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The Flight Engineer’s station was pretty intimidating…

The Watch thread is over there >>>

How about Project Orion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
) ... nuclear explosion powered spaceflight!

Edit - sorry, the closing bracket doesn't get recognised here, but the link on the project orion name works

Leveling up continues to go well

Under the new student-loans repayment system, the highest earners will pay £20,000 less over their lifetimes. Middle-earners will pay £20,000 more, and lower earners £30,000 more

Reasonably, it does now mean that:

More than 70 per cent of graduates will repay in full under the new system compared with about 20 per cent now.

https://www.ft.com/content/a7a8725e-11a1-4cef-8309-86a3bf98e38d

I'm gonna have to stop encouraging my kid to be good at school.

I'm no fan of the Taxpayers Alliance,
but,
this list may be interest:
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/ten_takeaways_from_town_hall_rich_list_2022

For the record Mespilus Towers is in the referenced LB Hillingdon

Some council chief executives have seen their salaries surge much faster than the average British worker in the past fifteen years.

How does that compare with other chief executives rises in the last 15 years?

A quick email to the TPA might get you the comparative data?

I'm skeptical. The TPA seem to think that people should work for public sector bodies for the love of the job and not get paid a similar salary to someone that has a similar role in a similar sized private company.

I'm unhappy about the difference in salary between a cleaner and a chief exec, in both public and private sectors. Bring on the revolution.

Quite an interesting move from the US authorities, presumably having a friend in Biden has helped the Irish government . Few UK boxers are going to have to have a long think

https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0412/1291797-kinahan-us/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61083402

BBC reporting that Johnson and Sunak will be issued with fines.

Pork markets.

Johnson will hide behind Ukraine, can see sunak shuffled out though

How can they shuffle one and not the other?

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

They broke the law they made. Positions untenable ordinarily. Swept under carpet shortly no doubt though.

Right - fuck off the both of you and take the rest of the cunts too. Thanks.

And Carrie being fined too.

Tbh, I don't so much care about the breaking the rules. I knew what was going on in Downing St during lockdown from talking to people who were working there at the time. Some people broke the rules. Big whoop. Its the fucking denials and cover ups that are the resigning offence.

It's also about the basis on which law makers are given mandate to make law. That the rule of law applies to them too. If that basis is removed then you really don't have a liberal democracy, you have an authoritarian dictatorship.

By day after tomorrow you'll never hear about it again

And its not even just the people involved lying that has fucked me off. Its the various Tory MPs who have variously said:

(to be clear, i'm paraphrasing)

"Everybody broke the rules during lockdown...why the big fuss?"
"Breaking the law is not necesarily a resigning offence"
"The prime minister did not lie"
"The prime minister told the truth to the best of his ability"
"People were expected to let steam off now and again during lockdown"

Etc etc etc

Fuck them all.

And finally, the worst one of the lot.

"The PM should not be expected to resign because he had some cake".

FUCK OFF! It is not about the cake! Its about a prime minister who is subverting democracy by being a massive fucking liar.

Hopefully someone will update the Wikipedia entry for examples of FPNs with these examples in order that it’s not forgotten

I knew what was going on

We should have a Stonehedge thread for all the inside scoop on all the things