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Now we have polling on who’s been the “PM of the Year” – politicalbetting.com
Now we have polling on who’s been the “PM of the Year” – politicalbetting.com
This year will go down as one which has seen more changes at Number ten Downing Street than just about anybody can remember. This has prompted the Manchester-based pollster Omnisis to include a question that I’ve never seen before – “Who has been the best PM of the year”?
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Still one good thing about Truss, it tells us who are the best anti tipsters on PB.
It was a couple of days after the budget-that-wasn't.
It's why I won £500 from a fellow PBer.
Truss's problem wasn't being too ambitious politically. It was being as mad as a box of frogs.
Still not a Christmas film.
People who think Die Hard is a Christmas film also think Truss would make/was a fine PM.
Ironic cheers from the audience.
Worth a listen, if you have the spare time.
Truss also seemed to forget that Thatcher put up taxes first to stabilise the economy/finances then was in a position to cut taxes later on.
Being PM isn't easy.
Colleagues going down like nine pins with the dreaded lurgi. Glad I am not managing the rota over the long weekend.
It was almost child-like, the way she turned on her parents/teachers and interpreted the behaviour of that air hostess, in her anecdotes during the leadership campaign.
You can’t expect to be taken seriously as a grown up politician if you try to weaponise your irrational teenage angst.
She’s barely mature enough to be an MP, let alone hold serious political power.
What were the Tory members thinking?
The public agree with me.
Die Hard 4 and 5 are awful, if Liz Truss decided to make movies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/23/why-tax-cutting-poland-leaving-britains-work-shy-economy-dust/ (£££)
So I think that makes me a good tipster on PB
Will report back.
Who cares about that?
Pair jailed for 6 years and 11 months for targeting wealthy victims in order to rob them of their valuables
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/22/robbers-used-drugged-cigarettes-steal-rolexes-victims-court/ (£££)
The Telegraph's crime story offers a timely warning of the dangers of smoking but is there any detail they may have left out from this story? You know, I think there might be. Here are a couple of sentences describing what happened:-
First victim: They offered him a rolled-up cigarette; second victim:after offering him a roll-up cigarette.
Dangerous things, roll-ups.
She recognised things were complex and spent years on her plan and approach with bright people in the late 70s.
Then, in office, she was the consummate politician. Often making deals and trade-offs.
What we think of as Thatcher is the myth and how she changed post 1987, when, coincidentally, she went rapidly out of favour.
Which raises very serious question marks about the fitness of the Conservative party membership to be involved in determining who is our PM. The same membership, of course, who thought IDS was a good idea for, well, anything really. It's not as if Labour's membership is any better. Repeatedly voting for Corbyn when almost the entire Parliamentary party were fully aware that he was totally unsuited to the role was equally eccentric.
I think both parties need to have a serious think and discussion about this. Democracy only works when the electorate is both informed and sane. The membership of our major parties are neither. So how do we choose?
Hannibal Barca isn't even the most famous Hannibal in history with Hannibal Lecter and Col John 'Hannibal' Smith more famous. Heck even Hannibal Smith was a better military strategist than the loser from Carthage.
This is just how lots of organisations and charities do it.
The complacency of Gergovia, Dyrrachium, and the Ides of March are the hallmarks of Caesar. Whereas Hannibal was hamstrung by the foolish political antics of Hanno, Rome's greatest ally.
Compare the finest battles. Who speaks of Pharsalus in the same breath as Cannae, save to compare the predictable with the incredible?
One day, he might learn.
None of them would probably win that too.
Old King Cole, now back from hospital, and with his own, decent, Wi-Fi. Get it any sort of decent Wi-Fi reception in the last hospital. I was in was very difficult.
However, I am now back in the bosom of my family, with my own systems around me. Not at all mobile, but that will come
But one of them is the least shit of the three.
So far, that's Sunak, who hasn't misled Parliament, been accused of corruption or blown up his own premiership through mindless arrogance and stupidity.
The fact that he's the idiot who thought Nick Gibb and Suella Braverman were fit to serve in government does say a lot and not in a good way, but he's still better than his rivals.
Hannibal faced serious opposition from Marcellus, Nero, Scipio, Quintus Fabius Maximus. Caesar's opponents were a massively outmanned Vercingetorix and a feeble Pompey.
Two weeks later the nation starts paying attention. Labour should have been on this since then hammering the capitalist exploiters, the government and anyone else they could think of, now Shapps is taking the lead so if petrol prices start to fall and margins fall it will be the government who gets credit.
Labour are going to win by default in 2024, not because they're any good. For over a month the public have been being ripped off by the petrol forecourt cartel and they've been completely silent.
Kind of how I was right that I needed to focus on losing weight, even if my actual actions included no exercise and gorging myself on snacks.
Rishi as PM has repaired some of the damage of Truss as PM, with the Tories falling below 20% in some polls under Truss. However hard not to think at the moment the Conservatives would have been better off keeping Boris, too late to go back now
Just under £1.40 for unleaded and £1.57 for diesel.
Costco are seemingly the only game in town charging fairly.
It's like they have no clue how recent it is it even became a thing. Despite lies from some MP moaners member figures continued their general trend after the rule came in. And they seem to have no sense or what to do in an urgent situation.
Christ, they are moaning about not voting for Sunak but the fact is no one stood against him, even though Boris could have.
He didn't have to accept being named dictator for life. Admittedly with the benefit of his predecessor's example of how not to do things, Augustus never sought or accepted such a title and claimed to be merely the Princeps. He was always careful to respect the Senate and while pre-eminent in power did not try to assert the dictatorial authority (in the Roman sense) that Caesar had been content to claim.
Have a Happy Christmas. I'm off to start my shopping.
Truss had 12 years as an MP and 8 years in senior posts. She wasnt widely hated. On paper she looked ok.
Even her pandering in the leadership campaign is what you'd expect. Her problem wasnt lack of experience it was that she didn't prepare her MPs for her plans, and had zero answers for the press or public either when there was a bad reaction. Her problem was laziness.
"Misericordia mea effusa est sicut aqua." - "My mercy has been poured out like water."
That’s such a striking phrase. Where is it from? Has ChatGPT completely invented this, in Latin?
Incidentally, the 1812 Overture is splendid. Interesting that the Battle Symphony is less heard nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWxroBVRaY
Edited extra bit: it may be because the musket is one of the rarer instruments these days...
“Misericordia mea effusa est sicut aqua" is a quote from the Bible, specifically from the Old Testament book of Lamentations. It appears in chapter 3, verse 22 and is often translated as "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end." The phrase is often used to express the idea of God's enduring love and mercy.
I hope this additional context is helpful. Please let me know if you have any further questions.”
'Mea' would imply it is God, and I'm doubtful about that (doesn't sound right as a whole). But 'tua' is commoner it seems.
http://www.sacredbible.org/studybible/OT-21_Psalms.htm
Great question Omnisis.
Caesar was logistically excellent and had a great strategic mind, for the most part, but tactically he was simplistic compared to Hannibal (and faced weaker opposition). Making reckless attacks that fail is not the hallmark of a general to compare with Alexander or Hannibal. That complacency carried through to his assumption not merely of the function but the title of absolute power. And that in a nation where the name of king was anathema.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#Graphical_summary
You are about the only PBer on here not voting Tory under Boris and telling the Tories to get rid of Boris now voting Tory under Sunak
https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1605981531448672259
But there's not reading maps and not reading maps.
The first duty of a foreign secretary is to have some idea of where the borders of the country in question are.
Doesn't detract from the fact Lavrov's a lightweight dick who makes Acland-Hood look competent and Cummings look honest, but it was just extraordinary Truss hadn't even read a briefing note.
No, it really isn't.
It's only unfair personally but she should never have self-promoted for a job that was far beyond her capabilities.
If Johnson returns I'd vote Labour even if they were led by Richard Burgon or Zarah Sultana.
It was her mad policies that did for her and crashed the markets, not that she was thick or incompetent
The best adjective for Truss is that she was an incompetent.
[jokes]
“Misericordia mea effusa est sicut aqua“ does not get any google hits. So it seems that ChatGPT invented it out of nothing, then - when quizzed - felt weirdly guilty and created a bogus but plausible sounding Biblical source