@Liz_Wheeler 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
You lot have all missed The One Show (featuring a chat with Cliff Richard!!!), followed by a repeat of a documentary about showmen travellers in East Anglia, AND an old episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip on BBC2, by the way. I am yet to recover from the excitement.
Does he have a Christmas single for us this year?
Probably, but dunno. One confesses that one has actually been shopping, rather than paying any real attention to the telly.
On Wednesdays, on the way home with my oldest, I call in at Tesco in Stretford for her to get some ice tea and mentos while I marvel at the range of highly specific fishing magazines on offer. This week, alongside at least three publications dedicated to carp in different circumstances, I was startled to see the publication "Christmas with Cliff". How can this have enough content for a whole magazine? And how is there enough demand to merit puttting it together? Judging by the cover, the old fella nowadays looks like a waxwork of Cliff Richard.
You see the thing is, once you've got an interest in angling, you'll buy everything because you're addicted. Yes, you're totally hooked.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
Apple and Google certainly need some competition.
More seriously, assuming competition authorities didn’t hobble it, integration with both Starlink and Tesla cars might give a Musk phone some competitive edge. But does he have the resources ? Developing a competitive system would be very expensive indeed. And he blew a lot of liquidity on Twitter.
Working with Midjourney, director Tristan Holmes created this video over a 30 day period entering prompts, using AI image generation of more than 10,000 frames, and creating frames to link the video together.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
Put it this way, Cyclefree and myself would have a field day with this.
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.
See the big mistake they made is going with HSBC, you can't trust them to keep your financial deals secret. Should have gone with Coutts, far more discretion.
Nah, as any fule nows, Coutts are owned by the UK government, if you want if you want a bank to cover up your illegality discretion with a bank go to Deutsche Bank.
Good point...Deutsche Bank in the middle east who got a lawyer sacked after they questioned why constant shortages of cash there appeared to be due to allowing a small number of individuals to literally withdrawal cash in wheel barrows.
I think that the question of whether you can defame an international bank is a genuinely interesting question. It really requires extraordinary imagination to think of something that they haven't actually done multiple times.
Work for Rothschild & Co, the worst thing they can say about us is that we control the world.
If you are happy believing that, don’t research too deeply into Amschel’s unfortunate death.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
10 years of anti-Tory ranting on twitter and you only got 2000 followers....pretty poor return on investment.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
Don't suppose you're on mastodon? It's pretty good and it's nice not to have the ads or the algorithm but the politics part of my feed still feels a little bit high-minded, we could do with some pb people to lower the tone.
I know a lot of people have a bit of a go at him about invading a sovereign country for no good reason, killing a lot of Ukrainians and a lot of Russians too. But there's tea AND a shed load of petit fours on that table, together with a top dislpay of empathy.
Perhaps we've misjudged him and should give him a second chance. Who's with me?
Only question now is which seat they will those responsible be standing in at a future GE....
Cambridge University drinking society 'set student on fire who was hospitalised after being made to run with lit toilet roll tucked into his shorts in initiation ceremony'
I know a lot of people have a bit of a go at him about invading a sovereign country for no good reason, killing a lot of Ukrainians and a lot of Russians too. But there's tea AND a shed load of petit fours on that table, together with a top dislpay of empathy.
Perhaps we've misjudged him and should give him a second chance. Who's with me?
Vladimir Poutin Vlad “the Mad” Buntin Voldemyr Pulin
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
Don't suppose you're on mastodon? It's pretty good and it's nice not to have the ads or the algorithm but the politics part of my feed still feels a little bit high-minded, we could do with some pb people to lower the tone.
Somebody (might have been on here) told me that setting up is like trying to decipher the Voynich manuscript when you can't find your glasses (I'm paraphrasing). I'll get one of my students to do it for me.
@JavierBlas OIL MARKET: European Union diplomats suspended talks on the G7 Russian oil price cap, as Poland and the Baltic states objected to a proposal they consider too generous to Moscow | #OOTT
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
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.
F. F. S.
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.
"I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998.
It was cold and wet, walking to the Supremes Court his morning from Albert Embankment. Londoners were hurrying to their jobs with heads bowed, collars up and gloved hands clutching umbrellas against a driving rain. It was mundane. There was no sense of excitement and no indication anything in particular was happening at the Supreme Court. Arriving at 9am there was no queue, and I was the third person into the courtroom."
Craig ran a good website for a while, so long as nobody mentioned Scotland, and he was brave in the past. But he completely lost it a while back. Apparently Russian-speaking Ukrainians are just like English-speaking Scots. And Catalonia is just like Scotland too. Then there was covid. And the pigeon that sh*t on his head this morning was probably sent by Edward I. It definitely had that look on its beak. And Londoners just walked on by, as if nothing had happened!
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Only question now is which seat they will those responsible be standing in at a future GE....
Cambridge University drinking society 'set student on fire who was hospitalised after being made to run with lit toilet roll tucked into his shorts in initiation ceremony'
I hope the young man is OK. Severe burns to the inner thighs. Imagine if parents did that to an 18yo. They'd be up in court. "All the participants bar the injured student are said to have been encouraged to donate £50 to burns charities."
"I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998.
It was cold and wet, walking to the Supremes Court his morning from Albert Embankment. Londoners were hurrying to their jobs with heads bowed, collars up and gloved hands clutching umbrellas against a driving rain. It was mundane. There was no sense of excitement and no indication anything in particular was happening at the Supreme Court. Arriving at 9am there was no queue, and I was the third person into the courtroom."
Craig ran a good website for a while, so long as nobody mentioned Scotland, and he was brave in the past. But he completely lost it a while back. Apparently Russian-speaking Ukrainians are just like English-speaking Scots. And Catalonia is just like Scotland too. Then there was covid. And the pigeon that sh*t on his head this morning was probably sent by Edward I. It definitely had that look on its beak. And Londoners just walked on by, as if nothing had happened!
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
"I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998.
It was cold and wet, walking to the Supremes Court his morning from Albert Embankment. Londoners were hurrying to their jobs with heads bowed, collars up and gloved hands clutching umbrellas against a driving rain. It was mundane. There was no sense of excitement and no indication anything in particular was happening at the Supreme Court. Arriving at 9am there was no queue, and I was the third person into the courtroom."
Craig ran a good website for a while, so long as nobody mentioned Scotland, and he was brave in the past. But he completely lost it a while back. Apparently Russian-speaking Ukrainians are just like English-speaking Scots. And Catalonia is just like Scotland too. Then there was covid. And the pigeon that sh*t on his head this morning was probably sent by Edward I. It definitely had that look on its beak. And Londoners just walked on by, as if nothing had happened!
I know a lot of people have a bit of a go at him about invading a sovereign country for no good reason, killing a lot of Ukrainians and a lot of Russians too. But there's tea AND a shed load of petit fours on that table, together with a top dislpay of empathy.
Perhaps we've misjudged him and should give him a second chance. Who's with me?
I recently discovered that MIchael Portillo presents a better than average radio show on Times Radio on Friday evenings, (even though he's actually been doing it since May 2020). Today I found out that tonight's programme is his final show. Disappointing.
On topic. Thank you Mike for a brilliant diagram in the header - so many amazing things in there.
My main take out is supposing opinion poll leads were laid next to this with the eventual general election result, the double digit leads were likely less of a guide to the eventual result than the question asked in this survey. Look how much disagree Miliband is getting, at a time when polling probably looked hopeful. Most of the disagree Starmer has been getting last two years in the same ball park Cameron had in his first election year. Also interesting Blair got eleven point drop from 94 to the approaching election, election year is not anyones peak “ready”
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
I recently discovered that MIchael Portillo presents a better than average radio show on Times Radio on Friday evenings, (even though he's actually been doing it since May 2020). Today I found out that tonight's programme is his final show. Disappointing.
Only question now is which seat they will those responsible be standing in at a future GE....
Cambridge University drinking society 'set student on fire who was hospitalised after being made to run with lit toilet roll tucked into his shorts in initiation ceremony'
"I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998.
It was cold and wet, walking to the Supremes Court his morning from Albert Embankment. Londoners were hurrying to their jobs with heads bowed, collars up and gloved hands clutching umbrellas against a driving rain. It was mundane. There was no sense of excitement and no indication anything in particular was happening at the Supreme Court. Arriving at 9am there was no queue, and I was the third person into the courtroom."
Craig ran a good website for a while, so long as nobody mentioned Scotland, and he was brave in the past. But he completely lost it a while back. Apparently Russian-speaking Ukrainians are just like English-speaking Scots. And Catalonia is just like Scotland too. Then there was covid. And the pigeon that sh*t on his head this morning was probably sent by Edward I. It definitely had that look on its beak. And Londoners just walked on by, as if nothing had happened!
UDI!!
I wonder if, when he was ambassador in Uzbekistan, he thought he was representing a foreign country and dealt with his Uzbek hosts accordingly?
A few years ago I was in Tashkent, and, through a friend, met his successor who had had to clear up the mess he left behind there. Thank God Murray was ambassador in a relatively unimportant post, not Washington or we'd probably be at war with the Americans.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
As posted previously, you are advising in error.
But interestingly their preferred pronouns are they/them, even in RCS1000's post above.
Consistent singular would be:
"If Wales then beats England 4-0, then *it* moves up to 4 points as well"
This sounds odd to me. I would argue consistently using plurals sounds better, rather than switching from singular to plural in the same sentence, as RCS1000 does.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
It's over. The Truss farce was the final nail.
Who?
How soon we forget.
Sunak and Hunt are in charge. The Tories' election prospects depend upon how they manage the CoL crisis - and whether the voters think Starmer would have done any better. Scant evidence of that so far.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
As posted previously, you are advising in error.
But interestingly their preferred pronouns are they/them, even in RCS1000's post above.
Consistent singular would be:
"If Wales then beats England 4-0, then *it* moves up to 4 points as well"
This sounds odd to me. I would argue consistently using plurals sounds better, rather than switching from singular to plural in the same sentence, as RCS1000 does.
But in British English, correct usage does depend on context and can vary.
"England" is being used as shorthand for "The England Team", and it is correct usage to say "The England Team is making a determined bid for the trophy". But also correct usage to say "The England Team are at each other's throats".
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
As posted previously, you are advising in error.
But interestingly their preferred pronouns are they/them, even in RCS1000's post above.
Consistent singular would be:
"If Wales then beats England 4-0, then *it* moves up to 4 points as well"
This sounds odd to me. I would argue consistently using plurals sounds better, rather than switching from singular to plural in the same sentence, as RCS1000 does.
But in British English, correct usage does depend on context and can vary.
"England" is being used as shorthand for "The England Team", and it is correct usage to say "The England Team is making a determined bid for the trophy". But also correct usage to say "The England Team are at each other's throats".
Sure both are possible, I just don't like using both in the same sentence, as RCS does.
The reluctance to use "it" to describe any team, probably shows that we generally prefer to think of the team as several people.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
It's over. The Truss farce was the final nail.
Who?
How soon we forget.
Sunak and Hunt are in charge. The Tories' election prospects depend upon how they manage the CoL crisis - and whether the voters think Starmer would have done any better. Scant evidence of that so far.
The Tories would dearly like us to forget the run on the pound and mortgage interest hikes. It’s not going to happen. Once the Tories lost control, no amount of big tax rises or cuts to essential public services is going to butter up the electorate. It’s 360 degrees of failure.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
It's over. The Truss farce was the final nail.
Who?
How soon we forget.
Sunak and Hunt are in charge. The Tories' election prospects depend upon how they manage the CoL crisis - and whether the voters think Starmer would have done any better. Scant evidence of that so far.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
No. Although grammarians might say that, plural is the only form sanctioned by usage here. No style guides would allow singular.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
No. Although grammarians might say that, plural is the only form sanctioned by usage here. No style guides would allow singular.
Also on meaning intended. Are they acting collectively “the team are playing well” or individually “the team is not passing the ball enough”. Whichever, don’t mix collective & singular in the same sentence.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
The latest opinion poll Baxtered would give Labour a majority of over 300.
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
The writing's on the wall. The tory MPs know it. 18 months to go at the most and they're heading for a cull.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
It's over. The Truss farce was the final nail.
It's the hyperbole that let's you down: "1000x worse" and "annihilation".
Those are your emotions talking.
And there could still be over 2 years to go. January 2025 is the last possible date.
I expect the Tories to get about 30% in a GE (maybe a couple of points less) but tactical voting against them. There will be a clear defeat but not a total and utter wipe out.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
No. Although grammarians might say that, plural is the only form sanctioned by usage here. No style guides would allow singular.
Also on meaning intended. Are they acting collectively “the team are playing well” or individually “the team is not passing the ball enough”. Whichever, don’t mix collective & singular in the same sentence.
My point is that in British English usage, sports teams are plural. The singular that slips in - only on PB - grates.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
No. Although grammarians might say that, plural is the only form sanctioned by usage here. No style guides would allow singular.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
Don't suppose you're on mastodon? It's pretty good and it's nice not to have the ads or the algorithm but the politics part of my feed still feels a little bit high-minded, we could do with some pb people to lower the tone.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Who'd have thought Sadiq Khan would be the one to deliver Singapore-on-Thames?
That just goes to show you it's not really about congestion or ultra-low emissions.
It's about charging.
Don't electric vehicles cause congestion, or pollution (from tyres and brakes) etc?
I'm sure an excuse will be fabricated, but let's not depend this is anything but a revenue raising wheeze.
Electronic road tolls seem more of an aspiration than a plan (or wheeze) but if varied by road use would seem to tackle congestion and pollution. The devil is in the detail but there is no detail.
Curious thought experiment is what the Tories will run on at the next election.
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it. Vote for five more years of Conservative stability. Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
Russian propaganda using same actors and actresses over and over again is by far something new. They just do this so blatantly that it is an insult of anyone’s intelligence.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
You’ve clearly intimidated the resident pedants, as none picked up on that. It’s ‘tears in rain’.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Who'd have thought Sadiq Khan would be the one to deliver Singapore-on-Thames?
That just goes to show you it's not really about congestion or ultra-low emissions.
It's about charging.
Don't electric vehicles cause congestion, or pollution (from tyres and brakes) etc?
I'm sure an excuse will be fabricated, but let's not depend this is anything but a revenue raising wheeze.
Electronic road tolls seem more of an aspiration than a plan (or wheeze) but if varied by road use would seem to tackle congestion and pollution. The devil is in the detail but there is no detail.
If we all drive an electric car, there will be around a £35bn hole in the central government budget, and a few billion more from local authorities, with London most affected.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Who'd have thought Sadiq Khan would be the one to deliver Singapore-on-Thames?
That just goes to show you it's not really about congestion or ultra-low emissions.
It's about charging.
Don't electric vehicles cause congestion, or pollution (from tyres and brakes) etc?
I'm sure an excuse will be fabricated, but let's not depend this is anything but a revenue raising wheeze.
Electronic road tolls seem more of an aspiration than a plan (or wheeze) but if varied by road use would seem to tackle congestion and pollution. The devil is in the detail but there is no detail.
If we all drive an electric car, there will be around a £35bn hole in the central government budget, and a few billion more from local authorities, with London most affected.
Curious thought experiment is what the Tories will run on at the next election.
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it. Vote for five more years of Conservative stability. Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
I think Sunak & Hunt are hoping for a recovering economy “Don’t let Labour Wreck it” and a Major 92 outcome. That will be more difficult against Starmer than it was against Kinnock - and for Johnson fans, don’t forget his greatest asset - “Corbyn”.
Though given the backbench Tory nimbyism I suspect a Major 97 outcome much more likely.
Sadiq Khan is planning to roll out a “Singapore-style” network of toll roads across London once drivers have switched to electric vehicles.
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
Who'd have thought Sadiq Khan would be the one to deliver Singapore-on-Thames?
That just goes to show you it's not really about congestion or ultra-low emissions.
It's about charging.
Don't electric vehicles cause congestion, or pollution (from tyres and brakes) etc?
I'm sure an excuse will be fabricated, but let's not depend this is anything but a revenue raising wheeze.
Electronic road tolls seem more of an aspiration than a plan (or wheeze) but if varied by road use would seem to tackle congestion and pollution. The devil is in the detail but there is no detail.
If we all drive an electric car, there will be around a £35bn hole in the central government budget, and a few billion more from local authorities, with London most affected.
It’s about the revenue, and the control.
Motorway tolls are coming sooner or later.
If they are managed by the same utter retards who manage either the M6 Toll or the Mismanaged Motorway Sections of the M5/M6, prepare for gridlock on every A-road.
Curious thought experiment is what the Tories will run on at the next election.
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it. Vote for five more years of Conservative stability. Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
I think Sunak & Hunt are hoping for a recovering economy “Don’t let Labour Wreck it” and a Major 92 outcome. That will be more difficult against Starmer than it was against Kinnock - and for Johnson fans, don’t forget his greatest asset - “Corbyn”.
Though given the backbench Tory nimbyism I suspect a Major 97 outcome much more likely.
Vote Tory to avoid crazy, extremist leaders who wreck the economy? Vote for Sunak, not part of the global metropolitan elite.
Hmmm, not sure that the old leader attack lines can work this time.
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.
F. F. S.
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. 🤮
Shouldn't immigrants integrate with their host society?
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
No. Although grammarians might say that, plural is the only form sanctioned by usage here. No style guides would allow singular.
Also on meaning intended. Are they acting collectively “the team are playing well” or individually “the team is not passing the ball enough”. Whichever, don’t mix collective & singular in the same sentence.
My point is that in British English usage, sports teams are plural. The singular that slips in - only on PB - grates.
No, in British English the usual approach is for singular usage when the team is acting as a unit and plural usage when acting individually.
Curious thought experiment is what the Tories will run on at the next election.
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it. Vote for five more years of Conservative stability. Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
I guess it will have to be "Yes, we've f**ked everything up, but Labour will just make it all even worse" ?
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
@Liz_Wheeler 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
‘Cos Musk has no such plans to snoop on users’ stuff ? How dumb can you get ?
Also, what rocket to Mars ?
After some deliberation I have decided I am done with this fuckpiece and have deleted my Twitter account. 2,000+ followers, 10+ years of horrendous abuse of tories, a like from Gerry Adams and many, many suspensions... all gone. Like tears in the rain.
Did Gerry like one of your cake recipes?
Can't recall. I was possibly putting the hoof into some blueshirt prick in manner that caused that famous beard to be illuminated with a smile.
Russian propaganda using same actors and actresses over and over again is by far something new. They just do this so blatantly that it is an insult of anyone’s intelligence.
Curious thought experiment is what the Tories will run on at the next election.
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it. Vote for five more years of Conservative stability. Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
I guess it will have to be "Yes, we've f**ked everything up, but Labour will just make it all even worse" ?
Which is why I think Labour will win a comfortable Majority
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Tim Cook wants Apple to buy Manchester United soccer team
https://twitter.com/appleinsider/status/1595900222801989632
File under #PutinDon'tReallyGiveAFuck
But does he have the resources ? Developing a competitive system would be very expensive indeed. And he blew a lot of liquidity on Twitter.
Working with Midjourney, director Tristan Holmes created this video over a 30 day period entering prompts, using AI image generation of more than 10,000 frames, and creating frames to link the video together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUpVznI4Yc
A million views in a week.
What's the point of him saying stuff like this? Is it basically fluff?
What next? If he can't shift as many Teslas as he wants in Las Vegas, will he set up a rival gambling city too?
Even if you're Elon Musk, wanting to do certain things doesn't mean you'll be successful.
I know a lot of people have a bit of a go at him about invading a sovereign country for no good reason, killing a lot of Ukrainians and a lot of Russians too. But there's tea AND a shed load of petit fours on that table, together with a top dislpay of empathy.
Perhaps we've misjudged him and should give him a second chance. Who's with me?
Cambridge University drinking society 'set student on fire who was hospitalised after being made to run with lit toilet roll tucked into his shorts in initiation ceremony'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11469923/Cambridge-drinking-society-set-student-fire-lit-toilet-roll-shorts-initiation.html
Vlad “the Mad” Buntin
Voldemyr Pulin
Etc
OIL MARKET: European Union diplomats suspended talks on the G7 Russian oil price cap, as Poland and the Baltic states objected to a proposal they consider too generous to Moscow | #OOTT
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1596263593024303105
The London mayor said that road pricing will be introduced to replace the congestion charge and levies for the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) that could use a network of cameras across the capital.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/11/25/whole-london-hit-ulez-expansion-ordered-sadiq-khan/
Also Iran would have -2 g.d.
"I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998.
It was cold and wet, walking to the Supremes Court his morning from Albert Embankment. Londoners were hurrying to their jobs with heads bowed, collars up and gloved hands clutching umbrellas against a driving rain. It was mundane. There was no sense of excitement and no indication anything in particular was happening at the Supreme Court. Arriving at 9am there was no queue, and I was the third person into the courtroom."
Craig ran a good website for a while, so long as nobody mentioned Scotland, and he was brave in the past. But he completely lost it a while back. Apparently Russian-speaking Ukrainians are just like English-speaking Scots. And Catalonia is just like Scotland too. Then there was covid. And the pigeon that sh*t on his head this morning was probably sent by Edward I. It definitely had that look on its beak. And Londoners just walked on by, as if nothing had happened!
UDI!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11470885/Why-did-ex-Guardian-editor-liberal-chums-drill-rapper-platform.html
Took 2 secs to find out his real name given Mail provided very specific details of his previous offences.
Also...
Chinx revealed on Instagram how he has been ‘served with new licence conditions’ which prohibit him from entering Camden and Islington
The video, which cost £500 to make — and Chinx has now made thousands from — was filmed on the Cumberland Market Estate in Camden.
English (foreign) pish anarl
Honestly, both plural and singular can be correct for this, per the official rules of the language.
"Allow myself to introduce... myself." - Austin Powers.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20221125-12033/2022-11-25
My main take out is supposing opinion poll leads were laid next to this with the eventual general election result, the double digit leads were likely less of a guide to the eventual result than the question asked in this survey. Look how much disagree Miliband is getting, at a time when polling probably looked hopeful. Most of the disagree Starmer has been getting last two years in the same ball park Cameron had in his first election year. Also interesting Blair got eleven point drop from 94 to the approaching election, election year is not anyones peak “ready”
I look forward to the a thread header setting out the case for what I think is the likeliest outcome: tory annihilation.
The re-emergence of the Faragists on the right only adds to the tory woes. There's a reason that the young guns are leaving parliament. They think it's all over.
@MikeSmithson
A few years ago I was in Tashkent, and, through a friend, met his successor who had had to clear up the mess he left behind there. Thank God Murray was ambassador in a relatively unimportant post, not Washington or we'd probably be at war with the Americans.
It's about charging.
Don't get high on your own supply. We are still in the mid-terms.
Consistent singular would be:
"If Wales then beats England 4-0, then *it* moves up to 4 points as well"
This sounds odd to me. I would argue consistently using plurals sounds better, rather than switching from singular to plural in the same sentence, as RCS1000 does.
Been here, done that. It's 1992-97 but 1000x worse for the tories. These are the facts of the polls. The dye is cast. It was back then and only the fools failed to allow the penny to drop inside their heads.
It's over. The Truss farce was the final nail.
How soon we forget.
Sunak and Hunt are in charge. The Tories' election prospects depend upon how they manage the CoL crisis - and whether the voters think Starmer would have done any better. Scant evidence of that so far.
"England" is being used as shorthand for "The England Team", and it is correct usage to say "The England Team is making a determined bid for the trophy". But also correct usage to say "The England Team are at each other's throats".
The reluctance to use "it" to describe any team, probably shows that we generally prefer to think of the team as several people.
Labour 24% lead in the latest poll.
But you keep taking those blue pills MM
https://editorsmanual.com/articles/collective-nouns-singular-or-plural/
Also on meaning intended. Are they acting collectively “the team are playing well” or individually “the team is not passing the ball enough”. Whichever, don’t mix collective & singular in the same sentence.
https://news.sky.com/story/man-who-died-after-staying-at-manston-migrant-processing-centre-had-diphtheria-12755695 https://twitter.com/robpowellnews/status/1596401346147545089/photo/1
Mr. Pillsbury, if the dye is cast there may be no woad to recovery for the blues.
Those are your emotions talking.
And there could still be over 2 years to go. January 2025 is the last possible date.
I expect the Tories to get about 30% in a GE (maybe a couple of points less) but tactical voting against them. There will be a clear defeat but not a total and utter wipe out.
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https://twitter.com/marcuscarslaw1/status/1596187493551988736?s=46&t=aAnqBX516R2UI3JeY68l4A
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/sports/soccer/us-soccer-england-tie-draw-world-cup.html
"England expects every man to do his duty" and JOIN THE ARMY TO-DAY
Mind you with the grocer's quote marks, England for the UK and the hyphen in today, that poster has issues.
Labour will likely win with a modest majority - caveats apply of course!
The country is an utter mess, don’t let Labour ruin it.
Vote for five more years of Conservative stability.
Your taxes are the highest they have ever been.
What’s going to be the offer to secure that third/fourth term?
Russian propaganda using same actors and actresses over and over again is by far something new. They just do this so blatantly that it is an insult of anyone’s intelligence.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1596228203617681409
It’s ‘tears in rain’.
It’s about the revenue, and the control.
Though given the backbench Tory nimbyism I suspect a Major 97 outcome much more likely.
Vote for Sunak, not part of the global metropolitan elite.
Hmmm, not sure that the old leader attack lines can work this time.
https://robinmcalpine.org/when-lost-stop-following-what-led-you-here/