My thoughts is that this is how Reform get in. Until we rid ourselves of FPTP, splitting the left vote so much means a Reform government. Until such time, we have to vote tactically. Vote to keep out the worst. Perfect is the enemy of the good.
If Labour put country before party, they would be killing of FPTP like the membership want.
Right to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.
Karen Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM
This even more the case if it's your brain! It probably won't work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.
It also has the network problem now. BlueSky quickly got the numbers because it was easy at the right time. It was perfect for the Xodus. Mastodon missed that window. It can get easier and sexier, but it missed that window and will need another.
Locked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It's dystopian.
Let alone where are tomorrow's developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.
I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it's on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I've monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.
The only one with a different web browser engine? The only one that is actural competition?
I want to see the lay out of their 7 seat version, clearly, and it's boot!
I guess maybe having them under state ownership will help with migrating away from gas all together. Which is best for national energy security long run.
Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won't because they could win again, and it's party before country.
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/half-britons-believe-brexit-has-been-mostly-failure-so-far
Still a lot of fascist idiots. Generally they are old, but that still a lot of people. Poll have changed more because Leavers are aging out, rather minds changing.
Labour have a good few years to get themselves together before an election.
I agree they are unlikely to do what the country needs, and membership wants, with voting reform. Maybe if they are sure they will lose and Reform would win. Doubt it even then though, because "we might still win".
If everyone can agree on another left party fine, but it will be split over Green, SNP, LibDems, Plaid and Labour. That's how we, a left leaning country, get endless right wing governments and their madness.