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"Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️
@LeftieStats

➡️ REF: 31% (+4)
🔵 CON: 21% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 20% (-2)
🟠 LD: 12% (-1)
🟢 GRN: 8% (+2)
🟣 YP: 4% (-4)

Via
@Moreincommon_
, 28 Nov-1 Dec (+/- vs July)"

https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1995827789380157840

• This poll from MoreInCommon: https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1995827789380157840
  
• The previous poll from MoreInCommon: https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1991108455600644575
  

The current poll is being compared with a hypothetical MIC poll containing YP from July, not from the last MIC.

I know. That was the point I was making. They're picking the wrong comparator

Nah, YP are in the main prompts with this poll and the July poll, usually YP aren’t prompted, they are lumped in with others.

Delighted, if surprised, to see Yorkshire Party on 4% nationally. Assuming those voters are concentrated in Yorkshire, we'll likely see an SNP 2015-style near clean-sweep for YP. Bet accordingly (and DYOR!)

Have you come across this concept, @Foxy ?

Leavitt claims that Trump had a "preventative" MRI
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1995567329082487122

Baseline + trend monitoring is quite common although i wouldn’t use “preventative” to describe it. But it’s costly so I doubt the NHS does it outside of high risk categories

However it was interesting that Leavitt went into a lot of data about cardio and abdominal. What about neurovascular?

There are all manner of theories.
This one is quite ingenious.

The drug to treat Alzheimers, Leqembi, requires regular MRIs of the head due to potential brain bleeds as a side effect. It is given by infusion. The multiple MRIs along with his hand bruising at regular intervals all point* to him getting Lewembi infusions for Alzheimers.
https://x.com/lorimariemarie/status/1989524466620395676

*They could point to a lot of other things, of course

Not enough advantage in treatment for the NHS to buy it, apparently.

I guess NICE have been watching Trump's press conferences.

FPT

There will be no justice in this case.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-inquiry-post-office-horizon-3rl23psql

"Police inquiry into Post Office and Horizon may run out of cash
Officers have told victims there will have to be ‘tough decisions’ on Operation Olympos despite the number of criminal suspects doubling to eight"

There never is. The British state is like an abuser who gets away with years of abuse but is never held properly accountable: it is untrustworthy, incompetent, malicious and unwilling / incapable of change, no matter what promises it makes or how many apologies are dragged out of it. We have a Potemkin justice system. And the inquiry reports lead to little more than a lot of bad headlines for a few days but no real change.

There is absolutely no point any more to any of it.

Budget eh?

Sorry I forgot to add that to my list -

Prediction - "It turned out that there 146 senior people potentially chargeable in matters arising from the Post Office. 3 are dead. 112 have taken early retirement. The rest have been diagnosed with stress and are in the luxury sections of various in-patient facilities paid for from their Post Office packages. So it would not be in the interests of justice to pursue them further. We have charged the lady who cleans on Thursdays with misconduct in a public office."

#NU10K

Oh look

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e04pl48ldo

Hillsborough enquiry staggers to the line….

- the final report is being “trimmed” from thousands of pages to 400. In the interests of clarity
- the full report will be archived, not released
- all police officers involved are dead or retired.

So why, you ask, not release everything?

Well, *after* Hillsborough, for years, people in the system lied and covered up. Some of them are still alive. Some of them are still working in government.

Many will be The Right Sort. A Safe Pair of Hands.

#NU10K

What more is there to know?

The Police f*cked up, then they lied to cover this up, the Government supported them, and various members of the great and the good tried to write reports telling us all what we knew already but were hampered by concerns that they might upset too many of those who were to blame.

Need we spend more money on this?

I would add - the culture of football hooliganism was the main cause of the disaster. No need for fences to control hooligans = no one dying at Hillsborough. People don't like it but many of the fans who were at Hillsborough were also at Heysel, and some of them were probably amongst those who contributed to 39 Juventus fans dying. Then add in the poor condition of football stadia at the time. Then add in the fact that despite the awful conditions it had safety certificates.

And then add in the police making mistakes.

Swiss cheese model of accident prevention applies.

However the cover-up and lies were atrocious, and sadly, all too many people were prepared to believe them.

People have a natural instinct to want justice for wrongs, and sometimes revenge. Sometimes its better to have truth and reconciliation.

Truth? Too nuanced and complex. What they really want is for everyone to parrot the new narrative, e.g

- every single Liverpool fan at Hillsborough was an innocent victim and a wonderful person who never did anything wrong and certainly had nothing to do with an entirely unrelated Heysel incident.

- every single police officer there was a fascist bully scum.

- every single journalist reporting on it had evil intentions.

...and so on. This is the 'stunning and brave' version of 'truth' that we all must accept without question.

That is not what we are being asked to believe.

- The authorities knew very well there was a problem with football hooliganism which is why they were under an obligation to ensure that the steps taken were effective and safe. They failed in that.
- We know exactly who died at Hillsborough. Do you have evidence that any of them were at Heysel or responsible for the rioting there?
- The police did not do their job as well as they should have done. Some lied. Others tried to cover up what happened.
- Journalists jumped to conclusions and wrote stories they had been fed by the police without doing any checking.
- It took one hell of an effort to get the truth out of the authorities. That compounded a sense of victimhood, which was entirely justified for the families of those who died.
- The fact that some of those at that football match have been less than saints does not justify anything the authorities did. Nor the untrue statements they made about those present who did not die.

Cable Munching Rats Cause 11 Day Openreach Broadband Outage in Doncaster

Nearly 100 premises in Askern, which is a town and civil parish within the City of Doncaster (South Yorkshire, England), have been left without access to Openreach’s UK broadband network after rodents – those with a seemingly strong appetite for telecoms infrastructure – chewed through one of the operator’s cables in the area. Nothing like a diet high in fibre.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/12/cable-munching-rats-cause-11-day-openreach-broadband-outage-in-doncaster.html

That pun is so awesome you would think I worked for that website.

Shame the Cable Munching Rats have descended to this, their first two albums were great.

"The children left unable to sit up straight by social media: 'Deeply alarming' number suffer anxiety and behavioural problems, report warns"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15341659/Scale-social-media-use-pre-school-children-deeply-alarming-nearly-1-million-using-apps-left-unable-sit-straight-suffering-anxiety-behavioural-problems-report-warns.html

Why aren't we banning it like Australia?

It slightly concerns me that we might be confounding social media effects with general screen use and also with Covid. Clearly something has gone wrong but what? There seem to be more road rage incidents, for example, and even air rage. Surely that is not because 6-year-olds have Smartphones, or because schools closed during the second lockdown. As President Trump and RFKjr have noted, neurodivergence has shot up. SEND diagnoses are bankrupting councils. We urgently need more research and less airing of prejudices.

What we are noticing in the hospital is a lot of angry white Gen X men who reject treatment, lose their rag at the staff, miss follow up appointments etc. It isn't just teenagers being destroyed by Social Media.

Still its a free country, and their funeral. Sometimes literally.

Yes - I think it's underappreciated how damaging internet rabbit holes are to people in middle age.

I've seen a few people go off the deep end - I think largely due to overconfidence they can sift accurate info from non-accurate. Ultimately if you're swimming in sewage, some of it is going to get into you....

There will be no justice in this case.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-inquiry-post-office-horizon-3rl23psql

"Police inquiry into Post Office and Horizon may run out of cash
Officers have told victims there will have to be ‘tough decisions’ on Operation Olympos despite the number of criminal suspects doubling to eight"

There never is. The British state is like an abuser who gets away with years of abuse but is never held properly accountable: it is untrustworthy, incompetent, malicious and unwilling / incapable of change, no matter what promises it makes or how many apologies are dragged out of it. We have a Potemkin justice system. And the inquiry reports lead to little more than a lot of bad headlines for a few days but no real change.

There is absolutely no point any more to any of it.