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Very unenthusiastic Labour

It's good for the UK to have a Conservative Party as the main party of the right.

imagine actually thinking that

What are the alternatives? Reform, UKIP, and the various outright fascist (and worse) parties that have cropped up over the years. A (not necessarily the) Conservative Party is certainly preferable.

I mean at the end of the day the chips will fall where they may, but helping the Tories do better now is not what's going to prevent the British right from embracing far-right populism, given the Tories themselves have been at the forefront of that for the past 8 years.

I mean most voters in the UK Voted for Brexit in 2016 so it was not really "far-right" and the campaign platform Boris ran on in 2019 was not that right wing either.

It wasnt until partygate and then the rise of Truss, that the Tories completely imploded.

Very unenthusiastic Labour

It's good for the UK to have a Conservative Party as the main party of the right.

imagine actually thinking that

What are the alternatives? Reform, UKIP, and the various outright fascist (and worse) parties that have cropped up over the years. A (not necessarily the) Conservative Party is certainly preferable.

I mean at the end of the day the chips will fall where they may, but helping the Tories do better now is not what's going to prevent the British right from embracing far-right populism, given the Tories themselves have been at the forefront of that for the past 8 years.

June is so early. It looks like the earliest previous general election Presidential debate was September 21, 1980.

They've both accepted a 2nd debate with ABC News for September 10!

Even that would be a record for the earliest debate otherwise.

No, the only elections I missed were regional elections in 2015, and that was largely due to having recently moved.

Very unenthusiastic Labour

It's good for the UK to have a Conservative Party as the main party of the right.

imagine actually thinking that

What are the alternatives? Reform, UKIP, and the various outright fascist (and worse) parties that have cropped up over the years. A (not necessarily the) Conservative Party is certainly preferable.

Option 2 (not a cartoon villain)

So Amazon, Walmart and target have all lowered grocery prices? That seems like really good timing for Biden.

Remember when rishi was popular

Colonialism is so passé, France should get out of New Caledonia the same way it got out of Algeria. The truth of the matter is that this all goes back to De Gaulle stripping the territories of much of their local autonomy and planned further moves towards self-governance while systemically encouraging migration from the mainland to artificially grow a power base.

New Caledonia does have considerable autonomy following the Nouméa Accords (although I would be in full support of further autonomy as part of a broader negotiation on the island's future). It's also not a colony in the political sense, as its inhabitants are fully enfranchised and represented in France's institutions (disenfranchisement in local elections is the issue at hand, and the people affected by it are people who moved to the island in the past 26 years, so mostly people of European descent). Its socioeconomic structure is still marked by the impact of colonization, but these are not the kinds of issues that could be resolved with independence (unless you also want mass ethnic cleansing to go along with it, which seems a bit iffy to me personally). Fundamentally what New Caledonia needs most of all right now is economic support and an ambitious public investment policy to move past the extraction economy and redistribute resources. Of course I don't expect a neoliberal like Macron to do any of that, but I also don't think an independent New Caledonia/Kanaky to have the resources to do that either (unless they become a de facto Chinese protectorate, which carries its own serious downsides...).

https://youtu.be/TGmTSomnfAM?si=O1RMKlrZ7z6JFVuh