With any luck they've missed their exit dumping window.

It means whatever you want it to mean. That’s why it’s primarily used by people who don’t know how to articulate their thoughts. If you think you know what woke means, you’re wrong by definition.

A lot of people hate seeing the EU succeed at anything, simply because they are envious or it does not validate their world view.

That’s a lot of words to tell everyone you don’t know what an “externality” is.

People who think reform are anti establishment genuinely fascinate me.

And people who think they are strong and will solve anything.

These populists thrive on anger and hate. Solve the problem and those are gone. And the problems aren't the ones they champion anyway.

I have to say Labour is putting on a shit show too though. They were supposed to be new and refreshed, instead they are Tory-Lite on steroids. Worse than Blair or Miliband ever were.

Really UK politics needs some sanity :'(

The housing problem has nothing to do with immigrants and everything with structural mismanagement and prioritisation of the settled middle and upper class who wants to see their house value go up and up. And also their NIMBYism concerns (again, a new housing estate nearby might drop their house value)

The amount of housing actually taken by immigrants is minimal and releasing those wouldn't fix anything. Most of them live in squalor and doing jobs regular English guys wouldn't touch, in particular for the exploitative pay. You want your 2am burger delivered for a quid. Or the puke cleaned up in the metro. Who's going to do that these days?

It's this age-old problem: https://realfiction.net/assets/careful-mate.jpg

But now it's being weaponised for political gain. They're making you mad at the wrong people. The people who are causing it all are the ones you're voting for.

Like in any market, housing prices are set by the levels of both supply AND demand.

Supply has increased steadily, approx +200K dwellings per year.

Demand has increased -dramatically- primarily due to mass migration (net +944K people in year ending March 2023).

95% of additional households had a foreign-born Household Reference Person between the years 2010 and 2014. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/62910/html/

Do you always take baseless claims at face value?

This is obviously made easier when your opposition doesn’t stockpile their weapons in, nor conduct their military operations from, schools and hopsitals.

> And while having kids may be warping my present judgement, it hasn't overwritten my memory. I remember perfectly well what life was like before.

It's funny that he actually believes this.

Naming things is your primary contribution to AI so well done for deliberating on it. I disagree with the outcome though. Autotune would have been much more fitting.

Whatever happened to that key is a key part of his origin story, that I’m sure will be revealed in due course.