I'm also not rich to start with and didn't go to public school either. I guess I just need to learn my place and celebrate the achievements of others.

Blue Labour are turning out to be a bit like Farage and Reform. The right-wing media will give them a platform out of all proportion with their actual support... until they've had so much coverage that their support catches up. Every time the govt say something they'll be a Blue Labour comment.

And yet they’ll be millions of UK voters who will raise their Weatherspoons pints and cheer this on. Most likely 51%. All the same ones who hate foreigners, hate woke and hate anyone to the left of Enoch Powell.

I wonder how truthful any of this is anyway? One of the reason Western democracies love secret ballots is that it allows someone to proclaim something in public and vote the opposite in private.

Also agree with comment about how much people actually understand terms. For instance, I wonder whether people think Anarchism is bomb-throwing terrorist chaos.

It’s not just the “dark money” donations to Westminster but the sheer size of the lobby group influencers and other state agents. Whenever there’s an “expert” put on tv or radio on a topic, I notice they come from a number of (usually US-funded) think tanks.

Wonder if Apple are running the numbers and seeing whether pulling out the UK altogether wouldn’t lose them much money.

Part of the continuing deception that "Everything's going well in the UK" while the excessively rich are looting the place.

The article didn’t mention that the shareholders - mostly the Wilkinson family - were essentially looting the company while it was in financial trouble.

I won’t be surprised if the owners had been funnelling money out of Wilco for years.

Another case of greed impacting on the jobs of ordinary people.

"I feel like I'm being mugged off."

Welcome to capitalism in the UK 2023.

Little point in voting in elections if all parties have the same policies. Labour exists to give the impression we have choice. We don’t.

The Sun... that virtuous newspaper that used to pay 16 year old girls to leave school so they could pose naked for Page 3... made it clear this was a male "star" and a boy. It's a re-run of the Phillip Scofield nonsense. This wouldn't be front page of all the papers and radio stations if it was an older man and a teenage young woman. Sure, they'll be some coverage but not as much as this homophobic stuff

What does that mean? That Labour have to do what Murdoch tells them? Or offer him something?

I don’t think it’s smart. I think it raises much bigger issues of the influence that bullionaires hold over the (supposedly) democratic political system.