Yes real respect for that. It's the grim times that sort the men from the fair weather boys.Absolutely brilliant!Tories still ahead of SNP thoughLabour leads by 26%.I thought somebody ought to run that through the Electoral Calculus predictor for lolz. LDs become official opposition:
Tied-lowest Conservative % with Rishi Sunak as PM.
Westminster Voting Intention (17 March):
Labour 47% (+5)
Conservative 21% (-3)
Reform UK 14% (–)
Liberal Democrat 8% (-4)
Green 6% (+1)
SNP 3% (+1)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 10 Mar
https://x.com/redfieldwilton/status/1769770749370200358?s=46
Only you could find the silver lining for a prediction of 34 Tory seats.
Absolutely brilliant!Tories still ahead of SNP thoughLabour leads by 26%.I thought somebody ought to run that through the Electoral Calculus predictor for lolz. LDs become official opposition:
Tied-lowest Conservative % with Rishi Sunak as PM.
Westminster Voting Intention (17 March):
Labour 47% (+5)
Conservative 21% (-3)
Reform UK 14% (–)
Liberal Democrat 8% (-4)
Green 6% (+1)
SNP 3% (+1)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 10 Mar
https://x.com/redfieldwilton/status/1769770749370200358?s=46
Forest docked 4 pointsAnd yet Man City continue to get away with repeated flouting of the rules over many years. If I were a Forest or Everton fan I would be fuming at this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/18/nottingham-forest-docked-four-points-premier-league-financial-rules-breach-profitability-and-sustainability
Looking at the You Gov polling on Rwanda it would seem that the HOL could block the Bill with Labour support without suffering too much blowback .I know it is old fashioned but I would like to see Labour (and Tory rebels) fight this one on the basis of what is right and moral rather than what is the most likely political benefit.
What’s the bigger risk for Labour blocking it or letting it pass and against perceived wisdom it’s successful .
That was a very good line.Biden at the Gridiron.On the other hand there's Joe and Jill Biden at it like a couple in a french brothel and they still wont let go of that big white house in the middle of Washington. I dread to think what the Blairs do in their 9 houses.On housing, one factor has been the growth of older people splitting up and living on their own. What the nations needs is an oldies dating programme. Get all those selfish old folk out of their three bed houses and coupled up once again. More sex for the elderly, more houses for the young...A very political stance. Low expectations are not the same as improving the national outlook.However SKS won't be burdened with the hopes and dreams of a nation as Blair was. It will be easier for him to overdeliver against expectations.Expectation management from the Graun:Note Starmer will have a far more difficult economic situation to deal with if he becomes PM than Blair did in 1997.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/18/labour-landslide-will-be-much-harder-to-achieve-than-in-1997-analysis-shows
'An analysis of economic and polling data by the political consultancy Public First shows the country has lower wage growth, higher levels of debt and less affordable housing than it did when Labour last ousted the Conservatives from power..The economy grew 4.9% in 1997, following nearly five years where it did not shrink in a single quarter. This year, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts it will grow just 0.6%.
Wage growth had been strong for years before the 1997 election and was 2.6% in the election year. This year, the OBR thinks it will be just 0.1%.
This had a knock-on effect on the government’s finances. In 1997, public sector net debt was 37.5% of gross domestic product. It is now over 90%.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/18/labour-landslide-will-be-much-harder-to-achieve-than-in-1997-analysis-shows
Lets put this in perspective
We have low growth
We have massive debts
We need about 5 millions dwellings and the commensurate infrastructure
We have a migration problem and the much larger problem of workforce participation
We need productivity and investment
We have a war in Ukraine
And Starmer is just the man for the job because he sacked Corbyn, The equivalent of reorganising the filing in Labour HQ,
Your hope is based on all of us accepting decline is good enough.
Personally I dont.
“ One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president: The other’s me. You know he ain’t the same guy that I beat in 2020…But don’t tell him. He thinks he’s running against Barack Obama.
...And another big difference between us — I know what I value most; I'm Jill Biden's husband. And I know her name. ”
Why does a large amount of Twitter / X believe that Chaz has kicked the bucket? Is this wishful thinking on the poetry of him dying on St Paddy's day; or is this an outcome of the continued palace silence after the weirdness around Kate and Chaz's illness leading to more conspiratorial thinking?You must be new to twitter.