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Re: The challenge for the… Green parties – politicalbetting.com
This is interesting.ASML, the European tech giant you've never heard of. Son in Barcelona was just given the heave-ho by HP after 20 years (and a US software patent to his name), is now taking up a job in an ASML joint venture spinout with Barcelona University
Huge AI tech deal in Europe:
> Semiconductor machine maker ASML (Netherlands) is Europe’s 2nd largest company at $307B (behind SAP at $313B)
> France’s Mistral is raising $2B at at $14B valuation and is Europe’s top AI startup
> ASML is chipping in $1.5B of the $2B and is now the top shareholder in Mistral (which is building its own foundation mode and has chatbot Le Chat)
https://x.com/bearlyai/status/1964747167631024173
Is euro-tech waking up ?
geoffw
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Re: Graveyard or launchpad? – politicalbetting.com
Remember: many of those who screech "freedom of speech!" are actually crying: "Control of speech!"Free Speech, innit.WTF did they expect by putting a vax denier on stage at their conference?Sadly I was not able to catch much of the Reform conference footage.I don't think it is. They put Dr Assem Malhotra on the platform. Here's his speech (the Telegraph have the whole thing recorded live). 15 mniutes long.
Was it established whether it is official policy that vaccines gave the King and Princess of Wales cancer?
https://youtu.be/bX9BB0anXks?t=11022
Ref UK have distance themselves:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62z4rd87nlo
Pretty sure it’s a cynical strategy, ie continually flash some fruitcake, loony and closet racist leg then look all innocent when it goes over the edge.
It won't get directly reported by unsympathetic journos though, as they were banned.
Mainly control of anyone's speech aside from their own. Because their speech matters; yours does not.
Re: The challenge for the… Green parties – politicalbetting.com
A few months ago I met up with a political strategist who knows a thing or two about winning general elections and they said the best way to stop Reform winning a general election was for the public to see them as a bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly, things like this and lauding Lucy Connolly will seal the deal.These asshats are going to further reduce vaccination rates of all sorts in this country, and lead to lots of disease and deaths as a result.
NEW: Linden Kemkaran, the Reform UK leader of Kent County Council, tells @TimesRadio the party should consider an inquiry into a possible link between the Covid vaccine and cancer.
Comes after Dr Aseem Malhotra told the Reform conference the jab gave the Royal Family cancer.
https://x.com/KevinASchofield/status/1964733148434182451
Vote Farage Party, vote death!
Re: Graveyard or launchpad? – politicalbetting.com
Is it just me or is Angela Rayner much more a towering and crucial figure within Labour now that she's left than she ever was when actually in office?Just you I think , when the actual F*** did she ever tower anywhere, just another average trougher promoted way way above their level of competence.
malcolmg
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Re: The challenge for the… Green parties – politicalbetting.com
Take 2 seconds on Scottish Greens, just needs "bunch of Fcuk witted useless loonies".
malcolmg
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Re: The challenge for the… Green parties – politicalbetting.com
They don’t need to win the election to have that effect. Simply by giving this nonsense the airtime they will already be doing so. Though US social media will continue to bear the greatest blame.A few months ago I met up with a political strategist who knows a thing or two about winning general elections and they said the best way to stop Reform winning a general election was for the public to see them as a bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly, things like this and lauding Lucy Connolly will seal the deal.These asshats are going to further reduce vaccination rates of all sorts in this country, and lead to lots of disease and deaths as a result.
NEW: Linden Kemkaran, the Reform UK leader of Kent County Council, tells @TimesRadio the party should consider an inquiry into a possible link between the Covid vaccine and cancer.
Comes after Dr Aseem Malhotra told the Reform conference the jab gave the Royal Family cancer.
https://x.com/KevinASchofield/status/1964733148434182451
Vote Farage Party, vote death!
TimS
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Re: Graveyard or launchpad? – politicalbetting.com
I am very pleased with my new robot mower, which will save me a tiresome chore and hopefully avoid my returning from long trips to knee-high grass, provided nobody nicks it while I am away. Going round Norway, pretty much everyone has one, but then I guess there the grass grows super fast.
The more immediate challenge is persuading the dog I haven’t bought it for him to pee on every morning.
The more immediate challenge is persuading the dog I haven’t bought it for him to pee on every morning.
IanB2
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Re: Graveyard or launchpad? – politicalbetting.com
Charisma isn't the same as sense of purpose. Both are needed in a leader. Johnson was famously a shopping trolley, crashing from one thing to another, but with some charisma. Farage has charisma too, and slightly more sense of purpose. Both however lack interest in the nuts and bolts of making things work.Have they, though?It’s remarkable how quickly people have forgotten that ‘interesting’ is over-rated, at least when it comes to running the country.Is it just me or is Angela Rayner much more a towering and crucial figure within Labour now that she's left than she ever was when actually in office?She's interesting and Starmer is boring.
There must be a hefty overlap between "I want Boris because he's interesting/charismatic" and "I want Nigel because he's interesting/charismatic".
One of the key differences between 2019/20/21 and now is that then, such people were getting what they wanted, and now they aren't.
Hence the ongoing tantrum.
Foxy
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Re: Graveyard or launchpad? – politicalbetting.com
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The "delivery, delivery, delivery" mantra is a deeply worrying IMO. Deliver... what?
The trouble is nothing is interesting, neither the politicians or the policies. I think you need at least one of these otherwise you end up with a vacuum.It’s remarkable how quickly people have forgotten that ‘interesting’ is over-rated, at least when it comes to running the country.Is it just me or is Angela Rayner much more a towering and crucial figure within Labour now that she's left than she ever was when actually in office?She's interesting and Starmer is boring.
The "delivery, delivery, delivery" mantra is a deeply worrying IMO. Deliver... what?
Eabhal
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