I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
That’s not a pre-req.
Indeed, the Republic of Ireland isn't in the Commonwealth but Rwanda and Mozambique and Gabon and Togo are. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the latter 4 weren't
Gabon and Togo are NOT in the Commonwealth. Togo was occupied by Britain (jointly with France) 1914 to 1916.
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
“Starmer’s allies say he will decide when he returns from his holiday on 15 August whether to take disciplinary action against Lisa Nandy” for standing on a picketline yesterday reports @GuardianHeather
Fucking Numpty
There's a long interview with Nandy in this week's New Statesman.
Interestingly, she takes two pops at Lammy.
Does she think he will be facing her in a leadership election?
Interesting. I don't have the NS - could you precis what she has a pop at Lammy about?
Something about him not supporting BA staff strike and then something about eating a pie balm cake the wrong way.
Thanks - the latter's a killer.
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
That’s not a pre-req.
Indeed, the Republic of Ireland isn't in the Commonwealth but Rwanda and Mozambique and Gabon and Togo are. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the latter 4 weren't
Gabon and Togo are NOT in the Commonwealth. Togo was occupied by Britain (jointly with France) 1914 to 1916.
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
The Auschwitz Diet
Basically yes. There weren't many fat people in Auschwitz, were there? So the guys in Auschwitz "didn't put it all back on" after fasting, despite what dieticians say. They held on to their weight loss
“Starmer’s allies say he will decide when he returns from his holiday on 15 August whether to take disciplinary action against Lisa Nandy” for standing on a picketline yesterday reports @GuardianHeather
Fucking Numpty
There's a long interview with Nandy in this week's New Statesman.
Interestingly, she takes two pops at Lammy.
Does she think he will be facing her in a leadership election?
Interesting. I don't have the NS - could you precis what she has a pop at Lammy about?
Something about him not supporting BA staff strike and then something about eating a pie balm cake the wrong way.
Thanks - the latter's a killer.
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
Nandy is too pro Brexit for Remainers and too close to strikers for Starmer loyalists in Labour but was not Corbynite enough for the Labour left. Hence she got just 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership contest.
She is also a complete lightweight, even Rayner has gravitas and charisma compared to Nandy
Pea wet and scratchings! Incidentally. That photo is an abomination. It is clearly a steak and kidney. Meyt n' prayter is the only authentic one. They are always round. To fit in a barm cake. And piquantly peppery. The one in the world championship video is the real deal.
Biggest ever vacancy levels already in history of NHS now LT wants a pay cut
I thought Tories understood supply and demand!
Not as well as they think.
Breaking British Rail was (in part) about reducing the Power Of Militant Unions. One of the things that happened was that said unions got really good at playing one employer off against another.
Having a single national pay framework actually gives the employer an awful lot of power, as the only purchaser of doctors, teachers, nurses and so on.
TPA, Truss and their acolytes should be very careful what they wish for.
Pea wet and scratchings! Incidentally. That photo is an abomination. It is clearly a steak and kidney. Meyt n' prayter is the only authentic one. They are always round. And piquantly peppery.
“Starmer’s allies say he will decide when he returns from his holiday on 15 August whether to take disciplinary action against Lisa Nandy” for standing on a picketline yesterday reports @GuardianHeather
Fucking Numpty
There's a long interview with Nandy in this week's New Statesman.
Interestingly, she takes two pops at Lammy.
Does she think he will be facing her in a leadership election?
Interesting. I don't have the NS - could you precis what she has a pop at Lammy about?
Something about him not supporting BA staff strike and then something about eating a pie balm cake the wrong way.
Thanks - the latter's a killer.
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
Nandy is too pro Brexit for Remainers in Labour and was not Corbynite enough for the Labour left. Hence she got just 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership contest.
She is also a complete lightweight, even Rayner has gravitas and charisma compared to Nandy
Nandy is not pro-Brexit. Just like you, she accepted the result, having voted remain.
And we've already reserved one of your adjectives for Lightweight Liz.
What this shows us that the old Liz Truss is still very much there.
She has a habit of talking about things she doesn't understand, having to walk back what she has said. It does not inspire confidence that is competent or that she is a change from BoJo.
That announcement to cut pay in the Red Wall will have gone down there very badly.
The policy has been ditched, can everyone please stop lying about it now?
Was it ditched, or was it misrepresented? I'm confused, as if it was the latter then there would obviously be no reason to ditch it.
It was misrepresented and it was ditched. Misrepresented because people implied she wanted to cut nurses' pay, and ditched because she didn't want it to turn into a dementia tax moment.
She did want to cut nurses’ pay. She wanted new nurses in some regions to be paid less than they currently are.
That's not cutting anyone's pay though, is it. It's offering new entrants less.
Although I think we would do better if we went back to the idea of employing people as, effectively, nursing assistants, while they did their training.
I've been back to back since 9am so only found out about this hoo-ha on reading the threads and checking the news this evening.
Firstly, Truss killed it so quick it won't even dominate one news cycle to get noticed but, also, even if she hadn't it's not a bad idea, IMHO, and certainly wouldn't damage her with the selectorate.
Few firms in the private sector operate an identical pay policy nationwide. It's one reason why the public sector struggles to attract workers in London outside the central Whitehall civil service but crowd out the private sector in "the provinces".
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
Agreed, Kings Cross is the best place to live in London now especially when you add in the transport links (unless you are worth £5m+ when other areas may have more appeal).
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Sounds like one of those intermittent fasting diets but you've mixed up eating and fasting. It sounds dangerous to me. I am considering the 800 (Calories a day) for 8 weeks diets. That is basically 8 Soleros a day for 8 weeks. My fish and chips every day diet has stopped working.
Pea wet and scratchings! Incidentally. That photo is an abomination. It is clearly a steak and kidney. Meyt n' prayter is the only authentic one. They are always round. And piquantly peppery.
Please don't talk about food. I'm having a wobble
So tempted...
Stick at it, but long term consider the 5:2 version.
Pea wet and scratchings! Incidentally. That photo is an abomination. It is clearly a steak and kidney. Meyt n' prayter is the only authentic one. They are always round. And piquantly peppery.
Please don't talk about food. I'm having a wobble
Though not so wobbly as a week ago. Keep it up! Great effort.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
So what? Nor was Cameroon nor Mozambique nor Rwanda.
I had no idea they were in the Commonwealth. Well in that case, start drafting the letter to Ukraine...
Apparently I need the email addresses for five supporters to start a petition on the Parliament petition website - I was intending to start a petition asking HMG to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth.
If anyone is interested, please do consider sending me an email. My email address is "< first-name >j< last-name >@gmail.com" where my first name and last name were published with this guest slot some time ago.
“Starmer’s allies say he will decide when he returns from his holiday on 15 August whether to take disciplinary action against Lisa Nandy” for standing on a picketline yesterday reports @GuardianHeather
Fucking Numpty
There's a long interview with Nandy in this week's New Statesman.
Interestingly, she takes two pops at Lammy.
Does she think he will be facing her in a leadership election?
Interesting. I don't have the NS - could you precis what she has a pop at Lammy about?
Something about him not supporting BA staff strike and then something about eating a pie balm cake the wrong way.
Thanks - the latter's a killer.
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
Nandy is too pro Brexit for Remainers in Labour and was not Corbynite enough for the Labour left. Hence she got just 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership contest.
She is also a complete lightweight, even Rayner has gravitas and charisma compared to Nandy
Nandy is not pro-Brexit. Just like you, she accepted the result, having voted remain.
And we've already reserved one of your adjective for Lightweight Liz.
For Labour members she is too pro Brexit, hence she got an abysmal 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership election. Well behind Long Bailey as well as Starmer.
Truss has miles more gravitas than Nandy even if not much more charisma, same with Starmer compared to Nandy. Rayner and Lammy have miles more charisma than Nandy.
Streeting and Burnham both have much more gravitas and charisma than Nandy does
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
Agreed, Kings Cross is the best place to live in London now especially when you add in the transport links (unless you are worth £5m+ when other areas may have more appeal).
It is amazing. If I could be arsed to move within London that is maybe where I would go
Not great for bigger families tho (very few gardens), or for parking perhaps. But if you are rich and you want a pied a terre or simply love urban life: yes, it is now sensational
And the transport connexions are probably the best in the world. Literally
“Starmer’s allies say he will decide when he returns from his holiday on 15 August whether to take disciplinary action against Lisa Nandy” for standing on a picketline yesterday reports @GuardianHeather
Fucking Numpty
There's a long interview with Nandy in this week's New Statesman.
Interestingly, she takes two pops at Lammy.
Does she think he will be facing her in a leadership election?
Interesting. I don't have the NS - could you precis what she has a pop at Lammy about?
Something about him not supporting BA staff strike and then something about eating a pie balm cake the wrong way.
Thanks - the latter's a killer.
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
Nandy is too pro Brexit for Remainers in Labour and was not Corbynite enough for the Labour left. Hence she got just 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership contest.
She is also a complete lightweight, even Rayner has gravitas and charisma compared to Nandy
Nandy is not pro-Brexit. Just like you, she accepted the result, having voted remain.
And we've already reserved one of your adjective for Lightweight Liz.
For Labour members she is too pro Brexit, hence she got an abysmal 16% in the 2020 Labour leadership election. Well behind Long Bailey as well as Starmer.
Truss has miles more gravitas than Nandy even if not much more charisma, same with Starmer compared to Nandy. Rayner and Lammy have miles more charisma than Nandy.
Streeting and Burnham both have much more gravitas and charisma than Nandy does
Thanks for correcting me with the facts. Just for a minute, I though you were giving an opinion.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
That’s not a pre-req.
Indeed, the Republic of Ireland isn't in the Commonwealth but Rwanda and Mozambique and Gabon and Togo are. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the latter 4 weren't
Gabon and Togo are NOT in the Commonwealth. Togo was occupied by Britain (jointly with France) 1914 to 1916.
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
This is my experience of Tory members I know. They're all voting for Liz, some were ready to listen to Rishi but the tax u-turns have ended any campaign he had.
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Sounds like one of those intermittent fasting diets but you've mixed up eating and fasting. It sounds dangerous to me. I am considering the 800 (Calories a day) for 8 weeks diets. That is basically 8 Soleros a day for 8 weeks. My fish and chips every day diet has stopped working.
No drama - I've done exactly this before, and it worked. I shifted 20 pounds in 2 months and it stayed off for ten years (until the pandemic). As the time goes by I do get less harsh on myself, and fast less ruthlessly
The beauty of it is that the weight drops off quickly, so you are encouraged, and you stick at it. I'm also used to fasting so I can cope with the hunger pangs (normally) and I take a bit of salt and vitamins and the like to stay healthy
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
It also suggests that Sunak may be running out of time to claw himself back into the race. Just under half (45 per cent) of members questioned said they would vote as soon as they received their ballot paper this week, with a further 27 per cent saying they would vote “soon after” they received it.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
That’s not a pre-req.
Indeed, the Republic of Ireland isn't in the Commonwealth but Rwanda and Mozambique and Gabon and Togo are. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the latter 4 weren't
Gabon and Togo are NOT in the Commonwealth. Togo was occupied by Britain (jointly with France) 1914 to 1916.
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
When I lived in Camden, 1980s, the area you're talking about was largely Somers Town, wasn't it? A mix of white w/c and a growing Bangladeshi community at that time - a friendly place, albeit a bit run down. I guess that they have made way for the gentrification?
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
That’s not a pre-req.
Indeed, the Republic of Ireland isn't in the Commonwealth but Rwanda and Mozambique and Gabon and Togo are. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the latter 4 weren't
Gabon and Togo are NOT in the Commonwealth. Togo was occupied by Britain (jointly with France) 1914 to 1916.
What this shows us that the old Liz Truss is still very much there.
She has a habit of talking about things she doesn't understand, having to walk back what she has said. It does not inspire confidence that is competent or that she is a change from BoJo.
That announcement to cut pay in the Red Wall will have gone down there very badly.
The policy has been ditched, can everyone please stop lying about it now?
Was it ditched, or was it misrepresented? I'm confused, as if it was the latter then there would obviously be no reason to ditch it.
It was misrepresented and it was ditched. Misrepresented because people implied she wanted to cut nurses' pay, and ditched because she didn't want it to turn into a dementia tax moment.
She did want to cut nurses’ pay. She wanted new nurses in some regions to be paid less than they currently are.
That's not cutting anyone's pay though, is it. It's offering new entrants less.
Although I think we would do better if we went back to the idea of employing people as, effectively, nursing assistants, while they did their training.
I've been back to back since 9am so only found out about this hoo-ha on reading the threads and checking the news this evening.
Firstly, Truss killed it so quick it won't even dominate one news cycle to get noticed but, also, even if she hadn't it's not a bad idea, IMHO, and certainly wouldn't damage her with the selectorate.
Few firms in the private sector operate an identical pay policy nationwide. It's one reason why the public sector struggles to attract workers in London outside the central Whitehall civil service but crowd out the private sector in "the provinces".
Is that last part, that private sector firms do not have national pay policies, true? Do Tesco shelf-stackers get more in Southampton than Northampton? This BBC article on supermarket wages does not mention it, although London weighting is implied. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61021465
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
a) SKS sacks a front bencher for saying workers shouldn’t be given a real terms pay cut
b) LAB plummets in Polls
Nobody gives a fuck about a) say PB Tories but cant give a reason for b)
Here's one: the Conservatives are up in the polls simply because they've gotten about 20 times the media coverage Labour have in the past few weeks, due to the ongoing leadership election.
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Sounds very WOKE...
It sounds quite good, apart from the earing normally bit. It's going to be very hard to pack in the nutrition for optimal health into a day's 'normal' eating. You need to make sure in that day you have lots of eggs, a handsome allowance of healthy fats, fish, meat, fruit, veg - you might need some supplementation. Other than that, sounds OK and you should stop feeling hungry and miserable after doing it for a while.
Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP We’ve seen today exactly what Liz Truss thinks of public sector workers.
It’s clear her priority would be to slash their pay packets and send local economies backwards.
Glad to see that it seems Reeves and Starmer have agreed holiday arrangements. iirc he is off now until mid August so presumably she is doing the mid summer attack dog stuff for a couple of weeks.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
So what? Nor was Cameroon nor Mozambique nor Rwanda.
I had no idea they were in the Commonwealth. Well in that case, start drafting the letter to Ukraine...
Apparently I need the email addresses for five supporters to start a petition on the Parliament petition website - I was intending to start a petition asking HMG to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth.
If anyone is interested, please do consider sending me an email. My email address is "< first-name >j< last-name >@gmail.com" where my first name and last name were published with this guest slot some time ago.
Why would we, or indeed the Ukrainians, want Ukraine to join the Commonwealth? If we did, is it within HMG's gift anyway?
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Quite a few models of my acquaintance used to use a variation of 'the cabbage diet' where they'd just have cabbage soup (spiced, plain, herby) for the 'fasting' days. They claimed it worked wonders and kept the worst of the hunger pangs at bay. I imagine there are some fabulous Greek 'green soups' that would also fit the bill.
The SNP may not like Truss' statement but could to see our potential future PM standing firm against Sturgeon, something most Unionists will welcome.
He public sector comments may not have been well advised for the electorate as a whole, hence her row back but for party members concerned about public sector crowding out of the private sector in parts of the North it will not have gone down so badly
Not just the SNP. Quite a few people of other parties, including the "Conservative" one, have taken it very badly.
Ignoring a democratically elected First Minister is not a good practice to carry on from Mr Johnson.
You manage to find 1 ex Tory MSP who has not been at Holyrood for 6 years.
Ignoring Sturgeon's constant indyref2 shrieking is however an excellent move from a Tory PM, meanwhile actual Tory MSPs like Murdo Fraser are loving the new harder line from Truss
Murdo Fraser? He's as bad as Ms Truss for changing his mind. He wanted independence for the Scottish Tories. Now he's all in favour of unity.
Just bear in mind: he's a list MSP, not a constituency one. He will almost always get elected whatever happens under FPTP.
Look on the bright side, much of Murdo’s and his wee pals’ output is whining about Sturgeon, presumably after the Truss edict this will now cease.
Genuine LOL.
Those gobshites won’t manage to ignore the First Minister and her party for 5 minutes.
Biggest ever vacancy levels already in history of NHS now LT wants a pay cut
I thought Tories understood supply and demand!
Not as well as they think.
Breaking British Rail was (in part) about reducing the Power Of Militant Unions. One of the things that happened was that said unions got really good at playing one employer off against another.
Having a single national pay framework actually gives the employer an awful lot of power, as the only purchaser of doctors, teachers, nurses and so on.
TPA, Truss and their acolytes should be very careful what they wish for.
This is absolutely spot on: regional differences allow employees to shop around for the best wages.
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
When I lived in Camden, 1980s, the area you're talking about was largely Somers Town, wasn't it? A mix of white w/c and a growing Bangladeshi community at that time - a friendly place, albeit a bit run down. I guess that they have made way for the gentrification?
No, you've got the wrong bit. This isn't Somers Town at all. This is the derelict railyards and coal depots and shunting crap BEHIND King's X and St Pancras. Battlebridge Road. the gasholders! Seen in many movies as the ultimate in urban wastelands. Became a place for raves in disused warehouses in the late 80s. 67 acres of shite turned into a stunning new neighbourhood
I used to score heroin where there is now a Tom Dixon design outlet. No joke
It also suggests that Sunak may be running out of time to claw himself back into the race. Just under half (45 per cent) of members questioned said they would vote as soon as they received their ballot paper this week, with a further 27 per cent saying they would vote “soon after” they received it.
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Quite a few models of my acquaintance used to use a variation of 'the cabbage diet' where they'd just have cabbage soup (spiced, plain, herby) for the 'fasting' days. They claimed it worked wonders and kept the worst of the hunger pangs at bay. I imagine there are some fabulous Greek 'green soups' that would also fit the bill.
When I get a real wobble I do the same! I either have a bowl of hot bone broth (yes @HYUFD) or miso soup. Gives some minerals and vits and flavour with almost no calories
12:1 for the pre-race favourite, only two candidates remaining, not a single vote been cast yet (and might not be for a couple of weeks), current odds-on favourite has a history of being gaffe-prone and there aren't any reliable polls of the electorate available?
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Quite a few models of my acquaintance used to use a variation of 'the cabbage diet' where they'd just have cabbage soup (spiced, plain, herby) for the 'fasting' days. They claimed it worked wonders and kept the worst of the hunger pangs at bay. I imagine there are some fabulous Greek 'green soups' that would also fit the bill.
When I get a real wobble I do the same! I either have a bowl of hot bone broth (yes @HYUFD) or miso soup. Gives some minerals and vits and flavour with almost no calories
All this Taiwan tall takes me back to the start of the year and the absolutely bananananananas set of threads we had where people were convinced China could take Taiwan in a stealth lightning invasion.
12:1 for the pre-race favourite, only two candidates remaining, not a single vote been cast yet (and might not be for a couple of weeks), current odds-on favourite has a history of being gaffe-prone and there aren't any reliable polls of the electorate available?
Yes please.
I'm going back in at 12/1
Truss has shown today she is one massive gaffe from implosion. That has to be worth a punt.
Talking of diets, I took my day's exercise today by walking to King's Cross from Camden Market, to see the latest iteration of the King's X development
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
Good luck with the diet. I have the added incentive that the Pitts Special flight I have booked has a weight limit and currently I am 3 kg over it.
The question is who is buying them? Who is making that much money?
Lord knows. I read a couple of articles saying it was wealthy Londoners downsizing from suburban houses to urban flats. There must also be a lot of super affluent students, with St Martin's, UAL, and UCL all close or very close
And some buy to let? But they all seem let. It's a busy area now and the new flats are clearly occupied (balconies with chairs and bikes etc)
I spend my days reading restaurant reviews and fish recipes, and drooling from hunger, but it works
What is this miracle diet and why can you not eat fish?
It's a very clever diet where you eat ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
For about 3 days, then you eat normally for 1 day (don't binge), then another 3 days with NOTHING
Brutal, but it works
Quite a few models of my acquaintance used to use a variation of 'the cabbage diet' where they'd just have cabbage soup (spiced, plain, herby) for the 'fasting' days. They claimed it worked wonders and kept the worst of the hunger pangs at bay. I imagine there are some fabulous Greek 'green soups' that would also fit the bill.
When I get a real wobble I do the same! I either have a bowl of hot bone broth (yes @HYUFD) or miso soup. Gives some minerals and vits and flavour with almost no calories
A couple of years ago or so I did the diabetic 800 cal diet for ten days or so. Worked as far as decent weight reduction was concerned, but, as they warned, there is an issue with the old bowels.
a) SKS sacks a front bencher for saying workers shouldn’t be given a real terms pay cut
b) LAB plummets in Polls
Nobody gives a fuck about a) say PB Tories but cant give a reason for b)
You are living in a fantasy world.
Starmer is underwhelming but the Tarry sacking isn't what has (likely) reduced the deficit.
As Mike said a day or two ago the media have been wall to wall Truss, and dissing Sunak like he was some Labour politician. Which is what will explain a Conservative lead over the next weeks. Then the energy bills drop, so you tell me what happens next?
Starmer sacking Tarry (which I suspect would have little traction anyway, one way or the other) barely made the TV bulletins. For the most part it was behind the Lionesses, Truss, the strikes, holiday chaos, Johnson's party at Bamford's gaff, Ukraine, Nancy Pelosi's proposed trip to Taiwan and just before the cat stuck up a tree story. No one noticed!
12:1 for the pre-race favourite, only two candidates remaining, not a single vote been cast yet (and might not be for a couple of weeks), current odds-on favourite has a history of being gaffe-prone and there aren't any reliable polls of the electorate available?
Yes please.
I'm going back in at 12/1
Truss has shown today she is one massive gaffe from implosion. That has to be worth a punt.
Or having got this scare behind her she won’t risk another and she should be a stronger favourite.
I don't care at all about leadership election promises
"Honest" Keir has proved that they're worth less than manifesto promises
Right now I care most about steadfast support for Ukraine
Truss has been resolutely anti-Russian
Sunak has allegedly been weak in his pro-Ukrainian stance
"Honest" Keir twice campaigned hard for Ukraine to not exist
Watching the Commonwealth games I think it would be nice to invite Ukraine to join the Commonwealth when the dust has settled.
Good idea. Why wait?
On a technical point, Ukraine was never colonised by the British, therefore...
Sevastopol was occupied by the Brits in 1855.
AND French. Be fair.
Also one or two other members of the alliance, but I can't remember the details of timing and whether those were actually represented by units on the ground.
Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60 per cent of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
It still looks like there is a Yougov house effect that favours Liz Truss. Of course, Yougov could be right and the others wrongly lean towards Rishi Sunak.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/pie-barm-twitter-wigan-kebab
https://thecommonwealth.org/countries/gabon#:~:text=Gabon joined the Commonwealth in,be available in due course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-140_ATACMS
300km range, you fire it from a HIMARS.
I know I've mentioned this before, but it is astonishing, and just gets better. They've now extended it north with new gardens, boulevards, pavilions, a dozen new restaurants, new bars and shops, playgrounds, sculpture parks, schools, industrial sheds turned into mighty echoing art galleries where hipster students play table tennis
If you like dense, cultured urban life (and lots of restaurants) King's Cross might be the most desirable part of London to live in, right now. Which, for anyone that knew King's Cross in the 80s, is mind-boggling. I'm not sure there is anything like it anywhere else in the world
So we might have wrecked half of the UK's towns from 1945-2010, but maybe we are learning. Slowly
Nandy can be pretty funny. She's seriously underestimated by many Tories on here - just like some of us underestimated Truss's appeal.
Gabon, as far as I know never saw British occupation, but Togo was occupied (as I said, jointly with France) 1914-1916. Until 1914 it was German.
YouGov, the only pollster to correctly weigh geographical sub-samples:
London
Lab 51%
Con 25%
LD 17%
Grn 6%
Ref 1%
Rest of South
Con 41%
Lab 31%
LD 15%
Grn 7%
Ref 4%
Midlands and Wales
Lab 35%
Con 34%
LD 9%
Grn 8%
Ref 6%
PC 5%
North
Lab 41%
Con 34%
LD 14%
Grn 7%
Ref 2%
Scotland
SNP 48%
Lab 19%
Con 18%
Grn 8%
LD 5%
(YouGov / The Times Survey;
Sample Size: 1797; Fieldwork: 27th - 28th July 2022)
Pro-independence parties 56%
Unionist parties 42%
Looking good. Despite the entire British media being all “Liz, Liz, we love you Liz!”
twitter.com/MarkRid89403375/status/1554526393769365506
She is also a complete lightweight, even Rayner has gravitas and charisma compared to Nandy
"Whenever the general election comes, Labour looks likely to win"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/02/labour-power-keir-starmer
Incidentally. That photo is an abomination. It is clearly a steak and kidney.
Meyt n' prayter is the only authentic one. They are always round. To fit in a barm cake. And piquantly peppery.
The one in the world championship video is the real deal.
Breaking British Rail was (in part) about reducing the Power Of Militant Unions. One of the things that happened was that said unions got really good at playing one employer off against another.
Having a single national pay framework actually gives the employer an awful lot of power, as the only purchaser of doctors, teachers, nurses and so on.
TPA, Truss and their acolytes should be very careful what they wish for.
They’re almost obsolete to the US, but still better than anything currently in theatre, and the US Army has a couple of thousand of them lying around.
And we've already reserved one of your adjectives for Lightweight Liz.
Firstly, Truss killed it so quick it won't even dominate one news cycle to get noticed but, also, even if she hadn't it's not a bad idea, IMHO, and certainly wouldn't damage her with the selectorate.
Few firms in the private sector operate an identical pay policy nationwide. It's one reason why the public sector struggles to attract workers in London outside the central Whitehall civil service but crowd out the private sector in "the provinces".
Stick at it, but long term consider the 5:2 version.
Keep it up! Great effort.
If anyone is interested, please do consider sending me an email. My email address is "< first-name >j< last-name >@gmail.com" where my first name and last name were published with this guest slot some time ago.
Truss has miles more gravitas than Nandy even if not much more charisma, same with Starmer compared to Nandy. Rayner and Lammy have miles more charisma than Nandy.
Streeting and Burnham both have much more gravitas and charisma than Nandy does
PT is Dan Hodges in drag
A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Conservative members have now made up their minds how they will vote ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
Just 26 per cent say they will support Sunak, compared with 60 per cent for Truss. The rest are undecided or say they will not vote.
The poll, carried out over the past five days, suggests a significant widening of Truss’s lead. The last YouGov survey, carried out in the wake of Penny Mordaunt’s elimination from the race, had support for Truss on 49 per cent compared with 31 per cent for Sunak, with 15 per cent undecided.
It shows that Truss is now ahead of Sunak among all age groups, across different parts of the country and men and women. The only category where he beats Truss is among Tory Remain supporters.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-extends-lead-over-sunak-in-tory-leadership-race-3pksqstpp
Not great for bigger families tho (very few gardens), or for parking perhaps. But if you are rich and you want a pied a terre or simply love urban life: yes, it is now sensational
And the transport connexions are probably the best in the world. Literally
Noticed that we don't have any with our M270s, according to Wikipedia.
The beauty of it is that the weight drops off quickly, so you are encouraged, and you stick at it. I'm also used to fasting so I can cope with the hunger pangs (normally) and I take a bit of salt and vitamins and the like to stay healthy
It also suggests that Sunak may be running out of time to claw himself back into the race. Just under half (45 per cent) of members questioned said they would vote as soon as they received their ballot paper this week, with a further 27 per cent saying they would vote “soon after” they received it.
Truss %
Under 60% -93£
60-64.99% +£9.50
65-69.99% +£168
70%+ +£658
b) LAB plummets in Polls
Nobody gives a fuck about a) say PB Tories but cant give a reason for b)
Rachel Reeves
@RachelReevesMP
We’ve seen today exactly what Liz Truss thinks of public sector workers.
It’s clear her priority would be to slash their pay packets and send local economies backwards.
Wake us up when there's another
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61021465
****Mythical modesty klaxon****
Maybe not. 1 bed flats in King's X are £1m for OK ones:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111821045#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media7&ref=photoCollage
and £1.3m for nice one bed flats in the Gasholders:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125626310#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is King's Cross, not Mayfair. Insane
The Opinium poll on old methodology would have Labour around 8 ahead.
Yougov; the gold standard?
And there's a hell of a lot to attack.
Those gobshites won’t manage to ignore the First Minister and her party for 5 minutes.
The mad one 1/11
Sunak out at 12!!!!
Yes, there’s also a lot of new capability on drone and cruise missiles.
I used to score heroin where there is now a Tom Dixon design outlet. No joke
Betfair next prime minister
1.09 Liz Truss 92%
11.5 Rishi Sunak 9%
Next Conservative leader
1.07 Liz Truss 93%
12.5 Rishi Sunak 8%
I’m all out on that market for now. My main bet is the same, but at better odds - £37 @ 19/1
Yes please.
God knows who’s up for a £1m one-bed these days? The few lucky Russkis who got their money out in time?
Truss has shown today she is one massive gaffe from implosion. That has to be worth a punt.
And some buy to let? But they all seem let. It's a busy area now and the new flats are clearly occupied (balconies with chairs and bikes etc)
The death of London was much exaggerated
Starmer is underwhelming but the Tarry sacking isn't what has (likely) reduced the deficit.
As Mike said a day or two ago the media have been wall to wall Truss, and dissing Sunak like he was some Labour politician. Which is what will explain a Conservative lead over the next weeks. Then the energy bills drop, so you tell me what happens next?
Starmer sacking Tarry (which I suspect would have little traction anyway, one way or the other) barely made the TV bulletins. For the most part it was behind the Lionesses, Truss, the strikes, holiday chaos, Johnson's party at Bamford's gaff, Ukraine, Nancy Pelosi's proposed trip to Taiwan and just before the cat stuck up a tree story. No one noticed!
YouGov: 1%
Opinium: 3%
Redfield: 4%
Techne: 7%
Deltapoll: 11%
ComRes: 13%
Ipsos MORI: 14%
Problem for Lab the 1.4.and 7 have most recent FW
Also one or two other members of the alliance, but I can't remember the details of timing and whether those were actually represented by units on the ground.