Sorry…. rereading my post I realised that there should have been a /s on there.

I definitely don’t believe that the tarrifs were reciprocal despite that being the Trump message.

But they’re reciprocal tariffs, not unilateral. It’s like nobody listens.

“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,”

So he’s going to push this condition onto everyone that they deal with right? Saudi Arabia and Israel for example.

In fairness, they are also betraying the poor people in the rich countries too. And everyone else who has kids and grand kids to inherit the mess.

I don’t think that those are mutually exclusive options.

I think that a lot of the west said that Israel has their support provided that they respect international law even though it was obvious that they weren’t obeying the law and never intended to.

It works ok for me.

Not only that but if you tell him that he can’t do something he’s going to think that you’re dictating things to him and it’ll increase the chances of him doing it.

There’s only one person allowed to tell him what to do.

I wish that we’d required two thirds majority for Brexit. It seems daft to do something so drastic when only 52% of voters wanted it (and just over a third of all people of voting age).

It’s definitely bullshit when the response to the problem of women potentially being forced into dressing how they don’t want to dress is to definitely force them into dressing a particular way potentially against how they want to dress.

I don’t understand why there are still sanctions that can be applied. Shouldn’t have we gone all in from the start?

She initially thought the email was fake, but after realising it was from Ticketmaster she said she does not intend to buy tickets from the company in the future, despite being a loyal customer.

Loyal customer pretty much means the same as regular concert goer.

I go to quite a few concerts and all of my tickets are bought from Ticketmaster in some form. I wouldn’t call myself loyal to them as I’m forced to choose between Ticketmaster or no concert.

As tariffs hurt the importing country, not the exporting country I think that it’s odd that Canada would punish their own citizens in retaliation.

They should have added a 25% export tax on energy seeing as Trump clearly didn’t want to pay more for his imported energy.

new trade deals haven’t offset EU losses.

I’m shocked that a single state wasn’t able to negotiate better deals than that same state plus 27 others.

While other countries lag behind, Norway’s success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.

Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.

Basically, if your government really wants it and doesn’t give in to lobbying then they can do it.

It’s many years of concerted effort with successive administrations keeping up the commitment.

Our 2024 figure for % of new cars being electric was 19.6% in the UK so I’d be very surprised if we hit the 2030 target of 80% new cars sold being zero emission.

As a software developer I’m pretty confident that X could hand over every piece of documentation they have and we’d all be non the wiser as to how it works.

We kind of have a 3 party system in the UK with the third party being a mix of parties. There’s no realistic chance of anyone except the Conservative and Labour parties to win the majority in parliament. Sometimes the two main parties need the support of one of the other parties to get a majority.

I think that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland might be the same but the two main parties are different for them.

I don’t know why Musk would support Reform UK as that wouldn’t really increase the chances of them forming a government in the time of his short attention span. The best that he can hope for is for them to become the third largest party in the next election but that would stuff the Conservatives chances of winning that election because most of Reform UK votes would come from them.

Blocking X would be a good start.

Democracy can’t exist with massive wealth inequality or individuals/orgs able to buy politicians, parties, or elections (e.g. billionaires).

We could pass/strengthen laws that prevent politicians from being bought but that wouldn’t benefit the politicians so I guess that we’re shit out of luck on that one.

There really should be some laws around how much funding parties can accept as donations and it should be zero from non citizens. Why is it ok for non voters to have any influence over elections and policies?