This is the objective scientific answer, OP.

The Fripp collaborations also merit your attention.

What is happening?

Already answered your own question there chum:

have the Tories just given up

...they're literally just sitting and running down the clock at this point.

This is exactly the sort of aggressive nonsense that constitutes the problem I'm trying to shed light on for you. Stop it. You don't help. The road it leads down ends in oppression for all of us, no matter if it's from the "left" or "right". Stop picking fights.

For the record, your read of me is very far off the mark.

"Politics" is not about reconciliation. It is a battle

QED.

Oh well, I tried.

I had a Panda

I'm assuming they aren't close enough to just run some cat6 between both houses and have a single instance govern them?

I'll be honest though, although your plan sounds cool as fuck, it also sounds like a really terrifying project from a security perspective.