Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[mongers]

Lol I had no idea the progressives' latest saviiur, Polanski, was advocating for breast expansion by hypnosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

Not unhinged at all.

Shelf will be gutted that he made a major misstep last week, by changing his mind about appearing on 'Have I Got News For You' the show that gave Boris his first national exposure and from subsequent appearances on it, endeared himself with large sections of the voting public.

[Jacob]

I mean breast expanding hypnosis is pretty weird, sure, but that Guardian piece just seems like a "I'm not woke myself, but THIS is what woke people should be mad about! Why aren't they mad about the thing I think they should be mad about? Bunch of hypocrites! How can this guy be good when the people who like him should hate him according to me!" attack by a partisan of another party.

[Tamas]

Yeah as far Marina Hyde articles go (I like her) this is very weak. But still.

[Jacob]

Yeah as far Marina Hyde articles go (I like her) this is very weak. But still.

Yeah I don't have an opinion on the Greens, Polanski, or Hyde for that matter. So she may still be making a decent point. I guess the real question is the degree to which this is "the one weird thing from the past" (in which case it really doesn't matter IMO), or whether it's indicative of a deeper strain of weirdness that will come out should Polanski get political influence.

[Josquius]

Hypnoboobs is one the main smears about him. Back when the Greens were having their leadership election I heard about this one and as I wasn't really following the election for a long while it was all I knew about him.

His explanation for it makes sense and seems reasonable enough. He was working as a regular hypnotherapist and some tabloid journalist decided they wanted to put a fun angle on it so asked him if he could hypnotise their boobs bigger to which iirc he said he'd give it a shot.

The way I first saw it presented was he was himself pushing hypnotising boobs bigger as a thing he was eager to do and it would work. I also didn't know he was gay at the time so all sounded extra sleazy.

The other main empty attack you hear is the name change one. And his explanation again sounds a lot more reasonable than Yaxley Lenon.

He's been getting some more reasonable attacks lately though about his favourite economists. Also I'm not a fan of his definition of populist.