Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[gilsey]

Good morning.

I assume it's sunny where the rest of you are? Been stuck under that 'cloud off the North Sea' for 3 days now. Yesterday the Met Office said the sun would come out this afternoon but this morning they've changed their minds, maybe tomorrow.

So on that depressing note, Will Dunn in the New Statesman

https://archive.ph/WzfTG

Why George Osborne still runs Britain

TL:DR

What are Labour’s ideas? The public is left guessing from a series of muddles. We know Labour wants a stronger border force, an improved NHS, thousands more teachers, and the state-assisted rollout of renewable energy. But it also wants to achieve these things with a smaller state that borrows less. It wants to improve social care, while letting fewer people into the country to take jobs in social care, and without changing the tax system that funds it. It wants to reset our relationship with the EU without repeating the Brexit wars. It wants to train the people needed to build 1.5 million homes using an additional yearly budget smaller than that of the University of Hull. It wants to address inequality and poverty while cutting disability benefits, removing the winter fuel allowance from ten million pensioners and maintaining the two-child limit on Universal Credit.

Which is why they've decided fighting Reform on its own turf is the only game in town.

[refitman]

This feels like something someone should be prosecuted for (thread)

[Frog222]

Thanks to gilsey I could read more of the NS !


" according to a report published this morning by the National Audit Office (NAO), we can expect the UK’s water network to be fully replaced by the year 2725, if work continues at the current replacement rate of 0.14 per cent per year. "

https://archive.ph/0cJkf#selection-1093.94-1093.327

25 April 2025
The UK’s water watchdogs are not fit for purpose
A new report paints a damning picture of regulation riddled with “gaps in oversight”.

[Frog222]

19° already and a nice drying, mowing, weedkilling, brushcutting day ahead !

I haven't watched him for a while, good summary of the week from Captain Anders -

[Frog222]

That led on to this , the War of The Future is already here --

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

This one reminded me strongly of Sunak boasting how wealthy areas had profited most from Tory government largesse, figures on that in gilsey's NS article above on 'Austerity' --

[Frog222]

Make sense of this ??????????????

[Frog222]

35minutes left, and much nail biting of Romanians I follow , plus the RotWof course --



Turnout 63.83% as I write --
https://prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidentiale ... gion=total

[Frog222]

Warning --

The S*N has a story on Starmer and his Arsonist ...

[notnowsonny]

Warning --

The S*N has a story on Starmer and his Arsonist ...

Haven’t seen it. What does it say?

[Frog222]

Warning -- The S*N has a story on Starmer and his Arsonist ...

I wasn't making much of it , because it may be pure mischief , says it's a rumour !



It may join up with Isabel Oaskhott's previous hints of SKS's Dark Secret , who knows !

[Frog222]

I'm always suspicious of too hasty celebrations, miserable bugger !

Interesting to see final count results tomorrow ...

[Frog222]

Pope definitely happier to be with the Zelenskyys than with 'arch-Catholic' JD VAnce

[Frog222]

Old Russian Tradition --