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Feb 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Hans... are we the baddies?"
Also actual LOLs at the Met Police Federation thinking most Londoners are going to side with them vs the Mayor.

Even the racists here would quite like a police force that gave a shit at a senior level about investigating/dealing with base level crime like burglary and theft.
You can only get away with being a racist/misogynistic police force if you at least take care of the Little Englanders when they report low-level crime like burglary/theft.

Kicking in doors in high-vis and walking out waving a few baggies only impresses Home Secretaries.
But I'm sure we'll see the usual non-London-based Little Englanders jump on this and claim they know more about this city, and its police force's general behaviour, than those of us who actually live here.

It'll be Brian from Lancashire who starts posting Blue Lives Matter memes
This is the real failed legacy of Cressida Dick's time as Commissioner, and why I'm not surprised at all that the Met Fed is trotting out bollocks it shouldn't.

She oversaw a continued shift in culture in the Met to one where the only constituents it thinks it has are itself.
Are there lots of good officers out there on the streets? Absolutely. I know a bunch. I'm sure others do, too.

But lets not pretend the entire culture of the Met within which they operate isn't rotten and needs utterly tearing up.

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Feb 14
Personally my interview questions for a new Met Commissioner would just be throwing a bunch of Commander Vimes quotes at them and asking them if they agree.

With Vimes, Pratchett showed he perfectly understood both the complexity and correct way of policing a large city.
Vimes/Pratchett on consent policing:

"When we break down, it all breaks down. That’s just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough you can bend it in a circle, but you can’t break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there’s nothing unbroken."
Vimes/Pratchett on the application of the law:

"The common people? They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit."
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Feb 9
I'm still amazed how fast we've moved from "don't ever touch me!" to "scritches required at all times pls" with Little Stray Kitty.

Hopefully a good sign that he'll come back once the door is open.

No firm ETA on that at the moment due to my tooth drama. But soon.
I should say that we'd have already opened the downstairs doors if it wasn't clear that he's pretty satisfied with life right now.

Still yowls at cats through the window occasionally, but is so much more relaxed in himself and discovering new experiences like duvet deep snoozes. Black kitty utterly sparko, sprawled out on duvet.
He's got a deep, quiet rumble of a purr. I still remember him almost jumping out of his skin the first time he did it. As if he had no idea he could make that noise.

Now he does it all the time.
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Feb 8
Our first @CrusaderKings DLC run will give a good look at the features, but also pose me a challenge.

We'll be doing an 'Arthurian' run:

1) Reconquer Britain as a Roman character from Brittany
2) Revive Hellenism WITHOUT hacks

And we'll talk real post-Roman history on the way!
@CrusaderKings Stream will kick off when the DLC drops, about 5pm UK time.

Excited for the new culture features, and been planning this run as a way to show them off for a while.

Plus it gives us an awesome opportunity to talk about real Roman Britain, and how cultures merge/Empires retreat
@CrusaderKings So you'll be able to tune in live for lots of gameplay discovery and historical natter (plus some proper Roman mythbusting if people cash in their histofacts) from about 5pm via the link below.

Or catch the replay on my Youtube channel later this week twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
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Feb 4
I have a strange fascination with watching Rishi Sunak manoeuvre for power, as I think he's going to be terrible at it.

It's all very Carlito's Way. He's the young mob lawyer who has fallen in love with his own legend a bit and thinks he's now a gangster.
Both Eat Out and his current energy bill scheme have shown that he's terribly good at coming up with ideas that sound clever to a bunch of earnest young SPADs. But that don't really survive their encounter with actual real-world society and economics.
Normally someone like Rishi would get to cut his teeth on stuff like that (and make those mistakes) somewhere like Transport (see: Phil Hammond).

Rishi is doing it as Chancellor, and may very soon be doing it as PM.
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Feb 1
One day I am going to write a comedy set in local Labour Party meetings on Zoom.
I'm not even going to make anything up. It'll be stuff I've seen happen in them over the years.

I'm just going to change people's names.
It'll even have a part written in it for Robert Lindsay, to resume his 'Wolfie Smith' role. He'll play the elder Trot who got his foot in the Momentum door early.
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Jan 26
I see Cosplay Thatcher is now trying to do an actual Thatcher voice as well.
Compare with classic Liz, pre-Thatcher Senpai stage.

She's been coached to talk lower, slower and less expressively.

I presume in part by the old "move your mouth less" trick (I use it doing voice overs where I need to sound like a senior army officer).
I presume the next step on the Cosplay Thatcher plan is to start doing more severe or boufed hair.

Whoever is coaching her is going with the old "don't change too much at once or people will notice" routine.
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