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Why are misogynistic cultures so hard to root out? – politicalbetting.com
Why are misogynistic cultures so hard to root out? – politicalbetting.com
Good question. In a week when we’ve learnt that a Met officer known as “Bastard Dave” by his colleagues was left uninvestigated on 9 separate occasions when allegations were made, why did those colleagues and his bosses do nothing and say nothing? How is it possible that people turn a blind eye to what is being said and done in front of them, the nature of the people they associate with, listen to and, all too often, enable? By their silence – as much as anything else. If the saying (attributed to Burke) – “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – is not at the heart of any training on the topic, it ought to be.
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Stodge also knows what is going on, as do you Ian.
I think there will be a 30 point Labour lead because things seem to be getting worse not better, Sunak is proving himself to be hilariously incompetent and the public are becoming more in favour of strikes not less - and they are blaming the Government.
A 30 point lead isn't even hugely out there, we've already had such leads in this Parliament.
For what it's worth, I am one of the few who thinks it won't be a Labour majority. I still think it will be a Hung Parliament - and for me I would prefer such an outcome as I want PR implemented.
It's probably women's fault somehow.
Jokes.
I am sure I've seen you say Johnson won a landslide before?
Still, to go from 80 seat majority to 60 seat majority in one go would make Starmer probably the most successful Labour leader of the last 50 years.
during fiscal 2020/2021, more than half the population got more in benefits than they paid in tax
Which would be the year when the Covid pandemic was at its peak, when vaccines were only available to a lucky few, and much of the country was shut down.
We don't have more recent data. We certainly don't *know* that more than half the population are still that way.
But I have to remember that it’s a trap people fall into, and can be hard to see the way out. That complaints to the police were ignored is unconscionable, although the shadow of false accusations taints everything.
I have voted Tory twice in my life. My first election for Thatcher in 1987 and then once for the local Tory candidate (who was a friend) in 2001 who then turned out to be a crook. I have never voted for a mainstream party apart from those two occasions. I couldn't even bring myself to vote Tory when the alternative was quite possibly the reversal of Brexit.
60% of Labour majorities over 10 were won by Blair.
Even if we cut the qualification to all majorities of any size it's still nearly 40%.
I was chatting with a Corbynite friend of mine about Sunak. We both agreed he was alright. He's steadied the ship, boosted capital spending, raised the NI threshold whilst freezing the income tax one, led the way in sending tanks to Ukraine and seems to be actually committed to doing stuff. Not that there aren't downsides and a certain political naivety. But for some of us he still seems a refreshing change compared to his predecessors.
Having perused the thread today I wanted to raise a few points. Firstly 'Cardiff' airport. It's not a white elephant or a vanity project. It's actually Rhoose airport and was re-named Cardiff airport for the purposes of branding. It was an RAF site. There are obvious reasons why the Welsh government would be desperate for an airport with international destinations in Wales. The real question is why they paid so much money to acquire it?
On tax, I find it hard to see how a minister can pay a major penalty to HMRC and brush it off. The numbers involved are themselves enough to make many people uncomfortable. And the rate on CGT is only 18%. Our tax system is probably better than a lot of comparable countries if we gave it some thought.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11667727/BORIS-JOHNSON-sooner-help-Ukraine-victory-sooner-suffering-over.html
It is not our job to worry about Putin, or where his career might go next, or to engage in pointless Kremlinology. Our job is to help Ukraine win – as fast as possible.
Those heroic people are fighting for all of us. The Ukrainians are fighting for the Georgians, for the Moldovans, for the Baltic states, for the Poles – for anyone who might in due time be threatened by Putin's crazed revanchism and neo-imperialism. They are fighting for the principle that nations should not have their borders changed by force.
When Ukraine wins, that is a message that will be heard around the world. So let us help them win, not next year or the year after, but this year, 2023; and don't talk to me, finally, about expense.
If you want to minimise the world's economic pain, if you want to avoid the enormous cost – in blood and treasure – of letting this tragedy stretch on, then let's together do the obvious thing.
Let's give the Ukrainians all they need to win now.
And there are men who simply hate women, and will latch onto any cause where they can vent their hatred for women.
According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 63-year-old Ella Mae Begay disappeared from Sweetwater, Ariz., on June 15, 2021.
. . .
"She never came back. She would not answer her phone calls or nothing," her niece Seraphine Warren, who started walking on the anniversary of Begay's disappearance this year, told the outlet in June. "They said it seems like she left willingly."'
source: https://people.com/crime/navajo-woman-walking-to-dc-raise-awareness-missing-indigenous-women/
In my opinion, both the federal government -- and many tribal governments -- have failed to give our native women the protection they deserve.
Has there ever been a bigger upset than this in Scotland or England cup ties? All the big FA Cup ones I can think of we're Conference sides beating old Division One. This lot play in the West of Scotland Premier League - the 6th tier!
I would add 1966 and 2019 as effectively landslides too, albeit not as clear as the above
ISTR Bong!
Dimbleby:"Tony Blair will be the new PM...
And a landslide is possible..."
To me landslide suggests a great movement. 2001 was of course a huge landslide, but it felt less so than 2019.
1983 and 1997 felt like huge landslides, although I was a bit young to properly appreciate the first. So to the SNP surge in 2015. 2010 promised something exciting for the Lib Dems but went out with a bit of a whimper.
But sixth tier Scottish is in no way equal to sixth tier English. (There are full time sides getting well over four figure crowds in England at that level).
Despite the fact that such stories are meaningless they form the basis for a great deal of the political debate/outrage that makes up the news and politics in this country*, and essentially all media outlets are guilty of not analysing whether or not the data really means anything this time.
A huge amount of stuff that is presented as newsworthy isn't.
* Charities, unions, trade bodies and the like a particular guilty of hyping up such stuff and trying to push a story that is basically bunkum so that they can grind their axes.
Aiui, if the US gives approval of the RR design they're likely to shift the whole shebang there and we're going to end up importing US built reactor parts to the UK for final assembly rather than own the majority of the supply chain, assembly and maintenance.
It's a fucking shambles and it's literally just the civil service holding up the approval for no reason at all.
Which is why RR are off to the States and why first fusion are off to Canada.
I think there is a basic point where a full on invasion of this nature (well beyond even the 2014 snatch and grab) means the kind of tip toeing worry about provoking Putin or giving him an excuse to escalate no longer really works, if it ever did. There's still the sensible worry about him being so mad he might go nuclear, but short of that what further escalation can he realistically threaten, in which case there should be less coyness around backing his opponents in Ukraine.
And so to Nadhim Zahawi, who as chancellor of the exchequer, we now know, paid several million pounds to HM Revenue & Customs to settle a mistake that had been “careless and not deliberate”. Which is an important distinction. Look, imagine he had been defence secretary, instead, and had bombed your house. Had it been “deliberate” then I expect you’d be quite peeved. But merely “careless”? Clearly you wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sometimes-careless-means-couldnt-care-less-90qthr2rt
Worth saying that it’s way easier to end up in the conference then to get promoted from it - it’s why you often see the newly promoted conference side high up in league w the following year.
Still, in finding out that the Tory he voted for turned out to be a crook, he’s done his best to live a more mainstream existence….
If you had critical parents, from whom you learnt it was safest to anticipate your failures, then you will be more vulnerable to being encouraged to think that you are struggling to do things right, and that another person's frustration is in some way justified by your own shortcomings.
The thing that my Dad and my Ex had in common was that there was no such thing as an accident. If I made a mistake, if I dropped something, or spilt something, or forgot something, it was always because I hadn't been paying attention, hadn't tried hard enough, should have prepared more diligently. It's incredibly hard for me to accept that mishaps will happen, and that I can remedy them after the event, and this is the sort of vulnerability that someone who wishes to exercise coercive control can prey on.
I hope I've done a better job of teaching my daughter that it's unrealistic to expect to do everything perfectly all the time. That few mistakes are entirely irreparable. Fingers crossed, eh?
Was due to be 2046,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1617650854038749184
The home team, Hereford United, were playing in the Southern Football League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The away team, Newcastle United, played in the English First Division, the first tier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_United_2–1_Newcastle_United
I think it is a combination of a government in office too long, facing intractable problems (or at least intractable for the range of options they can politically consider), and having long since abandoned any concern about personal ethics and professional standards as other than trivial.
Domestic fossil fuel resources are almost all not financially viable and will become less so. The one exception being existing North Sea oil and gas fields some of which are still viable, and probably have a few years of production left. And as a result they continue to be exploited.
Multiplying wind power, our biggest natural energy resource, remains the cheapest way to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and if there is infrastructure investment needed to tackle constraint issues (as there already has been, as well as improved grid balancing) and ramp up storage then great, get on with investing. Every growing technology comes up against constraints: when cars multiplied we got congestion so built motorways, when industry took off we got pollution so introduced environmental regulations, indeed the national grid and its vast arrays of pylons were put in place to ensure the country could balance supply and demand.
And I am unanimous on that.
If Toynbee in the Guardian and Rifkind in The Times are both saying similar things, there must be something there...
Liste… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1617654271482134528
https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/State-dependency-FINAL.pdf
I didn't notice the DM headlining on that particular nugget.
Retiring at 68 would be fine for most of the well-heeled contributors to PB. But for low-paid manual workers with gruelling jobs, it's a stretch. I can't help but think that a more radical solution may be needed.
And the point is that nobody is investing in storage because most aspects of the subsidy regime actively discourage storage. Why would you store your power and resell if it is far more profitable to be compensated for constraining?
There are proven oilfields in the North Sea that are not being exploited. There is also fracking, which we're constantly told is unprofitable and a dead end - so why does it need to be banned?
And one thing we do have in abundance - totally reliable tides. And the civil service killed that, and haven't revived it even under the current circumstances.
I'm not convinced a teaching assistant aged 67 would be effective.
Although we have them at 16, so maybe?
A substantial pay rise could be of more utility?
We can't all have 20 years retirement, because we mostly can't earn enough to fund that.
There are lots of jobs that we don't really want sixtysomethings doing, because they're just too physical or fast-moving.
We also need to keep a flow through the career ladders, so that the generation below can have opportunities as well.
Not sure what we do about it, though.
Tory MP Caroline Nokes says… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1617654472771084295
This is how the system is designed. It should come as no surprise.
The problem we are facing now is that because our system was designed as a pay as you go system, the baby boomer generation didn't have to contribute all that much while they were working, because they had much fewer pensioners to support. And now there are relatively many fewer people of working age to provide their expected benefits. If we then try to transition to an explicit insurance fund model, where people pay ahead for their own care, rather than expect the next generation to stump up for it, then the poor bloody generation caught in the middle will end up having to pay for their own retirement as well as for their parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0K_INetpzM
Addendum - Thus sparking a student uprising 1960s-style