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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61188603
Of course nobody knew anything about while he was at the BBC....while anybody who was a student over the past 20 years has heard plenty of rumours of when he toured the SU scene.
Will be interesting to see how well Alliance will do and if they are capable of getting 2nd seats in various constituencies like East Antrim, Lagan Valley, Strangford and North Down (unlikely, I agree with the above prediction). I have revised down my predictions for Alliance somewhat but I still expect Sinn Fein to be the largest party.
I think the biggest unknown is the SDLP, they have strong candidates but are in danger of being squeezed out in constituencies like Lagan Valley where Alliance is doing well.
Also I wonder if the Greens can spring a surprise in East Belfast?
Also, love how the Beeb describes him as a “White DJ”.
There should be a law against it!!
They replaced him with another faker, Charlie Sloth, a bloke who lied about being from the projects and claimed he was a lot younger than he actually is to try and convince da kidz he was one of them.
The mayor of Mariupol says a third mass grave has been found near the city and that Russian forces are making locals work for "hours" in exchange for food and water. "Now there is not enough humanitarian aid in Mariupol so people are forced to do it," he said via Telegram.
This is great, the junior JS boot camp dev is the best of the lot though.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-candidate-suggests-opponents-independence-26799161
"An SNP election candidate has suggested that opponents of independence are "negative" and "more likely to suffer from degenerative brain diseases" as a result."
I think I'll leave it like that.
Russian state TV says it has discovered an "organisation of gays and lesbians" in a building in Mariupol where Ukrainian "nationalist battalions" had been based
It was apparently "funded by USAID" and "virtually under the patronage of the US President and Congress"
More realistic
Multiple Labour signs outside houses on the main road, plus a big sign in a farmer's field. Possibly the only farm in the country with a red rather than blue sign at the roadside.
We gained the seat last year, so hoping for a repeat performance.
*AKA 'Lunchtime'
"Russia’s information infrastructure is hugely different from the West. The Russian masses, especially outside the cities, are not all on the internet; they rely on state-controlled television for news. That pre-existing monopoly has been massively reinforced since the invasion of Ukraine, with all alternative news sources blocked for the overwhelming majority of Russians. This has been compounded by many of the younger, social media-savvy generation leaving the country.
What is left is a population depressingly similar to its grandparents, who crowded Red Square to cheer the Leader of All Progressive Humanity whenever Stalin appeared atop Lenin’s tomb to receive the adulation of his helots. True, many applauded out of fear, but many also from conviction: even today, Stalin remains revered by millions of Russians. The mythology of the Great Patriotic War combines all the central elements of the Russian political identity: love of a strong leader, a near-masochist willingness to endure the unendurable for the sake of the motherland, and imperial greatness resulting in domination over other nations.
Since coming to power, Vladimir Putin has aspired to tick all those boxes. His propaganda machine, now unchallenged by any alternative voice, has reduced his compatriots to a state of moronic credulity. By carefully feeding the paranoia that is a principal component of the Russian character, Putin has secured his people’s support for an adventure that can only have catastrophic consequences for them."
I mean, LOL, Iain Martin, sure, but he *sounds* as if he knows what he is talking about, he is saying exactly what Russian TV and all the Western commentators on Russian TV are saying, and your intuition as to how you might feel if you were Russian is a bit off the point.
I will be equally pleased with that result in 2024
She said she was glad Corbyn wasn’t PM right now. I agree with her.
It won’t be long either, before the wives and mothers of 20,000 dead soldiers realise their husbands and sons are not coming home, as well as the tens of thousands more who will come home with injuries and stories.
The version I heard was she was pleased Corbyn isn't Prime Minister.
Asked if Mr Corbyn would have made a bad prime minister, she said: “Yes, I’m pleased that he’s not prime minister, but I don’t like the prime minister we’ve got either, and that’s why I’m campaigning for Keir Starmer to be the next prime minister – a Labour prime minister.”
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/rachel-reeves-says-she-is-pleased-jeremy-corbyn-is-not-prime-minister-3667288
Sheffield Wednesday 1- 0 West Bromwich Albion.
And you expect those of us who worked our bollocks off for a Labour Government to vote for a front bench that wanted to lose
It seems lying is becoming a popular pursuit on PB. Sad to see.
No other interpretation is possible
This is where I see myself as different to the Corbyn fans, I wanted Corbyn to be PM at the time and I would happily come out to bat for him but I was always leftie/Labour first, Corbyn second.
You see this now where I want Keir Starmer to be PM - but BJO doesn't, he'd rather have a Tory. That's not Labour at all, he's not Labour and never has been.
Liverpool consider huge £70m crypto shirt sponsor deal
https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-consider-huge-70m-crypto-shirt-sponsor-deal-ornstein
See we are not all that different I prefer Boris over SKS
It is a distinction without difference.
You've never actually explained why you don't think Keir Starmer would be a good PM. A man who has ran a large organisation and overturned a 26 point deficit to be 8 points ahead.
I bet it is FTX. They are sponsoring loads of US sports teams.
If it happens FSG would be making a bigger mistake than when they signed up the European Super League.
Two can play at that game, see.
Try this, for example:
You support Boris' reelection in 2024. You are a rightwing populist Tory and not a socialist. No other interpretation is possible.
I have voted Lab in every GE since 1979 except 2005
Makes me much more Lab than you.
Have you ever even canvassed for Labour?
Anabobazina isn't Lab either L4%K fan
The thing I still can't get my head around, with all this government investigation into football etc, how are the illegal Chinese betting company sponsorships mainly owned by a man the FBI say is head of one of the major Triad organisations, and whose IT is being white labelled from Eastern European mafia run company, still being allowed.
My elderly folks were asking me the other day when I visited what with all the Chinese characters around the betting companies they had never heard of. I explained it and they were are you sure, do the clubs know, how is this allowed.
Even Johnson for all his utter uselessness worked that one out.
Do you mean Liz Kendall? She was a Labour MP last time I looked.
Prior to that they were both equally unsuited to being UK PM. Putin's invasion of Ukraine just ratcheted Corbyn's credibility down a notch, or ten.
He is a liar, a divisive factionalist with less personality than a piece of wood.
SF little changed, DUP and SDLP down
Tories failed to gain a majority in 2019. Other parties refuse to back Tories in a VONC, so Bozo out. However, other parties also make clear that they will not support Labour in a VONC if Jezza is PM, but will do so if there is a different Labour Leader, such as Starmer.
A few days of flapping about then...
Bozo goes to the place, and advises HM to ask Starmer to form a government.
The spectacle of a Corbynista referring to others as 'factionalists' is, well, a sight to behold.
The truth is that no modern politician has been more consistent or more prescient when it comes to Putin than Corbyn. Far from being pro-Putin, Corbyn warned against him when others didn’t.
Lots of pretendy independence supporters in the SNP at present and that is just the leadership gravy train mob.