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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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"We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose", says man who lied his way to power. 🙄
His party's lies helped them lose the #byelection.
Quotation from Keir #Starmer's 27 February 2026 letter to MPs, at https://leftfootforward.org/2026/02/read-keir-starmers-letter-to-labour-mps-in-full-after-gorton-and-denton-by-election-defeat/ / https://archive.is/nKb0B
The so-called "#LabourParty" fought a very dirty campaign in #GortonAndDenton. They lost heavily, but they haven't cleaned up their act.
@foxcj @ChrisMayLA6 I keep rowing with people on facebook for whom we aren’t pure enough. Drives me nuts.
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So Josh Simons, who has now resigned in the wake of revelations about his attempt to smear journalists who had looked into the funding of his think-tank (so-called) Labour Together & tried to get the security services to look at them, has not (according to Laurie Magnus) broken the (again, so-called) Ministerial Code.
What would you have to do I wonder for Magnus to find that the code has indeed been broken?
The code's vagueness itself is contributing to the disrepute of politics!
@ChrisMayLA6 the policies that Zack is talking about have always been Green policies but we just didn’t talk about them much.
This is the first time I’ve taken the time to listen to the Bad Shepherds. Kraftwerk on traditional instruments is quite special.
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@dasgrueneblatt I think you have misunderstood me: I think vibe coding is a horrendous problem, but it is a symptom of an industry failing. That people are trying to steer a tank with a speak'n'spell is because we have not made decent bikes.
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Of the lessons that can be drawn from Mamdani’s campaign and now Mayoralty, one of them is talking about (and delivering) the efficient, high-quality public services that well-run, well-resourced government can provide.
We see time and time again that getting the “market” to deliver what the state should provide results in over-paying for substandard services. Or being unable to deliver anything at all — Auckland’s light rail and Kiwibuild being prime examples.
The state can, and should, have the capacity to plan, deliver, and maintain the high-quality infrastructure and services that modern life demands.
“Maintenance is always cheaper than repair, and one of the main differences between a business and a government is that a business's shareholders can starve maintenance budgets, cash out, and leave the collapsing firm behind them, while governments must think about the long term consequences of short-term thinking”
H/t to @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#public-excellence
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
