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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Coming soon to the UK: We have the example of Brazil (Terry Gilliam 1985) - Plot. Too few years later, we now have for real: ALL UK Citizens are now assumed Criminal wrote: ... "The state has large collections of good quality photographs of a significant proportion of the population - drivers and passport holders being good examples - which were originally required and given as a condition of, say, driving and international travel," he said. Note that "AI" facial recognition is 'tuned' to be 'over-optimistic'... What could possibly go wrong with that?... Here in the UK today... Enjoy? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
This is something we've long known: Bad management has prompted one in three UK workers to quit, survey finds wrote: Study shows widespread concern over quality of managers, with 82% of bosses deemed ‘accidental’, having had no formal training... ... And the same silliness goes for our politicians! Can we include some training and a competency test for such an influential and important job post? Or is it to be forever a Boris Johnson jolly "laugh and giggle" fun jolly with bucket loads of tax-payer paid-for champagne? All in our UK! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
We have for short term political gain: Rishi Sunak to ‘double down’ on anti-green policies in King’s Speech wrote: PM will announce a new system for awarding oil and gas exploration licences, and new pro-car legislation... Tory environment select committee chair told to quit over ties to lobby group wrote: ... Sir Robert Goodwill, who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee (Efra)... And the UK and the environment and our world be damned... ... All for the sake of a weekend 'jolly' to go taking a few random pot shots at some desperately flappy birds? (Our scarce peat lands and heather moorland are burnt by landowners for our old-world aristocrats to play at bird shoots.) All in a very corrupt game of politics? Be excellent everyone! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1185 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I read a letter from UK's ex-home secretary to the PM after he sacked her. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67416146 I have never read such plain political language. In Germany, in such a case, it is customary to hold a joint press conference, praise each other achievements exaggeratedly, and then declare that one have mutually agreed to go separate ways. Clear political speech became completely unknown to us. [EDIT to add:] Britain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36772 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
At least in this case the party who created the problem has to wear it, whereas here our new government has to deal with the same problem that was left behind from the previous. Court rules UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is illegal. Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that the government's scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, dealing a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before an election expected next year. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36772 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another Boris bombshell surfaces during the inquiry into Britain's COVID response. :-O At the height of the pandemic, former UK PM Boris Johnson became so enraged ‘military options’ were drawn up to take action against an ally. The United Kingdom drew up a secret “military” plan to effectively invade a European Union nation and staunch ally at the height of the pandemic. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1185 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
It is becoming increasingly clear that the PM Sunak is standing in the way of problem solving. Immigration minister Jenrick resigns and accuses the government of tardiness. His resignation letter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67643770 It is with great sadness that I write to tender my resignation as Minister for Immigration. I cannot continue in my position when I have such strong disagreements with the direction of the government's policy on immigration. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
The UK does not need a "new" deterrent as there is a very valid one on the books already. All it will take is for the 950 benefit scroungers in Westminster to stand up & force the EU in enforcing the "Dublin Protocol" Meanwhile, the BP's are at it again. Heads stuck up their rectums. The other side of the coin But the Home Office said it needed more evidence that she had lived in the UK continuously for five years. "She's receiving a state pension, so she's paid into the system," he said. "She's paid her taxes. She's paying council tax. There's lots of proof."To receive the full state pension, 1 must have 35 years of continuous contributions. Sheesh! |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Sadly, all too true: After a year of failed politics, we know we can’t rely on leaders. Luckily, we have ourselves Revolution next? There are Consequences: All in our crazy game of politics... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Trouble ahead for the Tories, especially if the interest rate is at least 5% or more come September. After all, Rsiky Sunshine will be a calling an election then instead of May. Allowances frozen until 2028, so... Now he's pulling the same stunt with pensioners. Another 650,000 retirees will be at the sharp end of this in April. I wonder who they'll be voting for at the upcoming election. Nine million tax-paying pensioners spells double trouble for the Tories. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Trouble ahead for the Tories, especially if the interest rate is at least 5% or more come September. I'm one of those already in that bracket paying tax on the state pension, even if at the moment it is pennies. But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.Now you know why 1776 |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.Now you know why 1776 And probably wouldn't have happened today, as instant communications would have shown how well the colonies were treated. The tax in New England was about 1 shilling per annum, in the UK it was 26 shillings. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Inflation adjusted?But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.Now you know why 1776 |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
The joy of privatisation In other words, a new member of the "infamous" company club - Grabit & run. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36772 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The joy of privatisationWow, mail 6 days a week? We get 5 ATM, but it'll soon be every other day of the working week (whether that be Mon, Wed, Fri or Tues, Thur I guess will depend on "snail mail" traffic to a delivery area) as more resources get thrown at its parcel delivery services while the "snail mail" service gets replaced by electronic services instead. Soon enough our current letterboxes/slots will become a memento to a bygone era that in the end we can't escape. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Another muppet living in cloud cuckoo land. Can't live on £30k a year |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
What a good idea: Train government ministers properly and leave them in post, says ex-cabinet secretary wrote: Former civil service boss Mark Sedwill blames constant rotation of personnel and lack of proper teaching for poorer strategic thinking After all, we REQUIRE people to learn to drive and to prove they can drive by taking tests BEFORE they are let loose with the dangers of controlling merely a motor vehicle... All in our deadly dangerous political world? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Ah, the deep state MIC. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
This is how our politicians treat their own staff: MPs’ staff suffer rising levels of psychological distress... wrote: Nearly half of workers experienced clinical stress, findings suggest... ... So, how do they treat the rest of our great country?... All in their ivory towers of the political elite... And all in our only one deadly political world, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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