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Honestly I suspect why anyone should CARE about the number of black people in ads. If black people want to make as much tits of themselves as white people singing about Tesco Clubcard in a random street, why shouldn't they?

Not sure that many do.

What many DO care about is this that those who commission and make the adverts deciding who should be in them based on the colour of their skin.

It is cynical and sickening.

Not really. It’s just advertisers wanting to make sure that all their potential customers are represented. The same people who care about this are the same people who think that peak oppression is that golliwogs are no longer ok.

I've kept out oof this because its a topic in which all opinions are wilfully misinterpreted. The crime she has committed is noticing. Dont be under any illusions that activist groups havent been counting. It's what they do, they count and they count. They enter organisations through DEI, through external consulting and the shake down begins "it's a nice company you have here, it would be a shame if anything happened to it".

The only thing the Reform MP did was notice the cultural revolution that has been happening.

I have some very modest insights into the casting process because my daughter has an agent and is occasionally considered for advertising roles. She is mixed race so you'd think she should be in every ad going as part of the cultural Marxist assault on British values via the medium of Domino's adverts, but no, she hasn't appeared in any.
From conversations with her agent I know that there has probably been a bit of a fad for casting non-white actors (ie my daughter's ethnically ambiguous look is 'in' currently) but I am somewhat doubtful that this is more than a passing fad borne of white guilt (especially as putting minority 'talent' on screen can deflect from the lack of diversity behind the camera). I also know that the media industry like a lot of things is heavily concentrated in and around London, so the pool of available actors skews non white a lot more than elsewhere in the UK (I can see this from the other children at the agency). Also, London creatives' idea of what is 'normal' will be dictated by what they see around them. Just as someone who lives in eg Lincolnshire will have their perception skewed in the opposite direction.
But I suspect the main reason you see a lot of mixed race families especially in ads is that the firm is trying to appeal to as broad a range of people as possible. It is a commercially driven decision.
As someone who is actually a member of a mixed race family I find it disturbing in the extreme that there are people out there who find it triggering to see families like mine on their TV screen. Are we not an example of the 'integration' they claim to want to see? What is it about us that these people find so threatening? Would we be safe if people like this were in power? I am not sure.

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I think Lammy's performance yesterday was a sad reflection on our politics as he ranted and raved at the dispatch box that must have had the victims of this woeful affair watching in despair

Passing the buck, then laughing, gesticulating, and pointing is exactly the reason politics is in the gutter at present

It may delight some but I expect the public turned away in disgust

I understand your reaction, but perhaps you have missed what he is reacting to.

The Tories are pretending that everything happened after they were demolished last year. All Labour. So we now have Coutinho attacking the policies she literally crowed about as SofS for Energy, Jenrick stood outside an asylum hotel he opened as SofS demanding it be closed etc etc etc.

Jenrick says there needs to be an independent enquiry of the kind he never enacted when it happened under his watch. Braverman went one further, huffing and puffing about this release until someone pointed out the Exact Same Thing happened when she was Home Secretary. Badenoch saying "the Tories have a plan to" do all the things they didn't do for 14 years.

So yeah, Lammy got angry, because your party are grifting hypocrites. And its all over social media, elected Tories and their shills posting stuff that just gets laughed at. People aren't stupid, they remember last year, the year zero strategy isn't working. And Jenrick is supposed to be next in line...

So the OBR have knocked £20bn off their budget forecast as the economy isn't seeing the productivity gains they had previously expected

Reeves faces £20bn hit to UK public finances from productivity downgrade

https://www.ft.com/content/0e2de708-f7b5-470d-a716-93eb3b1ac174

I am doing my bit, massive increase in productivity thanks to incorporation of AI into my work flows and 100hr working weeks....am I the only one working in this country?

Productivity is measured as output per hour worked so working 100 hour weeks might decrease productivity not increase it.

Well the only person who knows I work ~100 hours a week is me (and Mrs U), so no it won't.

Yes, most of the rest of us have moved onto 120 hour weeks now.

Well thats the new silicon valley work week, forget 9/9/6, its all about 22/7.

I've always said that I work 24-7.

That's 24 minutes an hour, 7 hours a day.

In terms of productive time, that's not far off.