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Broken Eggs. No Omelette. – politicalbetting.com
Broken Eggs. No Omelette. – politicalbetting.com
Tories are always keen to present tax cuts as essential to business confidence and investment, growth and making a country a desirable place to work and live. They are markedly less keen to focus on other factors affecting business and personal decisions. Let’s take two of them: good governance and certainty about the laws affecting you. Yes, I’m afraid it’s time to revisit the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill and the Bill of Rights Bill. (Yes, it is clunky. Address complaints to Raab, the Bill’s sponsor. We can add crimes against the English language and history to the charge sheet he faces.)
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Yes still a hung parliament for me
ETA rather, the home page is not working, though you can still search for videos.
"However, when Paris discovered that Mr. Zelensky was to be received with red carpet treatment in London over the past 24 hours, diplomats said, officials scrambled to arrange a stopover dinner.
French officials reached out on Wednesday to Berlin to see whether German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was speaking in parliament, could reschedule his plans and join the Paris meeting.
By the afternoon Mr. Macron’s and Mr. Scholz’ offices, so often the target of allied charges that they were too hesitant about throwing their full support behind Ukraine, confirmed the meeting."
--WSJ
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/alphabet_bard_mistake/
Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7_v8ujBVo
The author's argument overlooks the fact that tax cuts have been proven to boost economic growth and create a favorable business environment, which in turn leads to increased prosperity and happiness for individuals in the UK. While good governance and certainty about the laws are important, tax cuts help businesses retain profits and invest in new opportunities, leading to job creation and a thriving economy. The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill and the Bill of Rights Bill may present challenges, but they are necessary steps towards creating a more independent and self-sufficient UK with laws that align with its values and goals. The executive branch has the expertise to make these decisions and ensure that the laws increase the overall sum of human happiness in the country.
The Bill of Rights, in particular, is aimed at modernizing the legal system and protecting individual rights, which will lead to increased security and happiness for citizens. Its impact is still being evaluated, but the Conservative Party's focus on promoting individual rights and a thriving economy is a step in the right direction.
In conclusion, while the author raises valid concerns, they do not present a complete picture of the situation. The Conservative Party's focus on tax cuts and promoting individual rights is a necessary component of promoting economic growth and increasing the overall sum of human happiness in the UK. The Retained EU Law Bill and the Bill of Rights Bill may present challenges, but they are crucial steps towards creating a more independent and self-sufficient UK with laws that promote prosperity and happiness for all.
Personally, I find @Cyclefree more compelling, but others may have a different view.
It sounds like politicians and Remainers were lying about all of this.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-deputy-chairman-lee-anderson-endorses-capital-punishment-lggfcrdj3
Things like ISO standards, agreed on a global scale, are generally good, even if the UK implementation of those standards came from the EU. The UK government would have done this stuff anyway.
There’s other EU legislation that’s more protectionist in nature, often to protect domestic EU industries that don’t exist in the UK. These can be easily repealed, or replaced with global standards.
In the middle, there’s a whole load of stuff that requires a political discussion and agreement. This is what a government with an 80-seat majority and 18 months until the election, needs to be prioritising.
The appointment of Kemi Badenoch as Business Secretary, is a great choice from a PM I don’t usually praise. Her department is not a spending department, much more a regulatory department, so there’s a good chance there of people willing to challenge the Treasury authodoxy to drive economic growth.
Too many superlatives to go around really. Well done to the UK for all that’s been done so far for Ukraine, well done to everyone involved in yesterday’s events, especially the Westminster Hall event. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t shed a few tears watching it. Well done to Zelensky’s speechwriters, presumably from the Ukranian Embassy in London, and to the short but very big man himself, delivering it in a foreign language.
We should all feel very, very proud to be British today.
You’ve used the forbidden word.
These days it’s all “British” (sic).
This is not a good reason for such chaos. It would have been far better to try to find 5-20 areas where EU legislation is actually holding back research or development that we might want to revisit. Regulations on genetically altered crops might be an example (I don't know enough about the complexities to have a concluded view). Changing things for the sake of changing them is just stupid, whoever actually does it.
Which brings us to the Human Rights bill. As so many including myself have pointed out before there is a large body of established law built up on Convention rights. Attempts to challenge this fail and really struggle to get leave to proceed to appellate courts at all. If we have a new "British" bill the country is going to spend hundreds of millions recreating that structure. Given that I am now in Crown Office and would not enjoy that largesse that is a terrible idea. 😉
Right now trying to resolve public sector strikes and get services back to some sort of normal really should be the number one priority for the government. This means serious work on budgets and priorities (because the additional money doesn't come out of thin air) and a willingness to compromise for the public good of all of us rather than the displacement activity @Cyclefree is talking about.
I’ll get my own coat
I predict a successful political career.
And it's not noticeably sillier than the latter's claims.
It is a matter of fact that the EU forced things like H&S and later the Working Time Directive on us. If we had our own way we would have had BRITISH lorry drivers ploughing through traffic all day and all night.
Well, they might have to make do with NOM but it would certainly help.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/rishi-sunak-campaign-video-shredding
As for which eurolaws are worth shredding, I don't know. I'm sure there are individuals and businesses whose profits are squeezed by current regulations. But that's going to be true of any rule set. The list of freedoms JRM produced rather looked like a game not worth the candle.
Maybe we could get MalcG to do one, and we could all pile in to him.
A last desperate play of "we are trying to deliver your Brexit benefit of being forced to work longer hours for less pay, but the liberal elites are trying to stop us. Vote conservative and we will pas an enabling act to allow Mikey Govey to do whatever his drug-addled hallucinations tell him is best for you without the need for parliament of courts to try and stop YOUR will"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/metropolitan-police-officer-was-nicknamed-the-rapist-by-colleagues-ndrq372dm
Some extracts -
Baroness Casey of Blackstock, who is conducting a review of the force’s standards and internal culture, said that she did not know how much worse the crisis enveloping policing could be.
Casey has already highlighted an “anything goes” attitude to misconduct and systemic failings to sack rogue officers. She told the ITV1 documentary Women & The Police: The Inside Story that her team had looked at 18,000 allegations of misconduct and “not one person we have listened to has had a positive experience of the misconduct system”.
She added: “The system leans in behind the perpetrator to protect the status quo and to keep things as they are.”
I mean, I agree. But where has she - and all the others saying much the same - been all these years? Here I am I, a housewife from Barrow compared to the Great 'n' the Good, and I've been saying that there's something rotten in U.K. policing and why and what they need to do for the last 4 years.
And they've only just discovered this now??
What do these people do all day? Don't they have eyes to see, ears to hear and a brain to read?
But these opportunities have not been explored. Instead we have a simple attempt of vesting all the power to create law into the hands of the Executive - and, in practice, given the relative numbers of ministers, civil servants and laws involved, into the hands of civil servants who might be more or less captured by the interest groups they are meant to regulate, and certainly aren't answerable to the electorate.
Judged simply on its own terms it makes a complete mockery of the arguments advanced for Brexit. Did people really vote for Brexit so that the Commons would have less influence over UK law than while we were members of the EU?
Because otherwise, why would you do it? Its like food standards where on one hand they insist they will only ever improve them, whilst practically begging the US for a deal to flood the market with their hormone and weevil-infested shit. We know they lie, I assume they know they lie Have to credit their staying power t keep going regardless of sanity or interest from a public that has had enough of the whole thing.
But I'm slowly coming to the conclusion the problem is it goes far wider. What the police are doing is particularly horrible, but the culture described could equally be applied to education, or finance, or administration.
Edith Pargeter noted in the 1960s that the British disease was 'we do not discard our failures. On the contrary, we promote them.' The inevitable result of this attitude is that serial incompetents or indeed the malicious end up in roles where they do enormous damage over a prolonged period of time, and then promote other incompetents to support them. And far from improving since the 1960s it seems to be getting worse.
I don't have easy answers, but if we keep going like this we're going to have no public structures of any sort worth speaking of.
On ChatGPT.
It's not 2019, the government has a chunky majority, given to them so that they can Get Brexit Done. There isn't a sufficient enemy within the Commons to thwart them. So I don't think the BoJo ruse works.
Besides, what happens after that? They get a mandate to do a crazy thing, they still have to do the crazy thing. And it is crazy, isn't it?
Simpler explanations are that Rishi is a prisoner of the nutters, or is a nutter himself.
Something of a shit or bust approach from Sunak.
'We-ell, sir, it's hard to make deterrence as a general point, because we don't have evidence of crimes not committed,' said Mr Trooper. 'But in the specifics now, I'd say it's very effective.'
'Meaning?'
'Meaning I've never seen anyone up here more than once, sir.'
Ain't a hope in Hell
Nothing's gonna bring us down
The way we fly five miles off the ground
Because we shoot to kill
And you know we always will
It's a bomber, it's a bomber
That's hardly an argument in favour, is it ?
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/man-charged-over-disappearance-of-girl-found-in-scottish-borders
Tide seems to be turning
58% of 2019 Conservative voters back capital punishment though, the voters Anderson will have been appointed to target (even if I suspect Sunak personally opposes restoring hanging or bringing in US style lethal injection)
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/30/britons-dont-tend-support-death-penalty-until-you-
And it's rather that the market has realised that the use of AIs in search is a huge disruptor to their business model, and their effective, hugely profitable monopoly of online advertising is quite likely nearing its end.
Also Derek Bentley and Edith Thompson where they were accessories who under modern conditions would probably not have been convicted of murder.
Then there is endless argument still around those executed in World War I. It should be noted that many of those actually shot had been convicted and sentenced to death before, and pardoned. Of course, against that if you were suffering from a psychological disorder, merely being pardoned wasn't exactly helpful on its own.
On the other hand, the likes of Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty who were used as causes celebre for the abolition of hanging had, in fact, clearly done what they were convicted of. Ellis was turned into one because she was good looking, and Hanratty because Paul Foot wanted to be awkward.
Also Jesus, in some jurisdictions (stiring up blasphemy in non Christian countries, for example) and arguably for disinterring a body without authorisation (his own, but probably still illegal?)
There is an EU council meeting this week which will decide things that affect us in the future, and we are not in the room.
That is what Brexit means.
We were members for 43 years. That's why. I didn't say it was impossible to review them all. I said it was impossible to review them all in the absurdly short time the Government has decided on. The Bill also envisages laws disappearing without there being any review at all, something which is unprecedented. Laws fall into disuse but disappearing from the statute book without any sort of review by anyone - no.
We were told for years that the EU was simply an economic community and that there was very little intrusion into U.K. life."
No. It was precisely because of this that euroscepticism grew. Also many of these laws do relate to the economy. Though quite how the economy and U.K. life are different is a mystery. The former is a large part of the latter.
..."all these EU laws were appropriately scrutinised with democratic oversight
They were scrutinised and with more democratic oversight than their removal will be.
It is the Leavers who are lying - and what a big dangerous lie it is - about wanting to give power back to the people. That lie will come back to bite them hard one day. A great pity that so much damage will have been done in the meanwhile.
I predict a successful political career.
Someone’s behaviour, which is what’s being reported here, should have no impact on the identity of the person in question. Should it?
The ChatGPT Emperor has finally been shown to have no clothes!
The signs are that Labour have firmed up support levels in local by-elections in the past 2-3 months so that they now track closer to the polls, and there will be interest in seeing if a similar firming up towards high teens swing can be attained in a parliamentary by-election.
I'd be cautious of making any prediction on this point.
Have fun!
...The Conservative Party's focus on tax cuts and promoting individual rights is a necessary component of promoting economic growth and increasing the overall sum of human happiness in the UK...
First, the Brexit movement is increasingly old men in a hurry, which is why there isn't time to check laws properly to see if the nation needs or wants them.
@DavidL was right upthread; find an area where divergence might make obvious sense, diverge and build support. However, I suspect it's possible that those areas don't really exist. Take gene editing. Yes, there are opportunities and some are held back by the abundance of caution. But diverging in that field will likely make life harder for food producers trying to export into Europe. A few big winners, lots of small losers.
I suspect the main problems are that, (a) the crisis hasn't disturbed the existing malaise with British procurement of military equipment, which has been exceptionally poor for a long time, and, (b) the country is broke, and cannot afford to throw the money at the problem in the way that the Poles are doing, and we're using what cash we can find to purchase various odds and ends of equipment and ammunition for Ukraine from shady corners of the international market.
On the latter point, I would expect that if/when Britain does send fighter jets to Ukraine, they won't be our Typhoons or F-35s, but they will be F-16s or other jets that we've quietly bought from someone else. Interesting to note that Britain has Gripens for training, for example.
It doesn't have to be 'infallible' to be a very useful tool. AI driven search is already pretty
clearly superior to Google's existing product - and removes much of the need for companies to pay Google to promote their businesses via search.
That is hugely disruptive to Google's entire business, whether or not they gave their own AI product.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64577375
We were told it was going to make most professions redundant.
This shows that it is basically primarily a creative writing product but based mainly on what has been inputted to it first and to a lesser degree an imperfect search engine
Explain in a few words how important the Dover-Calais channel crossing is to British trade
The Dover-Calais channel crossing is a crucial transportation route for the United Kingdom as it connects Britain to the mainland of Europe. This route is heavily used for the import and export of goods and products, making it a vital trade link for the UK. In 2019, it was estimated that approximately £119 billion worth of goods were transported through the Dover-Calais route, which accounted for over 17% of UK's total trade with the European Union. The efficient and reliable functioning of this route is therefore essential for the continued economic success of the UK.
What’s absolutely certain, is that leaving the EU but not diverging over time, ends up with the worst of all worlds.