The depressing reality is that everything in this country is related to fucking Brexit atm.
On the plus side, imagine all the horrible shit the Tories could be doing if they weren't tied up in knots over Europe.
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UK PoliticsERA |OT1| - Strong and Stable Government? No. Coalition Of Chaos! PART 2
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On the plus side, imagine all the horrible shit the Tories could be doing if they weren't tied up in knots over Europe.
Farage thinks UKIP is too openly racist now to have plausable denialability that it is racist.
That's his story at least, Cadwalladr has suggested it's simply a career move:
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1070044094997639168?s=20
I've also seen it suggested that it's related to him being a person of interest in Mueller's probe, but that seems like extremely wishful thinking.
Just out of interest... is there a single Tory leadership candidate that isn't a proven idiot? I'm struggling to think of one.
Maybe Sajid Javid? I mean he's a tosser, but that kinda goes with the turf.
Maybe Sajid Javid? I mean he's a tosser, but that kinda goes with the turf.
Well, there is one man... but I think he prefers the job he already has.
...and lets face it, we're a long way off a Labour leadership battle.
...and lets face it, we're a long way off a Labour leadership battle.
Awful news that got buried in the latest Tory shitshow.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ercome-dark-dark-day-for-the-right-to-protest
One of my friends in that 15. She's so far removed from being a terrorist but here we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ercome-dark-dark-day-for-the-right-to-protest
One of my friends in that 15. She's so far removed from being a terrorist but here we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...b0b950d12fb101#block-5c101b3ee4b0b950d12fb101
Guardian reporting some buzz about the 48 MP threshold being reached!
Guardian reporting some buzz about the 48 MP threshold being reached!
So the next question is... is she going to lose, and if so, what asshat do we get replacing her?
I have a hunch that she will win the vote- realistically I see most Tories continuing to use May as a sacrificial lamb until this farce comes to a head, and sticking with the devil they know rather than the upheaval caused to the party installing a hard core brexiteer, or a bland Maybot 2.0 in the form of Javid or Rudd.
The Daily Star front page about May is certainly....something
Baktag, Worf shouldn't stand for this slander.
That's some Viz level photoshoppery on Harry Redknapp there.The Daily Star front page about May is certainly....something
Ah yes, Daniel "only a madman would leave the single market" Hannan. History won't remember him fondly.
See, this is why we need to Leave. MEPs spending taxpayer's money for their own nefarious means.
I can't even enjoy mocking him for this because it's so ludicrous that someone in government would post something that stupid. And 35-40% of the electorate will still vote for the Tories despite evidence like this showing we're worse off under them.
Maybe not the most relevant thing in the world, but I was looking at some history on Wikipedia and I noticed that during the 1997 election campaign Labour polling actually dropped by about 10% from the beginning of the campaign to the end. Does anyone know why that might be? I was 3 at the time so I wasn't paying too much attention to politics.
I can't remember much about the campaign beyond the demon eyes of Tony blair poster going down badly, there used to be a big incumbency swing in those days where labour needed to be way, way ahead at the start of a campaign to win.
Here's some nice happy news that we can all enjoy at least, the continued adventures of Capita being a complete shitshow. I worked on an adjacent project to this at one point. I believe at least one or two people here worked at one of the four or so different Capita owned compane is that touched this project at some point?
Army's £113m recruitment website 'was 52 months late'
This part blew my mind when I learned it initially:
The whole process for joining the army is a complete mess. Even before the Capita redo of their site.
Also: The reason it took 4 and a bit years to make the site? Capita gave it to a company for a couple of years, cancelled that version and started from scratch with another company. Then shut down that company and moved it to another, where I believe it was restarted and finished.
We laughed at this at time too, but it's relevant too. When it launched last year the site was so broken they had to revert back to the old site.
Army's £113m recruitment website 'was 52 months late'
This part blew my mind when I learned it initially:
The whole process for joining the army is a complete mess. Even before the Capita redo of their site.
Also: The reason it took 4 and a bit years to make the site? Capita gave it to a company for a couple of years, cancelled that version and started from scratch with another company. Then shut down that company and moved it to another, where I believe it was restarted and finished.
We laughed at this at time too, but it's relevant too. When it launched last year the site was so broken they had to revert back to the old site.
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A few things:
Polling was a lot less reliable back then.
"Shy" Tories. If you think the Conservative party is an embarrassment today, boy howdy it was a real shit-show back in the 90s.
The election campaign was made longer than usual, allowing for more variability.
Put together: Some of the pre-election polls were just fantasy. Tory voters wanted to send a message that they didn't back Major, or they didn't back The Bastards, rather than giving their genuine voting intention. The lengthy campaign gave enough time for enough people to return to their natural inclinations.
Fuck Capita. I remember looking forward to starting a job with the NHS West London Mental Health Trust but it got held back by nearly 2 months thanks to having Capita running the HR side of things (It used to be done in-house). When Capita was eventually booted off we were hoping it would go back to being in-house.
But nope! Onto some other crap company it was! As far as I'm aware it was costing the organisation more to outsource it but they had to keep it up for some reason.
It's infuriating to see companies like that keep getting work when there are a ton of fucking excellent IT services providers out there.
Thanks old boys network.
Thanks old boys network.
More dodgy accounting coming home to roost
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/17/student-loan-hole-public-finances-ons-accounts
Just like PFI and other spiv ideas before it, student loans have been exposed as govenment accounting theatre.
Basically despite recognising that a large percentage of graduates will never pay back the excessive loans required to cover enormous fees the government never counted this as debt. Of course this is nonsense because just like PFI the shortfall will be made up by the government.
This also lends more credence to Labour's position that universities can be funded effectively through central government rather than by higher fees , since the figures the plan was compared against were government numbers that were crooked.
It might also good news for the Scottish Government, who have abolished fees, since there may be Barnett consequentials as this is now counted essentially as spending by the UK government on English universities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/17/student-loan-hole-public-finances-ons-accounts
Just like PFI and other spiv ideas before it, student loans have been exposed as govenment accounting theatre.
Basically despite recognising that a large percentage of graduates will never pay back the excessive loans required to cover enormous fees the government never counted this as debt. Of course this is nonsense because just like PFI the shortfall will be made up by the government.
This also lends more credence to Labour's position that universities can be funded effectively through central government rather than by higher fees , since the figures the plan was compared against were government numbers that were crooked.
It might also good news for the Scottish Government, who have abolished fees, since there may be Barnett consequentials as this is now counted essentially as spending by the UK government on English universities.
Without labour it's worthless. And Labour are pretty worthless opposition right now.
You think Labour wouldn't vote for No confidence in a Tory government for some reason, are you for real?
Labour want a GE more than anything else, they just don't think a VoNC will pass atm. This might lead to us finding out.
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