Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I think it's my favourite UK circuit for car trackdays but they rarely do them on the full GP circuit. I've seen loads of people bin their shit at Sheene. That unsighted uphill approach just draws you in, upsets brake balance and the tightening radius finishes the job off. It's very different from the modern Tilkedromes.
Have you tried Knockhill? Hilariously good fun including full air but the barriers are a bit further away.
The Scottish Nationalists like to make a lot of the voting intention differences between England and Scotland to argue that Scotland is politically distinct from England, that therefore there isn't a unified political demos, and so Scotland needs to be independent.
The issue with the age-divide in voting intention is that this divide is so large, that those aged 65+ are clearly inhabiting a different political world to the rest of the country. Even after all that has happened over the last year, they would still vote for a Tory government over a Labour one. It suggests that Britain (or England & Wales if you prefer), is deeply divided among itself, arguably we no longer have a unified political demos, and this internal division will make tackling our problems much more difficult. Most likely the country is not even united over what the problems are.
A certain amount of division and dissent is healthy, and too much consensus is a bad thing, but there has to be some common ground to make progress. Until this divide is reduced I think it is going to act as a barrier to reform, whether from the left or the right.
So the weirdly capitalised 'Scottish Nationalists' are right then?
I make no judgement in that comment whether the ScotNats are right (the capitalisation seems fairly standard to me), but I'm playing with the idea of it being a framework with which to think about the political divisions in Britain today.
Arguably the age division is the source of the divide in Scotland too, just that it has expressed itself slightly differently to England. The latest YouGov had the SNP lead Labour 45-31 overall, but behind 34-36 among over-65s.
Resolving the age divide across Britain might resolve the question of Scottish independence, one way or another, much more clearly than the current stalemate.
Nationalist is not a proper noun therefore you are wrong to capitalise it.
It is part of their party
name, so it is as correct to capitalise it as it is to capitalise Labour or Conservative, or Labourite,
etc.
Nope, it’s the Scottish National Party and you were talking about people who supported independence for Scotland, not the party - at least that was the clear implication from your post
You wouldn't say "Scottish Nationals" though would you? You say "Scottish Nationalists".
I don't see why this is such a bone of contention.
Because it has F all to do with the political party and you made a right tit of yourself by not even knowing the party name , getting it totally wrong and then conflating it with Independence supporters.
I know perfectly well what the name of the SNP is.
To be fair, I didn't. I thought it was 'Scottish Nationalist' because that's what everyone calls them, even though it's apparently not their official name.
I think it's irrelevant though. People call Plaid Cymru 'Nationalists' and that isn't even remotely part of their name (or for the matter of that their policy offering)!
Stop digging Australia beckons
You'll roo the day you said that.
Edit - incidentally, on a point of punctuation, there should be a comma between 'digging' and 'Australia.'
Possumly
Too many wallaby punners here....
Wordplay is often used by spies to hide their messages.
So if you're good enough at puns and treacherous enough, there are opportunities in the Russian Secret Service.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
OT I was at the Formula Ford festival yesterday mainly watching from just passed Paddock Hill bend, because I was with a team and spent quite a bit of time in the paddock. The team had 2 cars running. The son of the owners was one of the drivers. He collided with another car just after the bend and went off harmlessly and rejoined. Later in another heat someone else wasn't as lucky. I would have thought it impossible to survive the crash, but the driver walked away. There was nothing left of the car when the recovery truck passed us. How he walked away I have no idea. It was sickening.
I was watching the faces of the parents. Don't let your sons and daughters race cars. It is not worth it.
On a lighter note I know the sponsor of a rally car. They were told that C4 was covering a rally and would be using a helicopter so they put a great big logo on the roof. The car got a huge amount of coverage from the helicopter. However he didn't have the foresight to put a logo on the underside of the car.
Got sent the video of that crash yesterday. Lucky he hit the wall with the underside of his car and not the top. However he did walk away and even if the car was in pieces it did it’s job.
His mum was apparently very upset all the same.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I saw it from the side (as opposed from behind in the video) as I was at the catch fencing about 50 metres further down. It looked far worse than the video in real time.
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
PS I have just read a report of the crash. He did hit the barrier top first then went up into the catch fencing.
Mr. Jonathan, didn't pay much attention to the story at the time but the version I heard was essentially that he walked into a room and there was a cake being served.
In short, entirely accidental, and quite different to what Boris Johnson allegedly got up to.
It is curious how Sunak got away with being fined.
He probably shouldn't have got away with it, but I think there was a feeling that with him (a) it was a one-off (b) it wasn't altogether his fault (c) he hadn't hypocritically been spending the previous year telling us all to stay away from others (d) he didn't weasel, evade, lie and joke about it.
I thought Shapps was reported yesterday as a Johnson supporter?
We need someone who can provide stability and proven economic competence in these challenging times, and @RishiSunak is that person. That's why I'm backing him in the Conservative leadership contest
It is curious how Sunak got away with being fined.
I think because it looked a minor offense and most people don’t think of him as the partying type . He also doesn’t have a history of being a pathological liar .
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
Dreadful, isn't it. Just a totally toxic mendacious ignoramus contribution. Can nobody stop her saying things like this in public? Ok, "free speech" bla bla, all very fine and dandy, but there comes a point and it's surely getting close to it with some people.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
If Mad Nads is getting bent all out of shape about the Committee of Privileges, then I read that as being what is killing off Boris.
And quite rightly. It may all be based on gossip and innuendo - or it may be informed leaks from members of the Committee. But either ways round, I suspect there is plenty of chatter that Boris is at high risk of not being PM for long. So MPs will vote accordingly.
OT I was at the Formula Ford festival yesterday mainly watching from just passed Paddock Hill bend, because I was with a team and spent quite a bit of time in the paddock. The team had 2 cars running. The son of the owners was one of the drivers. He collided with another car just after the bend and went off harmlessly and rejoined. Later in another heat someone else wasn't as lucky. I would have thought it impossible to survive the crash, but the driver walked away. There was nothing left of the car when the recovery truck passed us. How he walked away I have no idea. It was sickening.
I was watching the faces of the parents. Don't let your sons and daughters race cars. It is not worth it.
On a lighter note I know the sponsor of a rally car. They were told that C4 was covering a rally and would be using a helicopter so they put a great big logo on the roof. The car got a huge amount of coverage from the helicopter. However he didn't have the foresight to put a logo on the underside of the car.
Got sent the video of that crash yesterday. Lucky he hit the wall with the underside of his car and not the top. However he did walk away and even if the car was in pieces it did it’s job.
His mum was apparently very upset all the same.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I saw it from the side (as opposed from behind in the video) as I was at the catch fencing about 50 metres further down. It looked far worse than the video in real time.
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
Was definitely the underside of the car.
Suspect that they will need to rethink that fence and corner as that is where the marshal got hit and died last year.
Still reckon motorsport is safer for your kids than horse riding but I’m sure someone will have some stats at hand to prove me wrong.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
Dreadful, isn't it. Just a totally toxic mendacious ignoramus contribution. Can nobody stop her saying things like this in public? Ok, "free speech" bla bla, all very fine and dandy, but there comes a point and it's surely getting close to it with some people.
I think as we get closer to the deadline more and more Boris supporters will start begging for votes from colleagues and we'll get editorials insisting that members be allowed to have their say and what an outrage it would be if MPs acted in a manner contrary to that by not giving Boris enough votes.
The Times tracker has Boris on 55, he's been stuck around that number since Friday evening. If the needle doesn't move today I fully expect JRM and Nadine to have pieces tomorrow morning calling the 100 threshold a fix for Rishi and lashing out at MPs for not giving Boris enough support.
The 100 is a fix for Rishi, one I wholeheartedly support!
Hardly an unreasonable bar to put before someone wanting to lead the party and country, tho
The Scottish Nationalists like to make a lot of the voting intention differences between England and Scotland to argue that Scotland is politically distinct from England, that therefore there isn't a unified political demos, and so Scotland needs to be independent.
The issue with the age-divide in voting intention is that this divide is so large, that those aged 65+ are clearly inhabiting a different political world to the rest of the country. Even after all that has happened over the last year, they would still vote for a Tory government over a Labour one. It suggests that Britain (or England & Wales if you prefer), is deeply divided among itself, arguably we no longer have a unified political demos, and this internal division will make tackling our problems much more difficult. Most likely the country is not even united over what the problems are.
A certain amount of division and dissent is healthy, and too much consensus is a bad thing, but there has to be some common ground to make progress. Until this divide is reduced I think it is going to act as a barrier to reform, whether from the left or the right.
So the weirdly capitalised 'Scottish Nationalists' are right then?
I make no judgement in that comment whether the ScotNats are right (the capitalisation seems fairly standard to me), but I'm playing with the idea of it being a framework with which to think about the political divisions in Britain today.
Arguably the age division is the source of the divide in Scotland too, just that it has expressed itself slightly differently to England. The latest YouGov had the SNP lead Labour 45-31 overall, but behind 34-36 among over-65s.
Resolving the age divide across Britain might resolve the question of Scottish independence, one way or another, much more clearly than the current stalemate.
Nationalist is not a proper noun therefore you are wrong to capitalise it.
It is part of their party
name, so it is as correct to capitalise it as it is to capitalise Labour or Conservative, or Labourite,
etc.
Nope, it’s the Scottish National Party and you were talking about people who supported independence for Scotland, not the party - at least that was the clear implication from your post
You wouldn't say "Scottish Nationals" though would you? You say "Scottish Nationalists".
I don't see why this is such a bone of contention.
Because it has F all to do with the political party and you made a right tit of yourself by not even knowing the party name , getting it totally wrong and then conflating it with Independence supporters.
I know perfectly well what the name of the SNP is.
To be fair, I didn't. I thought it was 'Scottish Nationalist' because that's what everyone calls them, even though it's apparently not their official name.
I think it's irrelevant though. People call Plaid Cymru 'Nationalists' and that isn't even remotely part of their name (or for the matter of that their policy offering)!
Stop digging Australia beckons
You'll roo the day you said that.
Edit - incidentally, on a point of punctuation, there should be a comma between 'digging' and 'Australia.'
Possumly
Too many wallaby punners here....
Wordplay is often used by spies to hide their messages.
So if you're good enough at puns and treacherous enough, there are opportunities in the Russian Secret Service.
That's right. You can GRU.
My finest effort was at the start of the MPs expenses scandal, specifically the Tory chap who tried to claim for a lakeside residence for his waterfowl.
I reckoned doing that was not going to be a duck-billed party plus.....
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
Dreadful, isn't it. Just a totally toxic mendacious ignoramus contribution. Can nobody stop her saying things like this in public? Ok, "free speech" bla bla, all very fine and dandy, but there comes a point and it's surely getting close to it with some people.
Perhaps Sunak doesn’t have a majority.
Who's going to be the first to crassly suggest he's a bit short?
OT I was at the Formula Ford festival yesterday mainly watching from just passed Paddock Hill bend, because I was with a team and spent quite a bit of time in the paddock. The team had 2 cars running. The son of the owners was one of the drivers. He collided with another car just after the bend and went off harmlessly and rejoined. Later in another heat someone else wasn't as lucky. I would have thought it impossible to survive the crash, but the driver walked away. There was nothing left of the car when the recovery truck passed us. How he walked away I have no idea. It was sickening.
I was watching the faces of the parents. Don't let your sons and daughters race cars. It is not worth it.
On a lighter note I know the sponsor of a rally car. They were told that C4 was covering a rally and would be using a helicopter so they put a great big logo on the roof. The car got a huge amount of coverage from the helicopter. However he didn't have the foresight to put a logo on the underside of the car.
Got sent the video of that crash yesterday. Lucky he hit the wall with the underside of his car and not the top. However he did walk away and even if the car was in pieces it did it’s job.
His mum was apparently very upset all the same.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I saw it from the side (as opposed from behind in the video) as I was at the catch fencing about 50 metres further down. It looked far worse than the video in real time.
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
Was definitely the underside of the car.
Suspect that they will need to rethink that fence and corner as that is where the marshal got hit and died last year.
Still reckon motorsport is safer for your kids than horse riding but I’m sure someone will have some stats at hand to prove me wrong.
See link re picture of car afterwards and report. They seem to agree with me that it was the top of the car and that was what I thought I saw looking from the side which is the best view (but of course just a split second). I agree looking at the video it looks otherwise, but it isn't 100% clear and the report agrees with me.
Re horse riding - I have only done it once. Never again and I agree.
The election of a political leader is rarely best of choices but the least worse alternative. Facing reality in the Conservative Party at this time and where the election is on the rules of the 1922 Committee my first choice is @RishiSunak and second choice a general election…
9 runs off illegal deliveries in the last over. I am not feeling too sore about this one. One of Kohli's greatest innings.
I'm delighted. Look at the drama we conjured.
The ICC should pay us to do commentary on all the big matches. Not only would it lead to extraordinary twists and turns but think how many would tune in to laugh at us as one prediction after another went wrong.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
Dreadful, isn't it. Just a totally toxic mendacious ignoramus contribution. Can nobody stop her saying things like this in public? Ok, "free speech" bla bla, all very fine and dandy, but there comes a point and it's surely getting close to it with some people.
Perhaps Sunak doesn’t have a majority.
Who's going to be the first to crassly suggest he's a bit short?
That’s beneath you. I expect a higher bar. Hopefully someone will standup and we can escape this limbo.
OT I was at the Formula Ford festival yesterday mainly watching from just passed Paddock Hill bend, because I was with a team and spent quite a bit of time in the paddock. The team had 2 cars running. The son of the owners was one of the drivers. He collided with another car just after the bend and went off harmlessly and rejoined. Later in another heat someone else wasn't as lucky. I would have thought it impossible to survive the crash, but the driver walked away. There was nothing left of the car when the recovery truck passed us. How he walked away I have no idea. It was sickening.
I was watching the faces of the parents. Don't let your sons and daughters race cars. It is not worth it.
On a lighter note I know the sponsor of a rally car. They were told that C4 was covering a rally and would be using a helicopter so they put a great big logo on the roof. The car got a huge amount of coverage from the helicopter. However he didn't have the foresight to put a logo on the underside of the car.
Got sent the video of that crash yesterday. Lucky he hit the wall with the underside of his car and not the top. However he did walk away and even if the car was in pieces it did it’s job.
His mum was apparently very upset all the same.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I saw it from the side (as opposed from behind in the video) as I was at the catch fencing about 50 metres further down. It looked far worse than the video in real time.
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
Was definitely the underside of the car.
Suspect that they will need to rethink that fence and corner as that is where the marshal got hit and died last year.
Still reckon motorsport is safer for your kids than horse riding but I’m sure someone will have some stats at hand to prove me wrong.
See link re picture of car afterwards and report. They seem to agree with me that it was the top of the car and that was what I thought I saw looking from the side which is the best view (but of course just a split second). I agree looking at the video it looks otherwise, but it isn't 100% clear and the report agrees with me.
Re horse riding - I have only done it once. Never again and I agree.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 2m In terms of MPs this is turning into a rout. Where are the 100 Boris backers. When are we going to se them.
Several people have been insistent the names are already there. Will look very dumb if not.
f they're there, it's very odd that the MPs are unwilling to confirm it, even under conditions of anonymity. What's the advantage to Boris of making it look as though he has much less support, and even as though he won't get nominated?
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 2m In terms of MPs this is turning into a rout. Where are the 100 Boris backers. When are we going to se them.
Several people have been insistent the names are already there. Will look very dumb if not.
f they're there, it's very odd that the MPs are unwilling to confirm it, even under conditions of anonymity. What's the advantage to Boris of making it look as though he has much less support, and even as though he won't get nominated?
To prevent a Penny/Rishi deal I guess... Occam's Razor suggests they are lying. No change there then.
Backing up Francis here: the ‘rule’ that you can run despite being bowled on a free hit is completely stupid. Should be a dot. I watch tons of cricket and never realised that was the case. Feel sorry for Pakistan - but they will surely bounce back from this.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 2m In terms of MPs this is turning into a rout. Where are the 100 Boris backers. When are we going to se them.
Several people have been insistent the names are already there. Will look very dumb if not.
f they're there, it's very odd that the MPs are unwilling to confirm it, even under conditions of anonymity. What's the advantage to Boris of making it look as though he has much less support, and even as though he won't get nominated?
To prevent a Penny/Rishi deal I guess... Occam's Razor suggests they are lying. No change there then.
Why would a Penny/Rishi deal make any difference if Johnson reaches 100 nominations?
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 2m In terms of MPs this is turning into a rout. Where are the 100 Boris backers. When are we going to se them.
Several people have been insistent the names are already there. Will look very dumb if not.
f they're there, it's very odd that the MPs are unwilling to confirm it, even under conditions of anonymity. What's the advantage to Boris of making it look as though he has much less support, and even as though he won't get nominated?
To prevent a Penny/Rishi deal I guess... Occam's Razor suggests they are lying. No change there then.
Why would a Penny/Rishi deal make any difference if Johnson reaches 100 nominations?
I guess because they need to be kept guessing till the latest moment possible? As I said. I don't believe it.
Backing up Francis here: the ‘rule’ that you can run despite being bowled on a free hit is completely stupid. Should be a dot. I watch tons of cricket and never realised that was the case. Feel sorry for Pakistan - but they will surely bounce back from this.
Well, its not done their net run rate much damage.
OT I was at the Formula Ford festival yesterday mainly watching from just passed Paddock Hill bend, because I was with a team and spent quite a bit of time in the paddock. The team had 2 cars running. The son of the owners was one of the drivers. He collided with another car just after the bend and went off harmlessly and rejoined. Later in another heat someone else wasn't as lucky. I would have thought it impossible to survive the crash, but the driver walked away. There was nothing left of the car when the recovery truck passed us. How he walked away I have no idea. It was sickening.
I was watching the faces of the parents. Don't let your sons and daughters race cars. It is not worth it.
On a lighter note I know the sponsor of a rally car. They were told that C4 was covering a rally and would be using a helicopter so they put a great big logo on the roof. The car got a huge amount of coverage from the helicopter. However he didn't have the foresight to put a logo on the underside of the car.
Got sent the video of that crash yesterday. Lucky he hit the wall with the underside of his car and not the top. However he did walk away and even if the car was in pieces it did it’s job.
His mum was apparently very upset all the same.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I saw it from the side (as opposed from behind in the video) as I was at the catch fencing about 50 metres further down. It looked far worse than the video in real time.
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
Was definitely the underside of the car.
Suspect that they will need to rethink that fence and corner as that is where the marshal got hit and died last year.
Still reckon motorsport is safer for your kids than horse riding but I’m sure someone will have some stats at hand to prove me wrong.
See link re picture of car afterwards and report. They seem to agree with me that it was the top of the car and that was what I thought I saw looking from the side which is the best view (but of course just a split second). I agree looking at the video it looks otherwise, but it isn't 100% clear and the report agrees with me.
Re horse riding - I have only done it once. Never again and I agree.
Actually, riding horses is approx 20x as dangerous as wussish scaredy cat activities like motorbiking. Hurrah!
If you got scared shitless first time out, something wasn't right though.
Not scared shitless. In fact not scared at all, but didn't like the fact that my fate was to some extent in the hands (or hooves) of something else with a brain with whom I had limited communication.
Glad I did it as I have several funny stories re my incompetence as a result.
I have done many dangerous activities. Most are entirely within my control or otherwise. Some do rely on the skill of others I trust. None rely on anything that can't speak.
Have been ringing cllrs and activists this weekend and I'm endorsing @RishiSunak for PM. We need to stabilise the economy & unite the party and country.
I'm sad @KemiBadenoch not standing, and have lots of respect for Boris too - I just think on balance now is not the time.
Mr Hunt could seek to reform generous capital gains rules and bring them more into line with general taxation, bringing in around £3.5 billion a year.
The Chancellor could also revisit the plan to increase stamp duty thresholds, the only other measure to survive from the mini-Budget - finding £2 billion.
One move, as called for by Labour, would be to abolish non-dom status. That would bring in an extra £3 billion a year to the Exchequer.
There are also a raft of wealth taxes Mr Hunt may look at, such as a council tax surcharge on properties worth over £2 million that would raise £1.4 billion.
Brands is not a cheap circuit if you make a mistake.
I think it's my favourite UK circuit for car trackdays but they rarely do them on the full GP circuit. I've seen loads of people bin their shit at Sheene. That unsighted uphill approach just draws you in, upsets brake balance and the tightening radius finishes the job off. It's very different from the modern Tilkedromes.
Have you tried Knockhill? Hilariously good fun including full air but the barriers are a bit further away.
Done it on a bike and loved it but it seemed very low grip and it's a long way...
We could go further than saying 'Hypothetical polling is bobbins' and remove the word hypothetical.
Polling outside of the six weeks before a General Election (or other major voting event) is bobbins.
The Conservatives won't get 15% in the next General Election. They wouldn't have got that even if Truss has fought on.
Everyone in Bootle hates the Labour party and will never vote for them again.... except on General Election day.
The problem with that argument is the instances of wipe outs of major parties at elections. See Canada.
Starmer could do better than Blair, because, even though the extreme left had control of Labour more recently, they have been so utterly routed. In addition. New Labour accustomed people to consider a Labour Government as a Social Democrat government.
As Blair (and Cameron) saw, such a government is, without party prejudices, probably supported by 60%+ of the voting population.
"A Russian military plane crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, the region's governor said, the second such crash in less than a week."
The Scottish Nationalists like to make a lot of the voting intention differences between England and Scotland to argue that Scotland is politically distinct from England, that therefore there isn't a unified political demos, and so Scotland needs to be independent.
The issue with the age-divide in voting intention is that this divide is so large, that those aged 65+ are clearly inhabiting a different political world to the rest of the country. Even after all that has happened over the last year, they would still vote for a Tory government over a Labour one. It suggests that Britain (or England & Wales if you prefer), is deeply divided among itself, arguably we no longer have a unified political demos, and this internal division will make tackling our problems much more difficult. Most likely the country is not even united over what the problems are.
A certain amount of division and dissent is healthy, and too much consensus is a bad thing, but there has to be some common ground to make progress. Until this divide is reduced I think it is going to act as a barrier to reform, whether from the left or the right.
So the weirdly capitalised 'Scottish Nationalists' are right then?
I make no judgement in that comment whether the ScotNats are right (the capitalisation seems fairly standard to me), but I'm playing with the idea of it being a framework with which to think about the political divisions in Britain today.
Arguably the age division is the source of the divide in Scotland too, just that it has expressed itself slightly differently to England. The latest YouGov had the SNP lead Labour 45-31 overall, but behind 34-36 among over-65s.
Resolving the age divide across Britain might resolve the question of Scottish independence, one way or another, much more clearly than the current stalemate.
Nationalist is not a proper noun therefore you are wrong to capitalise it.
It is part of their party
name, so it is as correct to capitalise it as it is to capitalise Labour or Conservative, or Labourite,
etc.
Nope, it’s the Scottish National Party and you were talking about people who supported independence for Scotland, not the party - at least that was the clear implication from your post
You wouldn't say "Scottish Nationals" though would you? You say "Scottish Nationalists".
I don't see why this is such a bone of contention.
Because it has F all to do with the political party and you made a right tit of yourself by not even knowing the party name , getting it totally wrong and then conflating it with Independence supporters.
I know perfectly well what the name of the SNP is.
To be fair, I didn't. I thought it was 'Scottish Nationalist' because that's what everyone calls them, even though it's apparently not their official name.
I think it's irrelevant though. People call Plaid Cymru 'Nationalists' and that isn't even remotely part of their name (or for the matter of that their policy offering)!
It is only their name in the minds of jingoists. The Tories are called arseholes but no-one calls tehm the arsehole Conservative party.
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We'll be back with grown-ups in control by Tuesday.
So if you're good enough at puns and treacherous enough, there are opportunities in the Russian Secret Service.
That's right. You can GRU.
Now I've said that it won't be, of course!
That was a filthy ball. Fully deserved a no ball. What pressure can do!
And Babar is about to get himself a one match ban if he goes on like this.
If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.
https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1584096059621797888
Erm…The Privileges Committee is limited by the resolution of the Commons passed on 21st April. It doesn’t mention Rishi Sunak once. It refers to 4 statements from Johnson, and will consider whether those quotes were misleading, and whether he failed to correct the record when.
https://twitter.com/craigprescott/status/1584116870508339200
Quite a few people clearly have reached their conversion point in the last few days. I hope it's enough.
Has he publicly said anything at all?
What my brain tells me I saw (which may be completely wrong) was that he hit the wall with the top of the car (that looks like I am wrong, but it is hard to be sure). I was with someone else and we both thought he must be dead. There was nothing to extract him from. If you look on the internet at the remains on the truck you can see what is left of the car. It is not recognisable as a car at all. All wheels came off as did the front and rear axles. There is no front to the car at all There doesn't even seem to be cockpit in front of the roll bar to extract him from so I don't understand how he didn't have broken legs at least. The biggest bit of car is an engine attached to a roll bar and some small bits of carbon fibre.
PS I have just read a report of the crash. He did hit the barrier top first then went up into the catch fencing.
Never seen that before.
You've got to feel a bit sorry for the bowler.
And even when he bowls them he gets taken for runs - well, byes!
In short, entirely accidental, and quite different to what Boris Johnson allegedly got up to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63362548
Johnson, however...
The ICC should pay me to commentate!
Edit - please let this be a tie! For lols!
And quite rightly. It may all be based on gossip and innuendo - or it may be informed leaks from members of the Committee. But either ways round, I suspect there is plenty of chatter that Boris is at high risk of not being PM for long. So MPs will vote accordingly.
Suspect that they will need to rethink that fence and corner as that is where the marshal got hit and died last year.
Still reckon motorsport is safer for your kids than horse riding but I’m sure someone will have some stats at hand to prove me wrong.
And @DavidL and I have still got it!
I mean do you look at that and think “that’s my great hope, right there”?
100 supporters, my arse.
I reckoned doing that was not going to be a duck-billed party plus.....
Just fuck off.
On Sunday the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unveiled its Politburo Standing Committee, with Mr Xi re-elected as general secretary.
Observers say the line-up, handpicked by Mr Xi, shows he prizes loyalty over expertise and experience.'
Sounds like he did not take much notice of how Liz picking her Cabinet on the same basis turned out for her
If you are run out by a direct hit on a free hit, can you then run overthrows?
Re horse riding - I have only done it once. Never again and I agree.
https://formulascout.com/two-drivers-escape-horror-crash-at-formula-ford-festival/100149
The election of a political leader is rarely best of choices but the least worse alternative. Facing reality in the Conservative Party at this time and where the election is on the rules of the 1922 Committee my first choice is @RishiSunak and second choice a general election…
https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/1584151300669050881
I agree. If they put Johnson back in they shouldn’t be in government
The ICC should pay us to do commentary on all the big matches. Not only would it lead to extraordinary twists and turns but think how many would tune in to laugh at us as one prediction after another went wrong.
Of his generation though. 2015 generation coming in.
If you got scared shitless first time out, something wasn't right though.
Occam's Razor suggests they are lying.
No change there then.
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2. Dr. Who
Rishi Sunak: 144 (+18 today)
Boris Johnson: 61 (+3)
Penny Mordaunt: 26 (+1)
231 / 357 MPs (65%) have endorsed a candidate.
Tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTPHIxWEtUUU23wUrqKemUBfGKxZMWZwHKeyUAATiyd4ohSmtnr0eZ4fdqF_ivzk3kfe7aFsEvuBXVW/pubhtml
https://twitter.com/patrickjfl/status/1584147229345869824
Based on the demographics of the remaining MPs, Rishi Sunak is now on course for over *200* nominations.
As I said. I don't believe it.
Glad I did it as I have several funny stories re my incompetence as a result.
I have done many dangerous activities. Most are entirely within my control or otherwise. Some do rely on the skill of others I trust. None rely on anything that can't speak.
PS Just realised that last sentence is nonsense.
We can't know that. But it could be the difference.
I'm sad @KemiBadenoch not standing, and have lots of respect for Boris too - I just think on balance now is not the time.
https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1584157262033358849
The Chancellor could also revisit the plan to increase stamp duty thresholds, the only other measure to survive from the mini-Budget - finding £2 billion.
One move, as called for by Labour, would be to abolish non-dom status. That would bring in an extra £3 billion a year to the Exchequer.
There are also a raft of wealth taxes Mr Hunt may look at, such as a council tax surcharge on properties worth over £2 million that would raise £1.4 billion.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/22/jeremy-hunts-halloween-budget-could-hit-high-earners-20bn-tax/
We might as well have a Labour government, as we getting Labour policies.
Depends how caustic the meeting between Boris and Rishi was last night.
I wouldn't be laying the hell out of her just yet.
1. Freeze defence spending for 5 years, jacking up to 3% towards end of decade
2. Extend freeze on income tax thresholds - a stealth tax - to 2027-28
3. Drop pensions triple lock from 2025
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1584103710040690691
Starmer could do better than Blair, because, even though the extreme left had control of Labour more recently, they have been so utterly routed. In addition. New Labour accustomed people to consider a Labour Government as a Social Democrat government.
As Blair (and Cameron) saw, such a government is, without party prejudices, probably supported by 60%+ of the voting population.
While uncomfortable I don’t think any of those are a “nightmare” per se.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/23/ukraine-news-russia-war-kherson-latest-dnipro-kyiv/
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1584159535446441984
Pity, reports were he got off to a good start..