Rayvin
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It's all Millibands fault, to my total non-surprise. I knew he'd changed the voting rules, but I had no clue about this:
(second is the disaster of changing the way leaders are elected)One thing nobody seems to be mentioning is this - if he wins, then the country will potentially be faced with choosing a Labour leader who proposed to embark on the most sweeping reforms since Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher, but he's be 70 years old! He'll be nodding off in his very first cabinet meeting, surely?He's not being put forward or even voted for in order for him to win though. Not by a lot of people. It's an attempt to force Labour back over from the centre-right.
He won't win the next election, he'll quit as leader when he fails, but Labour won't be what it is now. This is a necessary process.
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I disagree.
I think we are doing ok for a tiny island having gone through Labours crash ;) We are going through a range of policies that are (unpopular with the left) putting us in a leaner position to exist and be relatively successful in this modern age.
If you think about the last 100-200 years, we've had a hell of a ride, but now the rest of the world is getting in on the act.
Sorting out the pension crisis, controlling welfare and concentrating on the economy will stand us in good stead going forward.
But do you not also think cracking down on tax avoidance, which costs us £70billion per year, should be a higher priority than controlling for £4.6billion in welfare fraud? Wouldn't that stand us in better stead going forward? That £70b could be spent on public services, investing in science and technology, putting the UK at the forefront of the information/knowledge arms race. Instead, with respect, we're playing petty politics over things only the Daily Mail gets wound up about.
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I'm not undone at all. What I'm saying is time moves on and the electorate (ever changing), moves on.
Labours best line of defence would be to have something else to talk about, a better vision, exciting policies. Etc.
Labours poor record in government will always get dragged up by the conservatives. In 1997 the electorate were blown away even though some Tories still harped on about "the last time" labour were in power. Winter of discontent, people not getting buried etched etc.
In 2020 most voters will be more swayed by an exciting vision of the future than they will by something that happened 13 years previously.
I agree with this, but as things stand I can't see any political party actually delivering on such a thing. Especially not the Tories. There is no vision for the future of this country, we're just winding it down now, really.
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They're not exactly devoid of mess now...
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I think it's a foregone conclusion now. NuLabour is dead and given what it's become, not a moment too soon.
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I still look back fondly at the fanfare surrounding Rodwell's arrival
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Uber
in General Chat
See, you guys have taken the perfectly sane and not at all boring as hell debate that Mako and I were having, and you've just ruined it!
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Uber
in General Chat
You'd need a single gas sensor in the roof (or two, for redundancy), to detect the acidic airborne compounds that would quickly fill the inside of a cab soon after it's been puked in or pissed on. It would cost nowt, never need maintenance/calibration (since the difference between puke air and clean air isn't exactly small, chemically), and vandals probably even spot it, let alone know what it was for.
You know what, I've re-read the posts here, and you win. Acid detecting sensors to capture all manner of human excrement are certainly more practical than a camera. Not sure they exist like, but they would make sense.
'Course they might also go off if someone brought an orange juice into the car, or their deodorant smelled too strongly...
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Uber
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Or, y'know, sensors?
I considered that, but figured that they'd be more costly in the long run. You'd need them pretty much all over the place to cover the possible eventualities for a car soiling episode, they'd need regular replacing, would play up and require maintenance more often than a protected camera in a box would, etc. They could also be vandalised, whereas the camera could be more easily protected.
I put an extraordinary amount of thought into something this trivial. Let me have my moment
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This past week has just been confirmed as a 7-in-a-row Perfect Turd* week.
I confess there was some nervous tension surrounding this morning's effort, following a coffee fueled night-shift, but wouldn't you know- consistency was consistent
What a way to start the season
*Perfect Turd - no wiping required, but you always give it two at least;
1: Wipe, inspect "Nowt?, Nah, must've missed"
2. Second swipe, dig deeper, inspect " Nowt-It's a Perfect!!".
You're welcome.
You're such an odd person
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Uber
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How does the soiled car know that it has piss or shit in it? At the very least the next person that orders it opens the door to a steaming turd or a sloshing puddle of piss. Or perhaps both.
So it gets reported to the depot then, but you've also lost two customers, one who shit in your cab who you'll blacklist (and you aren't bothered about losing) and your amateur crime scene investigator who has sworn off disgusting shit filled driverless cabs for life.
End of Journey Webcam/Photo - post-exit, photo is taken of internal seating areas and relayed to manned observation post and central office. Visual check carried out on photo and car approved for further collections.
If visual check flags potential issues, car is recalled and observed manually. Timestamped photos are taken as evidence and the car is cleaned down. Previous customer is billed for clean up. Car re-released into circulation following clean up.
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I thought Obertan was mostly alright, surprisingly.
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Good game overall, even if watching the standard final 15 minutes of frantic defending is still a part of the average match day experience.
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We've lost all our control in midfield since Anita went off.
Absolutely this.
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Balls to that.
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Insightful.
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Think we should probably swap Mitrovic in soon...just to mix it up a bit.
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Shame for Anita...
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Can you imagine if we got a third? I can't remember the last time we scored 3 goals...
EDIT - although we'd probably lose 4-3 if that happened.
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Get those lottery tickets, Cisse just made a successful tackle and insightful pass in quick succession (we'll forget what he did immediately before).
Fucking good recovery though!
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Colback taking one for the team there
The Labour Leadership Campaign
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No they won't, because the narrative for austerity is too prevalent a lie. Someone could come along and solve the whole fucking lot, and the right wing press would annihilate them.
That is the problem CT, the real answers are being drowned the fuck out.