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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
You're seeing things through the ideological lens of someone interested in and who follows politics. Freedman circulated some research from the politics professor at Nuffield, Oxford yesterday that made the point that a lot of voters simply want what they termed 'valence' - " the non-ideological things that matter to practically everyone, regardless of which ideological ‘bloc’ they belong to: competence, delivery, commitment to people’s primary concerns" - and that these issues can override more ideological issues for many of them. They suggest " the British electorate has been primarily punishing the two largest parties on the issues of competence, or failures in competence, and for the primary issue of the cost of living, and feelings of economic insecurity", and that this underpins much of the support for Reform and the Greens.Maybe Andy Burnham is the figure that can finally unite the country. He deserves a chance at that.He might unite many liberals and the left behind him, Reform and increasingly Tory voters though are not fans of Burnham
Whether or not Burnham can address and deliver those things is another question entirely - as the professor goes on to set out in the rest of her piece - but it's not as simple as saying that Reform and Tory voters "are not fans of Burnham". Not least because, very clearly, many Makerfield voters who backed Reform in local elections last month just voted for Burnham this month.
IanB2
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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
The accident report will be crucial.
Signalling should always fail to red (it's known as a "right-side" failure) if there's a problem or failure to synch data, or co-ordinate train pathing, so incidents like this should never happen. And, across billions of other train journeys, they don't. We have an excellent record and train travel in this country is very, very safe.
So what went wrong?
Signalling should always fail to red (it's known as a "right-side" failure) if there's a problem or failure to synch data, or co-ordinate train pathing, so incidents like this should never happen. And, across billions of other train journeys, they don't. We have an excellent record and train travel in this country is very, very safe.
So what went wrong?
Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Can't footballers just learn to speak without moving their lips to circumvent that rule ?Turkey out after failing to score against a 10 men Paraguay in the second half.Rather bizarre red card explained here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/world-cup-laws-paraguay-miguel-almirón-sent-off-covering-mouth/106823206?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_news.abc.net.au
I quite like 10 seconds for substituted players to get off the pitch and 5 seconds for goal kicks and throw ins.
Team ventriloquism coaches are surely on the horizon.
Nigelb
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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
No evidence a player has been called a "gottle of geer"...Can't footballers just learn to speak without moving their lips to circumvent that rule ?Turkey out after failing to score against a 10 men Paraguay in the second half.Rather bizarre red card explained here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/world-cup-laws-paraguay-miguel-almirón-sent-off-covering-mouth/106823206?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_news.abc.net.au
I quite like 10 seconds for substituted players to get off the pitch and 5 seconds for goal kicks and throw ins.
Team ventriloquism coaches are surely on the horizon.
Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Turkey out after failing to score against a 10 men Paraguay in the second half.Rather bizarre red card explained here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/world-cup-laws-paraguay-miguel-almirón-sent-off-covering-mouth/106823206?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_news.abc.net.au
I quite like 10 seconds for substituted players to get off the pitch and 5 seconds for goal kicks and throw ins.
Foxy
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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Turkey out after failing to score against a 10 men Paraguay in the second half.
Andy_JS
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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
In the PB predicitions competition I picked Senegal as world cup winners but I nearly chose Morocco.I mentioned that in conversation earlier.These Moroccans lads are very good at football.Am I the only person in the world who remembers that Morocco made the semi finals of the last world cup?
No one was aware of it.
They are a very decent side indeed.
I have a feeling it's an African side's year this year.
Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Since Biblical times. The sovereign nation-state has to be invented and reinvented constantly. See Ernest Renan’s lecture “What is a Nation?” in 1882. The minute we worked out how to ford a river or cross a desert we ran the risk of "us" splitting into "good us like me" and "bad us like them". It sounds stupid but people really have to do this. Although in fairness, it's also the job of the King.Maybe Andy Burnham is the figure that can finally unite the country. He deserves a chance at that.Since when did we expect it to be the job of politicians to unite people rather than to govern effectively?
viewcode
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Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Some stats to liven up the commute @viewcode
Giving you a clearer picture of driving test waiting times:
'What the new data includes
The additional pieces of data we are now reporting are:
the average waiting time between booking and taking a driving test (median)
the number of tests provided in a month through driving examiner overtime
the total number of appointments that we’ve made available over the next 24 weeks of the booking window (as measured at the end of the month)
the total number of tests that have already been booked in that booking window
the total number of tests that are still available to book in the booking window
the percentage of tests that are still available to book in the booking window
All of this is available at national, regional and driving test centre level. It will be updated on the second Wednesday of each month with the previous month’s data.'
https://despatch.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/18/giving-you-a-clearer-picture-of-driving-test-waiting-times/
Giving you a clearer picture of driving test waiting times:
'What the new data includes
The additional pieces of data we are now reporting are:
the average waiting time between booking and taking a driving test (median)
the number of tests provided in a month through driving examiner overtime
the total number of appointments that we’ve made available over the next 24 weeks of the booking window (as measured at the end of the month)
the total number of tests that have already been booked in that booking window
the total number of tests that are still available to book in the booking window
the percentage of tests that are still available to book in the booking window
All of this is available at national, regional and driving test centre level. It will be updated on the second Wednesday of each month with the previous month’s data.'
https://despatch.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/18/giving-you-a-clearer-picture-of-driving-test-waiting-times/
Re: The cabinet are revolting – politicalbetting.com
Only if they cross his desk, which I gather is tricky."‘You can’t walk away’: Lady Starmer leading fight for PM to stay onWill that man ever make his own decisions?
Keir Starmer’s wobbles will be calmed by his ‘rock,’ Downing Street insiders insist" (£)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/19/lady-starmer-leads-fight-pm-stay-on/
kle4
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