Britain's entire policy platform is unlimited money for Boomers. Nothing can decrease their property prices or disturb their precious views and they must keep getting unlimited entitlements.

The people don't want immigration

The first rule of British politics: Unlimited money for boomers. Also seeing this across the pond. Vermont Republicans want to exempt social security from taxation.

They need to go after the Triple Lock. It's a massive wealth transfer from the middle class to the rich.

It's immigration

It's very obvious that their strategy should have been to do whatever necessary to stop the boats from coming. The sight is infuriating to anyone. If people were illegally coming to America by boat, I would be mad as well. And get Muslims to integrate, British Muslims have a serious radicalism issue

Fundamentally, the issue is that British elites are all psychologically Americans. These local elections were won by Reform, not because of climate targets, but because everyone is big mad about immigration. This is not Appalachia which does a lot of coal mining, and so hate climate targets.

The entire story has been, "European voters big mad about immigration"

Tech, at this point, is just dangerous for democracy

Trump has picked the option of economic collapse. We are gonna become Argentina. I am really beginning to feel like Parliamentary democracy is better.

Trump is an Anglophile

You have to appreciate the commitment to degrowth

Trump bailing out Britain was not on anyone's bingo card

Imagine if Trump blocks this

And on some level, it's your job to keep up with the times.

You have to increase productivity and there's a simple way to do that, build more goddamn houses