Of course he means England, multi party politics is alive and kicking in Scotland and NI, hopefully Plaid will kick back in Wales as well. But this is the Gruaniad and it is an English academic being quoted.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/20/two-party-politics-is-dying-in-britain-voters-want-more-than-just-labour-and-tories

#UkPolitics#Scotland#NI#Ireland#Wales#Parochial#ParochialReporting#Blinkered#ScottishIndependence

The #SLS and #Orion spacecraft projects are of such a scale that they spend money in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, creating #parochial interest in nearly every congressional district. It sounds like a straightforward argument: cancel the slow and outdated SLS and direct its $2.6 billion 💰 per year into novel public-private partnerships like #SpaceX’s #Starshiphttps://www.planetary.org/articles/why-we-have-the-sls