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I just want politics to go back to being boring and barely in the news. I want to never hear from leaders except at their regularly alotted time.
This is partly why I'm alright with Keir Starmer being my Prime Minister.
Yes, I recognise my privilege, and yes, I recognise that other people are likely suffering because of his government's policies. But there's not a huge amount that I personally can do to change the government's minds, and it was much, much worse under The Fucking Tories.
So for my own mental health I'm taking the view that it's quite nice to not open the news sites and see nothing but nastiness and horror. Until I browse the world news section, that is.
People are watching trump rip apart the modern world status quo and disrupt any sense of remaining international law, yet still want to vote for Farage next election.
We are undoubtedly cooked as a generation