Donald I, emperor of the world.

[Pblakeney]

Because voting Labour and Conservative worked out so well for them.
It will be worth revisiting this thread in a couple of years time. It's easy to sneer at the "thickos who saw their jobs in engineering and manufacturing wiped out and sent offshore and who then saw whatever incomes they then ended up with being undercut by cheap labour from a massive influx of migrant workers. I wonder which political party will speak up for the soon to be unemployed middle class professional types who hang out on cycling forums when the AI revolution has really taken hold and wiped out swathes of well paid white collar jobs?

I hope people are taking this future issue seriously, if quietly.
If your job is currently computer based then your job is at risk.

 

[Shortfall]

I hope people are taking this future issue seriously, if quietly.
If your job is currently computer based then your job is at risk.

I am in the fortunate position of being semi retired and I choose to supplement my retirement income by working in a sector not threatened by AI. From what I I understand, there are a lot of people who are currently paying higher rate income tax whose jobs will cease to exist in the not too distant future. Unless they have already planned for this they will find themselves in the same boat that a lot of Reform voters currently find themselves in. I mean they might not be as thick and racist (not my description) but that won't help them.

 

[All uphill]

I know two well-paid friends in their early thirties who spend their working hours at keyboards.

One is living as if nothing will ever change, taking on lots of debt, living the dream. Unwilling to even hear about future risks.

The other is overpaying their mortgage, doing voluntary work in the social sector and grabbing as much company training as possible.

My perception is that the second one is happier.

 

[BoldonLad]

Unfortunately, the same demographic has already given Boris a punt. You know what they say about the definition of stupidity, it is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.

I didn't say it was sensible, or that it would work, I was suggesting the Reform "thing" is a bit more complicated than elderly gammons sliding to the right, which seems to be a frequent assumption on here.

 

[BoldonLad]

It’s the red wall, working class traditional Labour voters, who have been abandoned by the middle class woke Labour Party.
Lee Anderson is a typical example. Former Labour politicians.
But Labour are caught between trying to keep them happy whilst also keeping their left wing factions happy too. It’s an impossible conundrum.

Quite

 

[orraloon]

Thing is, 30p Lee is just a prick.