It’s interesting that the popularity of many politicians with the public has an inverse correlation with their popularity with the Sensible pundits.

It’s been really clear that the government‘s first, gut reaction was to avoid responsibility and not to piss off Musk or the US and while that was predictable, it’s so incredibly shit. Weak, cowardly, indecisive, incompetent. The polar opposite of what people want from government.

By far the most clueless analysis of UK politics in a very crowded field.

"Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels." www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

This is the inevitable endpoint of the 'sensible, realistic, practical’ politics that centrists pride themselves on.

It’s interesting that Reform voters understand the purpose of democracy better than most political pundits and Labour die hards - ‘I will vote for the party offering the policies I want’

Labour can, and should, be replaced by the Greens as the main left wing party. If you are on the left, there is simply no logic in not voting for the party offering the policies you like. Anything else is in fact a subversion of democracy, no matter what the voting system.

Yeah, a bit sick of hearing that the silly lefties must leave their dreams of peace behind and bend to the new tough and decisive ‘real’ world, as declared by some smug and patronising wanker from behind their keyboard.

Defence is not a single issue of military spending, Europe’s mistake has been reliance on fossil fuels and embrace of neoliberalism. Energy independence and food security is defence, democratic stability is defence, environmental resiliance is defence. For me that is the greater point to be made.