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Sometimes I don’t have to say anything, the image says it all – politicalbetting.com
Sometimes I don’t have to say anything, the image says it all – politicalbetting.com
Just 13% of Britons approve of the government's record to date, the lowest level recorded by YouGov since Labour took office a year agoApprove: 13% (-1 from 28-30 June)Disapprove: 67% (+1)Net: -54 (-2)yougov.co.uk/topics/polit…
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Truss had a 6 and a 7
After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.
https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1942957094811951197
Effigies of lifejacket-wearing migrants in boats have been placed on a village bonfire in a display condemned by critics as 'sickening' and 'racist'. A sign saying 'Stop the boats' was also attached to the pyre in Moygashel, on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, prompting protests.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14889681/Fury-racist-village-bonfire-effigy-migrants-stop-boats.html
https://x.com/adam_tooze/status/1942920419448688674
"Flights suspended after man is sucked into plane engine on runway"
"Police at Milan Bergamo International Airport told Sky News that the person appeared to run on to the runway before voluntarily entering the engine of the Volotea aircraft."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/flights-suspended-after-man-is-sucked-into-plane-engine-on-runway/ar-AA1IcsA8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=b943513bf425457f974f49e8476c073c&ei=19
Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US servers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/uk-governments-deal-with-google-dangerously-naive-say-campaigners
There is absolutely no way the American government would allow this in reverse.
If you've ever wondered why Britain has fallen behind America and China in the tech world, this shows why. No investment in homegrown facilities or talent, over decades.
This is stupid on national security grounds, and equally stupid on development grounds.
To be fair, most of us knew at least their names, and it turns out I went to school with one of their grandparents. He was a tosser as well.
It's all kicking off, photos posted, addresses posted and the youngest (a 17 year old lad who apparently posts videos of his fuckaboutery and calls himself the TikTok Twokker) has run off to the Police because he fears for his life.
Mums and aunties are slagging each other off and I witnessed a bit of handbags this afternoon in town between two female middle aged druggie clan members who were jonesing too hard to make the blows count.
I'm hoping the resulting gang war takes out most of the Keats Way Massive.
If this is planned for after the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, with the surving people forced into the Sinai desert, than I am not.
"The project also proposes paying about $9,000 each to half a million Gazans to relocate from the Strip."
"Britain "cannot afford the array of promises it has made to the public", the budget watchdog has concluded in a stark warning that the country has been living beyond its means".
Does the proposal mention where said 500,000 Gazans are to be relocated to? I'm assuming not the West Bank, so therefore you would need to find another Middle Eastern country to take them.
Is the MBS highway named after the leader of Saudi Arabia?
Trump, MBS, etc., they all love getting their names on things.
The combination of rising life expectancy, promised pensions, increasingly expensive healthcare, and low birthrates is absolutely toxic for the sustainability of developed world government finances.
(Edit: By 'they sent' - I mean the sensible Palestinians doing the sending, not the Israelis choosing)
18/61 Cameron 5th June, 2016 (Resigned 24th June) (Height 40/44 shortly after winning majority)
9/72 May 13th May, 2019 (Announced resignation 24th May) (Height 35/41 (Start of GE 17 campaign early April)
13/63 Johnson (18/64 just before he left office) (Height 44/35, Boris has just beaten Covid (personally))
8/77 Truss (Height 14/67) (Gov't v unpopular throughout her brief term)
12/73 Sunak (Height 18/63)
13/68 Starmer (Height 29/29 29th July 2024, start of term)
Eventually the young will revolt: probably by moving to places where the oldies take a smaller piece of the pie.
https://www.ft.com/content/6ddd81c2-6dc2-4d11-830b-631e08a43354
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c77vk1k5n27o
At some point, something in the economy will give and the things that were unaffordable will become completely out of reach. A managed restructuring will be much less disruptive, and there might even be the potential for transitions and grandfathering, and the promise of more jam tomorrow.
I don’t buy the idea that people are beyond persuading of the need for reform. It is the way that it is done that is the crucial element.
The model needs to evolve to match the demographics and that means looking at different ways of funding including looking at accumulated wealth taxation.
An afternoon at Lingfield Park, a lunch time at Toby Carvery and any cruise will tell you there's a lot of money in this country and that money is among the older demographic. That's not an argument against triple locks or pensions per se but perhaps a recognition that wealth accumulated via paying off mortgages in times of low interest rates and the resulting asset appreciation realised via downsizing are other areas for HM Treasury to consider.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/09/russia-seeks-to-recruit-1mln-indian-workers-in-2025-urals-chamber-of-commerce-head-says-a89748
Russia expects to recruit as many as 1 million workers from India by the end of the year, said Andrei Besedin, head of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, citing his Indian counterparts.
None of this is actually connected to a government. There doesn't seem much reason to take any of the details that seriously. Its just getting reported because a loose link to Blair, as far as I can tell.
"What is a wealth tax, how would it work in the UK and where else has one?
The idea of a wealth tax has been raised before in the UK but has never been implemented."
https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-a-wealth-tax-how-would-it-work-in-the-uk-and-where-else-has-one-13394144
75% of voters back a wealth tax of 2% on wealth over £10 million, 13% opposed.
88% of Labour voters, 83% of LDs, even 62% of Tory and 55% of Reform voters in favour
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/07/08/3086a/1
Truss bottomed at 6/82 2 days before Sunak took over and topped at 21/58 during the mourning period
Rishis bottom was 12/74 during the GE campaign, best 19/59 in June 23
Boris hit 52/26 as Covid lockdown began
Excel spreadsheet from YG here https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/government-approval
https://x.com/StephenM/status/1942981399080018275
What if, this entire time, the key to fixing our cities was enforcing our immigration laws?
At least Sky mention the Swiss option which is at much lower levels and is applied more widely and less regressively, and which afaik is about the only one that works in raising a decent amount of money.
Labour would be better saying "nothing like this in the current term - Kemi and Nigel are a couple of BS merchants", and close all the other loopholes of which lists have been published.
Then pivot Council Tax to a % of property value, or at least with no upper bands and make it linear, which is a type of wealth tax on our most featherbedded type of wealth. That would then begin to slay the house price inflation demon and make property more affordable, a superb contrast to the morally-bankrupt Conservative never-ending feeding of the demand side with subsidies, which makes the house price inflation worse.
I would say one of the biggest issues why Britain has fallen behind despite having very good universities, lack of investment in GPUs and the infrastructure to host them. Ask people in the university sector doing research into ML in the UK what they have and then tell people who work at Google, Meta, etc, even companies like PInterest, and they will piss themselves laughing.
Good job the UK government is investing in, checks notes, AMD GPU powered data centres....
To be fair there are some compute units that should come online soon that were authoritised by the previous government. Isambard one in Bristol to be shared among several universities in that region. But it still small beans.
I'm not a regular listener but I wonder if they have also been silent on the cesspit that was Gaza before October 2023 and the role of all the international aid and charitable organisations that were complicit in it. Hamas built a network of tunnels bigger than the London underground headquartered next to hospitals and had schools indoctrinating children against Jews. Are we to believe that none of the agencies knew anything about this? That they were blissfully unaware of how all their aid was being mis-used in Gaza by psychopathic savages intent on violence? At the very least I'd like some question to be asked of them not be constantly treated like paragons on the BBC and Sky News as they detail Israel's crimes.
There's a lot of hate for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (inevitable since it is American/Israeli) but can well understand why Israel has taken the steps it has to take control of the aid distribution system from the international bodies who's goods always seemed to find their way into Hamas' hands. Of course the GHF is dubbed 'controversial' by the media whilst the UN bodies are not controversial. Who gets to decide on that?