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Rural greens have been caught NIMBYing against solar panels, the Greens are just green-tory-NIMBYs in deepest Sussex, Herefordshire etc.
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Rural greens have been caught NIMBYing against solar panels, the Greens are just green-tory-NIMBYs in deepest Sussex, Herefordshire etc.
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I think there was a always big split between old tech (Sun, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft etc) from earlier and the later starters like Google and many 90s/00s startups
If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:
British food discourse is usually pointless arguing over stuff that doesn’t matter, but the blatant hypocrisy of “food brought by immigrants to America is American, food brought by immigrants to Britain is not British” will never not infuriate me
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Japanese curry also derives from British sailors and curry powder too, so from India to Japan via the Royal Navy
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
"no pro-EU party anywhere to the right of the Greens" They're called the Liberal Democrats
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely meant to be 825,000.00 but someone's messed up. Funny.
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You're a yank, jog on
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a subtlty with the England flag, if it's up during a big sporting event it's likely benign but having it up randomly outside that means there's an 80% chance you're dealing with a facebook racist or the EDL.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Yanks always do this, anyone who isn't white doesn't count as British to them. They have a bizarre view of this country that's stuck in about 1952
These ppl straight up have brain damage
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
It's just racist posturing, the telegraph was calling the parents of the same kids chavs 20 years ago
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Pointless, what jurisdiction is a US court going to have over the UK?
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Everywhere does this differently, when the house of commons first meets to elect a speaker, the longest serving MP presides temporarily. Just don't think about them electing the speaker before they're sworn in.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing says patriotism like cheap chinese made flags cable tied to motorway flyovers
This is not how housing markets work. Landlords don't see high rents (for plush newbuild flats with private gyms etc), decide to raise theirs and magically find a tenant willing to pay it for the shabby old terrace. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Also WW2, the government of Germany was declared to have ceased to exist by the allies, a state of total capitulation. The allies then declared all acts of the Nazi governnent null and void, and wrote the two new German states new constitutions!
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He and Katy Perry both admitted their careers were over when they did bad avertisements for the UK equivalent of door dash.
Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
I suspect most people answering that thought of film/tv stars and not the vast majority of actors in stage shows or doing advertising work
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Polling shows the average person thinks MP salaries are like 5% of government spending, the electorate are innumerate.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh and the UK supreme court only has jurisdiction for appeals in scotland for civil cases, and criminal questions specifically about human rights, but not generally over criminal cases in Scotland. Really consistent!
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
I present to you England and Wales' mess. Until 2006 we had no supreme court and the final court of appeal was a committee of the house of lords (i.e. the legislature).
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
These two are apparently sovereign citizen type nutters.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
It's just happened again, a group of Sihks visiting the seaside being accused of being asylum seekers and claims that Haven parks will be used. bsky.app/profile/fost...
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
And also leads to things coming out matching what was popular the best part of a decade earlier
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"If it is considered necessary, the Commission can recommend a constituency with an electorate lower than the minimum if it is larger than 12,000 square kilometres. No constituency can be larger than 13,000 square kilometres" www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk?q=reviews/20...
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
The rules do actually allow for undersized constituencies in terms of electorate, if a constituency is too large, but none of the Scottish seats hit the size needed for that which is 12,000 square km.
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"The water between them is part of Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston ward in the Bristol North West constituency,"
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"the Boundary Commission for England ... said: "Flat Holm is part of Butetown ward, in the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in Wales, and Steep Holm is part of Weston-super-Mare Hillside ward in the Weston-Super-Mare constituency." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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"Flat Holm is part of Wales, part of .. the UK parliamentary constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Holm
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This is worse than you think, those islands are actually one in a Cardiff constituency and one in WSM, but both have no population. That boundary is purely an area of sea because Bristol City council has a bizarre maritime boundary.
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The constituencies south and west of leeds were very poor in the previous set of boundaries tok
Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Saw some news earlier that 95% of business AI pilots have gone negatively. It looks like the reset is slowly appearing.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
The town itself was only built because of the mine, so it's a little different to them undermining something already there
Warhammer 40,000 Ecclesiarchy Mobile Siege-Cathedra prepares to deploy annunciation-engines
If Reeves scraps stamp duty and reforms council taxation I’ll vote for Labour again. Britain needs to desperately reform its atrocious and maddening current property taxation. Big bold property tax reforms will bring the growth the UK so desperately needs taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/18/h...
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Oh yes, turn the political binfire into an international relations binfire too, I'm sure that'll work
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This was so predictable too. They could have just charged them all with criminal tresspass and criminal damage and been done with it but instead they've constructed foot cannons and blown their feet off yet again
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There's that quote about the FT, something like "it doesn't lie to its readers because they expect to use it to make money"
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Every time in these photos 90% of the people are over 50. Every time.
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Bowel blockage update?
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Given he won 3 swing states that elected D senators, almost entirely through people dot voting him and nothing downballot, and how Desantis doing a trump impression bombed, I think it collapses without him.
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At least that's what the British far right are now saying.
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Their focus seems to be neo-nazi revisionist rubbish, "if he had left poor mr hitler alone we'd still have the empire".
the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media
Although actually I just properly read it again and this part is now, unfortunately, darkly ironic
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
The UK was never part of Schengen
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
A320s are a 8 inches wider than 737s, so usually the seats fitted are each an inch wider and the aisle is 2 inches wider. Small but noticeable difference
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
He suggested we should just ask Putin if the Novichok was his, which was ludicrous. One of the points where the wheels really came off his leadership.
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They need to raise income tax and also do some wealth/consumption taxes at the same time, throw in a luxury tax (extra VAT?) on cars >100k, houses >2 million, super yachts, handbags > 5k etc
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FPTP needs to go
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Models tightly trained on chemistry or materials science are finding all sorts of stuff (for people to then investigate experimentally after!) Chat bots are the least interesting usecase by far.
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
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Even those voters staying at home would be fine, obviously you'd rather they were in your column but 2nd best is them not bothering
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My understanding for E&W is that spouses inherit on the death of the other and don't pay any inheritance tax. Then when the widow(er) dies they pay inheritance tax on the entire estate but get to use two lots of the normal tax free allowance. There's no probate, the widow(er) inherits immediately.
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Even amongst those who didn't flee, promotion became politicised and you often got to be high up due to party loyalty rather than competence
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
"Vector spaces", famously a term invented by computer scientists and never used anywhere else
grotesque abuse of law
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a way the UK census and other UK data sets try to encompass class based on profession. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_soc...
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These are all crimes, for which they should be prosecuted, but I don't think they're terrorism. Otherwise you'd have to put extinction rebellion, anti-nuclear protestors from the 1970s and more on the proscribed groups lists too. You can prosecute this under the law without using terror charges.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
So prosecute them for those crimes then If they're not being violent against people in pursuit of political goals, they're not a terror group.
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There's also a bit more slack built into timetables, so if there are small delays they get made back up.
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This is why good bus services are incredibly important, lets the elderly give up driving without leaving them stranded
A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.
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I can only hope for Labour narrow minority but just enough they have to ask the lib dems for confidence/supply, at the cost of electoral reform
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The UK's carveouts are mostly sensible. Most food, books, children's clothing.
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I was only using "cult" because the original poster I replied to used the term
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Labour very clearly only won because the tories were hated and everyone tactically voted to kick their local tory. The labour and lib dem vote shares by seat have a -0.71 correlation due to tactical voting! No idea how they missed this
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That a cult around Corbyn couldn't work, the man was incredibly unpopular only beaten by like Liz Truss and now Starmer.
I dont think there's been a worse government decision in terms of sheer immediate injustice, time-wasting, overreach for quite a while in the UK. lots that had *longer term* implications but this has been a shameful disaster.
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Whataboutism about Starmer is irrelevant to the point, I am not a Labour supporter
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Definitely a hybrid regime type thing not a full dictatorship
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He resigned after badly losing an election by being even less popular than Boris Johnson. Look up the leader polling from 2019, Boris was underwater but Corbyn even worse.
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Hilarious, Khan is a bog standard soft left Labour politician here
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
That stat isn't even that bad, London is 20% of the population of England and Wales so 1/3rd of the crime is above average but not many times higher...
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you Assassin's Creed 2, got it in 1
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The unions are also much weaker and less representative now than they were 50 years ago.
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
The line between civil disobedience and terror should be groups that have or aim to harm people are terror groups, groups that aim to damage property or be a nuisance are not. If they have evidence of PA planning terror, show us.
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They'd broken into a base and committed criminial damage, just do the group and leaders for criminal tresspass and criminal damage! It's a joke to put them on the same list as ISIS and atomwaffen for spray painting an aircraft.
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Had Germany still been holding on in August 1945 I have no doubt we'd be remembering atom bombings of like Lubeck and Hannover instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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To remembered WW2 air raid sirens you'd have to be at least 85 at this point, bet this is a boomer born in the 1950s.
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It's gone up a little because the government increased employer payroll taxes and the minimum wage, so the bank expects it to rise to ~4% later in the year and then drop back down towards 2%
Oh you absolutely useless wankers
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At least the quotes read in a very stilted way that makes me think of poor machine translation.
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Clickbait headline and/or bad translation I think, the actual article mentions livestock and animals that are needing to be put down anyway?
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Sitting in a Wetherspoons pub in Stansted airport for a pint at 5am is a British classic
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There's been a bunch of good stuff on worker's rights, green energy and housing, but the comms in its entirety and half the policy is just awful.
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Add in getting random retired tennis players from the 1980s in on a panel to shout over each other
It would be insane if the BBC's Wimbledon coverage combined not showing the scores with vaguely mocking anyone interested enough to watch a third round doubles match and making it unhelpful to the casual viewer, but this is basically what they did last year with the election.
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There was a point where lots of declarations began coming in, maybe 2.30am, and the BBC had Neil Kinnock in chuntering on for about half an hour. Why? Who wants to hear from retired politicians from the 1980s?
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They also explained everything like speaking to a 12 year old, when the only people up at 3am for the declaration in dunny-on-the-wold are clued-in politics nerds anyway. They can explain stuff in the first hour after the exit poll then normal people go to bed!
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Too many young activists? The average dem elected is approximately 1000 years old
Exo_genesis2 (@exogenesis2.bsky.social) reply parent
Sky was the best for showing declarations live last year. BBC and ITV were both woeful
127/ British election night coverage needs to go completely back to the drawing board. It has become a pointless mess of endless talking heads, with results and analysis seemingly seen as an inconvenient side show. You have most of the best psephologists in the country working with you – use them!
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He opening one about the waiter and paninis is pure "and then everyone clapped" facebook rubbish
Each of the anecdotes mentioned here has a real RS Archer quality to it.
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There are way less assaults on a Friday night outside the pub at closing time now, that used to be a big chunk of recorded crime.