@leonp I have admit, my partner and I have had multiple “omg the poor people in the UK” conversations. It does look really bad from the outside! The thing with power prices is crazy, and I’ve read something like a quarter of Britons (and a higher % of families with children) won’t be able to afford to run their heaters this winter. It’s not like Australia’s a paradise where everyone feels warm during winter either, but in the UK that seemed particularly nasty. And that’s on top of the endlessly worsening neoliberalism that you mention…

@leonp it is damaging. It will be damaging.

Said it before … saying it again … somehow she needs to be stopped.

But it’s not just the Trussians it’s the entire rotting carcass of the Tories … much as the Rethuglicans have lost the plot in the US .. so too their equivalents in the UK.

It can change … but they have to be voted out … and despite all logic … they keep getting voted in.

Jeremy was never an inspiring leader. Kier is better, but remains a cardboard cut out.

I was never a fan of Bliar … but at least he had personality and a brain … if a little misdirected over ‘international affairs’ …

The whole mess started with Cameron and Brexit and setting up a ‘winner takes all’ vote … and then doing nothing .. because he was complacent and assumed hat the public would go with him.

Since then we just see them doubling down on their mess.

Kier needs to step up. He’s not … but who would replace him?

Strikes me that Labour has a similar leadership problem …

OK … I’ll stop now … but I could go on!