I see X wants me to start arguing again? It pisses me off that I'm goaded, and people are shocked and offended when I respond.
My response to this would be:
"But EVERYONE is middle class; in fact, I would argue there's only a small proportion of so-called rich and a huge amount of working families, and if there is still a working class, then Labour has failed! One hundred years and Socialism still hasn't dragged its sorry arse out of the road to Wigan Pier."
Better vote Lib Dem if you want to rejoin the EU, although rejoining is a long way down the road, according to their manifesto. I enjoyed reading the section on Asylum & Immigration. I needed a good laugh.
Next time, someone says that the House of Lords should be abolished because it is filled with rich people with nothing better to do; tell them they're idiots and have no idea what they're talking about. They are a valuable safety net for the British people, successfully blocking the Government (Conservative) 496 times since 2010
parliament.uk/about/faqs/houseโฆ
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-668โฆ
Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules
Labour leads a Lords rebellion on removing restrictions on water pollution to build new homes.BBC News
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Keir Starmer vows to strike migrants return deal with EU
Tories accuse Labour of โsurrendingโ control of immigration to Brussels โ as Starmer promises to put people-smuggling โon a parโ with terrorismAdam Forrest (The Independent)
Glad to see not a lot has changed with #ArchLinux in terms of needing a certain level of ability. Spun up my VM this morning with 437 updates available but of course pacman refused because mutter43 and mutter are in conflict. The fix for me was:
sudo pacman --remove --nosave --cascade mutter
sudo pacman -Syyu
Oh, and I had to:
sudo mv /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver beacuse pacman moaned about that too!
itv.com/news/2023-07-01/twitteโฆ
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Vape starter kits for one million smokers in 'swap to stop' scheme
Pregnant women will be offered up to ยฃ400 to stop smoking as part of a push the government has said is "the first of its kind in the world".Sky (Sky News)
I do a weekly Newsletter for a customer who seems to be obsessed with "Centre-aligned"
The email has a main offer that, IMO always looks a mess and four smaller offers that look fine. Today she sent the brief over with the main offer, as usual, centre-aligned with a section containing bullet points. ๐คข
I tidied it up and put the bullet points in a single cell, left-aligned and sent the now tidy results off for approval.
"๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ-๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ด"
๐ญ ๐ญ ๐ญ
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Total shock! Resigns as the leader of her country on 15 February 2023
Forty-nine days later, the rozzers come to arrest her old man.
Ten minutes before Constable Cameron turns up at the former First Ministers' home, Nikki manages to leave the house with a couple of bags.
#snp
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Looks like her old man might have fooked her career?
#snp
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell arrested in SNP finance probe
Peter Murrell was taken into police custody as officers searched his home and the SNP's headquarters.BBC News
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I was never a fan of the woman. While I agree perhaps Scotland should be given even more independence, I'm not in favour of them leaving the union, so for me, her going was a blessing, but I was shocked and mystified when she announced her resignation.
If I'm right and this is why she resigned, then it's definitely fishy because she's had about four or five weeks to clean up any loose ends before his arrest today.
Looks like they'll be losing a customer. ๐
Now and again, Qwertee have some brilliant tee shirts
qwertee.com/shop/tees/let-s-suโฆ
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I saw a Nun today with one of those electric car tyre pumps putting air into her car's flat tyre. Clearly, God does not look after his own.
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#GPT4 #AI
'Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need To Shut It All Down' - Slashdot
Earlier today, more than 1,100 artificial intelligence experts, industry leaders and researchers signed a petition calling on AI developers to stop training models more powerful than OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 for at least six months.slashdot.org
I've heard several people say they wrote the petition to convince smaller developers to stop working on AI, while they still work on it in secret.
Sounds about right.
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Millions of Germans face transport disruption in cost of living โmega-strikeโ
Mondayโs transport walkout will include workers at airports, railways, buses and metro linesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Realist, you mean.
Biden is a complete joke, even though it doesn't affect them. Americans don't like the fact Putin is doing whatever the hell he likes, and their current president appears to be doing nothing, and so they will want someone willing to do something, even if it is insane, like starting a war but let's not forget. Putin and trump are supposed to be mates.
If Labour wants to win the next GE, they need to start getting in front of the cameras more I mean, we haven't seen anything of Angela Rayner for months. Has she been sacked? Keir Starmer only appears now and again too.
The Tories have fucked themselves up. Labour just have to let them get on with it.
It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.
Donald Trump wins a second term, gets Putin to agree to a peace deal and becomes the darling of the free world. ๐คฃ
youtube.com/watch?v=1j1MxIHSPyโฆ
Thousands turn out for Donald Trump Texas rally - BBC News
Donald Trump has opened up his campaign to win back the US presidency by railing against the โdark forcesโ which he says are lined up against him.At the airf...YouTube
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Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.
For all those Lineaker fans
โIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels
I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.
While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.
I thought you wanted politics to be entertaining?
Do we really want liars and crooks running things just because they can do some things well? What useful things has Johnson done?
I wish politics was more boring.
I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.
Iran/Contra scandal 1987
WHAT! He got us out of the EU, didn't he?
I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Wondering if Zelenskyy is going to return the favour and visit Boris now that he's in trouble?
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/โฆ
Politics latest news: Boris Johnson is 'looking forward' to partygate committee clash, claims ally
Boris Johnson is "looking forward" to his four hour partygate grilling in front of the Privileges Committee on Wednesday, an ally of the former prime minister has claimed.The Telegraph
Maybe they'll wait until he pays a visit somewhere a snatch squad can get him? #LeSigh
theguardian.com/world/2023/marโฆ
ICC judges issue arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes
Arrest warrants issued for Russian leader and his childrenโs rights commissioner for โunlawful deportationโ of Ukrainian childrenJulian Borger (The Guardian)
I thought it was telling he made an impromptu visit to Mariupol in the dead of night. Just to make a point to the West.
I suspect there are local Ukrainian activists who would have willingly sacrificed their lives in an assassination attempt.
"See! This is what I have recaptured for mother Russia."
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#BigBreakfast
ft.com/content/248b0df9-a594-4โฆ
Jeremy Hunt to raise tax-free pension allowance in bid to discourage early retirement
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldสผs leading global business publicationJim Pickard (Financial Times)
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If I'd been Chairman, I would have grabbed someone from the canteen if necessary to present Match of the day. Can you believe the mob is behind someone who earns ยฃ1.35m for talking about football?
When the UK joined the EEC, the precursor to the EU @govuk had to introduce VAT as a prerequisite to joining. Given we are no longer in the EU, in theory, this additional tax is redundant. Wouldn't now, with the price crises, be an excellent time to abolish VAT and put money in people's pockets?
#TwoPenneth #Netflix #Merekel
netflix.com/gb/title/81662140
Watch Merkel | Netflix
Interviews and archival materials paint a portrait of the enigmatic former German chancellor, from her East German youth to her unparalleled career.www.netflix.com
Biden administration working on more fixes to Trump border wall construction
The Biden administration will work to close gaps and fix environmental and other issues with the Trump-era border wall constructionQuinn Owen (ABC News)
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foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/22/bโฆ
Biden Expands Trump-era Border Restrictions Once Again
The US and Mexico announced a new โborder enforcementโ policy on Thursday, January 5, 2023, which blocks Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans from accessing asylum by immediately expelling them to Mexico under the Trump-era Title 42 rule.Tyler Mattiace (Human Rights Watch)
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I'm surrounded by nutjobs!
For years, I truly thought: "It must be me?" but as I get older, I realise that was the plan all along; make him believe he's the problem.
(08:15 ๐๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ต 09:00)
๐ ๐ฒ: "Hi, just to let you know I'm in the office.
๐๐ผ๐๐: "Ha, ha, ha. What's all that about?"
๐๐ฎ๐ฎ? ๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐'๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
โBefore you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.โ
โ William Gibson #quote @GreatDismal
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Boris Johnson on Twitter
A real honour to meet president elect @Tsihanouskaya of Belarus and to reaffirm my support for a free and independent Belarus, and also to recognise the heroic contribution of Belarusian volunteers to the fight for freedom in UkraineTwitter
Neil Darlow :gotosocial: :silverblue: :xmpp:
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