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I think when they just said 'Yes, LLMs can steal your work'. That showed they don't even care about property rights, which is the one thing the right have always pretended was their raison d'être.

I guess well done for not doing that?

Agreed, I've also seen and heard a lot of this attitude, going back decades now.

In addition, I think that Islamophobia is very widespread in the UK, including among ethnic minority groups. Both white and non-white Islamophobes see anti-immigrant polices as partly or primarily a way to persecute Muslims and prevent more of them coming to the UK.

I hope this latest downgrade puts to bed the false idea that war is profitable.

I think this is basically the plan! But it does, in the meantime, involve pleasing nearly no one, as Behr says.

Perhaps the best way for the UK to stop being a vassal of the US is for the UK to join forces with its European allies. Europe together can surely create the capabilities needed to defend the continent.

This is the only sensible option but it would be a project taking years if not decades to disentangle from our US military and intelligence alliances, and we'd be exposed the entire time.

As I say, the 'logic' is roughly what you suggest and if the facts were what you state (and Labour believe), their strategy could make sense. But they're dead wrong on the facts! The upshot of this is, that their current bad strategy and tactics are not inevitable, which is why there's still hope for the party.

It feels to me like you're assuming that there are only two possible strategies (paraphrasing slightly, either 'be racist' or 'rejoin the EU'), but there's a range of possibilites between those two - as well as the possibility of rejecting that framing altogether. Even in very Brexity areas with Labour MPs, Labour's voters in those areas were less likely to vote for Brexit than the general population in those areas.

As for what Labour are thinking, I'm afraid they're just not being that rational about it. They (the leadership and the advisers to whom they choose to listen) have an emotional attachment to a mostly imaginary type of Labour voter and to a mostly imaginary historic Labour party which appealed to that voter.

Labour heartland voters are Brexitiers

This is often claimed, but isn't true, even if you pick a highly specific definition of 'Labour heartland'.

The way I’m reading it is that we’re defending UK assets and allies in the area.

This is exactly correct. However, it's also true that if any of our planes happen to gather any useful intelligence, that will almost certainly get passed on to the US and Israel because we have intelligence sharing arrangements with them. So, from that point of view, the UK will de facto be assisting them.

Her statement was absolutely unhinged. Genuinely thought it was fake when I first saw it!

I honestly assumed this was fake and had to check multiple sources before I accepted that it's real. A shocking new low.