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Starmer remains solid 71% favourite to be PM after the election – politicalbetting.com
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Those who clap their hands with joy at the thought of such a result will probably feel the same as most do now and after 5 yrs of new new Labour. Its a smoke and mirrors job. They are all as bad as each other.
https://twitter.com/dankackroyd/status/1613452441176969216?s=46&t=qPR8Nlw_T685eEX6wNV1Tw
The Tories are crap.
Another cracking article here....
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/damar-hamlins-collapse-highlights-the-violence-black-men-experience-in-football/
Zero facts, just opinion. Exactly the same point could be made about sports like Ice Hockey, which is overwhelmingly white (and on average don't get paid as much). If you want to argue college sports are unfair because the athletes aren't fairly remunerated, that is one thing (and true across all the sports), but NFL is racist because too many black people are good at it.
Sex claim at No 10 lockdown party
Some of Boris Johnson’s aides are believed to have had sex at 10 Downing Street during a party that took place during lockdown on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
Two couples were seen by numerous witnesses becoming intimate with each other at the gathering of aides and officials, which continued past 4am. One pair were seen “feeling each other up” in a kitchen before retiring to a dark room from which they later emerged “flustered”. The other pair were seen going into an office “with the lights off”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-partygate-joked-about-lack-of-social-distancing-at-downing-street-lockdown-event-qh5fcw9pz (£££)
Flustered. That's a good word. Hope it doesn't get cancelled.
They are pitifully formulaic, they are meaningless drivel, and - quite amusingly - ChatGPT actually writes them BETTER
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1281023987242487808
By the way, I don't support Borises return, just think he'd be marginally better than the current Government. As would a horde of visigoths or a plague of newts.
Also “sent”, “were” and “in”
So only around 1.4% saving if same rules.
I don't think the Wokeocalypse is upon us just yet.
So there is little further room for swing to the LDs. Instead while there will be a swing from Conservative to Labour there might also be some swing from LD to Labour too now Starmer is Labour leader not Corbyn
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_local_elections
The recent Amazon adaptation has black elves and dwarves - and why not?
Is the value in the 9/1 for neither PM Sunak nor PM Starmer after the next election?
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=343496
...The proportions of fossil fuel and LNG will fall to 14.4 percent and 9.3 percent in 2036, down from 41.9 percent and 26.8 percent in 2018, respectively...
US benefits from Korea's lack of interest in solar power industry
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=343499
The Yoon Suk Yeol administration's obvious preference for nuclear energy over renewables has unintentionally created thousands of new jobs in the U.S. solar power industry, as Korean companies began shifting their focus to the North American market from the shrinking domestic market, according to industry officials, Thursday.
After Hanwha Solutions held a press conference on Wednesday to announce its $2.5-billion investment to build North America's largest solar module manufacturing complex in the state of Georgia, ..
This report demonstrates that the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which aims to change the law regulating legal sex change for those born or resident in Scotland, will fundamentally alter the law relating to equal opportunities across the United Kingdom.
The report argues that the United Kingdom Government can – and should – make a section 35 order under the Scotland Act 1998 to block Royal assent for the Bill, which would prevent it from becoming law.
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-scottish-gender-recognition-reform-bill/
The last YouGov has Conservatives 25%, Labour 46%, LDs 9% (RefUK 7%) . On the same adjustment this would give the locals Conservatives 24% (-4%), Labour 45% (+17%) and LDs 15% (-4%).
Labour to gain lots of seats from Conservatives and LDs, will little change movement between Conservatives and LDs.
One difference between the opinion polls in 2019 and now is the 8% difference between Brexit and RefUK votes - those voters have appeared to go to Labour (looking at pure % movements) but are they the voters who actually vote in locals?
I am in Bangkok. Today I needed a prescription. I emailed a doctor this morning, they gave me a video consult at noon, they filled the prescription this afternoon and the pills have been biked to my hotel just now. Total cost: £60.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1613479438058131463?s=20&t=pwEQ1cNXg_M83EtleNHyrg
Unless this was a subtle plan….
So Conservative councillors where the LDs are in second place should be OK but Conservative councillors where Labour are the main challengers are at significant risk of losing their seats unless in ultra safe rural wards.
As you say Labour might even pick up some council seats from the LDs too
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/prince-harry-spare-book-frostbite-penis-todger.html
...“Superficial frostbite normally doesn’t prove to have many long-term consequences, but deep frostbite can have very severe consequences, including amputation,” McIntosh said. Harry did not confirm the ultimate outcome for his own case, but Comiter, the Stanford doctor, assumes he was fine. “It would be very unlikely that he would have lost his penis and not spoken about it to Anderson Cooper,” he said...
At the St John & Elizabeth hospital in St John's Wood they offer something similar - though you can also get a hour's face to face consultation with an actual doctor - for between £100 and £120.
Congress gave the FAA billions for the NextGen Air Transport System, and the FAA squandered the money on a massive project that was started in 2007 and isn't expected to be ready until 2030, after 23 years of development. Few expect it to be completed even by that late date, if ever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportation_System
Doesn’t this sound remakably similar, to a bunch of large-scale public sector projects at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean?
The problem is, I think, that most of Britain would balk at a cost of £60. You or I might think that reasonable; I suspect well over half the country would perceive that as impossibly and unmanageably expensive. They will grudgingly sit in out of hours for five hours waiting to see a GP, but having been conditioned over the last 70 years to expect healthcare to be free (I think most people still don't pay for prescriptions) any increase on 'free' is seen as unacceptable.
I don't know for sure, of course. But it would be interesting to yougov your anecdote and see if people prefer the sound of that system to the one we have. My suspicion is that the ROW system of efficient-but-you-pay-for-it would be rejected by the British. (There is, of course, a psychological phenomenon at play here that humans typically value more greatly what they have than what they could have in its stead.)
This is not because Sunak is the best possible leader. More that the resulting chaos and infighting will more than negate any potential improvement from any candidate likely to on offer.
If I had been unfortunate enough to lose my penis, very, very few people would get to hear of it. I certainly wouldn't tell someone writing a book about me.
I’m not sure how much the £6 fee dampens demand, but the insurance company and the hospital must think it enough to bother with the admin costs associated with the billing.
The NHS needs to think outside the box, and look at what works elsewhere. Looking from afar, the two major issues appear to be getting people out of hospital who should be somewhere else, and the GP services doing less than the bare minimum with little oversight or accountability. Structurally, the GP as the gateway to most other services creates a single point of failure.
1. I called GP, for me, for something I knew enough about that it could be serious but if I had it I would probably be already dead or at least very obviously ill, which I was not (so, low likelihood, high impact). Called 0800, phone back from GP 0840 with quite detailed discussion, in person GP appointment that afternoon at 1400, in hospital 1700, CT scan 2330. At that point (CT scan showed no major problem) things slowed down and I wasn't out until 2100 following day after some other investigations.
2. Called GP for my daughter 0800, call back at 0830 with in person appointment 0930. Back home with antibiotics by 1030.
There are, very clearly, many places where primary care sucks, but it's not universal. Here we also have an excellent minor injuries unit, which we have used a number of times and generally get seen, turning up without appointment, within 30 minutes. These (GP and minor injuries unit) are located in a fairly deprived town, although serving some affluent areas too.
My best friend went to Warwick, small world! What did you study there?
*And HYUFD. And me.
What we need is to stop giving old people and pensioners a triple lock, we need house prices to come down massively and we need to massively increase housing supply.
Until then, they're done
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/12/rishi-sunak-news-latest-strikes-starmer-labour-nhs-inflation/ https://twitter.com/TelePolitics/status/1613497636165763073/photo/1
Even the BMJ could see where this was going…
https://www.bmj.com/content/336/7647/748 (paywalled article, but hints in the summary with regard to “career planning” reasons).
Is this why Allegro Stratton looked just so bashful denying the lockdown party to camera?
At least some people in the country thought lockdown and social distancing was mad and not worth complying with, because they come out of this the winners don’t they? Take the different students for example. Those who partied through lockdown like Tories were are now good and healthy and probably in a relationship - those who followed the government message now alone and on citalopram.
Distance needs to pass before history books can sum the big picture up correctly, but it’s getting there? 1) ring fence the old and vulnerable, everyone else get on with parties and sex 2) don’t let NHS backlog get in such a state that the backlog wipes out as many as those save by lockdowns
Starmer has gone out of his way to avoid the EU debate at the next election. Khan risks undoing most of that good work.