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Re: Oh, Angie, don’t you weep – politicalbetting.com
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For the first time ever the holders of the three great offices of state beyond PM (chancellor, foreign secretary, home secretary) are all women
For the first time ever the holders of the three great offices of state beyond PM (chancellor, foreign secretary, home secretary) are all women

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Maria Eagle and Catherine McKinnell out of government
Junior Reeves is Solicitor General
Junior Reeves is Solicitor General
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Magaluf is a fair distance from Palma, which is a delightful small city with plenty of local flavour and excellent restaurants and culture. The cheap lager and all day breakfast crowd are elsewhere.We came, we saw, we smashed up Palma.I don't think the Mallorcans campaigning against (British) tourists are the same Mallorcans as the Mallorcans lamenting their disappearance.Reminds one of the phrase: "They told us to eff off, so we did".What exactly did they expect would happen?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15070229/Mallorcas-war-British-tourists-backfired.html
"'The English don't come any more...we miss their money': How Mallorca's war on British tourists backfired"
Can you blame them?

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It’s going from bad to worse for your mate Nigel recentlyConnolly outs herself as a Reform 2024 voter and 'wants to work with them'I can't help feeling that it was better for Nigel when she was just an ordinary citizen victim. If the vibe now is that she's a partisan figure with career ambitions within Reform then a bit of the mystique is lost.

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Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
So £70k a year pay rise for being a human shield.It recognises her abilities as the senior Yes Man/Woman in the Labour Party. Also, she becomes the sacrificial lamb sent out to do the morning media round when things get tough.Anna Turley into the cabinet without portfolioWhat does that mean you actually do?
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
There’s a more appropriate windmill on the next hill along. Mumms the word thoughIt seems the one near Reims was a promotional folly for the owner of the local Champagne house.Here’s an even stranger one (image copied from Man in Seat 61 website) at the summit if the Glacier Express rail route:Pic for the day. Pinot Meunier after full veraison, quickly gathering sugars and, er, dropping acid.Just been through the area around Reims and the harvest is almost over. Managed to grab a few bunches going past and they were the juiciest and sweetest grapes I’ve tasted.
At this time of year the red varietal parts of the vineyard look properly bacchanalian. The white grapes less so, for now.
Harvest in mid October.
Now on my way to Porto for a trip up the Douro valley just to check those too.
Also found this strange lighthouse in the middle of the fields there, hundreds of miles from the coast.
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It isn't a campaign against British tourists, it is a campaign against excessive drinking, and loud loutish behaviour, which just happens to be Brits on holiday.I don't think the Mallorcans campaigning against (British) tourists are the same Mallorcans as the Mallorcans lamenting their disappearance.Reminds one of the phrase: "They told us to eff off, so we did".What exactly did they expect would happen?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15070229/Mallorcas-war-British-tourists-backfired.html
"'The English don't come any more...we miss their money': How Mallorca's war on British tourists backfired"
Mallorca has decided to move more upmarket, and probably rightly so. It is a lovely island and I have enjoyed a number of holidays there myself over the years. Different resorts cater to different markets and often different nationalities. There is a definite market for cheap booze and all night partying, and while not my thing am happy that this goes on elsewhere. I understand why the local residents get tired of it.

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Varoufakis (no friend of the establishment or the status quo): Farage will be even worse than TrussHe didn't have the balls or the brains and he doesn't like anyone who does.
Re: About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Here’s an even stranger one (image copied from Man in Seat 61 website) at the summit if the Glacier Express rail route:Pic for the day. Pinot Meunier after full veraison, quickly gathering sugars and, er, dropping acid.Just been through the area around Reims and the harvest is almost over. Managed to grab a few bunches going past and they were the juiciest and sweetest grapes I’ve tasted.
At this time of year the red varietal parts of the vineyard look properly bacchanalian. The white grapes less so, for now.
Harvest in mid October.
Now on my way to Porto for a trip up the Douro valley just to check those too.
Also found this strange lighthouse in the middle of the fields there, hundreds of miles from the coast.


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Re: Oh, Angie, don’t you weep – politicalbetting.com
"Phase 3 better be a cracker," says one Labour insider