“The U.K. will break China’s stranglehold over crucial net zero supply chains, Energy Minister Chris McDonald has pledged.” 🤡
Can’t even “wrest control” of childhood malnutrition in their own country despite having one of the highest GDP (which would therefore take maybe a few months at most to fix), nevermind critical mineral self-sufficiency which would probably take a decade (if not two) with the right political apparatus to fix.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/child-poverty
Child poverty remains significantly higher than poverty rates for both working-age and pension-age adults, making it a critical issue to address in tackling poverty overall. Despite the UK being one of the richest countries in the world, around 4.5 million children (1 in 3) live in poverty. Children in lone-parent families face an even higher risk, with 4 in 10 living in poverty.
As Victor Gao said to the British media: Britain is not even a competitor to China. They aren’t even on the same playing field. Britain suffers from phantom empire syndrome.
That takedown was just beautiful.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Margaret Thatcher never really died because since she left Downing Street, every Prime Minister has just been another Thatcherite neoliberal.
The 2008 crash and COVID has just given them more excuse to continue fucking over the poor, and you would think more people would become radicalised yet all the communist parties are miniscule (some decent ones slowly growing at least) & the closest thing we have to communists getting in power is Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski, and they are typical socialists by name, left liberals in reality.
Without an analgous Soviet pressure from the outside and no domestic leverage yet created within, the material conditions can only produce genocidal Thacherite leaders. Corbyn and his ilk are at best capital’s pressure valve for the masses.
GDP isn’t real. There is little actual manufacturing or agricultural capacity in Britain.
UK is on the levels of Chad when it comes manufacturing share of their GDP. Their economy is massively inflated via financial services and patents - honestly one large blackout and the UK returns to a stone age economy.
If transactions of fictitious capital has the ability to inflate asset prices then it has purchasing power to feed starving children.
