Bloody grey squirrels, coming over here stealing our nuts.

Reform are the only alternative presented by the bbc and mainstream media to the red and blue tories. The Labour party smearing Corbyn, causing him to lose is precisely what I am talking about.

Please don’t waste my time.

Cuts to disabled people and civil servants. Hand money to silicone valley broligarchs.

Red Tories.

One person’s ‘almost’ is another person’s ‘no chance’. But seeing as how you are referring to something that didn’t happen, it is completely irrelevant. Meanwhile neoliberalism continues regardless.

Humans’ inability to deal with reality is almost endless.

It is because when presented with a fact that doesn’t conform to the reality that somebody has (co-)constructed, they have to reject the fact, because they can’t reject reality. Reality changes slowly.

Deal with reality, as quickly as possible, because otherwise it is going to deal with us.

What are you going on about? Go and take your anger out smoewhere else. I am not your punchbag.

Well of course, I mean the thread is about UK politics, but please enjoy your useless alternative party suggested by neoliberals.

It has been Red Tory v Blue Tory for decades. The only difference between the two being the more or less thin veneer of socially liberal policy covering the hard fist of economic liberalism.

The only alternative presented to the public for years and years, in spite of the fact they had no MP’s, was and is the pro Trump pro Russian Reform Party.

Sound familiar?

I mean, are you angry at me shouting at you, or are you angry at the fact the side panel 1. has fallen off and 2. was just glued on in the first place, and it doesn’t recharge in the cold, and the tyres are shit, and five other things have gone wrong on it and you can’t get them fixed, and in person it looks like one of those inbred Siberian tigers v. how it always looked online like a normal tiger, and it’s worth about 30% of its purchase value even though you’ve only owned it for 4 months, and you can’t tow or carry anything in it, you can’t sell it, and it is rusting?

In Darwin’s terms, the ‘survival of the fittest’ you referred to means something like ‘those most able to adapt to evolutionary change’.

In this context, your inability to adapt to a change that improves life for everybody, from the direct reduction in deaths, to reduced micro plastics (of which car tyres are something like 25%) makes you the unfit one. You are the idiot.

Let’s not ban all cars, even though it would be a positive development, let’s just ban idiots (to use your word) like you. It is clear by your attitude that you are not safe.

It should go without saying that unelected people heavily involved in the writing of legislation, whether that is peers in the House of Lords, or corporate lobbyists in Brussels, fatally undermines the credibility of those institutions.

This situation is nothing new to Britain. What is maybe ‘new’, after nearly fifty years of neo-liberal economic and political policy, is a former working class of increasingly impoverished people primed to accept a far-right alternative that is the only option that has been presented to them: an alternative given airtime for years in spite of the fact that that party had not even one MP elected to parliament. This alternative is not going to be any better for those former working class people, which suits the wealthy and powerful who presented Nigel Farage as the alternative.

In the case of the US in 2016, you got Trump, or a continuation of the economics/politics that made Trump inevitable. Same here in Europe, playing out in its own way.

This appears to be the inevitable result of nearly fifty years of neo-liberal economic and political policy.

At the top of this post I wrote ‘it should go without saying’ because the reality is that we are so far from anything approaching idealism that the idea that we should worry about people buying peerages and writing laws that suit their mates, seems quaint.

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Nobody expects Labour to do zero positive things. That does not mean they are not red tories whose failure to address the needs of working people will eventually usher the Reform Party into power.

Why is David 'Will of the people, bollocks" Lammy in politics at all, never mind government?

I inject it into the gap between my big and second toe, as if I’ve ruined the rest of my veins (even though I haven’t).

It has been red tory v blue tory for decades.

The end result of this will be reform in power. The rich won’t mind this. The poor, who vote for it, won’t benefit. But to them it will feel like the only option that might help.

It is a similar dynamic to the US playing out in different ways. Musk’s slash > privatise the government is a speed-run of what has been happening in the UK since Thatcher - the last looting of empire being the looting of the profitable bits of the British state itself on behalf of the rich/capital (call it whichever you want).

Or they could deal with the reasons why workers’ mental health is so bad.

Sorry, joking. I know the driving motivation is maximising profit, while minimising tax burden of the richest.

The reason the English don’t like spicy food is because they never evolved to be fully human.

Ah yes, Friedrich Nietzsche the archetypal Brit.

No.

Elon’s mother stopped him having that cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg because of his bad back. That wasn’t his fault.

Implicit in the act of voting is the giving of consent. If you don’t consent to a choice between red tory v blue tory then you can’t vote.

In the US, if you voted for the Democrats, you voted for a party that were willingly complicit in creating the explicit oligarchy we all now see.

For the record the ‘if you don’t vote you don’t have a right to complain’, big lie is almost as bad as Thatcher’s ‘trickle down economy’ big lie. If you voted, you exercised your democratic rights and implicitly accepted the choice and potential outcomes, then you don’t have the right to complain.

It didn’t stop people complaining for years about brexit, but there you go. Most people aren’t really ready to look at the neo-liberal EU in anything like an objective manner. They’ve read too much billionaire owned news media and watched too much BBC.

You might say I forgot the liberal democrats. When they got into coalition government in 2010 they immediately the dropped proportional representation they campaigned on, along with their tuition fees pledges and anything else. They showed themselves to be complete liars, and, in fact, yellow Tories.