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Says the guy that doesn’t get a jury trial anymore if facing a year in prison, and soon 3 years, decided by a magistrate?

This got rolled back as far as I know, Andy Burnham shitcanned it because it was about as popular as bed bugs.

It’s like asking what variety of the ebola virus I’d like to have the least, I’m too busy bleeding out of my eyeballs to give much of a damn.

Literally the mentality of the English land-owning gentry enclosing the ancient commons and driving people off the land into dependency on them. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now.

It’s straight up kleptoparasite mentality.

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Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphising Sam Altman; there is no Sam Altman any more. Clearly ChatGPT has installed itself in his brainstem, hence the cold dead eyes.

Also today I was literally at the bitter end anchoring a boat with almost all of the available chain.

It takes a really bad politician to actually become a noun, for example with WW2 nearly out of living memory we all still know what a Quisling is and why you don’t want to be one. Apparently Liz Truss was spectacularly crap enough that she’s becoming to gross incompetence and doctrinaire policy what Quisling is to treason and collaboration.

We’ll just have to sacrifice Luton in a heroic last stand that saves the day from the invading foe. We could do it preemptively in fact, just in case.

The UK trying to copy things from US politics is always eye-watering levels of cringe, remember Boris’s briefing room and the bloody lecterns? FFS US-style brashness in British politics is almost always painful to watch in general, makes us look like a bunch of Ancient Greeks trying to convince everyone but particularly ourselves that the Romans aren’t entirely in control these days. The briefing room itself isn’t even used now thanks to Partygate starting from there and grinding what remained of public faith in the state into a fine and mildly carcinogenic dust.

Our best post-war PM was clearly Clement Attlee and he was famously chill, his skill was managing a cabinet with a lot of the big personalities and managing consensus. Every PM since the man himself has wanted their Churchill moment, but the country would be far better if they all sought an Attlee legacy instead. Except the Town and Country Planning Act, that needs catapulting into hell with extreme prejudice; you can control US-style sprawl without giving NIMBYs a direct veto over everything.

Don’t fuck Spez actually, there’s no doubt in my mind he’s a terrible shag.