Reform & The Greens, the parties of Coldplay fans – politicalbetting.com
Reform & The Greens, the parties of Coldplay fans – politicalbetting.com
Looked at the other way Reform also do even better than average among those who themselves have cheated among more than one person. The Greens also record their highest score with this group, but the Tories perform most poorly with them. pic.twitter.com/GQn42rUox2
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It could have been cheating at golf or Monopoly for all I knew till I read the last para of the header.
Well, there's Boris, obviously, but you can't mean Rishi and you can't mean TMay, so who is...
OH HELL, YOU MEAN TRUSS. I had forgotten about her premiership and now you have gone and reminded me.
I'm off to find a quiet dark place to calm down...
The poll does suggest Reformers are relatively liberal in their personal lives at least
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/09/bafflement-over-tory-mps-admission-she-hacked-harriet-harmans-website
In a sign that the government was caught off guard by the extent to which these tools would be used, ministers last week requested data from the internet regulator Ofcom about how and when VPNs were being downloaded, according to two people briefed on the move.
Kyle has said publicly that he is not considering any ban on VPNs, but officials say ministers are keen to understand how the tools are being used, particularly by children.
https://www.ft.com/content/09c88dde-687e-47c7-ba9d-7ad5048e2bc7
The blind leading the blind.
Badenoch gained access to Harman’s website by guessing the credentials (she later gave an anonymous interview revealing that Harman’s username and password were “harriet” and “harman”),
In the eyes of the law no difference, but I presumed Kemi was doing something clever.
You may remember the comedy of the thefts from the British Museum and their lack of a catalogue of what was in the basement? At the time, I pointed out that I'd actually taken part in a catalogue-the-basement exercise at a smaller museum. Volunteers (like me) photo'd the items, sorted out numbering made sure the storage was good etc. A slow, steady process of years. Costing the museum a few pounds - mostly in biscuits*
This was derided, here - not a proper solution.
The British Museum hasn't started on a catalogue. Nor are there plans for one.
*I introduced Stroopwafel to the museum staff room, so cultural exchange?
https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-britons-reacted-to-age-verification
RIP productivity in June next year, what bellend thought it was useful to release it a few weeks before next year's world cup?
Remember not all privately educated people are as modest and self effacing as me.
I think you've fallen for the trap of thinking in terms of billions, not millions. The odd town bypass, new tram routes, a few million on cycle lanes, rail electrification, phone masts, a public health investment. That can add up to billions, but you've diversified across projects so that one disaster doesn't cause the whole investment to collapse.
But, I do get disgusted by the kind of politician (usually a Conservative), who features his wife and children on election literature, before dumping them in favour of a younger model, or abandoning his wife when she develops cancer.
IMHO, if they do that to those they are closest to, just imagine what they'll do to the voters.
Now I suppose a small number of people might have done a lot of cheating, but there's got to be an honesty gap in there somewhere. Boris can't be responsible for all of it.
So 25% of Britons have cheated but 45% have been cheated on. Hmmm, believe that if you like. Or perhaps some were cheating on their survey answers. Alternatively the Refukkers can blame the large gap between the two on pesky foreigners.
They say politics is showbiz for ugly people so until Salma Hayek or Sidney Sweeney are occupying the green benches I don’t want to have to imagine their sexual antics.
Which are the party of Radiohead fans?
One of my best mates was previously on the project and he was sitting around being paid £650 per day to do nothing because there just wasn't anything for him to do but they'd contracted him from a set date to a set date but that work was so badly delayed that for the whole 3 months of the contract he got paid to be "on call" and then once work finally did commence they had to call him and his crew back at an even higher rate. That's about 25 electricians of varying skill level on day rates because they declined to do the fixed price deal he offered as it was "too restrictive" due to him setting a specific time to start and finish, requiring the site to be handed in a certain way and all materials etc... to be delivered to a tight schedule and completing the project over 4.5 months. In the end it took them 3 months of doing nothing, then another 6 months of actual work and the overall cost was 2.5x what he offered in the fixed price contract.
I have no doubt that this small example isn't the only one where inept public sector project managers and consultants who don't know what they're doing end up pissing public money into the wind because there's zero repercussions.
I always used to refer to the fact that Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3 was built in the same time as Heathrow Terminal 5’s planning inquiry. Same scope of project, new buildings on an existing airfield with local access roads, but one place managed to build and open it before the other place stopped taking about it.
Do none of them have a 14-year-old son, who could tell them that it takes about three minutes to work around the OSA provisions on adult content?
That whole "you support Jimmy Savile" was such an over the top and weird reaction.
Not my personal scandals, obviously, you know what I mean.
Here's one from Midlands Connect. A ~10% bigger capacity on the M1J28 (ie 77k per day to 87k per day capacity), to be delivered in 15-20 years' time at a current cost of £40m. Alternatives - like "making it easier for walking / wheeling and cycling" get a one sentence ritual mention in one of many propaganda articles I have seen.
But the bloody thing is STILL just a bigger traffic island with no accessible alternatives, blocking 30k people from walking to Macarthur Glen, with the sort of traffic increase that could likely be accounted for by actually making short local journeys practical by other modes - as is the Govt target.
That's how Nottingham avoided any proposals for a LEZ - so much more was not by private vehicle that it did not need one. They even invoke a concept called transport-related social exclusion to support their projects, when the actual research on it shows TRSA is *caused* by the transport forms they promote.
Providing alternatives normally brings returns 2-3x greater than making roads bigger, but they are prisoners of their silo. It's just another BLOB.
https://alfreton.spiritof.uk/improvements-on-the-cards-for-junction-28/
Evidence (I have not used my photo yet today, and this is published in the UK):
Wasn't Mellor the Chelsea Football Strip? But that part was fabricated by a newspaper iirc. God knows why anyone would want to be seen in a Chelsea Football Strip.
After all, a party whose core argument is that they are all the same and all as bad as each other is leading in the polls. Once again, the person who will be happiest this morning is Nigel Farage.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/475247cb-0a64-4abf-b491-3d8024a7597e?shareToken=307eb2771d99e220b5fd9cce9a3da54b
I don't believe Kyle's statements about VPNs. He's one of those morons who believe any problem can be fixed by making a new law. So the government will ban VPNs without a licence.
I hear that St Andrews have introduced town wide 20mph limits on (I assume) residential roads.
I'd be interested to hear if you notice anything.
1) attempt to control reality with linear rule sets
2) reality is non-linear. Chaotic.
3) when 1 fails, try more (1)
Send every politician this -
Indeed, I wonder if some of the "you could cut X% of public sector staff at random and things would run better" talk comes from people working in sectors that do massively over spend and over recruit in the boom times.
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, St Andrews, Dunblane, Dundee, various in Fife and Perthshire ...
Also School Streets.
Not sure what that tells us.
Like I always do on the odd occasion I get things wrong.
I think this already exists somewhere but it needs to be independent of the Treasury and the funds automatically allocated.
Anyone seen Debit Suisse recently? No?
The successful Councils are those with 101 95% Ready to Roll projects that can be topped and tailed and rapidly submitted.
One of the improvements coming from Mr Starmer is multiyear (3 iirc) funding settlements.
In the last round of active travel funding, which was due to be multiyear, it was about half way through the spending period before the Department (DFT?) had got off their arse enough to even identify what the amount of funding available was going to be.
The only way I see a VPN ban not happening is if some organisation - Wikipedia possibly - refuses to comply with the OSA and then takes uk.gov to the ECHR and wins. But that will take more years than this administration has left.
All the lads of that age, I know, help their parents sort out “the IT” at home.
1) they will ban VPNs
2) companies say they will have to stop working in the U.K.
3) the government will come up with VPN registration - even trying to demand control from the VPN provider if what the customer is doing
4) after multiple rounds of unworkable legislation, it turns out that at least one of the licensed VPNs is run by terrorists. Another is run by organised crime. At least one is owned by Donald Trump.
{staggers back from palantir}
What we need is more, and deeper failure.
So : You run a bank. It fails.
1) You can kill your self - your family is provided for.
2) You can live the rest of your life on benefits in Bedford, after 20 years in prison.
3) You can escape by sea. And be murdered by financially sophisticated, sociopathic whalers off the coast of Norway.
Money was at the same time venerated as the only god and yet treated as having no value.
This is an ideal issue for Labour, libertarians like many on here hate it but libertarians would never vote Labour anyway.
However parents of school age children in marginals might vote Labour again and Starmer can now present himself as on their side while Farage is on the side of the pornographers
Claude says they have 320 "roads" in Wrexham, so that is something like 14-15% on the place in Wales which had the most to do.
They seem to have used the opportunity to get the Welsh Govt to pay for the remova of old signs and signposts that had been left in place from years ago, and to pay for lots of brand new ones. For a place that was quite aggressive in implementing 20mph limits, a rollback to only 80-85% now at 20mph seems OK - that will leave connector and through routes at 30mph, and give the benefits everywhere else.
https://news.wrexham.gov.uk/review-of-20mph-speed-limits-update/
( @Big_G_NorthWales ?)
Why is it better to put this on a wall rather than some random art by someone else (*waves at @TOPPING*)?
What makes this special? Why have I put it on the wall in my revamping new living room?
Answers on an antique parchment
1) you use official identification documents to prove this. Online banks do this. No one, will upload their passport details to a porn site, though.
2) A trusted third party could run a site that, having proved you are over x, issues one use codes (tokens) that confirm to the over x sites that you are over x, without disclosing your actual personal identity.
Either will not prevent strawman sales, logins etc.
The second option is the most practical. It could be used for a wide range of things - buying alcohol online, gambling access etc. So using it would not be immediately disreputable. You could easily imagine that Amazon could offer issuing such tokens.
(As an aside, it is odd that those PBers who are wrongly convinced the GFC was somehow Gordon Brown's fault overlook that London also declined to save Lehmans!)
Not very far from where I live the council decided to use some government money to build a cycle/pedestrian bridge over the river between two sites that are due for extensive redevelopment in the future. Cue outrage from local nimbies over the trauma caused by the need to cut down twelve trees. Twelve self-seeded trees that would grow back afterwards. So far we’ve had one judicial review, another in the works & the entire project has roughly doubled in cost due to all the delays.
The Aarhus Convention is a plague upon the nation.
But why this photo of this scene at this moment? Which makes it worthy of hanging on a wall?
Otherwise, it's an OK but slightly banal photo of a kid by a weird old rockwall