The Tories are working to answer the question 'Why did she stay so long?'
Women, as Thiel said, are a 'difficult constituency' for these market fundamentalists, as are hundreds of thousands who work and are now forced to rely on food banks and benefits to make it to next payday
We can do so much better if we are pulling together, governed by one or two domain specialists Vs bankers. Maybe even a few genuine honest public servants
A government who have worked so hard to gloss over and then spin impact, is asking for a huge amount of trust to amend and / or sunset thousands of laws
This may be adjacently related on the comms techniques that Russia uses, compared and then contrasted in replies to Bannon "Flooding the zone (media) with shit"
"I know! I wouldn't have put that other bit on expenses, or done that teeny bit of consulting for that other government's wealth fund if I thought it was an issue"
"Tell me about it. I asked the Deputy PM and he tapped the side of his nose and said - we all have a few things that are best to be discrete about - which is what someone else told me about my being bullied by him"
Everything our government are advertising as aim represents a bubble bursting, a cycle to more regulated commoditisation, or workforce supply hitting limits elsewhere in the world
Uberisation, crypto, move fast and break us natural resource, bank speculation, data exploitation
Truly looking like an ailing and unimaginative corporation who started a cutting edge cloud project in 2016. Board know writing is on the wall and are being courted by PE firms to sell
While watching others taking marginal gains for the last big thing, folk who were in a far better financial state to take the chances while still fresh, staff are being told they are all in this together and whipped for less pay, rights and health benefits
Will there be any independent election observers in May to document the number of people who are turned away and delays / queues relative to normal operation of polling stations?
Who could organise that without accusation of bias. I would help
Are all the staff getting adequate training? Are they prepared with response to challenge or any bad faith stirring of trouble about mail in ballots. A stitch in time, grist to mill for a fight for roll back for the next GE on basis of any real or other issues documented?
The potential for chaos being created by certain portions of the media is not a trivial concern here
The quoted tweet above is the bottom of the kind of thread I spend about half my work week researching to putting together
No vested interest or pay for it, just piecing together some much needed context. IMHO better informed people make for a better place for us all to live
Long way of saying if you wanted to buy me a wee coffee it would help with cost of books, fees for events, subscriptions and the other stuff OH despairs of me consuming to keep facts straight