Sorta surprised no one has compared a G7 summit. Where nothing much can happen due to coming elections.
To his parties commitment to D Day. Seems clear Risky Sunk gaining one last chance, to talk to the world most wealthy world leaders. Before he looks for a job.
Was way more important to his campaign team. Then taking the last chance to morn d day victims with people who actually experienced the day.
Bo members of his team scheduled a short interview today?
First remember pubs do not exist. They are entirely fictional. They were created to confuse potential invaders during the 2nd World War.
Basically pubs are public toilets containing the most dangerous people in the UK. Improv actors. Designed to confuse the shit out of foreign agents.
OP is rational enough to be considering the alterative.
Your statement has no logic. As you are basically saying you prefer the tories in opposition to the lib dems. Because the lib dems helped the tories once.
You live in a fptp system. So when you reject people voting lib dem tactically. You are openly choosing the party with most support in those constituencies. Not some wonderful utopia where you get to choose a party you agree with on everything.
That option simply dose not exist as an option to lead the UK. Not without first changing the UK to some form of proportional system.
Under FPTP your choice is to vote for the lesser of 2 evils or be by default voting for the greater.
DWP can"r really don't want to find report on universal credit safty that PMs unit told it to write. But the PM told them to hide when he realised he had to call an election.
I mean this is basically little more then a conspiracy theory. But can anyone clai they don't think thisnis what happened.
Honestly. This seems more like a publity stunt then news.
Lets face it. He is running for an independent party. As an ex Labour MP he knows full well the rules mean leaving labour as a member.
So the fact that he did not do so. Is at best forgetting. But way more likely an attempt to gain this very news article. Because lets face it. Small party constituency candidates. Do not get the news he would be used to under labour.
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Island has a population of 2k. So if no one else has been reported missing.
Laughing at a rather dumb joke ain't so bad. Tastless but honestly we can all grin at the odd inappropriate joke.
What is utterly disgusting is failing to comment along the lines. "I am sure that is untrue." Followed by some speal supporting the hard word doctors do.
The former sorta shows he is human. But without the latter it becomes clear evidence. That he dose not respect the staff working for the NHS.
He had an oppertunity to turn his plan into an sales pitch in how it can help GPS and the rest of the NHS. Because lets face it most GP practices are already trying to do it to some extent. With nurses taking over many duties at different levels.
The issue is that while on paper this is far from a bad idea. It is being presented by a PM who has continued to disrespect the BHS staff and the work they do. As has his party from at least the 1980s.
Hard to be sure without knowing the exact tech developed. How efficient that is on defferent fuels will have an effect on how much effort is placed into gaining those fuels.
Of course if real options exist the easiest to obtain fuel will be used. Capatalism will ensure that. Though honestly so would most other systems.
But let's face it. If mankind was able to generate plenty of cheap energy.
The people profiting of limited resources supply now. Will not go away. And invest what they have in controlling supply. So expect some fairly unpredictable polical moves during the roll out.
I am not actually thinking of this as a choice.
My point is we need to convince enouth people it is possible and important enough. That Starmer or Rishi Responding to the petition with their usual waffle will achive something that terrifies and elected PM.
The first 100 days ending up with lower polling numbers then the election.
The UK has since the days of TV. Judged a politician on how that handle the first 100 days. And in general the UK is pretty forgiving. To the point PMs failing to out last a lettuce was almost unheard of. Much more so post even a close election. Every PM is considered to have a mandate at that point. So the laws he or she tries to pass are considered to be the most direct will of the people. (despite fptp meaning only 30% often choose that leader).
So while Sunak polls are so low its hard to imagine anything coming across as negative if he some how pulls a win.
Stammer already has worries about being less popular dispite the potential of a big win. Polling wise. He like most will be keen to avoid anything that looks like betrayal in that first 100 days where polling is watched closly by media.
So that is where our power lies. If we can get the support on social media. And form a well worded petition with well over 100k votes. Forcing the new parliament to disuse openly in committee where everyone can see their claims.
The issue is not so much if. But how we avoid everyone watching falling for the idea we are trying to cover all lies. Rather then clear and informed false facts. Like the tresury viewed our data and agrees. When the party knows full well the treasury has told MPs to not make that claim as it is false.
Hence the discussion,
The type of lie Sunak told is very different from the lies told at every election. It is not just more lies. It is a dangerous falsehood based on definable evidenced facts.
IE not that Labours policys will cost 2k. While that is a very questionable claim. Fact checking a Ready handles such things.
But the fact that the treasury supported his data. That was an outright lie. To the point starmer was publicly willing to call it one. Something political figures are historically more careful of them actual lies.
It is dangerous because voters know the civil service is not allowed to be politically motivated. They Camrose their jobs for it at any time. But during an election. It is more the a rule. It is the whole mandate of the civil service.
So when Sunak claimed this falsely, he was trying to override the existence of fact checkers by telling his voters he had more reliable independent evidence.
This is why I think, we need the partition to be very concise and well worded,
But also a social media compain based on that very clear limitation in what is being asked for.
iE we have 4 weeks and the whole of the Internet. To address these questions before starmer can dismiss them.
if we can beat the poll by 27 seats on 4th of July. Film the explosion. Pretty sure you could make money on only fans.
So basically a white wash not a probe.
Probes involve analysing evidence. Not refusing to wven consider it.
It has not changed the price of sugar free. Because the compqnies have drematically reduced the sugar in other sodas.
IE you can nonlonger buy full sugar coke etc. So no tax is actually payable.
Ir is definitely improved diets. But to give you an idea of how much the sugar is reduced.
The first few years after the change. Type 1 diabetics like me ended up in ER.
Because we had spent years ,(decades in my case) turning to fullvsugar drinks to avoid dangerous lows in hot summers.
Now coke etc has only a small amount more sugar then diet coke.
Many of us only realised this as we came to in an ambulance on the way to ER.
It was such an issue that the NHS now prescribes us very high sugar drinks in small plastic ( 100ml) bottles we can carry for emergencies.
We all also now know to stick to fruit juice if we need to buy something in an emergency. As that is not covered by the rule so has tons of added sugar.
Hilariously lucozade was originally used for exatly what the new gluco shots given buy the NHS were.
Its original name was glucoaid. And it was used in hospitals in the 50s and 60s to give energy to paiteints.
Back in the 80s when I was diagnosed Lucozade was what we were recomended to keep for the job. But there was so much better tasting stuff. I never got into it.
I and a good number of other type one diabetics ended up in ER due to the sugar tax.
Honestly I am not against the tax. Just feel the companies should have rebounded a little.
Many T1ds were so used to buying coke etc when they are going low. We got hit hard by how quickly the companies adapted and started only selling the lower sugar versions.
To the extent that the NHS will now RX small buttles of high glucose drinks. (Lemon or Berry flavoured but non fizzy) just to ensure T1ds have an easy source of sugar to prevent unsafe low blood sugar comas.
As I say its something easy to fix now. We all just grab fruit juice. But the change and companies reactions to it. Left many of us waking up in an ambulance on the way to ER.
If they start applying it to all products. And the companies all act the same way. Just reducing sugars without any clear branding.
It will leave us with zero easy high sugar option that can be grabbed easily from any small village shop etc.
Young people can really make a difference in this election.
The difference being a move from tories just losing. To them failing to be the main opposition party.
The current predictions on electoral calculus are 66 seats for the tories. 59 seats for the lib dems.
But there are a predicted 53 seats where lib dems are predicted to land within 10 % of the tories winning.
Young voters are generally under represented in this polling. So if you live in one of those seats. A high agreement to tactical vote among younger voters. And a higher turn out. Could be enough to turn 4 or more seats. Making the lib de,s the official opposition.
And the tories the 3rd party.
Personally I cannot imagine a more effective way to inform the tories they funked up with younger voters.
Honestly not that likely. As courts can order a garnesment.
Fines nowadays tend to result in taking from you benifits or wages. Of course costs the poor forced into this more.
We sorta do in the UK. Cameron set one up with his big society claim. He even claimed he'd consider making it mandatory for teenagers.
Issue is it is funded as well as any service under the tories.
You know cows kill a fair few folks in the UK right.
The summery said it was reported running at members of the public.
While I am sure there are better ways to deal with it. As lets face it the car is only going to scare it more. Scared out of control cow are freaking dangerous.
There have been a number of news articles talking about killer cows over the last few years. Even though it is rare. Average of a few a year and normally when the cows are stressed for some reason. But let's face. Media is not known for responsible reporting.
But a cow in the middle of a busy road acting aggressive towards humans. Is a genuine threat. I can def see a cop being to scared to approach it without the car and thinking removing the cow is urgent.
Of course the action is dumb. Clearing the road and calling a vet would be better. But I can fathom a cop panicking.