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Johnson’s leader ratings fall to Corbyn’s GE2019 levels – politicalbetting.com
Johnson’s leader ratings fall to Corbyn’s GE2019 levels – politicalbetting.com
The above Wikipedia tables show how the ratings collapse that Johnson has experienced is not that much different from how his foe at GE2019, then LAB leader Corbyn, was seen by voters. In fact Johnson’s lowest net rating is even worse than Corbyn’s
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Boris is worse than Corbyn
If food bank usage went up because people were more desperate, then why did payday loan usage go down in the very same year?
People like to pretend that the demand for free food in 2014 was spontaneous and came from nowhere, but the reality is people were desperate before then. Simply prior to then, the supply wasn't there to meet it so they were turning to 5000% APR predators instead.
Would be nice to expel the sleazy. disgusting, liar out of the Tory Party.
Remove the whip for starters for his defence of the bully Priti Pratel.
I can't see Boris following that path. If he loses a Vote of No Confidence he'll be out, unlike Corbyn. Nor will he lose not one but two General Elections.
Scientists have said they are investigating a sub-variant of Omicron known as BA.2.
In a tweet posted on Friday lunchtime, the UK Health Security Agency said BA.2 had been designated as a variant under investigation - though case numbers were "currently low".
The UKHSA, the government agency responsible for public health protection, said the original Omicron variant, known as BA.1, remained the dominant form of Covid in the UK.
Further analyses would be undertaken into the new variant, the UKHSA said.
Dr Meera Chand, incident director at the UKHSA, said: "It is the nature of viruses to evolve and mutate, so it's to be expected that we will continue to see new variants emerge as the pandemic goes on.
"Our continued genomic surveillance allows us to detect them and assess whether they are significant."
Ordered 66-7 of the old "D" model in the 1990s, delivered around 2004 aiui.
16 'mothballed' around 2015, which eventually means spares or withdrawn. Triggered I think to match what the US was doing to their fleet.
£1.8-2bn give or take spent on upgrading the other 50 to the latest model, with a 20 year lifespan from now.
PS Why is Meatloaf the same shape as Boris? I really can't adjudicate on the hairdos.
Even Starmer has not dared expel Corbyn despite the fact he lost the 2019 general election to Johnson by a landslide and only 40 Labour MPs ever voted for him
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre; c'est de la folie
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1484485508743012354?s=20
The housing supply is [barring construction/demolitions] relatively fixed. A house doesn't care whether its occupants have money or not, are asylum seekers or workers, or so on and so forth.
More people coming here than leaving means more houses are required whether that's for asylum seekers or immigrants. Asylum seekers are no more a negative for housing demand than any other immigrants are and its wrong for your to characterise them as such.
However anyway under free movement it is simply categorically not the case that people could only migrate here if they had the money to pay for their accommodation. We had no visa pre-screening for wealth or income or ability to pay for housing.
We had millions arrive from Eastern Europe with "the clothes on their back" who did not arrive with the cash to pay for British housing costs. But we did have housing benefit etc available, but yes just like with asylum seekers, that means in times people ending up in temporary accommodation. Especially since there was no glut of empty housing available for people to move into, like there was in parts of Germany.
*Apart from going to the Cumbrian holiday home of course.
Edit - Not in Barrow, but in barrows... Although it fits with Cumbria.
Surely tanks, whilst having a certain role, are going to become obsolete as not very flexible and inevitably weapons systems improve to defeat them. Whilst the same is true about Apaches their extra flexibility and the fact that you can whiz them in and out of battle zones without them being sitting targets for air attack makes them more useful?
I have no idea if it would be better to forget tanks and spend on more apaches but maybe someone here does?
I think the problem is with that last sentence, because none of the polls suggest Starmer’s socialist Party currently in line for an 80 seat majority?
The problem here is Boris, not party v party. For example despite both Boris collapse as highlighted and the Tories around 9 down now, how far ahead are Labour on managing the economy? Beyond Trust/lying voters don’t seem keen to pressure Boris on lack of delivery. And this ties in to where Boris passionately reeled off the lengthy list of successes of his first two years in office at PMQs, in a moment that seems to have turned things around for him.
Though Corbyn as the British Trump did share a pretence and delusion that he won an election that he really lost with the manbaby across the Pond. Boris has no such thing.
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1484501376508076033
If he is ousted he sees it as his Churchill after the Dardanelles campaign moment, a great man forced out by pygmies.
Then he will be back when the country needs him.
I kind of respected him for that.
No need to answer that question as I think we all know the answer...
MBTs are falling slightly out of favour and being replaced for some missions by various mobile precision fire systems by more progressive armed forces (USMC, IDF) but not by attack helicopters.
It could be that drones, and further improvements to missiles, make new ways of fighting possible that make Apaches relatively obsolete too. The 80s were a long time ago.
According to the OECD 16.1% of Germany's 2019 population was foreign-born, compared with 13.7% for the UK in 2018
https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm
As for including people who are in the process of making an asylum claim in the homeless figures, yes I think it is misleading. Those people are by definition in "temporary accommodation". It would be like including people in quarantine hotels in the homeless figures.
Whether Germany has a worse homeless problem than the UK I have no idea, I would guess it's probably not that dissimilar, depending on definitions.
Colombo?
Now the Mac references make sense.
World War 3s about to break out in Europe, what are you doing on the other side of the world? 😯
Will he fuck.
Loughborough Shelthorpe, Charnwood
Labour HOLD both seats
Labour: 50.0% (+15.9)
Tory: 22.1% (-0.9)
Ind: 10.6% (+10.6)
LibDem: 9.7% (+0.1)
Green: 7.7% (-6.9)
No UKIP (-13.4), British Democrat (-5.3)
Total votes: 1408
Changes with 2019
The Tories won one seat in this ward in 2015.
Drakeford also says face-covering rules in most public indoor places will remain in place.
They are getting in the MALE UAS game with a MQ-9B fleet jointly operated with Belgium but that's a few years off.
The indigenous UAS programs (LANCA, Vixen) are just at the speculative pointless job creation for local political advantage stage and may remain ever thus.
In shocking news, he wasn't a fan of masks either,
This doesn't mean to say they haven't been needed - you'll find that the families use the saved cash to heat their homes, or buy clothes for their kids. The food provided in the them is often of a high quality (particularly during the pandemic, where furloughed chefs have been cooking in church halls) which is great news for kids nutrition.
As I noted at the start of this thread, while most developed countries now suffer a fraction of the deaths in this wave despite enormous numbers of cases, the US deaths are basically as high as wave one, and still not seen Omicron deaths really kicking in yet.
I reckon Johnson is going to get it again and cark it handing a dramatic victory to paristonda.
That would be #classicboris
Over a million Romanians in the UK according to the settled status visa scheme. You think every single one of them arrived with enough money already in the bank saved up in Romania to pay for British housing costs and none of them came with just their shirt on their back?
If so you're being indefensible. And I say that as someone who's a big fan of immigration and welcomes the fact that many people arrived here with nothing but the clothes on their back and have worked hard since arriving here. But to deny it happened because it suits your agenda is just absurd.
I'd be perfectly happy to see restrictions on movement abolished and free movement restored, so long as that's twinned with restrictions on building abolished and the requirement for planning consent to be abolished too. No visa requirements, no planning consent requirements, should go hand-in-hand. But we've had one without the other and many people quite reasonably took advantage of that with nothing but their clothes on their back to start a new life in this country - and good luck to them too. Why would you pour scorn on them for doing so?
PB should pay me as a kind of human early warning system
Remember too Berlusconi won, lost, won, lost again several times in Italy
But you really think its "shite" that people have immigrated to the UK with no more (or not much more) than their clothes on their back and started a new life here? If so, you don't know very many people.
I'm so glad we don't have that here in the UK.
There was no visa pre-screening to check that the millions who came here had the money to pay for accommodation before they arrived.
That it is neither everyone nor no-one verifies what I was saying. Thank you for agreeing with me.
Churchill and the 6th RSF served in the trenches of Ploegsteert (“Plugstreet” as British tommies called it), part of the Belgian salient of Ypres, a city now known in Flemish as Ieper but fixed in tommy-talk as “Wipers.” As battalion commander he performed well, winning over dubious junior officers and enlisted men. He survived many close calls, and while on leave also engaged in politics. But he soon realized he had little prospect for promotion. In May 1916 the 6th, unable to replenish its losses, was amalgamated with another battalion. Thus Churchill had an opportunity to leave the army and honorably return to the political home front, where the Asquith government was under fire. (Churchill duly helped stoke the flames.)
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-trenches-peter-apps/
I did read somewhere why he went with the French helmet but for the life of me can't remember why!
BUT, they have something they can do which for a few minutes of their time will for the vast vast majority save them from getting serious ill, but in the name of whatever bullshit they believe, they won't get it.
If so am oot.
Trump got booed recently by a crowd of his own supporters for saying get vaccinated, and there’s still a large group of hippies and yoga moms who won’t get jabbed either.
Sorry, Friday innit.