It's all going swimmingly in Donny as well. "I believed Reform was better than this. Clearly, I was mistaken."

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At full-time hours min. wage is near enough £25k. That is very slightly less than I usually take for the bookshop I manage and own.

The idea of doing something because you believe it is right. You never know, it might catch on.

Maybe this person is ethical and wants to see AI work. The problem is that the vast majority in tech don't care about anything other than their toys and inflicting them on others, enshittication writ large. They certainly don't care about ethics, failures, consequences.

Do AI advocates acknowledge/accept the massive environmental impacts? Do they care about theft of the work of others? Do they care that this is a massive financial bubble which will at some point burst and bring down the economy? About the workers they seek to replace? 2/3

Because they are required to spend so much more on these areas, then spread the diminishing level of what is left on bins, roads etc. as best they can. In reality effective governance comes to how effective the council staff are at financial management.

See also care services, and other areas of socially-required spending where govts, parties, the media, and the population are not prepared to have a conversation on how this can be better managed. It is reaching the point where it genuinely doesn't matter which party runs a local council.

It is a good example. Support has never been better resourced, but how is it funded? As with many things requiring spending money, it is hived off to local level without sufficiently increased national central funding, which is resulting in councils getting to the point where they can't function.

Literally five minutes and a few posts before this on my feed is someone sharing a very detailed newspaper article from today on Covid experience and impact on the NHS.

Yes there is hope, if that did happen I would assume Labour would go down a saner and better track and hopefully it would act as a broader signal to the media and public that this is wrong.

Which surely they must have known, so when the inevitable scaling back happens - more confusion, annoyance (those on the right will want more, those like me are already annoyed) for nothing. Are they really this bad at politics or is it for an internal competition as to who can be worse?

There are many problems with your suggestion, the core of which is the fact that they are even proposing such vile inhumane stuff is enough for me not to want to vote for them. And you think that when the proposals are inevitably watered down, the demands for more are going to go away?

I mean yes, though it was no surprise. Excellent band.

People want services to be maintained and/or improved without having to pay for them shock.

Labour were going to win the GE, not a new thought but they should have been more progressive then and they wouldn't be in this mess now.