IanB2 said:

Sandpit said:

DecrepiterJohnL said:

Sandpit said:

Pulpstar said:

3-3 in Dixville

Have to love these mad anomalies on election days, like the hamlet of six people who all turn up at midnight.

Where? It is already half past midnight down the right-hand side.

Dixville Notch, NH. They already announced their result, 3-3 for President.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html

Interestingly 2020 was 5-0 to Biden, and 2016 was Clinton 4, Trump 2, Johnson 1

A swing to Trump compared to last time, but of the six voters, four are GOP registered, so Harris can take consultation from Trump not even landing all the republicans.

rcs1000 said:

Anabobazina said:

Flatlander said:

Cookie said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

ChatGPT gets basic Maths wrong

I was mildly alarmed today to learn that a structural engineer friend uses chatgpt to do his structural engineering calculations.
Apparently the paid for version is better than the free version. But still.

Sorry, what??

I hope it isn't for anything more than a shed. And even then...

You’d be amazed how many otherwise intelligent professional people have come to treat LLM output as gospel. It really is rather worrying.

Treating is as gospel surely is good news*.

* I hope that least some people get this. My money is on @ydoethur and @StillWaters.

Sandpit said:

DecrepiterJohnL said:

Sandpit said:

Pulpstar said:

3-3 in Dixville

Have to love these mad anomalies on election days, like the hamlet of six people who all turn up at midnight.

Where? It is already half past midnight down the right-hand side.

Dixville Notch, NH. They already announced their result, 3-3 for President.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html

Interestingly 2020 was 5-0 to Biden, and 2016 was Clinton 4, Trump 2, Johnson 1

MikeL said:

Sandpit said:

DecrepiterJohnL said:

Sandpit said:

Pulpstar said:

3-3 in Dixville

Have to love these mad anomalies on election days, like the hamlet of six people who all turn up at midnight.

Where? It is already half past midnight down the right-hand side.

Dixville Notch, NH. They already announced their result, 3-3 for President.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html

Interestingly 2020 was 5-0 to Biden, and 2016 was Clinton 4, Trump 2, Johnson 1

They also voted:

Congress: Dem 4, Rep 2

Governor: Dem 1, Rep 5

Sandpit said:

IanB2 said:

Sandpit said:

DecrepiterJohnL said:

Sandpit said:

Pulpstar said:

3-3 in Dixville

Have to love these mad anomalies on election days, like the hamlet of six people who all turn up at midnight.

Where? It is already half past midnight down the right-hand side.

Dixville Notch, NH. They already announced their result, 3-3 for President.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html

Interestingly 2020 was 5-0 to Biden, and 2016 was Clinton 4, Trump 2, Johnson 1

A swing to Trump compared to last time, but of the six voters, four are GOP registered, so Harris can take consultation from Trump not even landing all the republicans.

Yes its a weird one, four of the six voters were registered as Republicans for the primary this year, with two indys. Nikki Haley won 6-0.

https://apnews.com/article/dixville-notch-primary-voting-new-hampshire-tuesday-0f7f420054403510364469ad52255270

Nigelb said:

Nikki Haley wants to inherit the mantle, whatever the cost.
https://x.com/7Veritas4/status/1853266550242877868

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

Luckyguy1983 said:

HYUFD said:

Trump calls Farage 'the big winner of the last UK general election' at his Pennsylvania rally tonight which Farage is attending

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1853558745298538503

Hooray! Go Nige.

By the way, I am sure PB shrewdies told us that Trump had dropped Farage like a hot potato and was all about Sir Tosspot these days??

Trump said Farage won the UK election. He is not well.

StillWaters said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

Luckyguy1983 said:

HYUFD said:

Trump calls Farage 'the big winner of the last UK general election' at his Pennsylvania rally tonight which Farage is attending

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1853558745298538503

Hooray! Go Nige.

By the way, I am sure PB shrewdies told us that Trump had dropped Farage like a hot potato and was all about Sir Tosspot these days??

Trump said Farage won the UK election. He is not well.

Not quite. He said he was the “biggest winner”.

Everyone expected Starmer to become PM. And he did. He won. But relative to expectations? Arguably Farage did better - he finally became an MP…

Andy_JS said:

rcs1000 said:

Sandpit said:

So much data on all these voters, yet it still takes so damn long to count the actual votes!

Happy US Election Day everyone!

We'll know the result for Florida within two hours of polls closing. Georgia, unless it's very close, likewise.

Florida could be useful since if Trump wins it by less than 5% he's probably going to lose the election overall.

Sandpit said:

MikeL said:

Another 1.5m early votes added by NBC.

Total now 78.6m - almost precisely 50% of 2020 total vote.

Gender split remains Women 53, Men 44, Unknown 3.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Republican Twitter has woken up to the gender bias. There’s lots of young lady conservatives telling the young men to make sure they vote today. At the last election there were 10m more women than men who voted.

MarqueeMark said:

Sandpit said:

MikeL said:

Another 1.5m early votes added by NBC.

Total now 78.6m - almost precisely 50% of 2020 total vote.

Gender split remains Women 53, Men 44, Unknown 3.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Republican Twitter has woken up to the gender bias. There’s lots of young lady conservatives telling the young men to make sure they vote today. At the last election there were 10m more women than men who voted.

As I have spelt out in detail below for Georgia, women are killing this for Trump.

It's going to need a tsunami of Trump men to vote for him today. If those lines aren't dominated by men - it's over.

Andy_JS said:

Chris said:

Andy_JS said:

rcs1000 said:

Sandpit said:

So much data on all these voters, yet it still takes so damn long to count the actual votes!

Happy US Election Day everyone!

We'll know the result for Florida within two hours of polls closing. Georgia, unless it's very close, likewise.

Florida could be useful since if Trump wins it by less than 5% he's probably going to lose the election overall.

Whichever way it goes, I'd be surprised if this election remains on a knife edge for very long after the polls have closed.

I don't think it'll be an easy win for any candidate either.

JosiasJessop said:

williamglenn said:

biggles said:

tyson said:

Without sounding hyperbolic, tomorrow feels like the most consequential election in my lifetime..and I say this as someone who had to make life changing decisions following the Brexit vote...

if Trump wins, I'm done with politics. If Harris wins, then the world will feel that much more a better place...and hopefully, the Republicans can choose someone next time who doesn't scare the living shit out of me...

My worry is that Trump has now infected his party such that even if he loses, the next Republican President (and there will be one) will still embolden Putin or his successor and trigger a global trade war.

We need him to not just lose, but lose so badly that the Democrats take the House and Senate on the coattails. And that seems inconceivable.

I know people might think I'm a broken record on this, but how do you see Putin taking Crimea and invading Donbas under Obama and then launching a full-scale invasion under Biden and conclude that Trump is the problem?

We've been over this before, but you don't seem to engage, preferring to just repeat your own rather simplistic opinion.

In my view, the following happened:
Russia's military was in a parlous state in the 1990s. In the 2000s, Putin started a process of rebuilding both material and training.

This material and training was shown as being poor in the 2008 Georgia invasion (under, you should note, Republican George W Bush). They 'won', but it was not as easy as Putin's military leaders had claimed it would be. ISTR some of those leaders were soon not-leaders.

Then, after six more years, he launched the 2014 Ukraine invasion. He grabbed Crimea fairly easily, but the Ukrainian response and the 'separatist' (note: Russian) forces performed very poorly. More rebuilding was necessary.

In the meantime, he gave his forces the sort of 'training' he felt it needed in places like Syria. Real combat.

Then Covid happened. Putin retreats into a hovel deep within the Kremlin. The war is delayed.

In early 2021, Putin orders forces to start massing at the Ukrainian border. He believes his forces are in a much better state, both materially and in form of training, than seven years earlier. A year later he invades.

Note that none of this timing depends on who is president. The Russian forces were simply not in a position to launch the invasion between 2016 and 2020.

rcs1000 said:

Sandpit said:

MikeL said:

Another 1.5m early votes added by NBC.

Total now 78.6m - almost precisely 50% of 2020 total vote.

Gender split remains Women 53, Men 44, Unknown 3.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Republican Twitter has woken up to the gender bias. There’s lots of young lady conservatives telling the young men to make sure they vote today. At the last election there were 10m more women than men who voted.

Yes, it was 52:48 last time.

MarqueeMark said:

Gender split in Pennsylvania is again huge in early voting. As of November 1st:

"More than 1.6 million commonwealth voters have cast early mail-in ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election. An Inquirer analysis of early ballot returns found that women composed 56% of the early mail-ins, with men trailing at 43%, according to voting data obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State this week."

https://www.inquirer.com/news/early-voting-women-seniors-pennsylvania-20241101.html

A 13% split. If we again take the last ABC split of women voters favouring Harris by 11%, that is another huge firewall banked by Harris.

Chris said:

Andy_JS said:

Chris said:

Andy_JS said:

rcs1000 said:

Sandpit said:

So much data on all these voters, yet it still takes so damn long to count the actual votes!

Happy US Election Day everyone!

We'll know the result for Florida within two hours of polls closing. Georgia, unless it's very close, likewise.

Florida could be useful since if Trump wins it by less than 5% he's probably going to lose the election overall.

Whichever way it goes, I'd be surprised if this election remains on a knife edge for very long after the polls have closed.

I don't think it'll be an easy win for any candidate either.

I think I'm saying the opposite. Whoever wins, I doubt the final result will be close.

Morris_Dancer said:

Good morning, everyone.

F1: decided to very slightly modify my title situation with a hedge of 1.21 (laying on Betfair) on McLaren. They have a solid shot and are seen as favourites but comparing the points each team amassed in the last three races Ferrari do have a very credible shot at this. I'm still green either way and wouldn't want to change that, but Ferrari are 36 points behind, meaning they need 12 per race (and 1 in the sprint, if you like).

In the previous three race weekends they won 116 points to McLaren's 77. Big if, but if repeated then Ferrari would take the title.

williamglenn said:

A message of hope:

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1853571107439399155

We are building the biggest and broadest coalition in American Political History. This includes record-breaking numbers of Arab and Muslim Voters in Michigan who want PEACE. They know Kamala and her warmonger Cabinet will invade the Middle East, get millions of Muslims killed, and start World War III. VOTE TRUMP, AND BRING BACK PEACE!

eek said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Good morning, everyone.

F1: decided to very slightly modify my title situation with a hedge of 1.21 (laying on Betfair) on McLaren. They have a solid shot and are seen as favourites but comparing the points each team amassed in the last three races Ferrari do have a very credible shot at this. I'm still green either way and wouldn't want to change that, but Ferrari are 36 points behind, meaning they need 12 per race (and 1 in the sprint, if you like).

In the previous three race weekends they won 116 points to McLaren's 77. Big if, but if repeated then Ferrari would take the title.

Last year Ferrari did well at Vegas and I expect they will do the same this year.

Qatar is interesting as I think the combination of Vegas than traveling half round the world followed by Qatar is going to be a killer for jet lag - within 5 days you need to shift your body clock 12 hours

Morris_Dancer said:

Mr. eek, oh, aye. Having a three week break then three races on the bounce, including a shift from Nevada to Arabia, is special.

If Ferrari do very well at Vegas then my plan is to hedge the other way. But I think the Constructors' has been quite swingy. I backed/tipped Ferrari initially at 9.5, then they slumped to about 3.2 or so, now back out to over 5.

This may change, but Piastri's been off-form for the last few races. If that doesn't improve, this could be very close.

rcs1000 said:

rcs1000 said:

williamglenn said:

rcs1000 said:

viewcode said:

rcs1000 said:

viewcode said:

williamglenn said:

https://x.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1853610975594790936

Early voting 20240 vs. 2020 in swing states shows a big shift:

2024:
Rural: 6.2M
Urban: 3.8M

2020:
Rural: 6.4M
Urban: 6.2M

Target Smart

Jeez, she's dead. That lines up with that gossip from the New York Republican.

Go look at the actual numbers for Georgia here
https://sos.ga.gov/page/election-data-hub-turnout

Turnout is much higher in Atlanta than in rural areas

https://targetearly.targetsmart.com/g2024

Ummm:

I'm not seeing anyway to get urban/rural splits out of that website. Or indeed, county level data to enable me to compare it to the releases from the Georgia SoS.

I also think a total of 3.8 million early votes across Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Reno, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Detroit, Madison, Charlotte, Raleigh and more seems laughably low, given that close to 1.5 million will come from Atlanta, and there are 5 million people in the Phoenix metropolitan area alone.

I think someone has linked to Target Smart and just made up some numbers.

Filter by urbanicity:

https://targetearly.targetsmart.com/g2024?calc_type=turnoutPercent&comparison_years=2020&comparison_years=2024&count_prefix=final_eav_voted_count_&demo_filters=[{"key":"urbanicity","value":"All"}]&vote_mode=0

Thanks:

Looking at Georgia (below), gives somewhat more plausible numbers:



Albeit it is worth remembering that Georgia is at 55% turnout already, not the 47% listed. So I'm not sure where TargetSmart gets its numbers from.

It's also pretty misleading to just compare Urban with Rural and miss out Suburban.

Nevertheless, assuming the numbers are directionally right, it is definitely not good news for the Democrats that Urban and Suburban are down, while Rural is up.

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Morris_Dancer said:

Good morning, everyone.

F1: decided to very slightly modify my title situation with a hedge of 1.21 (laying on Betfair) on McLaren. They have a solid shot and are seen as favourites but comparing the points each team amassed in the last three races Ferrari do have a very credible shot at this. I'm still green either way and wouldn't want to change that, but Ferrari are 36 points behind, meaning they need 12 per race (and 1 in the sprint, if you like).

In the previous three race weekends they won 116 points to McLaren's 77. Big if, but if repeated then Ferrari would take the title.

Last year Ferrari did well at Vegas and I expect they will do the same this year.

Qatar is interesting as I think the combination of Vegas than traveling half round the world followed by Qatar is going to be a killer for jet lag - within 5 days you need to shift your body clock 12 hours

Sandpit to Vegas is a 24 hour trip with 12 hours’ difference. Yes, it took me pretty much the whole week to recover, it’s horrible!

In their favour is that Vegas is a night race, so if they keep a sensible wake and sleep times it’s only about four hours. Vegas race is at my 10am (their 10pm Saturday).

Edit: Nope, Qatar is a night race too, so it’s about 9 hours they need to move.

Alanbrooke said:

Looks like Germany could be heading for an election.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/german-government-descends-into-crisis-mode/ar-AA1tufFD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a6ce32bfd1134468a84b07b282b848de&ei=24

LostPassword said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

Think of it as the policy equivalent of an out of office email. They will hope they it's just enough to avoid a collapse while they work out what to do long-term.

Why they didn't come to office with a long-term plan ready to go, I don't know.

Sandpit said:

LostPassword said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

Think of it as the policy equivalent of an out of office email. They will hope they it's just enough to avoid a collapse while they work out what to do long-term.

Why they didn't come to office with a long-term plan ready to go, I don't know.

Starmer appears to have done almost none of the work expected when in Opposition.

We may have thought that his empty campaign would see him over the line as being better than the alternative, but he actually had nothing to bring forward. He just wants to be in power for the sake of being in power, no vision about how he wishes to move the country forward.

ydoethur said:

Scott_xP said:

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

@Steven_Swinford
Kemi Badenoch was left infuriated after The Times disclosed that she had appointed Robert Jenrick as her shadow justice secretary yesterday

Badenoch had wanted to announce Jenrick’s appointment today so the appointments of Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor would take the headlines

Gee, I wonder who could have leaked that?

So petty. Such a Mickey Mouse act.

Jonathan said:

ydoethur said:

Scott_xP said:

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

@Steven_Swinford
Kemi Badenoch was left infuriated after The Times disclosed that she had appointed Robert Jenrick as her shadow justice secretary yesterday

Badenoch had wanted to announce Jenrick’s appointment today so the appointments of Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor would take the headlines

Gee, I wonder who could have leaked that?

So petty. Such a Mickey Mouse act.

Disney’s lawyers want a word

Leon said:

LostPassword said:

Anabobazina said:

Flatlander said:

Cookie said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

ChatGPT gets basic Maths wrong

I was mildly alarmed today to learn that a structural engineer friend uses chatgpt to do his structural engineering calculations.
Apparently the paid for version is better than the free version. But still.

Sorry, what??

I hope it isn't for anything more than a shed. And even then...

You’d be amazed how many otherwise intelligent professional people have come to treat LLM output as gospel. It really is rather worrying.

I did worry that would happen. Part of the problem is people calling it "AI" when it's nothing of the sort.

The next Grenfell-style disaster could well end up being due to someone using a LLM to do something out isn't capable of doing, and not checking the results.

It’s now extremely rare for ChatGPT to get “basic maths wrong”. In fact it is increasingly rare for these things to get anything wrong - tho of course it still happens

Anyway. Good day everyone

Seems a bit quiet. Nothing happening today?

JosiasJessop said:

LostPassword said:

Anabobazina said:

Flatlander said:

Cookie said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

ChatGPT gets basic Maths wrong

I was mildly alarmed today to learn that a structural engineer friend uses chatgpt to do his structural engineering calculations.
Apparently the paid for version is better than the free version. But still.

Sorry, what??

I hope it isn't for anything more than a shed. And even then...

You’d be amazed how many otherwise intelligent professional people have come to treat LLM output as gospel. It really is rather worrying.

I did worry that would happen. Part of the problem is people calling it "AI" when it's nothing of the sort.

The next Grenfell-style disaster could well end up being due to someone using a LLM to do something out isn't capable of doing, and not checking the results.

As I've said many times before, the threat from the current AI technology is not it deciding to take over the world, but idiots taking what the AI outputs as gospel and doing it, without using their own intelligence or common sense.

Sadly, as the 'computer says no' jokes show, people frequently do exactly this.

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Casino_Royale said:

Are rallies for the faithful really the best use of a presidential candidates time?

In the UK we'd do a mix of interviews, soapboxes, meet the voters and battlebus stuff across a variety of constituencies.

Malmesbury said:

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Process State thinking - another regulation, rule or some more pages of reports and the problem seems to go away for a bit.

Foxy said:

Casino_Royale said:

Are rallies for the faithful really the best use of a presidential candidates time?

In the UK we'd do a mix of interviews, soapboxes, meet the voters and battlebus stuff across a variety of constituencies.

Yes, it's quite a contrast to British campaigning. You never see Harris pointing at potholes, or Trump in a white coat staring at test tubes in a lab somewhere. Neither pulling pints either.

ydoethur said:

Scott_xP said:

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

@Steven_Swinford
Kemi Badenoch was left infuriated after The Times disclosed that she had appointed Robert Jenrick as her shadow justice secretary yesterday

Badenoch had wanted to announce Jenrick’s appointment today so the appointments of Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor would take the headlines

Gee, I wonder who could have leaked that?

So petty. Such a Mickey Mouse act.

rottenborough said:

Malmesbury said:

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Process State thinking - another regulation, rule or some more pages of reports and the problem seems to go away for a bit.

"that solves the immediate crisis"

I don't think they have solved the immediate crisis. Unis are in deficit by 10s millions £. This is tinkering.

Mexicanpete said:

Foxy said:

Casino_Royale said:

Are rallies for the faithful really the best use of a presidential candidates time?

In the UK we'd do a mix of interviews, soapboxes, meet the voters and battlebus stuff across a variety of constituencies.

Yes, it's quite a contrast to British campaigning. You never see Harris pointing at potholes, or Trump in a white coat staring at test tubes in a lab somewhere. Neither pulling pints either.

Pretending to work in MaccieDs or on a bin lorry?

IanB2 said:

Foxy said:

Casino_Royale said:

Are rallies for the faithful really the best use of a presidential candidates time?

In the UK we'd do a mix of interviews, soapboxes, meet the voters and battlebus stuff across a variety of constituencies.

Yes, it's quite a contrast to British campaigning. You never see Harris pointing at potholes, or Trump in a white coat staring at test tubes in a lab somewhere. Neither pulling pints either.

There is nevertheless a lot of door knocking and knocking up (not that they call it that), and leaflet delivery hung on door handles in the manner of a 'do not disturb' sign, as there aren't any letterboxes and they're not allowed to use the USPS mailboxes.

rottenborough said:

Malmesbury said:

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Process State thinking - another regulation, rule or some more pages of reports and the problem seems to go away for a bit.

"that solves the immediate crisis"

I don't think they have solved the immediate crisis. Unis are in deficit by 10s millions £. This is tinkering.

Chris said:

Andy_JS said:

Chris said:

Andy_JS said:

rcs1000 said:

Sandpit said:

So much data on all these voters, yet it still takes so damn long to count the actual votes!

Happy US Election Day everyone!

We'll know the result for Florida within two hours of polls closing. Georgia, unless it's very close, likewise.

Florida could be useful since if Trump wins it by less than 5% he's probably going to lose the election overall.

Whichever way it goes, I'd be surprised if this election remains on a knife edge for very long after the polls have closed.

I don't think it'll be an easy win for any candidate either.

I think I'm saying the opposite. Whoever wins, I doubt the final result will be close.

Malmesbury said:

rottenborough said:

Malmesbury said:

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Process State thinking - another regulation, rule or some more pages of reports and the problem seems to go away for a bit.

"that solves the immediate crisis"

I don't think they have solved the immediate crisis. Unis are in deficit by 10s millions £. This is tinkering.

Kick the can 6 inches. Some people say that is a long way.

eek said:

rottenborough said:

Malmesbury said:

eek said:

bondegezou said:

I don’t understand why Labour have announced this paltry increase in university tuition fees (3%). All that negative publicity for what is a small change that will do little to solve the funding problems the sector faces.

It’s indexed linked now though so future increases won’t need to be announced in the same way.

What annoys me is that it doesn’t fix anything but it matches the Labour approach of vague fix that solves the immediate crisis but doesn’t solve any part of the actual issue.

Process State thinking - another regulation, rule or some more pages of reports and the problem seems to go away for a bit.

"that solves the immediate crisis"

I don't think they have solved the immediate crisis. Unis are in deficit by 10s millions £. This is tinkering.

It solves the immediate the Government needs to do something bit.

And as I commented yesterday I don’t think the department of education has a clue as to the scale of the crisis in higher education or any idea what the root causes are. So it recommends more of the same and leaves universities to it.

The extra money here doesn’t even pay the new employer NI costs as far as I can work out

IanB2 said:

Foxy said:

Casino_Royale said:

Are rallies for the faithful really the best use of a presidential candidates time?

In the UK we'd do a mix of interviews, soapboxes, meet the voters and battlebus stuff across a variety of constituencies.

Yes, it's quite a contrast to British campaigning. You never see Harris pointing at potholes, or Trump in a white coat staring at test tubes in a lab somewhere. Neither pulling pints either.

There is nevertheless a lot of door knocking and knocking up (not that they call it that), and leaflet delivery hung on door handles in the manner of a 'do not disturb' sign, as there aren't any letterboxes and they're not allowed to use the USPS mailboxes.