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  • Yeah, from what I can tell, Andy’s policies sound very much alike the 1930s and '40s social liberal/FDR-style “business-friendly socialism”. Andy believes in public investment, which not only helps ordinary people but also businesses such as improving roads to make transportation easier for businesses and commuting for workers. In lieu to this, improving public transport also means those who don’t drive not only allows them to commute easily to and from work, but also encourages people to travel more during off-working hours in or around the city for shopping, entertainment etc. As a result, this encouraged people to use more public transport in Greater Manchester which is the city he had been the mayor of. Telling businesses how his policies help to assuage right leaning folks. After all, to become prime minister, Andy ran in a constituency that is right leaning and yet loves him. He easily won 55% of the votes.








  • I spent my formative years living in a pretty poor small town that is disaster prone where I woke up in my bedroom being flooded. The adults in the house love watching primetime news and thus at an early age I am exposed to politics and news about murders and so on. It’s not that I don’t care, I really do because my parents and having been raised Catholic taught me empathy, but the wars and killings (although I’m aware that the rate of homicide is gradually decreasing over the course of human history) has become non-news to me. So I have been made aware early in life that not everything is always roses. There are something’s one cannot have control of but i participate in things I could change like with protests, even if it’s little. But broadly speaking, I am desensitised of the news on the conflicts in Middle East or Africa. So when the market reacts, I’m like: “how are you guys not used to it?”