TERMINAL COPIUM
Owen Jones covers the Green Party's electoral prospects, Labour's collapse, and Reform's rise without once acknowledging that AI is eliminating aggregate demand for human labor. The entire analysis is framed through traditional party politics, voting patterns, and electoral strategy, as if the structural dissolution of the employment circuit is simply not happening. This is the most dangerous form of obliviousness—treating political representation as the primary battleground when the economic foundation itself is being automated away. Jones mourns Labour's betrayal of working people while remaining completely blind to the fact that those working people are being structurally excluded from the economy by technology, not just poorly represented by political parties.