This mini thread within a thread is v good on bad UK labour market incentives

JOB SHARE WITH GEORGE SANTOS COME ON WE DESERVE THIS!

Going to be honest here, this doesn't inspire confidence 😬

No Calvert City. Sad!

Feel like cybercrime needs to be higher up the agenda than it is currently. And organisations need to really think about what data they're putting online and whether they really need an app for everything.

Another point about that MRP is that 'Reform most seats' ≠ 'PM Farage' unless the Tories want it to. A front républican isn't just an election thing, it's a governing thing.

The thing is that I sort of get the idea for a digital ID card given how many services effectively require something like that, but why does it have to be mandatory? If I'm an awkward sod and want to inconvenience myself, why shouldn't that be my right?

No actually I do find this surprising

So it's cheap, but will also blow a hole in pockets

Applaud the sentiment but this is a terrible graphic?

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

A lot of the suggestions in replies and QTs to this are actually Lib Dem coded, which is why the Tories are in trouble.

I loved this book and so did my Dad when I sent him a copy immediately after finishing it, absolutely recommended as a gift for the dad in your life

And this is in the middle of Liberal Democrat Conference. You know, the party with more than ten times as many MPs as Reform UK.

And how many people that complain about immigration now think that the UK would be better off without the Ugandan Asians?

One of the things that struck me as odd when I read Get In was the bit where McSweeny meets with Starmer and decides to give him all Labour Together's data from their studies of Labour members, apparently without discussing it with anyone else or with any kind of process

Ah, the classic "Ukrainian farmer" tactics, nice work

There's bad Tory-era ministers, and then there's Eric Pickles

I am again stating for the record that women are consistently more in favour of trans rights than men and the whole ~women are being silenced, silenced I tell you~ narrative is pure propaganda

I'm in a café and there are a couple next to me where one person is earnestly explaining late stage capitalism and universal basic income and I haven't heard the other person say anything except 'yes' at ever-decreasing intervals and my friend, this is not how you do it

I am shocked, shocked, that Labour did not give a role to a competent woman but went with a man that they felt, just, well, felt like he had the edge

Me and my husband both (separately) loved the TV show Coupling. Whenever someone says anything about spots, one of us will always say "I'm undecided about spots"

Lucy Powell potentially becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party as an Andy Burnham proxy is just the most vapid dumbest timeline.

Absolutely shocking story - Downing Street apparently hired a guy whose lawyer would like to make clear that he's not an aggressive incompetent bully who has a problem with women then were surprised it didn't work out

This has reminded me that Lib Dems are already selecting in a lot of target seats and I think the party is overdue a conversation about whether there's such a thing as too early a selection and whether we're getting the balance right.

Ah I remember this one, he's the one where they failed to stitch up a seat for him and had to have a second go once they'd released the stuff they had on the guy who was there to pretend there was a contest, glad to see it's all paying off 😕

Stop trying to make 'The Hamptons of the UK' happen, it's not going to happen!

Apparently this gift will not be available to the Conservatives or Lib Dems for ~reasons~

"The Two Party System is dead, long live the Two Party System"

This is genuinely scary and the govt failure to act is appalling

But also what was wrong with a headphone jack? The headphone jack was perfect! Bluetooth headphones fall out, get lost, need charging and listening through the charger means you can't also charge, why couldn't we have the headphone jack?

Are there any modern-ish phones that aren't massive? My trusty pixel 4a is on its last legs but I really want one I can operate one-handed and I have small hands...

Right so this is obviously appalling but also, think it through! Say you *can* change the law to let people off and say people who send inciting tweets *shouldn't* go to jail Discuss with relation to the right wing press obsession with Lucy Connolly and the 'two tier Keir' label

A correspondent points out that there is a third former LD to have done sterling work with another party: UKIP's Henry Bolton!

The true route to increasing the UK fertility rate: major tax incentives to pub beer gardens with playgrounds

Although someone in an LD Facebook group has suggested that to place one agent to cause one competitor party to devour itself is impressive, but to place two is nothing short of miraculous!?

A) I think he's the better choice for the seats where the Greens are best placed to make gains, but this reflects badly on Ramsay and Chowns rather than well on him B) This is going to be absoboobly hilarious

Business idea for cash-strapped councils: an enhanced baby registration package where the name is reviewed by an independent adult and a small group of primary school children for sources of embarrassment or bullying.

If I were the Tories I'm not sure 'have all MPs paid the correct taxes on their second home' is necessarily a rock I'd want to turn over

TIL I am older than Colin the caterpillar 😱

My question here: what proportion of private landlords are both a) individuals as opposed to companies and b) under 65?

Ok Taliban Tax is excellent work

Potentially putting Afghan asylum seekers who worked with the British armed forces into concentration camps and then paying the Taliban to accept them back Afghanistan so that they can execute them should be a greater cause for alarm than it appears to be.

I realise Farage is leading polls. He has 4 MPs. The Lib Dems have 72. Can anyone tell me why #BBC gives them much less coverage in the #immigration debate? They are making the point about #Brexit impacting the possibility of returning people who arrive here irregularly @cornwallchar.bsky.social 1/

Can he recognise my strength of feelings that he's a fucking waste of space and if he can't stand up for the rule of law, the international order and basic humanity then he should step aside for someone who can?

Timeline juxtaposition

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July. No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

This works in the short term. But in the medium term you get a lot of people feeling they should have enough money but somehow everything feels tighter than it should do. And those people are liable to decide that maybe it's time for a change, which is a problem for you if you're the one in power.

With the US becoming an uncomfortable home for academic researchers, we should be welcoming them not pricing them out our coming here.