What's annoying me today

I'm currently compelled to use outlook (not on my systems, I'm not clinically insane). It periodically just decides to delete a load of emails that I actually want. Even if I try hiding them from it (and after checking the recommended settings to prevent it doing that).

It's a thoroughly depressing crock of shit.

P.S. While researching how to stop the fucking thing from doing it, I found this exchange on the Microsoft help forum that cheered me up a bit....

"What troubleshooting steps have you already tried? Screaming my head off."

Wasn't he asked a direct question? I don't know enough about them to have a view. But i think it's healthy for politicians to have a knowledge of the current world, and it's literally their job to legislate in the interests of society and to ensure that societies standards are represented. Now you may argue about that, and that's what voting is for.

In other entirely related news, did you notice that it was being reported that 'polls' were suggesting that reform could win a majority at the next election.

You may recall that prior to the last general election I posted that it looked like the Russian/petrostate interests were cannibalising the remaining Tory vote and shifting them in to reform, and to not think for a minute that one vote in time was the final battle and that a good result would mean that good had finally triumphed over evil.

As I say. These things are entirely not unrelated. Starmer has to tread a line that cant be polarised and challenged by the mass propaganda forces gathered against him.... which he has to do by occupying similar ground. They can't sterilise their own reproductive system. So he, unfortunately, has to swim in their seminal fluid..... while fixing the roads, the economy, reducing interest rates, increasing investment in education, the health service, and driving down interest rates.

In the hope that the thick supine population, particularly susceptible to Russian propaganda, votes on an actual improved country, rather than being seduced by popularist fascism.

It's a long shot, but it's all he has when the die is weighted so heavily against him. Chances are my fellow man will be back to buying the snake oil. It would be a lot better if people were not likely to be fooled again. But there you go. People problem.

So politicians should not express opinions now? That would have been good, as it would have spared us a lot of destabilising fascist lies over the last decade. Unfortunately that's not the world that we live in, nor their actual job description.

Rhetorically condemning something whilst not doing a fucking thing about it, or indeed doing the complete opposite, has long been political stock in trade. Welcome to the world. It's all about the show.

We live in a world where there is a whole framework of scrutiny ready to dismember the current government on anything that might appeal to the carefully cultivated populism, aligned to the interests of those wielding enormous financial power. It's inevitably going to lead to governing in a manner that I don't much like the look and feel of...but I recognise it as being a lot better than the realistic alternatives. So my judgement is that what we are witnessing is an unwillingness to self harm, at the cost of ideology. Which is a necessary compromise. However whiffy.

I cannot emphasise enough the clear and present danger that we are living under here. We live in a world where the population ignore the actual costed impact of putins policies, and la la la their way past the potential impact of destabilising the peace in northern Ireland, in favour of doing what the propaganda tells them to. That danger has not passed. It's a well known psychological truism that those once scammed, are more likely to be subsequently further scammed by the exact same people and techniques that got them in the first place. Things like the "there could have been a better brexshit", and everything is the fault of a handful of brown people in dingy's, shtick is specifically in place to gupp these schmucks again. Reform say "Hi" and give a cheeky wink.

Until we the people get off our collective arses, and actually show that we want better for ourselves, demand fighting the assault against our personal freedoms and standard of living, and reject the seductive weasel words of divisive polarising fascist populism, then it's impossible to have an ideology at odds with how the world actually is - without effectively strafing your own feet. I wont be holding my breath though...the largest holdings of land and wealth in the country is concentrated in the hands of a small collection of descendants of people who came over in the same boat a thousand years ago, and as a population we've been persuaded to do the net sum of fuck all about it, and accepted our continued serfdom while they stroke our heads and tell us how we're really the best country, and aren't we so lucky. While we are lorded over by a King, and all his establishment structures, who retains the largest of those land holdings. He doesn't pay into the public purse, the public purse pays into him. As befits a King. He's totally crap at leading us into battle though, and we have been persuaded that getting a new king is not on the cards, because we are civilised now and we wouldn't want to be like the french. Our aristocracy is largely built on being french.

From this framework pursuing ideological purity would last about a nano-second. The opposition to it has got a thousand years, and unimaginable funds, head start. Yet here you are, stamping on those little fires again, wondering when the arson will ever stop. It's down to us. Those wealthy interests are absolutely not going to start giving us more stuff unless we make them...they are going to keep us disorientated, confused, and fighting each other, so that we can't organise and effectively oppose them. Nothing personal, just well established battle tactics business.

Best for what? Fucksake.