Yes, like the Tories, Labour try to game the system to gain narrow party advantage. It's very similar to their attitude to voting reform.
We need reform of the way parties are funded (with big individual donations banned) and we need electoral reform. We also need the electoral commission to be independent of government, and run by judges. The electoral commission should have legal powers like the health and safety executive.
I initially read "a jackpot payout" as "a crackpot payout". But it's understandable. There is no guarantee that the billionaires whose funds politicians crave are reasonable balanced individuals, and, if Musk is anything to go by, they can be the worst sort of crackpots.
Nick, you are surprised that Musk knows so much about low level British political nut jobs. Musk reads X compulsively, and this is one of his areas of true expertise—nutjobs who write and are written about in English. It's one of my few scraps of proof that he has high intelligence in certain realms. He must read very fast, and he absorbs superficial X-based information very quickly.
Re the passage you quote about the PM - "We would also like to commend" etc - I saw it stated on X (yes, I know) that this is actually a statement from Keith Vaz on the select committee, not from the independent review. If so, that rather does make it less helpful.
The exploitation of young girls and boys did not end with the death of Jimmy Savile or the arrests of gangs of Pakistani men in Rochdale. There were 700 police cases against Savile, none of which the police thought they could win. The care of young girls in so called community homes has been slipshod at best and exploited by high ranking white leaders amongst others. I accept the dilemma caused when someone as young as 12 turns up at a police station to complain about sexual exploitation. It is unlikely that anyone will know what to do. Just as with rape cases against women older than the age of consent, the system is incapable of dealing with the situation. Half the women who report rape withdraw the charge because of the trauma. We obviously need specialist bodies to deal with these matters, at a time when there is hardly enough revenues in the public purse to run the present system.
I’m genuinely curious how you feel about the very odd dichotomy between the Orwellian enforcement of “hate speech” laws in the UK putting people in jail for what they said or posted on X, when it’s a teacher refusing to use preferred pronouns or someone pointing out the outsized presence of Muslims in terrorism, versus the lax or no enforcement of such hate speech on the Free Palestine cult members, whether it’s during protests or online. Didn’t the head of the Met just suggest jail and extradition of US citizens for their exercise of free speech, same guy who defended his police officers watching aimlessly the calls for the genocide of 7.7 million Israelis repeated openly in protests and online again and again?
Yes, like the Tories, Labour try to game the system to gain narrow party advantage. It's very similar to their attitude to voting reform.
We need reform of the way parties are funded (with big individual donations banned) and we need electoral reform. We also need the electoral commission to be independent of government, and run by judges. The electoral commission should have legal powers like the health and safety executive.
The comparison with PR is very striking
Judges are the least politically impartial people in Britain.
And the electoral commission must be 100% impartial.
I initially read "a jackpot payout" as "a crackpot payout". But it's understandable. There is no guarantee that the billionaires whose funds politicians crave are reasonable balanced individuals, and, if Musk is anything to go by, they can be the worst sort of crackpots.
Nick, you are surprised that Musk knows so much about low level British political nut jobs. Musk reads X compulsively, and this is one of his areas of true expertise—nutjobs who write and are written about in English. It's one of my few scraps of proof that he has high intelligence in certain realms. He must read very fast, and he absorbs superficial X-based information very quickly.
Re the passage you quote about the PM - "We would also like to commend" etc - I saw it stated on X (yes, I know) that this is actually a statement from Keith Vaz on the select committee, not from the independent review. If so, that rather does make it less helpful.
Thanks Ted. I will check that
The exploitation of young girls and boys did not end with the death of Jimmy Savile or the arrests of gangs of Pakistani men in Rochdale. There were 700 police cases against Savile, none of which the police thought they could win. The care of young girls in so called community homes has been slipshod at best and exploited by high ranking white leaders amongst others. I accept the dilemma caused when someone as young as 12 turns up at a police station to complain about sexual exploitation. It is unlikely that anyone will know what to do. Just as with rape cases against women older than the age of consent, the system is incapable of dealing with the situation. Half the women who report rape withdraw the charge because of the trauma. We obviously need specialist bodies to deal with these matters, at a time when there is hardly enough revenues in the public purse to run the present system.
The liberal cause must indeed be on its last legs if a clown like Musk can harm it.
Money can only help a political or other cause if that cause is already in fine fettle.
Reform is in good condition - it hasn't been busy destroying the country as Labour and (even more) the Tories have been.
Farage can't be worse. And Musk's dislike for him is a feather in his cap.
I can't remember hearing any complaints while Gates and Soros have been interfering in democratic politics.
But they're liberals of course, so that makes their interference perfectly OK !
I’m genuinely curious how you feel about the very odd dichotomy between the Orwellian enforcement of “hate speech” laws in the UK putting people in jail for what they said or posted on X, when it’s a teacher refusing to use preferred pronouns or someone pointing out the outsized presence of Muslims in terrorism, versus the lax or no enforcement of such hate speech on the Free Palestine cult members, whether it’s during protests or online. Didn’t the head of the Met just suggest jail and extradition of US citizens for their exercise of free speech, same guy who defended his police officers watching aimlessly the calls for the genocide of 7.7 million Israelis repeated openly in protests and online again and again?
Is there a reason you can’t respond?
The Electoral Commission played politics on behalf of the Remain cause.
It has in consequence been stripped of its powers.
And quite rightly - it has a duty of absolute impartiality, if anyone has.