@First-light Whats even better is, Labour have already made their grave, they just haven’t moved in yet.

They bled votes to green, meaning to regain their vote they would have to lean left - and polling suggests less than 1% of reform voters would now vote labour so appealing right is futile.

They’ve lost, and continue to lose the support that props up the centre.

That being said, we’re looking at years of hung parliaments and shoddy coalitions that won’t hold water. If FPTP continues, there will be a desert of functional governance coming to the U.K. at the next GE.

To compound this even further, Plaid Cymru swept up, and the SNP fortified I believe too, as well as Sinn Fein in NI. With weaker and weaker governments or none at all in Westminster, the shouting for independence will only become more and more justified.

Well, I’m no Nostradamus but that appears to be the beginning of the UK balkanisation.

…and I didn’t even mention the uplift in Muslim independents voted in this round.

@Stigma This is an interesting question. Its worth saying that human intelligence may have peaked towards the end of the last ice age. Farming does not require as much mental power as hunting scarce game. Even in fairly recent times one wonders if we are not as smart as they were a few hundred years ago. Read Hamlet and then ask yourself are you smart enough to really get it all as a piece of evening entertainment (which is all a play is) not as a work of literature with commentary notes?

Certainly brain sizes have been shrinking since the end of the last ice age. Life is so easy for people in cities these days that compliance and agreeability seem to be highly selected for traits.

Of course that may yet all change when the people get thinned and renewed in due course. Who can really say what sort of minds will work best with AI? AI has yet to develop enough to know how auto generative it can be. Nerds who can code may be pointless in future.

Intelligence is a combination of many genetic traits and life experience. It is very important for selection but at the moment we are living in strange times.

Smart people are machiavellian in smart ways and dumb people in dumb ways. Fooling an increasingly vigilant system that uses past data for reference points may change who gets away with it?

Random Thought - Saturday Evening Edition:

We all know about the epiphany phase, the wall, and the WAATGM phenomenon. So perhaps I am not saying anything new here, but bear with me.

When a woman proposes the following:

I ran the streets. Frat parties, spring break, big dicks, sucking a bartender’s dick in a bathroom, the anal, the oral, the trains, the drugs/drinking, the parties, the beaches, and all the other debauchery. I really enjoyed my 20’s and early 30’s.

Now that I have all that “out of my system” I am ready for something serious. No more games, one night stands, players, and fuck boys. I want a REAL man. And a REAL man “Steps up” and knows how to handle a “strong independent woman”. Real men are not intimidated by a strong woman.

And now that all the fun is over, and I am ready to settle, I want to settle with you. Now that the hard work begins - the pregnancy, the mood swings, the coping with the trauma of my wild past, the birth, the sleep deprivation, the diapers, paying the bills, helping with household chores while I sit on my ass and complain how hard it all is (after all, it is a LOT harder than laying on a beach in Cancun); I want to lay that all on YOU, Mr. “Real Man".

Now that the fun and fuckery has all been had, I want to lay the torture and difficulties on you, because I see you as a loser. As a simp. A fool. A sucker.

But don’t worry, the thing I bring to the table is me! You get all “this” (points to her crotch). You are lucky because I choose YOU.

I have had two woman propose such setups to me, without all the honesty, and I was honestly dumbstruck. Both times I busted out laughing. “Are you fucking kidding me?” was what i recall saying. Needless to say I am no longer seeing either of them any longer.

I get it - I am an accomplished older man who has a good attitude, easy going, and raised a family on my own. I have received a lot of sexual female attention in my life and I am in pretty good shape. So I can see why I would look like a good target.

But DAMN, what a fucking insult.

There are videos in which some ugly dude approaches a woman and she freaks out on him. The implication is that he DARES to think he has a chance with her. It shatters her delusions about what she can pull.

sigh

I guess I am in that very boat boys. Because of my success, some women see me as their golden ticket to simp abuse heaven.

I have been talking with a woman my age recently, and she is cute enough. And she informed me that she wants to know that I will not see other women before I sleep with her. And I made it clear that that was NOT going to happen in no uncertain terms. She still texts me every morning and wants to talk every night.

Go figure.

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@Bozza This all looks positive. Just got to actually convert it to parliament.

The left still call reform "right wing" or even "far right" because they want to use magic cancelling words and make the bad blasphemers go away. This works great on a green voter who hates "far right fascist pigs" but he/ she /it/ they were never going to vote reform anyway but really the old left/ right dichotomy doesn't apply to reform.

Reform are taking votes from rural conservatives but they are also taking old labour votes in grim northern cities -people labour considered hereditary voters who "had" to vote labour while labour worried about everyone else who was gay or disabled, anxious, female or foreign -in fact anyone who didn't labour much and wanted free shit.

Thigs are shifting one feels. Its about bloody time too!