Friday 24th November 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[frog222]

Enjoyable QT Report, SO pleased that Oakshitt got hers, in the end

" We might as well start with Isabel Oakshott because tonight it was her show. She was allowed free rein to interrupt, talk over, and sneer at every other panellist without any censure whatsoever. She was having a whale of a time using the usual right wing commentators trick when faced with the public of painting herself as a voice of the people having a go at both the Tories and Labour. And it was working, she was getting laughs and applause....until she got carried away and started telling the audience what she really thought and it did not go well for her. As soon as she began ranting about immigration and how she wanted it to come down to zero she was met with absolute silence. Tumbleweed rolled by as the stupid smirk dropped from her weird plastic face. Then an NHS doctor explained that her idiocy would collapse the health service and Isabel's night was done. "

http://flythenest.org/viewtopic.php?p=259033#p259033

[frog222]

From the Carnage in Croydon

" Crick is a famous and retired mainstream journalist, but his reporting has brought some of the Labour right's dark arts out into the light. And because the carnage in Croydon is so bad, is linked to a key Starmer lieutenant, and goes all the way up to his own office there is plenty here for an increasingly desperate Tory party looking for anything they can hit Labour with in this pre-pre-election period. And the likes of the Mail and Express to get their teeth into.

In this case, the ducking and a diving of Labour's new "grown up" politics is potentially very damaging and could, if it becomes widely known, knock holes in Starmer's reputation as "Mr Rules". Most people reading this know he's deceitful and shameless, but many don't. And already with the prospect of his replacing Rishi Sunak regarded an inevitablity absent any enthusiasm or hope for something better, this is another one of those moments that chip away at his legitimacy. Even before he's entered office. "

Oliver Eagleton's first article on SKS put the boot in his public persona as a 'Human Rights champion', and when the book came out anyone with brainz at CCHQ should have been studying it and preparing for the next election .

No point in firing off your best ammo too soon !

IIRC some of the Trump FB campaign in 2016 was identifying potential Clinton voters and feeding them badnews to just get them to stay home .

As it is Starmer and the PartyMachine are so cackhandedly authoritarian that they are driving away potential supporters without any help from the bastard Tories .

Magnifique !

[frog222]

The FDP is a government project to centralise NHS data, with a £480mn price tag.

So far, five areas of work have been named. But the government says this scope will expand. It indicates health data in the FDP will be put to further uses – but not what those uses will be. Neither has it made ironclad commitments not to use our data later for other, more controversial, uses – such as sharing it with commercial companies for profit. Or other government departments.

" Palantir’s chair and largest shareholder Peter Thiel is a donor to Donald Trump. In January, Thiel described Britons’ affection for the NHS as “Stockholm syndrome” and urged government to “rip the whole thing from the ground and start over”.

Is the FDP worth the price tag, and what happened with all these pilots I hear about?
The government says it has run 36 FDP pilots at trusts around the country to see how the system may work. These pilots run on the same platform as the Covid datastore, Palantir’s Foundry.

It was revealed in March that 11 of these pilots had been suspended or paused. Recent information suggests at least seven of these pilots remain inactive. One trust, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, said Palantir’s product: “didn’t meet our needs”. Milton Keynes, a general hospital, binned its Palantir pilot after staff were made to enter data manually.

Investigative work by the Health Service Journal found that out of the 36 NHS trusts where FDP pilots were run by Palantir, only eight were willing to say their pilot provided benefits. Or about 22%.

To state the obvious, a project worth £480mn will need to work well for the entire NHS. Would you spend half a billion pounds on a tool that only helps 11% of the time? "

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/hom ... d-to-know/

[AnatolyKasparov]

The situation in Croydon West is rather like that in the Erith/Thamesmead selection business for Labour prior to the 2010 GE.

(that also involved alleged ballot tampering amongst other things, the candidate rumoured to be leadership favoured actually came third nonetheless)

[refitman]

Here's a lesson, don't trust Nadine with your secrets

[frog222]

Loved the 11 seconds !

Horrible one to end the day, tho we KNOW it's nothing new for decades now --

[AnatolyKasparov]

Something about hammers in the news today, I understand.