Delbow

Gonna have to disagree with you on the DX7 Norbert. Quite a few of those great late 80s / early 90s bleep techno tracks by people like Unique Three and Nightmares on Wax used the DX7.

I'd go further and say gunpowder, without which there wouldn't have been colonialism on such a scale. It allowed Europeans to kill masses of indigenous people at a safe distance. I can't think of anything that we need gunpowder for.

What, all of them? Or did he say some of them are on the far right?

In all the talk of Farage and Musk, there's been little focus on Nick Candy, Reform UK's treasurer, who was photographed with Trump and Farage at Mar-a-Lago. In a civil trial in 2017, former KPMG exec Clive Hyman, who worked for Candy at one point, recounted how on one occasion when a PA made a minor mistake, Nick Candy told her, in public, that if she made another mistake he would "cut off her tits". These are the kinds of people in Reform UK.

It would be another thread completely but no, it's not real. We pretend it is and we let that pretence run our lives, but it's a mass delusion. That's what's absurd about this whole thing: the government's ability to get more of something that's not real should entail them giving back at a later date more of what isn't real than a month ago, some people have decided.

It's pretty normal, the UK is only the 17th most indebted country as a percentage of its GDP. Check out Japan's debt by comparison! It can also help to remember that money isn't real.

On the plus side, anti-Semite Mel Gibson's mansion is now just ash. Now he's the oven dodger.

You can really say that because all the main parties' manifestos were independently costed in the run up and they were all massively overspent.

Agreed. I think it can't and won't be sustained. Humans gonna get a really sharp lesson soon enough.

No-one had an honest manifesto.

Humans have no business living in huge numbers in California, it's too dry. It would be difficult enough if their consumption of resources was more moderate, but given that their consumption is huge and they actively make the planet hotter every day, it's totally unsustainable. California is in the top seven global economies in scale - if it goes down the crapper, do you think people will finally wake up, or will they find a way of blaming it on the transflakes?

Also, Farage is refusing to attend HoC training on sexual harassment, childishly calling it 'woke'. Such an ally of women.

Yep, totally exposes the lie that Brexit was about ordinary British folk getting control back. Plenty of people pointed out before the referendum that this was cobblers and Brexit was really for the likes of the Legatum Foundation - they were right, but ignored by many. Now, the same people are warning about a hostile foreign takeover of Britain's politics by the international billionaire class, and I'm not hearing anyone saying "You know, you lot were right about Brexit, maybe I ought to pay attention this time".

Sharon Graham of Unite seems to have more of a clue than Reeves. https://taxjustice.uk/blog/unions-are-backing-wealth-taxes/ Of course, the bond markets would still have the option of selling off in order to punish a government that wanted to tax their wealth.

In my view, Labour should have used a wealth tax to fill the financial hole rather than raise employer's NI and the farm tax. But would the markets have responded any differently? Imagine what they would have done to a Corbyn government - plenty of tools at the disposal of banks to make life difficult for governments they don't like.