Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.
Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.
They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.
People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.
Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.
Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.
Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.
The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX.
The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.
These guys got so brain broken by Anita Sarkeesian, man. They literally just became the same perpetually triggered overanalyzers that they pretended to hate over the last ten years.
Barely sentient.
It’s genuinely fascinating to watch.
A multi-decade right wing propaganda campaign has convinced people that everyone else besides them is somehow on the rob, and we are a crueller and more paranoid country because of it.