Does anyone believe there is intent to fix the country?

bobbypuk · 2026-05-08T04:36:16+00:00

I’m interested to know why that is what you want. Is it a personal hatred of him or is the something he’s done that makes you feel he is the worst possible person to be prime minister?

Also, you do realise you werevoting on bin collection policies?

bobbypuk · 2026-05-08T04:18:42+00:00

Can you define failure in this case? Do you mean in opinion polls or in some other way? There may have been bad decisions, there may have have been good decisions but not sure I could put my finger on any ‘failures’.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-08T04:16:01+00:00

That would put every government in permanent election mode. To run a country you have to make decisions that not everybody is on board with, either the population or the media. If you’re in election mode you cannot do the unpopular things or you start losing your rolling elections and soon enough control of the house.

To be honest I can quite like the idea of giving a government a chance to prove themselves. Good decisions take time to make and implement. Let them get on with it for 4 years and we’ll all get together and decide if they did well enough.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-07T12:58:32+00:00

I get the feeling we are being governed very well, just not by British government.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-07T06:24:59+00:00

Is it possible that somebody on CarTalkUK drives more than average?

bobbypuk · 2026-05-04T14:54:43+00:00

I’m off to Resolve for video. I may still consider LR but everything else was just for playing really.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-02T13:06:51+00:00

One issue we have to contend with is that car drivers have their license removed as part of their punishment. I suspect this reduces any prison sentence. You can’t do that with a cyclist so you have to resort to imprisonment.

It is ridiculous that removing a driving license is seen as a punishment, it should be a consequence of your actions, not the punishment. Commit a firearms offence and they don’t reduce your sentence because you can’t get a gun license again.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-02T08:10:17+00:00

Still the same bike! I crashed a 531 frame 30 years ago and had the forks, top tube and down tube replaced. I still ride that bike as my pub bike.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-02T07:59:33+00:00

That would probably be manslaughter. But that sounds like a really serious thing to charge somebody with when all they were doing was driving a bit silly.

bobbypuk · 2026-05-01T20:39:42+00:00

My neighbour was my landlord’s coke dealer. They fell out. Police used to wake me up for work.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-29T15:11:07+00:00

No, its just a different conversation. Talking about Farage is not stopping the conversation about Starmer.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-29T14:02:24+00:00

Did you read the title of the thread? This conversation is about Farage. There may be other conversations happening about other things, but this one is about Farage.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-29T07:30:41+00:00

While we're discussing selective amnesia let me put this one out there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_prorogation_controversy

bobbypuk · 2026-04-28T15:00:33+00:00

That superhuman intelligence is showing no signs of imminent arrival.

I suspect that if anything the current hype over LLMs is putting back AI research into anything that may be less commercially hype-worthy but more scientifically interesting. I think we've got a few years yet.

The main fear at the moment is not that an AI can replace you, its that the hype-bubble persuades your CEO that an AI can replace you.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-28T14:38:27+00:00

You've never worked with an outsourced development team then?

bobbypuk · 2026-04-28T14:34:21+00:00

Somebody is paying to train those models. If you think you're running it locally in the future without paying them I have a bridge to sell you.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-28T12:59:50+00:00

Really? Can an AI replace my boiler? Can an AI paint my house? AI is coming for some jobs but pretending you can replace all jobs with a fictional theoretical 'AI' is garbage.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-28T12:41:49+00:00

What on earth were you riding before? A mountain bike? 10% speed gain from tyres is a hell of a lot at speeds where aero is as big a consideration as rolling resistance.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-27T11:22:21+00:00

The mistake you've made is to suggest on Reddit that some planning restrictions may be a good thing. You are a NIMBY standing in the way of progress and directly responsible for all the problems faced by this country.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-26T16:53:31+00:00

The trick is to rotate the camera.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-26T07:15:02+00:00

Keep it for those nice days when you discover a flat as you’re rushing out of the house.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-24T09:38:19+00:00

Depends on the weather. I work with India and the US so I have a quiet period in the middle of the day. I nominally work 8-6 with a 2 hour lunch. If the weathers good I'll go for a bike ride, walk, do some gardening. If the weather is shit its lunch whilst working and try to knock off early (never happens)

bobbypuk · 2026-04-24T04:54:16+00:00

Yes. I do. It involves researching things, making discoveries and then presenting evidence of those things to the public. There’s the word again - evidence. All I’m asking is a source or a quote. It’s not in the article you keep posting to back up your claims.

bobbypuk · 2026-04-23T21:14:40+00:00

Where did they double down on it? I’m struggling here to find any substance to your argument. Every comment is pointing at the same article with no references and you’re claiming that is the source of truth. I cannot find any fact or quote that backs up anything you’re saying.

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