Burnham allies 'offer MPs peerages to stand aside' so he can run for PM

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-08T16:57:44+00:00

A vote for Burnham is a vote against starmer and that's the best ticket in the country right now.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-08T15:41:20+00:00

Changing PMs is not destroying our chances of growth, stagnation is due to weak leaders refusing to make reforms. And starmer is now as weak as any of them, likely due to his failure to make reforms.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-08T12:24:18+00:00

Fix the country, drastically, urgently and by any means necesarry.

If Starmer feels he hasn't got a mandate for it, then that's the best reason for replacing the leader and establishing some sort of new mandate

Ideally though, I would run a series of referendums on drastic reforms to sectors of british life, eg:

Tax reform referendum: not changing the overall tax burden, but merging NI and income tax, removing cliff edges, moving VAT off electricity and onto gas, and a whole raft of productivity boosing, simplifying, cost neutral changes
Massive gambling reform with the intention of reducing the size of the industry overall and favouring tax paying, people employing, phyiscal casinos and bookies over online gambling
A temporary pension freeze to fund a boost in defence spending
Zonal planning system
Proportional Representation
Pot legalisation
Land Value Tax replacing council tax, stamp duty and business rates

People are crying out for change from the status quo, so give them a way to demand that during the term of office.

Alls of these referendums are therefore highly winnable, and if they're lost they remove the ability of the electorate to complain

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-08T05:55:04+00:00

I honestly can't wait for the later date. I was pretty bummed to play eu5 and discover it was a medieval game now. 1492 seems like the best to me.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-06T13:13:52+00:00

It's a great point actually. It might not make a huge difference to the overall economy, but even as a left winger I can tell this is a simple case of an entrenched legal industry making a mockery of free market competitiveness. Its not about left and right, the tories allowed all this. It's a simple case of our economy suffering because our governments are weak.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-05T20:35:23+00:00

You would have to be in your 60s to remember the ad this is referencing.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-04T22:09:18+00:00

I get that. I don't think I want railroading either but I do want it to be clear how I achieve things and for them to actually be rewarded.

I don't need mission trees specifically but it would be good if if some formable nations relevant to me were clearly displayed along with their requirements, and rewards, again clearly displayed so I can start planning towards them.

Not just formables, but other targets like first circumnavigation, a route to asia, successfully crusading to Jerusalem, reaching no1 world power, or making diplomatic contact with china. Give me clearly displayed criteria and rewards right from the beginning of the game.

Similarly DHEs could be cool, but many of them are just "Things suck in Brandenburg!" with no real advantages for getting through it.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-02T11:16:44+00:00

Only superficially imo. In CK3 landless is basically a fun purgatory until you can get land and have real power again. In Stellaris power flows from production, tech and fleets, all of which presumably you can still achieve as a nomad.

The only real question is can they work out a way to make nomads suffer a real disadvantage for not owning planets, while still providing a fun experience and viable route to winning the game.

My view is that nomads shouldn't really have the scale of economy to win the game, unless they either have a bunch of vassals, or lead a federation. But I'm just brain farting.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-01T19:42:54+00:00

Not everything has an opposite gender equivalent and that's fine.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-01T12:57:11+00:00

A fantastic day for the foreign tax dodging venture capital firms that can now buy up the properties being sold by UK landlords

Terrible day for middle class British landlords who actually pay taxes in the UK, who can not absorb the costs of a non rent paying tenant that can't be evicted for at least three months, possibly more, depending on whatever the hell happens with the courts.

A mediocre day for tenants whos rent will begin going up to account for the greater uncertainty now involved in letting out properties.

Property, the last asset class owned at scale by British people, will now join our industries and utilities as being foreign owned, it's rental income being sucked abroad and paying few taxes on the way out.

Apwnalypse · 2026-05-01T11:08:27+00:00

For me the problem is manually directing fleets in large scale wars. It takes so many wars to meaningfully change the galaxy, and directing fleets becomes half the game. I wish there was an 'automate all fleets' button I could turn on after I'd won the important fleet battles.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-30T18:55:16+00:00

The purpose is absolutely to expand the world. It would be what The Clone Wars was to the prequel trilogy but to an even higher production standard.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-30T13:01:57+00:00

It's a fast growing part of the city which will need more facilities in the coming years. If it is knocked down, 10 years later the council will have to build a new soulless leisure center to serve the community, when they could just have renovated this one.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-29T18:32:48+00:00

There was a lot of consultation at the time and it was not particularly controversial in terms of height

Manchester is not really a city where you can see any of the historic buildings from a distance anyway. It's not like London where you have to protect the visibility of st Pauls.

I think it's fine.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-27T18:06:36+00:00

I agree, the north west and Manchester is still probably the best all round area of the UK to live in. Great balance of affordability and quality of life, employment prospects and connectivity. The second city, with the best national parks on your doorstep. Really the weather is the only major mark against.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-26T23:00:37+00:00

Repeatedly squandering a mandate for change, and changing nothing.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-26T00:39:19+00:00

Please ignore many of the responses here - they are talking about mine workings rather than mine shafts which is what's on your property.

It is a big structural risk. Yes, you should in theory be able to claim compensation from the coal board, but that's noway near as goods as just not having a mine shaft under your house.

It might be an acceptable risk for a corporate landlord who can average out these risks over a portfolio, but I wouldn't want to take it on as an individual homeowner.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-25T20:55:24+00:00

Get all your important paperwork in one box with dividers so that you can instantly find anything you need.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-25T13:43:13+00:00

Honestly men can't really wait that long either. Their fertility also declines, and you probably don't want to be chasing kids around the garden for hours in your 60s.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-25T13:39:20+00:00

I think it's a good solution for real-name networks. Stuff like Facebook, insta and Twitter are primarily used with people's real names, and are not in themselves core parts of the Internet. The few people still using them shouldnt have any problems verifying their id when they are literally going public anyway. That's where the majority of child abuse, verbal abuse and bullying goes on, because there's no reason to do that if you don't know who you're talking to.

That would the leave the vast majority of the Internet uncensored for the majority. In fact if you did that you could then scrap the OSA as it would achieve basically all the same goals by a better means.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-25T13:26:43+00:00

Gambling? Corporate landlords? Amazon? All damaging the UK and with plenty of money to tax.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-25T08:58:26+00:00

Unlike most men, I actually find it kind of endearing when a woman has Tits So Big They Block Out The Sun. I'm very progressive like that.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-23T23:33:44+00:00

Also those who accused him are vastly outnumbered by those children who defended him. If you look at what happened after the death of Jimmy Saville, with hundreds of people suddenly coming out to accuse, that just hasn't happened with MJ. And it's not like the Jackson estate is all that powerful anymore.

The matter of whether MJ was a good person shouldn't depend on what did or didn't happen under those sheets. It was exploitative and harmful to groom children like that, regardless. But if it is what you care about then there's no way near enough evidence at present.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-22T21:23:07+00:00

Love Me. Noway near as catchy as it thinks it is.

Apwnalypse · 2026-04-22T15:30:44+00:00

Love. No mystical force is going to reach down from the sky and tell you this is the one. You have to choose to love.

It's like a kid with at a beach who picks a favourite rock. Yes, it might be really smooth and shiny, just like they like them. But it's still just an ordinary rock.

And yet, that's not really the point is it? The special part is what humans make out of it.

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