I'm a massive fan of TaxTopia by @RebelAccountant...

But to do the kind of Tax overhaul needed is too radical for current government to consider.

Oh. You could completely recreate the tax system instead!!

The reality is people know you need to increase some form of tax to pay for change, they just want it to be "fairer" (aka - as long as you tax someone else more).

But there were two reasons to say no to tax rises.

1. People don't like having to hand over money

2. They made it a manifesto policy

So, I may not want council tax changes instead, but if that's not a manifesto promise it may be a more acceptable way...

Yeah. But would you prefer someone who tells you that up front or someone who tells you they won't and then does.

Although I suspect there is a bit of "it's not as bad as people predicted" going on. . .

I assume your quality process removes my

# I have no idea why this works
# it shouldn't work
# but it does and editing it breaks

Comment

You missed the chunk that was pasted from StackExchange.

The changing of variable naming as the coder went from organised to "god dammit just make it work" mode and the random shifts between "string" and 'another string'

I don't necessarily disagree with an income tax rise. We will need to see what she is proposing. By not raising the Personal Allowance they create a rise by stealth anyway...

... however! Reversing a Manifesto Pledge is political suicide IMO

... perhaps the Greens stand a chance now though!

The alarms needed to be raised when a truck with a ladder pulled up to the window. Not when the window was broken into.

Indeed!

But if you are saying. llmGPT I did an experiment where I mixed red and green chemicals and they went bang and here is my raw data... Write me a 3000 word fully referenced paper for Journal Y... ...I have nothing polite to say.

But that's my problem with LLMs - they should be making suggestions like another author. "You'd use less words if you write X, you'd be clearer rewording this sentence as Y" that to me feels OK. Perhaps even good.

I'm much more on the fence. If you have 10 authors. Those authors didn't write every 10th word. So provided they actually read the FINAL work does it matter if the 11th author was an algorithm that improves the grammar?

Oh... The Scottish Press has been having a field day with their Ferry Fiasco for years. So it may well not be effective. But if they did less they would be criticised for doing less...

Or they spent £27k on travel etc and the rest on staff time. If they didn't spend that they'd be accused of lack of oversight.

I'm assuming whichever BBC editor allows a propaganda headline doesn't know much about oversight

The question might actually be why the submission platform doesn't sort all of that!

Now I am fundamentally enraged by most podcasts which as a BBC advert currently describes is a "confident sounding person" rather than an expert. But... I do want to get more of a broad church of opinion on UPF... So might give this a go...