Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Disappointing if the Nashville thing is accurate because I expected the parthenon to look better than that. Columns look very dumpy.
They do have entasis though, the authentic slight swelling in the middle, so someone's made an effort. I wonder if it's the camera giving that impression of dumpiness, actually.
We're used to seeing the Parthenon on a steep promontory, which reduces its dumpy appearance maybe. It looks dumpier on the flat ground. That's presumably what inspired the abortive version on Calton Hill.
I didn’t see any of these pathetic liberal pantywaists weeping similarly when Facebook and Twitter were on THEIR side and spent A YEAR censoring any mention of the lab leak hypothesis in case it “helped Trump”
Facebook on the liberal side? It's literally the #1 right wing media outlet.
Yes. I I’ve posted four articles detailing how the basic manner in which Facebook works, it’s algorithm and overall platform structure, helped Trump get elected. It’s late and I don’t have the time, or the crayons, to explain this to you further.
Blah blah blah blah blah...
Oh wait here's a video of Zuckerberg personally admitting that Facebook suppressed a true story at the behest of the FBI and on behalf of Joe Biden
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
RefUK won't be on the ballot in most constituencies, will they?
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
Broken, sleazy Labour on the slide (yet again!).
Who was it who first came up with that classic PB phrase?
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
RefUK won't be on the ballot in most constituencies, will they?
At the height of the Trusstastrophe Tice said theyd be standing everywhere. We will see......
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Speaking of the "promotion" of one wine to another, from today:
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So a small gain by Sunak from Labour and the LDs but losses to RefUK too. 6% would be the highest for a party right of the Tories at a general election since the 12% for UKIP in 2015
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Well I didn't. But yes, it does make it taste better. I wouldn't want to add it to Prosecco (if that's the advice); Prosecco isn't meant to have that yeasty flavour that Champagne has from its secondary fermentation. It's made differently and is its own drink.
I didn’t see any of these pathetic liberal pantywaists weeping similarly when Facebook and Twitter were on THEIR side and spent A YEAR censoring any mention of the lab leak hypothesis in case it “helped Trump”
Facebook on the liberal side? It's literally the #1 right wing media outlet.
Yes. I I’ve posted four articles detailing how the basic manner in which Facebook works, it’s algorithm and overall platform structure, helped Trump get elected. It’s late and I don’t have the time, or the crayons, to explain this to you further.
Blah blah blah blah blah...
Oh wait here's a video of Zuckerberg personally admitting that Facebook suppressed a true story at the behest of the FBI and on behalf of Joe Biden
Ouch
'true story' it was a blatantly unsubtle set-up job
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Disappointing if the Nashville thing is accurate because I expected the parthenon to look better than that. Columns look very dumpy.
They do have entasis though, the authentic slight swelling in the middle, so someone's made an effort. I wonder if it's the camera giving that impression of dumpiness, actually.
Sure, but entasis is meant to be invisible (meant to correct a tendency of straightforward tapering to look spindly). LG's point that the original is not on flat ground is a good one.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
I’d not heard of the bloody Mary thing before but it sounds very good. Umami on umami.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
RefUK won't be on the ballot in most constituencies, will they?
Doesn't matter if those voters just stay at home, draw a cock and balls or vote Refuk. All count as lost Tory votes.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
Or just knit you a new alter ego to wear on here 😆
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
Broken, sleazy Labour on the slide (yet again!).
Who was it who first came up with that classic PB phrase?
Gabble, about the Tories circa 2008.
It was really funny, he said it about the first poll on one night which saw the Tory lead cut and the next two polls showed the Tory lead increasing.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
Broken, sleazy Labour on the slide (yet again!).
Who was it who first came up with that classic PB phrase?
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
If she does a balaclava next, nobody will know it is you in the cardigan.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Well I didn't. But yes, it does make it taste better. I wouldn't want to add it to Prosecco (if that's the advice); Prosecco isn't meant to have that yeasty flavour that Champagne has from its secondary fermentation. It's made differently and is its own drink.
Certainly not Prosecco, that’s just fizzy fruit juice. I occasionally put it in Cava, crémant, other neutral sparkling that hasn’t had time on lees.
Prosecco does have a second fermentation though, but it’s in a pressurised tank (Charmat method). The yeasty flavour in champagne and English sparkling (and Franciacorta) is from autolysis when dead yeast cells in contact with the wine break down and release various proteins.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
I’d not heard of the bloody Mary thing before but it sounds very good. Umami on umami.
Yes, I am equally tempted
On my recent trip (last week) on the new Rocky Mountaineer from Denver to Moab..
.... We were promised fabulous food and amazing wines. This did not happen. The food was quite dismal and the wine was Meh at best
However the cocktails! OMG, that trip reminded me of just how good a margarita can be, and equally, a Bloody Mary. Done with care and attention. Superb
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Not that I’ve tried it, but isn’t there a version with a dollop of beef stock? May be a figment of my imagination..
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Disappointing if the Nashville thing is accurate because I expected the parthenon to look better than that. Columns look very dumpy.
They do have entasis though, the authentic slight swelling in the middle, so someone's made an effort. I wonder if it's the camera giving that impression of dumpiness, actually.
Sure, but entasis is meant to be invisible (meant to correct a tendency of straightforward tapering to look spindly). LG's point that the original is not on flat ground is a good one.
I am wondering if it's a case of the camera failing to have the perceptual properties that needs entasis when seen by the eye alone.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
Broken, sleazy Labour on the slide (yet again!).
Who was it who first came up with that classic PB phrase?
Gabble, about the Tories circa 2008.
It was really funny, he said it about the first poll on one night which saw the Tory lead cut and the next two polls showed the Tory lead increasing.
Sadly most recent polls seem to show “invisible, irrelevant Lib Dems on the fade”.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Not that I’ve tried it, but isn’t there a version with a dollop of beef stock? May be a figment of my imagination..
Bullshot (sic). Truly disgusting drink. Obligatory at the St Moritz Toboggan Club.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
Broken, sleazy Labour on the slide (yet again!).
Who was it who first came up with that classic PB phrase?
Not sure. Maybe it was tim?
Whose Tim?
Did he get sucked off like they do in ghosts?
Lots of sucking off in ghosts. Even the main players get sucked off.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Were you involved Dura Ace? You do sleep with Mao’s Red Book under the pillow (below Haynes guide to liquid fuelled motorbikes)
Nope. Taught BFM to quite a few Bahrainis and Saudis though many (rabbit occupied) moons ago.
An American ex-AV-8B driver has already been arrested for the China business though. I doubt the British will be locking anybody up though.
Basic field muppetry? What does BFM mean? Were you any good at it? It seems that the things you really want to shine at are engineering and flying.
Basic Fighter Maneuvering. I was an aggressively average stick-and-rudder pilot (I was only in my mid 20s then and didn't have a shitload of experience) but I was a good instructor.
Sorry, I was a bit rude.
The whole flying experience must have been amazing, and I'm jealous
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Well I didn't. But yes, it does make it taste better. I wouldn't want to add it to Prosecco (if that's the advice); Prosecco isn't meant to have that yeasty flavour that Champagne has from its secondary fermentation. It's made differently and is its own drink.
Certainly not Prosecco, that’s just fizzy fruit juice. I occasionally put it in Cava, crémant, other neutral sparkling that hasn’t had time on lees.
Prosecco does have a second fermentation though, but it’s in a pressurised tank (Charmat method). The yeasty flavour is from autolysis when dead yeast cells in contact with the wine break down and release various proteins.
Indeed.
I like that yeasty flavour in Champagne or Cremant. It's my personal preference for a celebration drink. Various delicious British varieties we have now too.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Not that I’ve tried it, but isn’t there a version with a dollop of beef stock? May be a figment of my imagination..
Were you involved Dura Ace? You do sleep with Mao’s Red Book under the pillow (below Haynes guide to liquid fuelled motorbikes)
Nope. Taught BFM to quite a few Bahrainis and Saudis though many (rabbit occupied) moons ago.
An American ex-AV-8B driver has already been arrested for the China business though. I doubt the British will be locking anybody up though.
Basic field muppetry? What does BFM mean? Were you any good at it? It seems that the things you really want to shine at are engineering and flying.
Basic Fighter Maneuvering. I was an aggressively average stick-and-rudder pilot (I was only in my mid 20s then and didn't have a shitload of experience) but I was a good instructor.
Sorry, I was a bit rude.
The whole flying experience must have been amazing, and I'm jealous
Piles must be an occupational hazard - both from the high g's, sitting down all the time, and the vindaloos in the evening.
Disappointing if the Nashville thing is accurate because I expected the parthenon to look better than that. Columns look very dumpy.
They do have entasis though, the authentic slight swelling in the middle, so someone's made an effort. I wonder if it's the camera giving that impression of dumpiness, actually.
Sure, but entasis is meant to be invisible (meant to correct a tendency of straightforward tapering to look spindly). LG's point that the original is not on flat ground is a good one.
I am wondering if it's a case of the camera failing to have the perceptual properties that needs entasis when seen by the eye alone.
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
Not that I’ve tried it, but isn’t there a version with a dollop of beef stock? May be a figment of my imagination..
Bullshot (sic). Truly disgusting drink. Obligatory at the St Moritz Toboggan Club.
Were you involved Dura Ace? You do sleep with Mao’s Red Book under the pillow (below Haynes guide to liquid fuelled motorbikes)
Nope. Taught BFM to quite a few Bahrainis and Saudis though many (rabbit occupied) moons ago.
An American ex-AV-8B driver has already been arrested for the China business though. I doubt the British will be locking anybody up though.
Basic field muppetry? What does BFM mean? Were you any good at it? It seems that the things you really want to shine at are engineering and flying.
Basic Fighter Maneuvering. I was an aggressively average stick-and-rudder pilot (I was only in my mid 20s then and didn't have a shitload of experience) but I was a good instructor.
Sorry, I was a bit rude.
The whole flying experience must have been amazing, and I'm jealous
Piles must be an occupational hazard - both from the high g's, sitting down all the time, and the vindaloos in the evening.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
Is it self-propelled?
It has been stuck in the mud for quite a while, but knitting has recommenced.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Disappointing if the Nashville thing is accurate because I expected the parthenon to look better than that. Columns look very dumpy.
They do have entasis though, the authentic slight swelling in the middle, so someone's made an effort. I wonder if it's the camera giving that impression of dumpiness, actually.
Sure, but entasis is meant to be invisible (meant to correct a tendency of straightforward tapering to look spindly). LG's point that the original is not on flat ground is a good one.
I am wondering if it's a case of the camera failing to have the perceptual properties that needs entasis when seen by the eye alone.
That could well be right.
I also think it has less steps than the original? Which doesn't help. I could be wrong.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
Is it self-propelled?
It has been stuck in the mud for quite a while, but knitting has recommenced.
To be sure, tanks are self-propelled by definition - the term is otiose. It's only artillery of various kinds that attracts the term, where applicable.
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
A little too early to say, but you might well be correct.
Early indications are that Sunak is attracting back a few previous Will-Not-Voters, and a few Londoners, but losing almost as many out the sewer exit to the latest black-shirt incarnation.
What does *not* seem to happening is any Lab or LD or SNP swing to Con.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
If she does a balaclava next, nobody will know it is you in the cardigan.
Talking of balaclavas, when is the Northern Ireland election?
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
No disrespect to anybody at all, but bloody hell it's dull on here tonight. Even Leon can't liven it up. I take it there's nothing much going on.
28 October 2022: nothing happened.
There were a few fairly humdrum days in the early scenes of Threads.
Reece Dinsdale up on the moors with his bird listening to the car radio. Classic film scene. The film peaks with woman who wets herself and the father on the crapper when the bomb drops and the unflinchingly positive look at life in the years after 'mageddon
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
A little too early to say, but you might well be correct.
Early indications are that Sunak is attracting back a few previous Will-Not-Voters, and a few Londoners, but losing almost as many out the sewer exit to the latest black-shirt incarnation.
What does *not* seem to happening is any Lab or LD or SNP swing to Con.
Where are those minus of 3 for both of them going then?
Omnisis @Omnisis 🚨 VI 🚨 A few days in Rishi Sunak’s tenure as PM, the polls are showing a small bounce but Labour have a formidable 28 point lead. Field 27-28 Oct 2022 🧵
Con: 25% (+3 from 21-22 Oct) Lab: 53% (-3) Lib Dem 7% (-3) Green 4%(0) Reform UK 6%(+3) SNP 4% (0)
So for every two moderates Rishi Rich attracts he repels a swivel eyed and/or closet racist into the arms of the Refukers.
That makes his job twice as hard.
A little too early to say, but you might well be correct.
Early indications are that Sunak is attracting back a few previous Will-Not-Voters, and a few Londoners, but losing almost as many out the sewer exit to the latest black-shirt incarnation.
What does *not* seem to happening is any Lab or LD or SNP swing to Con.
Where are those minus of 3 for both of them going then?
Headline figures exclude WNVers and DKers. As soon as some WNVers and DKers decide that yes, they will now actually cast their votes for some party, the other ones *look* like they are diminishing, when in reality they might just be holding steady or even increasing.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
FWIW, I think he as likely to run it into the ground as he is to successfully transform it.
Maybe, success is far from guaranteed. But cutting dead wood is a great start, and there's no wood more dead than Twitter's (ex) senior management. They've done nothing to move the business forward. I mean, can anyone who uses Twitter name one thing Agrawal and his team did to improve the platform's prospects? I certainly can't. Paying $200m to get rid of them is small beans on a $44bn investment.
Musk's plan to make Twitter a western WeChat is risky and ambitious, but it's a viable plan. The former management's plan was... well, something, something, growth. Possibly.
They maximised shareholder value, and how. That's their only job.
Very true.
Not many people would have managed to get $44bn for Twitter.
A former head of the American consulate in Edinburgh has accused the UK government of being intellectually dishonest in its arguments against Scottish independence.
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
A former head of the American consulate in Edinburgh has accused the UK government of being intellectually dishonest in its arguments against Scottish independence.
I didn’t see any of these pathetic liberal pantywaists weeping similarly when Facebook and Twitter were on THEIR side and spent A YEAR censoring any mention of the lab leak hypothesis in case it “helped Trump”
Facebook on the liberal side? It's literally the #1 right wing media outlet.
I assume you have seen an original and are not basing your post on that YouTube, or you are joking. It's not as if they even tried to hide the editing. Gullible or what.
A former head of the American consulate in Edinburgh has accused the UK government of being intellectually dishonest in its arguments against Scottish independence.
FWIW, I think he as likely to run it into the ground as he is to successfully transform it.
Maybe, success is far from guaranteed. But cutting dead wood is a great start, and there's no wood more dead than Twitter's (ex) senior management. They've done nothing to move the business forward. I mean, can anyone who uses Twitter name one thing Agrawal and his team did to improve the platform's prospects? I certainly can't. Paying $200m to get rid of them is small beans on a $44bn investment.
Musk's plan to make Twitter a western WeChat is risky and ambitious, but it's a viable plan. The former management's plan was... well, something, something, growth. Possibly.
He was always going to get rid of CFO/CFO/GC, etc., and that's to be expected.
I probably wouldn't have got rid of data analytics people - at least not on mass, and not on day one. Because you will end up hiring a bunch of people who don't know how the existing systems work, and that's a tough place to be.
I'm also sceptical about the everything app opportunity: can Twitter really dethrone Facebook, Google, Instagram, Apple, etc?
Ultimately: Twitter is moderately popular. It can probably be monetized better off a smaller cost base. But it isn't a growing platform. Maybe Musk can wring $7 bn of revs out of it in a year. And maybe he can do that with just a $2bn cost base. (But be warned: if people stop spending time on Twitter because investment has stopped, then that $7bn is going in only one direction.)
And I'd also note that it's not like Elon doesn't have other jobs: he's CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. I wish him well, and I'm sure he'll do a better job than the previous owners, but I suspect it will never pay back the $44bn.
More massive splits in Governor/Senate polling, this time in Penn.
Last 3 polls all give Dr Oz a 3 or 2 point lead over Fetterman (48% for Oz in each of the polls) but the Governor question in those polls gives a 6,8,10 point lead for the Dem Shapiro (with absolute fruitcake fascist Mastriano on 41/42/43).
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
No disrespect to anybody at all, but bloody hell it's dull on here tonight. Even Leon can't liven it up. I take it there's nothing much going on.
28 October 2022: nothing happened.
Apart from the failure at Stormont to form an executive and the consequent forthcoming Assembly election! Most important popular election of the quarter (in the UK).
Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the Cop 27 climate conference, despite the monarch “ champing at the bit” to go.
The prime minister faces criticism over his own decision to skip the event and has been under pressure to allow the monarch to attend instead.
Charles is believed to be disappointed by the advice from No 10 that he should miss the event, which starts in Egypt next weekend, with allies suggesting that Sunak should let him go to prove Britain’s environmental commitment. However, the King will not force the issue after Downing Street made clear yesterday that Sunak would not reopen any debate about it.
After the grief I received the other evening after revealing that I was wearing a cardigan, I'll take the risk of disclosing that Wor Lass is half way through knitting me a tank top.
If she does a balaclava next, nobody will know it is you in the cardigan.
Talking of balaclavas, when is the Northern Ireland election?
Something some of us have mentioned before has been picked up by Forbes - that China could switch from Taiwan to going for the east of the Urals. Vladivostok was claimed by China.
I didn’t see any of these pathetic liberal pantywaists weeping similarly when Facebook and Twitter were on THEIR side and spent A YEAR censoring any mention of the lab leak hypothesis in case it “helped Trump”
Facebook on the liberal side? It's literally the #1 right wing media outlet.
I assume you have seen an original and are not basing your post on that YouTube, or you are joking. It's not as if they even tried to hide the editing. Gullible or what.
Thank you. Was going to click - just on the off chance - but now I don't have to.
We'll see with Musk and Twitter. The risk is it'll become a shouty place where lots of crap is disseminated.
No change there then.
Ha no! But I was more thinking it might get overwhelmed with grotty alt-right hatemongering and conspiracist material. If so all the good people will get fed up and leave.
We'll see with Musk and Twitter. The risk is it'll become a shouty place where lots of crap is disseminated.
No change there then.
Ha no! But I was more thinking it might get overwhelmed with grotty alt-right hatemongering and conspiracist material. If so all the good people will get fed up and leave.
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What are they gaining from this compared to the grief it’s already causing them?
Oh wait here's a video of Zuckerberg personally admitting that Facebook suppressed a true story at the behest of the FBI and on behalf of Joe Biden
Ouch
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/may/02/how-to-make-perfect-bloody-mary
Adding the tiniest bit of dry sherry is often advised to up the game of a regular wine btw - have seen it recommended to promote new world cab merlot blends to 1st growth claret and (per @TimS) to make cheap sparklers taste more like champagne.
https://www.foodandwine.com/bordeaux-spanish-wine-fraud-6822945
"Over 4 Million Bottles of Spanish Wine Were Labeled as French, Fraud Case Alleges"
https://twitter.com/theipaper/status/1586046592850821120?s=20&t=laAVL0mt3e4R6czBSnXi3A
It was really funny, he said it about the first poll on one night which saw the Tory lead cut and the next two polls showed the Tory lead increasing.
Prosecco does have a second fermentation though, but it’s in a pressurised tank (Charmat method). The yeasty flavour in champagne and English sparkling (and Franciacorta) is from autolysis when dead yeast cells in contact with the wine break down and release various proteins.
On my recent trip (last week) on the new Rocky Mountaineer from Denver to Moab..
https://www.rockymountaineer.com/train-routes/2-day-rail-denver-moab?package=a754R0000008iEpQAI
.... We were promised fabulous food and amazing wines. This did not happen. The food was quite dismal and the wine was Meh at best
However the cocktails! OMG, that trip reminded me of just how good a margarita can be, and equally, a Bloody Mary. Done with care and attention. Superb
Even better with a dash of sherry? I shall try
It’s yet more “insecure” Sunak pandering disastrously to the right wing media on climate.
As Sunil observes
Monarchy = Socialism
28 October 2022: nothing happened.
Did he get sucked off like they do in ghosts?
Lots of sucking off in ghosts. Even the main players get sucked off.
The whole flying experience must have been amazing, and I'm jealous
I like that yeasty flavour in Champagne or Cremant. It's my personal preference for a celebration drink. Various delicious British varieties we have now too.
Prosecco can also be nice though.
Indeed in 2004 plenty of Tories backed Kerry as your hero Osborne wrote.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-a-tory-vote-for-kerry-
Monarchy = The cornerstone of Toryism
State control of the economy = Socialism
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-a-tory-vote-for-kerry-
Early indications are that Sunak is attracting back a few previous Will-Not-Voters, and a few Londoners, but losing almost as many out the sewer exit to the latest black-shirt incarnation.
What does *not* seem to happening is any Lab or LD or SNP swing to Con.
The film peaks with woman who wets herself and the father on the crapper when the bomb drops and the unflinchingly positive look at life in the years after 'mageddon
Not many people would have managed to get $44bn for Twitter.
https://twitter.com/stormysturgeon/status/1586007702542639105?s=46&t=xXCnauD2Q26kTZsbtuiG5g
Who knew.
They’re good on myth, but weak on actual facts.
This Changes Everything.
Being in Sweden I'm guessing Stuart doesn't keep up to date with Scottish matters.
I probably wouldn't have got rid of data analytics people - at least not on mass, and not on day one. Because you will end up hiring a bunch of people who don't know how the existing systems work, and that's a tough place to be.
I'm also sceptical about the everything app opportunity: can Twitter really dethrone Facebook, Google, Instagram, Apple, etc?
Ultimately: Twitter is moderately popular. It can probably be monetized better off a smaller cost base. But it isn't a growing platform. Maybe Musk can wring $7 bn of revs out of it in a year. And maybe he can do that with just a $2bn cost base. (But be warned: if people stop spending time on Twitter because investment has stopped, then that $7bn is going in only one direction.)
And I'd also note that it's not like Elon doesn't have other jobs: he's CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. I wish him well, and I'm sure he'll do a better job than the previous owners, but I suspect it will never pay back the $44bn.
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Last night's Long Eaton (Derbyshire) council by-election result:
LAB: 51.1% (+15.0)
CON: 33.5% (-16.5)
LDEM: 11.1% (+5.0)
GRN: 4.4% (-3.5)
Votes cast: 2,160
Labour GAIN from Conservative.
https://medium.com/britainelects/previewing-the-two-council-by-elections-of-27th-october-2022-cde5621033e
Last 3 polls all give Dr Oz a 3 or 2 point lead over Fetterman (48% for Oz in each of the polls) but the Governor question in those polls gives a 6,8,10 point lead for the Dem Shapiro (with absolute fruitcake fascist Mastriano on 41/42/43).
The English local elections in May are going to be hilarious.
What does the DUP want? Out of the EU. In an insular narrow minded UK. They’re Nationalists.
https://twitter.com/frcola1/status/1585908752011730944?s=46&t=xXCnauD2Q26kTZsbtuiG5g
They were also the political wing of a terrorist organisation which the DUP never were
They never married.
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/egypt-renews-king-charles-iii-cop27-invite
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2022/10/24/as-russia-gets-weaker-xi-jinping-may-forgo-taiwan-to-grab-eastern-russia/?sh=61297bab6ce4
Lidl is paying £11 an hour. A 16% increase on a TA pay. And get paid in the holidays too.
From his decision to bring back the sociopath Braverman and now putting the blocks on Charles going to Egypt .
Since the vast majority of the UK public agree on climate change I don’t see what’s controversial about Charles going .
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1586099343718752257?s=20&t=laAVL0mt3e4R6czBSnXi3A
The political wing of the loyalist terrorist groups were parties like the PUP