I feel like Andrew's objection is actually just to having a single map which covers multiple constitutions - a bit like having an electoral map of Europe wouldn't make much sense if trying to understand any country's individual electoral state but might help explain broader trends 🤷♀️
I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.
I wanted chaos so badly my then-fiancée cross-stitched the tweet for my birthday
One of these people is very much not like the other two 😂
I can think of a couple ngl 🙃
Not fair! He's often (fairly IMV) critical of the leadership!
One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.
This is probably more aimed at neither Rowling nor her followers tbf, and appearing rational is defo a good move with them
Perhaps the problem here is partly that British food is simply less well adapted to taste good without deep frying, sausages or cheese. Whereas in Japan the answer "dunk it in a soy/mirin/kombu broth" happens to both not be bad for you and delicious. It's a wider food culture thing too.
Oh absolutely, even within the city limits here in North West Cambridge, I've been canvassing round the relatively working class areas and there are defo a lot of Reform voters. Just much less true of the young employees of software firms / students based here! Which pub used to be EDL?!
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Yeah exactly - Keir didn't just win the leadership. His complete control over the membership up until the GE is also why he still has complete control over the NEC.
Is Cambridge geographically a bubble? Or is it that the mean age is probably a shade under 30? Or are these Redditors actually a bit older? Probs all 3. 2/2
Hello I am an ex Labour fundraiser who happens to have career transitioned into coding. So I ought to be surrounded by misanthropic 30 something IT types, and yet my profile of people at work is "nearly everyone with a political opinion is at most a centrist liberal". 1/2
I think he's being sarcastic. We all know it's implausible.
A bit like the PM, an ex Director of Public Prosecutions, claiming that he *repeatedly* said "full due process was followed" in the Commons without asking even once if Mandelson had passed the Cab Office's developed vetting.
These figures among your own team are very bad! This man ended up resigning several months later because people tend not to want their own party leader to resign as PM! (Full disclosure, I didn't vote for Keir in 2020, I gladly worked for Labour while he was LOTO and I definitely want him gone)
You do realise that the voters intending to support Labour while consistently polling at under 20% are gonna be significantly weirder (that is unrepresentative of the electorate) than the voters supporting Labour polling at 34% like we were during the General Election right?
Right, but also in doing some things you have to make choices about who to piss off (eg Thatcher choosing to sell council houses on the basis that those suffering at the low end of the market were less persuadable than those who might get on the ladder because of it). Starmer is bad at this.
Which also plays into Rayner's hands, surely. Given nothing the effective ministers are doing contradicts her policy platform, she ought to be able to organise a coup simply by adding all those people together and offering them the same roles in her new cabinet.
Sorry but it is genuinely creepy that this (engaged,36yearold) guy spends his time getting angry that Gen Z women are "intolerant" for not wanting to date someone who supports a sexually abusive, racist misogynist who is destroying the fucking world and making it more expensive to live as we speak
Need public funding for political parties!
If only someone, anyone, from local government or any one of quite a roomful of MPs from across the country could have warned the party four or more years ago about this….. 🤦🏽♀️🧘🏽♀️
I agree we should have sovereign capability - but when open source (Apache) models have been released which aren't state of the art but totally sovereign (allowing us to control both cost and data flow out), why not just run those on Govt silicon? 4/4
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social probs of interest
2) Gelderd argues we should train our own foundational LLM because it would be "trained on data we hold". I think that's an attempt to link it to the data sovereignty piece, but again it's overblown. 3/4
data in a unique way Govts can't (/shouldn't) really replicate: advertising. So the analogy is a bit overblown when a data "dividend" is proposed. Govt can't just... burn data to generate energy like it can do with oil so the sovereign fund could only ever protect data 2/4
Enjoyed @annagelderdmp.bsky.social's thoughtful essay in Common Endeavour about data & AI sovereignty. 2 bits left me unpersuaded. 1) I like the data as oil analogy (negative externalities if in private hands, so best for Govt not to cede control. But unlike oil, companies extract value from 1/4
AISI is probably the only good achievement I know from the Sunak government 👏
Labour’s vote halved since the General Election.
Time for the government to stop punching its core vote in the face.
The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered. In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.
I hope the new Permanent Secretary at the Home Office is going to be able to look at the UK Visas and Immigration’s practices
www.thetimes.com/article/1644...
Open source models like Gemma are only months behind the state of the art. And we can run them on sovereign silicon: for a relatively small cost/convenience hit we take back control. Imagine every civil servant given data science superpowers, all controlled by government; it's a compelling vision.