Politics in UK over the last couple of decades has increasingly gone the way of USA with major political parties completely beholden to corporate, millionaire and now billionaire donors.

Running an effective political entity in the online Information Age is expensive. SNP and Greens have had periods of progress but it has largely depended on the social engagement of their leaders (Polanski now, Sturgeon previously). Whether it is Starmer or Burnham or Rayner or Streeting no prospective Labour leader has the status to ignore their backers.

Even if they did they face a largely hostile mainstream media who will shoot them down if they step out of line yet will happily platform stooges like Farage, with his dodgy foreign money and pub bore racism, and Lowe with his blatant fascism.

It is just a shit show. I have no real belief it can or will change for the better.