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  • frazorth@feddit.uktoUK Politics@feddit.uk•UK Election charts are a nightmare
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    3 days ago

    Alternative voting system? Nah let’s let the Tories scare the general public off the idea for the foreseeable future

    You are seriously going to blame them for what the Tories did?

    which would likely never have happened if the lib dems didn’t form the coalition

    They did suggest a Labour coalition first until Labour said “no fucking way would we ever share power with anyone”, and they fell for the Tory lies.

    Not that I’m voting LibDem, but victim blaming seems to be about right based upon the rest of your comment.

  • frazorth@feddit.uktoUK Politics@feddit.uk•UK Election charts are a nightmare
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    3 days ago

    Around here Labour similarly have been posting dodgy graphs.

    It’s been 63% Tory, with LibDems generally 18%, Labour 15% and the final ~5% split out between the others.

    Labours acted like they’ve been the only convincing challenge. They all do it, because it’s all wishful thinking.

    We have a Methodist minister standing for Labour here, so they haven’t got my vote anyway.

  • frazorth@feddit.uktoUK Politics@feddit.uk•Good resource for comparing MPs/parties
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    20 days ago

    The one I did last election for fun aligned me with Sinn Fein which was mostly because almost all of their policies were around the environment.

    I think when UKIP were imploding I was matched up because their manifesto was around energy independence.

    My point is, that these can be good guidelines but also make sure you do your research. Let this halp reduce the noise from all the parties.

    Much like you looking at Reform, if UKIP was actually about independence, energy independence, food independence, and not just wanting to get rid of the French then it could be an interesting platform. But they consistently supported voted against onshore windfarms, increasing red tape for nuclear, and the normal Tory policy of overvaluing the pound so that we are optimised for imports.

  • frazorth@feddit.uktoUK Politics@feddit.uk•Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour
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    2 months ago

    There are two points here, and I’m going to sidestep whether her joining Labour is a good idea and focus on the other.

    This government don’t need any more humiliation

    I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with this. We have seen repeatedly that people’s memories are like goldfish. You have to keep it up for an extended period to stick, otherwise we will end up with the news cycle burying positive news for boosting the Tories.

    All it takes is a bad angle of a bacon sandwich, and the press vultures will completely blow up any negative thing they can to derail Labour.

  • frazorth@feddit.uktoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION
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    2 months ago

    Gradle, with it’s transitive dependency modifications is a huge pain in this area.

    It used to be that if a library ended up having a flaw then it would be flagged and we would get the dependency updated. These days security block the “security risk” and you have to replace your dependencies dependency. Fingers crossed you can get it to actually test all the code paths.

    If an second level project gets a flaw, and it’s used indirectly then we should really look at getting the import updated so that we know it works. If that import is abandoned then we should not be updating that second level dependency, either adopt and fix the first level dependency or look at an alternative.