In this week’s PB/Polling Matters podcasts, Keiran discusses the Labour leadership with Stephen Bush of the New Statesman and Laurence Janta-Lipinski of YouGov. We ask whether Jeremy Corbyn is inevitable, where Labour goes from here and whether Corbyn could surprise people if he wins. Also, can a non-left Labour candidate win the leadership again and what does the next Labour PM look like..
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"It is no secret that politicians use one sort of language in public and another when talking among themselves. For public consumption, everything a politician does is driven by a high-minded desire to do what is right. In private, they acknowledge that low calculation and partisan interest pervade the political process.
When Andrew Lansley was a Cabinet minister, from 2010 to 2014, he remembered how to choose his words carefully in public. Since retiring from the Commons in May, he seems to have forgotten the rules of political doublespeak. Talking to business leaders, he laid bare the tactics that he believes David Cameron will adopt in the run-up to the referendum on British membership in the European Union which Lansley anticipates will be held in September next year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/doublespeak-deciphered-andrew-lansley-dares-to-reveal-the-truth-about-david-camerons-eu-plan-10459808.html
It certainly isn't news, not least because it was in the Telegraph and discussed on here yesterday. More like Olds.
Cheers to Mr. Hayfield for his short-lived previous thread, and to Mr. Pedley for this. The length of the podcast means I may have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it, though.
Mr. F, an unkind soul might consider Lansley not to be the sharpest tool in the box.
There is no reason why Labour have to exist at all, let alone have the divine right to be the opposition... they have long since betrayed the beliefs and people they formed to represent in the first place
Am I?
If you're on 8 I'd say go for it, if you're on 7 I'd wait.
But I am the rare species of getting on with Windows 8 just fine...
Had planned to vote for a woman leader at the start but wavered big time.
YC
AB
LK
JC
and of course Caroline for deputy.
If you have Windows 7, then no.
There is a reason why Windows 9 doesn't exist.
But nothing he offers will satisfy you or the kippers, so most Conservatives don't regard either of you as a serious part of the equation.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13609421.Corbyn__I_m_a_Socialist_not_a_Unionist/
Even in this article he's being a bit circumspect about his views - I've read snippets elsewhere that he is anti Home Rule and isn't a great fan of further devolution.
The first problem Corbyn is going to have to deal with in Scotland is to sort out SLAB which looks like it's about to break out into open civil war between Glasgow SLAB led by Neil Findlay and backed by the Unions and Edinburgh SLAB led by Kezia (advised by John McT and Blair McD), as they fight like ferrets in a sack for list seats.
Scottish Independence could then be established Czechoslovakia style, with dissolution following the No vote.
"Average Joe will be happy with it. So long as he hasn't used Windows 7"
I wish I wasn't too impatient to follow my own advice now!
That was the solution for many who had the misfortune of having Win8, it was either Linux or having to wait for Microsoft to replace it with Win9, but it was so bad Microsoft rushed Win8.1 as a stop gap.
JC +18
AB +8
YC +40
Going from Win95 -> Win98 -> WinXP -> Win7 there isn't any particular difference to the look and feel and certainly from a user perspective, how it works.
Every time it has tried to diverge from the model established by WIn 95 it has failed horrifically, Windows ME, Windows Vista and Win 8 are all dead ends. Unfortunately Win 10 is built more on Win 8 than Win 7 with the added handicap of a revenue model built on "add ons" which i don't see becoming popular any time soon for an OS.
Win8 and the whole idea that the USP of a PC (multitasking) could be thrown out to be replaced with a "one application at a time" environment as you get on a tablet or phone was utterly idiotic and Monkey Boy deserved his firing (at least he has his billions to fall back on).
Aren't the majority of Enterprise users still using XP?
There are multiple legacy programs out there that are set not to work if the OS contains the name "Win 9" and undoing that would be far worse than the Millenium Bug was mooted as being.
Very similar to the Tory-SNP axis.
I had an oldlaptop the other day originally came with vista, but had a free upgrade to windows 7 (old core 2 duo machine with 2gb of ram)
I doubled up the memory, upgraded to windows 10. Once windows 10 has activated on a machine thats the machine sorted for windows 10 forever. This means you can just do a format and reinstall from the image/usb you download from microsoft.
The new start menu is a menu designed by people who know you like the start menu, but dont like it themselves so have decided to make it really crappy in the hope you dont use it.
One of the big improvements over 8, is that it separates out the tablet and mouse/keyboard GUI. No more accidental swipes ending up in some full screen programme which completely takes you away from your desktop.
So while i agree above, the interface changes from w7 to w10 are not really worth it, for 8 to 10 definitely... But, your machine will run quicker than it ever has if you put 10 on it.
Even if you love Salmond and I loath Salmond, we both have the same opinion about Microsoft (and Jim Murphy).
But as I understand it, that desire isn't shared by a lot of business users.
In internet parlance - a dick move.
If you're not screaming at the computer, it isn't Windows 8.
You doubled the RAM.
Are you *certain* that it's running faster because of Win10?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03411/190815-MATT-WEB_3411869a.jpg
Control Panel > System and Security > System
So, it's a choice between the current status quo + future closer union, or rejection + an uncertain future.
You are only looking at it from the user perspective, there are enormous differences between how they operate, and its only because you have got used to the features as they've developed, you havent noticed them. If you go back to windows 95/98 you might be quite surprised .
Windows XP was reskin of windows 2k. It is massively more stable than any if the 9x operating system, it brought 'enterprise' level stability to home users. If you farted too loudly and didnt close the door windows 98 would freeze.
Think of all those things you do with ease. Taking pictures off a camera, adding music to a device, watching video on the internet, the internet itself!!
It is possible to say that vista was difficult operating system, they over reached, but by the time they were ready with windows 7, they perfected everything they got wrong with vista.
Windows 8 was just a bag of spanners, but mainly because of design decisions. If MS had made the design decision to keep a traditional start menu, and disable 'full screen apps' for standard users it would have been lapped up.
Windows 8 contains some first rate auto backup software, fast as anything on older machines, finally MS managed to get standby right. But alas the interface was so screwed up.
The look of horror on an elderly persons face when they go to start and get lots of tiles. When they accidentally swipe to the side and they go into full screen app. When they try to play solitaire and get inundated with XBOX trophies.
They pack it away and get the old one out, or just buy an ipad.
Windows 7
Is that OK?!
There's the underlying core tech, and then the UI shell that is placed on top. Win 7, 8 and 10 are (I think) more or less the same core tech family, with very different UI's.
Mind you, I still miss OS/2 Warp and Windows NT.
I'd rather forget 3/3.1 - they were, with hindsight, absolutely terrible kludges that were only popular because they were compatible with, but so much better than, DOS.
Let me know when they find proof that Hitler was his dad...
I have Windows 8.1 on my machine, and I've set it up just as I want it. No need for Windows 10 yet.
Ms Harman and her team have told officials that they believe up to one fifth of the 120,000 people who paid £3 to vote in the election could be so-called “entryists” trying to distort the result to favour Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left candidate.
One source said: "There was a conversation a couple of weeks ago but they decided to proceed."
Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, has now quit the Burnham campaign to advise the Labour party full time on the running of the contest.
http://bit.ly/1URpYRU