Westminster Politics 2024-2029
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Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHSAI for everything from spotting potholes to freeing up teachers to teach.
♫ In heaven everything is fine ♫
Agree. She was very open in 2013 about wanting to do more austerity than the tories. Plus she almost the same eduction background as Hunt.
One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds
Exclusive: Voters overall are downbeat about politics and almost two-thirds think ‘the UK’s best years are behind us’
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...fer-unelected-leaders-to-democracy-poll-finds
I would suggest this is what starts to happen when a political system doesn't appear to work for millions.
Democracy still works when there is a choice offered. That's not been the case for a generation. The only "choice" left is status quo or right-wing populism. Our society no longer allows for any left-wing, or even centre-left alternative anymore. So if status quo isn't working then people start checking out of the whole process or vote for the only alternative on offer.
AI in this case stands for "Artificial, imbecile".
Brilliant because the cost of energy in the UK with LLM (large language models) is so so cheap it makes perfect sense.
They will need their own privately run power sources which to be fair is alluded to in the article.
They couldn't run a bath, privately owned power source? So all the now imported power is going to be cheaper? Or isn't really they are finding another way to pay Lord Blair?
It's fine, it's the mythical nuclear SMR's. They'll be ready in 20 years or so
Local reporting is peeling this away like an onion. Apparently he has been soliciting for sex on his Twitter account for about a year, all the while being a regular talking head on GB News and using the same account to give opinions on local and national politics. We still don't know the allegations which led to him leaving Labour last Summer, but there may be questions to answer for the local party and national disciplinary procedures. He has been bailed until April 10.
Whilst not looking to absolve Labour of blame since coming into power - particularly regarding the economy - you do have to feel for Starmer on issues out of his control entirely.
The Western shift towards conservative/right-wing governments isolates Starmer and his party's more liberal, internationalist 2010's stance. Starmer would fit comfortably alongside an international line-up of Macron, Trudeau, Biden, Scholz. There's every chance that all will be gone in a few months time and replaced with far more conservative alternatives.
These global shifts will make it harder for Starmer to govern along the terms Labour have set out - particularly on issues of trade/partnershps, defence and climate change.
The Western shift towards conservative/right-wing governments isolates Starmer and his party's more liberal, internationalist 2010's stance. Starmer would fit comfortably alongside an international line-up of Macron, Trudeau, Biden, Scholz. There's every chance that all will be gone in a few months time and replaced with far more conservative alternatives.
These global shifts will make it harder for Starmer to govern along the terms Labour have set out - particularly on issues of trade/partnershps, defence and climate change.
I still felt a pang of sympathy for them until this morning when I found out that they're going down the same route as the Tories of wanting to kill off as many people who are on disability benefits, the difference being that government borrowing is somehow going up as well whilst they're doing this.
What are they spending the money on? More oil for the fecking tin man health secretary?
Which of these could he not have known were going to happen when he won election? Nothing has happened, substantially, since that election which could not be considered somewhat predictable.
It's classical neoliberalist logic: let the new tools of the market solve the problems (it always backfires). Spending Y amount on computers in schools (no doubt needed, but this is a metaphor) whilst not spending Y amount on teachers' wages or daycare.
Yep not surprising giving the current political system and I would also add in the ever growing need to tackle climate change.
Tbh I’ve long been a supporter of installing a certain MP from Islington North as Britain climate Stalin.
Perhaps not the shift, but the pace at which these shifts are occurring is potentially where the surprise is.
I just can't help but feel that the UK is governing itself towards an international economic and political world which isn't going to exist in a few years time. Regardless of whether they're right or wrong, the UK simply can't afford to "go it alone" in that sense.
The irony of course being that we are entering a period in international politics where it makes most sense to have a conservative minded government at the precise time the UK ousts its conservative government of 14 years. I somewhat feel for Starmer because he really can't afford or influence the UK's traditional allies otherwise and will pretty much have to follow suit.
I'm not sure there's ever a case to mke for having a UK conservative minded government, not on the performance of such entities in my lifetime!
Not making a case for them, especially on a domestic level. Just noting that the swing in international politics makes it even harder for a labour government to govern along labour lines.
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Vulgar Marxism wins again
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Another day at Westminster
I'm getting really sick and tired of these Tory bastards. I can't wait until Labour kick them out and....oh.
The pivot to the left once in power is going great I see.
I cannot see the Trump administration signing off on this. Although it is no bad thing that Starmer 'caved' to a shorter lease on a US air base in the Indian Ocean.
No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy
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'Austerity' is a Tory idea, but Labour seem fine with that.
Yeah this isn’t a Labour government. It’s been completely hijacked by centre right Osbornites.