"sorry, my dog inadvertently shat on your doorstep, it's not my fault"
Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 2d ago"The agent, which is an autonomous computer program [DESIGNED BY PEOPLE], accessed the statistics portal"
Richard Blogger
@richardblogger.bsky.social
Patient advocate, activist, campaigner. Pragmatically left of centre. Considering all the autoimmune conditions I have, I am clearly allergic to me
Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 2d agoI've said this many times in the past, but thankfully not recently "oh just fuck off Nick Clegg"
Its quite fun listening to other pollsters saying "of course we do not use the nefarious methods identified by the JL Partners/Reform sting". They all do it! We need to ban polls during the General Election purdah period
Defecting from Reform to Green says more about the Greens than Reform. #senedd
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
"if you taxed me less I'll return to Britain" is the sort of person I really don't want here
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat surprises me is that people who have left Britain for the sake of their own greed still feel entitled to express an opinion about the country.
I was nodding away as I read this thread. But the last point of this graphic is wrong. MH was actually considered important as you can see from the contents of the white paper for the 1946 Act
Chris Clarke@warringfictions.bsky.social · 5d ago16/ (The last is about four junctures in the cradle to grave ideal of social security, which the post-war settlement did not and could not account for).
Second NATS failure in a month. Privatisation was such a success
Really think Charles Spenser has an unhealthy obsession with his sister
Dear Donald Trump, to have a Triumphal Arch you first have to triumph. No doing too well with the Iran War, are you?
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 6d agoI can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.
Medieval wall paintings, in the 13th century St Giles church, Packwood
Listening to #BBCAQ and the Tory MP makes it sound like Piddlington is in the middle of nowhere. It isn't. It is SIX MILES from Bicester. Slightly further to M40. Its a fair bet that most people in that village work in the finance markets in London since no ordinary person can afford to live there
Layla Moran saying "if this was the private sector they would be sacked" with no evidence. There is ZERO public oversight over what happens in private hospitals. No public safety reports. No complaints reports. No incident reports. By law NHS hospitals make these public. Lib Dems are dim
And Jenrick says that it is "legal". Would that be the same Jenrick who as a Housing minister was doing personal deals with housing developers? perhaps he should not be the judge of what is right, moral or legal?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother £36m for Farage from another crypto billionaire (the one who previously gave him £5m). UK politics - and the UK itself - is being bought.
There is a lot of hysteria about AI at the moment, but nothing about the AI companies. If we want control over the development of AI then its clear what to do: nationalise the AI companies.
Crypto in untraceable. We do not know if "crypto billions" are made legitimately since it's so easy to use it to make billions from crime. Hence we must treat all crypto as dirty money. Prove it's legit.
Oh gosh these newspaper reviewer guests on R4 BH are awful
Wouldn't it be funny if Tories and Reform spend their election war chests in the next year and Burnham holds out for a 2029 election!
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w agoA good source told me yesterday that the Tories are convinced there's going to be a summer 2027 election and are working to that timetable...
Waiting for plumbers to leave so I can have lunch...
Laffer on R4. He asserts a figure tha "for every £1 in tax raised it costs the private sector £5' he was not asked where he got this ludicrous figure
US is low tax? US "state pension" social security is a payroll tax of 6.2% on on wages up to a cap of $3,548pw. Median pay in US is $1,251, so the cap is high. The UK equivalent is NIC which is 8% (£242pw to £967pw) and then 2% over £967pw. Median UK is £750pw
Oh FFS we thought we were getting rid of Reform. The council was going to be split in two, one Reform led the other most likely LD. Currently we have minority Reform aided by Tories abstaining
Ed Hammond@se13ed.bsky.social · 3w agoEmerging that Government will this afternoon announce plans to pause the process of English local government reorganisation pending a review. So where are councils now?
One thing we know about Farage is that he uses people and "it's all their fault". In this case, it's his family. I reckon after this statement Reform have put him on Resignation Watch.
Mark@quigonsmith.bsky.social · 3w agoNo way is this man sticking it out until 2029 then asking us to make him PM until he’s 70.
They all parked somewhere. I'm guessing they are not too careful about buying tickets or keeping to the time they bought, so it should be possible to identify their cars. The masks are not to avoid the police attention. They are there to intimidate us.
HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 3w ago🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.
