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Labour’s useless strategy? – politicalbetting.com
?Exclusive: Labour will target Humza Yousaf’s Glasgow Pollok seat by highlighting that Scotland’s new first minister lives 80 miles away in Dundee. https://t.co/6GqJWAmXvb
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May feel human in a few days.
If asked I'd have guessed much further.
Nicola’s obituary?
I'd like to add Vicki Sparks to that (still short) list
I had R5 on in the van yesterday and heard some of her commentary of the Chelsea Villa game. I hadn't realised quite how good she is
She's as fluent, knowledgeable and passionate as any of the other commentators
She could host MOTD
Whatever she got wrong, she got the SNP closer to power and to their underlying ambition than her predecessors... and by the look of it, her successor.
https://twitter.com/toryboypierce/status/1642509724032614401?s=20
Story:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11928613/Tory-MP-wakes-naked-brothel-unable-clothes-calls-senior-colleague-help.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
(For those who missed the link: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/evan-gershkovich )
"Left by mutual consent" it seems. Looking forward to Tuesday at home to Villa now.
Everyone knows there won't be a referendum until the 2030s now. That will have a logical momentum of its own, as people turn away from the issue, and focus on other stuff. The Nat parties will fracture and wilt
One day Sindy WILL return, but Sturgeon has successfully kicked it into the long grass. Not deliberately, just by the nature of her leadership, and because of the practical obstacles that she never really tried to address
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of using divisive rhetoric after she said "I detest the Tories" in a BBC interview……
But Ms Sturgeon later told the BBC she did not regret her choice of words, which were not about individuals or Tory voters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63192125.amp
Similarly Labour “Never kissed a Tory” virtue signallers.
One of Labour’s greatest PMs married one.
Humza must explain.
Massage parlours, aye. Houses divided into apartments for, ahem, single ladies in Warren Street or Bayswater or maybe even Shepherd's Market
Flat sharing Romanian girls in Wood Green. Yup. Saunas? Yup
But proper rococo-and-champagne, dungeon chamber and pretend railway carriage, chaise-longue, caviar, asparagus-soup and Edwardian kingly three way fellatio love seat brothels??
None, that I know of
"In a widely watched interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in 2018, Daniels spoke in detail about her alleged 2006 meeting with Trump, saying he tried to impress her by showing a magazine with his face on the cover, and that they joked about her spanking him with it."
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/31/who-is-stormy-daniels/
Well, he has been a bad boy.
Dundee City had the highest age-standardised drug misuse death rate of all local authority areas (45.2 per 100,000 population for the 5-year period 2017-2021), followed by Glasgow City (44.4)
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/statistics/drug-related-deaths/21/drug-related-deaths-21-report.pdf
And you’re right, Humza must explain.
http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/sarcopterygii/elginerpeton.html
Is that the best you’ve got?
Ultimately, she had the right strategy. Without more younger, worker, Central
Belt voters, the ScotNat concept can't win. There just aren't enough Highland Presbyterians banging on about oil money to get near a majority. Sometimes (and it may be Rishi's fate too) a coalition is simultaneously maximised and not big enough.
Still not a voter in Scotland though, despite your torrential posting on your second favourite subject?
And yet, here we are, nearly ten years after the first referendum - with polls still showing the young favour YES - and yet NO has a stubborn 5-15 point lead, and a referendum right now would probably produce an entirely similar result to that of 2014
I doubt anyone can explain this mysterious phenomenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Two-Two
This is the closest London may get. It's just girls in apartments. I note, however, that it is owned by a Tory donor
We could have our location
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-londons-huge-indoor-red-13894792
The UK's ONLY legal brothel. And it is in Whitehall!! THIS MUST BE IT
The only problem is that it stopped being an actual brothel in about the 1650s
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/london-pub-thats-countrys-only-20666636
That might explain why the Tory MP ended up confused and disappointed
Railway carriage?!
I'll accept "sheltered life" and "embittered commuter" as answers, but...
Railway?
Carriage?
"Catering to all fetishes, each of the 22 rooms were inspired by a different time and place. A pirate room featured a mechanical boat swing and water jets that sprayed clients and courtesans as they did the dirty. An Orient Express room allowed patrons to live out their fantasies of sex on a train inside a replica of a bouncing carriage with a railway soundtrack."
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/12/11/inside-the-paris-brothels-of-the-belle-epoque/
I once wrote a Gazette article about the great Paris brothels of the Belle Epoque and spent a week doing research in the City of Love. I even tracked down King Edwards's Notorious Three Way love seat - I found the last auctioneer to sell it in the 1990s, to a "private buyer", and he was tempted to introduce me to the owner so I could see it.... but in the end he said No. However when I asked if "the seat is still being used" he smiled and said "Oui, naturellement"
True story
1. Be more accurate
and
2. Be less unfair to "Asian males" - from China, Japan, Taiwan, etc etc - who have never been convicted of this crime
‘You don’t ask a frog questions like that.’
JIM HENSON shows his genius in this 1975 interview with JOHNNY CARSON…
…as he voices KERMIT THE FROG.
😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/JamesL1927/status/1642213132197064706?s=20
How does he make Kermit show offended alarm at the impertinence of the questions?
If they want their language to survive, it might help
tourists stare upwards at young Thai women, dancing around with no knickers, while dressed as schoolgirls.
We need a word for a dog whistle that everyone can totally hear.
https://twitter.com/ryuichisakamoto/status/1642507238467309568
In theory it is the Scons and Slibs who should benefit in the longer term.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9_9MZyQGo
There is, as you say, the dog whistle about British-Pakistani gangs. How does Labour react to that? Factually - when it comes to grooming gangs as opposed to child abuse in general - the evidence is there. Does Labour accuse the Government of racism? Probably not going to well received in the towns involved. I suspect Labour will make muted criticism but make clear to the British-Pakistani communities (which are key to its vote in many seats eg Batley and Spen) that it will be amended if they win power.
However, there is another angle here. Where this Bill is really targeted at is Labour's middle class public sector block - the social workers, teachers and those who deal with children in related areas. What it's threatening to do is target directly this very influential part of Labour's voting bloc by threatening them with the sack or prison.
From a policy standpoint, it's actually good that people who kept silent because they were more concerned about being accused of racism and / or their political views now run personal risk. From a political viewpoint, it could be quite successful.
Is that the free market response to desperately short staffed professions?
Still. Anything to get the Tories re-elected is far more important than the welfare of children after all.
For the record I support mandatory reporting. It already exists in practice.
I spend more time on CPOMS than on marking.
Istr acerbic was an adjective you once applied to me, in amongst the Nit, anti English, racist, paedo patter. Nothing has changed in that regard.
As Mrs T observed I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
And as I have pointed out on here I now pay less tax in the U.K. on my pension than I would have done in Guernsey as the U.K. does not charge NI on pension income, unlike Guernsey. But Nats & Facts, eh?
What happens is stuff is reported endlessly and then there isn't the staffing, funding or will to prioritise anything. Nor even for anyone to read the entirety of CPOMS and join the dots.
Because everyone's caseloads are way too high.
I am on CPOMS reporting concerns every single day.
Does anyone read them? Not until after a catastrophic event.
Because the government isn't prepared to pay for it.