I can totally understand not really wanting to engage with these stupid people but to suggest that it doesn’t matter that he believes that is disingenuous.
If he’s stupid enough to think the Earth is flat then he is stupid enough to do other things in his actual job wrong or in a dangerous manner.
The Tories merging with Reform would be a terrible move for them. Any of their voters who would normally have voted for Reform would obviously continue to vote for the new amalgamated party, but all of the people who would previously stuck by the Conservatives, and have obviously rejected Reform as an option, would have nowhere to go.
The fact it was even close is ridiculous. She’s the most terrible MP and PM we’ve ever had and yet she got a large number of people to vote for her.
There’s something in the water over there.
I don’t see how that makes them vulnerable though. I can’t see the reform voters going back to the conservatives so reform are going to continue to split the conservative vote forever.
A recount is called if one of the sides requires one. Obviously if you only had a difference of 10 votes, it’d be daft not to demand recount, but technically it only happens if a candidate requests one.
Remember the votes are technically recounted already. They are counted three times, by three separate people, who don’t know what the other two people have found as results, so they cannot be influenced by their number. If all three people get the same answer, the count is probably correct, discounting incredibly bad luck, which is statistically unlikely.
If a recount is requested then three new people perform the task just to discount the possibility of collusion.
Oh good, so now Truss can now piss off too the US and moan about the apparent conspiracy that was against her all she likes, and it won’t inconvenience her constituents anymore.
And of course no one in the US will really care, because will have no idea who the hell she is.
The reason a lot of people voted against it was that there was a concern that if it was implemented the government would consider themselves to have taken action and would just shut down any talk about proportional representation by arguing that we already had it. Even though we wouldn’t have.
The theory was that by not voting for the weak source option the idea of proportional representation could be floated at a later date, and to be honest I actually agree with the analysis.
Because it’s such a pathetically non-problem that he’s complaining about as if it’s the greatest challenge in the world.
But there’s an important difference here. Sometimes you want the IP address to look like it’s coming from a different location because of region locking. Eg Netflix.
Other times you want the origin IP hiding along the data stream to stop snoopers. eg the government.
So changing your IP from the perspective of the receiver isn’t much use if you’re trying to hide from the government. People who are not very tech savvy may not necessarily realize this important distinction until it’s too late. So it’s best to explain the difference.
What an utterly moronic stance that stems totally from your complete lack of understanding of what was actually offered.
Proportional representation was never on the table, what was offered was single transferable vote, which would keep the first past the post system but add the option to transfer your vote to another candidate if your preferred candidate lost. There was never proportional representation stop with the false narrative.
Seems like a daft idea to change sides right at the 11th hour. Their readers tend to have a certain amount of momentum to their thinking, you need to slowly work up to a tonal shift.
We’ve got a few more hours left. I reckon that at least time for one more classic screw up.
The problem here is that any government that wins an election is disinclined to change the system that resulted in their victory.
Reform definitely wouldn’t do it.
Honestly think that the only way that we will get electoral reform is if Lib Dems become the official opposition and they really push Labour on it. The daft thing being that if they actually introduced electoral reform Labour would practically win every time, albeit with a smaller majority, not that it would make any difference to them.
God damn it Poland 2, leave Ukraine alone.
Everything upsets babies, they live to be upset.
That’s right it’s someone else’s fault.
Future politician right here
I fundamentally take issue with the idea that I need to be saved from my phone.
The primary reasons I use my phone are for communication and taking pictures. Well it was terrible at both of those things.
I see what works and what does not. Thatcher was a mixed bag, better than Johnson :)
Do you know your politics? Thatcher destroyed economies in the north of England. People really hated her, and with good reason. Once Boris Johnson was out of politics everyone stopped caring about him.
I love the idea that the conservatives are trying to put across the narrative that in some way he is going to refuse to do any work after Friday 6:00 p.m. no matter what.
Sor, Russia launched a nuclear attack against the UK what should we do? Put it on my desk, I’ll deal with it on Monday.
But isn’t the argument about critical thinking skills? I’m sure it’s nice to believe in Gaia but there is demonstratively no evidence for it.
The question of harm done is independent to that of gullibility.