Get a grip. Astra Zeneca is a multi, multi, billion pound company the threat of relocation is tantamount to blackmail. If 40 million isn't enough let them go.
Sad 25 million is a drop in the ocean for funding such a prestige project in an area were Labour owe a lot for constent support but i never trusted for one minute Starmer he was promising everything just to grab power .
Both labour and tories new of the financial restraint's that would face them so all the excuse's now emerging just dont wash .
And today we hear that Labour’s “investment” in walking and cycling will be unprecedented. That funding will go according to need rather than bid. And this will miraculously save millions of GP appointments.
In other words, now that the billions have been spent on proper infrastructure for Manchester and London, we can look forward to bendy buses and dodgy council contracts for grit covered, badly located bike lanes.
Rotherham wasted hundreds of thousands on a food delivery app. 700,000 pound investment went the into food delivery service Peepl. Fuse blockchain powered the app. I think the aim was to invent another crypto currency (PPL) that would be part of a reward system for using it. Rotherham was suckered with tech talk from people with overblown ideas about the app.
""In the Liverpool City Region, we aren’t the sort to simply follow the crowd. We like to be disrupters; to chart our own course and take great pride in our local businesses and community solidarity. Peepl has the potential to radically disrupt the food delivery market by bringing together all those values and injecting a lot more fairness – for riders and restaurants alike – to an industry not known for its treatment of workers." Steve Rotherham promotes Peepl app.
Disrupters? Makes it sound like the app was a covert Commie plot to bring down capitalism. But such a fantasy is just that - a fantasy. The big food app delivery firms have billions at their disposal and enough slaves to work for them. Many work using other peoples log in details. No DWP hunting down the players unlike the 80s when farms and building sites were raided by SS snoopers. Food apps encourage laziness and bad dietary decisions all round. Some people live off them. Guaranteed to kick the bucket early if munching cheap & nasty takeaway food a few times a week.
Had Peepl app used bitcoin, it's possible it may have caught on. Many would buy a pizza through an app if they knew £1 or £2 would be cash backed via an authentic crypto payment. Post should do an investigation of the app which made only a few orders before it was dismissed as a bad business model. £700,000 robbed from the tax payer.
Elon Musk would make a fantastic investor for Liverpool, but Rotherham has to let his politics get in the way of business. This, sadly, is Liverpool's bugbear. Like him or loath him - Musk is an example of someone who is pushing boundaries with his various projects. Tesla, Starlink, the rockets, even X itself plus the solar panels and battery backup systems. Politicians like Rotherham risk nothing - invent nothing and are using taxpayer money to fund pet projects with no risk to his own finances.
Without X we would have no free speech. Even the Post shies away from certain controversy due to UK laws not because people working here want to stifle free speech. In the UK we write with the state watching over our shoulder. Or worse, censoring what we think before we actually write it down. We have too many people who want to live in a safe zone with opposing opinions banned to not upset them. Free speech means upsetting some people. Free speech with limits is just us reading a script approved by Govt.
Rotherham just wants an echo chamber for his political views to be aired. This echo chamber creates an illusion in which dictators have a ready made solution to dissent. They make it illegal. And send those dissenting to prison. We've seen this before with regimes like the USSR or Muslim nations. We see it in China, where total government means dissent is nipped in the bud when kids are young. They are taught to be robots. Govt inputs a code and they regurgitate it.
UK prisons being cleared out in preparation for the next lockdowns perhaps. Or for anyone who objects to mass migration. Or for those who object to Islam. Who knows? Either way, we are heading towards an era in which freedom of speech is being destroyed by wokeness, for want of a better word. It encourages extremism when certain ideas cannot be criticised.
No Liverpool playwright, for example, would dare write a play on the life of Mohammed. Why not? There are thousands of examples of Jesus being mocked, parodied and so on. McGovern would not even go there. He knows if he did - he'd be a Salman Rushdie type figure, waiting for some fanatic to kill him. We've snookered ourselves into censoring artistes and academics. This makes fanatics think they are 100% right and that even the Kaffir understand their place. Cowardice in my book.
As for AstroZeneca, the jabs killed too many for it to be considered for investment. At least Elon's X reports on vaccine injury, other social media banned all dissent on the narrative of covid19. Many think C19 was hyped up - gain of function - made in a lab - made to spread easy. The few who died by it hyped up as PCR tests on the dead racked up the figures. Flu vanished, Covid deaths recorded instead.
C19 was, for many, a scam. And on X we can say that and debate it. On Youtube and Facebook you get banned for saying it. UK media pushed covid19 then like it's pushing the 'far right' now by using applied behavioural psychology and 'nudge teams' using all the power of media and celebs to persuade people the 'far right' are everywhere.
1984 was a mild take on what the UK is becoming. I'm not saying I'm right on everything I raise here - what I am saying is that unless all opinions are aired - none of us truly know what the hell is going on.
This edition links to an article where saying the rioters were all far right is not correct. The Post has already published an article on how many people have been radicalised by contacts made in lockdown, pushed by far right adjacent manipulators.
The C19 pandemic was real. It was a pandemic as it was international. Governments used it for their own devices. They mismanaged lockdowns. They made bad decisions that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The long term effects of underinvestment in people and their health lead to worse outcomes for lower classes. There was a chance to hold them to account. All the nonsense whataboutery let's those in power off the hook. You have been played to shill for the elites by looking the wrong way.
It’ll be a big knock for AstraZeneca if the funding does go to France but I do believe the financial disaster left by the previous government is worse than realised.
I agree about X it’s got so many nasty people on there who hide behind anonymity. I very much doubt Elon Musk will do anything to stop it, I think he likes the controversy.
Never mind X - Chinese app Tik Tok has paracetamol challenges, in which people try to get into hospital overdosing. It has kids murdering animals for kicks. It has more vile stuff than X which will ban some extremely nasty things.
Instagram has grams of coke on sale in 20 mins delivery slots. Every drug under the sun available to children. Zombie knives on sale also. God knows what else because I've never used facebook or Instagram or Tik Tok. I used X after Elon purchased it and guaranteed he would not ban people for opinions.
Free speech has always been controversial as it allows ideas to be aired which will upset some people. USA has freedom of speech protected by constitution. UK has freedom of speech approved by politicians. It's a cowards charter which allows some to preach hate with religious protection - and others to not preach anything because it upsets religious folk.
Nasty people everywhere. But nobody on X is truly anonymous.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you. Remember that? Every parent in Liverpool said it at one time.
That is now altered to read 'Words hurt you - ban them - unless its words from some approved 'minority' group'.
Ask the police about that. They face more abuse than most - and for the main part it was part of the job and something they shrugged off - for the most part.
The police who dash about on 12 hr shifts would sooner face 1,000,000 people calling them bad names than 100 people throwing petrol bombs, or worse.
I'm not writing about the emotional abuse where someone manipulates another in order to gain control over a period of time. Gaslighting type emotional abuse is a criminal offence.
Calling someone a delicate cupcake, for example, is not. Yet.
Name one word that hurts more than having your bones broken with sticks and/or stones.
As for misquoted childhood rhymes, in popular folk culture, childhood rhymes change all the time - they vary from street to street sometimes. The rhyme of 'sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you' stand correct. Maybe the one you sang was some authentic rendition. The OG rhyme.
In one way your correct. Words online today can do more harm to the author than broken bones. You could get more time in prison for the wrong words in todays politicised landscape than you would if you sucker punched a police officer, owned a child porn collection or had a few grands worth of heroin and crack ready for sale.
Is it possible for an outgoing government in the UK to leave a £22 billion "black hole" in the countries finances? We asked, and got this reply from AI:
While it's theoretically possible for a government to leave a significant financial discrepancy, such as a £22 billion "black hole," there are usually several checks and balances in place to prevent such oversights. The UK's Treasury conducts regular audits and financial reviews, and there are various oversight bodies that monitor government spending.
However, several factors could contribute to such a situation:
1. **Complex Financial Structures**:
If the finances are structured in a complex manner, it may be challenging for even experienced officials to identify discrepancies.
2. **Last-Minute Spending**:
If significant spending occurs just before a government exits, it might not be fully accounted for in time.
3. **Political Maneuvering**:
In some cases, outgoing administrations may not disclose or fully report certain liabilities or obligations, leading to surprises for incoming administrations.
4. **Economic Changes**:
Sudden economic changes, like shifts in revenue or unexpected expenditures, can create gaps in financial projections.
5. **Lack of Transparency**:
Inadequate reporting practices or a lack of transparency can obscure financial realities, making it difficult for the public or oversight bodies to scrutinize effectively.
While such a situation could occur, it would likely raise serious questions about governance and accountability, leading to calls for investigations or reforms to improve financial oversight.
Rachel Reeves said the massive black hole in the nation’s finances was “covered up” by the Tories — something the Tories have steadfastly denied.
If she has got evidence of that "cover up", she should make details public now. If she hasn't should she be handing over the reigns to someone more competent?
Questions which Rachel Reeves should be required to answer are:
1. From her investigations, how can the £22 billion now be accounted for?
2. Who was responsible for scrutiny and oversight for the sums involved and why were they not identified?
3. What plans will she put in place to prevent the next outgoing government from committing similar abuse of public office.
4. Will wrong doers be prosecuted?
If it's not made transparent, then government cannot be trusted to act in the publics best interests.
Interesting to see the Hollywood of the North is likely to have to seek govt funding, let's hope they don't get duped or get stars in their eyes and go all gooey about there being a need for a massive film studio being needed by the city. There isnt, there's no business case.
In only 9 years Capital and Centric (Manchester based,links to Andy Burnham and no experience of the the film Industry) were gifted a beautiful unlisted art deco building, they have already demolished the Iconic Tower and Clock, with a promise to re-instate, (whatever that means, possibly an appropriate cuckoo clock).
Given by Big Joe; a free building on a very long lease, and had a fire, got money for a Pop Up Studio,built a constantly flooding Car park, then this.
The whole story would make a great film script, not so much a disaster movie, more an Ealing Comedy, or Carry On Littlewoods. Just spotted a Flying Pig on Edge Lane, anyone's?
Part of the press from Paris comes in the form of its prestige Pasteur institute. The French news outlet l’Express reports that it’s all set to commence testing an Mpox vaccine. Naturally, AstraZeneca will have its eye on this wanting to get itself a presence -possibly, in a developing French Silicon Valley for global vaccine technology. To find space for the Speke bid (&to argue that the physical location in our digital age isn’t really a factor) we need to hinge on the NHS being a cutting edge organisation. The Tories have left it on its knees. That image needs to switch, sharpish. With the support of a world class medical body keeping the AZ facility in Speke will be a whole lot more competitive. The notes could then drop into the justification tickbox: it’s just a case of knowing how to spin the dice
Get a grip. Astra Zeneca is a multi, multi, billion pound company the threat of relocation is tantamount to blackmail. If 40 million isn't enough let them go.
Sad 25 million is a drop in the ocean for funding such a prestige project in an area were Labour owe a lot for constent support but i never trusted for one minute Starmer he was promising everything just to grab power .
Both labour and tories new of the financial restraint's that would face them so all the excuse's now emerging just dont wash .
There you go. Starmer’s Labour party “putting a rocket under Liverpool”.
And today we hear that Labour’s “investment” in walking and cycling will be unprecedented. That funding will go according to need rather than bid. And this will miraculously save millions of GP appointments.
In other words, now that the billions have been spent on proper infrastructure for Manchester and London, we can look forward to bendy buses and dodgy council contracts for grit covered, badly located bike lanes.
Rotherham wasted hundreds of thousands on a food delivery app. 700,000 pound investment went the into food delivery service Peepl. Fuse blockchain powered the app. I think the aim was to invent another crypto currency (PPL) that would be part of a reward system for using it. Rotherham was suckered with tech talk from people with overblown ideas about the app.
""In the Liverpool City Region, we aren’t the sort to simply follow the crowd. We like to be disrupters; to chart our own course and take great pride in our local businesses and community solidarity. Peepl has the potential to radically disrupt the food delivery market by bringing together all those values and injecting a lot more fairness – for riders and restaurants alike – to an industry not known for its treatment of workers." Steve Rotherham promotes Peepl app.
Disrupters? Makes it sound like the app was a covert Commie plot to bring down capitalism. But such a fantasy is just that - a fantasy. The big food app delivery firms have billions at their disposal and enough slaves to work for them. Many work using other peoples log in details. No DWP hunting down the players unlike the 80s when farms and building sites were raided by SS snoopers. Food apps encourage laziness and bad dietary decisions all round. Some people live off them. Guaranteed to kick the bucket early if munching cheap & nasty takeaway food a few times a week.
Had Peepl app used bitcoin, it's possible it may have caught on. Many would buy a pizza through an app if they knew £1 or £2 would be cash backed via an authentic crypto payment. Post should do an investigation of the app which made only a few orders before it was dismissed as a bad business model. £700,000 robbed from the tax payer.
Elon Musk would make a fantastic investor for Liverpool, but Rotherham has to let his politics get in the way of business. This, sadly, is Liverpool's bugbear. Like him or loath him - Musk is an example of someone who is pushing boundaries with his various projects. Tesla, Starlink, the rockets, even X itself plus the solar panels and battery backup systems. Politicians like Rotherham risk nothing - invent nothing and are using taxpayer money to fund pet projects with no risk to his own finances.
Without X we would have no free speech. Even the Post shies away from certain controversy due to UK laws not because people working here want to stifle free speech. In the UK we write with the state watching over our shoulder. Or worse, censoring what we think before we actually write it down. We have too many people who want to live in a safe zone with opposing opinions banned to not upset them. Free speech means upsetting some people. Free speech with limits is just us reading a script approved by Govt.
Rotherham just wants an echo chamber for his political views to be aired. This echo chamber creates an illusion in which dictators have a ready made solution to dissent. They make it illegal. And send those dissenting to prison. We've seen this before with regimes like the USSR or Muslim nations. We see it in China, where total government means dissent is nipped in the bud when kids are young. They are taught to be robots. Govt inputs a code and they regurgitate it.
UK prisons being cleared out in preparation for the next lockdowns perhaps. Or for anyone who objects to mass migration. Or for those who object to Islam. Who knows? Either way, we are heading towards an era in which freedom of speech is being destroyed by wokeness, for want of a better word. It encourages extremism when certain ideas cannot be criticised.
No Liverpool playwright, for example, would dare write a play on the life of Mohammed. Why not? There are thousands of examples of Jesus being mocked, parodied and so on. McGovern would not even go there. He knows if he did - he'd be a Salman Rushdie type figure, waiting for some fanatic to kill him. We've snookered ourselves into censoring artistes and academics. This makes fanatics think they are 100% right and that even the Kaffir understand their place. Cowardice in my book.
As for AstroZeneca, the jabs killed too many for it to be considered for investment. At least Elon's X reports on vaccine injury, other social media banned all dissent on the narrative of covid19. Many think C19 was hyped up - gain of function - made in a lab - made to spread easy. The few who died by it hyped up as PCR tests on the dead racked up the figures. Flu vanished, Covid deaths recorded instead.
C19 was, for many, a scam. And on X we can say that and debate it. On Youtube and Facebook you get banned for saying it. UK media pushed covid19 then like it's pushing the 'far right' now by using applied behavioural psychology and 'nudge teams' using all the power of media and celebs to persuade people the 'far right' are everywhere.
1984 was a mild take on what the UK is becoming. I'm not saying I'm right on everything I raise here - what I am saying is that unless all opinions are aired - none of us truly know what the hell is going on.
This edition links to an article where saying the rioters were all far right is not correct. The Post has already published an article on how many people have been radicalised by contacts made in lockdown, pushed by far right adjacent manipulators.
The C19 pandemic was real. It was a pandemic as it was international. Governments used it for their own devices. They mismanaged lockdowns. They made bad decisions that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The long term effects of underinvestment in people and their health lead to worse outcomes for lower classes. There was a chance to hold them to account. All the nonsense whataboutery let's those in power off the hook. You have been played to shill for the elites by looking the wrong way.
It’ll be a big knock for AstraZeneca if the funding does go to France but I do believe the financial disaster left by the previous government is worse than realised.
I agree about X it’s got so many nasty people on there who hide behind anonymity. I very much doubt Elon Musk will do anything to stop it, I think he likes the controversy.
Never mind X - Chinese app Tik Tok has paracetamol challenges, in which people try to get into hospital overdosing. It has kids murdering animals for kicks. It has more vile stuff than X which will ban some extremely nasty things.
Instagram has grams of coke on sale in 20 mins delivery slots. Every drug under the sun available to children. Zombie knives on sale also. God knows what else because I've never used facebook or Instagram or Tik Tok. I used X after Elon purchased it and guaranteed he would not ban people for opinions.
Free speech has always been controversial as it allows ideas to be aired which will upset some people. USA has freedom of speech protected by constitution. UK has freedom of speech approved by politicians. It's a cowards charter which allows some to preach hate with religious protection - and others to not preach anything because it upsets religious folk.
Nasty people everywhere. But nobody on X is truly anonymous.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you. Remember that? Every parent in Liverpool said it at one time.
That is now altered to read 'Words hurt you - ban them - unless its words from some approved 'minority' group'.
In many cases words can do more harm than sticks and stones. Misquoted childhood rhymes are not an argument against that fact.
Ask the police about that. They face more abuse than most - and for the main part it was part of the job and something they shrugged off - for the most part.
The police who dash about on 12 hr shifts would sooner face 1,000,000 people calling them bad names than 100 people throwing petrol bombs, or worse.
I'm not writing about the emotional abuse where someone manipulates another in order to gain control over a period of time. Gaslighting type emotional abuse is a criminal offence.
Calling someone a delicate cupcake, for example, is not. Yet.
Name one word that hurts more than having your bones broken with sticks and/or stones.
As for misquoted childhood rhymes, in popular folk culture, childhood rhymes change all the time - they vary from street to street sometimes. The rhyme of 'sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you' stand correct. Maybe the one you sang was some authentic rendition. The OG rhyme.
In one way your correct. Words online today can do more harm to the author than broken bones. You could get more time in prison for the wrong words in todays politicised landscape than you would if you sucker punched a police officer, owned a child porn collection or had a few grands worth of heroin and crack ready for sale.
Is it possible for an outgoing government in the UK to leave a £22 billion "black hole" in the countries finances? We asked, and got this reply from AI:
While it's theoretically possible for a government to leave a significant financial discrepancy, such as a £22 billion "black hole," there are usually several checks and balances in place to prevent such oversights. The UK's Treasury conducts regular audits and financial reviews, and there are various oversight bodies that monitor government spending.
However, several factors could contribute to such a situation:
1. **Complex Financial Structures**:
If the finances are structured in a complex manner, it may be challenging for even experienced officials to identify discrepancies.
2. **Last-Minute Spending**:
If significant spending occurs just before a government exits, it might not be fully accounted for in time.
3. **Political Maneuvering**:
In some cases, outgoing administrations may not disclose or fully report certain liabilities or obligations, leading to surprises for incoming administrations.
4. **Economic Changes**:
Sudden economic changes, like shifts in revenue or unexpected expenditures, can create gaps in financial projections.
5. **Lack of Transparency**:
Inadequate reporting practices or a lack of transparency can obscure financial realities, making it difficult for the public or oversight bodies to scrutinize effectively.
While such a situation could occur, it would likely raise serious questions about governance and accountability, leading to calls for investigations or reforms to improve financial oversight.
Rachel Reeves said the massive black hole in the nation’s finances was “covered up” by the Tories — something the Tories have steadfastly denied.
If she has got evidence of that "cover up", she should make details public now. If she hasn't should she be handing over the reigns to someone more competent?
Questions which Rachel Reeves should be required to answer are:
1. From her investigations, how can the £22 billion now be accounted for?
2. Who was responsible for scrutiny and oversight for the sums involved and why were they not identified?
3. What plans will she put in place to prevent the next outgoing government from committing similar abuse of public office.
4. Will wrong doers be prosecuted?
If it's not made transparent, then government cannot be trusted to act in the publics best interests.
Interesting to see the Hollywood of the North is likely to have to seek govt funding, let's hope they don't get duped or get stars in their eyes and go all gooey about there being a need for a massive film studio being needed by the city. There isnt, there's no business case.
In only 9 years Capital and Centric (Manchester based,links to Andy Burnham and no experience of the the film Industry) were gifted a beautiful unlisted art deco building, they have already demolished the Iconic Tower and Clock, with a promise to re-instate, (whatever that means, possibly an appropriate cuckoo clock).
Given by Big Joe; a free building on a very long lease, and had a fire, got money for a Pop Up Studio,built a constantly flooding Car park, then this.
The whole story would make a great film script, not so much a disaster movie, more an Ealing Comedy, or Carry On Littlewoods. Just spotted a Flying Pig on Edge Lane, anyone's?
Part of the press from Paris comes in the form of its prestige Pasteur institute. The French news outlet l’Express reports that it’s all set to commence testing an Mpox vaccine. Naturally, AstraZeneca will have its eye on this wanting to get itself a presence -possibly, in a developing French Silicon Valley for global vaccine technology. To find space for the Speke bid (&to argue that the physical location in our digital age isn’t really a factor) we need to hinge on the NHS being a cutting edge organisation. The Tories have left it on its knees. That image needs to switch, sharpish. With the support of a world class medical body keeping the AZ facility in Speke will be a whole lot more competitive. The notes could then drop into the justification tickbox: it’s just a case of knowing how to spin the dice
I'm no expert but someone should tell that 6 year old that putting the ball down is a vital part of basketball.