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Rishi’s integrity problem – politicalbetting.com
Rishi’s integrity problem – politicalbetting.com
Do Britons think Rishi Sunak has been successful in ensuring the govt has "integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level"?All BritonsSuccessful: 24%Unsuccessful: 58%Con votersSuccessful: 40%Unsuccessful: 47%Lab votersSuccessful: 11%Unsuccessful: 79% https://t.co/pcz0phnQUl
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Spurs fans may laugh that Arsenal spent a record 248 days at the top of the league this season without winning it. Spurs have spent a total of 135 days at the top of the league since 1964 and not won it. That’s funnier.
https://twitter.com/P_h_i_1/status/1661290072547770369
Backing the Dutch shunt is unforgivable in my eyes.
Seems the Tory Augean stable is more than he can handle. Sunak is no Hercules.
I thought for a terrible moment she'd been seen eating a pizza with pineapple on it.
7/2 Leicester to avoid the drop with Paddy is where the Stodge tenner has been placed.
Of much greater importance is the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh. I've backed LUXEMBOURG at 4s against BAY BRIDGE and VADENI .
Thanks about the only way we could see an interesting race.
Meanwhile, Alonso must be having enormous fun pointing and laughing at Alpine who thought he didn't have much left in his tank.
The MILAN was the anti-armour weapon of choice for the suicidally brave in Basra. Very effective against Toyota Crown taxis.
Gosh, this is a boring race where a minor touch is the height of drama.
It won't happen until after their impending and crushing defeat, but they will eventually return to the middle and to integrity ... and with those two, to power.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
Quite the afternoon for sport.
however since then he's just been wrestling in mud with the loons he appointed to his cabinet because he got beaten to the party leadership by *THE WORST PM EVER"
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
I dislike Jeremy Corbyn's views on many issues but lack of integrity, flagrant dishonesty, and lying aren't his hallmarks. Which they are of the Conservative reprobates TSE wrote about.
1) Boris was pro high tax and spend (yes yes, we're to believe he had a damascene conversion right before he was ousted and since then), indeed opening the spending taps was a key part of his message, and we weren't about to be able to do that without taxes.
2) Rishi was pro hard Brexit and even Boris and his fans acknowledge the previous deal was bad and needed fixing, so it's a rather trivial argument about how you fix it rather than being hard enough
3) He's very vocally tough on immigration, but ineffective in delivering - putting him on par with most Tory leaders in modern times
4) As far back as March 2021 there were reports Sunak was more anti-lockdown than others in Cabinet
5) I don't even know who is anti-vaccine in the Tory right other than fellow travellers of Bridgen
6) How is he pro-woke?
Sunak's moderate to mediocre much of the time, he has no vision and is too weak to even try most things, but the idea the hard right are judging him negatively on the basis you list is very amusing, given who they support instead.
The integrity point is more complicated, as much like when someone is described more generally as principled whether that is a positive or not rather depends on what their principles are. Having personal integrity is all very well and good unless it leads you to do terrible things or stubbornly overlook terrible things.
The difficulty is we have so many major problems you probably do need a Truss level kind of boldness or unconventionalness, as luckyguy would probably argue, in order to address those problems. That comes with massive risks of making things even worse than they already were, as the Truss we got demonstrated, as luckyguy would probably not argue.
As it is he was the best they could manage in the cirumstances. Much as Boris would not have been the right figure to fight 2015, or Cameron 2019, Sunak's approach and style might have been better suited for a party and country not on its knees, but of course he only got the gig because it was that way.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/drugs-kingpin-who-planned-flood-26999629
Unless it’s a cover to protect other sources, why did it take the french and dutch police to catch him out, before the British police bought him to justice?
There should be fucking riots on the streets about this. The conservatives did this to us. How fucking dare they?
I enabled this man, with my Tory vote back in 2012. I won’t make the same mistake again.
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
…https://twitter.com/LucySyarahlyana/status/1662791952402726912?s=20
I'm not taking a view on whether Rishi counts as a good or a bad PM, just on the things that are holding him back. I also think he has personal limitations, but who doesn't?
Humphry Davy on laughing gas, Sigmund Freud on cocaine … how self-experimentation shaped science and art"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/psychonauts-by-mike-jay-review-the-drug-takers-who-changed-history
"Another laughing gas lover, the psychologist William James, later observed that there are two types of people: the once-born and the twice-born. The once-born accept the world as it is and get on with it. The twice-born have a life-changing insight or vision. Some become questing, drug-ingesting “psychonauts” as a result – and it is they who form the focus of this fascinating book."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Use_of_hallucinogens
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
I'm reminded of the scene in Manhattan when they go into the desert and do mushrooms and explode with "creativity". When they come round in the morning they have not solved the implosion problem, they've scrawled garbage on the walls.
"This is insane.
A paralyzed man can walk thanks again to AI.
Plus, huge announcments from Neuralink, TikTok, Dharmesh, and 12 new AI tools.
Here's the rundown of everything going on in AI right now:"
https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1662081664376360960?s=20
"All the hype is on GPT-4 and ChatGPT.
People seem to be forgetting about the incredible work of Neuralink.
Here's footage of a monkey with an implanted Neuralink brain chip playing a game of pong with his brain:
(Details in thread 🧵)"
https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1638202366385176577?s=20
Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk said "people should be embarrassed" after she was booed off court following her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open.
Kostyuk avoided shaking hands with second seed Sabalenka after the Belarusian's 6-3 6-2 win.
Belarus is an ally of Russia and allowed troops to use its territory to launch last year's invasion of Ukraine.
Sabalenka said Kostyuk "didn't deserve to leave the court that way".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/65738855
Why do you think governments are freaking out about AI? They are not gripped by some mass delusion
"Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/rishi-sunak-races-to-tighten-rules-for-ai-amid-fears-of-existential-risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_EWYemclKA
https://www.star.com.tr/video/canli.asp
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/secim-cumhurbaskanligi-2023-2-tur/secim-sonuclari
Ok so the polls have just closed and the count is underway at the polling stations (the televised count at one of them just now seemed to be entirely Erdogan votes).
Not expecting this to be anything other than a comfortable victory for the incumbent, 52% of the vote minimum I think and could easily be 54-55 or more.
So I hope some of you managed to fill your boots at the 3/1 that was on offer for Erdogan two weeks ago!
Many thanks,
DC
But it's more the race, I meant. I enjoy it but it's an odd one.
That is the singularity. That changes human history. It is no wonder some people are being a little hyperbolic
I think Everton will survive, but the odds on Bournemouth there are attractive.
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
“He produced nothing! It’s all marketing and lies! Nothing at all!”
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
You don't get what he has without intelligence and savvy to some degree, and being a bit loony probably, but like many a twitter 'expert' he seems to think being smart in one area means he is a genius at everything.
Despite the rain chaos, hope everyone bet on no safety car.
In that spirit, and with the risk I'll need to retract if Sabalenka has indeed been saying some upsetting things, I'll join in: boooo, Kostyuk. Boooo.
He's managed more success than simply backing a few right horses, I don't think anyone says he is completely stupid, but even before buying it twitter was very bad for his reputation, since it's shown he frequently engages in low grade trolling and inflated assumptions of his own understanding of things and situations, and has incredibly thin skin about it - which is just petty. You're rich enough to not give a shit, no need for pettiness.
Worked out better for him than winning in the first round - increasing authoritarian? Heck no, he didn't even force an outright win in the first round.
You literally discount the failures and artificially ratchet the successes. It's worked well for 40 years, but it is already starting to creak.
They won't care; that generation of the megawealthy is well insulated against failure.
Kostyuk also refused to shake hands with Azarenka last year, but they seem to have agreed in advance to touch racquets instead.
It’s because Kostyuk has called for Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned entirely from international sport until the Russians withdraw and doesn’t want to show her approval of their still being allowed to compete. Equally, you could argue it’s a bit hypocritical of her to play them at all.
After a tiny bit of reading around, it sounds like Sabalenka has said things along the lines of "of course none of us players support the war". Which is weakly in the right direction. I can understand perfectly if a player didn't even want to say that. Belarus and Russia have a history of petty reprisals or worse against critics. It's not for me or Kostyuk to demand a risky full-throated denunciation from anyone who could reasonably be put at risk by that kind of statement.
I'm a gobby one and I'll tend to be quite open in my criticisms of governmental wrongdoing. I wouldn't demand that others act the same though. It feels to me like Kostyuk is in the wrong here.
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
The real damage of Twitter for him isn't the lack of emotional restraint and trolling. As you say, we knew that already. The real damage is it has shown the world his management style, which is largely catastrophic. He does not manage money well and he manages people even more poorly. It also brings into question how much he actually runs his own businesses. CEO for three companies while also having a social media obsession. Are we sure Tesla wasn't actually being run by others who live the tech and believe in the mission, navigating around his chaotic leadership?
the lack of understanding of human beings