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Irish system would also be OK

there's never a Golden Age but I truly believe that we need to know more about where the industrial production we benefit from actually occurs now

would that be 1940s or 1950s? great stuff

this matters long-term. but yeah if Labour MPs have any instinct for self-preservation they'll start some machinery to make a Green/Lab choice less stark

imo the structural factors that saw a good (potentially great) nascent politician like Hannah go for the Greens - rather than the rather right-leaning Manchester Labour Monolith - were only reversed temporarily and incompletely by the Corbyn interregnum, which has now ofc been stamped into the mud

AI or telescope / photography projects, which way

she (Hannah) seems really good though. I sense the Force is strong in this one!

you can blame some of their inheritance for how *shockingly bad* some of the welfare / active state is, and it really is! but it still begs the question: at what point did they think 2-child cap / levels of UC / student loan interest became critical, and did they even care

this is the thing that really makes me spit tacks at Starmer.

Still from scene in Clockwork Orange where a vengeful widower meets the leader of the gang that attacked his wife and gives him adulterated wine.

More Wine?

well, Jewish people were very highly represented in this select group of expellees weren't they, along with people who 'Liked' Green Party posts or were linked in some distant way with retrospectively banned groups. But you carry on with your mgmt consultant candidates, you're ok without 'us'

I know most Labour ppl still think they're the good guys, that there are Hattersley social democrats and soft-left burghers who want Nice Things, but bear in mind that actions and methods and political choices bear fruit, and can, eventually, kill your organisation. That's the Starmer story.

track back to when the 'hippies' and 'anti-semites' were expelled and checked what you were thinking then, because that was probably 'your party's' last chance

oliver cromwell -----> gordon brown

there's a mea culpa aspect here for me, but the truth about Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit was this: the left was simply ill-prepared for any debate of any seriousness about the UK and EU, or the UK's role in the world, and Jeremy was suddenly confronted with all this grandiose, woolly thinking

liked Peter Mair's words on the deliberately de-politicised EU polity? Then you'll love Palantir, Meta,Alphabet & whoever supplies them locally squeezing the public sphere into a tiny cube of scrap metal

this matters: Starmer's rise as a (false) continuity remainer option convinced a majority-left Labour Party in 2020 - a weird, bad way for the iconoclastic Anti-EU left to end, but maybe it was all narcissim anyway ?

question on my mind: how did Brexit end up being seen through a class prism whilst party politics increasingly is not? (I think it's the UK political class not taking any intl questions seriously).

if 'The Remains of the Day' is indeed the central national story of post WW2 UK and the 'services sector' was a de facto continuation of ... well, being 'in service', then idk turning all retail into a logistics operation running on minimum inputs... that might really upset the national psyche?

its a 'reverse centaur' job by now

i don't think it's an unreasonable question. I think this is an argument - if not for UBI - then for socialising housing, pushing the social renting sector so it can absorb pretty much all low/low-middle-income earners. Not too much to ask imo

again I don't entirely disagree, but as far as I know Roy Hattersley or Tony Crosland weren't fanatical backers of eg IBM back in the late 1970s. So these trad Labour right ppl are something that's not 1977 or 1997 imo

how much did he also consider himself the liaison between government and certain companies? because as I see it this will all morph/decongest into a string of corruption / access scandals

don't think that's it. 'neutralising' the left *may* have made demotivated tories more relaxed about not voting but has led to serious medium-term electoral challenges !

how the hell did, grrr - anyway

i'm not a Milifan! but his heterodox version of Labour led in the polls (ok, narrowly) until we got to early 2015. His distance from NL could in no way be said to be the issue! (esp as he increasingly realigned with key personnel)

the thing is until the 1990s at least things like Threads made a difference- people could see decisions and biases made by politicians affected everyone. Adolescence isn't directly political in that sense but at its best, it's trying to do the same for the social sphere.

Adolescence wasn't what the politicians largely said it was... in fact the closest parallel to me is something like Threads. A terrible worst case and then an unrelenting examination of the 'fallout'.

I can only think 'drawing a line' under Epstein would be like trying to extract all the microplastics from a living human being. There are/were other operations, eg see Boris' holidays in Italy. The limits to this will satisfy no-one and they'll try to draw a line at Tony Blair.