Options
An inauspicious start for the splitter – politicalbetting.com
An inauspicious start for the splitter – politicalbetting.com
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: https://t.co/MAwVBrHOzH pic.twitter.com/z91p0CkXW0
0
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
A poor start for the new party. They really couldn't find a turd in a sewage farm...
Happy treason day you bunch of ungrateful colonials.
Mostly in areas voting Labour.
My 160/1 on Sultana as next Labour leader looks like money wasted.
It will be representing a strand of Middle Eastern politics.
Has anyone ever seen ones that are small enough to fit in a garden and actually work
Yes, there are many young people of the left of thr majority community.
Good because hopefully means they get rid of their troublesome left flank which might help them actually sound a bit more ideologically focussed.
Bad because you can see Magic Grandpa nabbing enough young votes to cause a bit of a headache in some seats.
Morons, the lot of them. Similarly there is depression setting in amongst the Tesla Elon loyalists on Twitter who have realised that Trump has screwed electrification and is now coming after them. Comments like "we got played" being posted. Well duh - we saw this a mile away.
(https://www.hostellingscotland.org.uk/hostels/glen-affric/)
The Local Democracy Reporting Service created up to 165 new journalism jobs to help fill a gap in the reporting of local democracy issues across the UK.
The journalists are funded by the BBC as part of its latest Charter commitment, but are employed by regional news organisations.
A total of 165 reporters are allocated to news organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
These organisations range from television and radio stations to online media companies and established regional newspaper groups.
Local Democracy Reporters cover top-tier local authorities, second-tier local authorities and other public service organisations.
https://www.bbc.com/lnp/ldrs
I’ve just been for a two hour walk in the western Rhodopes along a Thracian-Roman mule-path to the mouth of a sacred cave of the Orphic Mysteries
Now, cappuccino
They can get people to follow them anywhere, including off the cliff edge. It's a benefit to charismatic individuals, but often a disaster for everyone else.
I don't know whose idea it was but genuinely a good one.
A new left party of the Gaza Indy/Green type as mooted could cause havoc for Labour in London especially. At 10% it would end any chance of a Starmer second term, at 5% it would cause major problems
Didn't stop them
I would have said in terms of left, but Labour stopped being left when they turned into the Tories. Whilst I am sympathetic to all the left voters who want soft left policies back, the problem is that they aren't loud enough. The crank left are fucking mental but they get all the attention and make all the running.
Apparently a cheer went round the Spectator summer garden party when news of this new Corbynparty emerged
The LDs feel left out in the cold a bit, still a tad too centrist for that crowd but too left to take over from the Tories should Reform gobble up the right.
It says a lot of people who side with the landlord who was very very aggressive and the person who was very calm and very polite and also of people who think this is reasonable. Just demonstrates the selfishness of some in society. The fact that you decided the polite person being verbally assaulted was typical of a LD and presumably the landlord was not, says a lot more about you than you might think.
Accepting there is obviously a small cost to the landlord, but who in their right mind is not willing to give tap water or use of the loo?
Also it is worth noting that the landlord who was so adamant about his rights was not completely correct. He can refuse access to the loo (although in some council areas it is actually a requirement) and is wrong regarding the tap water if he has a licensed premises.
Donorgate
Imaginary black holes
WFP cuts
Tax rises galore
NI armageddon
Even more borrowing
Public sector pay bonanza
No public sector productivity
Riots
Two tier justice
Small boats
Child rape ganga
Lunatic energy policies
U turns
More U turns
No more housing
No to growth growth growth
Farmer taxes
School taxes
Chagos
tax free Mauritius
Crygate
Backbenchers on the loose
Real financial black holes
Still only 4 years to go.
He predicted “openly sectarian/religious parties” will get elected. It’s stage 3 of the 12 stage collapse
As for money - one of the Tate brothers made a sizeable donation in the GE run in from memory
Regional newspapers are just recycled clickbait
I’ve seen the story of the woman in turkey who trashed her hotel room dozens of times for example
What a fucking clown show
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1941033925284929840?s=46&t=d8CnRhyZJ-m4vy0k55W8XQ
The garden wind turbines are very niche indeed. I'd say only applicable in a 1-2 gardens per thousand or less. 125 were installed last year in England, where the UK Govt does planning and this wil lapply. It needs a smooth, sweeping wind across a plain landscape - ideally up a valley.
The biggest limitation under the old rules, where the max for Permitted Development was iirc a 2m turbine on a 10m mast, and it was required to be 11m from any boundary (effectively so it could fall flat in your garden with no encroachment). That means any garden needs basically to accommodate an ~25m circle round the turbine mast.
I looked back at Cameron-Husky time at putting one on one of the highest ridges in Notts (650ft) with such a wind, and the numbers and windspeeds were nowhere near. OTOH these are now much more widespread on small boats,and technology has moved forward, and lecky prices may make it more doable.
It may get the crusties in the Cotswolds cackling at each other, and give the tabloids a diversionary dog chew, but what I think are proposals for communally owned wind generation are far more significant.
I think most of these would be outskirts of villages, domestic gardens of farms and off grid houses.
But yes, you get better gains because of the cost of energy in remote areas - but remember that about 30% of houses don't have access to mains gas and heating oil/gas deliveries are expensive. I think it's why solar is more widespread in the wet and dark Highlands than it is elsewhere.
I went to a curious bar called The Tabernacle, in Granada, full of icons, and playing endless religious programmes on television. There was this huge religious ceremony, in which men in white hoods were bearing a statue of the Madonna and Child, surrounded by dozens bearing torches, at night, and it struck me that their very distant ancestors would have adored the Roman Pantheon similarly.
Offering a pound was generous to be fair, as I believe the going rate is to spend a penny
Without it the sad fact is most people would get very little info on what is happening with local government, making it easier to get away with things as no one is looking.
Getting at least some genuine local gov news is a public service, not what people want but need, that's why it is taxpayer subsidised.
And it will be cheap as they emply small numbers of mostly young people looking to get a foot in the industry.
Will they form the next government? Probably not.
Will they come close to it? Probably not.
Is it possible they are able to? Absolutely.
The threat is real and needs to be defeated. Don't count your chickens. Anyone standing 326+ candidates is able to form the next government if they get enough people to vote for them.
Cyclist claims he was given a ticket because he contravened Article 2 which covers the right to life"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/04/police-cyclist-human-rights-act-no-hands-ticket/
That's not a good piece of coordination for launching a new party, indeed. Mistake or deliberate sabotage?
If the Conservatives poll under 20%, they will go the same way as the Liberals in 1924, and Reform will be the main party on the right.
I detect no great loyalty to the Conservatives that would prevent this from happening.
The most interesting one I have seen was when the Muslim Parliament brand was taken over by Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (not related afaik), who also founded British Muslims for Secular Democracy, but that turned into more of a policy operation cum think tank.
If something could come out of the Ahmadiyya Community, or Muslim Women, that could be interesting.
I have always found Yahya Birt impressive, but again he is an intellectual.
My father-in-law has the parts for a turbine tower in the garden, which I think add up to more than 20m in height (I think they were originally part of a crane tower). He wanted to put it up within a few metres of the kitchen window, but my mother-in-law wasn't happy about it. A bit too big for the garden of a suburban semi, anyway.
Given the trajectory of the cost of solar it feels like a lot of wasted effort to spend time on small-scale wind. There's tidal that could do with government attention, as well as boosting development of storage.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/03/trump-has-dropped-big-beautiful-bomb-on-americas-economy
Bloke is lucky that "being a bellend" isn't a specific offence.
@mocent0
If the answer is Zarah Sultana, what the fuck was the question?!
https://x.com/mocent0/status/1941036925370138749
"TfL boss refuses to explain new Piccadilly line trains delay
Transport for London's Andy Lord has refused to publicly explain why the introduction of new Piccadilly line trains has been delayed by a year. The commissioner, when pressed by London Assembly member Keith Prince, said the exact reasons are 'complicated' but that he is willing to provide information off-camera."
https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/tfl-boss-apologises-delay-new-31987292
https://www.omnicalculator.com/ecology/wind-turbine
Ideally it wants a consistent wind speed of perhaps 6.5-7.5 m/s.
If you look there is good wind speed data from pro and am weather stations all over the country.
In general imo the money is better spent on improving the fabric, and particularly on micro hydro if you can do it and MUST generate.
There's a beautiful blog from a chap who lives even more in the back of beyond that anywhere in Scotland (except Rockall) here, Life at the End of the Road. I stopped in 2022 after about 15 years, but is a great read in which to time travel.
https://lifeattheendoftheroad.wordpress.com/
Finally managed to get back on the site after more than a week without access.
I suspect analysing the airline data well is difficult.