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Not really, I'd say it's more so down to laws and state capacity to deal with it.

Like Spain is a pretty rich country, and yet it still has a decent amount of squatting (although it is VERY overstated)

A majority for the far-right on under 30% - but remember FPTP “protects against extremism”

Yay, majority of seats on less than 30% of the vote

Totally a democratic state!!!

I've just rediscovered Katamari Damachi music and I love it

Banger all around

im begging you to listen to how this fox news host pronounces “authoritarianism”

Wild that someone with the @ "FarRightThugs" is just something pretty normal on Twitter now

Macron fundamentally differs from Starmer, Carney, etc because he believes that you can just do things and the others don't. They believe in a world order where they still have to ask daddy, Washington DC, for permission. Macron doesn't

Nah, it'll be like -.7% next quarter

Remember, Japan's economy is basically growing by 1% a year, followed by an economic crisis that wipes out all the growth from the previous decade

Honestly, "People's Party" would be a better name, even if it's also generic as hell

But there's loads of options that could be used, it's a shame these all suck

This is incredible pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemid%C...

We need our own version of this

Gentrification for thee, but not for me

Honestly, I do feel slightly tempted to set an account up again on the other website

Like, Bluesky is great, but it also feels way too Yank-Centric, it'd be good to have some connections again with accounts I haven't talked to for a long while

I wish that Von der Lyen goes "Oh no, we planned for all the investment to be done in renewable energy projects! What a shame, guess we'll be pulling out, but we still have the deal!"

And remember guys, the 2018 trade war was the largest tax rise for like, 4 decades? in the US

Imagine how large this one is!

Damn, I guess the voters really do stick to "Vote Blue no matter who!"

Shame not a lot of politicians are doing that

Yea, a great thing is that it'll help reduce the creeping Presidentialism we've been seeing. Since a government with more than one party in it would likely not last long if the leader of the largest party is trying to act like they're the only person in the government.

Its all through Parliament

Courts, like elsewhere, interpret the laws that the legislature writes. But unlike in the US, where the supreme court can't be overruled, Parliament could write a law saying "actually the interpretation is wrong, here's how we would do it" thereby overruling the courts

Tbf, the issue of a Reform government could be reduced if Labour decided to introduce proportional representation

So, in other words, not gonna happen

Not really, it's more so that the seats where Labour are running have little to no Lib Dem presence and vice versa.

Basically, in a healthy parliamentary system, parliament should be able to go "I understand what you're trying, but this isn't a good way of doing it" or even "this is a shit idea, this isn't happening". The avenues to do this clearly aren't effective enough atm, leading to laws like OSA.

The bullet train in 🇯🇵-as glorious as everyone says. A reminder the Japanese built their first high speed train for the 1964 Olympics and it became national by the 80s. They’re now building Maglevs (floating trains).

Meanwhile in 🇬🇧 we can’t be sure we’ll connect HS2 to Euston. Pathetic.

Landlords don't charge what they want, otherwise they'd be charging like $10k+ a month for a studio

Landlords charge as much as they can get away with, if you build more homes, the maximum someone can charge would likely end up dropping, since the section of earners they could attract drops

Brianna Ghey wasn't killed because she was unsafe online. She was murdered because two of her classmates decided that it would be fun to murder a trans girl.

...be MUCH more willing to rebel if they feel that constituents dislike that policy or (in this case) they might not be improving things fast enough in the area

Yea, Starmer thinks he's the next Blair or Thatcher, but

1) He doesn't have the personality that either of them had (who'd be able to convince MPs through charm or fear)
2) His MPs are significantly more vulnerable to being voted out then MPs were in those previous eras, meaning they'd...

Really enjoyable article here. I was pleasantly surprised to read that many Labour MPs believed the Bill wasn't going far enough, even before the amendments wrecked it.

Starmer is delivering a fleabite to an elephant and somehow managing to pay a huge political price for it.

Is this in Taiwan? I'm surprised the Recall campaign worked, guess that's a bit of good news

Still can't believe you went to the Yellow Deli people and didn't realise it until later

Like, I can only see two ways that's justifiable

1) You're making your own pasta and stuff, which...why?
2) You're living alone and making a new meal from scratch *EVERY DAY* as that could be "economically impossible", but then...just...eat leftovers?