the station for two seconds on google maps, seeing the foliage and thinking it would make sense for an attack to happen there, completely ignoring the facts I just mentioned.

To answer the question of why is simple, it is highly likely they wanted to generate outrage to take advantage of the upcoming by election in the area.

This is what the south end of the station with all the undergrowth looks like by the way.

Otterly · 15 de Jun, 2026

DSP for president 2032 dijo:
The problem with Starmer is that he has such a harmless looking face.

Gormless perhaps. Not harmless.
He looks like he’s been boiled. Sadly, he has not been. Little piggy eyes like two pissholes in the snow. Revolting creature

Heinrich Maneuver · 15 de Jun, 2026

LXXVII Brigade dijo:
It also says in the bushes by the train station. This is weird as for a starter no one would use the station as a point of reference beyond a couple yards, they're more likely to use the Westport or Keptie Street. Second there are no bushes near the station that aren't either fenced off or on the slop of the trench the tracks run through to get to the station.

Where's Bridge street in relation? Scottish Police have just confirmed a rape on Bridge street by one man on June 6th. (X) Seems like the grifter crowd took this case and amped it up to 11 with 5-6 men. Feels a bit like exaggerating every claim to add doubts to the current state of things. I don't trust Tommy at all.

A man has been charged after a woman was raped in Arbroath.

Police received a report of a serious sexual assault in the Bridge Street area on June 6.

A 23-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection.

He is due to appear at Forfar Sheriff Court.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “On Saturday, June 6, 2026, we received a report of a serious sexual assault in the Bridge Street area of Arbroath.

“A 23-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection and is due to appear at Forfar Sheriff Court at a later date.”

STV News understands that social media posts suggesting that the incident involved ‘illegal immigrants’ are incorrect.

LXXVII Brigade · 15 de Jun, 2026

Heinrich Maneuver dijo:
Where's Bridge street in relation? Scottish Police have just confirmed a rape on Bridge street by one man on June 6th. (X) Seems like the grifter crowd took this case and amped it up to 11 with 5-6 men. Feels a bit like exaggerating every claim to add doubts to the current state of things. I don't trust Tommy at all.

Just off the Westport and Keptie Street where all the pubs and the one night club is. So it's not that surprising.

Wonderland foster child · 15 de Jun, 2026

SneedYstwyth dijo:
It's good news but doesn't change anything unfortunately. They just operate under different names and do the exact same things.

Yeah, but at least some of them will be locked away for years and maybe that will cause others to reconsider whether they want to get involved.

Okay, give me rainbows, but the Filton 6 were all told before the Elbit raid, no one ever gets arrested and if they do they are just allowed to leave afterwards and maybe one guy spent three months on remand, you'll be fine and it won't affect your ability to be a teacher in a forest school.

Reality: they were all held for 18 months on remand and four of them now have ~5-8 year sentences. Even if you ignore the sledgehammer guy, the stakes for smashing drones are a LOT higher now.

Mound Dweller dijo:
How'd they ID him after so long I wonder?

Front-running theory over at Mumsnet is that his now-ex partner shopped him, having refrained from doing so earlier due to love/fear/domestic abuse: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/...unt-for-notorious-putney-bridge-pusher?page=1

Morethanabitfoolish · 15 de Jun, 2026

AssignedEva dijo:
But she's laser focused on social media restrictions and phone bans (although to be fair she also promotes teaching mindfulness in schools).

I do wonder if meeting her child's "friends" online has made her realise that degenerate groomers on the internet are a very real threat then been lead down the garden path a bit.

We know a social media ban for under 16s to backdoor in further removal of digital anonymity has been on the government's wishlist for a while, if they thought enough dead children would do it they'd be giving their personal details to local sex pests themselves.

Meanwhile after Lords stopped it Labour are just going to bring the Assisted Dying Bill back again. And again no doubt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyxgwkyxyo

https://archive.ph/zimrg

A fresh attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has been launched, with the MP behind the plan telling the BBC she wanted to "finish the job".

Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, said she would bring an identical bill to the one passed by the Commons last year.

That bill, brought by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, was not passed by the House of Lords in April after an unprecedented number of suggested amendments delayed its progress until it ran out of time.

Its opponents argued it had substantial flaws that risked vulnerable people being pressured into ending their lives early.
The proposed law - known as the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - would have allowed people over the age of 18 who were expected to die within six months to be given help to end their own life, subject to certain safeguards.

By bringing exactly the same legislation, Edwards is threatening to trigger rarely used powers to override peers' objections should they refuse to pass it again.

Bills usually only become law if both Houses of Parliament agree on its final wording.

But the powers under the Parliament Act, which have only been used seven times in the last century, mean that if MPs pass an identical bill in two consecutive parliamentary sessions, peers cannot block it a second time.

The Lords can suggest amendments which, if agreed by the Commons, would be added to the bill. But if they do not pass the bill as a whole before the end of the next session - usually in around a year's time - the unamended bill could become law even without their approval.

Opponents have previously warned that using the Parliament Act would risk creating a law out of a bill about which the Royal College of Psychiatrists, as well as a range of disability charities and hospices, have major concerns.

Edwards told the BBC she was "playing by the rules" and asking the House of Lords to do the same.

"Laws passed in the House of Commons are then refined by the House of Lords but they don't have the opportunity to block them," she said.

"It's perfectly reasonable for us to ask the House of Lords to finish the job."

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Edwards suggested she was open to seeing changes to the bill and that many peers had proposed "sensible amendments".

"I would ask them to do the really important job that they are there to do and that they do admirably and that is to refine the legislation the House of Commons has introduced," she said.

Lord Carlile of Berriew said the bill in its current form was not "robust" but that he and other peers were willing to work with Edwards "in a constructive spirit".

Labour MP Ashley Dalton said she was "deeply concerned" by the move.

She said: "Voters put us in power to reduce the cost of living and fix the NHS. We have debated this deeply divisive and flawed assisted dying bill for over a year and supporters have refused to listen or to make the necessary changes."

She said the bill would "hand sweeping unchecked powers over life and death and our NHS to future governments".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78vv47x422o

The previous attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales was passed narrowly by MPs in June 2025.

The government was officially neutral, although several cabinet ministers including the then health secretary Wes Streeting voiced their opposition.

Sir Keir Starmer voted in favour and before the general election promised the broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen, who had been calling for legalisation, to provide parliamentary time for a debate and vote.

Some MPs have questioned whether Andy Burnham, were he to replace Sir Keir as prime minister, would be as supportive.

As an MP in 2015, Burnham abstained on another effort to legalise assisted dying. But he told BBC Radio Manchester in 2024 he had since had family experience that had changed his mind and would "probably vote in favour" of the principle of assisted dying.

But he added: "In terms of the implementation of it, I would say there should be a requirement that the hospices of this country get properly funded and sorted out before that law change comes in."

He said palliative care was "not in the strong position it should be".

"Consequently, you can't have this law change with an underfunded hospice movement."

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who voted against the bill last year, told reporters on Monday that bringing forward legislation "which many people said was so bad it did not pass muster" in the middle of a government crisis showed "what kind of people sit on the Labour backbenches".

Meanwhile Sidiq is spending 7 million trying to ban misinformation about London's crime problems.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yz20qev7zo

https://archive.ph/heCH1

The mayor of London is to spend £7m on a campaign to showcase London to the world and tackle online disinformation.

Sir Sadiq Khan said the city had been subjected to a "relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred" on social media.

A report published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) earlier this year found a nearly 200% increase in social media posts in the past two years portraying London as dangerous or in decline.

Susan Hall, the leader of the City Hall Tories, said that Sir Sadiq "should spend more time trying to fix things as opposed to saying 'la la la la la', I'm not listening, everything's fine'."

In February, BBC News reported on a wave of AI-generated videos falsely depicting a "taxpayer-funded water park" in Croydon, part of the wider trend portraying London as a city in decline.

The new City Hall-funded campaign is due to launch in September and will target audiences across Europe, the United States and Asia.

It aims to promote the capital by celebrating London's "rich heritage, world-class experiences, culture, creativity and role as a centre for innovation and trade".

Sir Sadiq said: "We are facing a relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred from those wanting to damage our capital's standing and our hugely important tourism industry.

"Disinformation about London has become a truly global scourge.

"It's a money-making industry pushing lies about our capital and preying on people's fears around the world, so we must fight back on a global scale.

"That's why we're creating this major new campaign to challenge these false narratives and demonstrate once again why there's no better place in the world than London."

Reform UK's candidate for mayor of London, Laila Cunningham, said: "If the mayor of London wants to encourage more tourism, he should deal with the crime he has allowed to spiral out of control instead of suggesting that victims of crime are liars."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r23yv71o
The GLA report published in March, external found that social media users were being targeted by "disinformation" about London.

Between March 2024 and March 2026, online activity describing the capital as a dangerous city in decline increased by between 150 and 200%, while migration-related narratives referencing London surged by more than 350%, the report said.

It found that in some months, more than 15,000 posts have been posted on X in Japanese with claims that the capital is lawless and under the influence of Islamic governance.

The report said that one account used AI imagery to falsely claim that millions of people attended the 2025 Unite The Kingdom rally. The attendance was estimated to be around 150,000.

"Nooo, don't you understand! The machete grabber machine is clearly misinformation rather than mockery! People think it's real when as we all know Croyden has no knife crime problems!!!"

SneedYstwyth · 15 de Jun, 2026

Wonderland foster child dijo:
Reality: they were all held for 18 months on remand and four of them now have ~5-8 year sentences. Even if you ignore the sledgehammer guy, the stakes for smashing drones are a LOT higher now.

It's good they were remanded and the government weren't pressured to reverse that decision, but s18 GBH with intent has a maximum of life imprisonment. The others committed a bunch of indictable offences, many with high maximum sentencing guidelines, they all arguably got off easy.

The courts are handing out decent sentences, but it's really not enough. Unless you do something absolutely mental like those retards, the courts will just hand out a slap on the wrist.

The major thing that is absolutely fucking this country right now is the courts. You're right though, it's better than nothing and maybe some of these retards will get the message.

Product Placement · 15 de Jun, 2026

I support the under 16 social media banned. But the issue I have is they will use the same system as the porn ban, you giving information to 3rd party companies which may or may not be real. It is dumb and will just cause stolen infomation for anyone dumb enough to do it. Just don't trust the gov not to fuck this up, and cause issues for everyone else.

Wonderland foster child · 15 de Jun, 2026

SneedYstwyth dijo:
The others committed a bunch of indictable offences, many with high maximum sentencing guidelines, they all arguably got off easy.

We shall see whether this trend continues, for they are actually the Filton 25 and all the rest of them will be up for trial in groups - I think the next bunch start their trial today, in fact. I'm assuming the first 6 were the overt group and all the rest were the coverts, ie plotters behind the scenes. Given what the ruling said about cells and such, the future trials could reveal a lot more about the underlying structure of the group. I would love to know who's funding them - it can't all be Sally Rooney.

I assume they are all too brainwashed / threatened not to break ranks to plead guilty. (Even their mums are full-on believers, in some cases. It's creepy.)

Mussolini’s Merkin · 15 de Jun, 2026

Morethanabitfoolish dijo:
Meanwhile Sidiq is spending 7 million trying to ban misinformation about London's crime problems.

I dunno, Sadiq, people calling London a shithole sounds like part and parcel of living in a big city to me.

FieldPiece · 15 de Jun, 2026

Ted's Cabin dijo:
You said "I think it's fundamentally a good idea." not "social media is bad for under 16s but I have concerns about how it will be implemented and abused".
Verifying the age of anyone under 16 requires verifying the identity of every adult using the internet who wants to access a shortlist of sites the government considers harmful. Just because we agree some websites are harmful doesn't mean this is fundamentally a good idea.

I'm not a programmer or anything but couldn't they just make accessing the internet like buying tobacco if they really wanted to keep kids off it? Go to a store and you buy essentially an access code that you need to show ID to the cashier for, then give it to your ISP and you're good. I would trust that much more than any kind of government wanting to see my ID to access the internet.

SneedYstwyth · 15 de Jun, 2026

Wonderland foster child dijo:
Given what the ruling said about cells and such, the future trials could reveal a lot more about the underlying structure of the group. I would love to know who's funding them - it can't all be Sally Rooney.

It's the same people that turn up. The extinction rebellion people became JSO. JSO essentially became Palestine Action with the new brown useful idiots. Name any wealthy leftist philanthropist and you've got part of their funding, it's an old racket.

Wonderland foster child dijo:
I assume they are all too brainwashed / threatened not to break ranks to plead guilty. (Even their mums are full-on believers, in some cases. It's creepy.)

They genuinely believe that they're doing the right thing. If you speak to them they are actually astounded that the people they're disrupting (the person they're making late for work, the Chinese tourists, the police officer arresting them) aren't joining their dumb little protest. They're genuine freaks, but at least non guilty pleas lead to tougher sentencing.

Ted's Cabin · 15 de Jun, 2026

FieldPiece dijo:
I'm not a programmer or anything but couldn't they just make accessing the internet like buying tobacco if they really wanted to keep kids off it? Go to a store and you buy essentially an access code that you need to show ID to the cashier for, then give it to your ISP and you're good. I would trust that much more than any kind of government wanting to see my ID to access the internet.

You're essentially describing these. Sure, why not, I'd love to see Brits walk into a sketchy shop to buy 1 GB of data to access kiwifarms.

Betonhaus · 15 de Jun, 2026

FieldPiece dijo:
I'm not a programmer or anything but couldn't they just make accessing the internet like buying tobacco if they really wanted to keep kids off it? Go to a store and you buy essentially an access code that you need to show ID to the cashier for, then give it to your ISP and you're good. I would trust that much more than any kind of government wanting to see my ID to access the internet.

So like a one-hour pass to access adult sites? That would be in violation of the current design of the internet, but it could be a better alternative to all the fucking advertisements. Except it might run out of minutes mid-wank

In the beginning of the development of the internet there was a plan to build in some sort of toll system so that you would have to pay to access data from certain sites, if we actually implemented something like that it would dramatically cut down on spam and such.

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SchizoDaemon

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LXXVII Brigade

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Otterly

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Ted's Cabin

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Otterly

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Heinrich Maneuver

it's just you, me and this wire

LXXVII Brigade

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Wonderland foster child

Morethanabitfoolish

Sick of politics, time to join the anime posters.

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Product Placement

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