Tuesday 28th October 2025
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2025
Afternoon !
I didn't reply before , partly because I was looking for Good News , which was a waste of Life
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Andrew Sparrow on Kruger--
I haven't read the Dunt book, but did watch most of a long youtube ( from around a year ago?) on the complete failure of parliament to scrutinise legislation .
Correction -- that applies to the Commons, while he thought the Unelected Lords did a far better job
I didn't reply before , partly because I was looking for Good News , which was a waste of Life
! Andrew Sparrow on Kruger--
Surprise !" He said that he would like to improve the way parliament scrutinises legislation. In particular he praised Ian Dunt’s book How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t, saying that what it revealed about how badly laws are scrutinised before they are passed was “particularly shameful” for parliamentarians to read. (It is an excellent book, although Dunt, who is a progressive, may be horrified to find out that Danny Kruger may be more interested in his proposals than Keir Starmer.)
There was one obvious omission from Kruger’s contitutional reform wishlist. The Reform UK manifesto in 2024 called for proportional representation. That was when first-past-the-post was holding the party back. But now, given their support in the polls, FPTP would disproportionately favour Reform, not handicap them, and PR seems to have fallen off the agenda. "
I haven't read the Dunt book, but did watch most of a long youtube ( from around a year ago?) on the complete failure of parliament to scrutinise legislation .
Correction -- that applies to the Commons, while he thought the Unelected Lords did a far better job
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2025
Fascinating how Reform follow the Project 2025/ Trump/ Steve Bannon template so closely .
From banning abortion to opening the doors wide to anonymous political donations by cryptocurrencies, Farage is there, 100% .
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From banning abortion to opening the doors wide to anonymous political donations by cryptocurrencies, Farage is there, 100% .
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Re: Tuesday 28th October 2025
jEFFREY sACHS is almost the smuggest thing on the interweb ,
up there close to DJT --
2014 -- video of him recognising the Revolution against corruption and Russian 'influence' --
In the October 25, 2025, Italian TV debate, Sachs further detailed the allegations, claiming the CIA paid protesters $15,000–20,000 each. This introduced specific figures not mentioned in earlier accounts, escalating from vague "U.S. paid the money" to quantified individual payments.
This progression—from supportive of the protests to alleging a U.S.-funded coup with increasingly personal and detailed claims—has drawn criticism for lacking verifiable evidence and aligning with Russian narratives.
reddit.com +1
Counter-claims note that paid participation was more common in anti-Maidan (pro-Russian) protests, as reported by observers like the OSCE and eyewitnesses.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/KpVhashHvOBPg9BudmdyEdukn
Just so revealing when they change their story !
up there close to DJT --
2014 -- video of him recognising the Revolution against corruption and Russian 'influence' --
In the October 25, 2025, Italian TV debate, Sachs further detailed the allegations, claiming the CIA paid protesters $15,000–20,000 each. This introduced specific figures not mentioned in earlier accounts, escalating from vague "U.S. paid the money" to quantified individual payments.
This progression—from supportive of the protests to alleging a U.S.-funded coup with increasingly personal and detailed claims—has drawn criticism for lacking verifiable evidence and aligning with Russian narratives.
reddit.com +1
Counter-claims note that paid participation was more common in anti-Maidan (pro-Russian) protests, as reported by observers like the OSCE and eyewitnesses.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/KpVhashHvOBPg9BudmdyEdukn
Just so revealing when they change their story !
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Re: Tuesday 28th October 2025
You know those lovely Autumn colours as the trees turn red, brown and golden? None of that round here. On my street they went from green to a sickly yellow for a few days then all dropped their leaves over the weekend. The pavements are nigh on ankle deep in mounds of wizened, diseased looking leaves while the trees now look like it's the middle of Winter, I've never seen anything like it.
Mind you I'd rather have that as a sign of climate change than being battered by 180mph winds during a hurricane. Imagine driving at 180mph and sticking your head out of the window, I can just see my specs being ripped off never to be seen again. Storm Arwen flattened half the trees in Scotland and Northumberland with winds half that speed, they're still being cleared up to this day, so god knows what kind of state Jamaica and Cuba are going to be in.
But yeah, everything's fine, it's all perfectly normal, pumping vast quantities of extra energy into our atmosphere and warming the oceans is completely benign, never done us any harm before...well apart from the Permian extinction which wiped out 95 % of life on Earth and we're warming the planet faster now than happened then. Ten to a hundred times faster according to two and a half million year old rocks from the period. We're outdoing the damage an area the size of Europe being turned into a vast volcano in Siberia did in a tiny fraction of that time. In fact the Siberian Traps erupted for longer than we've existed as a species.
Perhaps next if there's money to be made from it we could smash a huge asteroid into our planet. Be told that the dinosaurs all died of a cold or some shit and hurling a six mile wide lump of rock and iron into the Earth's surface at 40 thousand mph did no harm to anyone. There'd be lots of metals and rare earth minerals to mine for the survivors after all. Though what they'd do with them is another matter, there wouldn't be much of a market for phones, computers, or Electric cars for the next half a million years.
Anyway I'm heading North on Thursday so no QT review this week.
Mind you I'd rather have that as a sign of climate change than being battered by 180mph winds during a hurricane. Imagine driving at 180mph and sticking your head out of the window, I can just see my specs being ripped off never to be seen again. Storm Arwen flattened half the trees in Scotland and Northumberland with winds half that speed, they're still being cleared up to this day, so god knows what kind of state Jamaica and Cuba are going to be in.
But yeah, everything's fine, it's all perfectly normal, pumping vast quantities of extra energy into our atmosphere and warming the oceans is completely benign, never done us any harm before...well apart from the Permian extinction which wiped out 95 % of life on Earth and we're warming the planet faster now than happened then. Ten to a hundred times faster according to two and a half million year old rocks from the period. We're outdoing the damage an area the size of Europe being turned into a vast volcano in Siberia did in a tiny fraction of that time. In fact the Siberian Traps erupted for longer than we've existed as a species.
Perhaps next if there's money to be made from it we could smash a huge asteroid into our planet. Be told that the dinosaurs all died of a cold or some shit and hurling a six mile wide lump of rock and iron into the Earth's surface at 40 thousand mph did no harm to anyone. There'd be lots of metals and rare earth minerals to mine for the survivors after all. Though what they'd do with them is another matter, there wouldn't be much of a market for phones, computers, or Electric cars for the next half a million years.
Anyway I'm heading North on Thursday so no QT review this week.