Wachter posted:

When I worked as a Housing Benefit assessor we had access to a DWP system that let you look up people by national insurance number to confirm things like Income Support and Child Benefit without them providing paperwork. There was a limited search function, the use of which was discouraged. During training we were told that every single record access was logged, that a random check could be performed on any record access, that said random check had to be backed up by a written submission to the DWP proving the reason for access, that certain records were flagged to always require checks, and that being unable to satisfy the check was more or less guaranteed instant dismissal. People still got sacked for looking up their mates and random celebs. The temptation is too strong for some.

Nuclear Spoon posted:

given a sub roll is the ideal bread form factor for a sandwich, why is it so fuckin hard to buy them in the uk. outside of subway obv

Failed Imagineer posted:

God has no power there

Nuclear Spoon posted:

a baguette is not a sub roll

Darth Walrus posted:

I remember doing an Open University course where the first module contained a video on how Milton Keynes was built on Druidic principles. Genuinely quite fascinating.

Tesseraction posted:

The IKEA is closed and I am starving at a restaurant.

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Labour threatened with legal action over ‘voter fraud’

Sam Tarry, Angela Rayner’s former partner, claims online voting system has been used to disadvantage Left-wing candidates

The Labour Party is facing legal action from Angela Rayner’s former partner over alleged “voter fraud”.

Lawyers acting for Sam Tarry, the MP for Ilford South, have written to the party over claims that an online voting system has been used to disadvantage Left-wing candidates.

Mr Tarry, whose relationship with Labour’s deputy leader ended last year, claims the Anonyvoter system was used to harm his unsuccessful attempt to be re-selected for the general election.

Anonyvoter is a software for holding online votes that is widely used by local Labour Party branches to decide who will be their candidate for the next election.

Mr Tarry lost to Jas Athwal in a selection vote in October 2022 and has been disputing the result since.

He is now considering issuing legal proceedings to force Labour to publish the Anonyvoter records from his selection or even to get an injunction to block Mr Athwal from being the official Ilford South candidate.

Trade unions are helping Mr Tarry raise tens of thousands of pounds, which will help fund legal action if an agreement with the party is not reached.

Meanwhile, a second Labour MP, Beth Winter, who represents Cynon Valley, has been exchanging legal letters with the party over how Anonyvoter was used in her selection race.

Ms Winter sought to become the candidate in a newly created Welsh seat last summer, but lost. Her lawyers wrote to the party raising concerns about the use of the Anonyvoter system both before and after the result.

This week, she has written to senior figures in Welsh Labour widening her complaint beyond online voting and demanding an investigation.

Vote breakdowns seen by The Telegraph show that both candidates did better than their rivals among the voters who took part either in person or by post, but worse among those who cast their ballot on Anonyvoter. Such records are not made public.

Mr Tarry and Ms Winter are both members of the Socialist Campaign Group, the most prominent Left-wing group in the Commons, which includes Jeremy Corbyn.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Just had my door buzzed by labour canvassers. (We have intercom thing for the flats).
"We're canvassing on behalf of the Labour party"
"Oh, I'm not voting Labour"
Silence as she doesn't know how to deal with that (probably knows I'm a former member).
Me: "I'm not voting for genocide, sorry".

Ed: I decided to say that because of all the supposed reports that 'on the doorsteps, Corbyn was the reason people weren't going to vote Labour' feedback from 2019 canvas. Well they can know that Starmer is the reason this time.

Vitamin P posted:

Does the political plan of Not Voting Labour extend anywhere beyond that? Owen Jones communicated something approaching a plan but his take was still pretty weak.

I genuinely think the entire project of the UK left now should be Proportional Representation, ally with the Greens, Reform, whoever is also getting hosed by FPTP. Feels like an open door right now and it's the only way lefties can actually achieve meaningful change. Raging about how the Labour Party is not a useful vehicle anymore is like, yeah no poo poo? so why make them the focus at all.

Vitamin P posted:

Does the political plan of Not Voting Labour extend anywhere beyond that? Owen Jones communicated something approaching a plan but his take was still pretty weak.

I genuinely think the entire project of the UK left now should be Proportional Representation, ally with the Greens, Reform, whoever is also getting hosed by FPTP. Feels like an open door right now and it's the only way lefties can actually achieve meaningful change. Raging about how the Labour Party is not a useful vehicle anymore is like, yeah no poo poo? so why make them the focus at all.

Vitamin P posted:

ally with ... Reform

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I will vote either for Green or Plaid Cymru depending on what candidates stand.

I don't think people will coalesce around alternatives to Labour this time round, but the more people who do, the more people might be encouraged to do so. The best I can hope for this time round is a hung parliament.

Local friends who have quit Labour are torn between voting for them to Get The Tories Out on, what I believe, is the deluded notion that Starmer will move leftwards once in power, or vote for green or plaid. I don't know what other parties might stand round here, and I always forget the LibDems exist - but I classify them as a branch of tory anyway because they have always (not just when Corbyn was LOTO) refused to work with Labour while happy to stand with the tories.

A labour party led by Starmer, Reeves & Streeting is no friend to the citizenry.

One of my friends quit Labour because he along with others in the Welsh labour 'family' (I can't remember exactly who he mentioned maybe Welsh Grassroots? But don't quote me on that!) had worked hard on motions relating to PR for a long time, and Starmer stamped on the lot. That's when he decided that the notion of work from the inside to change the party was never going to work.

Rarity posted:

ItohRespectArmy posted:

the greens and lib dems don't runs my consituency, so for me it's basically just voting for any decent seeming independants.

Vitamin P posted:

That's cool, throw your vote away on an independent that will lose. But in the meantime maybe put time into pushing the open door of electoral reform so your next vote might actually matter.

Vitamin P posted:

That's cool, throw your vote away on an independent that will lose. But in the meantime maybe put time into pushing the open door of electoral reform so your next vote might actually matter.

Runcible Cat posted:

Good luck! I'm 4 sessions into chemo, but my neutrophil count keeps dropping below optimum so I've had to have a couple delayed. Bloody annoying, I want to get this over with.

crispix posted:

i do hope you recover franco

Ataxerxes posted:

fuctifino posted:

I've watched the Kate video a few times now, and something that I can't unsee is not a single plant appears to move during the entire video.

Niric posted:

Mostly UKMT has been pretty good on all this, making jokes, pointing out how absurd the whole situation is, mocking the shockingly poo poo PR, dialling it back a bit when it turns out that, yeah, cancer is poo poo, and generally being fairly normal.

But loving hell, fuctifino's relentless conspiracy bullshit and regurgitation of the absolute worst twitter bullshit is exhausting

Niric posted:

Mostly UKMT has been pretty good on all this, making jokes, pointing out how absurd the whole situation is, mocking the shockingly poo poo PR, dialling it back a bit when it turns out that, yeah, cancer is poo poo, and generally being fairly normal.

But loving hell, fuctifino's relentless conspiracy bullshit and regurgitation of the absolute worst twitter bullshit is exhausting