[BREITBART] Labour government announces wrecking amendment to Britannia's Voter ID law by removing photo identification requirement, and slashes voting age from 18 to 16.
Under international and UK law, a child is any person below the age of 18, but by the time of the next UK General Election those age 16 and 17-years-old will be legally allowed to vote for their next Member of Parliament and won't need photo-ID to do it, the Labour government has announced.
Angela Rayner, Sir Keir Starmer's deputy prime minister, heralded the change by saying ''For too long public trust in our democracy has been damaged and faith in our institutions has been allowed to decline'', apparently implying the trust issue in British politics has been caused by restricting elections to adults only, rather than decades of scandals and zero-mandate forced demographic change.
Announcing the answer to this breakdown in faith, Rayner continued: ''We are taking action to break down barriers to participation that will ensure more people have the opportunity to engage in UK democracy''.
Do the kids in Britain rebel against their elders by preferring rightwing populists like Donald Trump in America, AfD in Germany and the Le Pens’ National Rally in France? Or are they shrieking anarchocommunists like the Democratic Party’s pet Antifa?
...Keep in mind that this is not about the AfD, but about imperatives within the left itself. No amount of moderation, polite messaging or triangulation on the part of the AfD can get the left to stop or pursue other goals. Unless some exogenous force introduces a new unifying obsession for the left parties and their activists, they will never stop gnawing on this particular chew toy.
Practically, this probably means that the AfD has an expiration date. If they can’t get into government at the federal level and if nothing else changes, they will find themselves facing ban proceedings before a court stacked with leftists who hate them in the next 10 or 15 years. The federal elections in 2029 seem like the last opportunity to normalise the AfD before this final escalation.
[PJM] The House of Representatives voted 216-213 to approve President Donald Trump’s spending cuts bill. The recission legislation was a companion piece to the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which passed two weeks ago. Two Republicans voted "no": Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
In a Thursday morning vote, the Senate voted 51-48 to advance the package, which sent the measure back to the House for a final vote. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) switched sides and voted with the Democrats — a move that shouldn't surprise anybody.
Both houses of Congress needed to pass the bill by Friday because, as CBS puts it, "Both chambers need to approve the request before it expires at the end of the week, or the funds will have to be spent as lawmakers previously intended."
On Tuesday, Senate Republican leaders said that they had the votes to pass the bill. At the time, I wrote, "With the slim margins the GOP has, Republicans could only afford to lose three votes and still pass this bill. Having [South Dakota Sen.] Rounds come around on the bill was a big win."
The Senate’s work on the bill reduced the cuts slightly from $9.4 billion to $9 billion, including defunding PBS and NPR; the package also guts USAID to the tune of nearly $8 billion. The Senate took out cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the George W. Bush-era initiative to combat AIDS in Africa.
Side note: You have to love how NPR led its morning email with the Senate voting to cut NPR. I’ve never seen any outlet so willing to make itself the subject of the story (except maybe Jim Acosta).
"President Trump is leaning heavily on Republican senators to back the package, and even some of the GOP senators who have doubts about it to stand behind it," I wrote on Tuesday. "Trump even said that he would refuse to endorse any senator who voted against defunding public broadcasting."
Trump's efforts paid off with the passage of this bill. This could further cement the legacy of the second Trump administration, and hopefully, it's only the beginning.
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