Even better than this is door-knocking for your local party, but I know not everyone is comfortable with that.

Even if you are, this is a great way to find and test effective ways to communicate with potentially confrontational people.

My personal dos/don'ts:

✅️ Say "I agree with..." if you can
✅️ Join existing conversations
✅️ Gently point out hypocrisies
✅️ Correct misinformation (w/ sources)

❌️ Start political conversations yourself
❌️ Preach/get upset/mad - they enjoy that
❌️ Insult individuals
❌️ Get ideological

It just feels like all sense of pretence is out of the window.

Purposefully hold back progress on undeniably better technology.

Go to war to distract from crumbling infrastructure.

Pay for war and anti-progess lobbying with stolen oil that should be redundant by now.

Repeat.

90% of the population having wealth of £15k+ feels wild to me... do you have the source for this data? I would love to know what I'm missing.

Yeah, all it's doing is pushing me further away from Labour. They either:

a) can't distinguish between communication style and the actual message
b) look at Reform and Greens and think "hm, yes, these would be equally bad"
c) are blindly loyal to their party

None are qualities I want in an MP.

You must recognise that a growing portion of the economy is sacrificing quality of life (workers rights, product quality, the health of our planet etc.) so profit goes up.

GDP may have worked as a measure at one point, but people's awareness of GDP as the primary success metric is now a confounder.

That's a huge leap, especially for someone involved in causal inference.

I understand the collective struggle of living through times getting worse, but GDP is not the only measure of quality of life. I'd actually argue it's pretty irrelevant to most people.