Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
Good article. Yes, the rapidly growing automatisation is clearly creating one of the largest industrial revolutions since the invention of the steam engine. Add to that in the next 2 decades the removal of hundreds of millions jobs for various drivers (taxi, truck, fire engines, ...) and we do have a socially explosive mixture, which creates already now monsters like Trump and the ugly BREXIT crowd. The disenfranchised elect their own executioners, as they did in the 1930'ies (for different reasons, though).
Managing this new industrial revolution is a Hercules task for society, and yes, it would be good for politicians to drive this.
What are Labours proposals other than to stop progress, tax the steam engine and keep the fireman on diesel trains?