This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
Perhaps they should have sent everyone a text? Letters, like cash, are so last century.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
The last time the government dabbled in this mass-contact 'emergency' systems, we got the NHS Covid App – a piece of software every man and his dog had to scurry to delete because it committed its users to ten days of incarceration merely for walking within 150 yards of a covidian.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A nontrivial number of people at 3pm yesterday would have been
• Sleeping • Having sex • Talking to an infirm relative • Getting married • At a funeral
When did the government write to people to ask them if they wanted to be included in their 'test'?
The straightforward way to do that would be to send out a mass message to everyone at a random time - perhaps 2 am when most people are not busy -, accompanied by a loud alert, so that everyone knows it has been sent and get a reply in a timely manner.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
Has Tucker Carlson been priced up for a presidential run yet betting nerds?
You could have laid him around 30 on Betfair Exchange last year, and closed out in three figures already. Would be anything but short now, but I’m not really tempted either way.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
“This is a test of the test of the emergency alert system. Do not be alarmed.”
The last time the government dabbled in this mass-contact 'emergency' systems, we got the NHS Covid App – a piece of software every man and his dog had to scurry to delete because it committed its users to ten days of incarceration merely for walking within 150 yards of a covidian.
This isn't comparable to that. It's standard functionality on modern smartphones and is widely used in other countries.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
The last time the government dabbled in this mass-contact 'emergency' systems, we got the NHS Covid App – a piece of software every man and his dog had to scurry to delete because it committed its users to ten days of incarceration merely for walking within 150 yards of a covidian.
This isn't comparable to that. It's standard functionality on modern smartphones and is widely used in other countries.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
"SNP MPs have been told to increase the amount that they pay into central funds amid warnings from their leader at Westminster that staff jobs are under threat because the party still does not have an auditor.
In a sign of further rancour within the nationalists, Stephen Flynn accused his predecessor of failing to tell him that the SNP group in the Commons faces missing out on £1.2 million in public funds because its accounts cannot be signed off."
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
Last Wednesday morning you posted that Sunak had wrong footed Starmer’s PMQ preparation by altering his declaration of interest late in the morning.
Was it doing that which has landed Sunak an additional investigation into his conduct?
“members should not disclose details in relation to an investigation that's underway.”
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
You wouldn't say that if your home or family came under a deadly threat from any number of reasons
There's part of me that thinks if a 10-megaton nuclear missile were heading for my back garden I'd rather not know but that isn't really what yesterday was about.
True "national" existential emergencies are thankfully rare.
Where the alert system will earn its corn is the regional or local aspect - as commented elsewhere, warning of flooding would be its primary use. I'm in downtown East London and if I knew the Thames or the Lea were going to flood I could take some action.
There's also the instances of helping people to help themselves - we saw last December for example hundreds of motorists, completely ill-prepared, getting stuck on snow-covered roads form hours. A warning of bad weather might keep people off the roads or get people moving and home in good time to prevent getting caught in someone else's blizzard.
Let people sign up for such a service if they want it.
I'll just look at the weather forecast, or the radar, thanks.
A nontrivial number of people at 3pm yesterday would have been
• Sleeping • Having sex • Talking to an infirm relative • Getting married • At a funeral
When did the government write to people to ask them if they wanted to be included in their 'test'?
So you would want everyone contacted initially to see if they could be contacted? Bit extreme. Chances are you will never recieve an actual alert. If you do, it might aid you in some way. It’s not like they are making you carry cash, or something.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
12% weren't – including me. A not inconsequential EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE.
Who knows what the figure was on the day of, what with all the news about it.
You are the one who was waving around the 88% figure, not me
Huh? I'm saying it was likely even higher on the day of the test.
You don't have any idea what the true figure was
Yes, I do. Higher than 88%.
You don't. You are basing your figure on a single poll, then extrapolating to support your own argument. Which is spurious at best.
Even if only one million people were unaware, so what? When did the government ask permission to do this?
The argument that many millions of people would have forgot about it after a day of saying they knew about it is spurious. Given the coverage the test received both before and after, it is a reasonable assumption to make that knowledge of the test grew in the days leading up to it. As reflected in the changes reported in the poll itself.
Why does the government have to have your personal permission to do a test? I haven't looked, but this is the sort of thing that is done under powers provided to the relevant minister under act of parliament.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
The best way to let people know that the government alert service is now active in the UK is surely to run a test, which is exactly what they did.
Plus there was plenty of advanc3 warming over radio, TV in the press.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
As government you can’t do text, on account people who can’t read won’t get the warning, so it won’t be fair to them. You have to use colours or sounds, or maybe a video of someone waving their arms around.
If they are allowed to use video of Robbie the robot waving its arms around shouting danger danger, that would be cool.
Looking at the data behind the R&W poll, men put Labour ahead 38-28 awhile women have Labour ahead 36-20 but among men 11% are Don't Knows (DKs) while among women it's 21% so a big gender gap.
Among the 2019 Conservative vote, 55% are still loyal, 16% are DKs and 15% have switched to Labour with a further 8% for Reform. Among the 65+ age group, the Conservatives lead 34-28 with 16% DKs.
Stripping out the DKs and it's an 11-point lead among men and a 20-point leas among women while the 65+ group has a 40-33 lead for the Conservatives which would equate to a 20% swing since December 2019.
My favourite, as you know, is the "all England" sample - tonight it's Labour 45%, Conservative 30%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Reform 6% and Green 5%. As we know, in 2019, Boris Johnson won England 47-34 with the LDs on 12 so that's a swing of 14% from Conservative to Labour and 8.5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat.
What, if anything, this means for the local elections I don't know. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are polling close to where they were in late April 2019 but Labour are 15 points ahead of their number at that time suggesting the possibility of big Labour gains from all parties. Greg Hands was playing expectation management claiming the Conservatives might lose 1000 seats but that's all part of the game.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
I'm going to see Teat of Cessation at Glastonbury this year.
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
"No time for the old "in-out", luv! I've just come to read the meter!"
Looking at the data behind the R&W poll, men put Labour ahead 38-28 awhile women have Labour ahead 36-20 but among men 11% are Don't Knows (DKs) while among women it's 21% so a big gender gap.
Among the 2019 Conservative vote, 55% are still loyal, 16% are DKs and 15% have switched to Labour with a further 8% for Reform. Among the 65+ age group, the Conservatives lead 34-28 with 16% DKs.
Stripping out the DKs and it's an 11-point lead among men and a 20-point leas among women while the 65+ group has a 40-33 lead for the Conservatives which would equate to a 20% swing since December 2019.
My favourite, as you know, is the "all England" sample - tonight it's Labour 45%, Conservative 30%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Reform 6% and Green 5%. As we know, in 2019, Boris Johnson won England 47-34 with the LDs on 12 so that's a swing of 14% from Conservative to Labour and 8.5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat.
What, if anything, this means for the local elections I don't know. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are polling close to where they were in late April 2019 but Labour are 15 points ahead of their number at that time suggesting the possibility of big Labour gains from all parties. Greg Hands was playing expectation management claiming the Conservatives might lose 1000 seats but that's all part of the game.
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Looking at the data behind the R&W poll, men put Labour ahead 38-28 awhile women have Labour ahead 36-20 but among men 11% are Don't Knows (DKs) while among women it's 21% so a big gender gap.
Among the 2019 Conservative vote, 55% are still loyal, 16% are DKs and 15% have switched to Labour with a further 8% for Reform. Among the 65+ age group, the Conservatives lead 34-28 with 16% DKs.
Stripping out the DKs and it's an 11-point lead among men and a 20-point leas among women while the 65+ group has a 40-33 lead for the Conservatives which would equate to a 20% swing since December 2019.
My favourite, as you know, is the "all England" sample - tonight it's Labour 45%, Conservative 30%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Reform 6% and Green 5%. As we know, in 2019, Boris Johnson won England 47-34 with the LDs on 12 so that's a swing of 14% from Conservative to Labour and 8.5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat.
What, if anything, this means for the local elections I don't know. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are polling close to where they were in late April 2019 but Labour are 15 points ahead of their number at that time suggesting the possibility of big Labour gains from all parties. Greg Hands was playing expectation management claiming the Conservatives might lose 1000 seats but that's all part of the game.
I’ve given up trying to get PB Tories who have been canvassing to tell us how many seats above 500 they are going to lose. They are keeping silent about that. Rather than talk seat losses now or afterwards, they will likely point out Labour got much less % in votes than polling - and we will certainly hear about it if the % gap between Lab to con is single figures 🥹
Two questions. If it’s a wasted vote for Labour, but cast tactically for Lib Dem or Green to prevent a Tory councillor, this will lower Labours %? If there is an awful lot of this Labour vote lending, it would obviously cause higher than expected Tory losses, maybe as many as 700, but would also bring down tLabours share of the vote? By that I mean, Labour only getting 39-40% of votes way off their polling could look bad, but if it actually reveals the willingness of LLG to lend votes to each other to hurt Tories, that’s probably more ominous GE indication for Tories isn’t it?
Secondly, this very important “since last election % of Con vote have switched to Labour” indicator from polls - do we know what the actual GE % from con 92 to Lab 97? Only then could we know if 15% is not good enough, good enough, or on par with 97?
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Our bed is 10 years old now, we cut everything until late June. I always worry we're going to kill it off but it keeps coming back stronger each year. Last summer will have done it a lot of good too.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
"Tucker Carlson wasn't a zealot who held extreme beliefs. He was a con man who held no beliefs. He was singularly, besides Donald Trump, the most cynical performer on all of television." https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1650543739872456729
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Our bed is 10 years old now, we cut everything until late June. I always worry we're going to kill it off but it keeps coming back stronger each year. Last summer will have done it a lot of good too.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
Can’t argue with that. I have been eating lots of English early season from the shops. Wont buy overseas, but I see less harm in buying English. Fairly sure it will be quite local.
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Our bed is 10 years old now, we cut everything until late June. I always worry we're going to kill it off but it keeps coming back stronger each year. Last summer will have done it a lot of good too.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
Applebaum in 2021: "Murdoch is also said to be concerned over Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which the host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents." https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1650563886951587873
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
In the end it was the misogyny. As well as the money.
Tucker Carlson fired on Murdoch’s orders over discrimination lawsuit, report says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/apr/24/biden-2024-election-debt-limit-trump-politics-live-updates … In March, Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show, filed a suit saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives tried to blame her and host Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy theories.
While the Times reports that the dismissal wasn’t related to the Dominion lawsuit, it notes that comments made about managers at the network, which were revealed in the case’s discovery process “may have also played a role” in his ousting…
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Our bed is 10 years old now, we cut everything until late June. I always worry we're going to kill it off but it keeps coming back stronger each year. Last summer will have done it a lot of good too.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
Can’t argue with that. I have been eating lots of English early season from the shops. Wont buy overseas, but I see less harm in buying English. Fairly sure it will be quite local.
Why is imported asparagus so tasteless? The peruvian stuff in supermarkets is so unlike in-season asparagus it's not worth buying.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Well, we went through this yesterday. I agree, though my opinions on the matter aren't particularly strong. BUT - if we are to have an alert, it doesn't seem unreasonable to test it, and it doesn't seem a hanging offence if the test highlights some issues. That's why you do the tests.
Might have been an idea to write to people first before disturbing their weekend with a shrill alarm
I think it was reasonably well publicised. I don't particularly like it. But I have no real complaints about how it was done.
O/T First asparagus from the garden - 3 weeks later than last year. Still delicious though.
Nice. Mine still not up, next door allotment just showing. It has been cold and grey forever. Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
West Wilts? You can't be far from us in North Dorset then. Our asparagus bed is well sheltered though and surrounded by stone paving which I'm convinced warms the soil up.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
No, we’re pretty close (Warminster). Beds not that sheltered and is on a hill. I also mulched a couple weeks back so will be pushing through soon. I’ve heard the St. George’s day to midsummer too. My beds are five years old this year so starting full 8 weeks of cropping. Yours sound like you are getting a boost from the surroundings which is great for you and your dinner! Jealous.
Our bed is 10 years old now, we cut everything until late June. I always worry we're going to kill it off but it keeps coming back stronger each year. Last summer will have done it a lot of good too.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
Ah, so the depth of his anger is because he's so invested in his tech utopia and he's been given a glimpse into the lack of control he has over it.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
I needed neither at the time. Though the idea I would randomly turn off my phone and watch at 1459 on a Sunday to avoid something I knew nothing about falls squarely into the category of “only on PB”.
We talked to two senior Turkish opposition officials, who said Kilicdaroglu government would not break its relations with Moscow and would maintain the balanced attitude in Ukraine https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1650543721019060228
Interesting thread. First impression is that they’re determined not to let this become an election issue.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
I needed neither at the time. Though the idea I would randomly turn off my phone and watch at 1459 on a Sunday to avoid something I knew nothing about falls squarely into the category of “only on PB”.
If you were wanting to chill out and have a quiet time you might choose to switch your phone off to avoid other random interruptions.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
I shall try to keep a breast of the thread more.
I think we've braly started.
Incidentally it reminds me of an old joke:
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
I needed neither at the time. Though the idea I would randomly turn off my phone and watch at 1459 on a Sunday to avoid something I knew nothing about falls squarely into the category of “only on PB”.
If you were wanting to chill out and have a quiet time you might choose to switch your phone off to avoid other random interruptions.
In the end it was the misogyny. As well as the money.
Tucker Carlson fired on Murdoch’s orders over discrimination lawsuit, report says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/apr/24/biden-2024-election-debt-limit-trump-politics-live-updates … In March, Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show, filed a suit saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives tried to blame her and host Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy theories.
While the Times reports that the dismissal wasn’t related to the Dominion lawsuit, it notes that comments made about managers at the network, which were revealed in the case’s discovery process “may have also played a role” in his ousting…
"Tucker Carlson wasn't a zealot who held extreme beliefs. He was a con man who held no beliefs. He was singularly, besides Donald Trump, the most cynical performer on all of television." https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1650543739872456729
Like so many of these characters. Just seen a clip of him 20 years ago doing 'personality centrism' with a ludicrous bow tie on. Why do so many people (sometimes not stupid) fall for this stuff? I just don't get it.
Redfield & Wilton Strategies @RedfieldWilton 1m Labour leads by 15%, up three points from last week.
Westminster VI (23 April):
Labour 44% (–) Conservative 29% (-3) Liberal Democrat 11% (+1) Reform UK 6% (+2) Green 5% (+1) Scottish National Party 3% (-1) Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 April
Broken, sleazy Tories on the slide!
Yes. That’s my prediction for the coming months.
I have formed this Daffodil Hypothesis based on counting the boobs over successive years.
Take a look at latest graphical chart. I want you to see boobs, so I have helpfully pointed at them.
Now, here’s the clever bit.
to be specific, my distinctive psephology is predicting a pert titty to appear right in front of you on right end of this graph. This would indicate Sunak enjoyed a perky polling period in April. There is no disputing the chart shows Tories enjoy Spring bounce in this parliament - just look at both of them, like a pornhub stepmom lying back whilst her neighbours son is earning his red badge of courage for bobajob week.
But if proven we have reached latest teat of cessation, supports the underlying Daffodil Hypothesis, it wasn’t down to Rishi or his policy wins at all - it was simply April. Despite everything, the Tories doing well every April. Just shame about the other eleven months.
Tell me I am reading the graph wrong, but, this third boob to form perfectly, like the most eye catching stalagmite, the Daffodil Hypothesis would show clear trend for Tories from their spring protrusions: 2021 fig a) miles in front, 2022 fig b) Boris just 4 points behind, 2023 fig c) Tories teated out absolutely nowhere.
If I want to see boobs I generally don't rely on this website.
Why not? There are loads of tits on here
Are you one of the knockers?
It's a bit early for jokes like that. The thread's only on page 2.
I shall try to keep a breast of the thread more.
I think we've braly started.
Incidentally it reminds me of an old joke:
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
Wouldn’t texting have been more use? It was phone related after all…
A text would have been mildly annoying but yes, far, far superior to this!
But the actual system had to be tested. That was the entire point of the test!
At what stage did the government ask me whether I wanted to be part of its test? Or indeed when did it ask me whether it could use my phone and watch to issue a very loud and unpleasant alarm?
You can always turn your phone off you know.
He can't, because all his money and cards are on it.
Ah, so the depth of his anger is because he's so invested in his tech utopia and he's been given a glimpse into the lack of control he has over it.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
Really? 65million people receive letters about such things to ask their consent (you did say to ask), meaning all those people have to write back? I don't remember the last thing I ever received from the government, so it sure cannot be very common.
I really do not understand just how angry people are about this. It's seething fury, not just irritation.
As LostPassword points out if you wanted no interruptions at all from whatever you were doing you could have turned your phone off entirely. So you're basically just mad because it was a little louder than a regular interruption, which is not exactly the tremendous outrage your initial fury showed. You weren't against an interruption, just not this one.
This Infosys situation re the emergency alert contract absolutely stinks.
So Sunak was the new bright light? This is every bit as bad as Boris.
The tories deserve to be booted out for a hundred years. Disgusting, revolting, sleaze-ridden, utterly corrupt.
I do not expect rational discussion from someone who is so vengeful and full of hubris
It is an excellent means of communication, especially locally for all kinds of emergencies, and by trialling it it assists it in sorting out technical issues
Your hatred is getting the better of you
The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.
Giving you information is authoritarian and intrusive?
What information? I got an extremely loud and distressing siren pumped to my phone and watch when I was chilling out on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody asked me for my permission to do this
Loud and distressing siren? A few seconds irritation is that big a deal?
Yes. You don't know what I was doing at the time.
Why didn't the government write to people to ask them before it did this?
There was publicity about it. Even if they had written to every address in the country large numbers of people would not have read it or would have forgotten about it. Plus, since when does the governemnt undertake a quasi referendum on an operational matter of government?
However righteously angry you are or people should be about it - like plenty of people I've asked what the need for it was - writing a letter to everyone in the country about it is not a serious suggestion.
Why not? It's done for many other governmental programmes.
Really? 65million people receive letters about such things to ask their consent (you did say to ask), meaning all those people have to write back? I don't remember the last thing I ever received from the government, so it sure cannot be very common.
I really do not understand just how angry people are about this. It's seething fury, not just irritation.
As LostPassword points out if you wanted no interruptions at all from whatever you were doing you could have turned your phone off entirely. So you're basically just mad because it was a little louder than a regular interruption, which is not exactly the tremendous outrage your initial fury showed. You weren't against an interruption, just not this one.
What ‘tremendous outrage’ and ‘initial fury’ is this? What an absurd exaggeration.
I wrote this: “ The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.”
Where exactly did I demonstrate this spitting rage? You are just making it up.
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People are weird, man.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1649423104802693122
Would be anything but short now, but I’m not really tempted either way.
Tons of it about but I never seem to get any.
Hunter Biden demands ethics probe into Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://thehill.com/homenews/3965992-hunter-biden-demands-ethics-probe-into-marjorie-taylor-greene/
'Westminster leader accuses predecessor of not telling him the full details about party’s accounts'
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-orders-its-mps-to-pay-party-more-as-financial-turmoil-deepens-5jnrxdnfn
"SNP MPs have been told to increase the amount that they pay into central funds amid warnings from their leader at Westminster that staff jobs are under threat because the party still does not have an auditor.
In a sign of further rancour within the nationalists, Stephen Flynn accused his predecessor of failing to tell him that the SNP group in the Commons faces missing out on £1.2 million in public funds because its accounts cannot be signed off."
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1649601516783665153
Hard recommend to pb nerds. It begins as total fluff but ends up really quite compelling and twisty. And dark
Not immortal TV; but good, watchable TV if you’re into politics? Absolutely
If it were Betfair I might be tempted. 48/85 over there.
Was it doing that which has landed Sunak an additional investigation into his conduct?
“members should not disclose details in relation to an investigation that's underway.”
Even if only one million people were unaware, so what? When did the government ask permission to do this?
Bit extreme.
Chances are you will never recieve an actual alert.
If you do, it might aid you in some way.
It’s not like they are making you carry cash, or something.
Why does the government have to have your personal permission to do a test? I haven't looked, but this is the sort of thing that is done under powers provided to the relevant minister under act of parliament.
If they are allowed to use video of Robbie the robot waving its arms around shouting danger danger, that would be cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zePYlaVVo_M
Among the 2019 Conservative vote, 55% are still loyal, 16% are DKs and 15% have switched to Labour with a further 8% for Reform. Among the 65+ age group, the Conservatives lead 34-28 with 16% DKs.
Stripping out the DKs and it's an 11-point lead among men and a 20-point leas among women while the 65+ group has a 40-33 lead for the Conservatives which would equate to a 20% swing since December 2019.
My favourite, as you know, is the "all England" sample - tonight it's Labour 45%, Conservative 30%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Reform 6% and Green 5%. As we know, in 2019, Boris Johnson won England 47-34 with the LDs on 12 so that's a swing of 14% from Conservative to Labour and 8.5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat.
What, if anything, this means for the local elections I don't know. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are polling close to where they were in late April 2019 but Labour are 15 points ahead of their number at that time suggesting the possibility of big Labour gains from all parties. Greg Hands was playing expectation management claiming the Conservatives might lose 1000 seats but that's all part of the game.
Without wishing to go all Leon, the weather today in West wilts was atrocious for late April, 7 deg C and cold rain. Roll on May.
Traditionally, you could cut asparagus from St. George's Day to Midsummer Day but we've always had some earlier than 23rd April... until this year.
Two questions. If it’s a wasted vote for Labour, but cast tactically for Lib Dem or Green to prevent a Tory councillor, this will lower Labours %? If there is an awful lot of this Labour vote lending, it would obviously cause higher than expected Tory losses, maybe as many as 700, but would also bring down tLabours share of the vote? By that I mean, Labour only getting 39-40% of votes way off their polling could look bad, but if it actually reveals the willingness of LLG to lend votes to each other to hurt Tories, that’s probably more ominous GE indication for Tories isn’t it?
Secondly, this very important “since last election % of Con vote have switched to Labour” indicator from polls - do we know what the actual GE % from con 92 to Lab 97? Only then could we know if 15% is not good enough, good enough, or on par with 97?
It’s just the rather unconventional way they display the odds in cents, but 4¢ on PredictIt is 25 on Betfair. They multiply to $1.
Asparagus is truly the king of vegetables - I could eat it every day.
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1650543739872456729
I'd rather see you tips than your tits.
"Murdoch is also said to be concerned over Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which the host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents."
https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1650563886951587873
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1650547530462113826
List Of Human Filth Out At Fox News 🇺🇸
Updated with:
- Tucker Carlson
‘We’ve got no plan ... Holy crap’: What @BorisJohnson said after #Brexit vote - latest @AnthonySeldon @RaymondNewell_
Not really clear where quotes come from; but they tally with Johnson’s ashen face the morning after.
As well as the money.
Tucker Carlson fired on Murdoch’s orders over discrimination lawsuit, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/apr/24/biden-2024-election-debt-limit-trump-politics-live-updates
… In March, Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show, filed a suit saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives tried to blame her and host Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy theories.
While the Times reports that the dismissal wasn’t related to the Dominion lawsuit, it notes that comments made about managers at the network, which were revealed in the case’s discovery process “may have also played a role” in his ousting…
I don't particularly like it. But I have no real complaints about how it was done.
We talked to two senior Turkish opposition officials, who said Kilicdaroglu government would not break its relations with Moscow and would maintain the balanced attitude in Ukraine
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1650543721019060228
Interesting thread.
First impression is that they’re determined not to let this become an election issue.
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?
The government’s unwanted alarm overrode it.
But thanks for your advice.
'Ple the other one!'
Then I noticed I'd done a four dot ellipsis upthread as well, so I decided accidents can happen to the best of us.
I really do not understand just how angry people are about this. It's seething fury, not just irritation.
As LostPassword points out if you wanted no interruptions at all from whatever you were doing you could have turned your phone off entirely. So you're basically just mad because it was a little louder than a regular interruption, which is not exactly the tremendous outrage your initial fury showed. You weren't against an interruption, just not this one.
https://twitter.com/KyleWalter_/status/1650553967917641746
I’ve walked thirty three miles today, so I’ve got my average above the twenty five miles a day I need to do to get rest days
I’ve just arrived where I’m staying in a village called Landujan (in a 35€ room in quite a nice, basic guesthouse)
Now I need to sleep, so I can do it again tomorrow!
Over a third of Germans intend to follow at least part of HM King Charles III coronation live on TV (36%), according to a new survey
https://twitter.com/GermanEmbassy/status/1650489736929193985?cxt=HHwWgsC9sfnq2-ctAAAA
"Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News"
Edit: scrolling further back, I see I'm late to the party - sorry!
I wrote this: “ The alert was somewhat Orwellian. Authoritarian and intrusive.”
Where exactly did I demonstrate this spitting rage? You are just making it up.