@mrianleslie Yes, she is. Prime Minister Rayner would result in us all begging to have Starmer back.
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Lucius
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No Rosie, she deserves no credit. This is par for the course for her. Zarah is absolutely nuts, cares not a fig for her constituents, and panders to the worst of the hard left, including being a trans activist. There were plenty of other good performances to highlight. Not this.
Rosie Duffield MP@RosieDuffield1
Kudos to @zarahsultana for this. And yes, the Speaker had to act on his own rules. I know we disagree hugely on women's rights, but she voiced the views of almost every angry voter who feels helpless and ignored. The PM/Govt are despised and his ratings abysmal. He must go...
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@SteveFowler Thank you, even that is helpful! Over to you, @transportgovuk …
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Of all the places to stick me in a self-driving Tesla... The streets of Amsterdam with tourists, bicycles, trams, cars, trucks and narrow canal-side streets was a tough test. Here's how I got on independent.co.uk/cars/electric-…
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@PhilipPhilip001 @teslaeurope @Tesla @tesla_uk Seconded. Even an update to say that the UK is not yet on the horizon for this year would be more helpful than the radio silence.
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@teslaeurope The irony is this review is made by a British journalist but the UK will probably not see fsd for quite sometime. Unless someone at @tesla could update us please as @tesla_uk certainly won’t
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“I’d highly recommend that you just give it a go – and I say the same about electric cars: try it, you might just like it."
Swing by for a test drive to try FSD Supervised
Tesla.com/drive
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Mainstream media review from the @Independent after trying Tesla's FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands: "The car behaved impeccably. And it’s so simple to use. What’s most remarkable is how unremarkable it all is. The car accelerates with confidence – not super-speedy but a very natural acceleration – and it corners smoothly. The car will overtake when it needs to (I was always checking the mirrors, just in case) and on occasions, it even swapped lanes approaching traffic lights when it spotted an advantage to be had – just as I would. And around the busy streets of the city centre, the car’s ability to spot every single hazard and react accordingly, was hugely impressive. Had I not been using FSD, I may have been a little more strident in squeezing between pedestrians and cycles, but the impeccably mannered Model Y always gave these more vulnerable road users the benefit of the doubt. The way the car turned sharply and cruised down narrow, cobbled streets – judging its width more confidently than I might in certain situations – was impressive, too. As was the fact that the hundreds of people we passed on Amsterdam’s streets seemed to have no idea that it was the car doing the driving – although there was the odd double-take when they realised my hands weren’t on the steering wheel. I’d highly recommend that you just give it a go – and I say the same about electric cars: try it, you might just like it." Great to see some mainstream media giving FSD a fair go. You can read Steve's full review here: independent.co.uk/cars/electric-…
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@SteveFowler Great write up! Very interested in Tesla’s comments on their testing of FSD in the UK. Did they give any indication of where this is currently sitting at in terms of UK regulatory submission and approval?
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@alexmassie Comrades! Check yourself. We are interested only in purity of principle, not the inconvenience of practicality!
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Surprise!
Sam Dumitriu@Sam_Dumitriu
The results of the Renters Rights Act: - mass evictions as landlords sell up - huge fall in the number of properties available to rent (flat hunting is worse than ever) - landlords/letting agents intensely vetting tenants - mega-landlords taking over the market - traditional student lets effectively banned Good for renters with £50,000 in the bank ready to buy. Bad for just about everyone else. The consequences were obvious to anyone who has studied economics and yet Ministers just didn’t listen. And now we have politicians calling for full rent controls. It beggars belief. thetimes.com/life-style/pro…
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@tesla_jokes @TeslaJigsaw Ahh that’s a shame. I wonder if this is a holdup from Tesla’s side, in that AU/NZ are still on FSD13, and V14 will take a while to do for RHD markets. The lack of FSD ride alongs in the UK and IE is also odd and perhaps telling with regards RHD markets.
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@luciusfox66 @TeslaJigsaw I would but they didn't listen to me when I worked there, so I got even less chance now 🤣
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@tesla_jokes and @TeslaJigsaw - it would be great if you could use your profile and contacts with Tesla to find out what the status is with regards FSD in the UK. All the hints seem to have led nowhere fast, and the radio silence regarding the UK is odd.
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@SamCoatesSky It’s ok Sam, that idiot @MatthewStadlen says Starmer is in the clear, so nothing to see here, move along.
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What do I think really happened with Mandelson and vetting?
In October, November and December 2024, No10 indicated it wanted to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to Washington.
It was presented with an array of people telling them not to: Cabinet ministers, spooks, officials in a vetting report. All raised major red flags.
Starmer and McSweeny made clear they weren’t interested in any objection, and this must go ahead at all costs.
So Mandelson’s appointment was announced mid December 2024.
The vetting we are focussed on today came later, in January 2025. Vetting of ambassadors is the responsibility of the FCDO and Olly Robbins.
One bit of the system said no - the UKSV agency said don’t appoint Mandelson.
We don’t know on what grounds, but probably the grounds No10 had seen and rejected as a reason to block. Olly Robbins cleared Mandelson. Very quietly, Mandelson didn’t get the very highest level of clearance when he got the job, but he got the overall OK because of Robbins. Robbins did No10 a favour.
This is because Olly Robbbins knew that going to No10 post announcement, and saying the Mandelson appointment can’t happen, was politically impossible.
And civil servants want to deliver for their political masters. So Olly fixed it for Keir: and is now paying a price.
Olly Robbins has - incidentally - done No10 a second massive political favour. The really really toxic claim doing the rounds last night was that surely someone - anyone - in No10
DID know the UKSV agency turned down the vetting
Olly Robbins is making clear he didn’t tell people the UKSV verdict because that would be inappropriate as part of the process he followed. It’s not even clear he saw it.
No10 don’t seem to realise he’s done them a favour, and are releasing documents to challenge alternative versions of events. Let’s see how it plays out.
The bottom line is No10 wanted Mandelson come what may. They rammed it through.
One quango; post appointment announcement, was never realistically going to be allowed to stop Mandelson taking the job because the top of Government had publicly committed to it. They hadn’t wanted to heed the warnings earlier; and were in too deep
That’s where I think we are
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Why anyone bothers asking this man for his views on political issues is utterly beyond me. 🙄
Matthew Stadlen@MatthewStadlen
Looks like Starmer is in the clear.
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@MatthewStadlen God, you’re such a sycophant, I’m actually cringing for you right now.
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Is the UK, looking to be a leader in AI, really going to lag behind the whole of the (so-called) bureaucratic European Union on approving this, when it’s now stated by the Dutch RDW as meaningfully improving road safety?! @transportgovuk
TeslaStars✨@TeslaStars
Dutch vehicle authority RDW has notified the European Commission of its plan to seek European Union-wide approval for Tesla's full self-driving software system 🤩👏🏻 reuters.com/business/dutch…
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@TeslaJigsaw @Gregor_C_03 All jokes aside, you’ve been hinting at FSD things afoot in the UK for ages now - can you share anything more concrete?
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@Gregor_C_03 Perhaps save that excitement for tomorrow 🤞
...can you imagine?! 😂
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Didn't doubt it for a minute! 😉
FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out all over the country soon!
"Trained on billions of miles of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways No other vehicle can do this. We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon"
Congrats Tesla and thanks to @RDWnl for making this happen!
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@luciusfox66 @alexmassie post face then. if you’re so comfortable calling others ‘physically repulsive’ then presumably you’ll have no issue giving people the opportunity to make the same assessment about you.
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This will be very popular and it would make everything worse. A maxim for our times, right enough.
(You can’t fix housing problems by reducing the supply of housing.)
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive from @MaxKendix Zack Polanski will promise rent controls and a crackdown on private housing developers in an attempt to win over urban voters worried about the cost of living The Green Party leader will launch his local election campaign on Thursday as the party looks to take control of at least four councils in London An internal memo to campaigners seen by The Times said that housing was “coming up a lot on the doorsteps in inner London targets”. Party officials have said it is the “most significant driver of anger towards Labour” The Greens are hoping to wrest control of Lambeth, Islington, Southwark and Hackney councils from Labour, as well as gains in Brent, Lewisham, Newham and Redbridge thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@genioic @alexmassie No, you weirdo. I simply prefer to vote for leaders that don’t make me feel physically icky when I look at them.
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@soniasodha Considering your views on gender and women’s rights (which I wholeheartedly agree with) it’s odd that Labour tribalism still wins out for you, as opposed to the Conservatives and Kemi Badenoch who are steadfast and clear on this area.
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A bit depressing that the best pitch I can make for voting for one of the establishment parties (for me, Labour) is that the Greens and Reform are worse. But there we are. My column in today’s Times. 🔗 up next.
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