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Thanks. Thinking out loud about the principle by which could say it shouldn't be happening. But 80% not the right number
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I wonder if there a policy response design that major platforms by reach can't do this [or get warned & sanctioned if y] unless first result generated can pass a mystery shopping accuracy test at a rate of eg 80% accuracy?
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They got the equivalent of 1.07 points per game in 1977 (based on 3 points for a win) and finished bottom. Just 1 point per game this season.
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This Spring 2021 report listens to a range of perspectives on the anti-racism protests that Autumn
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No
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It did remind me of this kind of debate
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If you calculate it with 2 points or 3 points, and readjust for 38 or 42 games, the 1977 record is better on matches/points, though obvs catastrophically worse on outcome
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'The league record - in matches won, lost and drawn/points per game - was even worse when they were relegated in 22nd place in 1977' would be quite a striking and surprising point to make
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So Spurs could have a "worse league record" (points per game) in finishing fourth from bottom versus getting relegated. 1977 is a worse season.
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Spurs played 42 games (won 12, drew 9, lost 21) to finish bottom out of 22 in 1977. Their 38 games (won 11, drew 5, lost 21) this season is similar and slightly worse on points per game, but 17th/20th
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It seems plausible that populism would bifurcate. Mainstream centre-right parties & others will often attempt serious-ish/workable version of speaking to those anxieties. But half the populist market might want the simplistic version more & treat the version that thinks about reality as a sell out
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It is funny, given the first post, that the Telegraph did in fact have to run an inquiry, though a meta-inquiry would inquire into why this would be considered newsworthy had it not been fabricated
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The Telegraph says it was duped by a deceptive source. But the financial firm involved in the story do not seem to have commented on where the line here lies on who was duped & who decided to dupe others. A very odd report, if true, that was fabricated.
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It was not just the stock Asian family images. The ostensible case study was deceiving the reporter about their identity & the facts. A financial PR agency supplied the dodgy contact to promote its work. The newspaper acknowledges its editorial checks were insufficient.
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Norway have won away in Israel and Moldova for 9 points from 3 games
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More granuality on those 44 days here
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Could she have turned it around?
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I am not sure how Trussites explain how & why if this was public punishment for ditching Trussism they saw the biggest ever two-party Cons to Labour swing in any constituency ever in a General Election against Liz Truss herself?!
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Big scoop for The Critic in playing straight what could be an absolutely award-winning all-time performance in a category that nobody had quite managed to invent or imagine before
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No
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The main driver of this is immigration and asylum politics (though it was a point in 2005 that should make the convenience proof case). It may overpromise on immigration but the French always say it would help if we had this
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That is one way to embark on a pragmatic project of working out who has a route to regularise & how it works. There are lots of people in such a ten year route. The Mail/Express headline is "Digital ID to be given to illegals too" & suddenly it is framed as an amnesty programme
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Have fleshed this thought out a little bit here
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Iinterested to know how far advocates of digital ID at Labour Together/Tony Blair Institute would accept my premise that this would need a pragmatic controlled regularisation process for those de facto settled but without secure status. Or if not,whether plan is mass deportations/ignoring the issue
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Govts of different politics colours may have ostensible aim to remove. Dial up hostile environment, use of destitution for voluntary departure (countered by faith & community response). illegal working may continue at scale:mutual negative consequences. Courts would give children access to schools.
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İf don't go for either of those on a fix the system but clear the books pledge of future control, you have simply tweaked the status quo of right to work and landlord checks, but it is less likely to impact decisively on patterns of irregular off the books work outside the system.
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To introduce such a scheme, need to choose one of these options
1. Trumpesque fantasy that you would try to deport 400-500k people long settled here. Rupert Lowe advocates this. 10% might be removed
2. A major Earned Regularisation project for at least 250k+ people who are not going to be removed.
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Labour Together say this would avoid a future Windrush scandal, not create one.
Some logic to that. EU settled status scheme post-2016 was far better than doing nothing at all to secure the rights of people who arrived before 1973 when ending Commonwealth free movement.
But nb an implicit premise
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How much does this shift status quo? The paper says this could have avoid future Windrushes (if done in 1971-73). But an implicit premise this plan would need a major 'earned regularisation' intiative for 250-400k+ people who won't be removed unless pursuing Trumpesque fantasy of 500k deportations
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Reform is a vocal minority in England as it is in Scotland. By securing a significant share of the populist quarter of Scots, it narrows the difference in the patchwork polarisations across all the nations and regions of Britain
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So.Reform offer a vocal minority something that others are not offering. That is a slightly less popular minority niche in Scotland than England but this also demonstrates that it is not Scottish exceptionalism, just a somewhat more liberal centreground but a significant populist minority market