General British politics discussion thread

The US and the UK have refused to sign a declaration on "inclusive and sustainable" artificial intelligence at a landmark Paris summit, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology.

The communique states that priorities include "ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all" and "making AI sustainable for people and the planet".

The USA is a write off especially with the tech bro's running it, but this looks very poor from Labour sadly.

I don’t think it is about lowering regulation, more that Labour is still formulating it AI strategy and doesn’t want to sign anything that would contradict this.

Bought when he stabbed Corbyn in the back.

The anti Tory vote won't be the same in the locals because a lot of the casual voters don't bother with them.

Labour will probably take a kicking from the Greens in the urban areas but the vast majority of seats up this time are Tory so there won't be any sort of "referendum" on the government this time.

Reform are going to take seats from Labour in numbers as well. As I said, continuing to be Tory/Reform lite is, in my opinion, going to go very badly for Labour.

In other news the press, particularly the BBC it seems, are obsessed with the wagon Rachel Reeves and her iffy CV. I dislike the woman immensely but there wasn't a whiff of this much scrutiny about most the last government and very little into Farage and his boys now.

There are still Labour councillors who currently are the opposition, let's see if they still are after May. It might go completely differently to how I'm suggesting, as I've said it's only my opinion it isn't fact, and the Labour strategy might come good (in May and going forward).

The twitter post was to illustrate that Reform are taking seats from Labour. They also took a council seat from Labour back in December. It was just to show it was possible, sincere apologies if that wasn't clear.

I hope you're right (it will be quite reassuring) but I genuinely think they'll make big gains, from Labour and Tories. I think you're giving the British electorate more credit than they deserve.

Labour ran on the basis they would have the economy front and centre of their agenda and when you do that, who better to have as chancellor than someone who worked for a major bank as an economist and spent a decade at the Bank of England.

Except she wasn’t an economist at HBOS, left under a cloud and was only at the BofE for six years. People who lie on their CVs usually get caught out when it turns out they can’t do their job. When that job is one of the most important in the UK at the moment and the person doing it turns out to be completely incompetent, then yeah, it is big news.

Interesting to see Johnson decry Trump for his surrender to Putin.

Seemingly the Pro Trump reform faction are having a hard time spinning capitulation to Putin as a positive.

Well doesn't that make it interesting? Niall Ferguson had initially described Brexit as an bad economic idea, but after the vote he drifted towards the "maybe it's not a bad idea camp" and cashed in on the conservative MAGA type speaking circuit in the US.

Zelensky is having this eras Churchill moment and Johnson knows it. Johnson only sided with Leave as a platform for a run for PM. Farage has the UK Trumpers so Johnson won't bother with that vein anymore, so knowing the British public he can very easily pivot the mood towards a Heroic Britain support for todays Churchill.

He can even spin it if he must that the EU needs British leadership against Putin. If would be a fantastic face saving about turn, relations mended and the Farage camp firmly outed as Putin stooges.

Plus support for Zelensky allows him back into the British mindspace without the Brexit baggage. He'll still be marred by Partygate so he'll never get near PM again, but narcissists crave adoration and if he can't be the Churchill of the day it would be better to be remembered for rallying for the defeat of Putin than dwell forever under a cloud.

Johnson is the ultimate mé féiner. He'll run with the hare and the hound which is why you cannot trust him for a second. Him writing two articles for Brexit where he praised it in one and damned it in the other, depending on which way the vote went, is a perfect example of that.

That's a wonderful quote from Truss. She's remarkably stupid and truly the gift that keeps on giving.