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The markets edge back to Johnson but 2022 exit still odds on – politicalbetting.com
The markets edge back to Johnson but 2022 exit still odds on – politicalbetting.com
Latest from our Boris Johnson markets:To leave PM role in 2022 – 57% (was 79% a week ago)To go before April – 12% (was 45%)Tory leader at next General Election – 28% (was 16%)Tory MPs to trigger no-confidence vote this month – 30%Trade ?? https://t.co/rvm2Y4XIFf #PMQs pic.twitter.com/mSmlCUgHkV
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@AlastairMeeks
Doesn't look as if Jim has fixed it for Boris Johnson.
https://twitter.com/AlastairMeeks/status/1488861824384651267
I would go as far as to suggest that if he does receive a FPN, he may apologise and say that he is putting himself forward in his own voc to his conservative mps
At most he will make a meaningless blather of an apology and then just carry on because it has always worked for him in the past.
Birmingham Erdington - safe Labour even before Bozo blew any chance of the Tories winning up.
The other a safe Labour seat.
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So no problems for Boris in either (unless maybe UKIP won Southend West tomorrow, which is highly unlikely)
And how good will the Labour vote be?
One of the joys of reading old books is that you sometimes find things between the pages. This morning I turned a page of my 1940 copy of "The Crowthers of Bankdam" and discovered a newspaper cutting from 1952.
"But the amount of a fixed penalty notice increases with each subsequent one given. Here's what I think those figures would be:
🥳20.5.20 £100
🥳19.6.20 £200
🥳13.11.20 £800
🥳13.11.20 £1,600
🥳17.12.20 £3,200
🥳14.1.21 £6,400
Total: £12,300"
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1488808714547126273
ETA Finally Boris gets to understand "exponential."
Fesshole Roll of paper
@fesshole
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Little known fact but it costs only £1.50 to get a copy of the will of anyone who's died in the last 25 years from the http://gov.uk website. Whenever I'm bored I search for a dead celebrity's will and have a poke around their business like a nosey bastard
Just get me Lord Brownlow on the blower.
The Tories are in danger of losing their well earned reputation for ruthlessness. Come on boys it's time to act.
There is literally no solution that satisfies both 100%.
And of course Reform will probably run a candidate....
The police objections to this are mostly to do with fear of having someone at the top who doesn't agree that the first priority of the head of the Met is "protecting the Met". As in protecting against significant reform.
Might knock a few percentage points off the labour score?
But sometimes it is very, very necessary. When an organisation or institution gives the impression that it has reached the inevitable stage of protecting itself being the main priority, it's time for external forces to wade in.
The Times
@thetimes
Up-pointing red triangle JUST IN: Boris Johnson has been warned that more Tory MPs will put in letters of no confidence unless he retracts his claim that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions
But when one side says that biological facts are untrue and should be ignored and the other says you cannot ignore biological facts, there is only one choice to be made. Surely?
It's like arguing that there is no compromise acceptable to flat earthers and those who say that the earth is not flat and therefore nothing can be done. At some point, policies have to be based on facts.
Gender dysphoria is a fact. It needs treatment and much better and more easily available treatment than is currently the case. I strongly support this.
But a man claiming that he can simply become a woman just by saying so without any medical diagnosis and without having to do anything at all is not a fact. But a wish.
I may as well say that I can turn the wooden table I'm sitting at into gold and demand that the law accords with my feeling on this topic.
Indeed I wish it would because my energy bill has gone up.
So I had better go and earn some money to pay for it all.
Till later.
https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europes-consent-popups-are-unlawful/
My friend was shocked, as he known me for twenty years and I've only dropped the c-bomb once before.
When talking about Mark Reckless.
Boris is going nowhere.
I don't especially like compromise. In the case of NI, compromise meant paying sociopathic gangsters 6 figures a year to play politician. But on the upside, they aren't out smashing quite so many teenager kneecaps.
Mind you, NI has slipped from it's position as the best place in the world to get joint reconstructive surgery. All that practice meant the surgeons there were being recommended to all the top athletes.
*Someone else can copy-pasta the BlackAdder joke here.
David Davis conditions he placed on it were laughable.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10466995/New-study-says-lockdowns-reduced-COVID-mortality-2-percent.html
"Lockdowns, school closures and limiting gatherings only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2% at 'enormous economic and social costs', study finds
Meta-analysis of 24 studies found Covid lockdown restrictions caused just 0.2% reduction in virus deaths
Economists who carried out review said border closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality (-0.1%)
However, researchers found closing nonessential shops was most effective intervention, causing 10.6% fall"
In my call earlier, it'll be a race to the bottom, as it legitimises this.
I don't expect Starmer to rise to it, but some leftie outrider will.
Thatcher "responded by inviting the now-disgraced DJ to lunch at Chequers, spending 11 consecutive New Year’s Eves with him and overseeing his knighthood"
https://twitter.com/andrewspoooner/status/1488823436113854465
I wondered why it was so quiet here. I thought you had all decided to stop posting to wind me up.
The hotel barman has got so used to me he makes me a special snack of sliced cucumber and raw apple, spiced with pepper, salt and chili
It’s unexpectedly delicious
William Roache and Rolf Harris were beyond embarrassingly bad, its was total incompetence.
The first, even a cursory glance into the "evidence", found Roache never owned or had access to the house and car the accusers stated, while it could be proved being at the studio filming during the dates when they were supposed to happen. And on top of that, the police totally screwed up and allowed the partner of one woman to sit in on the interviews and to tell the tale for her, which obviously challenged in court as a no no.
And the Harris case, he nearly got away with it as the CPS hadn't provided any evidence he was at the event where it was claimed he abused a girl, so his legal representation continually said this was a super famous individual and you don't have a single piece of evidence to prove he was at this event. It was only a member of the public coming forward with evidence they found in the loft and the judge allowing it under special circumstances.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/scots-pop-guru-alan-mcgee-23546990
Surprise!
Shock!
Horror!
I was told of the following....
An ex-soldier was being prosecuted for stuff that was supposed to have happened in Africa. A former commander heard about it and asked some questions... So he suggested (being a posh) that the ex-solider talk to his (the posh's) family lawyers.
A barrister there demolished the case for the prosecution in a couple of hours. A junior even dug up video from CNN of the soldier in question being in Bosnia at the time of the alleged offence.
The original defense lawyer was angry. And within days, someone in the MOD reached out to threaten the former commanding officer - he was in the HAC - and demand he withdraw legal help....
Its the same with some of these studies about where people (think) they contracted COVID. You remember doing certain activities more than others and people generally don't suspect they might have caught it from a member of their household or a friend, often if they didn't have symptoms at the time they met them.
I'd be curious to know what sort of cases get reviewed by the DPP. Savile was quite high profile, so I'm slightly surprised that it didn't make its way to the top of the CPS.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m going back to Colombo, The only reason I’m leaving this sublime place in Galle is because the fricking Sri Lankans are having a national holiday so everywhere in Galle is full
But I have found this new gaff. Looks OK. 5 stars, £90 a night.
Sri Lanka is insanely cheap, as I may have menshed
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g293962-d597086-Reviews-Cinnamon_Grand_Colombo-Colombo_Western_Province.html
Wow that is a tough gig. Standing up in Parliament to pay tribute to you own husband after his death.
Never been a fan of Harriet Harman or her politics but feel for her and admire her courage today.
Stuff like this makes me appreciate the miracle of the internet. 200 years ago if I wanted to tell you all about the snack I was having I would have had to write you all individual letters with a goose quill, describing my snack with words, then put the sealed letters on a tea clipper bound for England and you’d only have learned about my snack maybe a year later as the letters slowly made their way across the island of Britain in carriages to your various hovels and mansions. Now I can just do this:
This is what the internet was FOR, all along
Tredinnick got me wondering about the NHS (treatments provided by a) homeophathy hospital, but happily that ended in 2018 - ridiculous that it went on so long, but at least it did end.
https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1488874770770939908?s=20&t=6MBxJxIhktjd6Kbof5JKlA
WTF was it? It deserves a book. Or a Netflix documentary, or something