Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Ergo Proxy]

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[Brainaddict]

More musical news!

I lasted about 10 seconds of that. Seems a good way to convince everyone that Corbyn-mania is a weird kind of cult. Well-intentioned I'm sure but made by someone totally in their own world.

 

[Wilf]

sting singing from the roof of the bataclan

Somewhere, Sting is always on a roof.

 

[Wilf]

I lasted about 10 seconds of that. Seems a good way to convince everyone that Corbyn-mania is a weird kind of cult. Well-intentioned I'm sure but made by someone totally in their own world.

Some things are so shit they end up being good. This isn't one of them.

 

[Wilf]

Suppose its proof that the devil has the best tunes.

 

[killer b]

made by someone totally in their own world.

Brighton, I think.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Sir Gerald howarth got stung by chris Morris

Gerald Howarth is a G-dbotherer and hard-right goat-fucker. He never progressed to Cabinet rank (just as far as being a junior minster) because although Thatcher and Major loved him, he was such a fucking bigot that he kept shitting on his own prospects.

 

[ViolentPanda]

While I get he wasn't 'dancing a jig', what was he doing?!

The Locomotion.

 

[agricola]

While I get he wasn't 'dancing a jig', what was he doing?!

Looking forward to PMQs' is a possibility, at least after today.

 

[J Ed]

Corbynites have finally cracked it, this is how you communicate

 

[Supine]

What does that even mean? Smart factories? Is that something labour is good at?

 

[J Ed]

What Labour really need to come across as is a call centre line manager who's just come back from a course that he has not really understood and is desperately trying to bullshit about.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Am guessing it's a Paul Mason tweet with the words jumbled up for the lol's?

 

[JimW]

Yet again they raid back issues of Worker's Girder for our superseded policy positions.

 

[DotCommunist]

the internet of things is a great idea till you realise how easy some people find it to fuck about with other peoples connected machinery. Also yes, that does sound like modern mason who I swear used to be better than he is now with his cyberchat balls, didn't he used to be a bit more grounded?

 

[teqniq]

Vacuous nonsense pretty much covers it.

 

[mather]

Corbynites have finally cracked it, this is how you communicate

By talking like Steve Jobs?

 

[Beermoth]

Corbynites have finally cracked it, this is how you communicate

Long live the new flesh.

 

[two sheds]

I want big data

 

[Sweet FA]

And I cannot lie.

 

[Mr Moose]

'The internet of things' the phrase on the lips of all those just about managing who need little more in life than a smart kettle.

 

[Raheem]

'The internet of things' the phrase on the lips of all those just about managing who need little more in life than a smart kettle.

I always thought "the internet of things" was a way of referring to online gay porn.

 

[two sheds]

(((Raheem's fridge)))

 

[Raheem]

(((Raheem's fridge)))

It's a personal matter, but since you brought it up no, I'm not fridge. I have a normal libido.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I want big data

It's easy - just start off with small average-sized data, then give it a cheeky rub.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I always thought "the internet of things" was a way of referring to online gay porn.

You're mixing up your valves, transistors and silicon chips there

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Puzzling. Sounds more like something a Blairite might say, given that most of the people who could benefit from chasing hitech waves are probably already doing ok.

I guess they could be trying to appeal to educated, endebted and opportunity-less young people, but it doesn't seem to be terribly relevant to the Sun-reading public.

The context seems to be a broader attempt at industrial policy:

“In 1963, Harold Wilson famously said if the country was to prosper, a ‘New Britain’ would need to be forged in the white heat of a scientific revolution. More than 50 years later. we now face the task of creating a New Britain not just out of Brexit and a new relationship with Europe but from the challenge of the fourth industrial revolution – powered by the internet of things and big data to develop cyber physical systems and smart factories.

“Labour wants to engage with business and the workforce at all levels to design an industrial strategy that meets the needs of 21st century Britain. That isn’t about picking winners, or pouring good money after bad into white-elephants. Instead we will set the missions, put in place the right institutional framework and support and provide businesses with the opportunities to develop our economy. Provided of course, that businesses live up to their side of the deal – on wages, on workers’ rights, on paying taxes. We want our relationship with business to be a partnership: Labour’s new settlement for business.”

Corbyn tell business leaders: We’ll use the state to power a new industrial revolution | LabourList

The biggest problem I see with this stuff is that IoT, cyber physical systems etc right now are more about chasing investor trends than producing anything terribly useful.

 

[mauvais]

It was going OK up to and including 'big data' but then the last bit is total bollocks. At least IOT and big data are actual things. Cyber physical systems? What?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

It does make a kind of sense in this context, because it's a way of linking all of the less sexy engineering disciplines, especially mechanical engineering, with computing and especially with AI. So it's conceivably something to reinvigorate the UK's industrial base.

I'm just not convinced sentient garden gnomes are the way to take voters off UKIP ...

 

[billy_bob]

the internet of things is a great idea till you realise ...

... that your kettle already boils water, your fridge already keeps food cool, your light switch already turns the lights on and off ....