Things I have learned about Britons from twitter
Britons hate their media, every single aspect of it, but consume vast amounts of it.
Britons despise their politicians in a singular way, as opposed to the multiple and varied ways Americans hate their politicians. All British politicians are slimy incompetent snakemen in ill-fitting human skins.
Britons are all atheist marxists.
Britons have very specific ideas about how humor should work. Only Peep Show follows these rules.
Britons like football.
Britons despise their politicians in a singular way, as opposed to the multiple and varied ways Americans hate their politicians. All British politicians are slimy incompetent snakemen in ill-fitting human skins.
Britons are all atheist marxists.
Britons have very specific ideas about how humor should work. Only Peep Show follows these rules.
Britons like football.
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as a briton myself i will confirm/deny these in order as follows
Y
Y
Lol, No.
N but if you add 'and Monty Python' youre halfway there
Y
like seriously i do live with one raging Marxist atm but thats because he is from newcastle. in the north there are still a fair number of Marxists (confusingly all of them vote for Labour, who are now baldly and openly a centre-right party, simply because they [or their parents] have voted Labour every election since the 70s when Labour were bona-fide socialist. now, Labour are full on neoliberals who just pretend to be nice to the poor. at least the tories are open about their hatred of the less well-off. if you see anyone on Twitter who claims to be a marxist and a labour supporter please laugh in their face repeatedly and ask them why they dont support the Greens who arent even left-wing and still manage to be the most marxist party in the country.)
but yeah. there is a fucking frightening number of "Conservative Future" members at my university. your image of the average hard-campaignin', ethical-livin', protestin', peace-and-love student is fucking dead. as for wider britain... most people are centre-right to just plain right wing. confusingly, some of them are centre right and still hate thatcher idgi
/britishpolitics
yeah it progressively gets more and more hostile towards the right until you reach scotland. seriously everyone in scotland fucking despises the tories and they have like 1 MP in the whole of scotland. i dont want scotland to become independent because if they did leave the UK the conservatives would just win every election, forever.
for the record:
Labour: centre-right party who pretend to like the poor but secretly hate the poor
Conservative: more-right-than-centre-right party who are open about their hate for the poor
Liberal Democrats: centre-right party who everyone hates because they got into power in a coalition with the tories and basically broke every single election promise they made and are now functionally unelectable for a generation
UKIP: batshit crazy 'some-of-my-best-friends-are-black'-racist anti-EU party who want to introduce capital punishment for drug dealers and have about 14% of the vote in opinion polls
Greens: only party even vaguely approaching left-wing who have admittedly good policies but tremendously bad organisation because their core long-term membership is a load of old hippies left over from the 70s
my country is so much fun politically. at least in the US you only have 2 parties to continually scream 'no no what are you doing oh god' at.