Sure he can push through what he wants, but UK has still to account for the wider world.

When UK starts to enact seriously hostile policies - for example cancelling the Belfast Agreement, we will ensure that there will be increasingly severe damage done to UK, right up to the point of reversal.

This is doomerism again: because things are getting worse you expect that it will always get worse.

Have some hope: Trends can - and often are - reversed.

I believe you, but this is not about what the public thinks, but what is the actual case.

Reform will want to go a lot further than UK Labour, but they will be unable to - see what happened with the Tories. Result will be a standstill - similar to the past Tory gov.

Sure it will be worse than UK Labour, but UK Labour is now giving the UK public a small taste how Reform will be.

If the UK public really wants that, there is no helping, and it will have to get worse before it gets better.

This is not certain however.

The LDs and the Greens have good programmes (the proposed fiscal plans by the Greens are a bit strange but will be corrected).

Its very hard to see the UK public voting for Reform when their policies are already enacted by UK Labour, and if elected it will take a bit longer for things to improve

"Anything that comes after this government will be worse".

This is doomerism. To paraphrase: "things are bad, so they can only get worse".

For sure there is grounds for optimism - at some point the UK people will elect those that go for the better options.

For sure Reeves knows this won't work.

Then why does she follows such an obviously doomed strategy?

My theory is that results are unimportant in UK politics: only appearance (pretending to work) matters, and jousting with opponents.

By that measure this trade policy will surely be a success.

Also: The 'trade deals' solution relied on the assumption that UK alone could do much better trade deals than the EU as a whole.

This was never possible, as is now made clear by evidence.

Than say 30 years ago, but it could be an awful lot better. And people see that.

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I would say its reasonable to expect sensible policies from your government.

Given the stagnating real incomes in UK for over 15 years now due to austerity and Brexit, coupled with services which similarly have not improved its reasonable that people are not happy.

Its not that it’s worse..

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I think they will be gratefull when they don’t have to guard their backs against those that want to undermine them.

I’m quite sure the UK gets weapons back for the money it will put in.

NATO is history. Killed by Trump.

Also, it is very, very normal to ensure that own defense industry gets the money. It happens all the time

The EU needs to build up its own military production.

Why not use EU funds for that?

We don’t need to buy UK weapons if the UK does not pony up.