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If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, enforce mandatory digital ID, record numbers of small boat crossings in the English Channel, hammer the disabled with welfare cuts, add inheritance tax to family farms and family businesses causing thousands of them to close, his deputy prime minister dodging £40,000 in tax, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius at a cost of £35bn, spaff £30bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, betray WASPI women, hang out with BlackRock, 50,000 small boat crossings in one year, create a new £50bn economic black hole, increase the overall tax burden to record levels, destroy business growth with national insurance rises resulting in over 200,000 job losses, get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.

JamesMelville's tweet photo. If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, enforce mandatory digital ID, record numbers of small boat crossings in the English Channel, hammer the disabled with welfare cuts, add inheritance tax to family farms and family businesses causing thousands of them to close, his deputy prime minister dodging £40,000 in tax, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius at a cost of £35bn, spaff £30bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, betray WASPI women, hang out with BlackRock, 50,000 small boat crossings in one year, create a new £50bn economic black hole, increase the overall tax burden to record levels, destroy business growth with national insurance rises resulting in over 200,000 job losses, get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.

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Reading an article series from 1925 by Reginal Fessenden and I came across a profound truth about invention. If you ever wanted to invent or innovate, you should read this. "No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important development in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition." 1. The telegraph companies did not invent the cable, and after the first cable had been laid continued their efforts to build lines in Alaska and Russia to communicate by that route. 2. Neither the telegraph nor the cable companies invented the telephone. It was offered to them for $300,000 and they declined it. 3. The telegraph, cable, and telephone companies did not invent the wireless telegraph, and declined it when offered. 4. The telegraph, cable, telephone, and wireless telegraph companies did not invent the wireless telephone, and turned it down when it was offered to them for $250,000. 5. The gas companies did not invent the electric light. 6. The horse-car street railways did not invent the electric railway. 7. The steam engine companies did not invent the steam turbine. Nor did they invent the internal combustion engine. 8. The steam engine companies, turbine companies, and gas engine companies did not invent the Diesel engine. 9. Neither the various types of engine companies nor the electric companies nor the shipbuilding companies invented the turbo-electric or the Diesel-electric drive, and the chief engineer of one of the largest electric companies put on record his opinion that "electricity could never be used except as an auxiliary on ship-board." 10. The electric companies did not invent the high frequency alternator, and when persuaded to make one up at the inventor's expense, the electric company returned it with a letter stating that in the opinion of its engineers it "could never be made to operate above 10,000 cycles." 11. Neither the electric nor the electric communication companies invented the hot cathode rectifier nor the audion. These great inventions were due to Edison and DeForest. 12. Neither the shipbuilding companies nor the ship instrument companies invented the gyroscopic compass, the inductor compass, or the wireless compass. 13. The silk producers and manufacturers did not invent viscose or artificial silk. 14. The collar manufacturers did not invent the soft collar, and turned it down when it was offered to them. Etc. Etc.