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Survation finds 68% saying they didn’t believe Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Survation finds 68% saying they didn’t believe Johnson – politicalbetting.com
There’s a poll out from Survation on reaction to Johnson’s appearance before the privileges committee and it found that 68% said they didn’t believe Johnson’s assertion that he believed he was following the rules.
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A messy week for those on the right of the party. The splits in the ERG have been quite something. Sunak may have come out of it the happier but all of this is fodder for Labour. Especially come the General Election.
The demise of Boris Johnson is a thing of beauty. What has surprised me are the number of commentators, including on the right, now linking the absurdity of Boris Johnson with the absurdity of Brexit.
"Diversity", Veganism, Mediation and Gaianism all show aspects of religious fervour. And, like all religions, they have their doctrines, their sinners, punishments for heretics who don't follow doctrine and rewards of virtue and acceptance for those who piously do.
Moving on, it has been a strange experience to return to the pantomime of UK (mostly Conservative) party politics. When you're abroad a lot of this sort of thing feels, well, at best frothy, at worse bizarrely irrelevant. That's not to suggest that partying during lockdown wasn't serious. It was. But the Westminster pantomime often bears little or no relation to life in the world. It's almost like an old freak show.
That Rishi Sunak is doing a decent job of steadying the ship seems fairly undeniable. That Labour still hold commanding opinion poll leads equally so.
If you want people to engage with you positively then you need to earn their respect and deliver insight - not waste their time with the same dramatic hyperbole day after day.
The former prime minister is understood to have submitted a list of peerages, while No 10 is also still considering whether to grant a long list of honours requested by Boris Johnson as well.
I did read a headline, last year, I think, that polytheism in Greece was on the rise (albeit without animal sacrifice).
I'm quite looking forward to it.
"the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods"
"Diversity" or Veganism (or Thatcherism or Starmerism, whatever that is) are beliefs, or codes of ethics, not religions. They have the codes of ethics that many religions have as components, but no sky fairy.
If they're vegetarian or vegan then being more specific, albeit with a less trendy new slogan, is more useful.
Come on, kids, let's get on pb.com! There's a new Redfield and Wilton with really interesting implications for marginals in the East Midlands. If you don't behave yourselves you'll have to read a Cyclefree 4,000 word wall of text. Did you remember to bring Uncle Leon's Tena for Men?
The most likely explanation is that in public, no-one wants to admit they believe Boris. If that's the case there may be some "hidden Tories" in the general opinion polls -- I'm old enough to remember GE92. Might Labour's current lead be overstated?
An alternative explanation is that the Question Time audience is stuffed full of lefty-sympathisers. The BBC would never do that though!!
On the difference between the census and the BSA on numbers with no religion in the UK:
Firstly the Census question is voluntary, and answered by 94% of people, so not answered by everyone as HYUFD seems to think.
Secondly the ask different questions.
Census:
What is your religion?
BSA:
Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular religion?
IF YES: Which?
Both are probably capturing affiliation more than belief, but the BSA question forces people to actively think if they belong or not.
How on earth did they find enough Downing Street Civil Servants to make up 6% of the population?
Principal fired after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65071989
It shows just how stupid de Santis is.
Although I suppose he has effectively banned the showing of photos of himself and Trump under the same law on the ground they’re Cupid stunts.
Blair and Johnson both had killer political instinct at a human level. That is why they both got big majorities.
Lying with emotional cunning is part of the territory. It works and works and works ... until you are caught out on something big and it doesn't.
After Iraq, no-one believes a word Tony says. After partygate, no-one believes a word Johnson says.
Johnson is finished politically. He & Nadine are perhaps the only people who haven't realised this.
Brexitism, monarchism, nationalism, militarism, unionism etc then you can find doctrines, sinners and punishment of heritics.
It takes a real feat of mental gymnastics to hold the lie. People just saw he wasn't up to his usual standard - and marked him accordingly.
It doesn't necessarily mean you have to believe in an afterlife or a supernatural being. And the Church can be virtual not physical.
All religions have codes/values, doctrine, and their priests. And the effect on day to day life is much the same as a traditional organised religion.
Like I say, we are entering an age of polytheism.
I blame Caesar. Kicked it all off with his veni vidi, vici rubbish. And that's in addition to his self-named salad.
The Tories are afraid of revealing their true face?
It's not just me saying this. There are articles relating to it by philosophers and theologians who've been making this point recently.
You can look them up yourself.
I agree it's electorally advantageous for you to hear as much as possible from those two, though.
A lot of virtue-signalling pretentious wank. On another level, you could also read it as being - often correctly - as entirely synthesised crap from palm oil and plant 'matter'.
Would I respond differently if put another way?
Yes. Describe organic/ home-grown / local farmer's fruit and vegetables and I start to get interested - but only if there was some real food to go with it as well. See profile.
Your point, such as it is, is purely to try and find a reason to dismiss my argument out of hand so you don't have to think about it too much.
You should. Because it's an important to contemplate to understand the future direction of society.
I dislike these highly processed meat substitutes because of their highly synthetic nature. If I want to eat plants, I want to eat things that taste of plants, and prefer a wholefood approach.
You can say it's unappealing as a phrase, and that's fine. But I think you've thrown the term "virtue-signalling" in as a buzzword without really thinking about it, since that's essentially the last thing it is.
Boris lying is not news. The only difference between today and 2019 is that many Tories don’t believe this liar can win.
Both (all?) parties need to own up to the terrible options they put before the public in 2019, but in practical terms Labour are a bit further along that road than the Conservatives. Easier to regenerate in opposition, of course, but Sunak didn't have to appoint Braverman or Anderson.
Incidentally, is there a way to use the Amazon website now without inadvertently signing up to Prime?
They seem to slap it in your face like a wet fish now every time I go on there.
But you seem to have just shoehorned in a list of things that you irrationally hate.
'hatred of veganism' seems to be a far commoner religion than veganism itself, sadly.
Well, a lettuce anyway...
We are not disagreeing.
Plant-based diet is a thing, now, and it means: "look at me, I'm better than you and I care about the planet."
It also implies a culture war on meat, which is why it will invoke resistance.
I have no problem with vegetarians as they pose no threat to me. Vegans are a threat as they are campaigners and, ultimately, want to stop meat entirely - so they will have my resistance.
Boris or Corbyn.
If it had been Starmer - or Burnham at a push - there may have been a transition from May that never involved Johnson.
(Although Starmer's anti-democratic weaselyness over the Brexit second referendum would have kept him out of power. As it might yet.)
They want to stop people eating meat. Period.
They are a threat.
It’s pretty clear to anyone with a brain cell that Sunak wasn’t partying and all but the most one-eyed understand that the Sunak fine was a bit bizarre as he had wandered into a meeting where a crap birthday “party” had been set up.
Boris betrays everyone in the end; it's only a question of when.
It is partly my fault. I had Amazon Prime for years until they put up the price quite sharply, when I cancelled because I could no longer justify paying a little bit extra for convenience. I suspect rather a lot of us low- to mid-level users made that same decision and took poor Mr Bezos by surprise.
It is never going to turn me into a veggie or vegan, however I'm never going to be offended by it and welcome it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bear-grylls-diet-vegan-carnivore-health-2ss8f0v8n#:~:text=For, after years of veganism,grains, wheat or raw vegetables.
Incidentally, it's not like I haven't experimented to see what all the fuss is about. I once tried a recipe with tofu (and almost vomited) and a "cauliflower steak", which was a fancy name for a shit meal with a grilled slice of cauliflower.
I got so hungry I couldn't sleep and woke up at 2am to have a massive bowl of cornflakes.
No-one wants that shit.
The argument that we would lose specific breeds of, say, pigs is correct but actually a good thing for pigs overall.
Health and meat is interesting. All the amino acids you need are in meat. Because we're made of meat too. Getting all the stuff you need from a vegetarian or even more restrictive vegan diet does involve homework. And we're specifically designed to eat meat (it's the natural diet, along with vegetables) hence having incisors and canines.
A few wild boar (who are a menace) and, er...
Pigs are at no risk of extinction. Likewise sheep, goats, cattle. There's a huge number of animals and species that exist in large numbers precisely because they're useful to humans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Beach
On the other hand I know several fanatic anti-vegans who will jump on any excuse to attack vegans.
I understand that people can very easily feel resentful if they think that other people might be morally superior to them in some way, but this insecurity is coming from inside themselves.
We need meat but we probably eat too much of the unhealthy sort, but we should still eat and enjoy it - and probably the offal too - and it should be grass-fed and sustainably grown, to the greatest extent possible. Fish stocks can be harvested (who really has a problem about fishing and then gutting one, and hasn't done it with their mates/Dad?) but again needs to be at sustainable levels.
The rest is that there's just too many people on the planet. That isn't going to change - you can't stop people - so we'll need to engineer solutions to the side effects of the energy consumption and production. Probably adding seaweed and additives into cow herds etc.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cow
You never need to ask if they're a vegan, they will tell you the first opportunity you get, so I don't believe you.
And in any case, to make a pedantic point, even in the unlikely event that there were pigs or cattle in large numbers, if they were not on a farm by definition they wouldn't be farm animals...
And when he served his purpose and didn't do it for us any more, we discarded him. How very fitting that Boris's modus operandi should be played back against him...
But he only got that 80 seat majority because of 1. who he replaced and 2. who he was up against. Thanks Labour!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
In total in the world:
390 million tons of people
630 million tons of domesticated animals etc
Only 22 million tons of wild land mammals.
I like to think I am a bit of a foodie. I love traditional stuff but also anything new. I'm disappointed when I dislike stuff as a shame I am missing out rather than slagging it off. I guess the only exception is I can be dismissive of junk food, although I do eat some of it.
There wasn’t a single scene that I didn’t love or fangirled over.
This season of Picard isn’t just one of the greatest seasons of sci-fi it is one of the greatest seasons of TV.