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The strikes: The Tories are struggling to win public support – politicalbetting.com
The strikes: The Tories are struggling to win public support – politicalbetting.com
Significant majority support for both the nurses and ambulance strikes, ?@YouGov? finds, as opposed to rail strikes (which is draining). The Government will lose both disputes humiliatingly unless it wins round public opinion, and it’s inflation argument isn’t working. pic.twitter.com/AkjCAC4kQ1
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Yet again.
Now - off on a Rodent Hunt.
I do feel sorry for the surely blameless driving examiners. It does seem the Great British Public welcomes threats to its life but has no time for petty inconvenience.
The crematoriums operating 24/7, they aren't burning the bodies of COVID patients, they are just operating as community centres where people go to keep warm....
If you are going to fiddle your numbers as least make them vaguely plausable.
Interesting, but not surprising, to see opposition to the rail strikes growing. Striking over last weekend was a really shabby thing to do given the issues with hospitality and city centres in general over the previous three years and the "nasty man made me do it" argument is not working.
I expect similar with the postal workers now they are striking, in spite an offer of talks, on the 23rd and 24th.
The ham fisted way the Westminster govt have handled the dispute in England is giving the devolved administration a free run.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64052327?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1605027934095347712
Except the balls being referred to have nothing to do with your testicles, it comes from the ball shaped grips on an aircraft's joystick and throttle, where balls to the wall was to push the plane to maximum speed analogous to pedal to the metal for cars.
From last year, there is some cracker in here along the same lines...
The Holier-Than-Thou Crusade in San Francisco - The city’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.
The committee’s research seems to have consisted mostly of cursory Google searches, and the sources cited were primarily Wikipedia entries or similar. Historians were not consulted. Embarrassing errors of interpretation were made, as well as rudimentary factual errors. Robert Louis Stevenson, perhaps the most beloved literary figure in the city’s history, was canceled because in a poem titled “Foreign Children” in his famous collection A Child’s Garden of Verses, he used the rhyming word Japanee for Japanese. Paul Revere Elementary School ended up on the renaming list because, during the discussion, a committee member misread a History.com article as claiming that Revere had taken part in an expedition that stole the lands of the Penobscot Indians. In fact, the article described Revere’s role in the Penobscot Expedition, a disastrous American military campaign against the British during the Revolutionary War. (That expedition was named after a bay in Maine.) But no one bothered to check, the committee voted to rename the school, and by order of the San Francisco school board Paul Revere will now ride into oblivion.
The committee also failed to consistently apply its one-strike-and-you’re-out rule. When one member questioned whether Malcolm X Academy should be renamed in light of the fact that Malcolm was once a pimp, and therefore subjugated women, the committee decided that his later career redeemed his earlier missteps. Yet no such exceptions were made for Lincoln, Jefferson, and others on the list.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/san-francisco-renaming-spree/617894/
Mind you he also used to go lamping and had to stop that when New Labour implemented the foxhunting ban which may not be ideal legislation but wound up the right people.
I had thought they may have accepted it given that.
With perhaps a further 2% paid later if inflation remains above a specified limit on 1st July.
Anything above these number, the nurses can't win. Because the Govt. cannot concede the war on inflation. Even to cuddly nurses, holding arms full of kittens.
The workers who have most earned my respect in recent days were the electrical cable guys, restoring power to high voltage cables in minus degree temperatures and 50 mph winds. No fussing, just getting on with putting the lights back on.
https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/why-is-everyone-coming-down-with-the-same-horrid-monster-cold-122022
The Good Lady Wife is about three days behind me in her travails with it.
More voters also oppose the rail workers and baggage handlers strike than support them.
The government should therefore focus on some deal with the nurses, maybe a one off additional payment, while ignoring the rest
Given that the vote to reject the offer was 82% I suspect there is a lot of long term ill will being vented here.
Man, 88, sparks hospital evacuation in France after arriving with a WWI artillery shell stuck in his rectum
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562045/French-man-sparks-hospital-evacuation-arriving-WWI-artillery-shell-stuck-rectum.html
In the wake of Clarkson’s diatribe, we urgently need to challenge the role the media plays in perpetuating misogynistic attitudes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/the-sun-jeremy-clarkson-women-media
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In a discussion about the milkshake’s unlikely transformation into a tool of protest – I think I truly out-lefted myself when I tutted about the food waste – Brand drily remarked: “I’m thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”
Brand, asked to be on the panel to be humorous because she is a comedian, who tells jokes, which sometimes involve exaggeration or saying things that are taboo, not because they are the truth but because they are funny, found herself dragged over the coals.
They manufactured hurt feelings to gain political ground, which is a snowflake move if ever there was one. This deliberate false offence popped up again last week, when Philip Pullman tweeted: “When I hear the name ‘Boris Johnson’, for some reason the words ‘rope’ and ‘nearest lamp-post’ come to mind as well.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/31/jo-brand-such-a-mistake-to-take-comedians-seriously
Really stuck (so to speak) on what that is - possibly a 1930s Boehler 47mm antitank or some sort of 57mm 6 pounder, but it's too short for a Hotchkiss.
https://www.cnews.fr/faits-divers/2022-12-20/toulon-il-arrive-aux-urgences-avec-un-obus-dans-lanus-lhopital-est-evacue
But they erred on the side of caution. Bomb squad confirm it is safe
Après analyse, les démineurs ont écarté tout risque d’explosion.
Lots of people got I’ll in winter before covid came along. Lots are getting colds now too. I’ve had two in four months, both happily mild. Trouble is people have started fixated a bit, especially in the media.
Wow, that's a shock. That could never have been predicted.
And how could the bombsquad possibly tell from what was visible, whether it was safe? Unless he loaded himself back to front.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64003237
Unless they have U-Turn'ed on a U-Turn this is fake news...
The original version of this included password sharing, but it was quickly removed.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meta-counterfeit-and-piracy-campaign
Used a replica Sharps in brass cartridge 0.50-90, hand loaded with low flash powder, with a huge flash suppressor and an Israeli night sight. Talk about blending your technologies.
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There is quite a long, but interesting article on Slate about Chinese traditional medicine.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/traditional-chinese-medicine-origins-mao-invented-it-but-didnt-believe-in-it.html
The theory was that you wouldn’t just wound a fox with that. Either it kind of evaporated when hit, or you missed completely.
It also looks as if the primer is missing from the cartridge case, ergo no propellant or at least not too easily initiated. IANAE but my assumption is that Monsieur Felix was going on the likelihood that the projectile was either solid shot or fuzed in such a way as to be explosive only on firing from the gun, and also if it was inert in the cartridge then the shell was probably also inerted. And the owner of the thing might have been able to confirm that, being a re-enactor..
(When I was very small I once found a projectile at the seaside c 1960 when looking for crabs and took it home to show mummy and daddy in the seaside chalet . Ordnance Disposal had to be called. But it was a solid 2pdr 40mm shot from WW2, as the old man told me years later. . I can now find maps showing that at least two 2-pdr antitank pillboxes overlooked that beach ...).
This is getting to the stage of blaming the last Labour government for current economic ills.
The term is perhaps best known to the general intelligent PBer in this painting, rather unfortunately title din the context of this discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Loftus_Screwing_a_Breech-ring
Employees were told there was a serious incident affecting network connectivity at the media group’s King’s Cross headquarters this morning.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/21/guardian-staff-shut-office-newspaper-suffers-glitch/
"A government website allowing people to sign up for free voter ID documents will not be ready in time for a publicity campaign about the electoral changes, the Guardian has learned, increasing fears that large numbers of people could be disfranchised.
Ministers are intent on going ahead with introducing mandatory photo ID at local elections across England in May, despite a timetable so compressed that the Electoral Commission has warned the elections cannot be conducted properly."
Well, that all sounds fine...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/64050489
You're missing out.
So I am told.
Which reminds me, I have imagined John Major getting pegged senseless.
Thanks Edwina.
Not the same kind of coverage when people kill foxes, whether on horseback or not.
And why is "common person" acceptable, and "normal person" not ?
I have some sympathy with reasonable efforts not to be offensive, but this is just stupid (Latin root, stupefacio - of which they appear also to be unaware).
'Heroes' is over-egging it, though.
The leaders of the UK and Ireland’s bid to host Euro 2028 have been warned that Uefa is growing frustrated over delays in agreeing guarantees around policing, airports, tax exemptions and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The UK and Ireland have submitted a joint bid to host the tournament and are up against Turkey in the Uefa vote, which is due to take place in September.
It is understood that Turkey has signed off all of its guarantees already, while Uefa had far fewer issues with the Euro 2024 hosts, Germany, than the UK and Irish bid. The message has been passed to bid leaders that they need to sort out the guarantees as a matter of urgency.
The issue with Spurs’ stadium is in relation to the naming rights — Uefa’s rules insist on a “clean”, unbranded venue and insiders at the European governing body say an agreement has still to be reached with the club.
Spurs, who have been in talks with Google and other companies about the naming rights, insist that they have agreed with Uefa to find “an acceptable solution”. Although Uefa rates the Tottenham ground very highly as a potential venue for the Euros, insiders say it will not accept any compromise that would affect its commitment to “clean” stadiums.
There are no similar issues with the other branded stadiums on the list, the Etihad in Manchester and Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, which have both provided the guarantees that they will be known as the City of Manchester Stadium and the Dublin Stadium.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uefa-warns-uk-and-ireland-over-euro-2028-bid-wklbk8n9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2-SG0S5orA
We'll get some sort of split study about reactions to richer people "paying a little more" to fund higher pay for health workers. Depending what the other Govts end up with in their deals.
Ditto for Donald Trumps's Republican Party. For same basic reason: grifters gotta grift.
The Hill - Greene and Boebert trade public barbs over McCarthy, ‘space lasers’
Tension between conservative firebrand Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has spilled into public view, with the two trading barbs over House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) Speakership ambitions, controversial and fringe statements Greene has made, and Boebert’s narrow reelection. . . .
“You know, I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” Boebert told conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA conference when asked about Greene’s support for McCarthy. “I don’t believe in this, just like I don’t believe in Russian space lasers — Jewish space lasers and all of this.”
Boebert’s comment was a reference to a 2018 Facebook post from Greene in which she floated that a “laser beam or light beam” from “space solar generators” could be to blame for wildfires in California, also mentioning the “Rothschild Inc.” Greene later said she did not know the Rothschilds have long been at the center of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Greene fired back at Boebert on Twitter on Monday evening, noting Boebert’s slimmer-than-expected reelection win and accusing her of being childish.
“I’ve supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. President Trump has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. Kevin McCarthy has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. She just barely came through by 500 votes,” Greene said. “She gladly takes our $$$ but when she’s been asked: Lauren refuses to endorse President Trump, she refuses to support Kevin McCarthy, and she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite.”
Boebert responded to Greene in comments to the Daily Caller on Monday, saying she supports Trump and that he is the leader of the Republican Party. . . .
But they have taken very different stances on whether McCarthy should be Speaker.
Boebert has withheld support for McCarthy, saying that her “red line” is restoring any member’s ability to make a “motion to vacate the chair” to force a vote on ousting the Speaker.
Greene, on the other hand, has emerged as one of McCarthy’s most vocal supporters, warning that a more moderate alternative could win the Speakership if House Republicans do not unify around him.
McCarthy has pledged to put Greene back on committees after she was stripped of her assignments over social media interactions, but Greene has said McCarthy has not made any promises regarding which committees she might sit on. . . .
“I’ve been asked to explain MTG’s belief in Jewish space lasers, why she showed up to a white supremacist’s conference, and now why she’s blindly following Kevin McCarthy and I’m not going to go there,” Boebert said. . . .
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3782233-greene-and-boebert-trade-public-barbs-over-mccarthy-space-lasers/
Can't think why they haven't voted for it.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/labour-right-cheers-gmb-union-result/
'believed to be'? If they don't know, who does?
It seems as though hydrogen from renewables technology might have made quite a lot of progress.
https://twitter.com/gnievchenko/status/1545409816130207744
Hydrogen efficiency will beat expectations🥊
After spending the last six months looking at cutting edge hydrogen tech I believe that the prevailing view that hydrogen is inefficient needs an update.
There’s much innovation to be excited about on the horizon.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3782785-electoral-count-act-set-to-deliver-another-blow-to-trump/