No, I don't think the pound-shop Enoch Powell has ever been a PM contender and I hope he never will be.

He stirs up and forments race-hate like Powell did, but like in the 60s, there is a ceiling for such hate, particularly for those who will vote for it, in the privacy of the polling booth, I hope

I'm not sure Starmer is regarded with contempt by 'the overwhelming majority' I think he is deeply hated by the right-wing press and a very vocal minority.

Badenoch is an embarrassment to the Tories and most anything else.

Reform is a clown-car waiting to fall apart.

thankfully it remains absolute trash - I made the mistake of trying to get it to do a thing again today.... a simple thing

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People forget how long a parliamentary term is and we're not yet past the yard-arm on this one.

*could* is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Shall we observe the arc of the SDP in the 80s and reflect on today's political environment? Too simple? Probably, but worthy of note...

it IS fiction, after all. Continuity is overrated in imaginary worlds.

you can work with and help people become better, more competent versions of themselves though.

Not AI.

I hardly ever use any of them, because they're so badly built and when I do.... It strengthens that opinion, as they fumble another task.

Is the problem they're looking at their phone whilst doing what they've been asked? Sure feels like it

this included truncated datasets, inconsistently formatted dates - a smorgasbord of enshittified data.

I could waste another hour, or so trying to make this work, but honestly, I took the *initial data it output* and put it in a txt file, changed the extension, opened it in Excel and it was fine

It read the data out in to an unformatted list, just fine, but then offered it as a csv, at which poitn it turned into a 16 year old moron excuse-machine.

there then followed about another 4-5 failed attempts for it to output the data in to a file

A while ago I judged listening to BBC News was very bad for one's health.

This is a position I stand by, but I'm curious to see what happens now Davie-Torie has gone.

you're posting shyte.

No one in Reform has power to put a new Director General in position.

Probably not before 2029 and that's literally years away.

Maybe you don't remember how between elections the SDP was going to take over government in the 1980s.

Let's hope this is the same, but racists.

Who says it isn't still an EV story, or not a story at all?

except none of those people have the power to put new management in place and would have said those exact same things no matter what happened?

Hear hear.

You're not exactly on here, constantly grifting!

I think you're struggling with understanding how the whole leaving people in the middle of a motorway is remotely bad.

They're also under a roundabout at this point. Where are these people now supposed to be walking to?

Doesn't look much like integrated public transport to me.

Oh, so really putting people at risk, in the middle of two outside lanes on a motorway.

Sounds great 😂

Where do these pedestrians go once they're standing in an underpass, below a roundabout, exactly?

Anyway, I need a thing, so I'm off to order it to be delivered from Amazon, f*ck going to a locally owned store and mixing with all those weirdos in there.

*awkward*

I would like to see the number of businesses involved in this growth.

If it was the UK, I would think there might be a falling number of businesses who are contributing the growth.

That feels like a part of the problem.

This rather relies on there being enough space for two bus lanes between carriageways, on urban motorways, which is deeply unlikely in the UK.

It's not like we haven't tried progressive solutions like this, but they're damned expensive and not always successful e.g.

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