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well in the UK the fraud associated with postal votes (which has been periodically investigated) is vanishingly small
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Fair comment - but once you're registered it carries forward... so an investment in time, really
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Yes, that makes sense in the medium to long term... but *does* depend on the media taking that into consideration which they haven't so much in the past
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we have postal voting (which is effectively early voting) - indeed I have a postal vote...
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yes, tactical voting certainly sort of lets FPTP off the hook, but in the immediacy of an election in six weeks time, it may be a good if not perfect democratic strategy?
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Yup, that sounds about right for partial & lazy BBC reporting....
Of course, one of the the things we all need to be considering is how to vote tactically... so here for your consideration is one guide to how to vote tactically in your constituency.
Just type in you postcode for advice (based on polling) on how you might vote tactically to get the Tories out (or if you have other priorities, how to maximise the impact of your vote under the current FPTP system)
#election #tacticalvoting
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Ha ha, great story, thanks
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I think exhaustion & time-stress is a key issue.... convenience counts for a lot when you're not feeling valued or enthused about your (working) life
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OMG, what sort of sedition is this.... they'll be after you for bringing the UK's democracy into disrepute.
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thanks - and boosted
So the Environmental Agency, is embarrassed to reveal the true state of our environment...
They find it difficult to answer prescient questions from NGOs with significant expertise (the implications being, better informed that the EA staff) & (it would seem) would like the NGO's Q.s to be more simply put to help EA staff offer better answers?
If you wanted a picture of a failing regulatory agency this would be it....
#environment #regulation
From Liberty UK:
Last summer Suella Braverman changed the definition of “serious disruption” to mean “more than minor” – giving police huge powers to shut down protests.
Liberty said this move was undemocratic, unconstitutional and unacceptable.
The term ‘serious disruption’ comes from another Public Order Act from 1986. The Home Secretary has the power to *clarify* what is meant by ‘serious’ – not completely change its meaning.
The Court agreed.
The police should stop using these powers.
Hmmmm.... so in 2028 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's biggest computing chip manufacturer will start producing it next generation chips in Arizona....
This is being presented as a triumph of Biden's economic policies (a pull factor), but one cannot help but wonder whether there is also a significant issue of China's increasing belligerence towards Taiwan (a push factor) in the relocation?
#Taiwan #China #semiconductors
h/t FT
RIP Daniel Kahneman, who in one of the few nobel prizes awarded for non-orthodox economics, demonstrated that the standard assumption of rational market behaviour so misunderstood people's real motivations and actions as to render much economics too distant from real economic relations to be truly useful.
As he once said, his work relieved economics of 'an unrealistic conception of reality'...
#economics #markets
Spot a pattern:
COP28 President Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber used to work for the host state's oil company, but said ahead of the meeting they were turning in a green direction... then delivered a lame & indecisive COP:
COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev used to work for the host state's oil company, but said ahead of the meeting they were turning in a green direction...
Now I wonder how COP29 will turn out?
#COP29 #fossilfuels #ClimateCrisis
h/t FT
Commentators on US politics who are swinging round to blame POTUS Biden for a prospective Trump victory, are letting the US media & the country's toxic politics off the hook.
From over this side of the Atlantic it looks like Trump is not gaining ground because Biden is doing a bad job (whatever one thinks of his foreign policy), but because the media & Republicans have captured & reproduced a negative narrative about Biden's first term....
#politics #Biden #America
Another day, another Brexiter waking up & smelling the coffee....
Now, Jeffrey Sprecher (of finance house Intercontinental Exchange) has shifted his position:
2017: Hurrah the UK should 'have a bit of swagger' & celebrate being a low-tax, lightly regulated independent country...
2024: Uk not so attractive to international investors as there is no gateway to Europe & the UK is now a 'foreign country'.
Hmmm... it not like these issues are a surprise is in now Jeff?
#Brexit #finance
h/t FT
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Similar here.... becoming primary carer for my wife was the main reason I took 9albeit on a good deal) early retirement