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From the LD Tiverton & Honiton by-election campaign – politicalbetting.com
From the LD Tiverton & Honiton by-election campaign – politicalbetting.com
The Liberal Democrats have just dropped this new campaign material they are using for the Tiverton & Honiton by-election pic.twitter.com/sVkRvfCljG
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All of these protestations are utterly meaningless unless they do something concrete about the problem.
Keir drank baby's blood.
It was such an extraordinary claim that I had to double check it - and behold, here is evidence from a reputable publication: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
We bemoan, often with fulsome justification, the deficiencies of this country, but the US is a really, really sick society. Properly warped.
Gonna be a great night on 23rd.
Would have been handy in Wythenshawe.
No way does this represent the views of middling folk.
They are fucking apoplectic about these parties whilst they missed funerals and weddings and grandkids birthdays.
Johnson remains. His party hasn't the guts to ditch the lying cad and the public increasingly loathe him and all his lies.
Game on for jan 2025.
Dr Michael Webberley, who spent 34 years working for the NHS, provided puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones via GenderGP, an online gender clinic which he ran with his GP wife Dr Helen Webberley.
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found there had been a 'catalogue of failings' in relation to his care of the seven patients between February 2017 and June 2019.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10854047/Doctor-struck-prescribing-sex-change-drugs-private-online-GenderGp-clinic.html
The Lib Dem leaflet is devastating and conservative mps are heading for wipeout
I am utterly ashamed at the pathetic way Boris was grovelling today and trashing honesty and integrity
It was humiliation
Except, of course, mid-term LibDem wins in by-elections.
Meanwhile, fair play to the Telegraph is spot on with Partygate phase 2 - the big cover up.
The question is, of course, whether all the 2019 Tory voters who profess to be enraged by his antics nevertheless find excuses to justify to themselves going out to vote Conservative again. I think that many of them will. The detoxification of the Labour brand is far from complete and, as I discussed in the previous thread, the Tories still have no shortage of cards to play.
The Government doesn't need to be loved to win another election. It just needs to be feared less than the Opposition by a sufficient number of those 2019 voters.
1) Ethnic suburb
2) Inner city tower block estate
3) Edge of conurbation giant council estate
4) Affluent commuter belt
5) Ancient cathedral city
6) Historic industrial town
7) Northern ex-urban motorway development
8) Isolated mining town
9) Arable farming district
10) Sectarian shithole
11) Old fishing port
12) Working class holiday town
13) Upland sheep farming district
And seven others.
“St Helens
Abergavenny
Matlock Spa
Blackgang Chine
Middlesbrough
Portscatho
Ashton-upon-Lyne
Appledore
Borth
Isle of Ely
Vatersay
Pittenweem
Grey Street
Gosport
Uttoxeter
Coventry
Chipping Camden
Port Sunlight
Old Radnor
Preston Bus Station”
Your list is just as good as mine, and I haven’t been to at least half of yours
This is an oddly inspiring task. A reminder that the UK, despite being relatively small, contains a truly intense variation in landscape, cityscape, culture, history. Amazing. We are citizens of an amazing country
Most people will glance at it and see a photo of Johnson on the piss. They will be reminded of his law breaking all over again. I doubt many will take in Dacre's message that there is nothing to see.
So what was all that stuff about bearing responsibility and feeling humbled by it he was also saying? Why would someone who had been vindicated feel any of that?
The early June polls were always going to be dire for the Tories, we were arguing on here late last night what caused the last big drop last autumn, the truth is it was a weight of things, fiscal, sleazy, political misjudgement. Grays report just adds a bit more to the Tory’s coming polling slump.
For a minority of people, especially those who lost relatives to Covid, this episode has probably already switched them off the Tories permanently. Most, however, will have basically forgotten about it in a couple of years' time.
All I saw was someone who took no real responsibility for any of it and blamed everyone else.
I was embarrassed and ashamed today and frankly cannot bear the sight of him
It's grim up North:
'Apologies to my constituents who may have wished me to be in the chamber today. But I couldn’t be in the same physical space as that man & the craven Tory MPs keeping him there. I have full confidence in the decency of the British people to correct that at the next election.'
https://twitter.com/BenPBradshaw/status/1529565272075542530?s=20&t=jCCG3RogeTYK8wfgoTem7g
Paddington Lizzie Line:
Tottenham Court Road:
Farringdon:
Liverpool Street:
Whitechapel:
Canary Wharf:
Custom House:
Woolwich:
Abbey Wood:
I actually voted for him in the London mayoralties (or perhaps, against Ken), and while I don’r regret those votes I do regret that they helped launch him into a national stage.
I would suggest a different list for any incoming Conservative MPs:
Balliol, Oxford
Eton
Windor
Balmoral
Fortnum & Mason's
Lords Cricket Ground
Number Eleven Downing Street
The 151 in Chelsea
Hampstead High Street
Goldman Sachs
Barnard Castle (but only if concerned about their eyesight)
Marshall Wace
Smith Square
There’s probably a technical term for the sense of embarrassment, humiliation, nausea and fury it induces.
This is the equivalent of going 35 in a 30 zone whilst a camera is there - meanwhile the more difficult to prosecute reckless driving later in the evening has been left alone.
Going after what's easy rather than what's egregious.
Speeding fines vs burglary prosecutions.
Infra dig these days, I’m afraid. Terribly spoiled by Russians and theatrical arrivistes.
I cannot recall a time in my 60 years assisting and voting for the party outside 97 and 01 feeling so angry and disillusioned
I hope the Lib Dems trounce them next month
Before the railways came to Bideford this part of Devon, especially Hartland, was very insular, its trading links being via the sea with South Wales for coal in, and grain out. Now the railway doesn’t even reach Bideford, terminating at Barnstaple.
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/local-council/cllr-adrian-cohen-stands-down-from-hampstead-town-8994986
The exteriors look amazing. Go, London
The timing is perfect
Drinking, fights, vomiting: all in a day's work says PM
Whether or not Boris is culpable, it talks to a complete collapse in discipline.
You'll be getting nothing like this.
#LevelingUpMyArse
She said in her letter that she is held accountable to the Scottish Parliament and pointed members of the Committee to her recent appearance before the Scottish Parliament Conveners' Committee on March 2.
However, as pointed out in the Commons' committee’s original invitation send on November 1, 2021, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has appeared before Westminster’s Welsh Affairs Committee twice so far during this Parliament.
In a statement to the press today the Scottish Affairs Committee said it was disappointed that the First Minister has declined the invitation and that it took so long to secure a reply to the invitation.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20164659.nicola-sturgeon-disappoints-mps-declining-invite/?ref=twtrec
What is it about scrutiny that frightens Nicola Sturgeon?
None of whom, I would guess, went to public school and Oxford.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1529588083922030594
But there's also the sense that, for Boris, it is all just a game. None of it's real. The great villanous leaders of the world gave off a sense that their evil meant something. A warped, cruel, ultimately wrong something, but a something nonetheless.
Whereas Johnson clearly couldn't give a stuff as long as he is the one sitting in the big chair. For him, it's all just a game, and we're just a toy.
Crossrail might be useful and usable but there seems little impressive from these stations.
Are people really that excited about escalators and purple logos ?
You and people like Simon Hart and Robert Buckland demean yourselves by defending this outrageous man. Denial upon denial when we have photoraphs.
Your Party have better quality personnel than Boris Johnson, he is an embarrassment to your party and our nation.
That's what the fucking fuss is all about.
If the Express thinks its ageing readership of royal fanatics and worried weather watchers thinks getting pissed to 4am whilst the Queen buries her husband is ok then do please carry on killing your sales.
The litigation that will be forthcoming in a few years from the activities of people like them and those who push their "services" will be quite something to behold.
John Cleese
@JohnCleese
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Alastair,
I think that the longer Boris lingers, the more damage he will do to the current Tory party
So...let's keep him there as long as we can
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1529518066148683777
Did I just say that out loud?
JJ has some acquaintances (friends/colleagues?) who are trans and sometimes reacts to criticism of trans activists (who as often as not happen to be men) leaping to the defence of trans people.
The quarrel is not with trans people, but with some of the extremist activists (often not trans themselves) who believe that gender trumps sex and rights should be based on gender, not sex. And some doctors who have behaved unprofessionally, putting questionable theory ahead of good medical practice.
These are children who are being experimented on - and in a way that will cause them great harm for the rest of their lives. They are being denied proper well-considered treatment, including therapy. Indeed the Labour Party wants to stop them getting therapy because that would amount - in their ignorance - to conversion therapy. Too much effort for them actually to read the Cass Interim Report I suppose
I feel strongly about this issue because a close family member was one of these children who, were it not for the care of their parents, would have ended up in the hands of these ghouls. But after proper care they are now happily gay.
Until some idiotic Stonewall person starts telling them that they should be having sex with people they're not sexually attracted to. Incidentally the person running that "cotton ceiling" seminar I mentioned earlier has since gone to work for Stonewall, which has its dibs on lots of companies paying for the privilege of being misled about the law by them and being given seminars about who people must be "persuaded" into having sex with.
These are not edge cases.
Our Prime Minister, whose vaccine programme saved thousands of lives, is as frightening as a man who caused 30 million deaths, because he had a couple of drinks jn his own house and then shaved the truth about it. Apparently.
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$150,000 broodmare might actually be male according to extraordinary lawsuit
A New York-bred stakes winner who sold for $150,000 at Keeneland as a broodmare prospect is actually a male, according to a lawsuit pending in Lexington, Kentucky.
Kept True went through the Keeneland January 2021 Horses of All Ages Sale, where she was purchased as a five-year-old broodmare prospect by Michelle and Albert Crawford's Crawford Farms near Lexington.
Over the course of the previous 27 months, Kept True compiled a record of five wins, two seconds, and two thirds from 14 starts and earnings of $323,659 running against females at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga.
Crawford Farms took possession of Kept True without having the horse examined by its own vet, only to apparently find later, via a series of examinations and tests, that Kept True is a mare in outward appearance only.
According to the complaint filed by Crawford's attorney, Kept True was examined by Crawford's Dr Jeremy Whitman, who reported "obvious abnormalities in the horse's reproductive organs", primarily that the horse had no ovaries.
A test report from Texas A&M University revealed a genetic condition that gives Kept True the "appearance of a female horse, but the chromosomes of a male horse".
https://www.racingpost.com/news/international/stakes-winner-sold-as-150000-broodmare-is-actually-male-lawsuit-alleges/558311
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61584546
Nice of the BBC to remind us where we live, and nice of Number 10 to brief the Chancellor's announcement this afternoon in order to knock Sue Gray off the headlines.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Sunderland - England
Ullapool - Scotland
Caithness - Scotland
Kilkeel - Norther Ireland
Manchester - England
Yeovil - England
Derby - England
Ipswich - England
Camborne - England
Kendal - England
It contains only one major conurbation, despite the fact that tens of millions of the UK's denizens live in major cities - such as London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, etc. And contains nowhere from Wales.
An admission that the Conservative & Unionist Party is an enemy of the democratically elected government of the Scottish people.
The problem for the Tories is not that they hate the Scottish National Party, but that they hate the Scottish nation.
Sinfin Moor, Derby. (high immigration area, poverty)
Chatsworth (Posh, tourism)
Castleton (tourism, with the Boris Johnson memorial cave above - the Devil's Arse)
Brimington (working-class deprivation, ex-mining area)
Rolls Royce, Sinfin (high-tech industry)
Sutton-on-the-Hill (lowland arable and livestock farming). My uncle and aunt will make them a nice cup of tea.
Earl Sterndale (upland farming)
Hayfield (northern ex-mill town)
Burton (industrial area, lots of beer for parties)
Buxton (tourism; dormitory town)
Derby University (higher education system)
Swarkestone Bridge (history, and to remind our Scottish friends how far they got
Litchurch Lane Works (heavy industry. Because, you know, railways...
I reckon I've captured a large proportion of lifestyles and occupations in that list. There are some things not covered, such as deep-sea fishing...
Sample Size: 1,115
Fieldwork: 18-23 May 2022
(+/- change from 18-22 November 2021)
Westminster voting intention
SNP 46% (-2)
Lab 22% (+4)
Con 19% (-1)
LD 6% (nc)
Grn 3% (nc)
Ref 1% (-1)
oth 2% (nc)
Holyrood voting intention - FPTP constituency vote
SNP 47% (-1)
Lab 23% (+4)
Con 18% (-3)
LD 7% (nc)
Grn 2% (nc)
oth 3% (nc)
Holyrood voting intention - List vote
SNP 39% (+1)
Lab 21% (+2)
Con 18% (-1)
Grn 10% (-1)
LD 8% (+1)
Alba 2% (+1)
Ref 1% (-1)
All for Unity 0 (-1)
UKIP 0 (-1)
oth 1% (nc)