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    Shares of the vote in general elections since 1832 received by Conservatives[note 1] (blue), Liberals/Liberal Democrats[note 2] (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey)[1][2][3]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_general_elections

    The Conservatives forming from a split in the Liberal party doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.

    Labour and Liberal Democrats are two very different parties. Or at least they used to be, until New Labour became a thing…

    Our politics are bad, FPTP is bad, but we’re not a 2 party system entirely. The Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, and Reform all manage to have a say in politics and how things are done. They all influence Labour and the Conservatives.





  • I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

    Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

    Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!




  • Germany’s military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain’s defence also bought time for Germany’s offence.

    If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.

    The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.

    https://youtu.be/4AA0lWwTXNc

    “Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France.” Narrator, 8:10

    “A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn’t even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front.” Narrator, 12:40

    “If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks.” General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05