u/Too_much_Colour

The EU was founded primarily to entangle Europe so deeply that it would be too difficult to create war within Europe. I believe it originally began as a way for France and Germany to separate steel and coal to make it harder to rearm without cooperation. I know Brexit sort of ruined that, but Britain still embeds it self deeply in European security. People say that Merkel made the mistake of liberalising trade with Putin, but her calculus was of Clinton-ism - an open economy is a more peaceful one. Why was she wrong when it has worked before. People would argue China. Except while they’d rhetoric is hostile, they favour global stability becuase of how entrenched they are in the global economy.

If you watch his face acting when talking to his dad, you can feel the oldschool British emotional suppression felt between father and son. He thinks his father is going mad with self righteousness as his brother goes blind and he refuses to go back, but also feels a duty to help him, and somewhat partially agrees in a greater good. But there are no actual words between them expressing this. But you can tell that his paralysis in being unable to help his brother, and inability to talk to his dad about it in this situation will haunt him forever.

Everything that burham is advocating for, are there legal obstacles that need to be overcome?

Not sure if this has been asked before, but I checked and can’t find. But I look over to the US, which is burning. However, because of said checks and balances, there is a lot of cases of the government just breaking the law, and those people could in theory be held liable after they leave office. Hence the country IS salvageable. I feel like, without such checks, this country is a much better breeding ground for fascism. The only real check against government power is pressure from the media it seems (lol yikes). So would such a system work? How would it be implemented? What could it look like? Would any government likely implement it?

Incredible seating. Most central seats are sold out. DM if interested

UK debt to GDP ratio was never as high as we thought. How can bond markets and governments make decisions based on incorrect or estimated data. And also, how could this have been a persistent issue for what seems like a few years. Also, how is this not news, that it’s been revised down.

Seeing as the movie was set in the 80s and it was in the backdrop of the world transforming into something unrecognisable, and the drug trade and the cartel was charging this transformation. The world right now feels like it’s going through some rapid changes and disillusionment is rampant much like the movie. A contemporary Anton would have an intersting place in this world

A few steps to this question. Acknowledging the existence of a “deep Tory” ideological establishment. This is influential people that align with free market privatisation economic politics, and scapegoat social politics. And then that, that very establishment has made a concerted effort to replace the Tory party with reform, and hence further destroy the Tory party. Farage’s moves to align reform with the Tories on policy and manpower was seen as quite strategically strange seeing as he branded himself as an enlightened third path, unless there are other forces at play; the question asks wether this goes beyond a coincidence and/or Farage making these strange choices on the spot, but that this was part of a plan all along after Tory implosion in 2024.