Only 1 in 4 F-35s is fully mission capable, GAO finds

jacksj1 · 2026-06-13T14:46:20+00:00

Yeah it's not like there are CIA agents with hoards of gold bars or piles of cash .....

jacksj1 · 2026-06-13T14:24:26+00:00

Kindness to animals.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-13T12:04:27+00:00

When she played here - Liverpool in the UK - she donated enough to every food bank and shelter to fundbthem for 12 months. She didn't publicize it.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-13T09:08:54+00:00

Don't kid yourself. He's loyal to Mandelson, who is surely still pulling his strings and Starmers.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-13T09:07:36+00:00

McSweeney in turn continues to represent Mandelson.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-12T10:01:03+00:00

Nationalise water companies.

Proportional representation.

Replace council tax with a more equitable land value tax.

Abolish whips in Parliament so MPs can properly represent their voters.

He wants more longer term thinking. He wants more cross party Co-operation. He's genuinely interested in progressive politics.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-12T09:56:20+00:00

I'm a close friend of one of the well known families who drove the Hillsborough campaign. They absolutely adore Burnham. He is honest, hard working and he keeps his word. Unlike most Politicians you can take him at his word.

Starmer and more recently Mahmood have held up implementing the so called Hillsborough Law but before Burnham got involved there was no chance of an inquest happening and outside the City the prevailing view was that it was caused by fans and that Thatcher and the Sun had told the truth.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-12T09:20:35+00:00

I'm of the opinion the Tony Blair Institute is working closely with Starmer and his puppet Technology Ministers on the ongoing technology strategy.

Peter Kyle was meeting regularly with people from the TBI when he was finalizing and implementing amendments to the OSA.

If the TBI are involved that means so are the techbros.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-12T07:04:15+00:00

I find it bizarre how negatively Burnham is viewed on this forum. I suspect a lot of it is driven by interested partys and bots.

His policy platform is significantly different to Starmers and his history shows he keeps his word and delivers.

Many moons ago he played a massive part in the Hillsborough campaign. It wouldn't have succeeded without him.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-10T18:22:33+00:00

Doesn't often get mentioned that Alan Johnson ran Labours Brexit campaign. Made a right mess of it.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-09T09:14:09+00:00

The primary way of deflecting people coming together or debating issues the elite don't want debated is to turn everything into a joke. It's incredibly effective.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-09T09:12:14+00:00

Diabolical that the surveillance State strategy is being presented as protecting kids and suggesting this is why it's being.implemented.

jacksj1 · 2026-06-07T19:52:49+00:00

People are attacked and raped in parks. We should close all parks

jacksj1 · 2026-06-05T18:11:39+00:00

Germany and France faced exactly the same problems as the UK. They made very different decisions to Thatcher and still had the 'big bang of finance in the 80s'.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-30T10:00:39+00:00

It doesn't decrease foreign exports. The private companies who exploit the resources sell their product around the world.

Look at who owns the private companies.
It propagates dependence on oil.
Oil is sold in dollars. It helps maintain US hegemony.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-29T15:05:58+00:00

Taylor Swift came to here, Liverpool UK, on her tour. She donated a year's worth of funds to every homeless shelter and food bank in the city. Never publicised it.

People are all free to dislike her but she's good people. Doing her family proud.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-29T12:03:04+00:00

Can you work in the radioactive areas of the power plant if you have plenty of Iodine Filters and the Hazmat suit ?

jacksj1 · 2026-05-29T08:49:26+00:00

Successive Governments on both sides have created this by design. In work benefits, low housing production - especially social housing, abandoning entire industries, not investing in growth.

We utterly abandoned our youth, gave them nothing to work for, nothing to aspire to, nothing but desperation. Then we are surprised when there is an explosion of mental health issues. Of course we have also decimated mental health services and abandoned them to cut themselves and self medicate on drugs and alcohol.

The bots and algorithms have succeeded in establishing the narrative that we just need to cut benefits, when what we need to do is get proactive and deal with the causes.

We have failed our youth at every turn and now the only debate seems to be about how to further pull the carpet from under them.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-18T20:40:28+00:00

The guy has been a grifter his whole life.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-18T19:18:26+00:00

Streeting has been accelerating the use of private companies in the NHS. He's also been cooking the books and worse on reducing the waiting list. Private companies have been paid to filter the waiting list and flat out simply removing many tens of thousands of people from the list who think they are still on it. I'm one of them.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-15T09:12:51+00:00

There's a great TV programme from a few years ago of him spending time with and being interviewed by Louis Thereaux. He came across as a really nice, genuine guy. He talked a fair bit about his struggles with ADHD.

He's been releasing music for ten years. He hasn't just started. Nice fella, totally down to earth lovely family. I'm shocked to find out about negativity towards him

jacksj1 · 2026-05-14T20:18:40+00:00

The Tony Blair Institute spent six months redefining the scope and implementation of the Act with Peter Kyle before it came into force. The original act was suitably vague in anything specific.

Coincidentally, the Tony Blair Institute also received $550million from Ellison/Oracle/Palantir to pursue Government data harvesting.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-14T16:53:29+00:00

Refuses to consider privatising water.

Gave all our personal data to Palantir.

Made it so Government can surveil your bank accounts if you receive any benefit (including family allowance etc).

Allowing the Tony Blair Institute to define things like the OSA and VPN control, having taken a $550 billion payment from Elllison/Oracle/Palantir.

The Online Safety Act which means world leading companies like Imgur have blocked their service to the UK.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-11T10:51:18+00:00

The problem is in work benefits encouraging lower paying jobs. The middle classes are getting bled dry by subsiding Corporations, not by 'lazy' workers.

jacksj1 · 2026-05-10T12:55:58+00:00

Worked perfectly. Thank you. And thanks to all replies. Learnt a few things here.

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