A win is a win – politicalbetting.com
A win is a win – politicalbetting.com
If a split opposition bloc devalues a win then not only was Reform’s win in Runcorn (0.02% vs 7% Green voters) void, the entire Tory majority in 2019 was (60+ seats where the Tory majority was less than combined left vote).At least be consistent with this stuff.
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2l352z2do
Makerfield was the 29th target seat for Reform (so in the 5% easiest wins) see https://www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/targets/reform-uk
If Burnham can win Makerfield then Labour have an excellent chance for Reform getting nowhere in 2028..
What a surprise.
And besides, it will never be enacted as its the end of the road for Starmer. Imagine this being his last policy announcement. Its appropriately daft.
https://x.com/JessBrownFuller/status/2066270208688333161
If youre going to ask an Emergency Question and actually piss off the actual Shadow Minister in the process by elbowing in
Don't try to defend your defence record whilst trying to attack Labour
All mouth no substance
Eviscerated by erm Luke Pollard
He pays tribute to HEALY, explaining he's only here because HEALY asked him to stay
One wonders where the actual Shadow Minister is?
Pollard goes on to quietly explain
YES Labour are spending more
£11 Billion more in first Labour year than last Tory year
Working to phase out old technologies and build or purchase new
Biggest Armed Forces pay rise in 20 years
Biggest investment in Armed Forces housing stock in history, 9 billion over 10 years
intake up 11%
Outflow reduced 8%
Ashen faced Tories totally exposed for 14 years of wilful neglect
You trying to score party points on this is top quality cabaret, albeit one where I suspect you haven't realised how much of a tit you look.
I don't know what possessed her to post it online. Maybe it's MPs who need banning from social media.
D. Cameron
Facts and reality do not come into mind with some, especially our own Putin appeaser who wants to abolish our nuclear deterrent
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mcconnells-fabricated-history-to-justify-a-2020-supreme-court-vote/
He might be a critic of Trump now but history won’t be kind to McConnell .
The devil is naturally in the detail, particularly around enforcement, but the intent is hard to argue with.
Allowing social media companies to optimise children’s attention and emotional development around engagement metrics may prove to be one of the most damaging public policy failures of the early 21st century.
We impose rigorous safety standards on toys, medicines, food, cars, playgrounds and school buildings. We demand evidence, testing, regulation and oversight before exposing children to even relatively minor risks.
Yet somehow we collectively decided it was perfectly reasonable to hand children devices connected to platforms whose business model depends on maximising engagement, harvesting attention and encouraging compulsive use, then act surprised when rates of anxiety, self-harm, sleep deprivation and social dysfunction started moving in the wrong direction.
If a toy manufacturer discovered a mechanism that kept children compulsively pulling a lever hundreds of times a day, we would ban it. If a food company deliberately engineered products to create dependency in children, there would be parliamentary inquiries. Yet when technology companies use behavioural psychology to achieve similar outcomes, we call it innovation.
Whether a ban is practical is a separate question. But the idea that society should simply shrug and accept unlimited access to algorithmically-curated social media for 12 and 13 year-olds has always struck me as one of the stranger orthodoxies of the digital age.
Future generations may look back on it in much the same way we look back on cigarette adverts featuring doctors.
Petro Pochynok, 35, was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit arson.
For those wishing to read the poem to see what we're on about:
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mans-man-0/
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
How does the Chief Justice not know that?
Btw
2010 defence spending was 2.5% of GDP was it not?
However
Badenoch calls Dan Jarvis, a former Army Officer a coward
Is told he's with the King
Swayne calls Jarvis a coward
Told he's been summoned by the King to be made a Privy Councillor
Leigh calls Jarvis a Coward
Is adminished by Speaker who has confirmed Jarvis is with the King
Utter Tory clusterfuck
Took defence spending from 2.5 % to below 2%
Labour increasing by 11 billion a yrar
No one no one can say Labour are not increasing defence spending
Not fast enough but who hollowed it out in the first place
Hollowed it out whilst taking funds from Putin Oligarchs, slipping security to meet the KGB and prostituting themselves for games of tennis, meals and dances with known Russian KGB Putin money nen
Thatcher got it right
THE ENEMY WITHIN
SAME OLD TORIES
CORRUPT
TREACHEROUS
TRAITORS
In software engineering we’ve spent the last decade automating deployments through CI/CD pipelines. Nobody would accept “the release was automatic” as an excuse if a company repeatedly shipped defective or harmful code into production.
The whole point of automation is that you build rigorous testing, quality assurance, monitoring and controls around it.
Social media companies seem to have persuaded policymakers that because content is selected and promoted by algorithms rather than editors, they should bear less responsibility. I’ve never really understood that argument.
If anything, an editor can make a few bad decisions a day. An algorithm can make millions.
Give you head a wobble.
Interestingly the latest stats on payment fraud are out. 250,000 cases and £576 million stolen last year - and online services (usually meta) were responsible for introducing victims in two-thirds of cases for a third of value. The Banks generally have to pay out to the victims.
There are an awful lot of fence sitters, but the pro-Tory posters are relentless at the moment and I'll count them for you. We have one, er, we have, er, one Labour poster and it was to him I was addressing my post.
We have one realistic enemy that can severely damage us conventionally and to do that it has to come through or pass our European Allies from Norway to Turkey.
That is where our forces need to be and what they need to be for.
We don’t need a big Navy to do that.
We aren’t playing a key role in the Gulf let alone in protecting global trade and shipping.
We can defend ourselves fine if we simply accept that we are a major European power not the global one we like to pretend.
Peter.
https://swingometer.substack.com/p/by-election-update-seat-polls-splitters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1186392&post_id=200291629&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1mnpci&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I sometimes forget that c# .net is a Microsoft product. Since they open sourced, it is bloody amazing.
A long term SNP supporter and voter is a fence sitter?
An avowed Green party member and voter is a fence sitter?
Really?
That’s now me, having voted for them at every election since 87, my first one !
Reform haven’t won me over yet and today’s announcement makes me less likely to go to them, rather than more.
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/2066554665181880693?s=20
Reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump
An impeachment is like an indictment, and, when impeached, a president is then tried by the Senate. A simple House majority is enough for an impeachment; a 2/3 Senate majority is required for a conviction.
(And I still wish Senator McConnell well.)
@malcolmg - you are apparently a fence sitter who may vote Tory at the slightest provocation. How do you answer that?
If I posted and published random unchecked stuff from any source on my front door, visible to any passer by in a busy street, I could rightly be sued, and if bad enough rightly be visited by the old bill. Why is it any different for those who publish on the internet.
Because it started on the wrong foot it soon became unstoppable.
(I realise of course that PB is just such a site!)
The mods here do a good job.
It's not hard to implement an age verification process which requires no data to be submitted beyond what the platforms already have. But the government seems to have no interest in such a system, which fuels (rightly in my view) the suspicion that the whole policy is about surveillance and intimidation, not 'thinkofthechildern!!'.
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2065916054660935694?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2065916054660935694?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
I am not certain whether it is the Cow with a Cough Scotsman, the Yappy Terrier Scotsman, the Shammy Leather Scotsman, or the Opening Door Scotsman, but the content bears some resemblance - was it not "you fucking English bastard !".
(runs and hides)
That is where we are with the internet and its less careful platforms.