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A thread 🧵of various YouTube bits and bobs that I've found interesting, hopefully to be added to indefinitely (if no doubt erratically).
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
A classic example of the problem that we actually need neutral institutions that play it straight, but the people in those institutions want to use their neutral image to advance their own politics.
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הליכוד:
הבחירות במדינת ישראל נגנבו על ידי מפלגות ערביות שתומכות בטרור ובחיסול המדינה היהודית באמצעות עבירות פליליות חמורות של שוחד, איומים, אלימות, זיופים ושימוש בתוכנות אסורות להמרצת מצביעים.
מפלגת הליכוד מעבירה למשטרה, לשב״כ ולוועדת הבחירות מאות עדויות וראיות על גניבת בחירות בקלפיות ערביות רבות- אלפי מעטפות עם כסף מזומן ופתקי רע״ם, איומים ואלימות כלפי חברי הקלפי, ריבוי מצביעים מאחורי הפרגוד, הצבעות בזהות כפולה, פערים בין מספר המעטפות למספר המצביעים, שימוש בתוכנות המרצה אסורות ועוד.
אנו דורשים מהמשטרה ומהשב״כ חקירה יסודית בגין גניבת הבחירות על ידי המפלגות הערביות ומיצוי הדין עם העבריינים.
אנו דורשים מוועדת הבחירות התייחסות מיידית לחקירת העבירות הפליליות הללו שפגעו באופן קיצוני בטוהר הבחירות בישראל ובתוצאות הבחירות.
זו פגיעה חמורה בדמוקרטיה הישראלית ובזכות הבחירה של אזרחי ישראל. גופי האכיפה מוכרחים לפעול ביד קשה ובאופן מיידי.
Even Steve Richards, who I've found infuriatingly pollyanna-ish on Labour politics, was saying on his most recent Not Another One appearance that he didn't see how Burnham could just sit and run down the clock on a promise that stuff would start happening in the 2030s. And yet.
Genuinely don't know what's going through his head. We're at the point now where even people sympathetic to him who don't want a snap election are in my Twitter feed saying nothing the government is doing makes sense *unless* we're right on the brink of a snap election. And yet.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
If true - and it’s always true until it isn’t - it just makes the long grassing of key decisions less explicable
Andy Burnham has once again ruled out a snap election in the next year.
Asked if he would do so, the PM told reporters:
“I don’t know how many times I’ve done this now, but yes, I can rule out calling a general election in the next 12 months.
“I have said repeatedly since coming into this job, I’m not thinking about myself. I’m not thinking about my own party and its prospects.
“I am thinking about people, and I’m thinking about what I can do to help them to have that care for people, which I spoke about on my first day in Downing Street.”
He added: “We’ve got a 10-year plan to come, and that will inform the spending review next year. These are my priorities, not looking at our own internal party political advantage.”
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Bill Rodgers is the last living person to have voted in the 1963 Labour leadership election, in which Wilson was victorious and would lead the party for the next 13 years.
Rodgers voted for George Brown.
He is alleged to have said, 'Better George Brown drunk than Harold Wilson sober'.
[photo from the night he was elected MP for Stockton in 1962]
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You live in a country where your school age daughter can be stabbed 10 times by a nut job incel, be lucky to live, and the judge will call him a bright boy who shouldn't be in jail and let him off with a 1 year suspended sentence.
A judge told a 14-year-old boy who stabbed a girl 10 times that prison was the “last place” for a “bright lad” like him, The Telegraph can reveal.
🔗:telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
The Budget was made far more interesting by all the put downs from Nus Ghani!
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I know this is a small point but you are really not supposed to selectively tell certain people about the contents of your Budget. We used to tell HMT officials they could go to jail for this.
CONFIRMED. Gas Standing Charges to be scrapped. I've just come out of a meeting with the Chancellor. The gas standing charge will be scrapped in 2027 (my guess, either for 1 Oct price cap or the 1 Jan 28 price cap). Having campaigned against the moral hazard of standing charges for years, I'm pleased.
It's currently £108 a year. That cost will be shifted onto unit rates. We don't know how much yet, but I suspect just under 1p per kwH.
The Chancellor also said he will be talking to Ofgem about how they get rid of the charge on electricity as well, but that is 'trickier' apparently and will take longer.
This is primarily about the price cap standing charges. There will still be an open market, so other firms can offer other forms of prices with or without the standing charge. My suspicion is that once it goes on the price cap, it will tend to be reduced on other tariffs as well.
As for those on fixes: if you get a fix now, the rate of your fix is fixed, so this should not affect it. You will pay what you pay and if it has standing charges they will continue (some asking if they should delay fixing because of this, no if a fix is right for you and will save you money, don't let this change that - this is about the structure of bills, as opposed to the actual costs on bills).
About 60% of people will pay less due to this, 40% more. My guesstimate is the dividing line will be somewhere around 12,500 kilowatt hours of gas (can't know until there is actual pricing). According to a study by Nesta, this switch would leave the majority of people in all income groups under £100,000 better off.
Of course, when this does come in, if we're still in the nightmare that we are right now, there will need to be support put in for vulnerable higher users, who will have to pay more. Though hopefully by then the mid-east will have calmed and energy prices lower.
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That's all long term. The biggest issue in energy right now is that we're expecting a 27% rise in the price cap in January. I asked the Chancellor whether he will be intervening on that. He told me I'd have to wait for the budget, but reading between the lines, yes, there will be an announcement today.
Whether it's an increase in the Warm Home Discount, or whether it's council tax banned, or whether it's done via a payout for people in say council tax bands A-D as a proxy for household income as Rishi Sunak did who knows.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Larry Grayson's Generation Game (28th October 1978). After the contestants have had their turn, Larry and Isla have a go on the potters wheel.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
The fun of budget day is ALWAYS the small print
Big row potentially brewing on defence…
Tories alleging that Healey - the man of principle who quit over DIP - might actually be *cutting* defence spending
In the next two financial years, the budget for the MOD will be £1bn a year less than Rachel Reeves planned when the DIP was published in June.
The total departmental spending can be calculated from the Budget Red Book pages 145-147. When compared to the DIP settlement, the Tories claim it shows that Labour are cutting £1bn a year from the MOD budget for the next two years.
Why? It appears that they are forecast to spend less than expected on pensions. Rather than the MOD being allowed to reuse this Resource Department Expenditure Limit, the Treasury has kept it
Cartlidge: “This is a complete dereliction of duty from the Chancellor”
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
One professor punished for speech? An anecdote. A hundred? Cherry-picked. A thousand? Selection bias. Surveys? Bad questions. Better surveys? Methodological concerns!
I've spent 25 years watching defenders of the higher ed status quo turn every new piece of evidence into yet another demand for proof, creating a never-ending cycle of increasingly impossible standards for demonstrating problems that were already obvious 50 years ago!
🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have dropped the idea of offering Canada "associate member" status in the 27-member bloc, opting instead for softer language promising "ever closer association," according to a draft statement, seen by POLITICO.
Full story: vist.ly/5qd4s
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value retweeted
Andy Burnham rules out having a general election in the next 12 months. (He previously just said there wouldn't be one soon).
“I’m not thinking about my own party and its prospects," he tells reporters.
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Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists after jurors heard he used 'bully-boy tactics' to intimidate reporters who exposed his UK riots shame trib.al/j2NkflG
