Labour manifesto changes a byte bit

I for one welcome our new fascist overlords

Seriously el reg, why don't you change the mast head to tory blue and have done with it.

So what's new?

When Gordon StalinBroon campaigns on his mastery of economics and presents himself as the "safe" option for preserving what's left of the economy he had a major hand in wrecking?

All Animals Are Equal...

...but some animals are more equal than others." ..."Animal Farm," George Orwell.

I have had some discussions with law librarians, and the reduction of printed-on-paper laws can lead to "plastic law."

While in this case, it's merely a typo|ignornce correction, we should look to more permanent recording of law. This is a moot point for political promises, since they are generally broken anyhoo.

Beer makes it better.

To be fair..

el reg journos do this __all__ the time.

HUGE issue

Oh yes, thanks for pointing this one out.

I've seen El Reg go back and fix typos before. Perhaps this very site is just another part of a wider one-world-order conspiracy to fix typos without telling anyone.

This needs nipping in the bud, otherwise people might start viewing the ability to fix typos after the fact as an *advantage* of the new digital media, and where would that end? We might see some kind of apocalyptic convergence on correctness, or something.

Some will

The pirate party will deliver :)

^ ^

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/

There

and I thought it was a criminal offence to make false statements in order to obtain any remuneration or greater remuneration.

16. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception

(1) A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains for himself or another any

pecuniary advantage shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term

not exceeding five years.

(2) All cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to

be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where-

(a) [repealed];

(b) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft, or to take out any policy of

insurance or annuity contract, or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he

is allowed to do so; or

(c) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration

in an office or employment, or to win money by betting.

(3) For purposes of this section ‘deception’ has the same meaning as in section 15 of

this Act.

Section 16 Theft Act 1968

Silly me doesn't apply to politians of course, same as fraud. One law for them and one for us.

We have always...

... been at war with Eastasia

Basic maths

"A commitment to a 2 megabyte broadband speed would actually imply something like 16.8 megabits"

When I were a lad, there were 8 bits in a byte. Regardless of what a Mega is, where did the 0.8 come from?

Nothing new

People go on about "NuLieBore" or whatever "funny" (in their eyes) variation they want to pun, but the truth is that all parties of all persuasions that have ever held power do exactly the same. I'm old enough to remember what Maggie did to the lower classes when she and her cronies were in power

All politicians lie and cheat to get what they want for their own kind, and it has always been so. They all try to gag their opponents and they all try to change history so they are remembered to be better than they were.

Remember Spycatcher? The Belgrano affair? Watergate?

You would think that the recent government had invented something new listening to some commentators.

The elephant in the room

UK government finances are in the hole big time. From "normal" c£69Bn to c£178Bn. Mostly (it seems) to buy near total control of Lloyds-TSB_HBOS-Norther_Rock or whatever it's called. Not they would *dream* of actually *managing* it given that level of control through share ownership because "It's simply *not* done" for civil servants to implement government policy through direct changes to operations.

*No* major party has come clean on how big the cuts will be. The figures put out by the Lib Dems were the *most* honest and covered 25% of them. Labor's admitted cuts only cover 13% of what they have said they *have* to make. Given they have had 13 years access to the UK national accounts this is not exactly transparent government (The Conservatives numbers add up to 15% of their planned savings, but *they* don't have sight of the national accounts).

What they have *admitted* is like a band aid on a minor cut to someone whose had their chest cut open with an axe.

Given the UK voting rules either support your incumbent ( if you like them) or dump them by voting the runner up last time.

A vote for no one means you rolled over for *everyone*.