@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?

@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!

@Vermillion-Rx

I'm not sure as for the machiavellianism. I don't think a fool is capable of the tactic and foresight for it.

I'm here to warn men: individuals can function very poorly by cognitive measures, yet actually EXTREMELY skilled at manipulating people socially and emotionally. I got tangled up once with a real Lucifers Daughter. Figured initially would make a convenient fuck buddy and easy to discard. Ended with her breaking into my house as I slept, AFTER screwing all the doors and windows shut from the inside, and repeatedly disappearing into thin air when the increasingly skeptical cops arrived. Glorious was the day I finally got my day in court for a restraining order, and she had the poor sense to show up to contest it WITH active arrest warrants. Bottom line: never get complacent assuming low cognition means safe from high Machiavellian function level!!!