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Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
This is a good point.to meet one's waterloo has a long history as an idiom in english for being thrashed/facing certain defeat/having one's comeuppance
Almost enough to put me off ABBA.
I was listening (loudly) to Abba and like many, many years ago, I thought:
Why is Waterloo a synonym for defeat and not for victory?..
https://x.com/BrankoMilan/status/2064504289226035554
Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
This made me smileMore reactions:The BigFinish audio drama's have been (mostly!) great. Really different, imaginative takes on Who (and others). Rather than TV Who's "running about for a bit then - behold! - a celeb you vaguely recognise from Eastenders and a million CGI Daleks! Squee!".My thoughts
- Tachyon Pulse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5n_iH7Hsw
- Mr Tardis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhymlkPEr5s
- CouncilOfGeeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzxtvmWeIM
- WhoCulture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9RXRvV9j2k
- JoshSnares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMtw-LHEYk
- I think Mr Tardis's point is good: the show has been dying on its arse for some time, RTD/BadWolf's departure is good not bad, and the future lies with things like BigFinish not televised drama, and a break of three-four years will not hurt and maybe help. So I can live with that.
- Poor Ellie Littlechild (one of the hosts of WhoCulture) who was lied to on an industrial basis.
- RTD has banked a lot of goodwill from me from QAF and RTD1, but it is difficult to forgive him for lying about the (now obviously never-existent) Xmas special. What was he thinking?
https://x.com/shardzdw/status/2064765891166839104?s=61
Taz
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Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
More reactions:The BigFinish audio drama's have been (mostly!) great. Really different, imaginative takes on Who (and others). Rather than TV Who's "running about for a bit then - behold! - a celeb you vaguely recognise from Eastenders and a million CGI Daleks! Squee!".My thoughts
- Tachyon Pulse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5n_iH7Hsw
- Mr Tardis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhymlkPEr5s
- CouncilOfGeeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzxtvmWeIM
- WhoCulture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9RXRvV9j2k
- JoshSnares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMtw-LHEYk
- I think Mr Tardis's point is good: the show has been dying on its arse for some time, RTD/BadWolf's departure is good not bad, and the future lies with things like BigFinish not televised drama, and a break of three-four years will not hurt and maybe help. So I can live with that.
- Poor Ellie Littlechild (one of the hosts of WhoCulture) who was lied to on an industrial basis.
- RTD has banked a lot of goodwill from me from QAF and RTD1, but it is difficult to forgive him for lying about the (now obviously never-existent) Xmas special. What was he thinking?
ohnotnow
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Re: I’m sorry I haven’t a clue about this poll – politicalbetting.com
When williamglenn was posing as a Eurofederalist he was doing it to troll the Brexiters, and you applauded. Now he's posing as a Faragist to troll you, and you seem to be enjoying the performance rather less.Your journey from one of the most astute Brexit related posters to writing absolute rubbish has developed over a decade. It has been a slow burn. SAD.Farage thinks it's acceptable to whip up fear, hatred and rioting."It's bad news, Nigel. The diversity officers have gone out on strike."
Let him think that.
God forbid he ever becomes PM
If he does he will see the greatest Civil disobedience this Country has ever seen.
Tens of millions peaceful protest but protest that will systematically destroy his populist brand of fascism.
Clogging up the arteries of his fascist state by sheer volume. No riots, just mass organised withdrawal of Labour and strangling of his totalitarian bull crap.
Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
https://x.com/LOS_Fisher/status/2064768443430125723Andy Burnham. Boris with a better haircut.
NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal
Same desperate desire to be Prime Minister.
Same denial of tradeoffs.
Same ability to tell people what they want to hear, even if it's rubbish or contradictiory.
Hopefully less expensive lifestyle tastes and more ability to keep his trousers on.
Re: I’m sorry I haven’t a clue about this poll – politicalbetting.com
The same cards the Americans made up for the Iraqi senior management?But I was told the Russians hold all the cards!The world media is just starting to notice that Putin's "inevitable" victory is going rather awry.Very rapidly.Ukraine has completely destroyed the Crimea bridge!I saw on X they have a 1.5 ton weight limit on the Kerch bridge as it clearly hasn't been repaired properly from previous attacks. Of course they could get heavier trucks over as that will be based on an estimate of how many vehicles would be on it at any one time, but it would mean banning civilian traffic and sending over carefully controlled convoys.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/2064645197951050183 https://x.com/warmonitor3/status/2064634279305281644
(No, it’s not the Kerch Bridge, it’s the alternative route through occupied Ukraine to the North, taking out the land corridor. There’s one small bridge left to go, then everything has to go over the Kerch or by sea.)
Crimea is rapidly becoming not a very nice place to live.
Next to the Kerch Bridge there’s a ferry boat for the heavy vehicles. Last week about two dozen fuel tankers all parked right next to each other in the car park by the ferry on the Russian side.
You can guess what happened next. 💥
There’s apparently tens of thousands of stranded Russian tourists there, who can’t get fuel for their cars. It’s only a matter of time until the food runs out.
Crimea River, as Justin Timberlake once sang.
Turns out, if there's one nation on Earth you don't want to take on, it's the Ukrainians. When they shout "Exterminate!!" - Putin should hide behind the sofa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards
Ukraine should do the same for the generals and cabinet members still left.
Sandpit
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Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
Re WASPI - remember the report recommended compensation of £1,000 to £2,950 each.
But the women actually want up to £50,000 each (ie 5 years of pension).
What are the odds that if Burnham caves and gives them the £2,950 then they'll go back to Court and say Govt has admitted liability so we should now get the full £50,000.
The £2,950 is completely wrong but in overall scheme of things it's not huge and the Govt could pay it as a one-off.
But £50,000 each is obviously a massively different order of magnitude.
But the women actually want up to £50,000 each (ie 5 years of pension).
What are the odds that if Burnham caves and gives them the £2,950 then they'll go back to Court and say Govt has admitted liability so we should now get the full £50,000.
The £2,950 is completely wrong but in overall scheme of things it's not huge and the Govt could pay it as a one-off.
But £50,000 each is obviously a massively different order of magnitude.
MikeL
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Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
'Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandalSigh.
Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by
@MENnewsdesk
, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”
Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”
https://x.com/LOS_Fisher/status/2064768443430125723?s=20
Eabhal
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Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
All this is, in part, a failure of the modern Left. The traditional social-democratic argument was never that we can fund a decent society by finding a few unpopular groups and taxing them ever harder. It was that good public services require broad-based taxation, and that people should be willing to pay for the civilisation they want to live in. Most of the contemporary Left has abandoned that argument. It still wants a European-sized state, but sells it with the fantasy that someone else can pick up the bill.Not by much, though.Yes but for most it is lower than UK tax whereever paidDon't US citizens have to pay US tax wherever they are in the world?They are coming to the UK to escape Trump not because of UK tax rates which will still likely be higher than in the USALabour would scream blue murder if the Tories did thisMaybe. But it’s a positive step for once and to be commended.
https://x.com/joe_mayes/status/2064771964540010935
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves is planning to cut the tax burden faced by wealthy US expats, as she seeks to encourage more of them to relocate to Britain
Dan Neidle has just done a report on this- the TLDR is that British governments have done an excellent job of taxing "other people", going back decades.
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/06/05/taxing-other-people-uk/
And they've done that because it's been what the public wants.
This has been mirrored by a failure of the Right. It is still just as eloquent at denouncing the tax burden, but has become unwilling to identify spending cuts large enough to make a serious difference. It will argue for welfare cuts, but rarely identifies specific reforms that save more than a tiny fraction of overall spending. And it is generally unwilling to touch the biggest and most popular areas of spending: pensions, the NHS, social care and defence. So the Right ends up with its own version of the same evasion.
And so we end up with political failure. The Left says we can have European spending without European taxes because “the rich” will pay – and so, when it finds itself in power, presides over deteriorating public services. The Right says we can have lower taxes without confronting the spending programmes voters most want to protect – and so, when in power, has raised tax.
Re: What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
You also know whatever they get from a Burnham led Labour Govt it won’t be enough and they’ll be back for more.If there is anyone from Labour here - give that bunch of chances a penny and if Reform is the party I need to vote for to get you kicked out I will vote for Reform...https://x.com/LOS_Fisher/status/2064768443430125723Oh FFS, it is not a scandal! I cannot believe the success of that nonsensical PR campaign which has turned them into victims.
NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal
I was broadly positive on Burnham perhaps being able to turn a corner in some ways at least, but if this is his reasoning then I really do hope he loses and Labour stick with Starmer.
I think he will win and become PM, but I hope that he doesn't after jumping on that silly bandwagon.
Taz
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