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The local elections could be tainted – politicalbetting.com
Chaos could hit English local elections because of ‘too strict’ photo ID for voters https://t.co/akcH49lxeN
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Labour: 300-400 seats
Tories 100-275 seats
Lib Dems: 20+ seats
Greens: 1 seat
Reform: 0 seats
SNP: 30-45 seats
Likewise one wouldn't say 'from whence', unless it was necessary for euphony [edit] or stress.
This explicitly and carefully gave a veto to the largest party on each side of The Divide in Northern Ireland.
This apparently was AOK when SF wanted to halt the peace process because some officious police officer was investigating murders too enthusiastically or whatever.
The Unionist leaders were supposed, it seems , to deliver their parties consent to whatever SF needed. And get not much for it.
Now the DUP have wised up and are playing the same game as SF - Give us what we want, fuck over the others and if you don’t, there may be accidents.
Lord Trimble warned about this a decade back. He was told to shut up for his trouble.
1) advertise for face-eating leopards.
2) hire some face-eating leopards.
3) reward the most enthusiastically face-eating leopards.
4) congratulate them on their face eating
5) give the leopards who don’t eat faces nothing.
6) wonder why you are up to your nuts in face-eating leopards.
“The Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak, according to a classified intelligence report wsj.com/articles/covid… via @WSJ”
https://twitter.com/danielnasaw/status/1629840256877965312?s=61&t=raLL5JKfj_BYke5HoVBiYw
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/ron-desantis-supported-ukraine-russia-kfile/index.html
A traitor to the West.
Sunak and Starmer Similarities/Differences (23 February):
Majorities of British voters think Sunak and Starmer are different from each other in terms of their...
Personalities (67%)
Policies (59%)
Upbringings (59%)
Principles & Values (59%)
Professional experiences (52%)
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Sunak vs Starmer on policy:
A majority of voters think Sunak and Starmer have similar policies on Ukraine (56%)
44% think they have similar policies on the pandemic and relations with the United States.
59% think they have different policies on the NHS and taxation.
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1629844361201451008
… Sittingbourne, from whence we had a famous pair of horses …— Jane Austen, letter, 24 Oct. 1798
…addressed to this place, from whence it will be forwarded to me …— Lord Byron, letter, 31 Aug. 1809
If it’s good enough for Shakespeare, Byron, Austen, Tolkien and The Book of Common Prayer, then it’s good enough for me.
How much do Britons think a new Government led by Keir Starmer would change the current Government’s policies? (23 February)
A significant amount 29%
A fair amount 42%
A slight amount 17%
Nothing at all 12%
“Now that the U.S. Department of Energy has joined FBI in concluding that the coronavirus likely leaked from a lab, it’s worth remembering that the media, en masse, condemned the lab leak theory as a “debunked conspiracy theory,” and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it”
“It’s clear that the scientists who claimed in Lancet, on Feb 19, 2020, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” were misrepresenting their unfounded opinion as a scientific fact.”
https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1629849975449608192?s=61&t=raLL5JKfj_BYke5HoVBiYw
Jeremy Farrar, ex head of the Wellcome Trust, signed that absolutely fraudulent and mendacious Lancet letter. He knew it was a pack of lies
Why isn’t he on trial?
Officials have worked very hard to make sure people know, but millions will still have no clue, and that could well include lots of elderly Tories.
The party is going to be whalloped in May and I doubt this will help. Sunak will survive, if the Boris faction are unable to capitalise on NI in advance.
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/843780/view/acanthostega-and-ichthyostega-tetrapods-illustration
On the world ending, in No Morning After
It would be the best thing that could possibly happen. Yes, it would save a whole lot of misery. No one would have to worry about the Russians and the atom bomb and the high cost of living.
On taxation policy, in Armaments Race
There's a British film industy?
Sure there is. It's in a very flourishing condition too. The government piles on an entertainments tax that drives it to bankruptcy, then keeps it alive with whacking big grants. That's the way we do things in this country.
Now all we have to do is have is have it confirmed that Truss surprised o the upside and your reputation is sealed.
She is the one out of the three who looks like a winner.
"If you don't support the government you lose the whip and any chance of standing as a Tory MP at the next election."
Would that work?
He also has a pilot's licence I believe, I hope this doesn't cause Dura Ace too much pain.
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1629853013207597059?s=20
https://www.thesocialreview.co.uk/2023/02/26/two-become-one-how-mergers-affect-the-trade-union-movement/
https://twitter.com/SundayTimesSco/status/1629792244109651968
As the reselection rumblings are showing, the Conservative Party at large still pines for Boris- both the man and the politics he represents. That's obviously insane, but there you go. To remove the whip from those who don't back the government is technically possible, and might not kill Rishi's ability to get stuff through the Commons. But the response from the Conservative movement would be a terrible thing to see.
(It's why Boris got away with the deselection tactic in 2019- he was doing what the Spirit Of The Party wanted. Major just about got away with a limited form of the same and May couldn't dare, because then it would have gone against the grain of the party.)
https://twitter.com/grdecter/status/1629853251045654530?s=61&t=YPx0lQ3gzAMlA-LCfpcksQ
I am interested in how the Wee Frees see her on the Kinder, Küche, Kirche front.
Laters.
An expert politician can cube multi-dimensional spheres, while juggling priceless eggs in variable gravity.
That’s worse than the first one
The Tories may get more postal hotes than Labour, but it does not follow from that that a crackdown on postal vote fraud would disproportuonately harm the Tories. We have no way of knowing what proportion of dodgy postal votes (DPVs) favour which party, though the anecdata suggests DPVs are most prevalent in heavily Labour areas like Towr Hamlets.
Hmm.
Well, that's a far cry from the headline, but it was still rather a foolish thing to say. She could have said something about processes needing to be followed for any member expelled after bringing the party into disrepute and shut it down straight away.
Without saying 'no' categorically.
FWIW I think with moderate confidence, but strictly on the evidence such as it is, think it had natural causes. I have more confidence in this than I had on a similar analysis that Saddam Hussein had no significant weapons of mass destruction.
2. I was - by a vast distance - the first pb-er to say OOH look there’s a woman called Kari Lake and she’s interesting
3. The only betting call I made was “bet on her opponent Hobbs at 5/1” when it was clearly a close two horse race - and that came good
Otherwise, a brilliant point
If it wasn’t for me this site would still be blindly following the natural origin came-from-the-market bollocks, and decrying any doubters as “racist conspirators”
Farrar knew all this. And signed anyway
Moreover, he signed this email about 5 days after he disclosed in private emails that he was “50/50” on lab leak and in which described the low level biosecurity at Wuhan as “Wild West”
What is the point in arguing this?
Not only would he lose lots of SNP seats at the next UK general election, he would likely be beaten by Sarwar to the FM role at the next Holyrood election too
Tho I wouldn’t ascribe @FF43’s opinion to “America-philia” - I’d say he’s not intellectually confident, not overly smart, and therefore scared of admitting error
NI deal announced in the next hour, BBC say. Then details tomorrow.
Tell me, do you write your s's like fs without the cross-bar, or use a goose feather for a pen? Come to think of it, how can you possibly enter your comments on PB using one?