She read Ayn Rand, Hayek simplified by tax cut lobbists and no conflicting positions.

Most of what she did was wrong and people knew at the time. But she fooled enough voters like Regan.

Welcome to UK politics…

Not campaigning on leaving the European Convention of Human Rights.

Or deporting people with British Citizenship who have lived here longer than her.

I’m not saying you’re not right. But given her actual actions in government even her egregious inactions. The complete failures to do important things.

They aren’t as bad as what she actually did.

She deserved a bad hand.

As Home Secretary she enacted the “hostile environment” on immigration, took away British citizens rights with wind. Cut benefits and enacted austerity on the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

Her remain “campaigning” consisted of saying she was in favour of the EU as long as the UK could negotiate leave the European Convention of Human Rights while staying in.

She was a full part of the government that caused the mess.

The idea we should feel sorry for her because people didn’t do what she wanted (either the public voting, or MPs) is ludicrous.

As a senior member of government she attacked the weakest and most vulnerable. The poorest and most disadvantaged.

Acted badly in a referendum that was then lost not in the least part due to discontentment with her department directly.

Then bullshited everyone with sound bites afterwards like “Brexit means Brexit.” Or “Red White and Blue Brexit”. Won the leadership and then has nothing to campaign on or set a manifesto on.

She deserves to be mocked and ridiculed for her incompetence. She deserves to be vilified for her malice and cruelty.

She wanted power, got it as home secretary. Then did everything she could to prop it up so she could do as much damage to us as possible.

Lost control and support of her party, never had the support of the public.

Let her retire, but take away everything from her except what she’d give to a disabled 50 year old from another country who can’t work their old job anymore.

No national pension, she took that from people with the wrong parents.

She probably should get put on a prison hulk, then sent to Rwanda. That’s the legacy of the Home office she’s given us.

There’s no way Labour don’t run a candidate if Corbyn officially runs as an independent.

The only seats they don’t contest are Northern Irish seats.

The question is whether they run a weak campaign or a strong one and they’ll probably not run a strong one. They’ll put resources elsewhere.

There is a difference between working income and investment income.

Investment income is directly attributable to the investment and the past actions that have wealth in the first place.

Working income is not, you might ask who’s paying you and where they got that money. But you have worked and added value in a way that generates income tied to your work.

Most people do not have generational wealth. Their money is traceable to their work. In some cases their parents work. Occasionally a grandparents work.

It’s possible that your work is extracting value you shouldn’t be entitled to extract, but it’s usually well removed from the real problem.

The royal family’s investments go well back well beyond any of them did any work.

You’re right that the further back you go, the more likely it is you’ll find an atrocity. This is quite common with talk about reparations for slavery and racism in the US and UK.

For the duchy of Cornwall as an example we’re talking about untaxed wealth since 1337. On land stolen from Cornish people. After the earldom was essentially taken by force in 1068.

By the current owner’s 25x great grandfather on his mother’s side and 31x great grandfather through the direct royal line. (Prince William)

A subjugated population living in surfdom. As voting rights were tied to property they didn’t get a vote until 1918.

The Representation of the People Act extended the vote to all men over 21 and most women over 30

Then 1928 women got the equal right to vote. All men and women over 21.

The royal estates are the 3rd largest land owners in the UK. Behind only the forestry commission and the ministry of defence. About 3% of the land is owned by royal or those descended from nobility.

Then there’s the large amount of land in the hands of the church and private schools which has been to directly influence the rich few. There’s the enormous wealth gained from selling land on for mineral and resource extraction.

But sure after almost a century of something resembling democracy you’re going to pretend someone earning a paycheck is the same as someone benefitting from a near millennia of wealth extraction under the threat of force.

And that’s just talking about land in the UK. The amount of assets they’ve gained from empire is another thing to talk about.

And it’s still correct that it’s a massive tax break.

The fact we have a massive tax break on capital gains compared to workers incomes is a shame on society in general and is basically the root of increasing inequality.

They absolutely do exist. I’d just have to install them.

Almost…

Don’t overestimate the cost

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

That’s the retail price for 5, including tax.

Trade will be 20% cheaper if not more for buying in bulk.

If I moved to the states, my home would get switches on outlets.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

These things last decades. Even the cheapest ones.

A switch should never reduce efficiency any more than the distance in extra wire (a couple of centimetres at most).

If it does I don’t know how you’ve found one cheaper than an already incredibly cheap product.

Fused plugs still have a big advantage.

The amperage can be specific to the device.

We do mandate all circuits have RCD/GFCI now, but we’re not taking away fuses in plugs.

If a lamp starts drawing too much current for its wire, it might be on a 20A breaker. It should have a 1A fuse in the plug.

Fuses on the sockets would mean either specific sockets and circuits for low, medium, and high power devices or a loss of specificity. In fact there are 5 levels, so 5 different levels to replicate with your system.

https://www.stevensonplumbing.co.uk/bs1362-fuses.html

For a short or earth the RCD trips. If more goes out on the live than returns to the neutral the RCD trips. If the current goes high but returns correctly to the neutral, the RCD does nothing, the fuse in the plug breaks.

Fuses are an inch by a quarter inch.

Fuses and plugs could be made smaller but to be honest the pins and wires need to be able to take 13A.

Most of the bulk is about the length of the pins. Making it mechanically safe so the earth connects before the live, making it difficult to accidentally pull out the wall, and making sure no live connection is contactable when partly outside the wall.

We have low power travel adapters for low power devices that fold away bits they don’t need. Or separate onto pieces.

I think we’re good. Plugs are still smaller than AC-DC adapters we use all the time. Calling the bulky is a bit of a stretch. They’re aren’t bulky, even compared to a modern phone charger.

It will work either way, there is no polarity when a circuit is made.

There is polarity before a circuit is made. One wire is live, one wire is a neutral return.

For a basic heater, plugged in one way will have the heating element always live, and the other way it will only be live when it is switched on and a circuit is made.

One is definitely safer than the other.

https://youtu.be/DdpGIOv33L4?si=JtN2I3VH4BhgSIyf

Boot = Bootstrap

If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.

Exactly.

People were simultaneously told different things by different people on what would happen of the country voted leave. A lot of it obviously false even at the time.

People might have known what they were voting for. But what they were voting for had no basis on what the government would actually do.

Then we had the prime minister who held the referendum resign.

A new prime minister is chosen in a private election amongst members of the conservative party (about 100,000 votes will do it normally but no one actually runs against them). This becomes a theme.

There is legislation passed which essentially puts a clock on the process. If nothing passes we’d just revoke laws and break treaties.

This was meant to scare the EU into giving us what we wanted. The EU was not overly concerned.

The government put some very shoddy legislation together. We got a pretty poor deal from the EU, well we were pretty desperate.

The government couldn’t pass that legislation

We had an election for a new government

The government lost seats and lost their majority

The government then joined with a religious extremist party in Northern Ireland to give them a majority.

The shoddy legislation becomes not only shoddy but also more extreme, It still can’t pass.

The prime minister is ousted by their own party.

We get a new prime minister.

They still haven’t decided on the legislation but they tell everyone what they want to hear.

We have an election

The government gets a big working majority

The shoddy extreme legislation, which we now know from first hand accounts the prime minister didn’t understand, still can’t pass.

The government literally breaks the law and closes parliament illegally to try and run the clock closer to the point where we take a bonfire to massive ammous of legislation.

The government are then forced back into the house by the courts

Eventually at the last moment a deal is passed. It’s really bad for the UK economy, and the UK in general.

The UK leaves the EU. Northern Ireland doesn’t. Well it sort of does.

COVID and Another 2 prime ministers later and Brexit deals are still being negotiated.

Essentially he EU has everything it needs. It’s protected the interests of bordering nations like the Republic of Ireland and France. The UK has increased friction on trade, labour issues.

The current big issue is that France no longer helps us stop people crossing the channel. That was an EU agreement. So our government, now spends it’s time and energy trying to deport people to Rwanda, breaking the entirely separate European Convention on Human Rights Churchill’s government basically wrote and passed after the second world war.

It’s worth noting that this government has had a vote share of 36.1% pre referendum in 2015 36.9% post referendum in 2017 42.4% post deadlock in 2019 (with the opposition getting 40%)

The conservative party got that lock in 2019 on 55% of the seats with 42.4% of the vote

Since then they’ve rotated people in and out of government to essentially do the bidding of the one who pays the most into their individual campaign funds against each other.

The government refuse to allow an election even while they’re essentially changing constantly.

We haven’t really got democracy in this country. We disenfranchise a lot of people through our electoral system by design. We concentrate power to a minority.

It’s a mess.

It wasn’t direct democracy though.

No member of the public ever voted on the legislation.

If the legislation has been put to the public and the referendum bound it to law I think it would have gone differently.

The vote relied people voting for their own version of Brexit vs. the status quo.

I’m not a fan of direct democracy by any means but Brexit isn’t an example of it.

Time to start the rejoin in only another 10 years or so I think. We’ll be voting on single market membership again before the decade is out I think.

The beginnings of a YouTube legend.

The US should definitely have sanctions applied to it when they break international law.

At the moment there isn’t much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date” when a country commits violence or funds a foreign coup.

That’s because there’s too much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date.” When applying sanctions.

If the sanctions were virtually guaranteed to get triggered, the difficult decision would be for the regime doing the wrong thing in the first place.