Jolyon& #39;s thread is bonkers. The UK& #39;s corruption at the national government level seems more like something a shady American mayor would do. Which is not to say that the US isn& #39;t just as corrupt, but rather that we make more of an effort to hide it?

but then again, there isn& #39;t really a need to hide it here: the government has zero oversight, the media is uniformly right wing and owned by people driving the corruption, and most British people can& #39;t be fucked to care unless it& #39;s a story implying racism or transphobia is good

damn who would have thought that a country ruled by garden gnomes who are so inbred that they& #39;ve become translucent and speak English like they learned it from a 300-year-old parrot... would have problems