My eyes will be watching Tory reactions to the goings on. There is a jittery atmosphere within the Tories atm. They know that the longer they put off an election, the more it will imped their chances of success at an individual level.
There are a lot of Labour bias opinions pushing the theory that Sunak doesn’t care about the next election results, and that he is only pushing for his own families gain with an Indian trade deal. Add in that Modi pushed Sunak aside by cancelled a planned meeting with Sunak at the last minute. Sunak was also very much in the spotlight for taking no part in the India trade route initiative.
A Cabinet level politician told i anonymously that both parties would love to scrap the triple lock but “no one wants to be the first to do it” for fear of older voters deserting them
I find this one a strange one to push from Inews. It is from one cabinet minister so it has obvious Tory bias. This goes against what Raynor was pushing at the TUC, who said they will increase state aid in an attempt to redress the balance. There is a difference between not promising something and not being able to cost it properly yet. Labour have the difficulty with costing and the way the government hides so many figures.
The Russian links / leaving NATO combo is noteworthy. Those are dots I could connect with a crayon after POTUS 45. I liked Corbyn from afar some years ago as an American lefty who tends to be a little black and white himself, but I see all too well the trouble with oversimplification.
PR voting is fine by me and would be a better fit for the UK than FPTP. The one I always stump for is approval voting, which also powers a lot of voter nuance.
Federalism is an area where we would benefit from more simplicity, not more nuance - a lot of it stems ultimately from the civil war and its knock-on effects unfortunately. A lot of baggage, like the 13th amendment, comes to us thanks to the failed reconstruction.
I wish Starmer well in the next election, at any rate. These Tories remind me too much of home, to put it mildly.
Huge alarm bells for anyone who knew the cold war first hand.
I really want to see PR voting in the UK. I would also like to see it in the US just as much. The US is very influential, lots of countries would follow suite. I am also not a fan of how the US workers right are right now.
It can’t be overstated. I don’t want another Blair Mountain, but we’d be incredibly lucky to have that many people with that much backbone around standing up for workers. Between the legalized prisoner slavery and the relaxed child labor laws in the US these days, it’s disappointing that we aren’t seeing a more firm resistance from the working class.