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The Tories, just like Game of Thrones but with more sex and backstabbing – politicalbetting.com
The Tories, just like Game of Thrones but with more sex and backstabbing – politicalbetting.com
Supporters of the home secretary launched a rearguard action to shore up her position after Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, became the most senior minister to distance himself from her allegations of police bias
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And he can't even realistically call a General Election. Partly because he is doing so badly, but also because an election called Monday would land just before Christmas.
The monkey's paw is claiming another victim.
Never mind the sex silliness. She's the minister responsible for the Post Office. Where has she been during the scandal?
Nowhere, which is where she is going fast.
Braverman is just a nasty piece of work who is driving the Party to the right at at time when it is leaking votes to the centre. She can only be doing this for her own self interest. She is placing herself to lead the much diminished Tory Party after the GE.
This Government has lost interest in governing. It is a zombie. We can only wait for it to be exterminated, and hope it doesn't do too much damage in the meantime.
No strategic vision beyond divisive and destructive culture war stuff.
Who governs Britain?
Stonking Lab majority this time.
They're nakedly profiteering.
Either that, or they're actually more useless than OFSTED, which since they recruit paedophiles as inspectors through gross incompetence seems unlikely. But I suppose it's not impossible.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/angela-rayner-splits-labour-mp-31409004#ICID=Android_TMNewsApp_AppShare
As for sex silliness, I can't go behind the paywall.
Meanwhile in Sweden:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/swedens-schools-minister-declares-free-school-system-failure
Don't know enough about the details to make a truly informed judgement, but just on what she's saying my skin's creeping.
There are alarming echoes of the way Gove approached education (even if her policies are the opposite) and we all know how well that ended.
Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-police-face-recognition-expansion
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pro-palestinian-rally-armistice-day-met-police-gaza-security-suella-braverman-b1119455.html
Without fear or favour?
She risks appearing as though she doesn't give a f*ck, which may be true, but is not the sort of look you want to give if you have pretensions to be Leader.
There’s only so much central London.
A factor in that is the tube lines and other public transport. Otherwise you will get protestors and counter protestors arriving/leaving in the same tube trains
/bus lines. So that further constrains the march locations.
The counter protestors claim to be old fashioned patriots so they probably aren’t going to pull down the Cenotaph as a symbol of slavery or whatever.
Imagine giving the DfE the technology. What could go right?
Are we to see some backtracking....or even an apology? Don't hold your breath.
So her mate's marriage is ruined thanks to Gove.
Do not upset the sister from another mister.
Interesting question: what will Braverman be hoping for? If there's trouble she's 'vindicated' in her own eyes and safe (never mind that she's upped the rhetoric levels so probably contributed to causing trouble).
One prediction: Leon will be on here at some point highlighting even the slightest issue.
So whenever we think Starmer is no Blair, which he isn’t, we need to remember that the country is in a mess in a way it simply wasn’t back then.
I just don’t see how we can go on for another 12 months like this? Seriously?
p.s. good morning all x
The old system and new systems were run concurrently for a while; when the data was imported from the old system, it reported a few millions as missing. Looking through the data and code, we found some where the data transfer routines were silently 'missing' data. After fixing this, they found (from memory) that the new system had six million too much. Exactly six million, which was suspicious.
It turned out that it was a trial amount hard-coded into the new system, because there was a bug earlier on where the system would crash if the total was zero.
It would have been easier for client organisation and developer to have 'ignored' these flaws, which did not show up immediately, but only during the dual running of the system.
Computers are often wrong, and especially when systems are new or newish. Don't trust anyone who says otherwise. And even if it is operator error: often operator errors are all oo understandable, because of the stupid ways systems have been set up (witness Therac-25...)
(*) As another aside, the new system was not Y2K compliant, despite everyone pointing it out to the customer that this would be a problem in six years...
The big complaint from the “educational professionals” at the DfE is lack of diversity. Which doesn’t mean what it means.
They measure diversity by the number of children eligible for free school meals.
The idea of the Free Schools was to attract parents back to the state sector from the private sector. The local one has succeeded in this. Which of course, means that the ratio of those eligible for free school meals is lower than other schools in the area.
So they are being upset by success.
It should warm the hearts of the anti-private school types here to see the social mixing at the place.
1. There haven’t been many close games. Maybe the 50 over format just cannot stand up to the excitement of IPL 20 overs any more? The 2019 men’s final was amazing but this tournament has seen very few close matches.
2. The one group format of everyone playing everyone is pretty tedious. Although the men’s world cup rugby got the seeding all wrong, their two group system was intrinsically far more exciting.
3. It seems a bit bizarre to me that after such a lengthy process it will now come down to a straight one-game knockout. If India, who have excelled, have one poor performance next week they’re out. Surely after so much faff we could have had a 2 game semi / final or at least do what the IPL does and have their rather cool playoff format? 1st and 2nd play each other, with the winner going through to the final. Then the winner of 3rd v 4th plays the loser of 1st v 2nd for the chance to make the final. A rather fairer format really.
(NB in a 2 match knockout format if both sides register a win apiece then the winner is decided by net run rate)
This would of course make no difference to it recognising the DfE as they are all arses.
*sounds like a safeguarding breach in itself!
If we are lucky they might call it in May. There are still some logical reasons why they might.
More likely than not, it will continue, because there will never be a not-terrible time for Rishi to call an election. But neither he, nor his government, are in any state to run the country. Not even at the level of "keep things going and clear up some of the mess for the next lot."
I display great subtetly in the published version.
1) A plane crashes on the Ukrainian/Republic of China border. Which side do you bury the survivors?
The next two will have 14 teams in two groups with top three in each making the super six.
Clueless Liberal Minister then backs them, the PM is from the conservative Moderates who brought in this successful scheme and should sack her
'Some of the new barcoded stamps have also been declared counterfeit by Royal Mail, which has issued fines to unwitting recipients. In March, constituents in Brighton were charged a £2.50 fine to receive Labour party leaflets after Royal Mail insisted the party had used fake stamps for a campaign mailshot. Critics have accused the company of ignoring problems with its barcode scanning technology.
[...]
'Customers who contacted Guardian Money say they have been accused of potential criminality after their stamps were confiscated by Royal Mail, which insisted they had already been used or were counterfeit.
Some who sent in high-value batches say they have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket.
Sheila Spelsby from London says she was informed that it was a criminal offence to use fraudulent stamps when she attempted to replace a batch of seven first- and second-class stamps under the scheme.
“Royal Mail claims that my stamps, which were bought from my local post office, are ‘either used or fraudulent’ – they should surely be able to state which,” she says.
“When I complained, the stamps were inspected again, with the same conclusion. I then complained to the supposedly independent Postal Review Panel [the final stage in Royal Mail’s complaints handling process], which confirmed that my ‘six first-class stamps were either used or fraudulent’. I did not send six first-class stamps! I was told that as it is a criminal offence to use fraudulent stamps, they would not be returned to me. I now stand accused of criminal behaviour while Royal Mail confiscates the evidence.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/11/royal-mail-stamp-swap-customers-were-sent-warnings
Thanks for this, and it’s good.
We shall see.
Strange days indeed.
And we know what happens next. We saw it last time.
Can you expand on this rather than a dismissive comment that doesn’t really inform?
I’m guessing that for all its success in expanding the game into previously unreached demographics, The Hundred isn’t going to catch on around the world. So if you are suggesting the 50 over format is dead, we would be left internationally with just test matches and 20 overs?
What I find particularly interesting is how brilliant the South Africans have been off almost no backing or preparation from their national cricket board.
You may be right, so I’m not necessarily disagreeing, but it needs some enlightened and careful debate, no?
And I will just note that for donkeys’ years the Test Match format has been written off, only to confound everyone (including apparently the ECB) by producing stadium-packed thrillers.
A Cambridge historian said that?
What does he think it was, a gentleman’s dining club?
https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1722863076934848888
Well, it wasn’t “banned” but the police put massive pressure on the theatre to pull it, including advising insurance companies to pull their insurances.
My point was that once you start trading threats of violence for legal behaviour, you’ll get a bunch of nasty people brokering situations.
Those howling at the pro-Palestinian marches as incendiary, would be the first to stand up for the right of Orangemen to march to Drumcree church via Garvaghy Road.
Mind you this can also cause fun.
Many years back, I was walking back from a riding lesson, through the centre of Oxford. People were looking at me on Cornmarket Street a bit funny.
Then I realised that a black shirt, black riding jeans and black leather jackboots was a sartorial choice subject to multiple interpretations.
Edit: Well quite an obvious one when you think about it
(2) You think it will get that when being run by the ICC?
(3) GIYF.
More likely to be having cocoa rather than coke.
This is not, of course, meant seriously
What does make her less like to be tory leader is that she is always going to be outdone by Swella when it comes to spewing nonsense that people who drink in flat roofed pubs will like.
Only to find, to my horror, that it was on Oswald Mosley.
When I asked a question afterwards, I began, 'I would like to make it clear this sartorial choice is an accident...'
Our manifesto - we don’t give a shit about who you are, or what you are, just lose the ties and don’t spill the beer. And the music is never too loud.
Just let that sink in...