Taffy Osborne
@poppingbubbles
UK & Welsh politics/social policy. Occasional regional broadcaster. Data person at large UK charity.
I just post this graph to these people and if they still don't pause just block them they are unwilling to engage with the world as it actually is.
I mean it's real, but a) so what and b) a large component of it is Ukrainians and Hong Kongers which were explicit policy choices and aren't the people the racists are complaining about.
It's so stupid. Obviously nobody *wants* to spend money on defence. It's just irresponsible not to.
OK fun. Drives home how I should probably tried harder with profile photo, but I am not going to now.
Puss just made a one way trip to the vet. A rescue cat we've had for three years. Pretty sad will miss the little arsehole.
See also nonexistent "spiralling inequality" - it's been high since the 80's but it isn't increasing.
Where is the option to not sell at all to poor human rights places and also get shares in BAe Systems and be the arsenal of democracy?
I was a bit surprised at the label if not the scores. It gave me an identical score for "Social Democrat" though which I would have picked.
I agree they are mostly responsible. I think in a disaster this great though there is plenty of blame to go around. My mental model for it is like the swiss cheese risk thing. The electorate is the last piece of cheese here. So the final check on it but in a good system there should be loads.
Labour again. Quite a lot of policies here, but I will count up new Vs existing later.
I don't know if Starmer's minesterial team are going to survive what's about to happen to them in the Celtic nations.