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I must admit I'm finding it increasingly frustrating seeing the stories about a survey showing Starmer being unpopular because he hasn't achieved anything in the first 3 months of government. Just because people might be that stupid as to believe that it really is quick to reverse the damage the Tories did, doesn't really make it headline news. All that does is reinforce that numptyish idea to the hard of thinking. I get that it's the same survey (in theory) as that from previous elections, but I don't think the country is in the same place this time.
doesn't really make it headline news.
hehe ... yes!
James O'Brien is doing a very good job (almost daily) at highlighting just how ridiculous the tory papers are at making headlines about (virtually) nothing, alongside major memory loss over the chaos of the last 8+ years.
An interesting diagram, but I think the first group is much larger (probably 35 - 50 percent) and consists of:
- Heroic men who will always intervene (even when it's not called for).
- Heroic men who have intervened but would not do so again because of unexpected repercussions.
- Heroic men who would intervene if they could be sure the behaviour concerned passed the threshold necessary for action.
- Men who would like to intervene but are afraid of the predator for one reason or another.
- Men who would like to intervene but are afraid of the reaction of friends and colleagues.
- Men who would like to intervene but are afraid of the reaction of the predatee (yes, I just made that word up).
- Men who would like to intervene but are afraid they might make the situation worse.
I also think the second category is somewhat larger than it appears, above.
2 excellent eps to help understand the whole M*sk & Yaxley Lennon saga ...
M*sk has gone completely power-crazed, like an unleashed shockjock out to generate clicks on his dying platform. Still incredible that he can force the global news agendas. Not sure what if anything can be done to dampen this 'foreign influence'.
And terrible how the usual Tories are amplifying/normalising rather than condemning the poison rhetoric ... Truss, Jenrick, Bad-enoch ...
https://pca.st/episode/599fabe8-7378-4869-9652-4bdf27817bc4
https://pca.st/episode/0c4a7c78-2cba-4031-911f-6ef391096707
What on earth is Starmer proposing to do with NHS 🏴 England? Actually, it sounds like a good idea...
https://pca.st/episode/ab9750c4-6314-4cb7-a1c7-7cd7b2c4e0c6
My father, who worked in the NHS for decades, was forever complaining that the percentage of the hospitals given over to 'administration', got ever larger.
There was a scandal, decades back, where it was revealed that managers would make typists type wholly unnecessary jobs whenever an efficiency study was being undertaken.
This is bad news ...
As much as I dislike Cummings, he is a wiley bugger and very good at playing politics, as evidenced by that excellent Cumberbatch portrayal - Brexit: The Uncivil War, 2019.
Worth a nudge ... almost at 100k ...
Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036
