682 karma · joined February 23, 2022
If it had operated closer to Cuba the Americans would surely have used it as a form of torture.
If you take out London. Britain now has the same GDP per capita as Romania. Right wing economic policies have consequences
As far as reaching your potential goes, just be kind to yourself
Then why not just write it yourself?
And any future referendum as being: do you wish you hadn’t cheated on your wife?
So basically it was 51% leave and it will be 55% regret.
The proverbial has hit the fan in the UK since Brexit. It is all very real now for people and not just some silly wet dream
In general public services exist as public entities because they would otherwise necessarily be monopolies, and the only lever the public can therefore have is some kind of democratic process.
In the case of UK privatisation it’s clear that the policy was merely a wealth-pump designed to extract value from a captive set of consumers.
Edit: in before anyone asks for evidence of favouring conservative outcomes: Boris Johnson had a landslide 80 seat majority with only 43.6% of the popular vote. PR would mean more coalition governments, but those would largely be left leaning Labour/Lib/SNP even when the conservatives have higher than historically average vote shares.