What is John Swinney’s secret? – politicalbetting.com
What is John Swinney’s secret? – politicalbetting.com
“Nobody knows the tactics I’m going to deploy if we get 65 seats in the Scottish Parliament.”John Swinney teases SNP conference with a secret plan. pic.twitter.com/3v4msSblwH
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I swear that the lawyers deliberately wait in ambush.
"What have I learned from 3 years on Youtube?"
By out Tesla correspondent. Quite interesting.
(Waves hand in a circle.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFaYgR0aeI
If say you're number was originally on Vodafone and you've moved elsewhere due to routing issues any calls made to and from your number has to be routed through Vodafone so that's also why other networks might appear to impacted.
300k of watch hours, no less.
Update: MUST WATCH. A The Lib Dem who admits to being a little embarrassed about excessive self-promotion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yldldx659o
Here is the problem - true believers in Independence largely no longer believe that the SNP will deliver independence, and everyone else dislikes being called unpatriotic by the SNP.
Swinney is saying that *only* a vote for the SNP is a mandate for independence. Any other vote - by his logic - is a vote against independence. Even if you are voting Scottish Greens or Alba or Sovereignty, parties also pledged to independence. The latter have UDI as their policy, but according to the SNP they are unionists!
So, here is the secret plan: there is no plan. Even they can read the room. They will not get a majority and thus the secret plan will never need to be revealed.
But there is Good News on services. They have invented NHS walk in centres. No, not the Urgent Treatment Centres that England has had for a decade, something wholly different...
For a public-facing company, who have an entire department for comms and PR, it’s clearly a fail to not be talking, even if it’s just to say that you’re aware of the issue and the tech teams are working to restore service.
oris Johnson has been rapped for breaching revolving-door rules in one of the final acts of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.
Acoba – which has closed today, with its functions transferring to the prime minister’s ethics adviser and the Civil Service Commission – asked the former PM to correct the record following reports last month that he had lobbied foreign governments on behalf of two companies and taken up work without receiving the watchdog's advice first. But Johnson failed to fully answer Acoba’s questions.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/boris-johnson-breaches-lobbying-rules-for-third-time
Oh yeah. Referral sales from Tesla. Non-monetary stuff:
Free supercharging for the last 2 years with 3 more free years to come - this alone is worth many many many bags of sand
Free premium connectivity
Free acceleration boost (on both cars)
Free accessories of various kinds (clothes, premium rucksacks etc)
I didn't include everything on the video that I recorded. The original business plan for the channel was "get Youtube to pay for the car" within 5 years. 3 years in and revenue paid the deposit for the new car and very comfortably covers the 0% finance payments.
New business plan? Build a buffer to buy a second (older) content car.
“We are aware of a major issue on our network currently affecting broadband, 4G and 5G services. We appreciate our customers’ patience while we work to resolve this as soon as possible.”
She said “Yes, what volume would you like?"
I'll get my coat.
Just the sort of thing to appeal to a part of the PB demographic?
Anyways, here's a learned article on how likely this is:
https://www.twz.com/sea/is-trumps-call-for-new-battleships-even-feasible
£20£16 million cost is pretty small change in the budget, and campaign funding would be easier for the SNP compared to the other parties if they actually did something.Up until this weekend she was Alba’s leader in Holyrood.
There was one MSP - Ash Regan - who left the party a few days ago, for some reason or other. I think she lost out on a leadership vote.
Presumably a case of the People's Front for Caledonia versus the Caledonian People's Front.
With similar consequences...
Two issues not addressed in there come to my mind -
1. Armour doesn't stop mission kill if the delicate radars and optronics are destroyed by blast, leaving the ship as a partly blinded hulk.
2. What about under-keel torpedo (and diving missile) defence? Torpedo defence took a huge amount of battleshipo volume in WW2 and didn't work very well even then.
"Samuel Dodsworth: Derby rapist and kidnapper jailed for 24 years
A man who snatched a woman off the street and then raped her five times has been jailed for 24 years. Samuel Dodsworth's victim was on the way to work when he threatened her with a sharp can opener and forced her back to his flat. Dodsworth, 36, of Grange Street, Derby, previously admitted kidnap, false imprisonment and five counts of rape. Sentencing him at the city's crown court, Judge Shaun Smith QC called it "the most appalling case". He said: "You have ruined her life. It is impossible for anyone in this court to begin to imagine how she must feel.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-46551039
(I did make a bet with myself as to who was most likely to respond and, for once, I won the bet.)
Face hardened armour doesn’t protect against large explosive warheads (missiles). In fact it is a bad idea - it transmits the shock all over the ship (rigidity) and breaks into huge splinters which tear open compartments.
Large calibre guns are not very accurate and carry a tiny percentage of explosive in their shells.
If you take a battleship and get rid of the useless/detrimental armour and you change out the guns for missiles. You get…
Of course, as you say, that requirement - if it existed - could be matched in ways other than (again) recommissioning >80 year old ships.
I really can't guess how far Mr Trump is set on reusing the Iowas, or on a new class of vessel. The Iowas have been out of service for 35 years since their last reanimation. It's a matter of skills and staffing as much as anything else. For one thing, are they still equipped with the analogue mechanical fire control computers?
But it's not unknown to commission a battleship to act as a seaborne equivalent of Air Force One or the Britannia. HMS Vanguard was specifically modified to act as a giant Royal Yacht in the late 1940s.
You counter 2 by having dedicated ASW ships as escorts, which is what major navies do with their carriers.
WWII type battleships have marginal usefulness today. Their main role would be bombardment - a salvo of 9 x 16" shells every 30 seconds is an incredible amount of firepower. You can't jam, spoof or shoot down a wave of huge steel projectiles travelling at twice the speed of sound. But there's not much call for that now, particularly given even an upgraded battleship would have a firing range of something around 25 miles.
None of that matters if Trump really wants to do it.
The fact is that the SNP have never been straight about the economic deal. The "white paper" of their economic policies pre-Sindyref actually made me very angry- it was deeply unserious and was basically asking us to believe in pixie dust. There was and is no way that we can maintain a currency union with Sterling if we are going to go for independence, it is just the reality of economics. You have to accept it and provide serious answers, not pretending that it doesn't matter.
Had the Yes campaign actually turned round and said "look it won't be easy and things will be tough for a while, but it will be worth it", then I could have respected their position, but by pretending that it would all be sweetness and light from day one, it was basically fraud.
Then there is the SNP and the North East. Earlier today there were a few comments about the A9 and the A96. The fact is that despite bringing home the bacon from the North Sea fro the last 50 years, the North East got no serious infrastructure investment. The AWPR was delayed for over a decade, after Nicol Stephen had already agreed the deal, because the SNP "had other priorities". The Dundee Ring Road was in need of an upgrade 40 years ago- it needs to happen now.
The runway at Dyce is still too short to take jets direct from Houston or the Gulf- and owing to a major balls up with the AWPR there is no way the airport can ever really expand, and anyway the terminal should be moved back to the railway side if you were going to be serious about better public transport links. The Railway is not electrified to Aberdeen- it takes an average of 3 hours 8 minutes to get to Edinburgh- whereas Edinburgh-London generally takes just over 4 hours for more than twice the distance.
Local Police and Fire services are now, like much else, run from the central belt. Forty years ago we were talking about diversifying the local economy, but in fact with the closure of paper mills (like Taits), cloth (Crombie) the Loco works, the Police etc etc etc the fact is that the North East is in a very bad way economically now. The only mercy is that he SNP has been found out- their support is falling across the North east and the Highlands.
Good! They deserve to be punished for their witless, centralizing, incompetence.
Modern SAM system can easily shoot down 16" shells. A shoot down has been demonstrated on a 4.5" shell...
He is a politician.
Just like, apparently, Labour's manifesto contained no promise not to raise employers' NIC. (Even though it did).
Because 90* 8" shells a minute which are actually accurate enough to hit targets is better than 9 16" that... aren't.
*Yes, Ninety shells a minute. They specialised in firing a "shoot" then heading off, while multiple salvos of shells were in the air. And the first one hadn't landed yet.
The Des Moines and Salem didn't serve in Vietnam, they were stricken in 1961 and 1959 respectively. Only Newport News served that late, until 1975.
The Iowa guns weren't especially accurate to start with. Big guns generally have bigger dispersion. Then you add in aging propellant. Read the story of the Iowa explosion - it explains the hair raising lunacy that was going on, and attempts to increase accuracy that would have had Gunner Grant throwing people over the side.....
Swinney's plan also seems to involve exactly the same thought process Sturgeon had which is that HMG should, for...reasons..., have some innate sense of "fair play" about granting another indyref, when there is precisely no reason to think that they would and indeed plenty of existing evidence to suggest that they don't.
Swinney is a berk.
Very early morning with the mist over the lake, surrounded by redwoods, and no one around...
You might overdose on noom.
But honestly these redwood forests just get more and more spectacular - every time you’ve seen the ultimate they outdo themselves. Laced with mist, exploding with light, cedar-scented visions of the sublime, with some nice coffee stops
I’m off to another now. Jedediah Smith on the Cali Oregon border. Said to be maybe the best. I can’t see how it can be better than stuff I’ve already gasped at. It let’s have a go….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse
That hasn't changed since.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump on Orban: "Where's Viktor? Viktor, Viktor, we love Viktor. You are fantastic, alright? I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but I'm the only one that matters. You are fantastic. He's a great leader. I endorsed him the last election he had and he won by 28 points. You're gonna do even better this time when you have another election."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1977785950718570876
Starmer will then reject it and having used the dangled carrot of an indyref2 to get deluded SNP voters to the polls, he will carry on as FM with a majority to get his Holyrood laws through and enjoying his all expenses paid FM Georgian residence of Bute House
To shield policymakers from political influence, Federal Reserve Board governors are appointed to 14-year terms that are staggered to span multiple presidential administrations. This structure is designed to ensure that their decisions on monetary policy reflect economic conditions — not political agendas or threats of removal
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
@mmpadellan
You can tell the "War in Portland" is raging when a guy in a kilt and a Darth Vader mask (the Unipiper) can ride his unicycle, unaccosted, past folks dressed as sharks and Garfield, playing "This Land Is Your Land" on bagpipes.
KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD, Y'ALL
https://x.com/mmpadellan/status/1977509801686192564
Honestly. The bed-wetting
You can also cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito. That’s a blast
My brother was briefly halted on his entry to the US for having looked at the North Korean football teams website on his phone - he drew them is a sweepstake at work.
The best groves seem to have this everywhere. I think this is because it likes the damper conditions which have been lost in some previously felled areas and it is a good indicator that the Redwoods will do well.
They also seem to be native to Endor, if you can face watching the Ewoks.
The UK has finally appointed a National Armaments Director after months of delay
Rupert Pearce - chief executive of satellite operator Inmarsat until 2021 - will take on the role from Tuesday
His job (with one of the highest salaries in HMG) - to fix @DefenceHQ procurement...
https://x.com/haynesdeborah/status/1977739789244748239
Watching with interest to see what he does (eg) with the army contracts for obsolete armour.
So no surprise that Blair is trying to get his shoulders involved.
It's just that as they're relatively young, they haven't grown as tall yet. I'll never live to see if they do.
There are also a lot of secondary growth woodlands in coastal California, even if they haven't yet reached 110m tall.