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Too late, austerity won. Last chance of a government interested in investment and improvement for ordinary people was 2019.
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Cheers.
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Even so, I'm interested in what politicians and the media overall in particular did in the run up, how were dissenting voices treated and was consent being manufactured? Public opinion is a reaction, it tells us little by itself - who presents the information the public uses to form an opinion?
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After over 3 decades of keen news consumption, in the initial stages of an international conflict, my first reaction to watching the UK media is 'is this a neutral reporting of the facts or am I being guided into taking a particular view?' If the US is involved, for me 2003 is the obvious reference.
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As an ordinary member of the public, will looking at the political/media reaction to the war in 2003 and onwards provide me with a useful guide for what to look out for this time round? I think so. Will it provide a useful prediction? As I said, we'll see.
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I think the Iraq war is the best reference for the UK political and media reaction to the US becoming directly involved in a middle east conflict against the wishes of the public. Early days yet, but I think the parallel is a valid one.
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I guess you could have legitimately asked why is there a health crisis in the UK that doesn't seem to be happening elsewhere, but your primary concern seems to be the benefits bill rather than people's health.
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Might be a coincidence but it's interesting how the "not immediate death zone" map perfectly overlays the public land they're trying to sell to billionaires and private equity
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Of course Starmer could answer, maybe as a normal person would, 'come on, there are more important issues in the world right now' and look like he has independent thought and maybe some humanity or personality. Says something about both Starmer, Labour and the media that this isn't an option.
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Askrigg should be in there I reckon.
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He doesn’t care who, why or to what - it is the vandalism of property, the upset to the ‘proper’ order of things that offends him most - this is the key to understanding how he thinks.
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What are the planes being used for?
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I think the assumption is that big businesses avoid tax rather than evade it.
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We stayed in Portmeirion a few years ago, you can book rooms in some of the buildings in the village. Being able to wander about in the evening after all the visitors go home is something else.
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Rewilding - more space for nature and wildlife to recover. In turn this would give us much more resilience in our food system, decrease flood risk, water use etc.
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I haven't paid any attention to the spending review, but I do note a consistent theme of reporting on Labour is that they're always 'quietly' ending neoliberalism or austerity or 'being much more radical than anyone realises' and can't help but suspect there's a lot of wishful thinking.
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encyclopaedias, 'respectable' broadsheets maybe? Just incredibly dangerous, assuming there's regulation that just isn't there? That's before we get to the reality of a lot of stuff being consumed as 'news' is outright misinformation.
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One of the reasons Ash dieback came here involved planting trees of local provenance, that were actually seeds of local provenance that were exported to Europe to be grown and then re-imported as saplings...
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We finished watching For All Mankind a few weeks ago and it probably represents a fairly realistic (if dramatic) best case scenario and even then it looked pretty much like living permanently on an oil rig or in a submarine.
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I think Starmer's comment 'I hate tree huggers' was the most honesty we've ever got from him.