I was wondering why the comms around this were so bad and...mystery solved.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 20 August 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
Trebles all around
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 August 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
I'll be a bit more specific as it's potentially important. OFQUAL is not an overtly political organisation, as such, and is always extremely conservative about making public statements, other than to give exam boards a dressing down. Under normal circumstances, there's absolutely no way you'd have a situation where they were leaking anonymous statements to the press. However, a few days ago, there was a Telegraph scoop with an unnamed 'OFQUAL source' quoted attacking teachers who had juiced their predicted grades to an unbelievable extent. That came as a surprise not just to me but to the guy i know who used to head comms for OFQUAL.
When it became clear that there'd have to be a change of policy, OFQUAL released a series of statements that, at least partly, threw themselves on the grenade.
The cronyism / corruption angle is valid but it's the kind of low-level grift we've become accustomed to. I'd be more concerned about politicised comms teams with ties to government and the Tory press being foisted on independent organisations and regulators.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 20 August 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/labour-red-wall-and-vicissitudes-britains-voting-system/
In fact, across the 50 seats lost in the North, Midlands and Wales in 2019, total votes cast for Labour increased by nearly 30,000 so that Labour’s vote share was 39% in 2019 – unchanged from 2010.Labour did not, therefore, lose the red wall seats because of a dramatic collapse in its vote over the last decade. Instead, the Conservatives made large gains in these constituencies at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, increasing their vote from around 670,000 in 2010 to over a million in 2019, compared with Lib Dem losses of around 300,000 votes over the same period.
Labour did not, therefore, lose the red wall seats because of a dramatic collapse in its vote over the last decade. Instead, the Conservatives made large gains in these constituencies at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, increasing their vote from around 670,000 in 2010 to over a million in 2019, compared with Lib Dem losses of around 300,000 votes over the same period.
so it was all Swinson's fault.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
the ConDem years put off lots of LibDem voters who then ..erm switched to the Tories.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
not really sure what the best thread for this is, thought there was a Play for Today thread but couldn't find it, anyway here'll do, fill your boots
For those of my Twitter followers who enjoy arguing about whether the Labour Party has historically been sufficient radical (and let's face it, that's most of you), this BBC Play for Today of All Good Men (1973) by Trevor Griffiths is a real treat https://t.co/qOtFO4HpLa— Juliet. (@zinovievletter) August 20, 2020
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
that's the very good twitter acct who recently did an ace post on the difference between braindead ch4 schedule now compared with the early 90's one (which also contained lots of garbage but some absolute gems which wouldn't get made these days).
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
"old slums or new ones.. towerblock variety"
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
some cracking dialogue
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
haven't watched it all yet but Griffiths was a good writer iirc and tbh i'll lap up all the Play for Todays i can get
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
there is a really good line where old Labour fule says: how can a squirrel kill a tree? and Frances de la Tour answers : they eat the bark, when the stripped parts meet in a circle, the tree dies. Yes sir kiermit.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
when you don't know whether to lol or bowk
Night all. Imagine a world where you drop off to sleep to the words ‘President Biden met with Prime Minister Starmer’— jojo77 3.5% (@fbpe_jojo77) August 21, 2020
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 August 2020 07:34 (three years ago) link
‘to discuss the most mutually-profitable method of machine-gunning climate refugees at border crossings’
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 August 2020 08:14 (three years ago) link
I would imagine the prospect would send most people to sleep so that is excellent unintended shade.
The situation in Birmingham and Oldham, among other places, is starting to look very worrying.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 August 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/PSPASwNPjd pic.twitter.com/5uGtQvpSZo— black lives matter (@jrc1921) August 21, 2020
Peter Shitlon
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
Too easy a target, I'm taking the high road
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 August 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I reckon him and Le Tiss would love our elective dictatorship to be at least 20% more fascist.
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
At least 50% of the replies to that tweet are St George flag wankers suggesting Blojo is doing a great job apart from being too weak on dinghy illegals.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Don't read the replies, never read the replies.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Have Peter Reid or Big Nev weighed in yet?
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
solid approach to ilx also
xp
― ||||||||, Friday, 21 August 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
'“I’ve had members of my association claiming universal credit and they’re shocked by how low it is,” says a Tory MP.'Illustration, if needed, of how the Osborne-IDS cuts were enabled by a combination of wilful ignorance and tabloid scaremongering. https://t.co/FBTFYK3npw— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) August 21, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 August 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
it's actually higher at the moment because of covid. wait until it drops down to its normal rate again.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
it's currently £102pw + change but is usually £82. if you are under 25 it is £85 normally £65.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
if some of these arseholes wouldn't listen to the UN rapporteur, Corbz/McD and countless other good people who have been highlighting how fucking shit UC is, before voting for these cunts again, then it's sowing then reaping time I'm afraid.
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Did the coronavirus write this? https://t.co/CjYvc6aJPe— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) August 22, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 22 August 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
Well well well
EXC: Tom Watson held secret talks with Jo Swinson about standing for the Liberal Democrats in Lewes at December’s election. https://t.co/MGXCbUAbbl— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) August 23, 2020
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Sunday, 23 August 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
That's paywalled but I'd like to know how that panned out and why it didn't happen given that Swinson would have taken virtually anyone on board at that point.
It's also done the unthinkable and made me look very very slightly more favourably upon Chuka Umunna for at least following through on it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
Was watching C4 news yesterday and a young Black activist from Brixton was complaining that he’d been presented an award last year by his local MP and the following week, the MP passed him in the street and didn’t recognise him.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 23 August 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
xp in the replies
So was it @tom_watson that failed the candidates assessment! We were told someone did but no one will tell us who??? Come on Tom you know where you are much more wanted and where you will be more utilised!!— Sadie 🌈🔶 (@sadietrent_92) August 23, 2020
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Sunday, 23 August 2020 09:35 (three years ago) link
If the story in the article is true then Watson decided not to stand on the promise of a peerage that was then turned down because he fell hook line and sinker for an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
The ongoing presence of Gavin Williamson has really obscured quite how comically bad Tom Watson is at Machiavellianism.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
tbf he's comically bad in a number of areas
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 August 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
xxp can we not link that person here, thanks
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Sunday, 23 August 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
Watson's forthcoming parliamentary thriller novel (of "ambition and betrayal" provisional title The House!) could be an intentional comedic masterpiece if he included his best material, but he is too much of a pompous prick to fess up to what a bumbling clown he has been, especially with his paedo-ring busting heroics.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
The name was vaguely familiar but I hadn't actually made the connection as to he was and didn't bother to check, it was more to get the screenshot out there.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
Killed the embed, there are so many of these accounts that it's difficult to keep track.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
as much as a running joke Watson is, he still wielded enough power + influence to get Dawn Foster sacked from the Guardian. None of these wankers are ever actually amusing clowns.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
baggymp was one of the great running gags tbf
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
i mean not so much running as jogging for a bit and stopping for breath but you know
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
He was listening to some classics last night tbf. Also need to point out the top message in his shoutbox is still someone calling him a cunt.
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
a lot of suspects in this thread
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
Tom is as fit as a butcher's dog now, fucking shitbird does 3 marathons before breakfast!
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
i know also body shaming jokes are bad but also Tom Watson is a tory cunt
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
i know also body shaming jokes are bad
It's never stopped a single ilxor from going there
― オニモ (onimo), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
(inc me, I might add, though I think I try to reserve it for footballers turning up for pre season)
― オニモ (onimo), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
you can't body shame Tom these days, he benches 180 (wtf that means) and he's that strong he can slice through an engineering brick with his hand.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
xp not only sacked, but sacked by email while waiting to be discharged from three weeks in hospital for a massive epileptic fit and injuries incurred while having it.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
He was transparently their main source of disgruntled frontbencher quotes going back maybe a decade but his influence and power - such as it existed - was predicated on being that guy. Now he's no longer in Parliament it no longer exists although it might be sufficient to get some coverage of his forthcoming Lanchestrian masterpiece.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 11:50 (three years ago) link
He's still occasionally rinsing the Giggs and Headie One bangers but the most notable thing from Baggymp's recent Last FM action is that he reloaded the Band of HM Royal Marines' Bugle Fanfare to mark VJ Day. I wasn't aware that any human being would actually do that even if they were so inclined, as opposed to, say, sticking the TV on.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 August 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link