@TimSwift That makes me even more pessimistic about the next election.
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Sean Bamforth
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Sean Bamforth
@seanbamforth
A winter bitch, but summer's in my blood. Dataflex programmer; weltschmerz collector. Hayek and Hobbes. More moggee than mogger.
Calderdale, UK Katılım Kasım 2007
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@seanbamforth But there’s a poll I think showing half their members want Reform to win. Which perfectly captures their existential crisis.
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Tories need to fight the Makerfield by-election hard. Stopping Reform from making gains is the only way they can survive as the "Right Wing party" in this country. They need to throw every activist in a 200 mile perimeter at the problem. They need to come first, or second after Labour.
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And because I constantly forget / get confused about accruals, I got the AI to document workflows and concepts. Again, just really useful.
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I've got a project which is in a bit of a state, and to get back on track have been using AI to document it, review it, look for bugs, etc. Hugely useful, and it's easier to hear criticism like this from a machine than it is to hear it from another human.
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Sean Bamforth retweetledi
What does Spirit Airlines’ collapse reveal about the bigger fight over competition, deregulation, and antitrust?
In this clip, @mattyglesias literally puts on the tinfoil hat and argues that the debate over airline deregulation is a “tell” for a much larger ideological divide: whether policymakers should use antitrust to make markets more competitive — or use the language of competition to justify bringing back older, more heavily regulated economic frameworks.
Watch to the full episode of The Argument: bit.ly/4eGxy3e
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@fakechuck @mattbencole @katrosenfield Thank you for your vague warning. Unfortunately I have no idea what you think is bad, so this is just confusing for me.
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Sean Bamforth retweetledi
I barely survived “telling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,” I don’t think I can live through “telling writers they have to write is gatekeeping”
Josh Daws@JoshDaws
💯A lot of AI hate is thinly veiled gatekeeping.
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Sean Bamforth retweetledi
A Labour source texts: ‘That might be believable if he hadn’t already asked 26 other MPs first’
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
An ally of Andy Burnham says he is intentionally going for a Reform-facing seat to show he can win and beat them in a general election
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If I had anything to say to Starmer, it'd be to show some of that characteristic ruthlessness and some less characteristic leadership and just stand down. You can make a big speech about how the country is more important than your premiership and how you serve at the pleasure of the people. Just do it, and do it quickly. The longer it stretches out, the more you tar your party with the "Just like the Tories" brush.
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If I were Tudders, I'd be asking my lawyers to be sending strongly worded emails to Facebook demanding that the persons behind this group be identified.
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Given that CCW is likely a secret Reform agitator / stooge, this suggests that despite public facing statements about working with Tuddenham, our Reform council are actually in the process of pushing him out. In the interests of my bank balance, I'd like to emphasize that this is an opinion, and not fact.
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All this talk of Farage getting a gift and then going into politics, but I've not once seen someone proposing legislation that may stop that happening in the future.
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If you want a gift tax, then lobby Government for one and then try explaining to people why they can't give money they've earned to other people without the government taking a cut. I say that, but it seems like you actually want a "stop anyone giving money to people I don't like" tax which is a little on the authoritarian side.
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@v_j_freeman It's odd how in a parallel world Farage can pocket £5M and not much happens. Labour get the full force of the media.
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Read someone saying Rayner being cleared shows HMRC can show leniency to ordinary people, too. It doesn’t show that. As with Starmer being cleared over his Covid breach it shows power of a name. Authorities have to be *extra* certain of wrongdoing when you or I would be fined.
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@HXCourier Assuming the answer isn't something that'll actually work like "building housing and increasing domestic energy supply"
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Talking Politics column by Kate Dearden MP: A fairer deal for Halifax families: how we're taking action on the cost of living trib.al/WJRCEmY
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@Lukas00454055 @DanNeidle You might think fiddling your taxes is cool, but nurses can't pay themselves. How is this difficult for anyone who calls themselves progressive?
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I'm more interested in the transgression than the transgressee. What have council officers done in Calderdale to ensure people who live on narrow boats are paying the correct council tax?
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.
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Obvious that Starmer isn't the right person for this, or he needs help to do it.
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Literally three things they can do :
- Work on reducing illegal immigration
- Get some houses built
- Energy security & cheap electricity.
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Our goovernment needs to stop worrying about the next election and start worrying about the lack of houses and nuclear power stations that are being built.
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