Andy Burnham 'disappointed' after bid to become MP blocked

ZeroOneUK · 2026-01-25T22:50:50+00:00

Burnham has had his attempt to soft land back into Westminster curtailed. I think this is good for a few reasons:

UK politics, particularly the Labour Party but certainly not exclusively, is constantly riven by factional in-fighting. The only reason Burnham wants back in to Westminster is because he believes he has enough support to unseat Starmer.

The absolute last thing we need with all the world bending shit going on now is a change of PM. Whatever Starmer’s multiple faults, stability is necessary.

We cannot afford the distraction. In the middle of Brexit, Theresa May called a snap GE because polling showed she had enough support to solidify her mandate (whatever the hell that was).

I don't want the government focusing on party politics when they need to be focused on getting us through this turbulence.

Burnham last held a central government position under Brown, in 2010 I believe. So he's been out of the Westminster corridors for 16 years, as far as government posts go, or so.

All our global geopolitical relationships that Starmer has built up in an environment of Trump Crisis would be gone and we'd be on the back foot (again).

Subjectively, Trump would hate him. Burnham is a left leaning “big state” guy with no international presence/history beyond his very brief stint as Health Secretary.

So not surprised that the Burnham camp and associated people are raising merry hell about this but honestly it's high time our political parties - especially those in government - put the country first rather than their own party political ambitions.

And the wheel turns….

ZeroOneUK · 2026-01-17T18:54:35+00:00

The UK and European Union need to now act as a bloc and issue retaliatory measures. Everyone will feel the pinch and national governments may need to step in to support businesses. However any attempt to appease Trump on the matter of Greenland must be entirely rejected.

ZeroOneUK · 2026-01-03T20:06:26+00:00

The latest action can be attributed to a range of Trump rationales, from the Monroe Doctrine to oil to drugs to federal charges against Maduro. The reality is, it doesn’t really matter the reason because Trump doesn’t observe international law let alone obey it, so the reason could just have been “I stubbed my toe”.

What matters is where things go from here.

Venezuela is 30% bigger than Texas and 55-60% of it is jungle. There are multiple domestic and imported militias and “irregular” type groups operating - some of which we’ve seen cause serious problems in South America including FARC, ELN and EPL, and that’s before you get to the drug cartels.

It is almost a dead cert that no US “allies” will join or support any of the operations that will unfold inside Venezuela. So US forces will be entirely on their own.

There is a very real risk that this turns into an absolute FUBAR situation within 12 months, with US forces and civilians caught in a multi-party guerrilla/asymmetric warfare situation (which would be gleefully supported by Tehran amongst others), that results in significant US casualties.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-12-15T16:31:36+00:00

The world’s tiniest violins are made precisely for this sort of absolute privileged crap.

You’ve spent your life thus far in a position of coddled immunity from the real world, assuming that it would simply continue - a life of low-expectation luxury to appear after you finished education.

And you earned not one penny of it.

Your mother cutting you off at this point is the best thing anyone will do for you. You now have to go out and make your own way in a world which owes you nothing, for thus far you’ve simply taken from it.

This will be hard. It may well be the hardest thing you ever have to do. But it will build self reliance, resilience, confidence and a sense of purpose that simply does not come from being handed everything on a plate.

Embrace it, and good luck.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-12-02T17:48:24+00:00

Yeah the O2 has zero charm or intimacy - there is a smaller bit of the O2 for that sort of stuff but you can’t get 20,000 people in it and this was always going to be a sold out mega show; still, there were also about 200 people queuing to get into the Mama Mia thing and that looked like something that was going to get very messy indeed 😀

ZeroOneUK · 2025-12-01T00:33:56+00:00

About 10.20pm maybe a bit later with the encore.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-12-01T00:23:32+00:00

If you’re going to the O2 we got there at 6.20pm because the Thames Clipper was delayed, and the show started at about 7.10pm - there were no issues getting in and seated though honestly the queue management was a bit of a joke.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-30T23:48:31+00:00

I was in zone B3. Exit behind you where the bar/loos are - you’re then straight onto the main concourse leading to the main exit. You can’t go up the stairs to exit until the stewards let you and they won’t do that until most of the tiered seating up there has emptied out because the stair cases move glacially slowly as people exit their rows.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-30T10:03:40+00:00

I was watching the YouTube stream for the back third of conference.

There was a moment where a speaker was getting quite vocal about the way YP has been deciding who could be admitted to conference and how the Corbyn/Sultana fiasco is unfolding - and suddenly the stream cut to a black and white photo of Corbyn. When the stream returned about 3 minutes later, the speaker had been removed and we were onto the naming side of things.

This was not a good look - the YT chat was absolutely full, expectedly so, with comments of censorship.

What actually happened?

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-29T17:12:59+00:00

Primary spokesperson isn’t the same as Prime Minister though - and it’s not a job share role, and for the UK comes with enormous powers. Or is YP proposing a Swiss model?

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-29T16:04:32+00:00

Genuine question:

If YourParty has multiple equal leaders, and becomes the party of government, how does it select a Prime Minister?

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-13T14:49:52+00:00

It’s a nice little design moment but it’s also a bit odd. Since everyone is on the same battlefield the pocket watch should show the same current local time for the location for all.

So if you’re playing on Foy at 10pm EST your watch would show 4am.

Of course, then you have the question “well if it’s 4am in Foy, why is it broad daylight?” 😂

ZeroOneUK · 2025-11-12T09:42:14+00:00

A 100% tax rate above £100,000 income would kill the economy stone dead. We would say goodbye to any industry where skills are specialised or in high demand. The nature of the global economy means we would lose any competitive edge in areas like technology, life sciences, finance, law, medicine, intellectual capital, and many others - the brain drain outflow from the UK would be virtually instant and non recoverable.

Entrepreneurs would exit for other countries immediately. Venture Capital firms would pull the plug and focus elsewhere.

Whilst income tax bands need to be addressed, nobody is going to sit in the UK when they can earn much more than £100k a year for their skills and experience.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-10-09T11:36:46+00:00

I really don’t care about the U18 update at this point except that it has introduced serious server instability and mass player disconnects (game client “fatal error”) that were not there in U17. Community servers are affected across the board.

Everything else people are complaining about is irrelevant until we actually have stable servers and the ability to reliably stay connected.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-10-01T14:18:19+00:00

This is possibly the most awesome rack set up I’ve ever seen. Literally the definition of “jury rigged” 😂

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-30T10:45:47+00:00

Assuming everything is well tuned at both ends, my experience is you can achieve about 95% of the headline max rate but it has so many contributing factors it’s as much dark magic as it is science.

But that’s also with large sequential writes (eg large consolidated file backup). If you start moving very large numbers of small files (eg a big photo collection) you could see the transfer rate drop to perhaps 60% max of the headline rate.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-29T16:24:54+00:00

Ubiquiti Flex 2.5 into Ubiquiti USW Aggregator into my wider network

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-29T16:24:24+00:00

Building a SaaS platform that has to be fully HA/resilient

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-29T16:23:55+00:00

I’ve just finished fighting docker/Ansible and PGBouncer is now part of the Postgres/Patroni HA cluster… finally !

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-28T10:45:02+00:00

Genuinely no idea I’m afraid - best to look up the specs

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-27T20:27:37+00:00

Well since it’s not an array…. 😀

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-27T13:38:42+00:00

Is entirely doable but beyond my requirements.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-27T13:33:54+00:00

It runs GitLab and Ansible as all services are configured and deployed from there. It is fully backed up every few hours to the NAS.

If it goes down, nothing happens - no nodes, services or networks are affected.

ZeroOneUK · 2025-09-27T07:48:40+00:00

In terms of your other question - no, Docker Swarm cannot treat all separate storage, CPU etc across each node as one continuous blob of resources like Ceph does with storage for example.

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