solarpunkandrobots
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- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 weeks ago:
I find their attitude to the EU inexplicable. We all know Labour is overwhelmingly pro EU, and the voting public itself strongly regrets the vote. Unless they are lucky they are going to find the Lib Dems taking the former moderate Tory vote, Labours current centre vote and the normal disillusioned voter all governments generate and creating a pretty threatening new voter block.
- Comment on Macron ‘to make state visit before Trump’ as UK seeks closer ties with Europe 5 weeks ago:
I’m optimistic about it, especially if America continues falling apart and completely undermining the whole point of brexit. The actual public right now is split about 60 / 30 in favour and if thats as durable a change of heart as it looks rejoining is a matter of time and Reform / Tories running out of inexplicably hostile pensioners somewhere around the next 2 elections.
Just don’t build your life around because its still going to take a while even at this rapid pace.
The EU in the future will be a power house with further waves of new members, reforms and integration. Theres no real reason for it to stop within Europe just because that is in the name assuming suitable potential members are to be had across the Med in the future. If the current EU was counted as one state in the stats instead of individual countries it would already the worlds 2nd largest economy.
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 5 weeks ago:
France with a completely serious hat on is most of the reason the UK is as pro US as it historically has been. They’ve tried to block or impede our involvement with practically every European project, leaving us with little practical alternative.
And the reason this happened is ironically because they fear letting us in with let the US into Europe
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 2 months ago:
Far beyond time for this to be in the bin, I think there is one other country in the world that allows it. Hopefully the day will come when renters are placed on the same footing too, even if its clearly not going to be any time soon.
Also on Groves reforms just happening to include ways for landowners to undermine the entire system while superficially looking good, thats not some accident.
- Comment on UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says 3 months ago:
I don’t see how the government could afford this. Even Labour is on a full blown cutting spree.
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- Comment on AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says 3 months ago:
You saved me typing