Nothing useful from the opposition (Greens, Conservatives and Reform), except this good idea that would actually lower prices due to how the system is set up
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Thatâs what theyâre looking at @magnus, but @arminius rightly pointed out that it potentially harms the green energy sectors who are earning double bubble profit from this system.
Devil will be in the detail, of course but itâs been such a harmful policy but awkward to change it seems.
Then again I just a pretty scathing video about Starmer and perhaps he had zero desire to change it anyway.
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Yeah, I just skimmed i first, before reading Arminius points. It just looked like the only actual solution being offered by the opposition in the article, as the rest was just âgovernment wrong!â
I realise this is technical and it is also outside my expertise. I just zoomed in on what looked like the policy suggestion, ignoring the 90% of the article, which appeared to be just âtextâ and general criticism of âgovernment is not good enoughâ.
Because when I read such criticism, I want specifics always. Because I am not an expert at this field, so I want to hear what is possible and what is not possible.
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As you cannot be bothered to quote where I asked someone to prove a view or relate your above response to what I actually said with context then what is the point of having a discussion.
You will find, that my âstats mean fuck allâ was originally in reference to people feeling scared and crime. I stand by that statement, just because Stats can provide a stat that crime by a sharp instrument dropped by a %, it doesnât mean people feel safe. Also, just because one crime statistic has improved doesnât mean crime in general has reduced.
I must say you would be a good politician. Always answering/replying to posts where you are challenged by actually avoiding answering anything that you have been called out on and then deflect, dismissing the other poster on their intelligence, good faith. Calling them a bad debater, that they have lost the argument, or it is not looking good for them.
Have you, being an individual, whom promotes themselves on their good values and self righteousness ever reflected on your ignorance and hypocrisy. You are not the judge in these debates, they are generally opinion based and views can differ on lived experiences. It is not about winning or losing, it is about understanding and sadly you fail massively in this area.
Take the Arne Slot thread, our views are aligned on that subject and yet I see some of your responses to other posters, whose view I disagree with and think fuck me thatâs not fair. I think I even commented on it as you were treating @Redbj I believe with the same content you treat me on this thread.
As I have said before and I say this genuinely, I donât consider you stupid and actually read what you say because half the time it is informed - thatâs not a stat. Why is it so hard for you to actually read what someone posts and try and see their point. You do not have to agree with it but you could at least try and understand rather than be more focused on shutting them down.
My responses to @Bekloppt and SBYM were on the opinion that the original article and some posters are more focused on trying to shut down/prove a comment from a source they consider RW as being wrong.
I donât agree with what Rupert Lowe said but I will look at it generally. Likewise if Zac Polanski or Starmer says something I donât agree with I will still give it consideration. I donât dismiss it as LWNJâs.
In my opinion, there seems to be an increasing number of LW aligned electorates that are displaying the ignorant characteristics they call out the RW aligned electorates for displaying.
So, to support my statement of stats prove fuck all in this instanceâŚ.
Firstly, I donât know your lived experience, you do not know mine. I know I have joked about you referring to someone speeding through a temporary traffic light in your village.
So my experience. Just before Xmas, I heard a commotion outside my door and found a group of lads kicking the shit out of each other. It turned out that one lad was trying to rob another lad and his mates found out, there was a car chase where they rammed him to stop him. They then smashed the windows and dragged him out. The man being attacked ran off and the group of lads drove off.
I looked inside the car and there was a massive zombie knife partially in its sheath. Police turned up eventually and the car boot was full of fake plates, the car was stolen.
I gave the police my details, as did one of the neighbours. I have CCTV and so they asked if they could come back to me for a full statement and to view the footage, I said sure thatâs fine. So do you think I heard back from them? The neighbours chased them up and heard nothing back.
So, how do I know if the offence was recorded? If it was recorded, what was the offence? Battery, car theft, attempted robbery, possession of a weapon? Who knows! The knife or sharp instrument wasnât used but it was fucking there. The only reason it wasnât used is because the driver didnât get a chance to. The outcome could have been completely different, but itâs okay itâs only a stat at the end of the day. Them algorithms on social media are a bigger problem, bloody RWNJâs - sorry I didnât see you provide any Stats supporting your comment.
So who is the bad debater? who is posting in bad faith? Is it me because I disputed the stats in this one topic? or you, by using no stats, just pure speculation, political bias and possible paranoia to contest my point?
So, to conclude, and you can quote me on thisâŚplease prove evidence to support your âalgorithm theoryâ and additionally, please provide stats showing the number of offences with a sharp instrument annually since Sadiq Khan became Major and maybe we can have an intelligent conversation.
And if you want to compare to England you have these:
But be aware that you may not be comparing like with like:
Changes in recording: the ONS has suggested some of the recent
increases in police recorded crime in general are due to recording
improvements among police forces.
It also doesnât compare the motivation behind knife crime. This will change over time (for example, the changes to cashless card payments makes theft of payment cards more desirable.)
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Yeah, but stats donât mean anything.
I feel that my raison dâetre has just been diminished.
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No it wasnât.
You made mention of people being scared, but the substantive part of your post is there bolded.
Iâm not denying that people feel scared. But how people feel about something like crime is influenced by more than lived reality. The reason we have crime statistics is precisely so we can see what is actually happening, and not be misled by our own bias.
Peopleâs perception of crime is not the same as the reality of crime. In the case you are talking about, peopleâs fear of knife crime in London is increasing (Is it? Thatâs a claim youâve made) while the actual rate of knife crime is going down. So something is going on.
Your interpretation of this is that the statistics are wrong, and you believe this seemingly because you once witnessed a crime and one of the people had a knife.
I would argue that peopleâs fear of crime is being manipulated by a succession of politicians at home and abroad intent on shit-talking our capital city for personal gain, and a social media infrastructure than plays on fear and hysteria to keep us on their platforms (see also âThe immigration crisis).
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Laying the foundations for military on the street and an ICE type enforcement group perhaps?
Stoke up enough fear, back it up with real instances of crime, even better if itâs from people you want to marginalise and you have all you need to justify some extreme action.
Now where in history have we seen that before? 
Interestingly, or not maybe not, the same tactics used in reverse when discussing climate change.
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I came across this article related to electricity pricing which may be of interest:
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I had strange conversation with a fellow expat here is France the other day. He was shortly due to go the Brum to visit family and he mentioned a couple of things that had my âsteer clearâ / âdo not engageâ radar loudly blinking⌠He mentioned that New Street and the center was very dangerous and that he had asked some one to pick him up as there were gangs and so on and many of these things were as a result of the endless flow of boats crossing the channel. He finished off with, âyeah, I donât know how much to believe as he gets all his news from FBââŚ
I steered the conversation to pastures more suited to a social pint but it set off an interesting thought, There seems to be a peak (temporal and social) FB demographic and this is ripe for targeting with information/mis-information - and maybe particularly so for a town like Birmingham. It is snip below is maybe a window into the how (mis-) information is disseminated to the peak, and likely most influential demographic, i.e. middle to old age.
I had lived in Birmingham for nearly a decade (86-94) and was never became overly fond of it. There was a lot of poverty back then and that hasnât changed much and if anything, it has probably gotten worse. Below, is a snip from the beeb which, shows Birmingham to be one of the worst areas in the Uk for child poverty.
In general, Birmingham is a large city that time has passed by. Itâs existence seems largely fueled by the masses that find themselves there, rather than industry based. Poverty stricken areas are always ripe for manipulation or the charms of a snake oil merchant.
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We all voting in the May elections? Iâm in Scotland so itâs our national elections. The collapse of Your Party (what a shambolic mess) means Iâll probs end up going Green on the constituency vote and Scottish Socialist Party on the list (yes, they still exist).
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They peaked around 2003 as far as I remember and then factionalised. It sounds like Your Party has done that before they even got going. Is it Oban that you vote in?
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Nah, Glasgow these days. They collapsed after they dobbed in Tommy Sheridan (rightly so imoâŚ) but the current leadership/strategy is pretty tired at this point. Itâs one of the reasons I was hopeful for YP â I wanted a socialist option to vote for â but the left loves to eat itself I guess.
Funnily enough, since Iâm posting it on this forum, one of the only places where I hear that YP membership is strong (relatively obviously, given how much it has collapsed) is Liverpool, which is perhaps unsurprising given itâs one of the only places in England where the protest vote of (some) white working class voters goes to the left. I still expect Reform to come second in Liverpool, like most English cities, though, unfortunately.
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I shall vote. I do need to check up on the new voting system here in Wales.
I shall be voting for whomever is best placed to keep Reform out. It seems likely they will win seats in Wales. If they were the leading party, it would be a disaster. Their entire manifesto is based on complete falsehoods.
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From my limited understanding of Welsh politics, this election is essentially between Plaid and Reform, which I never would have predicted a few years ago.
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That seems to be the case yes. Tories no where, and Labour may follow. Lib Dems have picked up seats at times but I canât see them getting any this time either.
Many, like myself will be voting tactically
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I received a letter from reform yesterday sbout the elections.
Straight to the bin with it,
Cheeky bastards thinking i would vote for them!
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From what I can make out, much of the Reform policy in Wales seems to be anti-Welsh (i.e. Cymraeg). Iâm not sure how well that plays out amongst non-Welsh speakers.
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