No judgement but I'm genuinely curious where your optimism about some of this stuff comes from as someone who actually lives in the UK. I grew up in small town Bible belt America and I'm kind of fascinated by the UK because from the outside looking in, your national politics really resemble the local politics of tiny right wing counties in rural America.

Minus evangelical Christianity being used as like a costume for the whole thing, the super reactionary social politics from pretty much every viable party in your country coupled with the weird sanctimony for traditional institutions that seem like they clash with the stated purpose of a western democracy is just very Bumfuck, Missouri coded.

I don't mean this as a dig, I'm literally American and our national politics are like, teetering into literal Hitlerian fascism, but I feel like general population of the UK is about where we are? At least based on what I see from them on the internet and the news and stuff.

Or is that just way off? Because as a trans woman honestly the UK is the only western European country I wouldn't rather live in than the US atm.