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LAB’s Opinium voting lead over CON now 18% – up 4 – politicalbetting.com

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  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 31,358
    Leon said:

    “My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.

    We’re all going to be just fine.

    My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI:”

    https://twitter.com/joannastern/status/1652005809470025728?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw

    If you want to know if it's ChatGPT, ask it a simple question about an election result. It seems to get them wrong a lot of the time.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,085
    New thread.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 70,627
    carnforth said:

    Meanwhile in Scotland, getting new ferries not the only issue:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65439336

    "Orkney ferry runs aground after smoke in engine room"

    Shiwing why it’s important ships remain non-smoking.
  • TazTaz Posts: 13,605

    FF43 said:

    kle4 said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Raab's resignation/sacking has stalled Rishi's fightback IMO.

    Conservative recovery should get back on track as we go into the summer I'd think... However the clock continues to tick down to the election and Con are gonna run out of time to stop a (small) Labout majority in Election 24.

    Tick Tock...

    Hate to break this news to anyone who hasn’t got the memo yet. What’s stopping Rishi’s fight back and Tory recovery is Rishi. The fresh face has peaked. Labours hungry for power attack ads are working.
    If hes stopping the th recovery who would take them further? No names spring immediately to mind.

    Thats not praise of him, I just don't see who could galvanise more.
    Someone with more experience and gravitas for sure would do a better job than this. He is a politically inexperienced, accident prone, lightweight, dry right wing brexiteer. His ratings could really dive from here.
    In defence of Sunak, he's smart, hard working and reasonably honest. All the things that Johnson wasn't. His leadership skills are improving.

    His political agenda is a bit eccentric: the most important thing is to ensure billionaires, of which he happens to be one, hold onto all their wealth. But you can't have everything.
    Smart? In all history only two PMs have been given a criminal record whilst in office, and the guy you call smart is losing to Boris 2-1.

    Smart? value for tax payer money by fighting waste and fraud? Firstly eat out to help out. Secondly Covid loans fraud - not just tens of billions of tax payer money throw away but funded criminal enterprises, possibly terrorists, by Rishi just handing it out to them. Thirdly ongoing threat to the UK markets and economy from his dodgy Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
    3 of his cabinet picks already gone for bullying and corruption.

    Similarly, reasonably honest? as the money man for a party on the make, one of the sleaziest and corrupt 4 years of government ever, especially around covid contracts and other schemes enriching government and its friends, Sunak has been at the heart of it all waving things through VIP lanes, signing everything off.

    Some of us don’t see him as smart or remotely honest. It’s a front that’s unraveling. Don’t see anything smart in what is an horrendous government CV. We beg to differ. That’s how it is.
    Why the hatred for EOTHO ?

    Covid was pouring back into the country on every flight from Malaga irrespective of people going to their local restaurant.

    EOTHO merely gave those who had followed the rules a reward and the restaurants a needed financial boost.

    FF43 said:

    kle4 said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Raab's resignation/sacking has stalled Rishi's fightback IMO.

    Conservative recovery should get back on track as we go into the summer I'd think... However the clock continues to tick down to the election and Con are gonna run out of time to stop a (small) Labout majority in Election 24.

    Tick Tock...

    Hate to break this news to anyone who hasn’t got the memo yet. What’s stopping Rishi’s fight back and Tory recovery is Rishi. The fresh face has peaked. Labours hungry for power attack ads are working.
    If hes stopping the th recovery who would take them further? No names spring immediately to mind.

    Thats not praise of him, I just don't see who could galvanise more.
    Someone with more experience and gravitas for sure would do a better job than this. He is a politically inexperienced, accident prone, lightweight, dry right wing brexiteer. His ratings could really dive from here.
    In defence of Sunak, he's smart, hard working and reasonably honest. All the things that Johnson wasn't. His leadership skills are improving.

    His political agenda is a bit eccentric: the most important thing is to ensure billionaires, of which he happens to be one, hold onto all their wealth. But you can't have everything.
    Smart? In all history only two PMs have been given a criminal record whilst in office, and the guy you call smart is losing to Boris 2-1.

    Smart? value for tax payer money by fighting waste and fraud? Firstly eat out to help out. Secondly Covid loans fraud - not just tens of billions of tax payer money throw away but funded criminal enterprises, possibly terrorists, by Rishi just handing it out to them. Thirdly ongoing threat to the UK markets and economy from his dodgy Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
    3 of his cabinet picks already gone for bullying and corruption.

    Similarly, reasonably honest? as the money man for a party on the make, one of the sleaziest and corrupt 4 years of government ever, especially around covid contracts and other schemes enriching government and its friends, Sunak has been at the heart of it all waving things through VIP lanes, signing everything off.

    Some of us don’t see him as smart or remotely honest. It’s a front that’s unraveling. Don’t see anything smart in what is an horrendous government CV. We beg to differ. That’s how it is.
    Why the hatred for EOTHO ?

    Covid was pouring back into the country on every flight from Malaga irrespective of people going to their local restaurant.

    EOTHO merely gave those who had followed the rules a reward and the restaurants a needed financial boost.
    You subtract how much the scheme was nothing more than a "giveaway" to benefit those well-off enough to eat out anyway, In the deficit column you add how it boosted covid prolonging the agony of sick people and sick workforce. You look into what happened to businesses when it ceased, did it save any businesses or jobs.

    It only cost £850M though, so admittedly small fry compared to billions Sunak has wasted on other things.
    The 'well-off enough' being about 80% of the country and as it was capped at £10 proportionally benefitted the low paid.

    And as you say it was small fry compared to the spending then happening - why shouldn't the cleaners at my work place (and they certainly made used of EOTHO) not get help from the government when the likes of Michelle Mone were getting millions.

    As to prolonging covid if the government couldn't be bothered to stop people taking holidays in covid hotspots then why should it restrict people going to restaurants in this country at a time when new cases were only a thousand per day.
    What about some help now then?


    Yet net migration levels and overall migration levels have never been higher and for the university cities and towns all the students are back in situ and looking for second jobs.

    Still BrExIt.

    Closures in this industry were happening prior to Brexit too.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,226
    Taz said:

    FF43 said:

    kle4 said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Raab's resignation/sacking has stalled Rishi's fightback IMO.

    Conservative recovery should get back on track as we go into the summer I'd think... However the clock continues to tick down to the election and Con are gonna run out of time to stop a (small) Labout majority in Election 24.

    Tick Tock...

    Hate to break this news to anyone who hasn’t got the memo yet. What’s stopping Rishi’s fight back and Tory recovery is Rishi. The fresh face has peaked. Labours hungry for power attack ads are working.
    If hes stopping the th recovery who would take them further? No names spring immediately to mind.

    Thats not praise of him, I just don't see who could galvanise more.
    Someone with more experience and gravitas for sure would do a better job than this. He is a politically inexperienced, accident prone, lightweight, dry right wing brexiteer. His ratings could really dive from here.
    In defence of Sunak, he's smart, hard working and reasonably honest. All the things that Johnson wasn't. His leadership skills are improving.

    His political agenda is a bit eccentric: the most important thing is to ensure billionaires, of which he happens to be one, hold onto all their wealth. But you can't have everything.
    Smart? In all history only two PMs have been given a criminal record whilst in office, and the guy you call smart is losing to Boris 2-1.

    Smart? value for tax payer money by fighting waste and fraud? Firstly eat out to help out. Secondly Covid loans fraud - not just tens of billions of tax payer money throw away but funded criminal enterprises, possibly terrorists, by Rishi just handing it out to them. Thirdly ongoing threat to the UK markets and economy from his dodgy Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
    3 of his cabinet picks already gone for bullying and corruption.

    Similarly, reasonably honest? as the money man for a party on the make, one of the sleaziest and corrupt 4 years of government ever, especially around covid contracts and other schemes enriching government and its friends, Sunak has been at the heart of it all waving things through VIP lanes, signing everything off.

    Some of us don’t see him as smart or remotely honest. It’s a front that’s unraveling. Don’t see anything smart in what is an horrendous government CV. We beg to differ. That’s how it is.
    Why the hatred for EOTHO ?

    Covid was pouring back into the country on every flight from Malaga irrespective of people going to their local restaurant.

    EOTHO merely gave those who had followed the rules a reward and the restaurants a needed financial boost.

    FF43 said:

    kle4 said:

    GIN1138 said:

    Raab's resignation/sacking has stalled Rishi's fightback IMO.

    Conservative recovery should get back on track as we go into the summer I'd think... However the clock continues to tick down to the election and Con are gonna run out of time to stop a (small) Labout majority in Election 24.

    Tick Tock...

    Hate to break this news to anyone who hasn’t got the memo yet. What’s stopping Rishi’s fight back and Tory recovery is Rishi. The fresh face has peaked. Labours hungry for power attack ads are working.
    If hes stopping the th recovery who would take them further? No names spring immediately to mind.

    Thats not praise of him, I just don't see who could galvanise more.
    Someone with more experience and gravitas for sure would do a better job than this. He is a politically inexperienced, accident prone, lightweight, dry right wing brexiteer. His ratings could really dive from here.
    In defence of Sunak, he's smart, hard working and reasonably honest. All the things that Johnson wasn't. His leadership skills are improving.

    His political agenda is a bit eccentric: the most important thing is to ensure billionaires, of which he happens to be one, hold onto all their wealth. But you can't have everything.
    Smart? In all history only two PMs have been given a criminal record whilst in office, and the guy you call smart is losing to Boris 2-1.

    Smart? value for tax payer money by fighting waste and fraud? Firstly eat out to help out. Secondly Covid loans fraud - not just tens of billions of tax payer money throw away but funded criminal enterprises, possibly terrorists, by Rishi just handing it out to them. Thirdly ongoing threat to the UK markets and economy from his dodgy Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
    3 of his cabinet picks already gone for bullying and corruption.

    Similarly, reasonably honest? as the money man for a party on the make, one of the sleaziest and corrupt 4 years of government ever, especially around covid contracts and other schemes enriching government and its friends, Sunak has been at the heart of it all waving things through VIP lanes, signing everything off.

    Some of us don’t see him as smart or remotely honest. It’s a front that’s unraveling. Don’t see anything smart in what is an horrendous government CV. We beg to differ. That’s how it is.
    Why the hatred for EOTHO ?

    Covid was pouring back into the country on every flight from Malaga irrespective of people going to their local restaurant.

    EOTHO merely gave those who had followed the rules a reward and the restaurants a needed financial boost.
    You subtract how much the scheme was nothing more than a "giveaway" to benefit those well-off enough to eat out anyway, In the deficit column you add how it boosted covid prolonging the agony of sick people and sick workforce. You look into what happened to businesses when it ceased, did it save any businesses or jobs.

    It only cost £850M though, so admittedly small fry compared to billions Sunak has wasted on other things.
    The 'well-off enough' being about 80% of the country and as it was capped at £10 proportionally benefitted the low paid.

    And as you say it was small fry compared to the spending then happening - why shouldn't the cleaners at my work place (and they certainly made used of EOTHO) not get help from the government when the likes of Michelle Mone were getting millions.

    As to prolonging covid if the government couldn't be bothered to stop people taking holidays in covid hotspots then why should it restrict people going to restaurants in this country at a time when new cases were only a thousand per day.
    What about some help now then?


    Yet net migration levels and overall migration levels have never been higher and for the university cities and towns all the students are back in situ and looking for second jobs.

    Still BrExIt.

    Closures in this industry were happening prior to Brexit too.
    Not to mention that 'staff shortages' also means full employment and pay rises.

    Things that the Indy clearly hates.
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