Comments by "j. rodman" (@jsrodman) on "The Continuing Misadventures of Suella Braverman | Pod Save The UK" video.

  1. It's so depressing to hear the UK labor party not even bother to take a moderate postiion that allows the ratchet to progress but more slowly. At least in the US our Democrats take token opposition positions, even if they don't follow through. ---- I also cannot agree that immigration is driving the rising inequality in the UK. I do agree that certain immigration related poicies have increased inequality, but laying it at the feet of immigration itself i think is deeply wrong. Immigration did not cause the policies of being able to pay laborers from other countries their going rate from their home countries. Westminster chose that. ---- Speaking as a Californian, referendums are just a bad idea without a lot of very difficult to implement safeguards. If you make serious political decisions decided by a vote of the whole population, you cause the decision to be easily gamed by disinformation. You end up with the referendums always being phrased in a way that is actively dishonest. And educating the entire population of the UK on each item being put up for vote is just not viable. ---- Pro tip, google translate can give you a rough idea how to say foreign phrases. It's not entirely reliable, but it's better than nothing.
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  2. Absolutely vote them out, but I don't hear much from Starmer that sounds like it's going to fix anything. Seems like it's time to vote greens.
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  3. What does the inverted umbrella mean btw? Just a fun picture? A broken thing, like the UK body politic? Something forced to do something it shouldn't be doing?
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