u/Educational_Curve938

A democratic South Africa with equal rights for all was less palatable to white south Africans than Bantustans.

The Daytona accords were less palatable to Serb Irredentists than an independent Republika Srpska

At some point they needed to be forced to accept it.

What do you do about a) the Israelis who live in the future Palestinian state and b) displaced Palestinians who live outside of the occupied territories (or inside) and want to return home?

The 1967 borders are not a viable state because they're full of genocidal Israeli settlers who would depose any Israeli government that implemented it.

The only solution is the defeat of the apartheid state and a single democratic secular state with equal rights for all from the river to the sea (with right of return for anyone with historic/ancestral ties to Palestine).

but it's further confused by the fact that if you are born/grew up in Wales or Scotland (and choose to identify as welsh/scottish) you are welsh or scottish. Like it's not uncommon or controversial for someone to say they're Scottish-Pakistani or Welsh-Nigerian.

In England however, there's far less of a sense of civic englishness.

You're making stuff up.

The census question five top level categorisations and "White; Black, Black British, Black Welsh; Asian, Asian British, Asian Welsh; Mixed or multiple; Other"

Then the detailed question offered 19 tick-box options - the only one that referred to Englishness was

"White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British"

The census views "White British" as an ethnic group, not English and certainly doesn't imply that only white people can be English.

It then separately asks about national identity which is the only place you can identify as English.

The poem is in Old Welsh and very difficult to translate

So hard to translate it's on the welsh a-level syllabus...

Some people do use "popty ping" but some people also say "hollibobs". people like coldplay and voted for the nazis you can't trust people.

Literally don't give a shit about britain's colonial possessions. And however cringe the post match display was Argentines aren't on the Welsh football sub crying about how we won't support you. Get a fucking grip man.

No it's closed list de Hondt PR with six members elected in each constituency (where each constituency is two Westminster ones joined together).

There are three issues with it (imo).

The first is that you need around 12% of the vote for the sixth seat (and de Hondt loses its proportionality a bit at high vote shares) so you're better off voting for the big party you don't hate than the small party you like. So you still had the vote X to stop y messaging and the smaller parties vote getting squeezed.

The second is that it uses closed lists which means candidates can't express choice about who in their favoured party represents them. it also creates a democratic deficit because voters voted for a specific party not an individual but list mps can defect to another party without consequence (also a problem with ams).

Third is that there's no way to express preference between parties.

But it is fairly proportional - plaid and reform slightly outperformed a strictly proportional allocation though and the greens and lib Dems were the biggest losers in terms of converting votes into seats.

Saying the pro Israel stance of Jewish communal orgs undermines safety of Jews is Hasbara?

Idiot

lib dem maybe but i think you're underestimating how hated labour are in lots of places.

expect to hear more about why it's sectarian to print leaflets in urdu but not to go round insisting that Islam is incompatible with British values

The Green Party is a deeply weird organisation, but it's very much the opposite of Reform in how it's structured.

Like Polanski might be leader but he has remarkably little power to shape policy, which is decided democratically by members. And for better or for worse there are a large number of different currents within that with their own power-bases, policy concerns and political outlooks. Whether that democracy can survive becoming a mainstream party is an interesting question though.

Whereas Reform is essentially rigidly controlled by Farage as his own personal vehicle.

Think Matt Goodwin's public profile is a liability to reform.

if they want to win the next general election they need to convince people they're normal and electable but when they start banging on about promoting christianity or stopping women from getting divorces, they look anything but.

Reform's problem is that for everyone who likes them, there are two people who will vote for literally anyone else to stop them.

imagine asking people to vote for you, incredible strategy.

This has been happening before AI became a thing though simply by cherry picking or distorting real news.

I've also seen nice normal people radicalise themselves through exposure to what is essentially distorted curation rather than outright fabrication.

The issue here imo is terrorism legislation provides a wide-ranging toolkit of repression for dealing with troublesome groups like this (also End Deportations - which IMO was an even more gratuitous misuse of terror legislation), and it's increasingly likely home secretaries will reach for it.

The legislation itself needs to change - the idea that waving a flag of the PKK, Hezbollah, LTTE, PFLP or the INLA is a serious criminal offence, but you can freely wave the insignia of Kach, the Grey Wolves or Mojahedin-e-Khalq amounts to - essentially - criminal proscription of the free expression of positions counter to UK Foreign Policy rather than protection of minority groups from harassment.

it may be desirable for community cohesion to prevent the use of flags in an intimidatory way - but selective proscription doesn't prevent that (entirely lawful flags - such as the parachute regiment flag or national flags - can also be used in a hostile way and banned flags can be used in non-hostile contexts).

there is a risk that [Palestine Action] activity could reduce the attractiveness of working in the defence industry; defer [sic] foreign investment in the industry

from the judgement this was part of the uk government's rationale for the ban.

you might celebrate this judgement, but think of someone who is forced to work on life-saving medical technologies instead of cluster bombs. not so funny now is it?

i would imagine the CPS are under significant political pressure to bring the most serious charges possible (c.f. when the End Deportations activists were convicted of terrorism offences (subsequently quashed on appeal) for stopping a deportation flight).

Presumably Arabic billboards would also alienate Pakistanis?

you work remotely in a second language? based off school-level second language skills rather than significant external effort? what language do you work through?

without significant external investment, motivation, and resources, no-one is going to leave school with the German skills necessary to go off and get a job where German is essential, as the extra-curricular opportunities to further develop those skills outside the classroom don't exist in this country.

Those opportunties do exist in Wales for Welsh though.

had a look on indeed and there are ten times more jobs with "welsh speaking" in the description than "german speaking" within 25 miles of Newport.