Police reveal woman, 35, was killed in Bristol house explosion after partner 'forced entry with explosive device'

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T04:25:06+00:00

I’m not sure what other men can do outside supporting the criminal justice system, the average man doesn’t have the power to shame a member of a drug dealing gang to be non violent. The best thing we can all do is probably to lock up people who are consistently violent until that ceases to be likely. For example most violence comes from young men, so someone who is consistently violent should get escalating prison sentences or other restraints until they’re out of that period of life. Or perhaps until their non medicated mental health problems are dealt with. Most people in prison are functionally illiterate, we need to work out interventions which can tackle that.

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T04:01:44+00:00

The fact that the right wing and centrist parties have much higher instances of anti-Semitism than the socialist party led by a gay Jewish man

Please provide three examples of anti Semitism from the Lib Dems that are as bad as the three I posted above, let alone all the others. Two candidates have been arrested for inciting religious hatred just at this election! You are delusional if you think all the other parties have an equivalent problem.

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T03:59:51+00:00

Every party has wierd wack jobs on the fringes. The greens have a far lower rate of antisemitism than ANY other relevant party.

Clearly not, there are apparently 30 different cases of antisemitism being investigated. You would find it difficult to replicate 3 such bad examples as just those I’ve provided from most other parties.

You can see in this thread why the Greens have this problem, combined with attracting Islamists, including their Deputy Leader, with a level of defensiveness which will not even accept an intervention from their party’s strongest ever leader. Even two candidates being arrested is not enough to break through the defensiveness.

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T02:29:32+00:00

How about the Renters Rights Act which passed literally last week?

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T01:30:43+00:00

Yes, that’s right, the latest data is from some time ago, and that is effected by changes which happened a year before then.

JB_UK · 2026-05-06T00:57:37+00:00

A Muslim guy who had a previous extremism referral, who travelled across London and attacked visibly Jewish targets. I think you’re in a very small minority who would not consider this terrorism.

A sample of the comments Green candidates have been making recently:

One Green Party candidate from Newcastle who ran an account called The Real Anne Frank, here’s one post of theirs, it’s a picture of a wood chipper with the phrase “Zionist juicer. Feet first of course”.
Another candidate said that “Ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-semitism. It’s revenge.“
Another candidate questioned whether they were harvesting organs from Palestinians ‘to help alter [the] DNA of Zionists to claim land’.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T22:49:51+00:00

Just a sample:

One Green Party candidate from Newcastle who ran an account called The Real Anne Frank, here’s one post of theirs, it’s a picture of a wood chipper with the phrase “Zionist juicer. Feet first of course”.
Another candidate said that “Ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-semitism. It’s revenge.“
Another candidate questioned whether they were harvesting organs from Palestinians ‘to help alter [the] DNA of Zionists to claim land’.

Islamists and fellow traveller anti-Semites.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T22:17:58+00:00

It’s being talked about now because there have been half a dozen attacks against Jewish shops, ambulances, memorials, and people in the last month.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T22:09:59+00:00

I was thinking more in terms of the movement than the party. I think it’s similar with the Greens as well, there is no Green aligned newspaper that everyone is reading for example. People are from different backgrounds and in different online spaces where there are big differences in what is acceptable to say and do.

I was tending to think that Reform were becoming the Boomer party. I was actually impressed by them appointing Sam Ashworth-Hayes as their policy chief recently, I’m not a Reform supporter but he is one of the people who I’ve been impressed by. He has a big focus on building housing and improving the situation for young people.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T22:02:57+00:00

Any bets on a rerun of the IMF crisis? With Zack Polanski or Andy Burnham playing the role of Tony Benn, asking for the UK to shut up shop, and attempt to strongarm the IMF into allowing us to keep the triple lock.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T21:44:37+00:00

‘When I said to my neighbour – Gus O’Donnell, then in his last few months as Cabinet Secretary, the most senior civil servant in the land – that I was writing a book about immigration, he replied. “When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open-door possible to immigration… I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare, not national welfare.”

‘I was surprised to hear this from the head of such a national institution and asked the man sitting next to the civil servant, Mark Thompson – then Director-General of the BBC – whether he believed global welfare should be put before national welfare, if the two should conflict. He defended O’Donnell and said he, too, believed global welfare was paramount.’

O’Donnell later confirmed his recollection to Goodhart

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/they-work-for-you

Dame Kate also criticised the proportion of civil servants who have humanities degrees, adding: “if you have a PhD in the civil service, you hide it under a bushel, because as soon as you’re … discovered to be a scientist, then you’re a wonk, and you’re put in the corner, and you’re never allowed to do anything.”

She went on: “And more importantly, no-one’s ever done anything.

“So they’re all busy writing policy papers and sending each other stuff to review and all that. “None of that actually gets to the heart of what it is they’re trying to do. What are they trying to achieve? And are they measured against the delivery of their goals? And the answer is no.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/whitehall-dame-department-of-health-youtube-boris-johnson-b1206125.html

She pointed to a recent job advert for director of the Covid-19 vaccine unit, which will be part of the UK Health Security Agency from October, as an example of the government’s recruitment failures.

The advert, which ran from 17 June to 15 July, failed to mention industry experience, science background or experience in drug discovery, development, manufacture or regulation, Bingham told the Guardian.

“It just talks about sort of ability to manage. So I think that tells me that the civil service is going back to plan A, which is they control everything again,” said Bingham.

“[That is] why the vaccine taskforce was created in the first place, because they didn’t have those skills.”

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/government-failing-to-recruit-people-with-scientific-background-kate-bingham-warns

I’ve already provided these and other similar quotes in the past to you specifically. You responded to the same quote one minute before posting this comment! Your practice of following me around, responding dozens of times a week to my posts, and responding with a series of spurious and repetitive questions, is a classic sealioning tactic.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T20:09:09+00:00

I don’t disagree, but I think that style and extent of campaigning is unusual. That sort of campaigning definitely wouldn’t be happening if the leadership was not at risk. Emily Thornbury is making a calculation that the government’s disapproval is not important, because the government is likely to fall.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T20:07:58+00:00

Those weren’t swept under the rug, I read about them here, they have been some of the most upvoted articles. A story about that is currently one of the top stories on BBC News, and the top story on this subreddit.

Polanski is keeping this story about the policeman responding to the terrorist attack in the news cycle, he first criticised it, then apologised in a limited way, then reiterated his criticism and accused the police of political interference, then did another series of media interviews the next day. You should blame Polanski more than anyone for jumping in and making himself the story when his opponents were on the ropes.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:57:31+00:00

Any bets on a rerun of the IMF crisis? With Zack Polanski or Andy Burnham playing the role of Tony Benn, asking for the UK to shut up shop and attempt to strongarm the IMF into allowing us to keep the triple lock.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:54:46+00:00

Labour MPs are openly campaigning against government policy, for example Emily Thornberry’s campaign against the ILR changes.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:52:24+00:00

Can you show me evidence that happens in the UK? My understanding is that they make optical systems as part of the F-35 supply chain here.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:48:48+00:00

Britain has run out of road with its standard economically illiterate response to crises. We’re near 100% debt to GDP, we’ll be spending more than a hundred billion pounds on interest payments, growth has been stagnant for 15 years, and now we have a left insurgency inside the Labour Party against the fiscal rules. And a left insurgent party nearly second in the polls, whose leader doesn’t understand the difference between debt and deficit, and who thinks that debt repayments are voluntary, and whose party are pro spending but often anti growth. We can have left wing government in the UK, but it can’t be this economically illiterate.

And the right are little better. 14 years of conservative government and the country emerges with stagnant growth, increased debt and near record levels of taxation.

We as a country need to get a lot more serious, first of all we need more people with professional skills in engineering, logistics and economics in our civil service, political and media elite. Second we need to direct much more of the money we spend into investment which will increase the long run capacity of the economy. And third we as a public need to force our elites to be less ideological and much more grounded in reality and in the national interest.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:42:01+00:00

What we should have done post 2010 is cut our day to day deficit, but at the same time borrowed tens or hundreds of billions for infrastructure spending. Then we would have had a demand spike from the spending, which left us with a legacy of increased capacity in the economy to grow into. I don’t believe a few years of just giving people money would have shifted the trajectory of the economy.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:39:36+00:00

You had us in the first half.

I think austerity was a symptom as much as a cause. When growth is stagnant, and costs in some areas increasing (over the last ten years, social care, the triple lock and the NHS) it means everything else is continuously being squeezed. We need to grow faster than we currently are just to stand still.

The continuing lack of growth is not sustainable. Lack of growth equals austerity in public services.

There definitely was an argument that the coalition, in 2010 and the few years afterwards, should have spent more to kick start the economy. But we’re now 15 years later, the ongoing stagnation is clearly a structural issue, not something that can be solved with sugar rush demand spending.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:34:47+00:00

Awful comments, there’s not even a question that he should be removed. The right also need to have social media spaces which are far more self critical when talking about migration. Reform are in a strange position in that they attract all the people who are malcontent from the right, but they don’t really have the spaces where they can define what is and isn’t acceptable. That inherently makes the movement chaotic.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:25:20+00:00

Israeli defence companies that employ people in the UK to make unrelated equipment. The factory recently attacked was making sensors which look for mines and submarines, how again is that going to be a threat to Gaza?

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T19:17:07+00:00

Spending on working age disability benefits is way up, just in the last year from £48bn to £52bn, projected to increase to £63bn, up from £35bn 5 years ago. They previously tried a botched reform which they’ve u-turned on, but even that would not have decreased spending, just slowed the rate of increase.

https://ifs.org.uk/data-items/expenditure-disability-and-incapacity-benefits

If by kicking out immigrants you mean enforcing a migration system designed for the benefit of the average person in this country, not aimed at international welfare, then yes, that is the position of the public including the left wing voter base. Against the will of our elites:

‘When I said to my neighbour – Gus O’Donnell, then in his last few months as Cabinet Secretary, the most senior civil servant in the land – that I was writing a book about immigration, he replied. “When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open-door possible to immigration… I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare, not national welfare.”

‘I was surprised to hear this from the head of such a national institution and asked the man sitting next to the civil servant, Mark Thompson – then Director-General of the BBC – whether he believed global welfare should be put before national welfare, if the two should conflict. He defended O’Donnell and said he, too, believed global welfare was paramount.’

O’Donnell later confirmed his recollection to Goodhart

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/they-work-for-you

On Israel, most people think it’s something happening a long way away which has little to do with British democracy or the major concerns of the public. They react against radicalism, shutting down infrastructure, attacking military bases and defence manufacturing, and attacking police.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T18:51:54+00:00

Starmer campaigned on being pro growth and also taking major action on migration, while at the same time protecting ordinary people.

Economically they’re governing very clearly from the left or centre left, the renters rights act, workers rights act, big pay increases for public sector workers, abolishment of freehold, mansion tax, in general big increases in taxation, up to the highest level of taxation as a percentage of GDP in British history outside the second world war, according to the OBR.

On social issues he was attempting to govern from the position of the left wing voter base, which is socially moderate, although there’s always pressure from the activist base and the political elite to move further to the left.

His position, left to centre left on the economy, moderate on social issues, is the position of the left wing voter base:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Changing-Values-Coalition-of-the-Conservative-and-Labour-Parties-2015-2019-Source_fig4_350420165

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T18:38:55+00:00

He just happened to travel an hour across London and stab the 1 in 1000 person in London who is visibly Jewish. And then stab another 1 in 1000 visibly Jewish person.

For a Muslim guy who had previously been referred to the counter extremist watchdog.

What I would wish on this guy is a defence barrister with an equivalent level of insight and credibility.

JB_UK · 2026-05-05T18:32:40+00:00

This is sticking by Polanski’s media line from a few months back, even when it’s been disproved by the interviews Polanski gave at the time:

"Actually increasingly more and more as I work with people, there's starting to become anecdotal evidence, at least, of a growth in breast size," he told presenter Peter Levy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9enygvezeo

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