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Time for budget bingo – will Sunak say these words/phrases? – politicalbetting.com
Time for budget bingo – will Sunak say these words/phrases? – politicalbetting.com
Welcome to the first Smarkets “Budget Bingo” betting created by Shadsy who used to be at Ladbrokes. This was one of his specialty bets which he has now created for his new employer which, of course, is a betting exchange.
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-the-speaker-cancel-the-budget-
He had a seat.
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have long cited social media toxicity as a factor in their decision to step back from royal life. And now, an analysis of more than 114,000 tweets about the couple has revealed a coordinated campaign of targeted harassment of Meghan on Twitter — and the 83 accounts responsible for approximately 70% of the negative and often hateful content.
On Tuesday, Twitter analytics service Bot Sentinel released a report examining Twitter activity related to the Sussexes and found that the majority of the hate and misinformation about the couple originated from a small group of accounts whose primary, if not sole, purpose appears to be to tweet negatively about them. Bot Sentinel’s analysis also revealed a level of sophistication and coordination between the accounts, who use their combined 187,631 followers to fuel a campaign of negativity against Harry and Meghan.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/bot-sentinel-meghan-markle-prince-harry-twitter?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
Charles has unfortunate links to regicides and adulterers, Philip is complicated by the fact nobody is sure whether the other King Philip counts in regnal numbers, and all the Arthurs died before they could take the throne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTYa3GY55g
All it will mean is that people will say “King Charles or whatever hes called”
Gary II?
Kai III ?
James VI and I has always amused me in the way that Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th US President.
Therefore he should call himself King Mohammed.
*In fact according to numbering conventions he would have to be James VIII, which really would be confusing.
Arthur would secure the BNP vote.
What's the only male* regnal name used from before 1603 where the numbering would be identical for England and Scotland?
*There is a female one as well but that's easier to guess.
But senior EU sources are clear that if Merkel does [wins the argument on appeasing Poland], @MinPres in conjunction with other Northern European member states, will vote AGAINST the Commission’s recommendation to disburse €bn to Warsaw
While the legal basis for the €bn disbursement decision is qualified majority voting—meaning the Hague alone would not have a veto—the political implications of such a move would be unprecedented
Senior Commission officials (rightly) worry it would effectively kill the prospect of a permanent Recovery Fund or “fiscal capacity” for Eurozone over medium term; it would also negatively impact Northern Europe’s willingness to substantively dilute EU’s fiscal rulebook.
https://twitter.com/Mij_Europe/status/1452966655970140161
The same way Hamilton won last Sunday when I said he had it in the bag, I hope.
Tonight's incoherent ramblings from the Stodgeverse
I noted one or two on here arguing there would be a backlash against "environmental" proposals or policies because such policies would hit the poor hardest and cost them the most - this primarily a reference to proposals to tax or challenge car usage.
To be honest, a lot of change affects the poorest the hardest and environmental/climate change is and will be no exception. The wealthy can move to higher ground, wealthier countries can protect their cities with stronger flood defences and wealthier countries can invest in more efficient means of transport to offset pollution.
Poorer countries and poorer individuals can't - climate change and its impact is a fact in many parts of the world for all its effects on us seem limited. The agenda of those who are unwilling or unable to recognise what is happening is clear - emphasise the cost impact on the poorest to create populist opposition while at the same time emphasising the need to preserve "our way of life".
There are of course challenges to the wealthier (not the wealthiest). These include foreign air travel and presumably cruises as cited by Joanna Lumley along with the call to eat less meat. As for the latter, I'm no supporter of taking meat out of the diet - I'd like the quality of the meat we eat to be as high as possible but of course, as we know, the poor can only afford what they can afford and the mass production of poor quality meat (often pumped full of water) is all they have.
I suppose if we're looking at air travel we shouldn't just be looking a my flight to Las Vegas as there's other forms of air travel - military and cargo for example. When I was a child in the Bronze Age (the third best age), we didn't have the likes of bananas and strawberries in the winter - we do now because they are flown in from Israel, the Canaries or wherever. Is the environmental cost of flying in these fruit out of season justifiable? It would obviously be bad news for the producers and their workers (back to the "poor" again) but where is the line?
Two of the worst ever monarchs of their respective countries, and in both cases their reign ended in governmental collapse and civil war. No Johns in either country since.
Onward to the next PB campaign......
Let's hope so.
I hear disquieting news on booster vaccination availability in some parts of the country - it seems half the over-50s have already had their booster vaccination. Fair enough - I'm in the other half and my 6 months isn't up until the end of next month so I will also hold my nerve.
I'm not too worried - I was much more concerned in January when cases were high and vaccination only just beginning.
With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Nailed it.
(DYOR etc etc)
The headline number is the reporting day number, which gives us Murder Tuesday, when they report deaths for about 3 days in one go.
EDIT: Please don't confuse iSage and Sage.
Mister Speaker - as the previous title-holder demonstrated - has a wide range of measures available. Whilst Holye - unlike Bercow - isn't likely to make up rules as they go along and freestyle, there are swathes of rules he can deploy to smash down the government.
It will be interesting to watch when this undoubtedly escalates into open warfare. The Leader of the House used to be the affable chap always quoting Erskine May to defend the rights of backbenchers against the government. How will he object to that very principle being slapped in his face...?
The reaction among some to the news tonight the Queen will not be attending the COP26 summit has been, well I can only describe it as fear. It was the same last week when the Queen missed a trip to Northern Ireland.
There is genuine anxiety out there as to what will happen when she dies and how and indeed if the world will change. Yes, she's the only monarch most of us have ever known and has been arguably the single unifying force through the vast changes which Britain has seen since 1952.
With her departure, the cord will be cut (so to speak) and we will be cast adrift into the future. It's quite clear there are elements who don't think much of Charles (or George VII as he will be titled) and worry about the future of the monarchy and indeed the country.
I'm more sanguine - the monarchy and the country will adapt and evolve as it always has. For some, it may be an uncomfortable evolution to a state less than desired but sometimes that happens.
He should stick to Charles. King Oliver 1st would be the way to annoy the Roundheads...
If we wants to catch the zeitgeist he can follow Sellars & Yeatman and dub himself Broody Mary.
I quite like that HRH appears on the list of top 20 longest serving monarchs 5 times.
Just to show he Ken.
People see "263 dead" and will assume that's the number who died yesterday.
Don't confuse perception and truth.
I know that what they did before Elizabeth, but as Stodge says, Elizabeth is all most of us have ever known.
(Following your logic, btw, he would be Charles IV not Charles III.)
It's been a long day...
What it doesn't tell us, is what is actually happening.
Hence day of death numbers.
As to perception, that is for iSage. Or is it phlogiston theory, that they are experts in?
And historically bloody important. How do you think the ordnance survey worked out the height of things?
Now, my recollection of 2008 was petrol reached 147.9p a litre just before the GFC but I might be getting confused with the oil price which I think was also up to that before Lehman Brothers fell.
Back to my dodgy memory and I also recall it was about $2 to the £ - I remember going to Las Vegas that year and living very well and buying three pairs of good shoes for the equivalent of £50 at an outlet store.
The point is, how much of the current rise in petrol prices is the result of the depreciation of sterling against the greenback - I think it's about $1.37 to the £ currently?
Guess I can start fancasting Damian Lewis as Emperor Shaddam IV now.