At time of writing the number of petitions over the lifetime of the system that reached Parliament and then led to law change or action stands at 0. Its a pointless PR exercise in looking like they care. The law on it doesn’t even require it to enter the commons, merely to be debated in some back room for half an hour by 3 or 4 mps.

I did see that if you counted up EU stats as a single set of figures instead of country by country the EU would count as the 2nd greatest economy in the world and comfortably ahead of the third. Bet there would much more support for rejoining if that was widely known, it’d show how little chance there is even in principle of making international trader UK work well enough to offset the loss.

This kind of thing always leaves me wondering how stable China really is.

Not because painting dogs is some kind of threat to them but it speaks to real weak attitude to people being fucked over that stuff this blatant is not hard to find.

I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.

Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who’ve very clearly not read or understood what you’ve said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures

I wrote that and now I’m imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

The way it looks to me right now - pressure mounts on practically every side, Labour popularity rises toward the election (its been said front loading unpopular stuff is deliberate), Tories start trying to distance themselves from Reform (to avoid becoming known America apologists for a start), relationship repair becomes a keystone of the 2029 - 2034 session.