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Voodoo polling v proper polling (festive edition) – politicalbetting.com
Voodoo polling v proper polling (festive edition) – politicalbetting.com
A poll of over 4,200 GB News viewers says Die Hard is a Christmas film, with 66% of respondents voting in favour of the Bruce Willis film being a festive classic. pic.twitter.com/Mpv4CfiLxM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wRZCV7naE
Though he does have a point about Voodoo polls.
He really hates the trains and the users therein.
Train operators have been told to find ways to cut hundreds of millions of pounds from the railway’s operating costs next year, in a move that is likely to spell fewer services and worse stations for passengers.
The Department for Transport seeks to cut spending by 10% following Rishi Sunak’s autumn budget.
With the Treasury anxious to limit spending on rail, which increased massively during the pandemic, letters from the DfT’s managing director of passenger services, Peter Wilkinson, have been sent to individual operators setting out the swingeing cuts needed across the industry.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/05/back-bad-old-days-swingeing-rail-cuts-alarm-bells-ringing
Just the thing to fill carriages.
https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1467497890419548171
This new politics where every political position has to be refracted through the worldview of a moron in Hartlepool with nicotine stained knuckles is just wearying.
Die Hard writer settles Christmas movie debate with unique argument
It's the battle that rages every Christmas – is Die Hard really a Christmas movie?
While in the past most people haven't considered it a classic of the festive genre, the movie's writer has settled the debate once and for all, confirming it is indeed a Christmas classic.
Steven E de Souza gave us a handy checklist while appearing on the Script Apart podcast, comparing it to the "baseline" Christmas movie – 1954's White Christmas.
In his examination, he notes that Die Hard takes place entirely in the Christmas holidays, while only the first and final scenes of White Christmas are set during the holiday season. The entirety of Die Hard is also at a Christmas party, while only the end of its 1950s counterpart is.
Interestingly, there are four Christmas songs in Die Hard, compared to only two in White Christmas, and in Die Hard the party venue is threatened by terrorists, while the one in the earlier movie is threatened by foreclosure.
De Souza goes on to note there are broadcasters with hidden agendas in both movies – Dick Thornburg in Die Hard and Ed Harrison in White Christmas – while there are also German ringleaders, namely Hans Gruber and Adolf Hitler.
If you want to continue with drug criminalisation (a different question), then targeting the users with stiff penalties is the way to go.
And you have to go after the wealthy ones, not the poor ones. The wealthy drug users keep the dealers in business. Dealers are not daft. You know you can charge someone middle class more and that subsidises the lower end of the market.
Which means the poor suffer from leniency towards the rich. One of the key reasons why Manchester was such a drugs capital in the 1980s and 1990s was that it had a very large concentration of well-off students living in a very close proximity to Moss Side. They could leave when they finished their degrees but they left behind the problems.
So, nail the middle class users. Name and shame them. It will only take a few examples for the rest of them to realise the cost of doing drugs is too high as opposed to a badge of honour.
Too easy...
I assume Trump sort of gets this which is why he hasn't switched to an explicitly antivax position even though his base would love it.
246, not good that it is that big, but its starting to get to the point where we can make slightly meaningful predictions do we know how many where vaccinated, 2 or 1 jab? and or how many had been infected and recovered?
and do we have the number by reported or sample date?
The problem is that the fixes that work are politically impossible - for heroin you do need shooting galleries and that is not acceptable to local voters.
Reason I know this is I used to work on the main “crm” solution used by drug rehab agencies and police forces. 1 quick fix would be to standardise who out of local authorities \ police \ NHS are responsible for reducing addiction levels but this area is a complete mess of multiple agencies all with different reporting paths and different aims.
On Ed's point above, I do definitely have doubts on the usefulness of our current policy of criminalisation to start with. Drug use arrests have reduced slightly but not markedly over the decades, as we still pour in huge resources into a policy that's supporting a whole range of global criminal networks. I'm not sure that the wide availability and full legality of hard, rather than soft drugs, is an answer, but one thing I'm sure is that we do need a far more open mind towards what's empirically proven to work, in terms of therapeutic interventions, and more time spent considering, at very least, the results of historical processes like Prohibition.
On pursuing this policy if we persist with the criminality of all drugs, I have major doubts about that, too. I'm no fan of cocaine use as a social force - at all - but it's gone through many decades of evolution, well past being associated with status and a badge of honour ,to routine use among many professional groups, through to many other classes too. In that context one risks making a "show trials" example of people, which also happens to be very helpful for use in culture war politics, for very little actual social gain.
Case closed.
Show them that their actions have consequences. A few show trials of the rich and famous would be great.
Leave 52%
Remain 48%
Now he gets triggered by something that has 52% winning once again.
Note Sky aren't showing replays at the moment.
https://twitter.com/F1onetwothree/status/1467512084539846665
I suggested we should have a referendum on masks, but actually, this is more important.
My team's work Christmas meal/meet up has been cancelled, the overwhelming consensus is to have a watch along party on December the 20th.
The majority have chosen the film will be Die Hard.
Most of them will be eating Hawaiian pizzas as well.
(1) That doesn't cover the case of Scotland, NI and IIRC recently) Wales.
(2) That doesn't cover capital investment grants to specific projects. HS2 is an obvious example.
(3) That doesn't allow for the point that different Train Operating Companies have different budgets and agreements with DfT.
For all those reasons, differential funding can be and is applied to different areas. So one could reduce funding for London and increase it for the Adlestrop branch line, for instance. Or the converse. Indeed, it was the absurdly small funding to the NE as opposed to London commuters that exemplifies the issue -but also shows the poiint that differential funding does exist.
Almost the only harm that a drug like MDMA does to society comes from the fact that criminals profit from it, which is entirely because it is illegal. It's a pure Catch-22 situation: it should be illegal because it's harmful because it's illegal. Only a government dead from the neck up and utterly bereft of ideas would come up with something this dumb.
Steven E de Souza was writer of Die Hard, by the way!
It'd be great if the Treasury quit playing with train sets and got in touch with the real world.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#/media/File:UK_EU_referendum_polling.svg
There might be more fun than you can handle. The team comprises of 20 or so people, mostly lawyers, accountants, bankers, statisticians, and mathematicians.
That is more excitement than most people can handle.
Up north it will be car to factory / office / business park on the edge of town - that favours people driving cars.
Elsewhere it will be into a central location (City / Town) - that favours public transport.
The latter requires public transport for it to work sensible...
If a substance is bad for ones heath, as many are to a greater or lesser extent, the the person who suffers in the person who puts it in to there body, they also are the ones who enjoy whatever the intoxicant does. leaving that individual to 'price' in the risk/reward or cost/benefit. most of us on hear do it with beer, wine, coffee, refined sugar. Other people at different stages of there lives make calculations with other substances, that is up to them, only they fully understand the enjoyment they get, and only have to live with the damage to their body's.
The 'cost to society' is an entirely self inflicted by the chose to make things illegal, we chose to put people in prison, and then bemoan the cost to the taxpayer of the prisons, we take people driving licence away, so they lose there jobs, or give them criminal records and then are surprised when they cant get a new job. We create a black market and then are surprised that 'criminal gangs' form to operate in that market.
by drying to do 'good' and safe people from the affects of there own choses we have created something much much worse.
He hasn’t been back since he met Roger Jenkins
And I don't see how there is any actual votes in it.
Bedford Shooting : camera footage shows the moment a car screeches to a halt and a gunman jumps out opening fire with a handgun, a car then proceeds to attempt to run over the male before fleeing yesterday.
https://twitter.com/ScarcityStudios/status/1467517131562668038?s=20
The latter gets billions of taxes spent on it.
Strip car taxes down to the amount that gets invested in roads, and have trains entirely funded by passengers and taxation on those passengers, and then see how popular they both are.
If you are punishing someone send them to Stoke on Trent.
A US congressman has posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appears to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/05/republican-thomas-massie-condemned-for-christmas-guns-photo-congressman-michigan-school-shooting
Not by much, mind you.
The simple answer is that you can't do so. London is built around a central city with suburbs that people commute from via train. You can't just upend what has been built over 200 years overnight - and you simply can't the current number of cars into London during rush hour let alone add 500,000 more cars.
Likewise Manchester - I know people who drive to Bury and then catch the tram from there as it's just easier.
Personally, I think the case for railways going forward is that many people won't be able to afford a personal car once the internal combustion engine has gone.
Capacity that allows both local services and would allow a decent rail based freight services to be developed.
I've backed both Sainz and Leclerc to not be classified. They're 5 each, 5.25 with boost. For those who care of such things, I split one stake equally between them (and this, of course, won't count in the records as it isn't mentioned in a blog).
What has poor Luca Brecel done to deserve this? Kick 100 black cats at once? That's an outrageous stroke of luck for Zhao.
My problem with Boro is that I know the place and it really isn't that bad - there are way worse places to be.
Now Loftus....
But I suspect this is much more a cases having spent the last 19 months telling people what to do for there own good, its become a but of a habit, maybe even an addiction to control over other people lives.
It was written about the death of a member of the band, James Honeyman-Scott, who had died of a drug overdose in New York in the middle of June. The wintery references are to Chrissie Hynde's mental state, and are purely ironic given it is set in the middle of summer. A couple of Christmas references are specifically to it NOT being Christmas ("it felt LIKE Christmas time", "he'll be back at Christmas time") and "I can hear people singing, it must be Christmas time" is a nod to the funeral - just about the only time many people go to Church and join in singing, other than at Christmas.
Of course, that's all undercut by the fact it was released at Christmas, with a Christmassy video... but that's the music biz for you.
Privatise them properly, abolish all subsidies, and let the train companies charge whatever is commercially appropriate to operate.
If people don't want to pay a commercial rate to get into London on a train, they can invest elsewhere instead.
Its if you had to live in one of the "6 towns" is where I think actual "punishment" would be. I remember going to going to see a friend, who was left one of the traditional terrace houses, the sort of streets where the council sold loads of a £1. We went to see it, christ alive....
I do also wonder if other politicians are being targeted at the same time. Though I don't know enough about their habits to judge, and don't want to.