Green policies are popular – politicalbetting.com
Green policies are popular – politicalbetting.com
The Greens have proposed capping top wages in a company at 10x the level of the lowest wages – a move that 65% of Britons would supportStrongly support: 41%Somewhat support: 24%Somewhat oppose: 10%Strongly oppose: 7%yougov.com/en-gb/daily-…
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Is there a multiplicative factor at which anyone thinks the answer would change in their head? i.e. I wouldn't support that at 10x, but maybe at 1000x or whatever. Or is it a blanket no never no?
This is absolutely right and something I, and IIRC Luckyguy, have warned.
But too many people seem to regard the greens as warm, cuddly, friends, and as long as they oppose reform they’re okay.
They’re not.
It's what they do.
A Labour backbencher has called for the pension triple lock to be reformed to help fund a rise in defence spending
@GraemeDownieMP wrote in The House this weekend that the government should be brave enough to ask older people who "benefited financially from peace" to make a greater contribution to future national security
https://x.com/politicshome/status/2045404479185404105
Someone argued that because of how potentially damaging social media can be it is worth trying even if you don't think it will definitely work, but that seems so reckless to me, to take forward something even if you don't think it will address the problem.
I'd say that is worse than taking something forward that doesn't work - and many people said it would not work - because you at least believe it will.
That this terrible idea is so popular (majority support even from Conservative voters) is pointing to something being perceived as wrong with the current economic order.
So what is that something, and what is the small-c-conservative-reform-to-avoid-revolution policy that improves that wrong?
Non pension benefits up by 6.4% this year.
Link both to GDP growth.
https://bsky.app/profile/luketryl.bsky.social/post/3mjfro2plme2p
We know that there are unknown unknowns; there are things we don't know that we don't know. You're on safe ground with those.
We also know there are unknown knowns; that is to say there are some things that are known, but that we haven't been told about. You're usually in the clear with those.
But there are also known knowns—the ones that are known and that we have also been told about. Avoid these at all costs because these are the ones that risk getting you into trouble.
I'm just not entirely sure that, on top of the economic shocks the country has endured over the last decade, we'd ever recover from it.
Trump's US wants both to abandon any commitment to Europe, and to continue to impose its will on us.
While using our bases at will.
The United States opposes any efforts to incorporate European preference in the EU Defense Procurement Directive. We fully support European rearmament and a revitalization of the European defense industrial base. However, European preference in the Directive would undermine member state flexibility to make national procurement purchases, hinder European rearmament efforts, create barriers for Allies reaching NATO capability targets, and run counter to European commitments in the 2025 U.S.-EU Joint Statement on trade and Reciprocal Defense Procurement Agreements.
https://x.com/USAmbEU/status/2024890708985880654
Olly Robbins has now been sacked for not telling him; he was not allowed to tell him according to the rules, but Mr Rules sacked him anyway
I do think the agenda of the current Green Party in the UK is sheer lunacy. But I cannot put this down to a general fault with 'populism' - which I think is just an insulting term for 'popular'.
We are constantly being told how awful and dangerous it would be if the great unwashed should get their way, but I think this is rubbish. It is put about by corrupt people who want to extract an awful lot of money, and claim that in so doing they are helping the world.
HMG will enter the market as protecting the growers, refiners, suppliers and distributors. Start our own cartel.
The Armed forces will be the enforcers - the money raised will be used to improve the defence budget.
Suitably managed, we can go world wide and improve the balance of payments as well.
{I went to school with scions of the Keswick family from Hong Kong}
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BREAKING: The US military is preparing to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships in international waters, per WSJ.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2045523520860418505
Physician heal thyself as they say.
However it would be trivially easy to get round. And, frankly, it's all the rest of their policies and the far too many utterly nasty fruitloops they have representing them which are the problem.
Anyway since we are into green matters and before TSE revokes my license to derail every thread into CycleFree's Big Gardening Adventure, here is my crag. This may not look like much now but imagine pretty much this entire area covered in nettles and brambles and me manfully hacking away at it all (90% of it done).
I do quite a lot of the less glamorous gardening work first thing in my nightie and if anyone is tempted to do the same and nettles and brambles are involved, remember to wear pants. This, I will confidently say, is the most useful advice you will receive on this thread. Why I have not been made Starmer's special advisor I cannot imagine. The poor man looks like he has got nettles permanently in his pants.
Now I have the pleasure of creating an alpine rockery and herb garden. The photo was taken ca an hour or so ago. This is, by the way, less than 20% of the entire garden. I really need to get someone to help me because my increasingly dodgy and often painful pelvis stops me doing hard physical work for hours at a time.
Eldest Son tells me I should find a Village Boy to help me, as if I lived in a world made of Miss Marples and Obliging Youths on Bicycles. Or, more likely, entering my Margaret Rutherford years.
PS Montbretia - or crocosmia - is like a weed here. I could never grow it successfully in London. But here it takes over if given half a chance. Lovely plant but a thug.
I will never ever trust the Conservative Party again.
I will never forget how they failed the British people on immigration.
https://x.com/SuellaBraverman/status/2044425985504735524#m
Corporatism solutions don't work in the 2020s because the nation-state is fucked. Neoliberalism solutions don't work in the 2020s because we are knee-deep in debt and cannot match taxes and benefits, in part because the nation-state is fucked. So we need to rebuild the nation-state, not in a Faragist flags-and-parades way, but as a functioning entity. So
- 1: take control of the borders. Yes that does mean turning back the boats and imposing customs barriers at the NI/IRE border. And if the IRA version whatever kicks off, deal with it. Allow inward migration to those who can pay for it.
- 2: impose export controls. Tax people who leave the country to live, confiscate assets and businesses taken abroad, impose "golden shares" to stop them being taken abroad
- 3: create British versions of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. Then tax the US versions if they want to access the UK
In short, everything that crosses the border, in either direction, gets taxed. When you have done that, then you can work out what to do.Braverman was born on 3 April 1980 in Harrow, London, and raised in Wembley. She is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who immigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively.
If you want to pay your CEO more than x times min wage, you sack all the cleaners and receptionists, use some sort of outsourcing agency, and bingo your wage ratio is back in spec.
They are employed by the building management company. We just rent space from them.
We don’t have secretaries anymore. A couple of our own receptionists.
Both first generation immigrants. Yeah, indeed.
Their reason - they are both women and don’t like a certain kind of immigration.
Maybe it’s not knowing enough of the gammon types - but this certainly surprised me.
Not so much to recommend herself as an improvement.
1) Gig economy. Hand to mouth. Barely minimum wage.
2) Blue collar skilled jobs. Plumbers. Ranged from poor to self employed and doing well.
3) Low end white collar. Shitty offices, pay, prospects & treatment.
4) High end white collar. Shiny office, Herman Miller chairs. Treatment is good - not so much because of morals as HR is professional and follow the law exactly to minimise liability.
The world of 4 isn’t directly connected to the other layers. The days of vast conglomerates that encompassed all the layers are long gone. Each layer buys services from the others.
One had been radicalised by living in Tower Hamlets - there, if you are not part of the corrupt political machine and are poor, you are given the shitty end of the stick by local government. Who are quite upfront about it.
The Greens could become Revert.
The US can get away with that stuff, just about, but we're both too much dependant on trade, and have insufficient size and influence to do the same.
There's a reason we don't do that.
The idea is that when the economy slips into recession, then the government acts in a naturally balancing manner. Essentially, the economy is contracting because aggregate demand is falling.
If you reduce people's incomes by sharing -say- a fixed pool of unemployment benefit among a greater number of people, then it will have all sorts of slightly odd effects.
For example, when the economy is growing that will mean that that unemployment benefits will start growing. So at a time when the economy needs people to come off the sidelines, you're increasing unemployment benefits.
Conversely, if you are unemployed, and the economy is in the toilet, then knowing your unemployment cheque is likely to get smaller over time will discourage you from spending, reducing aggregate demand further.
Basically: government tax and benefits are deliberately -even with Keynesian spending- counter-cyclical.
So it depends on the policy asked about
Northern Ireland is a majestic part of the world. Despite the rain. And the troubled history has spared it from ravaging mass tourism
I always lazily presumed the Elizabethans settled this part of Ireland because it was the nearest. Now I suspect they did it because it is the most desirable
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZATMtNpzBKCLwE07hwgPc?si=NKnh9Y-nS_OAwtaR2jgrzA
So we can’t be outflanked on immigration.
My suspicion is that civil service under Johnson and others got used to operating in a much more political way at the top and ignoring their code. And so we now have a cadre of senior leadership that have forgotten their responsibilities.
You shouldn't get a do-over for electoral fraud, so you can be better at it next time.
Pre my last relationship, I dated a few Eastern European women, and they were pretty relaxed about their racism. One had been chatted up by a black bloke on the train on the way to our date, and was genuinely flabbergasted that he would even think she’d be interested
So link to earnings growth then ?
Howe soon is now !
I'm not a massive fan of the policy - I'm sure it would be hard to enforce and would probably create unintended consequences - but opponents damage their credibility by claiming that it would be simultaneously ineffective and destroy the Premier League.
If only they worked.
Take out half the missiles and use for storage.
So the clubs couldn't set up a separate limited company for either the players or the lower paid staff.
So, for example, the pension or bonus schemes of the bosses could only be a small multiplier of the pension and bonus schemes of the workers in percentage terms. I wouldn't target the base salary.
And there would be some measures around how linkages flow between companies.
The boss of the banks would probably get around some of it with outsourcing, the boss of OCS UK perhaps less so.
PB isn't what it once was. I'm sure its a lack of red meat.
Now, which price plan can I sell you party membership on?
Look elsewhere.
…and one evening in walks Dinsdale with a couple of big lads, one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I had bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it
2nd Interviewer: How much did they want?
Vercotti: They wanted three quarters of a million pounds.
2nd Interviewer: Why didn't you call the police?
Vercotti: Well I had noticed that the lad with the thermonuclear device was the chief constable for the area.
I think it genuinely broke NUFC.
The club with the richest owners in the world had to bend the knee to plucky little Liverpool.
And I am sipping some wine as I contemplate the view from my bedroom
Tisza have 141 seats , they won 96 of the 106 constituency seats and 45 from the national list . This is a comfortable supermajority with 133 needed to be able to change the constitution.
Fidesz have 52 seats , they win just 10 of the constituency seats , 42 from the national list and it could have been even worse , they held onto 3 constituency seats each by under 300 votes .
Mi Hazank have 6 seats all from the national list .
A truly wonderful result for the opposition. It felt more like the Iron Curtain coming down and seeing so much happiness and also tears of joy from the opposition voters really hit home how lucky we are to live in a proper democracy.
Sometimes you don’t really appreciate what you have until it’s almost gone !
Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wreaking havoc on Israel's standing with Americans as the Iran war supercharges a deterioration in relations with the U.S.
Why it matters: Israel's polling collapse among younger Americans is hitting Congress, too. Lawmakers who started out staunchly pro-Israel are becoming increasingly vocal critics.
Why it matters: Israel's polling collapse among younger Americans is hitting Congress, too. Lawmakers who started out staunchly pro-Israel are becoming increasingly vocal critics.
"We need to have a discussion about how to normalize that relationship and what change is necessary; there's no doubt about that," Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) told Axios.
Zoom in: Every Senate Democrat who's eyeing a 2028 presidential run voted against arms sales to Israel in votes earlier this week.
40 Senate Dems voted on a resolution to block arms sales to Israel, up from just 15 on a similar vote last April.
Netanyahu is "destroying the bipartisan nature in terms of support for Israel," Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) told Punchbowl News.
Over in the House, some Democrats are turning against defensive support, including funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
That was "seen as insanely fringe four years ago," Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) told Axios.
But multiple Democrats who voted for Iron Dome in 2021 told Axios they're done providing financial aid.
The big picture: Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel, according to recent Pew polling.
For every other group, Israel's favorability has collapsed since 2022.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/18/israel-us-support-congress-netanyahu
But then the castle is faux 19th century and not especially beautiful. It’s not like they desecrated a medieval jewel
And also, judging by the photos in the lobby, the entire place was burned out and derelict. So my guess is the authorities agreed to the big modern extension on the grounds that someone would save the old building and make it useful
And the grounds are exceptionally lovely, melting into the mountains of Mourne. Reminds me strongly of the way Gidleigh Park blurs into Dartmoor
Astonishing to say our three big signings last summer have only played 115 minutes together all season.