Matthew Chamberlain

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

@SadiqKhan You’re done, you traitorous twat

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The family court system is built on the sad idea that fathers are less essential than mothers in the raising of children - that is wrong, and a Restore Britain Government would change it.

The odds are often unfairly stacked against fathers, and many have to fight tooth and nail at huge expense to get access to their own children following what can be malicious complaints. In many cases, these fathers have done nothing wrong - mothers are also affected, but the victims are primarily men.

Kept away from their sons and daughters for months and months. Years even. It's morally outrageous.

Children need a mother and a father to stand the best chance at healthy development.

Family courts promote the idea that fathers are, at best, a nice thing to have. At worst? An enemy.

They require radical restoration, putting the child's safety and wellbeing at the very top of the agenda.

That means providing fair access to fathers when it is safe to do so for the child. The current system does not provide that in a timely and reasonable manner.

A Restore Britain Government would stand up for decent dads everywhere who have been unfairly and cruelly ripped away from their children.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@campbellclaret Alastair - from the family of every man and woman who got killed in your pointless wars.

You are, without doubt, the prick.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Wisdom_HQ 116

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Despite imposing an inheritance tax raid on UK family farms—purportedly due to the fabricated "£22bn black hole"—the Labour government is allocating £536m in aid to foreign agricultural initiatives. Speechless.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Something shifted today. The Budget row stopped being a story about dishonesty and became something darker: a government moving to remove the one man who could expose it. Rachel Reeves hasn't simply misrepresented the public finances. She hasn't simply engineered a false fiscal crisis. She is now clinging to office because the one man who could contradict her – the chairman of the OBR – has been shoved aside hours before he was due to give evidence. That is not politics. That is the state reaching for the dimmer switch to keep the truth out of sight.

Richard Hughes's resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny. He disappears from the witness table where he was meant to confirm, under oath and in public, that the Chancellor had the upgraded forecasts before she warned the country of a black hole that did not exist. And he falls after days of pressure from ministers who suddenly lost their patience with the one body they had spent months claiming proved their credibility. A watchdog that tells the truth is useful to them. A watchdog that contradicts the script is disposable.

This is the true scandal. Not the lie, but the purge. A government that cooks its own numbers is untrustworthy. A government that removes the referee to protect a minister is dangerous. Reeves has not merely broken faith with the public – she has broken the independence of Britain's fiscal institutions. The OBR was created to keep politicians honest. Today it has been reminded, in brutal terms, that honesty carries a price.

Starmer cannot wash his hands of this. His fingerprints are all over the weapon. He attacked the OBR for its timing. His ministers briefed against Hughes. His MPs questioned his position. Reeves withdrew her confidence just as the narrative turned against her. And then, as the walls closed in, the man at the centre of the row quietly exited the stage. Starmer held a press conference insisting there was "no misleading," a line delivered with the weary certainty of a man who hopes repetition can replace truth. It cannot. The public is not blind. They can see the choreography.

A Prime Minister who stays silent while his Chancellor misleads the country is weak. A Prime Minister who allows the watchdog to be trampled to spare his Chancellor is complicit. This government now faces a crisis of legitimacy of its own making. It asked the country to trust it. Then it undermined the very institution designed to earn that trust. This is not the behaviour of grown-ups. It is the behaviour of a government that fears scrutiny because it knows scrutiny will expose the lie.

We should be clear about what happened today. The head of the OBR resigned in the middle of the biggest fiscal scandal in years. He resigned on the eve of giving testimony that could have ended Reeves's career. And he resigned under a cloud of ministerial pressure, pointed criticism, and barely disguised frustration from Number 10. This government has not only misled the public – it has interfered with the mechanisms designed to correct that misconduct.

A country can survive a dishonest Budget. It cannot survive a government that silences the people who catch it.

And that is where Britain now stands. If the ethics system fails to act, if Parliament shrugs, if the OBR is cowed into submission, then the lie becomes law and the truth becomes optional. Reeves may cling on. Starmer may brazen it out. But a government that protects itself by toppling the watchdog is not a government with a future. It is a government already rotting from the inside.

"Richard Hughes's resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny."

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@mjovanovictech Will look at this. What I would love is some suggestions on handling a non interactive print of pdf… client hits a print button (or fired as part of a process) to a
specified printer (not user selected but app configuration, say) with a quantity. Seems a difficult requirement

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet I’ve done something similar with pdf’s. I ended up storing them in base64 and gzip compression. I chunked the data into 255 characters and stored that in the database. Found EF great at reading 50k+ records. A parent table with the meta data with child table containing the chunks

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet EF (any decent ORM) is a brilliant tool when understood and used properly! I have a decent understanding of SQL but still output the raw SQL EF generates to the debugger to check what it’s doing from time to time (usually when troubleshooting). LINQ to EF is priceless ☺️

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

Expanding on this… EF Async was perfectly fine accessing 50k plus records (255 chars each) but struggled accessing 1 record with a field of 50k plus characters.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet Came across this accessing a sql server stored pdf in byte[] / base64. Nvarchar(max) containing 10k’s characters. Async is slow. Sync call is quick as. Eventually chunked the data and stayed with Async calls.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet Came across this accessing a sql server stored pdf in byte[] / base64. Nvarchar(max) containing 10k’s characters. Async is slow. Sync call is quick as. Eventually chunked the data and stayed with Async calls.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet 1 example: I built my own Assets[“css/script files”] functionality on .Net8 to avoid caching issues. Happy to move to .net9 to get built in support that’ll also be there in future versions. No brainer.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet I’m rewriting lots of web forms apps right now and just moved up from .net 8 to 9.
If I were you, start with 9 and factor in an upgrade to 10 during development. Shouldn’t be too much of an issue but you never know if 10 ends up getting delayed or something unknown.

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@mjovanovictech x, then y,z for nested statements

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@TheCodeMan__ 3

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet Does this work for Blazor Web App? Haven’t chance to try it yet but would be handy to see all @page directives in one place to compare

[Matthew Chamberlain @mpcham]

@Dave_DotNet I’d like shorter release cycles to allow quicker availability of new features and they typically involve less breaking changes BUT…. my company doesn’t allow the standard term support releases (.Net9 for example) so I’m stuck with .Net8 until .Net10 becomes available.

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