foreveryoung Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, bickster said: What isn't “normal” about this? For one, Coinbase are crooks, thought they could get away with being an unregistered broker for cypto and are in the process of going through the federal courts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 18 Moderator Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, foreveryoung said: For one, Coinbase are crooks, thought they could get away with being an unregistered broker for cypto and are in the process of going through the federal courts. Thanks but someone answered a whole hour before you, what was for two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, foreveryoung said: For one, Coinbase are crooks, thought they could get away with being an unregistered broker for cypto and are in the process of going through the federal courts. Time flies aye? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 19 hours ago, bickster said: What isn't “normal” about this? That geezer's cranium for one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 19 Moderator Share Posted January 19 6 minutes ago, Jareth said: That geezer's cranium for one Rachel Reeves head isn’t that normal either 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 20 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20 Lost a Hackney council election handily. Safe seat, completely bungled it, Tories swept in. Perhaps Starmer can be stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 On 20/01/2024 at 09:45, Chindie said: Lost a Hackney council election handily. Safe seat, completely bungled it, Tories swept in. Perhaps Starmer can be stopped. It's a glorious mess of a seat. It's only happening due to the resignation of the former (Labour) councillor after he was pictured consoling another former (Labour) councillor after he'd been found with child porn (the latter has since been convicted of said offence). Then the new Labour candidate goes on a big anti-trans rant online (not really popular with your average Labour council voter) so they suspend her. Then realise that there is no time to get a new candidate, so unsuspend her the day before the election. So the other guy, (16 years of being a Lib Dem councillor in the same ward and appearing to know everyone) decides that he may as well now be a Tory, having previously been a Labour councillor on top of his Lib Dem history. He stands on a Tory "we hate ULEZ" campaign, sweeping up the dozen Tories in Hackney, all his Lib Dem mates from the last two decades he's been a councillor and all the Labour voters upset at all the stuff in the first two paragraphs. Lib Dems, who normally share the seat with Labour drop to 3% of the vote because the guy that the Lib Dem voters have liked for twenty years now wears a blue tie. Labour mired in every scandal possible. Massive turnout too - 32% for a local council by-election, more than some parliamentary by-elections. It's silly that Iannuci didn't follow up TTOI with a Vicar Of Dibley / Yes, Minister type crossover thing about local government. Absolutely mental stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Anyone know what Starmer's doing ( the next PM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 10 hours ago, Jareth said: Anyone know what Starmer's doing ( the next PM). Looks like yesterday he went on This Morning to talk about anti-social behaviour, then met with Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors for Holocaust Memorial Day today, the day before that he was in Milton Keynes talking about knife crime, day before in the Commons for PMQs. Pretty normal LOTO stuff. Edited January 27 by ml1dch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted January 27 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27 On 21/01/2024 at 20:43, ml1dch said: It's a glorious mess of a seat. It's only happening due to the resignation of the former (Labour) councillor after he was pictured consoling another former (Labour) councillor after he'd been found with child porn (the latter has since been convicted of said offence). Then the new Labour candidate goes on a big anti-trans rant online (not really popular with your average Labour council voter) so they suspend her. Then realise that there is no time to get a new candidate, so unsuspend her the day before the election. So the other guy, (16 years of being a Lib Dem councillor in the same ward and appearing to know everyone) decides that he may as well now be a Tory, having previously been a Labour councillor on top of his Lib Dem history. He stands on a Tory "we hate ULEZ" campaign, sweeping up the dozen Tories in Hackney, all his Lib Dem mates from the last two decades he's been a councillor and all the Labour voters upset at all the stuff in the first two paragraphs. Lib Dems, who normally share the seat with Labour drop to 3% of the vote because the guy that the Lib Dem voters have liked for twenty years now wears a blue tie. Labour mired in every scandal possible. Massive turnout too - 32% for a local council by-election, more than some parliamentary by-elections. It's silly that Iannuci didn't follow up TTOI with a Vicar Of Dibley / Yes, Minister type crossover thing about local government. Absolutely mental stuff. After years of working in local government, I have long wanted to see that programme (I even started a notebook at one stage) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (now deleted post for reference) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 … the party told you to reject all evidence of your own eyes and ears… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 28 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28 They'll have been dying to sack her off. You can't vote for these words removed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 She clearly rejected the donations that 40% of the shadow cabinet have accepted from Israel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrchnry Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 1 hour ago, Chindie said: They'll have been dying to sack her off. You can't vote for these words removed. Who do you vote for then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 28 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28 55 minutes ago, mrchnry said: Who do you vote for then? Personally I spoil my ballot, but I've always done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 31 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31 In October Labour via Rachel Reeve derided the decision by the Tories to scrap the bankers bonus cap. This morning, she confirmed they won't roll this back. They're the same, they're the same... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 17 minutes ago, Chindie said: In October Labour via Rachel Reeve derided the decision by the Tories to scrap the bankers bonus cap. This morning, she confirmed they won't roll this back. They're the same, they're the same... I give them months after the election before the first corruption accusations roll in, this lot can be bought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 31 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31 12 minutes ago, Jareth said: I give them months after the election before the first corruption accusations roll in, this lot can be bought. It'll take a couple of years for the dodgy stuff to come out. They need the foot on the door first to start really feathering nests, and then it takes time for the stories to develop and come out. But don't doubt it, it'll happen. I'm less mad about that though, that's what you get with politicians. I'm mad that they're pretending they're going to be much different. They'll smear a veneer of competence on themselves over what the Tories are as they stand now, but the policies are going to be basically the same, with a bit of deck chairs on the Titanic difference and presented with a middle managers tone. We couldn't possibly make things better, a decade of mismanagement by the Tories means we must keep going on the path they set us on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 I listened to a clip of her the other day saying she wanted to be the champion of banks and the financial sector. Now, there is actually an argument about bankers’ bonuses and how they work and the brain drain and all that. It might well be that virtually unlimited bonuses will actually help the country retain talent or increase tax take or invent new financial tools that can’t possibly turn out to be a bad thing 10 years later. But it’s a hell of a look at the moment, this scorched earth policy of anything they’ve pledged and promised being binned for fear it makes them have a point of difference from the tories. I know there’s a sensible centrist argument that you mustn’t let perfect be the enemy of good, but this is getting to the point where there is simply no sense of difference other than a promise to be a bit less thiefy. Which is fine, if you’re happy that where we are now, is the middle ground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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