Jimbo Slice

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@RishiSunak Square one sounds pretty good right now to be honest - I’ll take square one please.

[Andrew Levi @AndrewPRLevi]

While understanding the surprise (it was unexpected!) at Natalie Elphicke’s defection, I’m bemused by the shock, in some quarters, that Keir Starmer welcomed her.

No, not because Sir Keir is a “Red Tory” or a “short-term opportunist”.

His grand strategy explains it.

A 🧵/1.

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@sithsayer @PaulKirkby3 “I fucking love the Tories and the Tories love fucking me”

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@meirionj Cllr - can you show me where they’ve said they’re giving £1600 a month to all illegal entrants please? I’m looking around but can’t seem to find it.

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@RicHolden @Keir_Starmer The biggest threat is a bloke in opposition? What fucking planet see you on? Your government caused this current shit show - how do you think you can take credit for reducing inflation but not accept any responsibility for causing any of it? You’re pure poison. Get in the sea.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The Prime Minister’s LBC interview was filled with enough bull**** to fertilize an entire field. If like me you think the public deserve the actual FACTS RT this widely.

If UK media can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@jasonhooper99 @AdamBienkov Most modern cars struggle to drive at 20mph? You need to put that bottle down Jason.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)?

One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century.

Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science.

Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here.

My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess.

BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@grantshapps @Keir_Starmer You’re a joke of a politician

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Two bits of advice to those planning to go into higher education

● study what interests you and not what you think will get you a highly paid job. Life is short. You'll be happier, more fulfilled and probably go on to do better things with your life

● Don't vote Conservative

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@iandavidson1982 @fLuidinio @MarinaPurkiss @PetronellaWyatt @MailOnline

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@RicHolden @BCEReviews I wouldn’t worry about it Richard - you were going to be out of a job at the next GE anyway 🤷‍♂️

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@StockyMan115 @ToryWipeout @Conservatives A patriot who doesn’t give a fuck about the living conditions being made objectively worse by the party in power. Keep telling yourself you’re a patriot pal. The rest of us know you’re a bootlicking clown.

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@StockyMan115 @ToryWipeout @Conservatives Hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahajahahahjahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

"Reducing asylum application backlog would make it harder for Rwanda policy to be cost effective, official analysis suggests"

This is a statistic so perverse it should be banned for indecency.

Deep breath, and let's dive in...

Basically the longer an asylum seeker is trapped in rubbish accommodation unable to work or live anything even approximating a normal life, the more it costs the state.

And the more it costs the state, the more it's "worth" to deter one additional migrant from coming here.

So if the Tories could make asylum seekers cost £1 million each, they could then claim that each additional asylum seeker deterred from coming here "saves" the UK £1 million, because that money won't have to be spent on them.

£10 million each, and the notional saving from deterrence would be £10 million. And so on.

In other words, the ROI of Rwanda as a deterrent only starts to look reasonable if you manage to make each asylum seeker very VERY expensive.

How do you do that? By slowing and slowing and slowing the processing of their application, so that they have to spend years and years and years trapped in a tiny room with a stranger, waiting.

In other words, the less efficient you are, the more your theoretical saving is, because the deterrent effect is worth more.

It's the sickest and most disgusting misuse of statistics I've ever seen, because it "legitimises" the very conscious and deliberate Tory policy to slow application processing down so that the visible backlog of asylum seekers grows and grows and there's an enemy for the RW tabloids to point at and other.

Beyond belief. And yet they are genuinely trying to pass this off as a genius strategy, rather than as a travesty that should see every one of the people responsible for formulating the plan in prison on human rights grounds.
https://t.co/o9WuMpcB28

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“You were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsides”

Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were “lied to” and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable

#bbcqt https://t.co/Si2VWgjgt1

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@MartinDaubney Mug

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

A terrifying milestone. An estimated 10,000 people have now died this year from preventable A&E / ambulance delays, here in the 6th wealthiest country on earth. 10,000 people. Dead. Due to govt mismanagement of the NHS. Your family isn't safe in #ToryBritain.

#SOSNHS

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Don’t want to go over the top, but this is absolutely jaw-dropping. Someone who was in the cabinet when legislation on voter ID was agreed and went through parliament acknowledges it WAS an attempt to gerrymander the elections https://t.co/onD8iPUsJO

[Jimbo Slice @JimmyoftheNorth]

@ClaireLiz4Life This is one of the most mental threads I’ve read in a while.