arj2024.bsky.social
Programmer since the ZX80 days when a computer came as a kit you had to solder together yourself (and so long ago it was in black & white). Never been to pick up my A Level results, only ever worked for my own company.🇪🇺
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At what point will Starmer realise the "special relationship" with the USA is nothing but a myth?
When will five eyes become four?
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Badenoch is also echoing JD Vance's talking points in the hope she can tag along with the US regime.
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They are too stubborn, have too little imagination and have too little experience in business. A bunch of career civil servants with no connection to the businesses that create "growth" - by exporting more!
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Or they could join the EU SM+CU and get an immediate economic boost to fund the defence spending.
Trouble is they are too petrified of a nasty Express/Mail/Telegraph headline so they do absolutely nothing.
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I'm not sure Starmer has the charisma to pull that off?
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They ain't listening!
They seem determined to cause a recession with their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies.
Of course a recession is exactly what Farage needs to march straight into No 10.
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The UK seem unique in wanting to offer the poorest possible bus service and then pressure professionals into using it with a huge tax on driving.
Unsurprisingly it annoys the professionals who know how to make their feelings heard by decision makers.
Just build something that works really well?
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Yes exactly.
Professionals use public transport (sometimes buses, sometimes trams) in many of the towns I've visited around Europe, Australia and Singapore - although cars dominate in USA.
In addition to a clean and pleasant bus it also needs to be relatively direct, frequent and reliable.
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Yes I saw. At least they have finally acknowledged that the bus information is often wrong and is highly dependent on good quality location info and accurate cancellations from the bus companies. Let's hope CPCA do a good job of fixing this problem.
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My point is it's not good enough to design a new bus network that'll provide minimum transport for the poor if your aim is to reduce traffic.
It's not the poor who have cars, it's the professionals.
Public transport needs to be good enough to get professionals to use it or it'll never work.
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Whilst professional politicians consider the bus network is "not for them" there isn't much hope of getting the other professionals out of their cars and onto a bus.
They need to build public transport that professionals will use, it shouldn't be just for the poor.
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Watch the section from 1:24:41 to 1:35:00 (or read the transcript which is pretty good).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=POa2...
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There are quite a few UK politicians who have been compromised too.
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If you want to see why nothing ever gets delivered in Cambridge just tune into the GCP meeting being streamed on YouTube now (link below).
Millions spent on expensive reports from consultants...very little of benefit ever delivered in reality.
www.youtube.com/live/5jI41-N...
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When Paris wanted to build 250,000 new homes it was prepared to spend €24b and build infrastructure FIRST.
What funding has been provided to Cambridge...was it £4m?
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It'll only happen when local taxes can be raised from the globally successful businesses that thrive thanks to the smart people of Cambridge.
What do our local politicians do...they try to impose a huge £1,250-£12,500pa tax on drivers (because they have no money) without providing an alternative.
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Buses and the bus infrastructure are the transport of last resort provided for the poor by professionals who never need to leave their car...that's what we have in Cambridge.
Did you watch the recent CPCA meeting where one of the councillors told us that "buses are not for people like us"?
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Whilst we have so many tangled tiers of local government this is highly unlikely to happen.
Parish, town, city, district, county council(s), GCP, CPCA, Westminster, Cambridge University, 31 separate colleges, Water Scarcity Group, Cambridge Delivery Group...and it goes on.
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How about an election in Russia at the same time?
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Wait until you see this one!
With their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies they'll be creating recession rather than the "highest sustained growth in the G7".
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EU businesses know that using an UK supplier will involve extra costs, admin and delays.
We used to be able to take our high value rental equipment from UK to EU in hours, now it takes days or weeks depending how much you want to pay for shipping.
These NTBs particularly hit SMEs.
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I bet Farage will jump on DOGE UK as his next big thing. It'll leave Labour defending the current civil service which is unable to deliver the promised "growth" thanks to Labour's own Brexit red lines and anti-business policies.
Time to drop the Brexit red lines Labour!
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I wonder how many of the UK's weapon systems depend on USA tech/authorisation?
For example, access to the military precision GPS (especially important since we threw ourselves out of the EU's Galileo system that we helped design and build).
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Neither a tourist tax nor a drivers tax is the right approach, they should be taxing the globally successful pharma companies who make billions and benefit hugely from the smart people of Cambridge, but there's no legal way for a council to collect such a tax.
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Cambridge talk about the same but without the legal framework it becomes a voluntary levy paid by some, but not all, hotels.
In Cambridge the LibDems/Labour prefer to fantasise about a £1,250-£12,250pa drivers tax.
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I'd say the very definition of gaslighting is trying to claim 0.1% quarterly growth is "real progress".
Their problem is short term growth (next 4 years) and little they are talking about will have much impact...even if they could build more houses it pushes down GDP because of material imports.
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I used to live in middle America, I'm not sure they are the smartest of voters. Quite different from the costal "elites" we tend to come across in Europe.
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Are any Americans offering any resistance to Trump? If so it's not being reported in the UK.
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The giggly excitement about the Trump regime on the Americast podcast is pretty awful too.
With their flippant behaviour they are normalising a very dangerous situation.
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Labour must take 100% of the blame as they are the party in Government and have the power to fix the problem.
They won't do anything because they are terrified of a bad Express/Mail/Telegraph headline.
Whilst the economy declines Labour gaslight people into believing it's getting better.
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Well Labour are doing a fine job of making people worse off with their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies.
Does anyone believe a new Heathrow runway will boost growth in this parliament?
Does anyone believe the planning reforms will boost growth in this parliament?
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Sadly you have a government of career civil servants who simply don't understand business.
If they did understand they wouldn't impose Brexit red lines and anti-business policies whilst claiming they want "growth".
Labour need to wake up urgently.
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For SMEs Labour's Brexit red lines are a MUCH bigger problem that regulation.
As some point even this clueless government will work out that 61% of the UK workforce are employed by SMEs.
If they want "growth" they need to enable these people to "Make EU Exporting Effortless Again".
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The traditional press are obviously hostile to Labour but why on earth aren't Labour using all the other channels to get this information out...where are the daily YouTubes/TikTok videos from each department.
Farage can do them so why aren't Labour? Sitting in their tepid baths of managed decline?
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Indeed, I bet cheap as humanly possible is what gets delivered despite @createstreets.bsky.social romantic use of AI.
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Eddington reality (from their promotional website).
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The images Create Streets uses are absolutely ridiculous and look nothing like the characterless boxes that are built around Cambridge (eg Eddington, Trumpington etc..)
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Without doubt the traditional "mainstream press" are hostile to Labour but that's absolutely no excuse given there are many other channels that they are simply not using.
Where are the daily YouTube/TikTok updates from every department?
Too busy languishing in their tepid baths?
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Starmer & Reeves, perhaps unintentionally, seem determined to cause a recession with their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies.
A recession is exactly what Farage needs to march into No 10.
Please can someone wake Labour up to this inevitable consequence!
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You may as well speak to a brick wall. Starmer ain't listening.
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Labour have forgotten it's all about "the economy, stupid" and choose to prioritise politics over the economy just so they can avoid a bad headline in The Express/Mail/Telegraph.
Until they reverse their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies we'll have recession rather than growth.
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Surely she's just opportunistically repeating the words of Vance?
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Labour have forgotten it's all about "the economy, stupid" and choose to prioritise politics over the economy just so they can avoid a bad headline in The Express/Mail/Telegraph.
Until they reverse their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies we'll have recession rather than growth.
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Labour's mistake is to forget "It's the economy, stupid" and to prioritise policies that simply avoid a bad headline in The Express/Mail/Telegraph.
That won't end well for them. They need to change direction before it's too late.
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Starmer/Reeves won thanks to GTTO sentiment but they don't have the ability to turn the UK economy around.
Brexit red lines and anti-business policies will lead to recession not growth. That's fantastic news for Farage who'll do well from a recession.
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Reeves is, perhaps unintentionally, creating recession thanks to their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies.
The sooner she's gone, along with their Brexit red lines and anti-business policies, the sooner we can turn the economy around.