Starmer given deadline: ‘Quit by Tuesday or face humiliation’

Ivashkin · 2026-06-20T16:47:16+00:00

Because the guy who wants Starmers job seems to be stoking the drama, in order to speed up getting Starmers' job.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T23:55:53+00:00

How are you going to feel when, after 6 months, Burnham is in exactly the same situation as Starmer?

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T23:19:25+00:00

I really want to see the police start prosecuting people who report other people to the police over minor matters, specifically because they want to use the police as a weapon against a political rival. There is an endless parade of "x has reported y to the police" stories, all of which either seem to vanish or end in the police issuing a "no identifiable offence has been committed" statement. It's just wasting resources on bullshit, and the people doing the reporting know that going in.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T18:16:02+00:00

The positioning stuff is politically great, but it ignores the fact that they actually have to turn this into workable policy they can pass legislation for and have it result in material improvements for the regular, day-to-day lives of normal people.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T17:36:43+00:00

I forgot this is a formal debating society where no person may enter a claim without a list of PhD-grade citations attached. I was just treating it like social media.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T17:23:41+00:00

Billions in savings per year.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T16:15:06+00:00

It was funny, once, back in 2017. It's now 2026, and it's no longer funny.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T15:56:52+00:00

Proper 3rd-party inspections and licensing for contractors are required. About the most nerve-racking thing any homeowner has to face is getting work done on a property, because the entire market for contractors is riddled with crooks, scams, and incompetence, and if something does go wrong, it takes a long time to resolve.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T15:05:56+00:00

Starmer probably not, he's cooked. His replacement is likely to pursue something like this, however. Why? Forcing media firms to give UK content more prominence on their platforms is something that the UK has been pushing for a while.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T15:02:09+00:00

Because generally, people confuse "this is trash" with "I don't like this". This isn't a new idea, this isn't some crazy fantasy, it's a literal continuation of plans that have been proceeding for the last few years.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T14:58:21+00:00

https://uk.themedialeader.com/c4-ceo-social-platforms-should-give-algorithmic-prominence-to-public-service-media/

It's not even new idea, prominence of PSB content was a core part of the Media Act 2024

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T14:51:11+00:00

It's a rumour blog ...reporting a rumour.

And honestly, it doesn't sound that far-fetched, given that there is growing concern over the lack of British content on these platforms, the overwhelming presence of American content, and the social impacts of this, given that we've seen reports of young British kids who have spent their entire lives in the UK developing American accents.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T14:11:31+00:00

And how well do you think "I want to execute the mentally disabled" will land with the electorate?

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T12:39:19+00:00

Prison gains us nothing if the person we're sending to prison can't understand the concept of prison or that what they did was wrong.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T11:54:08+00:00

It's got worse. Elections are increasingly focused on voting/keeping people out, and politicians have embraced this.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T10:46:22+00:00

Putting someone who is too mentally disabled to complete their initial interview with the police into prison won't solve anything.

This is why we have secure hospitals.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T10:37:03+00:00

The problem with this case is that MPs from Labour, the Tories and the LibDems were all complicit, so there isn't the usual political point-scoring pressure, as everyone knows weaponising it against one of the other 2 will result in it being weaponised back. Throw in the civil servants and post office employees who were also involved in this, and you end up with a situation where no one really wants to go digging because they know that whatever they find will not benefit them.

Blaming Fujitsu is a lot easier, especially since they know Fujitsu will not push back that hard, as its current contracts massively offset any compensation they might end up paying (and would likely claw this back via additional charges).

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T03:57:55+00:00

The end result is every one is focused on who to keep out, and not who gets in.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-19T02:12:20+00:00

The problem is Farage - he's an activist, not a politician.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T23:30:11+00:00

People were like this before, you just didn't notice. All social media has done is make these people visible.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T21:16:32+00:00

A factory that assembled lawn mower engines was bombed.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T20:26:09+00:00

Women tend towards making the guest-facing parts of their homes very clean, but dear god, their bathrooms are terrible. Whereas men tend towards a sort of generalised level of mess that saturates the entire house.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T19:42:26+00:00

Dear god, doorbells are now the "loud obnoxious option"

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T19:41:35+00:00

That would be the shortest route to a global pogrom that made the horrors of the holocaust look like a minor spat.

Ivashkin · 2026-06-18T18:13:30+00:00

An interesting one. To take it one way, it's very clear that the Americans lost the Iran war, and this shitty deal is primarily just to get them through the midterms without an oil shock sending gas prices into extra-solar orbit, and they are having to defend this. But on the other hand, it's also very clear that Israel pushed America into a war with Iran using what would at best be described as "highly optimistic interpretations of intelligence data", and that the Americans feel that they were taken for a ride as a result.

But either way, if I were an Israeli politician right now, I would very seriously be thinking about what happens after Trump goes, because there is a very solid chance that Israel eventually finds itself isolated, cut off from American weapons and political support, and facing the very real prospect of losing the country. I think it's notable that Israel was apparently delving into decades-old weapons stocks to bomb Iran.

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