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Will the quiet man be back and turning up the volume? – politicalbetting.com
Will the quiet man be back and turning up the volume? – politicalbetting.com
Two broad options emerging from 1922 exec and party figures in recent days, per those tapped in:: New Tory leader is picked at conference (which starts late September… so just over 2 months):: New Tory leader is picked later, with candidates using conf to set out stalls
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According to the Beeb, the initial trigger for the violence was "Several witnesses told the BBC overnight events were sparked by a number of children being taken into local authority care." (1) Neither they nor the Guardian (2) does not state who was rioting.
On Twitter, some sources say the riots were instigated by Romanies, whose children had been taken into care. Others - such as Nigel Farage, blame people from the 'subcontinent'. (3)
Some of the alleged pictures of the rioters do not look like they're from the 'subcontinent' (though looks can be deceptive); and some shared images showing rioters are from previous events - in one case not even in the UK.
So reading all this, I have zero idea *who* was rioting. I can understand why the media and politicians want to be careful, as blaming the wrong people can cause issues - and besides, it might just have been a hot summer's evening riot, with everyone joining in the fun, and no 'main' group. But nature abhors a vacuum, and in this case misinformation has already won.
(1); https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy795we0vngo
(2): https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/18/police-car-turned-over-and-vehicles-set-alight-in-disorder-in-leeds
(3): https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1814047452212740479
https://x.com/jeffmorgannz/status/1814165693883105695
Think of your poor IT guy, when you’re in the pub watching the cricket.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/ed-miliband-claims-he-is-a-super-nerd-on-climate-issues/ar-BB1qeS2M?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=961dcaefe365417b89a3821bb35db44d&ei=5
No, I am shocked.
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But no, it was out own antivirus software that fcuked up half of our computers and servers.
Edit: PB more resilient than Sky News, well done RCS!
Doesn’t matter what started it. They riot because they have nothing.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/08/bomb-attack-ulez-camera-grotesquely-irresponsible-london-mayor
Does this mean I won’t be able to watch the test match on Sky Sports?
The Crowdstrike outage is worldwide, looks like a dodgy daily virus signature update went out at 05:20GMT which immediately caused half the computers to BSOD and reboot loop.
A minor example. Some years ago, some Chinese immigrants died while cockle picking on a beach. Because of a refusal to report the facts, all kinds of wild policies and ideas were mooted to crack down on the exploitation of migrant labour.
It then was revealed, many weeks later that the company and people running the disaster, were themselves Chinese. And from the same region of China as the victims.
Which is utterly unsurprising to those who follow such things - the classic is for someone from an ethnic group to employee people from their culture back home. Making sure they don’t speak English. This pattern has been seen many times, in many countries.
Similarly, the various exploiters of immigrants today, tend to come from their ethnic group. Who are very adroit at using “cultural practises” and “they are my cousins” to evade the rules. See the garment trade in Leicester, for example.
Which is right pain in the arse, because we’re supposed to be going away to a nice hotel tomorrow as it was Wifey’s birthday this week.
Good luck with the rest of your day.
The clearly stated truth is garlic and silver crosses + holy water to the ugly kind of populism.
The Zelenskiy request was for permission to use UK long range weapons to target Russian military sites which are being used to attack Ukrainian hospitals, not to attack Russian hospitals.
The London riots were rather funny in some respects. The Polish and Vietnamese joining together to go Rooftop Korean in Hoxton, for example.
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BREAKING
United, Delta and American Airlines - which are all based in the United States - have issued a "global ground stop" on all of their flights.
Flights that are currently airborne will continue, but no further flights will take off for now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et
The outage appears to be affecting Windows PCs globally, including Sky News in the UK which was not able to broadcast live TV on Friday morning.
https://news.sky.com/story/mass-it-outage-hits-companies-around-the-world-as-planes-grounded-13180809
The Ukrainian request was for lifting the smoking ban at various Russian military facilities.
Where the full AV software suites come in useful, is for more general ‘endpoint management’ of software versions, patches etc.
dangerouspowerful...The Lib Dems are a large parliamentary force and can cause trouble for the Tories if they position in a way that is hostile to more socially liberal but nimby areas in the south of England they want to win back.
Reform will be a significant media force with Farage a media favourite before he had a seat in Parliament, and will be more so now. This will create pressure on the Tories to remain hard-line on 'woke' and migration.
All of this while the Tories ideally want to position fairly neutrally in order to take advantage of inevitable Labour mistakes.
I can see the advantage of Sunak staying on as interim leader for a prolonged period to let the candidates campaign from a more settled place.
It was amusing to watch them sitting behind the row of shops, smoking, sharing beers and admiring each others machetes and baseball bats. A community coming together - a merging of cultures. Quite heart warming, really.
This latest one has cost the tax payer and private employers over £3,000,000. Though the sentence seems long If there were no consequences his status as a desperado would be seriously enfeebled
The Page Hall disturbances in Sheffield have often featured conflict between those of Pakistani and East European Roma background:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/15/sheffield-page-hall-roma-slovakia-immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/03/roma-tire-shouldering-blame-boiling-pot-communities
Harehills in Leeds has close similarities in terms of deprivation and demographics.
So they probably will replace him with someone genuinely useless at the job, like IDS.
This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it's actually happened this time ☠️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et
The social pressure for more housing is just as keen in the Cotswolds (where the LDs are close now to having every MP and controlling every District council) as anywhere else. Full-fat Nimbyism is rare in such places - and usually the preserve of Tory extremists, not LD well-wishers. Development-related iffiness under the Tories was primarily about providing adequate infrastructure (like water supply, primary schools and public transport) or perceived unaffordability. After all: even the Nimbyest of country-dwellers have children and grandchildren squeezed by accelerating house prices in places those descendants want to live in.
Personally, I believe that the recent LD electoral successes are primarily down to the LDs' better reflecting the modern psychographics of rural and suburban England than a Tory party that now looks downright medieval. And the current batch of LD MPs reflect this. Expect policies to morph as a result
https://www.gla.gov.uk/
They also manage labour abuse, apparently.
And too in love with their 'world leading' plan to consider things which were mundanely common sense such as to restrict travel from countries where covid was prevalent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9472qxk1vo
Was one of these group thinking scientists Patrick Vallance - then Government Chief Scientific Advisor and now Minister of Science.
And the longer this goes on the more it looks like this is specific to Crowdstrike rather than an MS issue.
Doubtless he'll be thrown under the bus by the usual suspects.
I guess I can write that off now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvgkgq9yeqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZZ-Yni8Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf04WMlRvXk
Now I remember when GDR Merkel was widely lauded on PB, hailed as the leader British politicians should imitate.
Does anyone have a good word about her now ?
Imagine the H&S issues of beating a worker with a stick - is the person doing the beating wearing safety goggles? Are they to the appropriate spec?