Yes, mostly fitted furniture these days, but occasionally I get a commission for a nice piece of furniture.Wow! Do you ever make custom furniture?
I'm happy with it, so not alarmed. But a universal basic income would turn off the majority of voters in the UK. And yes the scale of the reform and what is implied in its implementation would be scary for many. Definitely moving to socialism more quickly than Corbyn's plans.What do you think is alarming? Or is it the scale of the reformist ambition, rather than individual policies?
I suggest you take a look at a UK Green Party manifesto, I'm a Green voter, so I'm happy with it, myself.Labour under Corbyn did an okay job against Theresa May. Next to Corbyn, the Green Party are centrists.
The problem in the UK is that to vote for rapid and effective action against climate change the electorate would have to vote Green. But a majority of the electorate will not vote Green because their policies, other than their green policies, are radical left policies, real socialism. The UK electorate is not ready to vote for socialism, so they can't vote for effective action on climate change, hence little change.After all, if the majority thought that climate change was a priority problem, cynical politicians would adopt climate change policy just to get elected and be judged by their effectiveness on that platform.
I don't disagree, but I see it more as exaggeration than misinformation. Do you have an example in mind?I said its better to avoid spreading misinformation. You disagree?
The controlled burns would only ever be effective over a tiny fraction of the area concerned. To use the complacency in carrying out these controlled burns as the cause of the extensive wild fires of the last few years is a form of miss information. Anyway, I don't want to get into a detailed discussion of ecological crises, that is for the climate change thread.They do controlled burns for the fuel in the ground. Trump was apparently briefed but didnt understand everything that was said. If you think the forest fires are caused entirely by climate change, you're as wrong as Trump.
This not the case on climate change, the vast majority do trust the scientific message. My point about humanity not cutting fossil fuel use is blaming the policy makers and governments, not the public at large. A case in point, the leader of the free world, Trump, says that the reason there are these large forest fires on the west coast of America, is because the leaves haven't been swept up. Implying that the solution to the climate and ecological crisis of that part of the world is for someone to come along and sweep up the leaves. Over an area of thousands of square miles presumably. Is it any wonder folk hear that and sigh, saying we really are doomed.I understand. More misinformation just leaves people not trusting anyone or over reacting. Better to not shout at all than shout untruths.
A wage slave perhaps. In the UK there are people who live from one wage payment to the next and they have to work come what may. Although lockdown does prevent most of this, leaving these people reliant on benefits and vulnerable to eviction and loan sharks etc.So why adhere to such irrational principles?
The issue is that humanity is not correcting the problem, the fossil fuel emissions are still going up. This may be why some folk start shouting about it.
Ive started to realize that the people who broadcast preductions that no climate scientist supports will continue to do so because they don't care about the truth. That's true on both sides of the issue.
Yes, I heard, really interesting.A bacteria evolved in Japan that eats plastic. It was found at a plastic bottle recycling plant.
This time will be different, we will leave a lot of pollution, a destabilised climate and a mass extinction event.Civilization may be doomed to collapse (though we truly don't know if it will). Humanity isn't doomed.
Yes, I would go a little further, I would define it as a significant collapse in civilisation, a return to a dark age.Are we doomed to experience turmoil? Yes. If that's how you read "doomed," fine.
There isn't a cause which needs accepting any more wer're past that point. It is scientifically accepted that we have, or will shortly trigger a number of irreversible tipping points which will release large (or fail in sinking it) quantities of Greenhouse gases. Or will precipitate mass extinction of species.The reason we should drop talk of "doom" is that it isn't based on science. When that's the primary message coming from climate change acceptors, it undermines their cause. The climate is changing. We will change with it.
Yes, it's the only way he could pull out of them. With a better format, or a mute button, Trump would have been crucified by Biden. Now he will be after the sympathy vote, again stealing the limelight.Wonder if the other debates will be cancelled.
People will start calculating if it's really profitable to work in a crappy job and have less free time, yet have exactly basically same amount of money to spend. Fruit picking is a traditional example of this.
Sounds like there must be some QAnon (Trump) operatives infiltrating the department that sends out the ballots. It's the only way Trump can contest the election, if he has some evidence to cast doubt on its working properly. Just infiltrate the database which sends them out, find some sacks of dodgy ballots in a dumpster, or something, it's so easy.According to polling, almost twice as many Biden supporters as Trump supporters say they’ll vote by mail this year. Over 500,000 mail-in votes have been rejected this year, far outpacing 2016. Perhaps this is why Democrats have pivoted away from championing mail-in voting.
Yes and there are approx 120,000 vacancies in the social care sector and about 40,000 nursing vacancies, not to mention all the crops which need harvesting. Boris should be encouraging the million or three who are going to become unemployed to fill these roles. Plus they don't require a lot of training (with the exception of nurses).I see today Boris has marked out our lack of brickies, welders and butchers; and there are calls for the govt to lower the immigration restrictions for these occupations post-Brexit.
Yes, this population growth is predominantly from the EU, while there is very little housing being built to house them, no provision of healthcare resources and schools in the areas where they move to. So the local population perceives them as depleting their resources (I wrote at length about this in this thread about 18 months ago). Also, some towns, a number near where I live, now resemble Polish towns. Again the local population is not happy about the way their towns have changed and they feel like they live in a foreign country. It is these demographic forces which have resulted in many of the voters who leant their vote to the Conservatives, voting that way. This is largely why we have Brexit. I notice that now Switzerland has had a vote, due to people wanting to end freedom of movement. The vote was lost, but would have been very disruptive if it had been won.Add there the quite rapid population growth and economic growth being concentrated on few larger cities.
You can, a black guy in Milwaukee admits that he was deterred from voting by a fake anti Clinton add in the report.Nonetheless, one cannot deter someone from voting, or suppress a vote, by showing anti-Clinton ads on Facebook.
Yes, but they leant him their support (the majority of them) on condition that he would get Brexit done. They will swing back behind a moderate Labour Party at the next election. So it was not for conservative policies (other than Brexit) that they voted that way, they held their noses when they voted.And yes, it goes through party lines too this class divide. You could see this from Boris Johnson that he acknowledged humbly in his election victory that the conservatives had gotten "labor" votes from labor areas. Usually no politicians would make this kind of remark.
In the UK it is particularly acute, the housing crisis has been developing for 40 years now with an end to any provision of social housing over this whole period. Not only prices being unaffordable, we have no kerbs on rental fees, which are strangling the young with debt. While many large properties have one or two old people living there. The young are really in a bad place financially and they are wary of trusting the Conservatives when they promise to solve the problem. Because they caused and presided over it for the 40 years.This asset inflation is typical in many countries and a result of the economic and monetary policies implemented after the financial crisis all over the world.
It was not mainstream in the UK until Greta came along and Sir David Attenborough started speaking out more directly. Now it is widespread and there is little confidence that the Conservatives will make any progress in this direction.I think environmentalism broke through in the 1980's in other countries with Green parties. With tory and labor governments this might not have been so apparent in the UK.
Yes, there is a deep split in the Labour Party between the moderates and the radicals, which keeps coming to the fore and prevents them getting into office. They need a strong leader to break this curse, Blair did it and many people hope that Kier Starmer can pull it off now. God knows it's needed now.This might be the real bungle up in British politics. Indeed, it likely would have been a moment for the conservatives to lick their wounds after a long time as the ruling party go to the opposition after everything, but the labor party itself get carried away.
Yes, that doesn't diminish my point though. As always in my comments in the Brexit thread, my focus is on the UK politics from the perspective of an insider who has followed UK politics for a generation. My perspective might have a narrow focus sometimes and ignore wider global trends, but if you understand this you can interpret it this way, as a window into internal UK politics from an insider and draw the implications of wider more global politics from your own knowledge.Uh...the World economy has been in trouble since the financial crisis of 2008, even if China and India have put respectable growth numbers.
We had a similar thing in the UK with Brexit. The leavers won 51:49%. Because David Gammeron was too thickly cut to consider the possibility that the majority might be comparable to the sort of result variance that would be time-averaged out, we were stuck unable to contest what ought to have been a highly contestable result.
We had a similar thing in the UK with Brexit. The leavers won 51:49%. Because David Gammeron was too thickly cut to consider the possibility that the majority might be comparable to the sort of result variance that would be time-averaged out, we were stuck unable to contest what ought to have been a highly contestable result.
Any time we talk about the One, duality is already on the scene because the intellect is operating. Any object of thought stands against a backdrop of its negation. (Plato alludes to this in Phaedo). The negation of the One is the Nous and the Soul (sort of).
And yet it is. How could it possibly not be?
"It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves"
- Bob Dylan.
So it's a race to the bottom then. Krishnamurti would be turning in his grave.