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YouGov CON member’s poll has Truss extending lead – politicalbetting.com
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1.1 Liz Truss 91%
11 Rishi Sunak 9%
Next Conservative leader
1.09 Liz Truss 92%
11 Rishi Sunak 9%
I am going to now be known as LightweightMuppetBattery.
That is all.
For shame!
"What I need, really, what we all need, is the possibility of actually doing something: a pathway to the sort of concrete action that might actually make the world a better place. Keir Starmer, a wet-wipe, a fatberg, blocks this possibility ..."
"I hate him — as I would hate a malfunctioning printer that I have to use".
"his pedantic voice, which makes everything he says sound like an HR meeting you don't really need to be at."
https://twitter.com/mzaheer88/status/1554126814066638849?s=20&t=dAXAdzyl8NksKYDtU7szaQ
Superbly cruel. Admire the nasty prose, if nothing else
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Actually, it sort of hasn't: it demonstrates she has acute political judgement.
She killed the story in hours (cut her losses in gamblers parlance) when she realised it could damage her.
Theresa May would have let it run for days.
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Her original problem remains, though.
How to pay for her tax cuts. It’s either fantasy Reaganomics, or she has another stab at identifying significant cost savings. Or she bait-and-switches the membership once in power, either significantly scaling back her tax cuts “having looked at the books” / “because of different financial circumstances” - or - she has to cut pensions / nhs etc that the membership don’t expect to be cut.
She’s kicked the can down the road. Far enough to get her over the line?
We’ll see.
She has the same problem as Johnson, she doesn't know when to stop talking
EICIPM was a parody that clearly went over your head mate (i think)!!
"Having looked at the books" ain't gonna wash given that she's been in the cabinet all along. Perhaps she just wrote TL:DR
In the Labour movement, "working people" are in trade unions. Or are told they should join a union. In the real world, most working people aren't in a trade union and likely never have been.
There remains a lot of "that's not fair what do I get" self focus when it comes to wages and conditions. People see striking train company staff and don't think "solidarity", they think "greedy bastards"...
Release the hounds
The finest, noblest, most chateau-bottled hatred is always WITHIN political parties
(compared to headline VI)
Lab 42% (+4)
Con 17% (-17)
LD 13% (+2)
Ref 11% (+7)
Grn 7% (same)
SNP 6% (+2)
R&W; 31 July
Expressed as a percentage of each party’s headline VI:
Reform +175%
SNP +50%
LD +18%
Lab +11%
Grn same
Con -50%
Normally, I’d ignore DNV VI, but I believe it will be important next time around.
The opposition parties really need to do everything in their power to increase turnout.
Voting for the next Prime Minister has been delayed after GCHQ warned cyber hackers could change people’s ballots
Tory HQ forced to scrap plans to let members switch votes later in race over security fears. Means ballots still not sent out
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/02/tory-leadership-voting-delayed-gchq-hacking-warning/
Same reason why Momentum and the Corbyn cult couldn't understand (or admit) why the working class were deserting them.
I can see why even the tiny remaining cohort of sensible party members might go for Liz. She's completely bonkers, of course, but the alternative doesn't seem much more sane, and is terrible at politics to boot.
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1554360196935335936
Note: he is not calling on Russia to withdraw. He is explicitly calling on the west not to provide arms to Ukraine. This is what he is telling a foreign media outlet.
Can I give you one word of advice: under absolutely no circumstances have anything to eat before flying.
Suggesting if a portion of Tories continue to abstain, they are going to find them difficult to replace.
I could never quite answer that question. In retrospect I am tending to Evil, with a big dollop of Stupid
It could be done but over many years and you'd have to grease palms and stuff mouths to do it (mixing my metaphors a bit).
The leader of the SNP was convinced by the evidence Russia was behind the Salisbury attack whereas Corbyn wasn't.
Some other pollsters, notably Savanta ComRes, are so tardy with their tables I can’t be arsed looking them up. Consistently breach the BPC rules.
Not really mate. That was suggested in the coalition years under Cameron.
Just like with 10p for plastic bags it's a sensible and efficient way of ensuring GP slots aren't wasted without a reasonable excuse.
It's quite a spectacle. What happened to those boys to turn them into THAT?
It needs a good, probing, forensic biographer. Something happened in the Corbyn household in the 1950s-60s
I've never understood the obsession with class in this country.
Using my rough and ready calculator, were your parents professionals?
Did you go to a nice school?
Percentage of each party’s 2019 voters who are sticking with the same party next time round too:
SNP 85%
Lab 84%
Con 75%
LD 67%
R&W; 31 July
That LD 67% really ought to worry the Tories, because a whopping 24% of 2019 LD voters are intending to switch to Labour next time. If these voters are in the “right” constituencies then a larger than expected number of Con MPs will fall.
5% of 2019 Labour voters are reciprocating the favour.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/politics-betting-2378961
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/politics-betting-2378961
I went to a grammar school and am conflicted about this, as it served me well, but I understand the antipathy of many and the overall probably negative effect on wider society.
I also like the Grayson Perry question for helping define 'middle class': do you have a cafetiere? Obviously this is hardly a reliable indicator, but I think it does highlight that our class distinctions are a bundle of cultural signifiers.
So broadly speaking you're middle class, but there have been moves by your university bosses to reduce your autonomy and to proletarianise your occupation.
Salary levels have nothing to do with it. The question is one of relative power.
Of course, by becoming Labour leader, to keep his cover, that was the security agencies going way rogue and subverting the democratic system. He was equally unsuited to be LOTO in this scenario.
But, in reality, he was probably just what he appeared to be.
A bit like no-shows on airplanes, sometimes it is only the DNA*s that mean a clinic finish vaguely on time, because of overbooking.
* Did Not Attend
(Cafetières are not very good. You really need a quality coffee maker.)
Jack Monroe, the Bootstrap Cook, has been pretty much cancelled on Twitter
Scenes
If the letters go to the wrong address it is because the person has moved and not told the Hospital/Practice.
Most of our appointments are "Partial Booked" meaning someone is told when to expect an appointment, contacted a few weeks in advance, and a time booked either by phone, or online.
People often say they haven't had a letter, even we produce a copy!
I had 2 phone consultations which were worse than useless.
GP slots are rarely wasted. If a patient doesn't turn up, the GP isn't sat there twiddling their thumbs. They can see the next patient usually. There's plenty of paperwork to be done. They get a chance to pop to the loo!
Who misses appointments? Sunak said he'd be targeting people missing multiple appointments, not just occasional errors. One of the predictors of missing high numbers of appointments is poor mental health. We shouldn't be penalising those with poor mental health. Other reasons include being too ill (why should we be fining those people?) and childcare problems (you want a tax on being a parent?).
How are these fines administered? Chasing people for the money costs money. Nor is it good to set up antagonistic relationships between healthcare providers and patients.
If you introduce a fine, it can increase missed appointments. There was a study where a school introduced fines for people being late to collect their kids at the end of the day. Rates of late pick-up went up. For those who could afford it, it was worth paying the fine. Without fines, people felt guilty and didn't do it. Introduce a £10 fine for a missed GP appointment and some people will pay the fine as a reasonable cost of holding a possible appointment slot.
It's the usual fantasy nonsense from the Tory leadership contenders. There's some simple trick that will make public services better while saving money that, oddly, we didn't think to introduce 30 years ago.
My grandfather moved to this country and was catapulted into the middle classes because of his profession.
The class structure of this country is flexible.
It is the one thing I am really worried about. I have looped in a glider and was ok, but I am concerned about being sick. Also I have never been in a plane that has stalled so that experience is also scaring me.
https://tattle.life/tags/jack-monroe/
As a rule of thumb the more you understand about computer security the worse it all looks.