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I put him on ignore last week but people still quote him. The use of Third world sums him up, he might get a job one day where he has to travel to a third world nation for work and then he might vaguely know what term means or what it looks like in practice. The west is declining comparatively because Asia has a younger population as well as a larger one and they take a longer term view of strategy and policy. Clinton allowing China into the WTO was a sliding doors moment. Asia isn’t afraid of using migration either when it needs to and to top up supporting their older population. Japan is the exception but do people here on a widespread basis work well into their 70s like the Japanese to support a demographic similar to ours?

Which backs up what I was just saying. The public don’t like people who go into the detail and try to move the dial. It’s why the inherently more capable George Osborne was unpopular but David Cameron less so because he didn’t have the ability to really formulate effective policy (see Big Society) from ideas. And how we ended up with Boris who has never done a day’s work in his life but can pass off a good toff’s best man speech. Can you see any of the opposition - Badenoch, Davey, Farage - being any different? There was a good piece by Sunak on LinkedIn over the weekend advising Burnham to set his priorities on day 1 and within week 1 as in this turbulent political climate your capital depreciates so rapidly. The likes of Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, who all could both communicate very effectively and build the apparatus for proper policy development and strategy are rare creatures.

He will because of their members. Like Truss v Sunak in 2022, if it was down to just the MPs, it’d be Streeting probably.

Exactly this, he just isn’t a natural communicator. Good at the formal foreign policy set pieces but no real political nous which we’ve seen time and time again. Burnham or Streeting will be seen as more relatable. If Farage didn’t drink and smoke like a chimney there’s no way he’d be relatable to most people on average or lower incomes and Lowe….any sane Saints fan can put the public right on him. That’s why we had the ‘father was a toolmaker’ stuff. There’s not been an economic crisis despite the chronic impact of two wars, immigration is well down, NHS back office cut by more than 50%. His actual impact has been OK but he doesn’t resonate with the electorate, and the tabloids led by the Mail have never forgiven him for the phone hacking prosecutions even though he was entirely correct to prosecute them. Theresa May had some of the same issues, bit better politically but named the ‘Maybot’. I voted for her, didn’t vote for Kier. The electorate has to ask itself what it wants - policy detail or ability to bullshit you. Because you’re only going to get a pre-dementia Wilson, Thatcher or Blair who can do both once a generation.

The point I was making is that someone living in a glass house the size of the former Crystal Palace shouldn’t be throwing stones at anyone’s else greenhouse. Trump 2.0 dwarfs any fuck ups by any British PM by any distance and even his disasterous 1.0, although if the GOP had the same removal mechanisms as UK political parties I suspect they’d be using them as well ahead of the mid-terms.

Which include: - Illegal war at the behest of his weak-chinned Zionist son-in-law and a corrupt far right government in Israel which has actually strengthened the IRG’s hand, not weakened it, costing a vast amount of money and killing thousands of civilians - Tariffs which have harmed his own economy severely and everyone else’s - Murder of his own citizens by ICE Starmer’s been a crap PM but he’s got a long way to go to plumb the depths of anywhere near the above.

85% of group-based sexual abuse is committed by white men (Council of Police Chiefs)

Statistically that’s currently true but the balance is shifting, 25% and rising is a much larger % from the white far right than we’ve had for a decades and it’s a growing danger https://www.mi5.gov.uk/director-general-ken-mccallum-gives-latest-threat-update

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Germany doing German things…

Box to box midfielder, looks like a Charles replacement.

Recent incidents suggest otherwise

Wasn’t always the case under Ashdown and Kennedy, but Ed is just AWOL.

The people posting about the attacker being non-white are more Stone Island customers than Lacoste.

Those apples really do grow well in your farm!