Detournement

Sarah Wollastone repeating her universal credit U turn. Tories stick together through anything as long as they can f**k the poor.

Anna Soubry about to turn on the crocodile tears here.

They aren't going to pull out any troops. They've been in Japan for 73 years FFS. Trump and his faction are trying to destroy the current trade system which has allowed huge amounts of capital to amass outside US control and which will eventually threaten dollar hegemony. They have to do this before China gets strong enough to properly challenge them.

It's not Trump's plan. Obama launched the Asian pivot by trying to bind China's neighbours to the USA through trade and pressure China via a naval build up. Trump has scrapped the trade element of that plan but the US still plans to dominate the China sea and the wider Pacific. Guam, Okinawa and South Korea put pressure on the main population centres of China.

The advantage Labour now have is that they don't have to do anything drastic to massively challenge the current consensus. National investment bank. Living wage. Build social housing. Popular nationalisations. Stop arming Saudi Arabia and assisting in Yemen. Stop arming Jihadis in Syria. Let the Chagos Islanders return home. Crack down on tax havens. All small fry that would be popular with the majority of voters and have elites shiting themselves.

It doesn't hurt US prestige at all. If America decided tomorrow that they want to destroy every town and city in North Korea again they could do it just as easily as they did in the 1950s. That's what gives them prestige. This is aimed at China. The USA flipped Ukraine to put pressure on Russia. They are trying to flip North Korea to put pressure on China. It's part of their encirclement tactic.

I think Labour can win the next election. The economy is screwing more and more people every year and demographics are working in Labour's favour.

Making sure that companies pay tax here should be one of the benefits of a left wing Brexit. Right now the EU allows multinationals to shift profits and practice dodgy accounting techniques. So Apple, Google, Starbucks, Uber etc pay close to zero tax here.

Mutual defence of democracies LOL

UK unemployment falls to 1.42m...... Even the BBC don't seem very comfortable reporting this shite.

For the first time in decades the two parties have differing priorities. Labour wants to increase the share of GDP that goes to workers. The Tories want to reduce it. The thing that the majority of British remainers don't seem to understand is that their European heroes such as Merkel, Renzi, Juncker, Macron, Verhofstadt etc are also committed to lowering the wage share. The only difference is that they want to do in a less violent manner than psychopaths like Gove and Hunt. The EU has been a vehicle to hurt European workers, that's not up for debate. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/135320/economics/labour-share-of-gdp/

Why?

Tories only rebel to the right. There is no chance that any of their Remainers will do anything that increases the chances of a Corbyn/McDonnell government.

Once they lose their tax haven status within the EU there won't be any workers.

I'm not sure it can be adapted in time. Once you are locked into Sterling then it's very difficult to get out. If an independent Scotland threatened to implement policies which ago the financial sector doesn't like it would be easy enough for the bond markets and BoE to generate a crisis in favour of the Wilson/RBS faction.

It's fairly straight forward. It means that you are better off having a small influence in a structure which has the potential to create an equitable economy rather than complete control of a structure which is cemented into an austerity/debt spiral. Mitchell does a good job of highlighting how under Wilson's plans a lot of fiscal power would reside with Bank Of England style "independent" bodies thus limiting the actions of any elected government.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39501 A good analysis of Andrew Wilson's idiocy.

Our contribution to reducing pollution in China is straightforward. Stop buying so much shite off them and stop sending them our waste products.

They are both opportunities to decouple from the economic model that is destroying the planet. Opportunities to change structures permamently rather than just small, temporary policy shifts.

I'm not sure the Murdoch papers are proBrexit. The Times itself was remain and is close to the Hammond soft Brexit faction.

If the supply chain slows down the supermarkets won't be sending lorrys up the M6 past empty shops. They will sell the stock where they make the most profit. The Scottish government repsonse to this should be to point out that we could do with a decent port in Scotland to take some of the strain.

Arguing with strangers about your own identity is the height of absurdity. Not something i'm going to get involved in.

Does anyone genuinely think the SNP are going to call a referendum in this Parliament?

The main issue is Glasgow being at a disadvantage by losing a home game. If it comes down to the final fixture with both clubs needing to win to determine 1/2/3/4 it's going to be extremely awkward for the SRU. It's also a sore one for the fans as they are losing a fixture which is guaranteed to be competetive and falls outside the international release and rest periods.

Forcing Glasgow to lose a home fixture and taking the Pro14 games off FTA TV. Has Regan moved to the SRU on the quiet?