Niall

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

if you are currently in your 30s, don't have a defined benefit occupational pension and are not able to save 20% of your post-tax income, cutting the indexation of the state pension is about the worst thing the government could do to you.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@Freecitizen864 @LeftieStats @RedfieldWilton I'm not saying it's likely, but it's possible. It happened in Canada in 1993. In a House of Commons of 295 seats, their Tories went from 156 seats to *two* and the main opposition became the Québécois separatists. https://t.co/o2WKIGFUR1

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@CountBinface @AccidentalP

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@adamcobb Perhaps a silly question, but why is he holding a shirt with the rank insignia of a brigadier?

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

this week has been a good example of how oppositions can shift the debate with a focused communications strategy: Labour spent a few days attacking its own clean air policy for no reason and now the government is moving into the political space created

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

People still call our streaming service 4OD so good luck

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@Neiito_ @zivinilee @AzorInfo @PlzNoCancel1 @bad_histories Both have the same aim: to create a society without a minority group. But with ethnic cleansing the group is simply moved. Genocide implies the deliberate *destruction* of at least a part of it, not necessarily by murder. Obviously, some can count as both, eg the Trail of Tears.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@brokenbottleboy *cough* H Jones *cough*

[Niall @inselaffe36]

It's *more* important for a system to be preferential than proportional.

I get why mediocre politicians would see this as a threat, but why is it not brought up by others more often?

I want to get rid of the crappy leftie party without risking allowing the right wing one in.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

If the internal messes in the SNP, Conservatives and Labour recently prove anything, it's that any political party will always, eventually, accumulate so much baggage that it is better to simply allow it to collapse so something else can take its place.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

...but of course, this only works if you have an electoral system built to allow it.

What I've never understood about the various pushes for electoral reform is why accountability is not put on the same level as proportionality.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@DVLAgovuk Is this a new rule? I know many older people still have paper licences and have never had to renew them. Are these being phased out?

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@BallotBoxScot Is it possible to get some kind of notification when this project is published?

[Richard Leonard @LabourRichard]

Disgraceful decision that should be opposed by everyone who believes in democracy, devolution, equality and LGBT+ rights.

Solidarity with trans people.

https://t.co/VlEIZY03A2

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@AnImminentKing @brian_seadon @metpoliceuk It's an excellent model for gradually rebuilding an existing police force. Ukraine's transition from the Militsiya to the National Police would be another, more extensive model - cops over there literally had to reapply for their jobs with no guarantee of getting them.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@AnImminentKing @brian_seadon @metpoliceuk Ah, okay, that's a much less extensive proposal than I was expecting - not abolishing the police, that's just replacing it with different, better police. I was expecting references to US academics like Alex Vitale or Dean Spade, most of whom aren't actually filling in the details

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@AnImminentKing @brian_seadon @metpoliceuk I'm not sure what you intend to achieve by not just telling me what you believe, and attempting to convince me of it.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@AnImminentKing @brian_seadon @metpoliceuk Every "abolish the police" proposal I have ever found online has very serious holes in it and would cause more problems than they would solve. They are also radically different from each other. Hence, I want to know what you think.

[Niall @inselaffe36]

@KayefromKent @WEP_UK No, all that means is they would get a female uniform and called "she" in the segregation wing of a different prison. They're still a sex offender, and would be treated as such. There are some rapists who are cis women and they would be treated the same way. Like rapists.