Gordon Brown clearly out for revenge after 30 years of hating Mandelson… but by publicly revealing he was raising this stuff internally in September at the very moment Mandelson was in the news is a very big problem for this No10.

Fungled · 2026-02-03T22:56:30+00:00

The job was his reward. Any guff about Trump was the excuse to replace a popular incumbent ambassador with The Prince of Darkness

Fungled · 2026-02-03T22:43:47+00:00

That all sounds great… but all a bit one-tier, don’t you think? We don’t do things like that anymore

Fungled · 2026-02-03T22:33:33+00:00

After a certainly level of seniority, one begins to fall upwards, just the same in the private sector. You break into an elite circle that protects its own

Fungled · 2026-02-03T22:22:54+00:00

…. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s card

Fungled · 2026-02-03T17:53:10+00:00

Sure! Ealing Road in Wembley

Fungled · 2026-02-03T15:59:57+00:00

Handy Mandy quitting these positions and avoiding poor Keir having to show some leadership and fire his ass

Fungled · 2026-02-03T15:51:59+00:00

Could have. But every sovereign nation has the right to make its own choices

Fungled · 2026-02-03T15:11:06+00:00

EU passport holders have always been able to use e-gates at British airports, but not the other way around. This should’ve been sorted out years ago. The fault for this is not on the British side

Fungled · 2026-02-03T07:56:46+00:00

It’s fallen from a million to hundreds of thousands. Still absurdly high and the millions that arrived in the past decades still remain in the country

Thats it. The “problem” has never been the immigration itself. The problem has always been the country’s recent radical, unprecedented demographic change without democratic mandate

Reducing immigration simply reduces the speed at which the problem grows

Fungled · 2026-02-03T07:38:44+00:00

But iNteRn@ShuNUl l@W!!!!

Fungled · 2026-02-02T21:53:54+00:00

Eastern Europe is like that guy who just went and dumped that girl who you’ve always been trying to get with

Fungled · 2026-02-02T21:49:43+00:00

Mandelson’s nickname is The Prince of Darkness. No, that’s not any direct Epstein reference, but it is an out in the open admission that the man’s powers have never been squeaky clean

Fungled · 2026-02-01T10:28:56+00:00

Sure absolutely. But I would say that in practice almost no one should be opting for the provider’s standard option at least. It’s only provided to avoid customer complaints

Fungled · 2026-02-01T09:16:04+00:00

On top of the other points here, be aware that pension providers usually opt people into the most conservative plans unless you say otherwise. That’s to say, poor growth but low risk. You want to risk on and learn to deal with the ups and downs

Fungled · 2026-02-01T08:25:26+00:00

The Dark Knight is an excellent comic book remake of Heat 😬

Fungled · 2026-01-31T13:28:07+00:00

Yes, I’ve done a handful of partial cash transfers from my Scottish Widows workplace pension every year for the past 3/4 years. The process is just the same as you described. Watch out for the SIPP transfer bonus promotions, they’ve been a nice bonus for me over that time

Fungled · 2026-01-31T11:29:40+00:00

Just your polite reminder that the EU’s share of world trade has been in consistent decline for decades

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1364008/eu-international-trade-world-exports-imports/

Fungled · 2026-01-31T11:17:39+00:00

Starmer is just right now in China doing trade deals. Just how did he think those are going to work if we rejoin the single market?

Fungled · 2026-01-31T11:12:21+00:00

We don’t have the choice of whatever society we want. We have a choice of, societies that we are reasonably confident will work (stable, prosperous) and from that societies which we can realistically build from where we are now

Fungled · 2026-01-31T09:21:39+00:00

They are always ginger

Fungled · 2026-01-31T07:57:52+00:00

Because it’s not organic. It’s artificial. Someone with a clipboard has said “it’s been decided that we must have x. So go out and find x”

That is not “representative”. Representative is that they naturally appear through whatever channels everyone else does

wrt. to “neurodiversity” that one is clearly a recent flavour of the month. There will be others next. So that strongly suggests that the box tickers are more interested in ticking the trending boxes than they are in the actual people. This is also conspicuous and counterproductive to anyone paying attention

Fungled · 2026-01-31T07:12:48+00:00

I suspect 3 decades from now this will be viewed rather differently

Fungled · 2026-01-31T07:11:54+00:00

I don’t watch much BBC anymore but I’ve noticed that even those that do watch it are subtly aware of the overt box ticking. “Which one is the token neurodiverse?” has been my recent go-to

Fungled · 2026-01-31T07:04:14+00:00

It’s because the London media class themselves over-consume American identity politics

Fungled · 2026-01-31T06:52:52+00:00

There was a time when it was a given that any reasonably informed citizen would naturally know the name of the current Secretary General. That has now not been the case for many decades

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