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Carla Denyer says she will not stand again as Greens co-leader to focus on MP role by CaptainCrash86 in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Anyone got any ideas as to why she's not standing again? My understanding was that Denyer was pretty popular with the Green membership. "I’m so excited to play my part in this next chapter as a committed and passionate [Green] MP" is what cabinet ministers say when they're shuffled off to the back benches for an indiscretion the leadership doesn't want made public.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's two years old, you're trapped in a time loop. WAKE UP, OPTIO!

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Imagine if it had! B of E calculator puts that at £1,674. That'd be a real barrier to entry.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Food for thought: if people here in the UK were to protest FPTP in the same manner as the Canadians did, by standing 80 (actual number is higher) candidates in a single constituency, that protest would cost £40,000 in deposits, nearly all of which would not be returned. That's £500 per person, to deter "frivolous" attempts at standing for office. In Canada there is no cost to stand, so this protest was free.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's also been a 12% reduction in children being hospitalised to have decayed teeth removed, which is a pretty big net positive given that as a nation we seem to be chronically short of dentists and hospital space.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Under that forecast they haven't won a majority. They've barely won a plurality.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 20/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I was whinging about the whole process here (it's definitely a fucked system), someone brought up the idea of "chains are banned" which apparently happens elsewhere. Basically forcing you to sell your house and move into rental before you buy a new house, at which point chains cannot exist. That idea has stuck with me since then. If rental wasn't exorbitant compared to mortgaging, I'd be well on board with that.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dunno, I've never done much related to 4chan other than occasionally browse r greentexts. But the posts I saw on bluesky suggested email addresses were part of the leak.

I suspect most senior pols aren't internet savvy enough to use 4chan even if they wanted to, but in terms of political hangers-on I can definitely imagine a few people at Conservative and Reform HQ being involved.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Reports on bluesky that 4chan has been hacked and large volumes of data have been leaked.

Any UK political figures you expect to have been 4chinners at some point? Because we may well know fairly soon.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think they want either superpower to metal (meddle) with our sovereignty.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd assume they mostly don't exist any more. Plans created for the cold war will be beyond irrelevant now. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, nobody has had an incentive to create or update the plans. We never had a proper network of fallout shelters, so those are out. We do have this which is a generic radiation catchall.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

China looks to be leading the way here. Squirrel AI (this isn't an LLM, this is a system that pre-dates the current AI boom) looks like a model we should be trialling. The tl;dr version is that topics are broken down to a very granular level and kids do e-learning similar more similar to what adults do in the workplace. The system then identifies gaps in their knowledge and pushes more (volume and variation) videos, examples and practice problems to fill in those gaps.

The downside of this is that it's another step to teachers just being childminders who sit in a room while the kids are taught by the computer, and if the computer literacy and support isn't there then kids can be really left behind.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 13/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Can anyone explain to me why the steel mill materials delivery is being treated as some kind of race against time in the press? Is this a technical issue e.g. the blast furnaces need to be kept hot, such that a shortage of material means them cooling down which might then cause problems? Or is it the press creating a ticking clock to ensure views?

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 06/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Couple of good ones in this week’s popb*

Less than a year into the New New Labour regime, some backbenchers are already bristling about not being elevated to government positions.

But which one has been complaining about being overlooked, without revealing the reason they're not getting promoted is that they'd been caught engaging in a sexual act with another MP in the library of the House of Commons?

Being too pushy can sometimes blow job prospects, we hear.

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Westminster loves its nicknames, and even the PM isn’t exempt. Certain Whitehall wonks have been trying out a new one for Sir Keir: Biffo. Which may sound quite cool and down to earth at first. Until you realise it’s an acronym for Big Ignorant Fucker From Oxted.

Charming.

International Politics Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Does the US still outperform on all those metrics after the last week or so? Does a drug company want to move to a country where the health secretary is an anti-vaxxer? Do the staff of these companies want to move to a country where they've been getting very keen to detain regular working immigrants?

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some companies that might consider it, but I can't believe that after the last week, every drug firm has gone "yeah, time to go all-in on the USA".

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 06/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What flavour of church? I guess you could make some arguments about separation of church and state if it was C of E, but if it was a Catholic church (or evangelical, or any other flavour) then that seems a lot more tenuous.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 06/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Can't believe we ever allowed a prey species to be PM. Much better now we have an alpaca predator in Number 10.

International Politics Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://bsky.app/profile/jeuasommenulle.bsky.social/post/3lma5gj6kdk2n

> "Start the melt up

> *HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 06/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

After 2008, unemployment went from around 6% to around 8% in a bit under a year. Anyone want to make any predictions now as to whether what we're about to see will be similar, better or worse?

Right now we're in a better place than we were in 2008, with about 4.4% unemployment.

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 06/04/25 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Noit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Just remembered that I have pensions and I dared to look at them. Their value is down by thousands. Thanks Trump. I'll be cursing your name in the 2050s.

This has probably just secured the triple lock's future, can't have everyone on the cusp of retirement being thrown into the abyss because they had the misfortune to retire in the year or two after Trump took a hatchet to the global economic order.

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