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   Merry Christmas (lyndamerry484@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:34:30 JST Merry Christmas

   • Bob Jamieson

   @bobjmsn

   I agree Maggie Thatcher did so much damage to the UK and she pushed the Tories to the right, it took until Johnson for them to go fully 'far right'.

   I still think this Tory Party thinks that they are onto a winner by slagging off immigrants in the UK, they are not.

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:34:27 JST Paul Sutton

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
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     • WylieCoyoteUK

     @vfrmedia @wyliecoyoteuk @lyndamerry484 @bobjmsn

     We have already seen attacks using nerve agents in the UK, we have also seen suspected hack attacks on infrastructure and suspect Russia, Iran and China are behind many.

     Putin does have nuclear capable missiles that could hit the UK, I think he has some sort of weapon that could cause a Tsunami and flood the UK, but that may simply be the usual Dailyfail propoganda.

     Either way I don't think any country should be complacent.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:34:28 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • WylieCoyoteUK

     @wyliecoyoteuk @lyndamerry484 @bobjmsn I also study WW 2 military history, and there was a *significant* propaganda effort made by the UK to combat domestic support for fascism, particularly from the middle/upper classes.

     Putin doesn't have the resources to directly invade or bomb UK, but he could easily stir up stochastic terrorism / infrastructure sabotage and other chaos that makes life very /inconvenient/, and too many might be prepared to cave in just to get things "back to normal...

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     WylieCoyoteUK (wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:34:30 JST WylieCoyoteUK

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     • Bob Jamieson

     @lyndamerry484 @bobjmsn Actually, in 1938, there was a lot of support for fascism, it took a war to change that.
     Putin is a newer Hitler, but so far he hasn't pushed into a NATO country.
     The EU was built to prevent another war in Europe, and the fascists know this, which is why they have been trying for years to dismantle it.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 22:34:30 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • WylieCoyoteUK

     @wyliecoyoteuk @lyndamerry484 @bobjmsn also there were not so many black/brown people in the UK then, and far fewer in positions of power or making a good living (including celebrities, sportspeople), and there are many who are *not* happy about that (even those who claim to be "Left"). As a brown person myself I don't think its /yet/ as bad as 1970s, but I'm increasingly wary about where I go and who I associate with...