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[jbloggs]

This interesting 

 

 

[bovril]

4 hours ago, Sampson said:

Latest UK voting intention. Be interesting to see what would happen if Greens and LibDems made a voting pact, they’d be leading the race.

 

Yougov voting intention

 

Labour 23% (-3)

Reform 22% (-2)

Tories 22%

Lib Dem 16% (+2)

Green 10% (+1)

Pretty much in line with Europe. Brexit has made us more European.

 

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, jbloggs said:

This interesting 

 

 

Finding the success of this video hilarious. There has been cash withdrawal restrictions on accounts for years because its all subject to your own credit rating etc. 

 

Equally you’ll struggle to find a legitimate business accept £2.5k cash for a motorbike and surely you’d want the safety of using a credit card or similar ? 

[Md9]

Trump and his crew can never answer a question , start name calling people they don’t agree with , say free speech is dying but as soon as someone says something about them(especially musk ) start crying and threaten to put them out of business or in jail 😂 

such a bunch of wrong uns 

who ever voted these clowns in again really need there heads looking at 

[leicsmac]

19 minutes ago, bovril said:

Pretty much in line with Europe. Brexit has made us more European.

 

... ten points to anyone who knows what happened roughly around the last time the "hard right" had the same figures as today.

[EnderbyFox]

Me when Serie A teams used to bid 20p and a Twix for Dennis Praet every summer 

 

 

[Lionator]

4 hours ago, Sampson said:

Latest UK voting intention. Be interesting to see what would happen if Greens and LibDems made a voting pact, they’d be leading the race.

 

Yougov voting intention

 

Labour 23% (-3)

Reform 22% (-2)

Tories 22%

Lib Dem 16% (+2)

Green 10% (+1)

This would cause the parliamentary crisis that we deserve. 
 

Just in response to your reply yesterday, I think a lot of people feel liberal democracy is failing them even if the alternative is obviously worse. The worse living standards get, the more people are likely to reject the system. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

49 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Finding the success of this video hilarious. There has been cash withdrawal restrictions on accounts for years because its all subject to your own credit rating etc. 

 

Equally you’ll struggle to find a legitimate business accept £2.5k cash for a motorbike and surely you’d want the safety of using a credit card or similar ? 

If you look really closely you can see in the monitor the reflection of his eyes lighting up when he realises 'I can make a fuss about this'

[Torquay Gunner]

What on earth can be done about this? 

[urban.spaceman]

14 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

What on earth can be done about this? 

Failure over several decades to hold internet providers and social media firms accountable for the content they host and as multitude of malicious things they’ve done. 

[urban.spaceman]

“Offenders found guilty of upskirting face up to two years in prison for taking an image or video under somebody's clothing in order to see their genitals or underwear.”

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zy07d60ro

[Dunge]

2 hours ago, jbloggs said:

This interesting 

 

 

Not quite sure what led up to this but if I was the bank staff I’d be suspicious of him too.

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Torquay Gunner said:

What on earth can be done about this? 

There's no easy solution.

 

There's the Chinese solution, but that's not easy.

 

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

“Offenders found guilty of upskirting face up to two years in prison for taking an image or video under somebody's clothing in order to see their genitals or underwear.”

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zy07d60ro

It's long past time crimes purely based on power and humiliation (like this one is) were taken more seriously.

[BKLFox]

We may chuckle but it’s coming to ‘The Central Bank’ near you soon

 

 

Edited 25 March by BKLFox

[samlcfc]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Failure over several decades to hold internet providers and social media firms accountable for the content they host and as multitude of malicious things they’ve done. 

 

1 hour ago, Torquay Gunner said:

What on earth can be done about this? 

 

 

I was a teenager during the proliferation of mobile phones, but prior to modern smart phones arriving on the market, and even then I can remember some bad material being shared around.

 

It must be an absolute nightmare trying to moderate the negative behaviour this technology has the capacity to facilitate, just based on good faith and a desire to support the development of appropriate behaviour in young lads.

 

It'd be a hell of a job if those doing it had the support of the media and technology companies, but I can imagine a lot more resources go into considering how fringe behaviour might be promoted to increase user-engagement, or how users might be manipulated for the same purposes.

 

I'd say that the technology has quickly outgrown attempts to check its impact on society, but I haven't noticed any significant attempts to alleviate negative impacts. It's all just seems one massive experiment in making money, whilst the average person picks up the pieces.

 

Any attempts to raise it for discussion at this point inevitably touches on the concept of freedom is this context, and when the discussion largely takes place in a space heavily controlled by the same people that would lose out by giving up any self-determination, it feels like a difficult place to start from.

Edited 25 March by samlcfc

[urban.spaceman]

55 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It's long past time crimes purely based on power and humiliation (like this one is) were taken more seriously.

Billie turned the kids against h8m apparently. 

[davieG]

Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling

 

This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, "Trumpism will outlast his presidency". But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back?

At 09.00 one morning in February 1947, the UK ambassador in Washington, Lord Inverchapel, walked into the State Department to hand the US Secretary of State, George Marshall, two diplomatic messages printed on blue paper to emphasise their importance: one on Greece, the other on Turkey.

Exhausted, broke and heavily in debt to the United States, Britain told the US that it could no longer continue its support for the Greek government forces that were fighting an armed Communist insurgency. Britain had already announced plans to pull out of Palestine and India and to wind down its presence in Egypt.

The United States saw immediately that there was now a real danger that Greece would fall to the Communists and, by extension, to Soviet control. And if Greece went, the United States feared that Turkey could be next, giving Moscow control of the Eastern Mediterranean including, potentially, the Suez Canal, a vital global trade route.

Almost overnight, the United States stepped into the vacuum left by the departing British.

 

Continues here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2er9j83x0zo

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwjllld1ro

 

US Vice-President JD Vance will join his wife Usha in travelling to Greenland on Friday, a visit that follows Donald Trump's threats to take over the island.

The couple will go to the Pituffik Space Base to receive a briefing on Arctic security issues and meet members of US forces stationed there, according to the White House.

Usha Vance had planned to travel to the Danish territory on a cultural visit before her husband announced his plans. Trump's National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is also set to visit this week on a separate trip.

Officials in Greenland have fiercely criticised the planned visits as disrespectful.

 

I hope that the Greenlanders make their feelings clear while he's there. Preferably in the form of an accurately thrown snowball or two.

Edited 26 March by leicsmac

[bovril]

34 minutes ago, davieG said:

Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling

 

This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, "Trumpism will outlast his presidency". But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back?

At 09.00 one morning in February 1947, the UK ambassador in Washington, Lord Inverchapel, walked into the State Department to hand the US Secretary of State, George Marshall, two diplomatic messages printed on blue paper to emphasise their importance: one on Greece, the other on Turkey.

Exhausted, broke and heavily in debt to the United States, Britain told the US that it could no longer continue its support for the Greek government forces that were fighting an armed Communist insurgency. Britain had already announced plans to pull out of Palestine and India and to wind down its presence in Egypt.

The United States saw immediately that there was now a real danger that Greece would fall to the Communists and, by extension, to Soviet control. And if Greece went, the United States feared that Turkey could be next, giving Moscow control of the Eastern Mediterranean including, potentially, the Suez Canal, a vital global trade route.

Almost overnight, the United States stepped into the vacuum left by the departing British.

 

Continues here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2er9j83x0zo

tl;dr it all went to shit when the British left

[Md9]

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwjllld1ro

 

US Vice-President JD Vance will join his wife Usha in travelling to Greenland on Friday, a visit that follows Donald Trump's threats to take over the island.

The couple will go to the Pituffik Space Base to receive a briefing on Arctic security issues and meet members of US forces stationed there, according to the White House.

Usha Vance had planned to travel to the Danish territory on a cultural visit before her husband announced his plans. Trump's National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is also set to visit this week on a separate trip.

Officials in Greenland have fiercely criticised the planned visits as disrespectful.

 

I hope that the Greenlanders make their feelings clear while he's there. Preferably in the form of an accurately thrown snowball or two.

Nobody wants them to visit I don’t get why they can’t take the hint. Hopefully they give them some sh**

[Dahnsouff]

Squatter diplomacy

[Lionator]

I don’t think people realise how awful freezing universal credit payments is.

[bovril]

Spare a thought today for Hilary Clinton's emails

[leicsmac]

12 minutes ago, bovril said:

Spare a thought today for Hilary Clinton's emails

I still maintain that the year 2016 broke something in the space-time continuum.

[bovril]

14 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I still maintain that the year 2016 broke something in the space-time continuum.

It was the result of things that had been building for a while. As I was living in Bulgaria I was very aware of the insane panic over Bulgarians and Romanians from 2013 onwards that led to Brexit, and the anti-liberal backlash was growing in America too I am sure. Most surprising thing about 2016 for me was that people were surprised.