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Some positive polling for Starmer from Ipsos – politicalbetting.com
Some positive polling for Starmer from Ipsos – politicalbetting.com
I just love the way that the pollster Ipsos manages to dig up historical comparisons and gives us a framework for judging how the parties and individual politicians are doing at the moment. Ipsos, of course, has been polling since the 1970s and has a huge archive of historical polls.
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HSBC froze bank accounts linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Douglas Barrowman during an investigation that examined possible corruption in securing government contracts.
An internal HSBC report, seen by the Financial Times, traces money transferred by PPE Medpro, which received £202mn of government orders for personal protective equipment in the pandemic, to accounts that benefited Barrowman and Mone.
PPE Medpro’s bid to supply the UK government in 2020 was placed in a “high-priority lane” after lobbying from Mone even as she maintained that she had no involvement in the company. Barrowman has also previously denied being an “investor” in PPE Medpro.
HSBC unfroze the accounts in November 2020 after assurances from Barrowman, only to immediately raise fresh red flags over “discrepancies” in information provided by the businessman and his wife, according to its report.
Barrowman assured the bank that neither he nor his wife had any role advising UK government officials on PPE procurement and that Mone had no involvement in the business activities of PPE Medpro, the report says.
However, Mone told the bank that she and Barrowman advised government ministers on procurement and complained that the frozen accounts were damaging PPE Medpro, “indicating [she] may indeed have had an interest” in the supplier, HSBC found.
The Guardian this week first revealed the existence of the HSBC report, including that accounts linked to Mone received profits from PPE Medpro. This article contains new details about HSBC’s findings and the responses from Barrowman and Mone.
The largest part of the order, about 25mn surgical gowns, was ultimately deemed unfit for purpose.
The HSBC probe found that £65mn in profits from PPE Medpro were transferred to The Warren Trust, whose beneficial owner was Barrowman and registered in the Isle of Man, £45.8mn of which was then transferred to Barrowman’s personal account.
A sum of £28.8mn was then transferred to The Keristal Trust, whose beneficiaries were Mone and her children, the documents show.
Barrowman said the transfers were made for “tax efficiency reasons” and that he sent money to Mone and her children in “his personal capacity”, the document said.
More than £700,000 was also transferred to the account of Mone’s eldest daughter Rebecca, as well as £3mn to another account Mone held with the private bank Coutts, the report states.
It is not clear from the documents why Barrowman — who has repeatedly distanced himself from PPE Medpro — received or disbursed profits from the company....
...HSBC subsequently dropped the couple as clients, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://www.ft.com/content/147d662b-d492-400d-a07c-c5b336bad6af
I just doubt we can get beyond the 2nd round, and I REALLY doubt we can get beyond the QF
Back in 2002 when England got knocked out by Brazil it was Southgate was the one who said of Sven, 'We needed Churchill, we got Iain Duncan Smith.'
if you want a bank to cover up your illegalitydiscretion with a bank go to Deutsche Bank.If the US draws against Iran, then the US has 3 points, and Iran 4, with the US having zero goal difference and Iran -4.
If Wales then beats England 4-0, then they move up to 4 points as well, with +2 goal difference, while England drops 0 goal difference. (A 3-0 victory would not be enough, as England would then win on goals scored. However, something like 6-3 would be enough for Wales I think.)
If the US draws Iran, then any victory by Wales sends them through due to Iran's rubbish goal difference.
The Underworld of Brussels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmPoF9iws8
I stumbled across this small YouTube channel the other day that has been doing some fantastic deep dives into the underworld running the drugs into Europe via Holland and Belgium (and all the organised crime that spins out of that).
They have slowly been piecing together from where the Kinahans fitted into this machine to wider European alliances.
Holland and Belgium don't appear to be that far removed from nacro states.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-102004/
From your post at tail end last thread, are we to understand you are recovering from your operation, at some distance from your home? Do you have some company - what's your situation?
Judging by the cover, the old fella nowadays looks like a waxwork of Cliff Richard.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50205956
(Spectator "Politician of the Year" aside...)
I also wouldn't work for HSBC.
I think they literally financed Iranian terrorism and were the bank for the IRGC.
Yes it was a tough watch tonight, and I think the yanks will be happier about how their plans worked out, but we are into the last 16 bar a betting stitch up somewhere. I’ve spent 45 years watching England failing to break down hardworking, well drilled defences and often failing.
I fully expect a glorious quarter final exit ( as befits a 5th ranked team in the tournament).
The IRGC will be very angry at the suggestion they use banking services.
A Senate report released ahead of the embargo time revealed that HSBC’s lax anti-money laundering policies allowed Mexican drug money, Iranian terrorist money, and even suspicious Russian money to enter the U.S. and gain access to U.S. dollar liquidity over the last couple of years
https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/07/16/hsbc-helped-terrorists-iran-mexican-drug-cartels-launder-money-senate-report-says/?sh=5334f92f5712
Sorry to say the “function doesn’t work on my iPad. Yes I am 10 miles further away in my rehab unit can I was at Ipswich. Sent here because operations for cervical myelopathy, terrible things to the muscles, and they have to be re-strengthened.
"The draw was not a disaster for England – far from it – but the performance left much to be desired and the loud boos that greeted the team at half-time and full time told their own story. "
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/18/england-scotland-euro-2020-match-report
Shorten it by cutting it, as follows: "Put it this way, myself would have a field day with this."
If that sounds right to you, you're right (probably). If not, correct the pronoun.
(Cognitive psychologists and/or linguists may be able to explain why that works.)
I managed to book a romantic weekend away in London with Mrs P. for that weekend, my chances of watching the match are slim to none
(and Slim's just left town).
Football teams are plural, not singular.
I know you live in LA but you don’t need to adopt their grammar.
I have said this over and again.
Even Nick Palmer - Nick Palmer of Godalming, Surrey, England - was doing this recently.
Somebody make it stop. 🤮
And how did the other reviewers at your home like it?
Good point.
Is it someone calmly getting the team to about where their talents deserve every time, or are triumph and disaster part of the thrill?
Southgate or Keegan? Starmer or Johnson?
https://twitter.com/LibDemConf/status/1596180775820566532
First Andrew and Fergie, then they threatened to inflict the House of Lords on York, and now this. What did that lovely city do to deserve such cruel maltreatment?
Transphobe: Gender is what is between your legs.
Me: Then my gender is your mum.
Probably best if I go to bed now before I end up outraging the PB decency.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/nov/21/angler-lands-giant-goldfish-in-french-lake
You don't have to buy in to this bullshit, you know? Even if your grasp of logic is hampered by a Cambridge "education." What makes you think gender is a thing at all outside of relevantly inflected languages?
Either way the source seems dodgy, a lot of it comes from Matt Taibbi who makes stuff up a lot.
7 year old daughter with ADHD largely cavorted around the room and gave no indication whatsoever of taking any of it in but would suddenly laugh uproariously at an appropriate place. I think she mainly loved the fact she wasn't having to go to bed.
12 year old daughtet opted to sit in the other room with her mother and the football, but was actually warching the Netflix Adamms Family offering "Wednesday" on her phone. She was pleased with that, however.
I don't mind. He can do what he likes with his money. I was just startled.
We need to not lose by four to make the second round. Where we play Holland, Senegal or Ecuador.
We're in decent shape.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stop-tweeting-and-get-on-with-the-job-police-told-d5g7cdvhb?ts=1669415484527
Fucking lol. Perhaps @TheScreamingEagles would like to pop one on?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/25/kanye-west-presidential-run-2024
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/orson_welles_104829
And then losing that rotational kicking festival they inflicted against Spain in the final.
What a waste.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11T6XLQh2ss-Ul9UjG8TzJCvhEFMp0VmsbR8KbSZ_FL0/edit#gid=0
The fact he ties with Cameron suggests we could see a 2010 repeat
Immigration where shortages are really there yes but controlled immigration
If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?
@elonmusk
I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596268804413476864
In terms of the net agree less disagree %, Starmer's current +15% net is well ahead of Cameron's +8% and +6% net and the best of any opposition leader since Blair.
How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
1. England were rubbish, with 8,000 sideways or backward passes, and the USA were unlucky not to win.
2. Starmer is doing just fine.
3. Baroness Mone and her husband are absolute crooks and should be prosecuted by DavidL or somebody.
That's it. Good night.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63760278