Nearing politics

We're back to needing a new path forward - because this path is not taking us anywhere. It's looking more and more likely that this path will end up with a terrible Brexit that will take years to reverse, or that will put us firmly under the thumb of the US - chlorinated chicken, genetically modified foods,  the NHS pinned on a board for the US healthcare industry to slice off tasty parts of, and the UK Government sued by US corporations if the UK ever passes a law which lowers US corporate profits.  A terrible Brexit which will facilitate Scottish independence and Irish re-unification.  With England and Wales controlled much more thoroughly by the USA than even the most swivel-eyed loon of a Brexiteer has ever claimed about the EU. So, given that those are the current path, time to head down a different path, guided by a less toxic and untrustworthy process. If England and Wales are going to end up on their own anyway, why not make this a key part of the next steps...

Yesterday, one of the topics on Tom Swarbrick's show on LBC was the Extinction Rebellion protests in London. The Deputy Editor of Spiked spoke about them on the show. Tom also spoke about plastics. Both Tom and the Spiked correspondent’s view of Extinction Rebellion (ER) seemed to be that 1) ER don’t have policies (other than calling for a climate emergency), and also 2) ER have policies which are too extreme. Quite obviously, only one of those points can be true - they either have policies or they don’t. Their complaint really seemed to to be that their policies are not insignificant enough to be palatable. i.e. ER are focussed on changes which are significant enough to have an adequate effect. For the past 35 years[1], the West has gradually moved from climate change being a fringe concern, to climate change being an acknowledged political concern, to implementing changes small enough to be palatable.  We have not yet moved to making changes large enough to be adequate. And...