Ade I am normally politically neutral, though historically I leaned to the left, we can see real problems with new labour, pretty much the same problems as the tories and even the newer parties lining up to try and leap in to "Save the day" like the reform party which our fav Nationalist Nigel will no doubt appear at the head of. I think we are moving like the US towards maybe being open to an Ai type leadership, we are already heavily disenchanted by the leadership of corrupted humans, a machine could be no worse, it seems to me, hence why I've been so interested to check out its capabilities with that in mind, I think this could potentially revive "The West" as again a balancing force to what we see is the relentless march of Chinese soft power. The one weakness they have, is that they are still using capital as a kind of weapon to maintain the power structure of the Chinese Establishment, which essentially has to depend on energy by extraction from the planet. In other words they are not truly empowering their people, only metering out energy to the population, and this limits them to planet polluting extracted energy. I know we could argue they need to do this as stands, to compete with us on a level playing field, and they are trouncing us, but I bet they will keep doing the same thing even if we completely change tack by moving to complete empowerment of all people by solar indexed stimulus, rapidly enabling all to become energy independent therefore as a whole economic force being unstoppable. Our economic power as a block in that circumstance truly would be unbeatable, it would quickly spread to all countries including Africa, where China seems to be winning most hearts and minds. We could turn that around very quick, I think, if people were being offered real empowerment, not just an alternative coloniser.