They work well when there are many competing supply chains making similar crucial components.Unhealthy when multinationals buy the competition, consolidate & decide to make widgets in one country.

You have to take the rough with the smooth including women you dislike.If you want equality you cannot blame one sex for being toxic.We surely need to encourage healthy masculine behaviour and not just wanting men to be more like women.

Melbourne is not always a good indicator so I think Red Bull,McLaren & Ferrari can close the gap.

The way to make Farage irrelevant is to get the UK economy growing for the benefit of everyone & improve services.Farage & Reform only exist because of Tory & Labour failure.

That is a really good idea if your aim is a very right wing government.

Whatever happens in the next election the losers are going to be very unhappy.Greens propped up by Libdems or Reform propped up by the Tories.

It is still true that Twitter or X is not real life & not that many people are active on X.What I do think happens is that the right wing narratives are reposted across X,Facebook & Tiktok via memes & clips to less political people.This has replaced the narratives from the Daily Mail & Sun papers.

The speed the EU moves at means you will probably look more like this when UK rejoins EU.🙂

The previous US mission in Venezuela had a lot of intelligence on the ground & inside so it may have been similar in Iran.No easy escape for the target.

Very few people read the Daily Mail.Not sure why people amplify it on Bluesky & elsewhere.Mail has limited influence compared to GBNews, Facebook,X & Tiktok.

That is why the Lab party is dying.Your politics align more with Corbyn & Greens.Lab was elected on a more centrist agenda & they also have the traditional conservative working class voters.Trying to please everyone has alienated everyone.

If someone is still angry after 10 years about Brexit then I think that explains why they make unreasonable demands on MPs.

The current leadership does share the progressive beliefs.The problem is that working class traditional Labour voters have conservative beliefs.This government had to get the economy growing,lose the old Lab voters and win over the Green/Libdem voters.All to late now.They have alienated everyone.

With 5 parties it will all be about getting 35% of the vote.Next election could be all about how many former Tory seats go to Reform & how many former Labour seats go to Greens.

There is nothing Labour can do or say to change the narrative.They are just like the Tories.A broken party with a terrible leader.Very few of the voters that have gone to Reform or the Greens are returning to Labour.

Starmer really does take the blame for this defeat.Blocked Burnham purely through self interest and slowly destroying the party.

Starmer blocked Burnham for his own self interest.He does not care about the Labour Party.The party was just a vehicle to get Starmer into power & he is destroying Labour every day he clings on as PM.

There are a lot of self employed tradesmen who choose to be a one man band or work less.Regulation,tax,being let down by employees etc. means that the potential of higher income is not worth the stress involved.

A large percentage of the older folks do vote.My customers often have GBNews on when I visit their homes.

That is a long held belief of the Tories,Libdem,Labour & Greens.
I would argue that had immigration been managed(a lot less unskilled & illegal people)then Farage & Reform would not exist as a political force.

When most people think immigration impacts NHS,cost of housing,standard of living,crime,feeling of streets being safe etc.who do you think people will vote for?Not Tories or Labour because they have proved they cannot manage immigration.

People watch listen & take any notice of the MSM?I would think Facebook,Tiktok & X are more influential.

What do you think you could learn from the loss in the 2016 referendum?
The Remain campaign seemed to concentrate tonmuch on portraying Brexit as bad & making economic arguments rather than telling a positive story about the EU.

The reason people dont do politics is that Starmer & Labour stated they would be an improvement on the 14 years of Tory failure.Most people think Labour are worse than the Tories!Mandelson & Labour Together have also turned people off politics with their cynical nasty behaviour.What is to like?

Every good politician should want Josh Simons kicked out of politics for good.The Labour Together story is shocking.Hiring people to damage Labour & journalists careers is unforgivable.

My guess is both benefit from the relationship.Influence,power & money is normally the reason.

You know its going to be a soft soap in the interviews.Blair would not have agreed to the doc otherwise.It is likely another attempt by the media to rehabilitate their favorite PM.The agreed media narrative is "Blair was good except Iraq".

"This thing was so good it was banned"
I point out,no it was not banned but people became less interested in the thing and it faded away.
Tiktok is a bit like reading a story in a tabloid newspaper.

GG was such a long time ago now.Some of the protagonists are probably collecting their pension 😃
Online culture has changed with apps but the subjects & arguments have not changed that much.

The only positive is that when a Tiktoker is saying something dramatic or inaccurate about a new or interesting subject you can use Google to find out the accurate story or subject.