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Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
I am not liking the new look Vanilla. I can't see to read your posts, which of course could be advantageous for me. Nether can I see to write posts, which is advantageous to you.
Drinks all 'round!
Drinks all 'round!
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
Yes, apparently being 15 years old is no defence against being groomed into joining a terrorist organisation and having the citizenship of the country in which you were born removed.Its good that they are sober* enough to drive the MP home at 17.Am I right in thinking 16/17 year olds can have sex with MPs but cannot vote for them?But they can't buy them a drink. Or marry them.
*It is legal to buy them drinks, just not drink the drink themselves, unless cider accompanied by a meal etc.
There have always been different ages for different activities, so I find this a very poor argument against votes at 16.
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
…Where's Wally now?I remember as a child when Lebanon was on the news every day and I would hear the name “ Wally Jumblat” and found it highly amusing. Then I saw pictures of him and he looked like he couldn’t have been called anything but Wally Jumblatt with a face like that.Sweet holy Allah, they are not MuslimsThis is quite something. The ex-head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service is interviewed by CNN about “Israel, Syria and the Druze”It is an offshoot of the Ishmaili Muslim tradition though.
He makes the crucial point that the Druze are Muslims
https://x.com/hearnimator/status/1945790676131512454?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
Only problem, the Druze are not Muslims. How come I know that - and he doesn’t? He was the head of the SIS. His job is to know basic facts like this
We are absolutely screwed. We are led by idiots. In all regards
I’ve been to walid Jumblatt’s hq/museum in the Lebanon: a fascinating place (and a fine museum)
I’ve hung out with Druze people. They are incredibly hospitable (like many in the region) and they are absolutely adamant that they are not Muslim and Muslims agree with that
They are kind of Sui generis but maybe the best analogy is the Yazidi
News was much more fun when a child.
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Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
Did the 47% then get asked:
Why do 16 year olds travel to Gretna Green in Scotland to get married ?
Why do 16 year olds travel to Gretna Green in Scotland to get married ?
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
I had the idea that age shouldn’t be a factor when it comes to voting, and that a better way was to only allow those who had four GCSE’s at C or above (or whatever the equivalent is now, a number?). The downsides would be that it rules out those who are clever but not academically minded, and immigrants who didn’t go to school here , although going to night school or learning at home in order to get the vote might improve assimilationI think the main thing that does is skew the electorate much younger than now. Even in the late 80s, only about a third of school leavers left with 5 passes; now it's over 80%
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
A return to form for Piers Morgan. Racism at it's most fundamental. Worth watching the whole thing then reading the comments..........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwuyoiVNAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwuyoiVNAQ
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Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1946220407725384136
He has missed the wood for the trees here going down the AI rabbit hole. Girls have been outperforming boys at school, that leads to going to better unis / better courses e.g. medicine is a very hard course to get on, as is also clear from the example at the bottom, entry level at law firms is now dominated by women.
I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:
Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1946220407725384136
He has missed the wood for the trees here going down the AI rabbit hole. Girls have been outperforming boys at school, that leads to going to better unis / better courses e.g. medicine is a very hard course to get on, as is also clear from the example at the bottom, entry level at law firms is now dominated by women.
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
Cheshire to postpone having a mayor until 2027, by which time they are hoping Reform might have faded away a bit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0vxg3r24vo.amp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0vxg3r24vo.amp
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Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
I had the idea that age shouldn’t be a factor when it comes to voting, and that a better way was to only allow those who had four GCSE’s at C or above (or whatever the equivalent is now, a number?). The downsides would be that it rules out those who are clever but not academically minded, and immigrants who didn’t go to school here , although going to night school or learning at home in order to get the vote might improve assimilationSure. As long as the people who don't get to vote don't get to pay taxes.
Re: Angela Rayner is in touch with the public (sadly they are both wrong) – politicalbetting.com
It doesn't really matter if it's true or not. Suing allows Trump to play the corrupt legacy media card which his base loves. It'll probably never get to court and Murdoch and Trump will both be dead before any settlement needs to be paid.The WSJ's allegation - that there exists a "bawdy" 50th birthday letter from Trump to Epstein is likely true. No way would the WSJ print such a thing without evidence.Trump seems to have lost what little mind he still possessed.MAGA wants the Epstein files released. Trump does not. Trump has already split from his base in this regard. Ironically, MAGA wants the Epstein files released partly because Trump has over the past years fed them conspiracy theories about sex-trafficking by Clinton, Obama and Hillary.
Trump sues Murdoch and Wall Street Journal over Epstein article
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23g5xpggzmo
Even in the vanishingly unlikely event that he wins, the amount of dirty laundry that will be aired about him is going to be enormously embarrassing.
I suppose the question is whether his base will actually care. Very probably not given they're all even more delusional than he is, but if even just a few of them do that has alarming implications for the Republicans in the mid-terms.
