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I'm not being obtuse. That's how the law works. Presidential immunity on a wide range of topics isn't some magical sprout that appeared from nowhere.Don’t be so obtuse.
Lots of people getting butthurt by a completely unsurprising happenstance because Bad Man isn't going to get pummelled the way they hoped.
I don't think Labour will be any materially less evil than the Tories.I just think it's time for reasonable people to stand up for the lesser of two evils, which applies to both the US and the UK. I don't think now is a time for champagne anarchism.
Don't get me wrong. Tories are out. They need to be out. But like the popular vote is showing - people aren't looking forward to Starmer. And the incoming Labour government is going to go one of two ways - either they lied about tax increases and they'll increase an already record tax burden (now they've hamstrung themselves with the Tory bullshit policy of having to keep borrowing down - when it's been 2.5x higher as a proportion of GDP in the past) so they can actually DO something, or they're going to keep to their tax and spending line, and they'll have to cut a load of services.
The problem with a labour majority with no money to do anything real to make people's lives better (rather than a bit of dick-waving window-dressing shite) is that they'll do what Labour always does - erode our civil liberties and start legislating what our morality should be (according to them). They're interminable fuckheads. And with no cash to make a material difference to people's lives and fuck all else to do - they'll ramp up big style on their internal desires to mandate how everybody is allowed to think. They can't help it, and legislation is cheap - especially when you've a massive majority.
People don't need to stand for a lesser evil - we should be given an option of genuine change. But then we live in a technocracy, not a democracy, so we ain't gonna get it.
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