They raised the expectations of all these racists knowing full well they could never actually achieve the things they were promising.

Shockingly irresponsible.

Does anyone have a list of when the results are typically announced for each seat?

It’ll be nice not to have to listen to them shoehorn independence into every debate

Yeah that was funny, she picked a fight with the wrong person!

Fake accounts are definitely a problem, but the people who voted leave are real not Russian bots.

Politicians haven’t done a U-turn on Brexit because basically everyone outside of a small % of highly political people is sick of talking about it, so making it your platform to restart the debate would be a massive own goal.

Difficult for them though isn’t it? In reality, they can’t do anything but line up behind any plausible peace proposal that is brokered by another country. We’re not in a position to be the mediators this time.

They can’t come out and say they will do something specific (unless it’s just words, strongly condemn etc) because it will be hung around their necks when it doesn’t happen.

That’s true, however people can be junior doctors for a surprisingly long time so you can see why they are pissed off! I assumed it was the first 3 years after graduation or something until one of my friends who is a doctor explained it to me.

Junior doctors are qualified doctors in clinical training.

They have completed a medical degree and can have up to nine years’ of working experience as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or up to five years working and gaining experience to become a general practitioner (GP).

You can’t spell government without gove.

The Tories are done.

She’s not standing at the next election so they probably just thought it was a free hit on the Tories with basically no consequences in the medium to long term. Fair enough IMO.

Thanks for the info! I’ll have to give Element another go and see if it’s more reliable for me nowadays.

Is the fix a client thing or is there an interaction with the server as well? I had really bad issues with message decryption on Element for Android last year (July 2023 based on the date I installed a different matrix client).

I’m self-hosting synapse on Debian Bullseye (from bullseye-backports).

Just to add more stats supporting your point, the UK personal finance website has a good set of summaries taken from UK gov data, £100k would put you in the top 10% of earners even in London (well above this everywhere else). 2023 data this time.

https://ukpersonal.finance/statistics/

I’m just grateful to have a place to discuss niche topics where there’s a reasonable balance of power between users, mods, and admins.

Federation means no more rug pulling after years of building open source apps to access proprietary services.

Proper ‘competition’ between instance owners means nobody can degrade the quality of experience for a quick buck.

Thank you for your part in building a better alternative!

Wouldn’t this be quite slow to transmit messages? When you send email between federated servers your mail goes in a queue on your server to be sent and depending on the connection speed and how busy it is you could easily wait 5 minutes before it’s delivered at the other end. Not that the messages caused by this app would be big enough to slow things down a lot, but if the server you are using is also being used to send normal emails with large attachments then you could end up waiting a while.

Not sure if I’m just misreading you, but which party do you think was the opposition during the brexit referendum and has subsequently gained power in the UK? The Tories called the referendum and have been in power since. Hopefully we will be rid of them at the upcoming election but I wouldn’t count on it.

Yeah I think that’s true, in most cases Starmer is stomping on anything that could be construed as even vaguely antisemitic, for obvious reasons given recent history. I’m not sure what the equivalent justification would be for Corbyn, going after people for flipping houses or fiddling expenses or something like that?

Improved party discipline is a large part of the reason why Labour stand a good chance of winning a majority in the next election, which is a huge turnaround. The absolutely shambolic party discipline under Corbyn really didn’t give the impression they would be able to get anything done in office.

Huh, TIL!

I’ve never seen/heard anyone call it a chaise lounge in the UK. Or maybe I’ve seen it written like that and just assumed it was autocorrect.

I think it was a joke? Difficult to tell on the internet!

Not much good news going around at the moment is there. All the more reaaon to celebrate this, which can’t have been easy or quick and can only have been achieved a result of hard work over many years.