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Yet again the Oxford stranglehold on No.10 continues – politicalbetting.com
Yet again the Oxford stranglehold on No.10 continues – politicalbetting.com
So now we know that the next Conservative leader and Prime Minister will be either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak. They became the names that will be put to the party membership in a postal ballot the result of which we should get in early September.
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If Starmer wins the next general election Leeds University gets its first ever graduate as PM (albeit with Sir Keir also doing postgraduate at Oxford so Oxford still will share 50% of the glory).
After Mordaunt's elimination Reading missed its first ever chance to get a PM.
In terms of colleges, although both Oxford, Truss will be the first ever PM from Merton College and Sunak the first PM from Lincoln College. Balliol and Christ Church Oxford and Trinity Cambridge typically the grandest colleges providing the most PMs.
Rishi would also be the first Wykehamist PM since Addison in the early 19th century
Penny's wilderness years side hustle.
Let’s hope the new PM, no matter who, continues our wholehearted support for the Ukrainians.
Customers in seven states claimed the technology giant had sold the "butterfly" keyboards, on MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, from 2015 to 2019, knowing they had unresponsive and sticky keys that could be damaged by dust or debris.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62236778
Proper universities focus on winning Nobel prizes.
It also means subsidies for the above three areas because, once again, UK agribusinesses have been very, very lazy for the last 20 years and not invested properly to keep up with other countries.
While ballots will be sent out immediately, members will be able to vote both online or by post. Crucially, only the last ballot received by CCHQ will count...This means any member who votes early and then experiences buyer’s remorse will have the option to override it. This is no doubt a positive revelation for Sunak’s team. Every little helps…
https://order-order.com/2022/07/20/cchq-members-with-buyers-remorse-can-change-their-minds/
They should have just stuck to a paper postal ballot IMO.
Not Musolini and Franco... but not great!
Out of the two I would vote for Rishi if I had a vote because at least he's rational which is always a good starting point.
I hope so - this is the next Prime Minister.
Last time out, 80% of ballots were back at CCHQ within a week, most members not waiting for the public hustings.
Has to be said that the "Liz Truss as long term sleeper agent to destroy the Conservatives from within" plan was one of our most inspired.
There’s a general whiff that you are pulling it out of your arse.
Note too that UK farmers have much less propitious soil than most European farmers and also can’t get the scale attained by US and American competitors.
I honestly don’t know how efficient UK farmers again, but I tell you that US supermarkets are a negative revelation.
UK produce is high quality in my opinion.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with longer-range weapons.
Russia would now have to push Ukrainian forces further from the front line to ensure its own security, he explained.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62231936
As London is to Paddington
This advert is looking for a planning officer at £48-£58 per hour, 12 month contract (maternity cover).
This would be outside IR35, so it would yield about £100k company income per year.
This is in the north west of England, where the wage for a permanent member of staff would be about £25 - £35k per year.
https://jobs.planningresource.co.uk/job/363424/urgent-outside-ir35-planning-officer-and-senior-planning-officer-/
Which brings us back to business plans. The market price of things like a sheep carcass are so low as to make it not worth bothering with. There is no tech investment to make costs significantly lower, so either the sale price rises or there is no business.
What we need is a UK CAP. The French had the right idea, but implemented it for their own benefit to the detriment of everyone else. The problem for the UK is that we have this government, and their response to the end of EU subsidies is to not replace them with UK subsidies. So a bad position becomes impossible for so many of these producers.
Not many people seem to know this.
Anyone who wants to muddle with it for ideological reasons needs to show their working.
While you do that, and anyone who knows anything about the countryside has to desoil themselves, I will see if I can find a tractor driver to give you an opinion on derivatives or some other area of the financial world. After all, the world of finance is full of overpaid mummies' boys who mainly got there because they went to the right school but couldn't get in the right university. Or is that a generalisation would you say?
I'm enjoying those not normally sympathetic to Labour feeding us ideas for lines to take.
Parts of the UK are amongst the most fertile anywhere, there's just a limited amount of it
“With over 2,500 soil tests now performed by Yara, when you compare UK averages with the rest of the world, the UK does have very fertile soils – a result of good climate and good farming practice.”
https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/news/anglian-water-tests-reveal-uk-has-very-fertile-soil/
It's one of the reasons England was much coveted by invaders, despite the hassles of it being an island
Yet again you reveal your lack of knowledge of Britain, but that's perhaps unsurprising in someone not born in Britain, who doesn't live in Britain, who despises Britain, and who has no intention of returning to Britain
https://twitter.com/uklabour/status/1549337977704402954?s=21&t=EsDatPhf6r-X3XY7Y9_yZw
Don’t be a bigot.
And really, seek help. You are clearly grieving something.
Whilst I have supported Con during the time I've been on PB I've always said I might vote Labour one day (I voted Lab in 97 and Lib in 05)
Rish is a rational tax dodger. Liz is just mad. Out of the two I'd vote for Rish as he is sane, which is the starting point I suppose (Penny was the candidate I'd have preferred but Dacre and Con MPs got rid of her) but Election 24/25 will probably see me voting Labour whether it's Rish or Liz.
I'll be very surprised if I vote Con next time.
I will not ask you to butt out, as that seems to upset the mods
"The well drained but often thin soil formed on the chalk and
limestone plateaux of southern and eastern England and
the Paris Basin form some of the most extensively exploited
cereal growing areas of Europe and, until recently, produced
more grain than Canada"
https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/Soil_Atlas/Download/20.pdf
The important thing is I've posted enough vaguely worded and often contradictory tweets regarding the Tory leadership election in recent weeks that I'm bound to have at least one that Called It in any situation
other than Rehman Chishti winning, I confess I never covered for that eventuality
https://twitter.com/cjayanetti/status/1549791354213089282
Don't you live in Devon? The redlands of Devon are famously fertile
Why should I vote for them?
With exceptions, like Orkney and the Black Isle.
And I will respect the will of the mods. If they think you are allowed to comment on Britain despite - to my mind - showing remarkable, insufferable ignorance of it - then fair enough. Knock yourself out
I've been busy today so only been online since 3.55pm.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/tory-experte-tim-bale-ueber-boris-johnson-seine-memoiren-duerften-spektakulaer-werden-a-95af4e7d-194c-4182-9856-b9b2b68c61bf
What would the overheads be on the permanent member of staff?
Why is this outside IR35? It looks like a single customer who controls the person as an employee - tax avoidance by the client? Or has it changed?
Interesting that they think a normal planning officer is able to do TPOs.
Disclosure - I got out of contracting soon after the original IR35 f*ckup.
1. The political story
2. The emotional stuff (later)
Then a condensed version combining both. I can see him making £5-10m from these books alone, worldwide
Pretty likely if she goes in head first on tax cuts, no?
Leon will perhaps now pull-out the bit where I said that British soil was less propitious than European competitors, but more basically I just mean that they can grow quite a lot of produce in Europe that the UK cannot.
And when I say UK, I mean the whole country not just the Thames Valley, Kent and East Anglia.
Vol 1: Wiffle
Vol 2: Piffle
And even NZ is quite crap. Small market, and the supermarket industry is a duopoly.
Great climate for growing, veges are good, but trying to find really good quality meat is actually quite hard. Even finding good wine is hard.