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Is the CON “Lab Eco Mob” strategy going to resonate? – politicalbetting.com
Is the CON “Lab Eco Mob” strategy going to resonate? – politicalbetting.com
Labour challenged over Mid Bedfordshire candidate's zombie protest for 'eco mob' Greenpeace https://t.co/RzCJ5tgZ0J
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI
LASH TRAFFIC / KHERSON /1600 UTC 8 AUG / UKR has launched a surprise crossing of the Dnipro in the vicinity of Kozachi Laheri. It has been confirmed that a significant UKR force has effected a lodgment approximately 800 meters deep N of the village.
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1688941957744082945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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It is a perfect story for a Labour Party which seeks to brand the Tories as greedy venal capitalists who have turned the nation into a mirror image of themselves. Britain is “This Crooked House” where the rich do what they like and trample on the little people and their stupid pubs. The brewing company Marstons now, also, has tough questions to answer
It is obviously striking home in a way few stories like this ever do. It does seem to summarise a mood. Enough.
And it’s not good for billionaire Sunak and chums
The Saudis are pissed off at Russia, for not cutting production as agreed in the recent past, and for now using Ukranian food exports as a weapon against the Middle East.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/4499457/#Comment_4499457
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66445452
Not hackers this time. Rather, some idiot included the names of every PSNI police officer in response to an FOI request.
The other day I saw Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy' video for the first time. Goes well with the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc
"Greenpeace admitted that its claims that the Spar contained 5500 tonnes of oil were inaccurate and apologized to Shell on 5 September. This preempted the publication of DNV's report, which endorsed Shell's initial estimates for many pollutants."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar
There should always be an independent second pair of eyes on stuff like this, doubly so in such a sensitive agency as the PSNI.
One of the best pop videos because it’s so classically British kitchen sink drama.
I fear too many people treat emails as if it is an Internet chat, or PB...
It's not about signalling, it's about thinking.
(In fact, if I remember the newspaper report correctly, they were told to demolish *parts* of the structure that were dangerous, They went ahead and demolished all of it. And that screams 'guilty' to me.)
I wouldn't be suprised if the next thing he comes out with is a 'grade 3 listing', as loobied for by some architects - essentially requiring that buildings with some architectural value and merit cannot be demolished.
No-one should be using email for FOI request responses though, it should go through a CRM system with multiple checks and signoffs along the way.
This particular case is such an egregious breach of security, that it could result in millions of pounds of costs in giving people new identities and relocating them for security reasons. No way should any employee outside the HR department, have access to a full staff list.
And if you really want to rewarm this discussion (why?) I'd ask you to send me a link to the gent's comments, as I did on the previous thread. Or I might think you are trolling.
It is resonating
Thanks for the replies to my slightly grouchy post on the last thread (and the 15 likes) - I take the point that there's not much happening in UK politics at the moment. Should warm up in a couple of months with the party conferences...
As a side note, a 35-year-old at the next election, will have likely had an iPhone and a Facebook account since they were 18. Definitely nothing to be dug up there…
Western capitals refused to give Ukraine fighter planes & long-range missiles, then have spent the last few months complaining that Ukraine isn't making rapid enough progress, despite fighting a larger, stronger foe without the weapons Kyiv has asked for.
https://nitter.net/OzKaterji/status/1688925797267238916#m
Things were much more exciting in the days of ?Yougov's? nightly polls...
Ed Green, suspended by the Conservative Party ahead of Havering Council's Upminster by-election, has defended a Facebook post mocking Greta Thunberg.
https://twitter.com/RomfordRecorder/status/1688898741250711552
The summary really doesn't do the story justice.
Not as trendy though.
https://twitter.com/PhilipHensher/status/1688885747275763712
[SO else]An object lesson in bringing queer history into disrepute.
Hensher: Exactly
Also Hensher
I increasingly think the drive to queer things has absolutely nothing to do with gay sex, and in many proponents’ case they are rather repulsed by it.
Which I think, if you substitute trans for queer and gay, nails you exactly. Neither the queer nor the trans were put on this earth to furnish a hobby for amiable old straight buffers like you.
In fact I once suggested to OGH that posters here should be required to publish this information at the head of each contribution, but for some reason he never took this up.
"His Facebook posts included mocking autistic climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, supporting Andrew Bridgen MP after he compared Covid vaccines to the Holocaust and referring to a gay journalist as living a “monkeypox prone life”.
He also described a black woman as “a race baiting attention whore”, and shared offensive caricatures of Muslim men."
ETA he called Thunberg "a little autistic messiah."
I can't help but be struck by the fact that after spending the whole summer posting It's always warmish/There's always a couple of fires in summer, you leap in to defend an indefensible attack on GT. The planet is warming. It is not making an elaborate pretence of doing so, to spite you personally. Get used to it.
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https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1688978277665320961
He also described a black woman as “a race baiting attention whore”, and shared offensive caricatures of Muslim men...
https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/23707903.suspended-conservative-ed-green-defends-greta-thunberg-post/
This is one of those issues where media can undermine the story by tip toeing around details (like when criticising something someone said, but not saying what it was, so the reader doesn't know how offended to be), but at least here they included images.
Primie Facie, a nasty case of developer greed and public outrage will force the restitution of the pub.
As for the impact on the Conservatives, None I think, personally, they may be fools, but so far only Baroness Mone seems to be thought of as an out-and-out crook personally, though that could of course certainly change..
On the other hand, the opposition can now start to paint the Tories back tracking on green policies as a corrupt party in the pockets of corporate greed on a far bigger scale than the vandalism of the Crooked House. The Daily Mail, may be on side, but the support of the populist far right can be assumed anyway and the readership of these populist rags is falling apart.
The moderates in the shires and suburbs are going to be very turned off by this, and that could see the wholesale defection of the Shires away from the Tories to the Lib Dems and in some places the Greens. That, I think, will cause far more damage than the Faragist Reform/Reclaim Paper tiger that HYFUD says he fears so much.
Possibly in a few years we'll (DM excluded) have gotten past the 'OMG! $person did WHAT when they were a teenager?!?!?!"
I’ll almost guarantee that someone in their thirties, standing as a candidate in 2024, posted something like “the only problem with gassing the Jews, is that they only did six million of them and missed out the rest”, in 2006, to an audience of about three, totally devoid of context and likely to have been an in-joke among friends at the time - and totally forgotten about until a journalist picks up on it a few weeks before the election.
I don't think the planning enforcement issue is particularly straightforward, I think it would go to a public Inquiry. If the notice ultimately gets upheld and they have to rebuild the pub then the holding company could just go bust and the site stays empty.
developers bang to rights.
The future of the pub then, if rebuilt - but who pays? Developer will immediately declare bankruptcy of course - is probably more golden than it was before. Given a nice makeover it could become a bit of a tourist draw.
On the demolition, it’s not unusual for authorities to order the rapid demolition of an unstable building, but that would need in this case to be in connection with fire, police, and the local council.
Obv you have a better chance of establishing "lawful excuse" if it's your own property, but the fact you own it is not a get out of jail card.
I'm totally sure lawyers propose wording that can be read broadly but would never take advantage of that.
n paragraph 3 (and relatedly in paragraph 9), the defendant proposes replacing the
language regarding “persons employed to assist in the defense” with “persons
assisting in the defense (defined as including any attorneys, investigators,
paralegals, support staff, consultants, or expert witnesses who are advising or
assisting defense counsel.).” In a meet-and-confer call, defense counsel stated that
their intention is that this language should not be read as broadly as its plain
wording, and indicated a willingness to work on language to that effect. The
defendant’s proposed language is boundless and would allow virtually any
volunteer to access discovery, as well as any co-conspirator or fact witness. The
Government’s language is more definite
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.15.0_1.pdf
I had an email just a few weeks ago saying 'A new file has been uploaded to your $secure_files_area!'. Thought 'eh?' and looked at it - very quickly realising it was the Occupational Health records of someone else and their *very* private details of their health issues.
"Oops! 'The System' must have gone funny!"
So that's fine.
For the same reason, people will not be allowed permission to replace/significally renovate a listed building say which is in unusable condition, if it is established they deliberately neglected it in order that they could get permission to develop.
To the second, I know less about enforcement than I do about planning generally, but I thought usually an enforcement order is made, and the courts involved if it gets contested, I was not aware an Inquiry would get involved.
So the C4 poll is worthless.