They keep dancing around the fundamental problem. Energy is expensive, and it is to a great degree a commodity. The UK right now needs more energy than it wants to pay for - you can nationalize distribution, but in the end all that does is make the state responsible for the sector that has been spinning off bankruptcies on a regular basis.
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This, in a nutshell, sums up the rot at the core of British society.
Until the core issues of superior/inferior class and hereditary entitlement are addressed, everything else is just pissing in the wind.
āWe have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.ā ā E.O Wilson
The first thing to address is the medieval institutions. You cannot have true democracy whilst āleadersā are selected on the basis that someone impregnated a woman 500 years ago and this fact bestows rights and advantages on them.
It is impossible to engage in a democracy that supports this system.
There are alternatives.
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This is what Iāve been saying about Starmer here. No one knows what he stands for, what his values are, other than wanting to be in power
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Could you summarise?
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https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1552548996249436160?s=20&t=mnmkkgklKaG4B8QktukWmw
https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1552549378157592583?s=20&t=mnmkkgklKaG4B8QktukWmw
https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1552549645343248386?s=20&t=mnmkkgklKaG4B8QktukWmw
Interesting what the article says about Rachel Reeves subsequently. Seems like renationalisation of railways is still on Labourās agenda.
@odin_telamon you may be interested in thatā¦
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Not often Diane Abbott says something I agree with, bit she is right here and fair play to her .
Starmer to me is about as interested in the working class as Boris is about honesty, and itās madness to say that if an election was called tomorrow given all the bs weāve seen from this current government that labour under Starmer won win.
Whatās even worse is that I cannot even say heād win them an election against the other two Muppets hoping to take over from Boris.
Ps , cheers red 
Labour is 10pts+ ahead in the polls, a lead it has rarely had previously. Head to Head Starmer is polling well in front of both Sunak and Truss.
I think most of us are covering our eyes and blocking our ears. āLalalala not happening. Itās summer so summer holsā. But when that first bill rolls in from October, I think itās going to suddenly be a massive deal for most of us.
I donāt think Iāve heard anyone talking about what is about to happen. I know people who live with a maxed credit card for most of their life, thousands of pounds spent on vacations for the summer holidays and I genuinely expect this to break them. No-one I know is saving for this, or preparing for this.
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Hmm interesting, but from now until the election thatāll change and the usual suspects will dig up the dirt where they can, but more to the point I think what Starmer did here was worse than anything thrown at Corbyn , call him a communist , attack his free internet for everyone policy (remember reading comments section in DM, reader demanding itās his choice to pay for which ever service provider he wanted 
).
But seriously a lot of people who will be struggling (especially after seeing that Martin Lewis video you posted ) will see that Starmer is nothing but a wolf in sheepās clothing, genuinely comes across to me as another Blair , and thatās not what the country needsā¦Corbyn or Burnham would be an ideal labour party leader right now imo .
The Tories are a shit show , best time is now for labour to admit they are too, get rid of Starmer and get a proper leader who will at least offer a real alternative to the zombies that the Tories are offering, do it now and by time the election is due they will have a real chance to connect to the working class again, as it is they are shite .
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And this is why I donāt agree with Lynch a bit further up about Starmer announcing wage increases for the poor. Keep your head down, donāt draw attention to yourself especially around wage increases which somehow will need to be costed unless you are begging for criticism. There will be a time to cut out the rot. And that is still two years away.
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Iāve been invited to a husting with Sunak on Sunday near where I live. Hmmā¦
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