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by miohtama 523 days ago
Starmer has a very socialistic approach to innovation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0n14ywzqpo

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> "the regulators, the blockers and bureaucrats" were part of an "alliance of naysayers" who mean that "we can't get things done in our country."

Promising investors widespread deregulation to allow energy hungry data centers be built with less oversight is not what I would call "socialist".

Don't confuse them with facts: everyone knows that "socialist" means "left-ish thing I don't like". And in Starmer's case, the key word is "left-ish". Maybe "left-ish-ish-ish".