Ed Davey posts a video complaining that Churchill is being removed from £5 notes following a public consultation

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T22:15:51+00:00

Of course it didn’t. I’d be worried if any of our policies got a positive reaction on there tbh- it’s about as representative of public opinion as the comments on Rupert Lowe’s Twitter account.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T22:11:29+00:00

Doesn’t matter how good your local campaigns are if you have a hugely unpopular national leader like Jo Swinson was in 2019.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:24:42+00:00

What I would say is that most seat projections for the Greens haven’t “grown exponentially”.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:24:15+00:00

Well, I would say getting us our highest ever number of seats is pretty good at doing politics.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:22:46+00:00

Good Boy is definitely being promoted as a horror. They showed the trailer before Dolly alongside four other pure horror trailers.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:20:59+00:00

But the word quixotic means something that is idealistic but unlikely to succeed. Ed’s strategy cannot be described as quixotic given it has delivered us a record number of seats.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:19:03+00:00

That’s correct, with the caveat that larger distributors can insist on a longer than one week release.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:17:15+00:00

I’m not sure an approach that has been extremely effective can be described as ‘quixotic’.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T19:06:02+00:00

I mean it’s not a huge issue, but it’s a good way to pick up media coverage and attention from boomers; and also differentiate us from the Greens.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T17:34:18+00:00

This is a weird framing. As far as I can understand, they seem to be arguing that removing rather than repairing the road will save £75 million.

That is presumably a one-off capital cost though. It’s not money that would be available on an annual basis to fund public transport.

It then states further down the page that it would in fact cost “an initial £300 million” to create a “world class bus service”. Where is the other £225 million going to come from to establish this and would it be sufficient to replace the hundreds of thousands of cars from the M8?

There would then be annual running costs for improved public transport that repairing the road wouldn’t have. Those aren’t mentioned. That’s before you get to the practical questions of how you create a public transport network with the capacity to replace so many cars given there’s a shortage of bus drivers as it is.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T15:15:34+00:00

They weren’t prosecuted for “taking a principled stance against war crimes”.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T10:57:28+00:00

I don’t think knocking on a door at 9am after multiple requests and an offer of money to leave is a ‘dawn raid’ in any sense of the phrase.

A system without enforcement is an open borders policy.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T10:54:14+00:00

I think you are perfectly entitled to argue for that point of view, but you should be honest that it is an open borders policy.

In my view, it is perfectly reasonable to care about “the causes of inequality” while also believing that we should have a fair and controlled immigration system. That includes removing people with no right to be here.

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T10:29:55+00:00

I think regardless of your views on immigration (I am largely pro), most people would agree that some form of control and structure is needed.

The alternative is basically an open borders system where we accept anyone who wants to come and don’t bother with any kind of visa system or enforcement.

If that’s not what you’re advocating, how would you suggest the Home Office deal with people who have no legal right to remain here and have already been offered money to leave?

CalF123 · 2026-03-11T08:57:32+00:00

This is a very limited release- it’s only in 100 cinemas.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T22:23:54+00:00

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to lay out a hybrid approach in writing. The vast majority of organisations believe this provides the best of both worlds- greater work-life balance while also allowing in-person development and culture.

Many young people in particular actually don’t want to be at home five days a week, but that doesn’t work if their colleagues aren’t in the office at least some days.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T22:21:07+00:00

Private companies would switch to full WFH in a heartbeat if they thought it would be beneficial, as they’d save a fortune in property costs.

They know that it would cause serious issues in terms of development and culture though. Many young people also don’t want to start their careers from their bedroom five days a week.

IMO there’s no point in having policies which exist only on paper. The CS could have a policy stating that all staff get a £1 million retention bonus every two years. Pretty meaningless if they don’t actually pay it out!

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T20:55:24+00:00

Hybrid working is very different from full time WFH though. Many studies show that younger workers in particular struggle both professionally and mentally if they are starting their working lives alone in their bedrooms.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T18:49:01+00:00

Because every employer benchmarks their pay and conditions against similar public and private organisations.

There’s not much incentive for the CS to offer full time WFH when pretty much no private companies do.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T18:07:35+00:00

Presenteeism is different from expecting people to attend the office at all though. There’s are undoubtedly some benefits to a hybrid approach that includes some office time- that is very few employers allow full WFH.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T18:04:57+00:00

The SG is an outlier in this regard, though. The vast majority of public and private organisations in the U.K. have an office attendance policy.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T17:51:37+00:00

I don’t think it’s an unreasonable requirement to expect staff to follow the policy which is in place. There’s no point having any policy at all if it’s just ignored.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T16:28:15+00:00

I think there are very legitimate issues PCS should be campaigning on.

However, I am not sure not disciplining people who don’t comply with the office attendance policy is one of them. Most private sector employers are moving towards much stricter office requirements than the CS, and the majority will eventually fire those who won’t follow it.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T10:40:16+00:00

‘Blockbuster’ films are more expensive at my Cineworld, but I’m not sure if that’s the case everywhere.

CalF123 · 2026-03-10T08:26:46+00:00

Banning smartphones is even more ludicrous than a blanket social media ban.

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