OK, so a multi millioinaire has asspirations to be a billionaire, the point is this is greed ecconomics dressed as politics and that is the Murcan model.
Billionaire is so last Parliament Daahling; the new must have is trillionaire. Do keep up.
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Itâs a weird in many ways. Several studies have suggested after a certain point (often somewhere between ~$75k and ~$200k depending on context) each additional dollar has less impact on emotional well-being. So itâs not making these people happier, perhaps it is plugging some traumatic bottomless ego hungry hole - My guess is there are a lot of wealthy narcissists having a power trip right now and due to political manipulations they can
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There are now over 3000 billionaires (combined wealth âŹ16 trillion) in the world, so it is a lot less exclusive club than 10 years ago (1800, combined wealth âŹ7 trillion). Maybe itâs about exclusivity.
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Those figures and dates are rather telling they all came at the expense of something
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Think itâs more likely to be the Greens taking votes from Labour than the Corbyn/Sultana venture.
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Governments have let (ie been paid off) the richest impoverish the country whilst they hoover up wealth at all of our expense -
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Closer to the mark still: Boris Johnson (backed up by the likes of Chris Grayling, Gavin Williamson, Matt Hancock, Dominic Raab âŚ).
Admittedly Corbyn was the opposition.
And of course, Mrs Brownâs Boys.
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I think that Reform are quite capable of shooting themselves in the foot.
All the other parties need to do is point to their total incompetence every time they actually get any power.
If they canât run a council, they canât run a country.
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Boris.
âLiterally the worst foreign secretary there has ever been.â
âManaged to turn the office of Mayor of London into a ceremonial position.â
âI wouldnât trust him with my wife nor - from painful experience - my wallet.â
âWanted to be Prime Minister but didnât want to do any Prime Ministering.â
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You forgot the bit about him being an utterly useless, selfish, egotistical cunt with no honour or sense of public service.
Otherwise, a fair summary.
The Demâs strategy of rubbishing Trump and keep-on striving for adequacy backfired spectacularly.
The only thing thatâll keep Toad out is an energetic, imaginative and competent opposition.
So yeah, weâre fucked.
Very different situation.
Trump also had the tacit support of die hard Republicans, and an inbuilt two party system.
Media shift.
If Farage got the same amount of airtime and coverage as the Lib Dems / green party etc, if the agenda were framed around anti-fascism, and if Labour had sharper, more arresting messaging, things may look very different. For Starmer to cut through, heâd have to adopt a kind of Trump-style constant-messaging approach: rallies, repetition, the whole thing. And to do that heâd need serious money and something strong to say. The problem is that money of that scale usually comes with expectations, in British politics that often means promising tax cuts to the rich, which is exactly the shit weâre in.
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I fear this is wildly optimistic about most Reform voters, and the USA is a prime illustration of why.
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Whilst this news may appear in the Guardian itâs not headlines anywhere else with any sustainable force. Flag hoisters could not care less - if the failure of Brexit to solve their life problems on the promise of the frog didnât pop the illusion, local council nauses will wash over them just like the truth seems to.
most of the fuckwits wonât know or care how badly their âreformâ council is operating, the only important thing is they have a reform council to sort out the smelly immigrants.
Iâd wager that single digit % of reform voters could say how many seats reform have on their council or name any of their illustrious councillors.
That applies to 99% of the population.
The majority of people canât even name their own MP (if a backbencher).
We seem to have forgotten that a desperately incompetent set of tories waded effortlessly through more than a decade in power almost entirely off the back of incessant blame-and-distract, blame-and-distract, blame-and-distractâŚ
Whoever replaces Labour at the next election knows this, and will have a distinctly third-rate predecessor on whom to heap blame and a thoroughly-entrenched âOooh! Scary Brown Peopleâ agenda to lean heavily upon, since immigration is going nowhere but upâŚ
Tangent: I note with extreme disapproval that once again Lord Sumption was on Radio 4 rubbishing the ECHR - misrepresenting the situation with almost no attempt made to question his assertions, and no voice to represent alternative arguments.
It appalls me that self-interested, isolationist lies continue to be told about European institutions such as this under Labour, even though (e.g.) an authoritative2025 study has shown that current Rights legislation is NOT an impediment to deportations:
âSince 1980, the European Court of Human Rights has found against the UK in only 13 removal casesââŚ
I for one definitely trust the likes of Nigel Farage, David Lammy, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rupert Murdoch, &c, &c, to honestly and fairly protect our human rights - great people, some of the bestâŚ
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