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Cooper moves to third in the SKS successor betting – politicalbetting.com
Cooper moves to third in the SKS successor betting – politicalbetting.com
There has been a big shake-up in the next Labour leader betting following last night’s shadow cabinet changes. The new shadow Home secretary, Yvette Cooper is now third favourite behind Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, and the former MP Andy Burnham who is no longer an MP
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Those are some godawful photos.
Formidable Cooper got a stonking 71,928 votes showing how formidable she is.
I think a @Sunil_Prasannan or LibDem style bar chart is needed here.
Once again, you have stated that Burnham faced Corbyn TWICE for the Labour Leadership.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE
Burnham stood in 2010, where he came a poor fourth behind the Miliband Brothers and Ed Balls, and in 2015, where he came second behind Corbyn. In 2016, only Owen Smith challenged Corbyn.
distinguished himself on a popular TV variety showwas arguably one of the more sensible politicians Labour has ever had.So that is all in the plus column.
Balls failed economics is a large part of the reason that there was no money left and Labour were left so discredited when they left office.
It may still be too early for SKS’s team to articulate any vision or message beyond ‘some familiar faces who might be slightly more competent’ - but it’s risky not to do so, and it can’t be constructed in the closing yards.
https://www.ft.com/content/c719bcaf-eef3-4f90-a0b4-5503c63865bd
And surely there has to be more polices than that to deliver the big pledge this government is built on? What do we know about what’s ongoing and coming soon in terms of levelling up?
https://twitter.com/fleetstreetfox/status/1465691592916811778
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1465689465314168838
Its much more likely your kids that will bring it home and you won't wear a mask and hug them, not you going to watch a play for an hour.
That doesn't mean that we should seek it out. There are effective drugs such as proteases on the way, as well as 2nd generation vaccines. The prognosis gets better all the time.
With potentially fatal diseases, I find procrastination a great strategy.
- Beating Livingstone in Labour London, when in 2007 Livingstone was bet odds-on favourite at 1.5 and was being tipped as "value" at 1.5
- Against all the odds managed to defeat the Remain campaign and almost the entire establishment and win the Brexit referendum.
- Took over a decimated Conservative Party that polled in the single digits in the European Elections and was polling upto 10 points behind Corbyn's Labour Party in the opinion polls.
- Took over at a time when @TheScreamingEagles and others were adamant his election would result in a Corbyn Premiership.
- Managed to get a new trade deal agreed with Europe that everyone else said was impossible to get.
- Won an eighty seat majority at the General Election.
With all due respect, bitterness at the fact your side keeps losing to him seems to be clouding your judgement.(in a betting sense - although Cooper might be up there, depending on her odds... I can't see her as leader after 2015, but I've been wrong before)
And we're not only going to get COVID once, we're highly likely to all get it multiple times as it mutates and evades our immunity by some small degree every year. Where does it end? We're not going eliminate COVID.
My brother only managed to be a servant of Lord Melchiot. The one who carries a brush and shovel behind the horse. 😅
Balls only became Children's Secretary after Brown left the Treasury by which point the damage to the economic foundations of this country had already been inflicted.
Apart from cash, the other pillar for levelling up must be devolution to local government. This is now expected to be the focus of Gove’s white paper which is due soon.
However I predict that all he’ll do is give counties the opportunity to gain the same powers as the metros: ie, bugger all.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/30/cricket-toss-proposal-could-give-each-side-coin-equal-weight-the-spin
I like it a lot, not least as it increases the chance of foolish captains looking very foolish.
Livingstone was a double election winner who was being tipped as value at 1.5 and had a major lead in the polls in 2007 when the campaigning began.
Starmer isn't a patch on 2007 Livingstone.
The reason I was so keen to leave the EU was that before we didn’t have a choice whoever won the election - Cameron, Clegg and Miliband all agreed with the 48%
I think here we're talking a matter of weeks, so we can make an informed decision on how much to panic - or if we don't need to panic at all, for this particular variant.
There are many ways in which future mutations are likely to be less of a problem.
Nicola Sturgeon revealed the details as she told how officials are racing to isolate contacts and stop the spread of the new strain, which it’s feared may be more resistant to vaccines.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/8084006/omicron-scotland-nicola-sturgeon-update-cases-linked/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebarweb
The two half innings/one innings idea looks likely to create as many problems as it solves.
Was he the power behind the throne directing every move? We don't know.
NEW: media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-information-policy-update
I presume in theory then any tweeting videos of breaking news / incidents are now banned unless blurred. And certainly any image or video of people acting like total arseholes and even bigger memes.
The Financial Crisis just revealed what a foul mess of the economy Brown and Balls had made. The damage was inflicted pre-Crisis.
The Tube is disgusting as it is and I am sure it will reduce my chances of getting ill.
I call it courtesy, others call it submitting to facism or something
Of course G Brown deserves most of the blame. Balls is runner-up though.
Laughable to pretend people weren't saying it at the time either - his errors were obvious at the time and ever since, however much you try to play the niave, 'what did he do wrong' card.
Also, did you know there used to be a coin toss for which ball would be used in test matches in England? David Lloyd mentioned this in commentary recently and said that the winner of the toss got to choose between the Duke ball and the Readers ball. It sounded like it was a separate toss to the one to decide who bats first, but the sensible thing to have done with that is to give the winner of the toss on the morning the game the choice of whether to bat/bowl first or which ball to use (with the other captain getting to make the other choice).
Yvette Cooper is useless because she is married to a man who was responsible* for making the GFC worse.
*He was not responsible
Feeble stuff.
We should have gone into the crisis running a budget surplus rather than a deficit.
He should have listened to those who warned about the vandalism of removing Bank of England supervision of the financial sector.
I don't think too much should be read into her coming 3rd In 2015. There was a desire then for a break with New Labour and for fresh faces, but enough time now to have some distance and perspective or even nostalgia for New Labour.
SKS seems to be installing a competent team around himself, with no real threat to his position from them.
Have you ever considered that there might be a very good reason for that?