Status: <one for the team = 'taken'>

I've had a little experience working with BBC: MIW: stuff that's got a political risk attached to it* gets scrutinised (not always to humanity's benefit) from upstairs, which is packed with various minions 'working towards the DG', competently or otherwise.
*e.g. 'the US President backed a coup'.

Is anyone centrally tallying post-completion change of use orders/permissions? These are unknown but I have no way of knowing how prevalent they are.

I appreciate that you have been told these people are just dying to do awesome left-liberal humane and constructive policy and they just can’t, but I have really bad news about that: all of it was bollocks intended to con you into voting for crackdowns.

I can go into why they’re like this if you want but the bottom line is that to them, retired racists are real people whose desires and lives actually matter, and you are contemptible shitheads who need to be stomped and corralled into accepting How It Is. The end.

Alas, here it's literally Wilson's fault because tying the UK's nuclear deterrent to a US delivery system with a 36-month 'shoot by' date was his call.

@molcher.bsky.social ought to write a sequel to 'I am the law' which is just about how on the nose BritCit was.

Maybe they are on some kind of political gamification app which rewards them if they keep up their streak?

Another important point of similarity -- VCs are not 'top of the pyramid' types: they got where they are by demonstrating willingness to obey the people who tapped them on the shoulder in the first place, and meet the owners' needs. Same with Starmer.

LOL, if I didn't know better I'd think that rather than being an emergent property of some kind of unwritten constitution, the last 10 years was mainly down to a series of decisions taken by _actual_ power-holders.

Maybe they meant it in the sense of the evocative rather that the cutesy? Maybe.

Like: I had no idea that Morgan McSweeney had been Peter Mandelson’s protege, and I have been paying very close attention for years. And yet the second ludicrous scandal this blew up, it turned out that absolutely everyone knew he was, it was humdrum knowledge and not news at all.

LOL no, no hotel chain would give that firetrap a second glance. Even Britainnia. It's a question of when, not if.

Given what we saw in 2015-2020 I no longer think it was paranoia. Mentally he was no good, though, and he recognised this and stepped down.

Cummings Rose Garden moment.

It depends how much shit Thiel and Bezos end up doing - Musk might just be rolled into 'Sirius Cybernetic Corporation' or some other collective identifier from the PreChange Era.

On the other hand, Healey is the obvious siloviki candidate.