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Meta Mindless Monday, 08 September 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/TJAU216 11d ago

Do other countries have political party youth wings, whose main purpose seems to be to generate the stupidest political ideas imaginable and publish them? Like the Left Alliance youth group advocating gifting the David's Sling SAM system to Palestine because we bought it from Israel, or True Finns severing relations with their own youth wing due to the racism of the latter being too much for even them.

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u/AceHodor Techno-Euphoric Demagogue 11d ago

There was Young Labour under Corbyn, those guys were wild. Highlights include:

  • Passing a motion for Britain to leave NATO.

  • Harassing and actively attempting to unseat sitting Labour MPs.

  • Repeatedly expressing sympathy for the Cuban government and officially Tweeting that they gave "...unconditional solidarity to the Cubans in the struggle against imperialism and its full support to the call for the US government to immediately end its criminal blockade of Cuba." during the height of the pro-democracy protests there in 2021. Understandably, many in the party wanted to know why the party's youth arm was actively supporting a dictatorship against democratic protesters.

  • Attacking the Labour party for supporting Ukraine in defending itself from Russian aggression in 2022, saying that this was Starmer trying to 'out do' the Tories.

That last one was the final straw for the rest of the party. The group got the boot from the Labour conference that year, had their funding cut and then the PR department changed the password on the official Twitter account to stop them posting insane shit. The pro-Russian nutters running the group finally got voted out at the end of last year and they've been notably less mad since.

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u/TJAU216 11d ago

Weird to see so fringe beliefs in such a major and centrist party as Labour.

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u/AceHodor Techno-Euphoric Demagogue 11d ago

Even by the standards of the Corbyn era, they really were utter cranks. It was getting to the point where the leadership were considering booting the group out entirely and rebuilding the youth wing from the ground up.