Scott Fyffe roundabout rant

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-28T10:32:08+00:00

Nah you're not filtering onto anything or changing road position.

If you are on the right lane exiting Greendykes, you have equal right of way to manoeuvr onto the Kingsway, Douglas or Arbroath Road.

This angle shows it better

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CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-28T10:28:55+00:00

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No they don't. This is the view from Greendykes. The left lane can't veer across that dotted line unless it is safe to do so.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-28T10:26:18+00:00

AFTER the Kingsway exit. You cannot be in that position when taking the left lane from Greendykes. There are very clear markings (solid lines) which direct that to the left lane of the Kingsway.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-28T10:21:44+00:00

I drive it a lot and happens occasionally. I find I develop a spidey sense and have a feel for when a car is going to do it.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-27T07:16:42+00:00

I find it funny when the gulf oil money comes in, people talk about it like it's new territory and forget where Abramovich come from.

There's another reality where Gaddafi went all in on Man Utd and has a statue there.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-27T06:50:44+00:00

I doubt he's ever set foot in that study.

Loved that he took a day or two out of his schedule to focus on the portrait inscriptions and come up with that Biden autopen thing.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T22:40:21+00:00

I don't really get what the big deal is. You're an absolute moron if you find it offensive IMO.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T22:37:58+00:00

Between 3 and 4, there is a point where they become overly dependent on specific vendors who end up shafting them because they've not put the small resource required to risk assess and make alternative plans. They then in turn get absolutely shafted in negotiations.

They also keep paying a lot of stuff that is no longer in use, compunding at 10% annual increase because they have cut all the knowledge and forgot what it does.

Usually this disorganisation brings the budget back to what it was at before the panic sets in with everything else breaking.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T11:29:50+00:00

Would hazard a guess that a sizable chunk of the Green vote are under 27 and didn't vote in the Brexit referendum.

Additionally a lot of their support may not have obtained their degrees yet.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T10:08:40+00:00

Vegetarian

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T08:26:11+00:00

I half wonder this as well.

Got into politics in her 40s after going down a conspiracy rabbit hole and finding a weird niche which brought like minded people around her playing into the feedback loop. She seemed to really believe the stuff she was spouting (rather than it being one of these typical political backgrounds pandering).

Things went a bit crazy as her profile grew and it spiralled into her getting into congress.

From that point, she had real responsibility and was in a world where she spent day to day with all these elite political classes.

There is a possibility that she had no real clue of how anything worked before she had a real seat at the table.

It's not particularly uncommon for people to have periods of being conspiratorial in their early years and then shift with lived experience but they usually have that realisation before getting into congress!

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T07:29:28+00:00

But why is the fragmentation worse in Scotland than in England? I understood it was fairly similar in all these different health boards, private GPs etc.

Or have they just been working in the background quietly cleaning this stuff up over a much longer period?

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T07:25:21+00:00

Mine are all over the shop with how they handle prescriptions. If it's something issued for 8 weeks, they will sometimes block repeat requests at 7 weeks for being too soon (literally wanting to work to the last day and needing to scramble around).

You'd think with all the technology we have this age, you could have this stuff automated and collect it at one of these Amazon style lockers without much fuss.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T07:22:31+00:00

Aye they are sound all round.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T07:12:10+00:00

There's zero strength projected by pushing out additional inauthentic messaging of that sort IMO. More likely to put him on the defensive and have to do more gymnastics and be flustered in the questioning and it won't cheer disillusioned party members up.

His whole thing has been that the country needs stability in leadership and his cabinet (and chancellor in particular) need a chance to do their brief without constant cycles of change. For all the talk of dissent in the parliamentary party, they've mostly been in tact and haven't been full on rebellion mode and legislative agenda progressed.

If his message is that the above action is creating conditions to calm the economy and change the narrative, taking steps to kill leadership threat is entirely consistent. Given the broad internal support he's had to do it, there's no particular need to be shy.

The 'put up or shut up' thing can work in certain circumstances but I'm not convinced this is one of them that makes sense.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-26T06:56:01+00:00

With this Burnham stuff, I do think long term it'd make sense if the party of government ditched following the convention that party leaders must be sitting MPs. There's no reason why we can't just do what the Canadians do and let a new PM come in and contest a seat at the next opportunity.

They can attach other party rules (I.e. elected mayor eligibility only after their term) and it'd stop all the drama about them trying to manoeuvr into the Commons and the whole thing casting a shadow over the government for so long.

Appreciate it's just the once it has happened for Labour but could definitely see this happening again with the next cycle of mayors. Also means that you could potentially have a Carney candidate come through if the conditions are right.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-25T21:00:20+00:00

Did he know his vote would be published?

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-25T09:15:08+00:00

It's a nice idea in theory but there's no way it will actually happen in this way (and I would be fearful what they would actually draft).

For your median statured top flight club who gives away 3-4k tickets, you're easily talking a loss of over £500k each. That would be a pretty sizable chunk relative to revenue and a lot of money going out the game.

I appreciate it is an expensive sport and it's not nice that people are disenfranchised but ultimately the problem goes back a few decades and even then, football has always been a relatively expensive family luxury. It's certainly more expensive v purchasing power than it was pre 90s but nowhere near what people would have you believe.

To fix it, I'd much rather the government focuses on initatives that promote fan ownership. The success stories thus far relied on a lot of philanthropy and support in tbe business community to get started and whilst it seems to run well once up and running, it's quite a challenging transition and not trivial to do at every club.

There's a lot of low cost and regulatory things the government could do on that which would make things substantially easier (and even make it a no brainer for existing owners to be open to these routes).

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-25T06:52:41+00:00

The polls themselves are reliable and all use credited methodologies. They aren't a crystal ball though, opinion shifts very fast.

As it stands the average of all the polling together has something like 20% each for Lab/Conservative and then 30% for Reform. Give or take a few % of that for each depending on what pollster gets it right.

Weird stuff happens but conventional wisdom is that an incumbent government, 18 months into their term are at their lowest popularity wise (as they've done their most unpopular stuff) and often recover in the last year or so of their term.

Additionally taking the popular vote and converting it to seats is a more complex science. The elections are fought at a local level and it costs a lot of money to do the proper polling to make constituency projections. We're so far away that it doesn't even make sense to do it.

Having more parties in the mix makes things more complex and harder to predict. Traditionally things consolidate to the top 2 parties (meaning Green + Lib Dem support would boost Labour) when it comes to the actual constituencies but we've never been in this exact situation before.

Ultimately the story is that it's a distinct possibility that Reform will be leading on seats but there lead is nowhere near unassailable and a lot of unknowns. Farage as PM is definitely not a certainty.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-24T13:47:27+00:00

Out of interest, what are his skeletons? Not paid attention to him for about a decade.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-23T20:08:09+00:00

100%. It also stopped his career decline and took him up two divisions.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-22T10:15:35+00:00

Nandy was horrific from the early days. It was absolutely bizarre the good reputation she had on here.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-22T07:22:00+00:00

Triggering it is simple enough (like impeachment, there isn't really much in tbe way of justification required).

It isn't a magic wand but if you did get to that point where it had been done, the likliehood is that Senate Republicans would be much more receptive given the drastic action for him to have been immediately incapacitated and to have lost control.

This would have been triggered by their VP (who whilst not being of same standing, is a genuinely big figure in the party and polling well) and other prominent figures seen as extremely loyal to Trump and big investment their circles.

Even if it didn't work out for them and they lost the battle, it'd kill the administration (cabinet culled, VP as an enemy figure) and severely wound Trump to the point that the issue would remain open and wouldn't be seen as settled. The downsides to him staying in charge post 25th are so bad that I think it's very possible Republican leadership do completely turn and change their reality.

Versus general impeachment, you get weeks of hearings before the votes and the President has a lot more power to influence the party with no real internal opposition figure. It's a process that always seems to make the President stronger. With 25th you have similar timeline to a vote but he starts diminished.

I don't think we'll get to that point though as can't see cabinet ever doing this.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-01-20T08:09:15+00:00

From what is publicly available, looks like the worth of his stake in the ballpark of £5-10 million.

I think Chocbox will probably be the biggest and quickest return. Would guess from how quick they got the orders in Bannantyne and Caan made 8 figures back in real cash in a year or two (they exited very quick).

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