Barry's World Of Procrastination

Stared into the void; void asks if I want to take this outside.

Incongruous seriousness levels. Destroyed self with facts & logic. Failing to stay off Twitter.

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@LOS_Fisher @MENnewsdesk Does @RobKenyonReform have a position on WASPI compensation?

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@JacobCollierMP Why did this take two years?
(Half-a-decade overall)

It was obvious, so obvious, stopping test reassignment, was the cleanest immediate solution to reset the market.

It should have been done by the previous Tory government, Labour could and should have day-1 plans in place.

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@EleanoraStats Of course you do. Doesn't matter if raises revenue or not. For you it's about the rich people having less, not about other people having more.

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@catdeans @denbypottery "in our family heirlooms"

Underlines how there's little demand for *new* product, vs. second hand market.

Incredibly expensive to manufacture by hand now, normal people don't value that enough to pay the massive price.

Clearly they couldn't even pivot to a hyper-luxury brand.

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@slackkejakke Why doesn't your wife know about the local LHA amounts, and how this works?

I appreciate it isn't the first thing or critical, but to not have picked it up (through casual office conversation, an earlier client, or curiosity, etc) is she relatively new to the sector?

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@ThomasChesterUK I think everyone is entirely in agreement there are more than 5 Restore voters.

Nothing about this is incompatible with them also getting around 8% - which is likely over 3,000 voters.

Makerfield constituency is a large area. "First thing" =/= "most representative thing".

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@ZackPolanski If you plan on forcing the BoE to buy created bonds, say so.

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@MikeDiplockre This has a caveat that hinges on Burnham "abiding by a promise" and that does seem pretty wild

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@idk12326 @IwanDoherty98 These market outcomes are entirely tolerable.
No good case for forgoing revenue, esp' when we know this is merely squeezing a balloon causing tax raises needing to be made elsewhere.

(Also many great studies showing that business rates cuts largely just result in rent increases)

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@idk12326 @IwanDoherty98 There's twice as many barbers as in 2010.
If anything there's an oversupply.

There's no policy response required for "tax cut".

The idea of 4 barbers actively competing around £10 haircuts is a perfect example.

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@jago_suzanne @lukejcr I don't think this is a serious evidenced position.

I think Burnham will be worse, but for a while better at communicating.

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@lukejcr "He can get an Avanti to Westminster with a blueprint to beat Reform."

There are 27 seats in Greater Manchester; Burnham can only personally stand in one of them.

Also can only stand for Westminster election on a platform of deposing the current Lab prime minister once.

So no.

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@Abriael @PenPlays_ What is worth?

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@D__Melb @MarwanData Reform are not the most sane or the most consistent, in terms of political offer or campaigning.

A few % does matter when it comes to the performance of a rival on the right.

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@SolitarySquid @PolitlcsUK Guessing can't weight a representative sample.

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@fionasins_ In the UK 'DEI' training and concepts are most often called "Equality and Diversity", but that's absolutely not the same as simply not existing.

And then DEI does actually appear to exist under that term precisely, also within some police forces, at minimum.

So, turns out: no

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@RealSamMelia @grok Is this letter and its contents likely to be authentic, specifically do these titles and positions exist within the West Yorkshire police force

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@DuncanStott It's incredibly tough.

Gen Z are competing with everyone above (every single collapsed company, or mid-career AI redundancy, etc, produces a wave of jobseekers with experience/skills, but who now need to look downwards to find roles) and all immigration (both stock and arrival).

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@mearchiavelli @the_mantress They teach you to drive, cover costs of all lessons and tests.

That alone unlocks a massive number of possible jobs, a big edge over a lot of post-pandemic youth that are ageing up without ANY skills.

Even habits like time keeping, differentiating needs-v-preferences, etc.

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@ZackPolanski Zac Polanski yelling at rain clouds over his Vegan barbecue:
"We must stop being in hock to hydrology, no one voted for precipitation!"

Look mate. You were the one that wanted to do something outside in April..