General Election 2024

oh man, that Labour dot being so far into the authoritarian right quadrant is not nice to see. Compare to 2019: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2019

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Couldn’t agree more - that wasn’t some gotcha moment, it was just two economically illiterate cunts talking at cross purposes. Reform’s manifesto isn’t hard to pull apart from a tax standpoint but it requires someone with a brain cell to do it.

can I throw my hat in with my OUTRAGE at the awful misuse of the word "exponentially" in all sorts of media commentariat

The Economist style guide book actually calls this out specifically:

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All frogface had to do was clarify but that would have meant conceding and he's so fragile, bad tempered and dismissive he couldn't bring himself to do it till the end.

It's a bullshit proposal that will never happen but political figures shouldn't have massive strops when questioned. Susanne even looked over her glasses at him, that's how strongly she felt.

Well done The Economist!

One more for fun

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Snigger

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Brewing up nicely:

@peterwalker99 Implying that someone deliberately did poor work
because of political bias is a very serious allegation. I hope Reform
consulted some lawyers.

https://x.com/peterwalker99/status/1803039625125978533

Should have hired vettingvetting.com to vet the vetters

I would've done it for £140K

I would've covered my ass by saying "I'm going to AI vet them"... and then just ask ChatGPT about each, and forward that to them.

Good enough.

Trouble is there’s too many cowboys.

You really need a veteran vetter vetter.

I could've solved that by having an AI vetter check the AI vetter.

They should've asked me, I would've done a quality job that wouldn't have stitched them up at all, no sir, not I,

Is vote swapping worthwhile? My seat is always so nailed on for Labour that the only point in voting is to take a cats at polling stations pic.

I could've solved that by having an AI vetter check the AI vetter.

You're putting yourself out of business here VB

Even I could could have done the AI vetting thing and I'm a cycle trainer.

Also sorry to dredge the decimate thing but my meaning when I used the term this morning was to reduce the Tories to 10% (leaving them with 34 seats) rather by 10%

My AI mate told me after I asked them 'What does decimate mean in common parlance'

In common parlance, "decimate" typically means to inflict severe damage or destruction on something, resulting in a significant reduction in its size, strength, or number. While the term originally referred to killing one in every ten soldiers as a form of military discipline in ancient Rome, its contemporary usage does not usually adhere to this precise ratio. Instead, it conveys a more general sense of widespread devastation or substantial decrease

Quis scrutabitur ipsos scrutatores?

(my conjugation is probably to pot...)

I've not read the details of any of these school offerings so going with what makes sense.

I've had to book a builder 2 years in advance before, price for his labour was paid for and fixed. Not tried 5 year project.

I used the term this morning was to reduce the Tories to 10%

yes yes, but can we go further, do we have ambition here... what about reduce to 1%, that sounds like a worthy goal

You mean Centimate them

Yup totally with you

I used to think there will always be something operating under the banner of the 'Conservative Party'.
Bitd, fundraising was much more locally sourced, with constituency parties running Tory social clubs at the (supposed) heart of communities, raising money from bring'n'buy sales, dinner dances, raffles, and just the profits from running a drinking club on mainly voluntary labour. This always struck me as being part of the One Nation Tory tradition.
These days Sunak can just ask the Frank Hestors of the world for £5m &£10m donations.
Before this level of graft, the Tories were selling access to ministers, even if only tennis with the buffoon.
Whether these ignored local clubs are now populated solely by those attracted by charlatans from Johnson, through Truss to Reform, I don't know, but modern political fund raising is cut adrift from community participation.

Perhaps we should have much lower spending on politics, linked to turnout.

just dragging myself out of the rabbit hole that i went down after clicking that link, thank you very much!

The test is always good fun, would be interesting to see where people in this thread generally land

https://x.com/LBC/status/1803001640322031762?t=M_rR1Lru03T8FHhvYguw3Q&s=19

😂

just chat some shit about "country first" or whatever FFS.

always with the Jimbly Crubbins.

lolz

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I was expecting to be much closer to the centre!!!

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