Space Yak
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Continuity Corbyn hipster analyst. He/him
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A surprisingly bad set of labour market stats this morning. The story I was prepared for was "some weakening, but the shake out from the early part of the year is behind us". But it's worse than that - payroll jobs falling again, unemployment now up at 5%.
Here is our PN
Here is our PN
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A surprisingly bad set of labour market stats this morning. The story I was prepared for was "some weakening, but the shake out from the early part of the year is behind us". But it's worse than that - payroll jobs falling again, unemployment now up at 5%.
Here is our PN
Here is our PN
The right realised long ago that engaging in a bad faith perma tantrum about the BBC being too left wing had absolutely zero drawbacks for them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The right realised long ago that engaging in a bad faith perma tantrum about the BBC being too left wing had absolutely zero drawbacks for them.
This government continues to make some incredibly bad decisions.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This government continues to make some incredibly bad decisions.
One of the justifications for tax cuts for the rich is that it makes more money available for investment.
I'm amazed that we don't consider the effect endless tax cuts for the rich have played in creating the asset bubble bullshit economy we're now all stuck with.
I'm amazed that we don't consider the effect endless tax cuts for the rich have played in creating the asset bubble bullshit economy we're now all stuck with.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of the justifications for tax cuts for the rich is that it makes more money available for investment.
I'm amazed that we don't consider the effect endless tax cuts for the rich have played in creating the asset bubble bullshit economy we're now all stuck with.
I'm amazed that we don't consider the effect endless tax cuts for the rich have played in creating the asset bubble bullshit economy we're now all stuck with.
Your Party has evidently become a slow motion car crash, I didn't want it to be this way, but that's clearly how it turned out, and really the YP people have no one to blame but themselves.
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Your Party has evidently become a slow motion car crash, I didn't want it to be this way, but that's clearly how it turned out, and really the YP people have no one to blame but themselves.
I have this thing where when I instinctively think I can touch type but I can't. I always end up typing gibberish because I'm a few keys out in certain places.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I have this thing where when I instinctively think I can touch type but I can't. I always end up typing gibberish because I'm a few keys out in certain places.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
Have people seen what it costs at to charge at motorway charging stations? It's more expensive than petrol.
Reeves set to unveil plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges at Budget on.ft.com/4qLCd7z
Reeves set to unveil plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges at Budget
Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Have people seen what it costs at to charge at motorway charging stations? It's more expensive than petrol.
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i think i'm the only one who realizes THAT polanski is 92 years old
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
i think i'm the only one who realizes THAT polanski is 92 years old
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
One thing I remember around this time is that then Prime Minister Gordon Brown wanted stimulus but was opposed by his Chancellor Alistair Darling.
Over the next few years Darling was lauded as the face of sensible economic policymaking. It's amazing how wrong that consensus was.
Over the next few years Darling was lauded as the face of sensible economic policymaking. It's amazing how wrong that consensus was.
The "consensus" in 2010 was that our economy was on the verge of collapse, we were at the mercy of "bond vigilantes", & it would be crazy to borrow money at 0 interest rates. Instead the "consensus" was that we needed austerity.
That "consensus" was wrong & no-one has been held accountable.
That "consensus" was wrong & no-one has been held accountable.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
One thing I remember around this time is that then Prime Minister Gordon Brown wanted stimulus but was opposed by his Chancellor Alistair Darling.
Over the next few years Darling was lauded as the face of sensible economic policymaking. It's amazing how wrong that consensus was.
Over the next few years Darling was lauded as the face of sensible economic policymaking. It's amazing how wrong that consensus was.
Youngest is at the "Crawling and grabbing anything interesting" stage. My glasses are a current favourite target.
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Youngest is at the "Crawling and grabbing anything interesting" stage. My glasses are a current favourite target.
So many good points in this thread. It's absolutely absurd that we're doing quantitative tightening right now.
Labour government preparing to hike income taxes - blaming bond markets.
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
Keir Starmer puts Labour MPs on notice for Budget tax rises
Prime minister declines to rule out higher income taxes as Treasury lays foundations for bigger fiscal buffer
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So many good points in this thread. It's absolutely absurd that we're doing quantitative tightening right now.
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The BBC is absolutely riddled with small but cumulatively meaningful decisions like this, and once you notice them you can't stop, and it drives you insane.
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The BBC is absolutely riddled with small but cumulatively meaningful decisions like this, and once you notice them you can't stop, and it drives you insane.
"We don't look the same as you
And we don't do the things you do
But we live around here, too, oh really.."
And we don't do the things you do
But we live around here, too, oh really.."
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"We don't look the same as you
And we don't do the things you do
But we live around here, too, oh really.."
And we don't do the things you do
But we live around here, too, oh really.."
Mamdani seems to be replicating what happened under Corbyn. Huge numbers of people turning out to vote for them, but also huge numbers turning out to vote against them.
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Mamdani seems to be replicating what happened under Corbyn. Huge numbers of people turning out to vote for them, but also huge numbers turning out to vote against them.
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This Day in Labor History: October 28, 1793. Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Let's talk about the massive transformation this caused for labor, north and south.
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This Day in Labor History: October 28, 1793. Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Let's talk about the massive transformation this caused for labor, north and south.
"Why can you lefties not acknowledge that your true calling is as a subservient volunteer class, diligently giving your time and your vote in service of our 5d chess brilliance?"
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"Why can you lefties not acknowledge that your true calling is as a subservient volunteer class, diligently giving your time and your vote in service of our 5d chess brilliance?"
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In a just timeline we'd have burned him in a wickerman to secure a better Sunday show.
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
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October 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
In a just timeline we'd have burned him in a wickerman to secure a better Sunday show.
She can't do much about it, it's institutionally baked in. Short term she needs to raise the inflation target so that bank doesn't tank the economy with rate rises. Longer term she needs to tackle private monopolies by nationalising stuff.
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
She can't do much about it, it's institutionally baked in. Short term she needs to raise the inflation target so that bank doesn't tank the economy with rate rises. Longer term she needs to tackle private monopolies by nationalising stuff.
Not sure what others think,but this seems pretty good.
October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Not sure what others think,but this seems pretty good.
Within that figure there will be people paying a lot more that 44%. Pretty much all the growth from the Thatcher era on came from mortgaging people's futures.
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Within that figure there will be people paying a lot more that 44%. Pretty much all the growth from the Thatcher era on came from mortgaging people's futures.