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ADevilYouKhow said:
www.businessinsider.com

Marine recruiters tell us how they forged signatures and faked records out of desperation to meet quotas

Current and former Marine recruiters describe immense pressure to find enlistees. Amid the desperation, a culture of fraud bloomed in the Rust Belt.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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that is the way civic life works in the US :hubie:

unrealistic targets
people ignore barriers (protocols/laws) to reach targets en masse.
monitoring for contraventions is weak.
scandal breaks as some are caught.
clean up operation may or may not take place.
 
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Why isnā€™t there a by-election when an MP defects from one political party to another? ā€“ w4mp

w4mp.org w4mp.org

It's bugging me that these defections don't trigger by-elections, or seemingly any consequence for the MPs (defectees... defects?). I'd imagine that most voters choose their constituency MP based on the party (isn't this the purpose of the manifesto and all the party political broadcasts?)

Yet they can apparently change party whenever they feel like, which could have an effect at the next GE if they are sent to stand in a seat where their new party has strong support. Hmm, that makes it seem more like an act of self-preservation actually. But I'm surprised, it concerns me, that there do not seem to be any consequences.



In other news: is this our Heritage Foundation? :lupe:

www.desmog.com

New Reform Think Tank ā€˜Resolute 1850ā€™ Run by Mining Magnates

A new research group set up to support Nigel Farageā€™s Reform UK is run by investors with business interests in the energy and metals industries, DeSmog can reveal Resolute 1850 (now called the Centre for a Better Britain) is reportedly being launched in the Spring to ā€œsupport Reform with policy...
www.desmog.com www.desmog.com

https://archive.is/1afb4 (a different article)
 
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Heimdall said:
www.theguardian.com

Starmerā€™s dislike of real politics is plain to see. Itā€™s why his government has no direction | John Harris

In power, Labourā€™s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isnā€™t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

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This revelation explains the other defining feature of his time at the top: the fact that, as Maguire and Pogrund tell it, Starmer has taken his most basic political orders from a coterie ā€“ or ā€œprojectā€ ā€“ centred on his all-powerful strategist and mentor Morgan McSweeney.

In that sense, the directionless mess the government has fallen into has two interlocking causes. Having cunningly manoeuvred Labour to victory, Starmerā€™s advisers have apparently failed to supply him with a coherent governing script, exposing his lack of politics, and leaving him panicked. Onlookers sense this as a matter of instinct: his approval ratings, for what they are worth, have lately registered numbers even worse than Rishi Sunakā€™s low point.
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I was just getting ready to post about that :lolbron:

Potentially big given how much influence he apparently had. But will it make him more effective as a leader? I am... not optimistic. (And what about the rest of the "coterie"?)
 
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Completely unrelated and not even explicitly political, but :dahell:

Both the decision to use your own army as guinea pigs (there's no way for me to phrase this properly - not that I mean it would be better to use another country's), and the silence since, are just astounding.

 
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