• hera@feddit.uk
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      11 hours ago

      It might be the right moral decision but was it done for the right reason? The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the timing of this straight after the Donald Trump state visit to the UK cannot be coincidental, Trump must have Okayed this and there must be a bigger plan. Maybe. Ha.

      • silasmariner@programming.dev
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        2 minutes ago

        It’s been Labour policy for over a decade that Palestine should be recognised, but that was in conflict with a governmental position that only states that ‘exist’ in some stable sense could be recognised. The balance tipped, I guess, and now the former outweighs the latter. Don’t think it’s quite as suss as made out.

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        9 hours ago

        I honestly don’t care about the motivations right now if it does literally anything to help. If the reasoning was shitty then let’s deal with that later