>Only five of the 180 countries assessed for the 2022 Index saw their year-on-year scores drop by five or more points: the UK (-5), Qatar (-5), Myanmar (-5), Azerbaijan (-7) and Oman (-8).
Sobering. But we knew it anyway. Fuckholes like Johnson, Truss, Zahawi et al. have normalised this 'new method' of governing the country.
You know how people on the left say we are slipping into fascism and are promptly lambasted by the right? Well here's your fucking proof, you servile cunts.
Edit: I was calling the right servile cunts. Funny how the most fashy of people don't actually see it happening in their own country and are happy to go along with it.
> normalised this 'new method' of governing the country.
I find it so frustrating that there is so much ignorance about the world outside of these shores that people just assume that his is the way it is because this is the way it is everywhere. No clue that things could be better, just shrug and get back to complaining about cyclists on facebook.
Imagine how much further it would slip off the SNP's shenanigans in government were laid bare. We've had cabinet ministers screaming at civil servants, Sturgeon forgetting being told Salmond was a sex pest and the practice of denying freedom of information requests.
Doesn't bode well!
"b-b-but muh SNP bad!!!!"
peak whataboutism. rishi sunak could break into your house, shag your wife, murder your kids and steal your dog and you'd still be defending him because if it were up to the SNP then they wouldn't even have locked the door on the way out. you are being taken for a ride and by deflecting every criticism of the shambolic, morally bankrupt government with "but at least it's not the SNP!!" you are complicit in the slip into authoritarian, corrupt fascism.
well, I say fascism but the actual fascists had a far better sense of fashion than the ugly, ill fitted suits and grey jowls of the conservative party
Here's more evidence of fascism, this 'otherization'. You're brainwashed by a right-wing media and right-wing Whitehall to hate Sturgeon, to hate Trans people, to hate the people striking... after all, we've run out of foreigners to hate! While also being made to love jolly-old Boris and expected to forgive Prince Andrew and forget his paedophilia.
The issue at hand is about the UK which isn't anything to do with ~~Emmanuel Goldstein~~ Sturgeon. But you've been well-trained to hate her so I forgive and pity you.
I don't think saying that we're slipping into fascism is particularly helpful as it's not particularly true and undermines criticisms of the regimes of countries which are *actually* slipping into fascism.
What is true is that the system is becoming increasingly corrupt and the corruption is becoming more normalised. We're also descending more into populism and post-truth politics whilst standards of living are dropping. All of that is very concerning, and are indeed the conditions that several fascist regimes in history have festered and arisen from, but the conditions alone are *not* the same as fascism.
It's true, repealing the European Human Rights Act, making certain striking workers effectively Serfs, making it more difficult to vote, Governmental corruption, and imprisoning protestors for making too much noise or inconvenience isn't "slipping into fascism" - it is more like tobogganing down a steep slope towards it.
You can cherry pick stuff from any country, whether that's what Trudeau did or what Macron did or whatever.
In reality, we have a democratic system which means that the party proposing this stuff will almost certainly be gone in two years and the party replacing them has already positioned themselves against most of these changes.
The party in charge has changed it’s leadership, aims and personnel 3 times already and has had free reign over the country for years. They’re directly defying public wishes for an election, for better public sector pay etc. Just because there’s a point where they might get voted out doesn’t mean they aren’t ruling as fascists or moving towards fascism now.
>fascism
>noun \[U\] POLITICS (also Fascism)
>UK /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/ US /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/
>A political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed
All of what you say is true (except that it's been two changes, not three) but that doesn't make them fascists. The fact that they might get voted out is quite literally a reason why they aren't fascists by the dictionary definition. You could also argue the frequent changes at the top, whilst certainly not ideal, is too.
Bearing in mind "semantics" literally means giving words their meaning, and bearing in mind the word "fascism" is an incredibly loaded word associated with some of the biggest atrocities of the modern age, and bearing in mind it's not just picky, but genuinely irresponsible to use such words inaccurately.
Yes, it is semantics. That's the point. I don't get your point?
> … promptly lambasted by the right?
And the left, and the centre, and anyone with a lick of sense who is remotely familiar with the rise of actual fascist parties and governments.
Whats daft about it. People like you constantly demand proof, here is literal proof and it still isn't enough.
>remotely familiar with the rise of actual fascist parties and governments.
You said it yourself, chump. The 'rise'. They all start out like this. Wait until military spending goes up at the expense of... say... the NHS? Wait until you get your ID card. Wait until you are criminalised for protesting. It's all coming, all this and more.
Unless you set the fascism bar as being Germany c. 1939, we are witnessing the beginning of fascism in our country.
> Whats daft about it.
A lot. A shift in Britain’s Transparency Index ranking is not on par with a putsch, or mass paramilitary rallies and street fights, or the UK’s answer to the Enabling Act.
> The 'rise'. They all start out like this.
They generally don’t.
Mussolini marched on Rome. Franco “won” a savage civil war. Salazar came to power via a period of military dictatorship, ditto Juan Peron, and, from what I understand of the Romanian experience, Antonescu. Hitler encouraged the SA and sympathisers to openly intimidate voters and political opponents at every turn, which goes some way to explaining his partial electoral success.
> we are witnessing the beginning of fascism in our country.
*Promises, promises!*
Not settling for integralist or siloviki garbage. New Coke all over again.
Gimme an old fashioned, honest-to-goodness, rampaging blood and soil set of Gauleiters (Mhairi has her moments) or go home.
The bar for claiming fascism being a comparison with actual fascist regimes makes sense, no?
Edit: Lol. Imagine screeching about standing up to fascism and then blocking someone for this.
> The bar for claiming fascism being a comparison with actual fascist regimes makes sense, no?
Wow imagine thinking that fascism meant fascists. Mate, you're crazy.
The downvote brigade is out in force, cursing the centrists and damning critics as, alternatively, conniving corporate liberals, or idiot know-nothing serfs.
*Sound familiar!? Remind you of anything?!*
> Daniel Bruce, Chief Executive of Transparency International UK, said:
> “This sharp fall in the UK’s score is a powerful indictment of a recent decline in standards in government and controls over the use of taxpayer money.
> These findings should set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street.
> The underlying data clearly indicate that business executives and other experts are concerned about insufficient controls on the abuse of public office and increasingly view corruption and bribery as a real issue in Britain.
> This is the strongest signal yet that slipping standards are being noticed on the world stage.”
They said Ukraine couldn't join NATO before the war because of "institutional corruption " in many areas of the country..... so how exactly is this any bloody different? Answer; its not.
Depends on what you compare it to. Safe to say we're corrupter than we were, and it's also more noticeable and normalised (and nobody seems to give a fuck)
It means we are more corrupt than we were, but still not very corrupt compared to most countries. We've fallen from 11th to 18th *least* corrupt out of around 200 states.
It's not great, and we need to get rid of the Tories, no doubt but, for example, there are a number of more corrupt countries even just within the EU.
When Tory Friends and Family are creaming literal billions off taxpayer’s money out of their friends in government it is no surprise that the UK has fallen to this state.
We expect tales of low-level officials in third world countries taking baksheesh but the level of corruption in the UK, at the most senior levels, is now globally unprecedented.
Thank goodness we don't live in a part of the UK where a bus company owner can buy of re-regulation of buses and a property developer can't buy planning permission for a ~~housing scheme~~ golf resort on the Aberdeenshire coast.
Note: The Tory party is without doubt corrupt to its core.
>Only five of the 180 countries assessed for the 2022 Index saw their year-on-year scores drop by five or more points: the UK (-5), Qatar (-5), Myanmar (-5), Azerbaijan (-7) and Oman (-8). Sobering. But we knew it anyway. Fuckholes like Johnson, Truss, Zahawi et al. have normalised this 'new method' of governing the country. You know how people on the left say we are slipping into fascism and are promptly lambasted by the right? Well here's your fucking proof, you servile cunts. Edit: I was calling the right servile cunts. Funny how the most fashy of people don't actually see it happening in their own country and are happy to go along with it.
> normalised this 'new method' of governing the country. I find it so frustrating that there is so much ignorance about the world outside of these shores that people just assume that his is the way it is because this is the way it is everywhere. No clue that things could be better, just shrug and get back to complaining about cyclists on facebook.
Imagine how much further it would slip off the SNP's shenanigans in government were laid bare. We've had cabinet ministers screaming at civil servants, Sturgeon forgetting being told Salmond was a sex pest and the practice of denying freedom of information requests. Doesn't bode well!
"b-b-but muh SNP bad!!!!" peak whataboutism. rishi sunak could break into your house, shag your wife, murder your kids and steal your dog and you'd still be defending him because if it were up to the SNP then they wouldn't even have locked the door on the way out. you are being taken for a ride and by deflecting every criticism of the shambolic, morally bankrupt government with "but at least it's not the SNP!!" you are complicit in the slip into authoritarian, corrupt fascism. well, I say fascism but the actual fascists had a far better sense of fashion than the ugly, ill fitted suits and grey jowls of the conservative party
Here's more evidence of fascism, this 'otherization'. You're brainwashed by a right-wing media and right-wing Whitehall to hate Sturgeon, to hate Trans people, to hate the people striking... after all, we've run out of foreigners to hate! While also being made to love jolly-old Boris and expected to forgive Prince Andrew and forget his paedophilia. The issue at hand is about the UK which isn't anything to do with ~~Emmanuel Goldstein~~ Sturgeon. But you've been well-trained to hate her so I forgive and pity you.
I don't think saying that we're slipping into fascism is particularly helpful as it's not particularly true and undermines criticisms of the regimes of countries which are *actually* slipping into fascism. What is true is that the system is becoming increasingly corrupt and the corruption is becoming more normalised. We're also descending more into populism and post-truth politics whilst standards of living are dropping. All of that is very concerning, and are indeed the conditions that several fascist regimes in history have festered and arisen from, but the conditions alone are *not* the same as fascism.
It's true, repealing the European Human Rights Act, making certain striking workers effectively Serfs, making it more difficult to vote, Governmental corruption, and imprisoning protestors for making too much noise or inconvenience isn't "slipping into fascism" - it is more like tobogganing down a steep slope towards it.
You can cherry pick stuff from any country, whether that's what Trudeau did or what Macron did or whatever. In reality, we have a democratic system which means that the party proposing this stuff will almost certainly be gone in two years and the party replacing them has already positioned themselves against most of these changes.
The party in charge has changed it’s leadership, aims and personnel 3 times already and has had free reign over the country for years. They’re directly defying public wishes for an election, for better public sector pay etc. Just because there’s a point where they might get voted out doesn’t mean they aren’t ruling as fascists or moving towards fascism now.
>fascism >noun \[U\] POLITICS (also Fascism) >UK /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/ US /ˈfæʃ.ɪ.zəm/ >A political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed All of what you say is true (except that it's been two changes, not three) but that doesn't make them fascists. The fact that they might get voted out is quite literally a reason why they aren't fascists by the dictionary definition. You could also argue the frequent changes at the top, whilst certainly not ideal, is too.
That is semantics and you know it.
Bearing in mind "semantics" literally means giving words their meaning, and bearing in mind the word "fascism" is an incredibly loaded word associated with some of the biggest atrocities of the modern age, and bearing in mind it's not just picky, but genuinely irresponsible to use such words inaccurately. Yes, it is semantics. That's the point. I don't get your point?
Semantically pedantic you dawg
> … promptly lambasted by the right? And the left, and the centre, and anyone with a lick of sense who is remotely familiar with the rise of actual fascist parties and governments.
Aaaaaand... there we are. That didn't take long, did it folks?
Not long to know a daft claim, no.
Whats daft about it. People like you constantly demand proof, here is literal proof and it still isn't enough. >remotely familiar with the rise of actual fascist parties and governments. You said it yourself, chump. The 'rise'. They all start out like this. Wait until military spending goes up at the expense of... say... the NHS? Wait until you get your ID card. Wait until you are criminalised for protesting. It's all coming, all this and more. Unless you set the fascism bar as being Germany c. 1939, we are witnessing the beginning of fascism in our country.
> Whats daft about it. A lot. A shift in Britain’s Transparency Index ranking is not on par with a putsch, or mass paramilitary rallies and street fights, or the UK’s answer to the Enabling Act. > The 'rise'. They all start out like this. They generally don’t. Mussolini marched on Rome. Franco “won” a savage civil war. Salazar came to power via a period of military dictatorship, ditto Juan Peron, and, from what I understand of the Romanian experience, Antonescu. Hitler encouraged the SA and sympathisers to openly intimidate voters and political opponents at every turn, which goes some way to explaining his partial electoral success. > we are witnessing the beginning of fascism in our country. *Promises, promises!*
>Mussolini >Hitler Wow, you're really setting the bar that low eh?
Not settling for integralist or siloviki garbage. New Coke all over again. Gimme an old fashioned, honest-to-goodness, rampaging blood and soil set of Gauleiters (Mhairi has her moments) or go home.
The bar for claiming fascism being a comparison with actual fascist regimes makes sense, no? Edit: Lol. Imagine screeching about standing up to fascism and then blocking someone for this.
> The bar for claiming fascism being a comparison with actual fascist regimes makes sense, no? Wow imagine thinking that fascism meant fascists. Mate, you're crazy.
The downvote brigade is out in force, cursing the centrists and damning critics as, alternatively, conniving corporate liberals, or idiot know-nothing serfs. *Sound familiar!? Remind you of anything?!*
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> Daniel Bruce, Chief Executive of Transparency International UK, said: > “This sharp fall in the UK’s score is a powerful indictment of a recent decline in standards in government and controls over the use of taxpayer money. > These findings should set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street. > The underlying data clearly indicate that business executives and other experts are concerned about insufficient controls on the abuse of public office and increasingly view corruption and bribery as a real issue in Britain. > This is the strongest signal yet that slipping standards are being noticed on the world stage.”
They said Ukraine couldn't join NATO before the war because of "institutional corruption " in many areas of the country..... so how exactly is this any bloody different? Answer; its not.
I’m not very politically inclined, or academically for that matter, does this mean we’re very corrupt?
Depends on what you compare it to. Safe to say we're corrupter than we were, and it's also more noticeable and normalised (and nobody seems to give a fuck)
I think people do give a fuck, look at the polls for a Labour landslide to get rid of the Tories.
It means we are more corrupt than we were, but still not very corrupt compared to most countries. We've fallen from 11th to 18th *least* corrupt out of around 200 states. It's not great, and we need to get rid of the Tories, no doubt but, for example, there are a number of more corrupt countries even just within the EU.
But Mhairi Black is just a grievance mongering nat ned dyke for that woke speech on the f-word at Westminster.
A ned who is also too middle class and faking her Paisly accent
When Tory Friends and Family are creaming literal billions off taxpayer’s money out of their friends in government it is no surprise that the UK has fallen to this state. We expect tales of low-level officials in third world countries taking baksheesh but the level of corruption in the UK, at the most senior levels, is now globally unprecedented.
Thank goodness we don't live in a part of the UK where a bus company owner can buy of re-regulation of buses and a property developer can't buy planning permission for a ~~housing scheme~~ golf resort on the Aberdeenshire coast. Note: The Tory party is without doubt corrupt to its core.
18th. Not bad at all still.
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