Tuesday 11th February 2025

[refitman]

Moreing all.

[Frog222]

Morning !

Yvette's greatest hit . Not .

" something like this was never going to appeal to Reform voters anyway. This wasn’t a mass deportation. Just a select handful. So disappointing. Barely an aperitif for the average sadist. "

[Frog222]

" “These things don’t work,” he said, referring to paper straws. “I’ve had them many times, and on occasion, they break, they explode.” "

( Just trying to remember who owns JD Vance -- Peter Thiel ? )

[Frog222]

Awesome Georgians --

[gilsey]

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I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

[Frog222]

If this destruction had all been done consciously you'd say it was Trumpian, but the result is the same --

[RogerOThornhill]

Good afternoon.

This has left me wondering at what point a private meeting becomes a public one. Is it more than two? Three? Four?

Nobody would have even known there was a meeting at the DfE if La Birbalsingh hadn't shouted about it from the rooftops.

[Frog222]

From the LiveBlog , POODLE TIME ?

" The two countries did not immediately explain their reasons for not adding their names to a document backed by 60 signatories on Tuesday, including China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada. "

"With the US reportedly unhappy about the wording, which includes phrases such as “sustainable and inclusive AI”, Politico reported on Monday that the UK was also minded not to sign the communique."

Optics not too good

I don't know what was in the Joint Declaration, how meaningful is it ?

[Frog222]

Good afternoon.
This has left me wondering at what point a private meeting becomes a public one. Is it more than two? Three? Four?
Nobody would have even known there was a meeting at the DfE if La Birbalsingh hadn't shouted about it from the rooftops.

Confess I haven't worked out the whole backstory to this, and how much BP's 'changes' have affected Miss Snuffy
A reply on the thread --''I find it reprehensible that a SoS is making serious changes
To the education of our children and REFUSES to attend and see the difference the difference @ Miss_Snuffy ‘s school and other similar schools have made for children.""

[Frog222]

Enjoyed this one --

[RogerOThornhill]

Good afternoon.
This has left me wondering at what point a private meeting becomes a public one. Is it more than two? Three? Four?
Nobody would have even known there was a meeting at the DfE if La Birbalsingh hadn't shouted about it from the rooftops.

Confess I haven't worked out the whole backstory to this, and how much BP's 'changes' have affected Miss Snuffy
A reply on the thread --''I find it reprehensible that a SoS is making serious changes
To the education of our children and REFUSES to attend and see the difference the difference @ Miss_Snuffy ‘s school and other similar schools have made for children.""

The 'freedom' that she is talking about appears to be that of not offering as wide a curriculum as most others do - no ICT, no music after year 8, no tech subjects. Michaela has a remarkable Progress 8 score...but that's almost certainly down to the narrow curriculum she teaches.

[Frog222]

Frog " Confess I haven't worked out the whole backstory to this, and how much BP's 'changes' have affected Miss Snuffy ???? "

Roger -- " The 'freedom' that she is talking about appears to be that of not offering as wide a curriculum as most others do - no ICT, no music after year 8, no tech subjects. Michaela has a remarkable Progress 8 score...but that's almost certainly down to the narrow curriculum she teaches."

Thanks for reply ! No music, no computing (ICT ?) !

I wonder what her ex-pupils have to say about their time with her ?

Usually the best judges ?

[Frog222]

Some distraction

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good afternoon.
This has left me wondering at what point a private meeting becomes a public one. Is it more than two? Three? Four?
Nobody would have even known there was a meeting at the DfE if La Birbalsingh hadn't shouted about it from the rooftops.

Confess I haven't worked out the whole backstory to this, and how much BP's 'changes' have affected Miss Snuffy
A reply on the thread --''I find it reprehensible that a SoS is making serious changes
To the education of our children and REFUSES to attend and see the difference the difference @ Miss_Snuffy ‘s school and other similar schools have made for children.""

The 'freedom' that she is talking about appears to be that of not offering as wide a curriculum as most others do - no ICT, no music after year 8, no tech subjects. Michaela has a remarkable Progress 8 score...but that's almost certainly down to the narrow curriculum she teaches.

Apparently wanting some sort of national curriculum for state schools is now "Marxist".

Maybe somebody should ask Lord (formerly Kenneth) Baker, who is still with us aged 90, what they think of this observation.

[refitman]

The back half of this weeks TrashFuture has a really good interview with Nathan Tankus, who has been reporting on what Elon's youngsters have been doing in the US. Scary stuff.

[refitman]

[refitman]

That doesn't look great. Neither does this:

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK 34s
BREAKING: Labour has suspended 11 Councillors in Greater Manchester who were members of the WhatsApp group where offensive messages were posted

Labour spent so much time shitting the bed over 'anti-Semitism', when they should have been paying attention to the actual scumbags in their party.

[Frog222]

The back half of this weeks TrashFuture has a really good interview with Nathan Tankus, who has been reporting on what Elon's youngsters have been doing in the US. Scary stuff.

SCARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service

[Frog222]

That doesn't look great. Neither does this:

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK 34s
BREAKING: Labour has suspended 11 Councillors in Greater Manchester who were members of the WhatsApp group where offensive messages were posted

Labour spent so much time shitting the bed over 'anti-Semitism', when they should have been paying attention to the actual scumbags in their party.

13 5 21 Looks like Andrew Gwynne's collar needs attention from the cops since he supported the election-fiddling !

[Frog222]

In my misspent life i used to move around LARGE amounts of $ £ ¥ , and any error caused huge problems !

So Bank A in Luxembourg lent $100mn overnight to Bank B and then the $'s didn't come back home the next day ... because someone somewhere ('including perhaps me) got the payment details wrong. Unravelling took time, schmoozing with back offices, admissions of guilt where appropriate and much was at stake !

A REALLY bad result could have meant closure of our Luxembourg office .

So Nathan Tankus's revelations are on an astronomically larger scale :-
0000's of daily US Bond premiums not paid , for a start !
secret payments to overseas spooks compromised if Elon shared everything with Vlad ...

I'd have given him some €'s support, but Im sorry, I RARELY use anything but Paypal !

[AnatolyKasparov]

For context, that election was in 2021 - just months after Trump (in)famously ordered his minions to "find some votes" to save his skin as POTUS.

So it is very likely it was that meme being deployed.

Which is not to defend anything else posted in that wretched group, obviously.

[Frog222]

For context, that election was in 2021 - just months after Trump (in)famously ordered his minions to "find some votes" to save his skin as POTUS.
So it is very likely it was that meme being deployed.
Which is not to defend anything else posted in that wretched group, obviously.

THAT AK is one of your most far-fetched defences of ANYTHING LABOUR PARTY ever !

[AnatolyKasparov]

Its not a defence at all, damn this group to hell.

Seriously, there is absolutely no evidence there of actual vote rigging.

And "verification" doesn't mean anything either - the actual result will differ from the verified one quite often for all sorts of reasons.

We shall see, but I will be pretty surprised if the police conclude anything other than that there is no case to answer.

[Frog222]

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[Frog222]

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