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Corbyn remains an electoral liability for LAB – politicalbetting.com
Corbyn remains an electoral liability for LAB – politicalbetting.com
Keir Starmer's motion to Labour's NEC to expel Jeremy Corbyn said that the former leader would "significantly diminish" Labour's chances of winning if he stoodMost Britons see Corbyn as an electoral liability (56%) for Labourhttps://t.co/FwJth3ryjn pic.twitter.com/Kj8NYNFjOA
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Sums up Tory administration (or perhaps just UK government).
2018
Wet wipes could face wipe-out in plastic clean-up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/44034025
2021
Call for evidence on commonly littered and problematic plastic items
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/call-for-evidence-on-commonly-littered-and-problem/
2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65166859
...Wet wipes containing plastic will be banned in England under plans to tackle water pollution, environment minister Therese Coffey has told BBC News.
The ban on plastic-based wipes should come into force in the next year following a consultation, Ms Coffey said..
Wolf introduction is a slightly different matter - that's not necessarily protecting existing species but reintroducing ones which have gone. But to me the case for doing so (to manage the population of deer, which is inimical to the population of birch forest, which is detrimental to other native species) seems stronger than the case for not doing so. In a controlled way, at certain locations. It's not a straightforward decision, certainly.
On the subject of the laws of mathematics, I see the government's promised extra £1/2 billion over three years in funding to solve Social Care workforce shortages has been quietly halved.
Seems to have been replaced by a poster campaign begging folk to work instead.
I want to farm rhino. If nothing else, this will solve the problem of the tiny minority of walkers who refuse to close gates and act sensibly in the countryside. The remaining 99.999% will then live in harmony with the farmers.
https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem/
Sitting in Corbyn's shadow cabinet for three years needs to highlighted. It was inexcusable part from one consideration - Starmer's overarching ambition that allowed him to turn a blind eye to the anti-semitism running riot in his Party under LotO COrbyn.
As though any one decision has no consequences on myriad different mini-ecosystems.
Long live grey squirrels. And air rifles.
At the same time, I think there are a few positive lessons that Labour can take from his period as leader, especially the 2017 election campaign. If Starmer could communicate as effectively as Corbyn could and generate enthusiasm to the same degree (while not also turning others off) Labour will have a good election campaign.
Labour are better off without him but at the same time kicking him out of the party just doesn't seem very nice. Maybe there's no room for niceness anymore.
Starmer's heart is clearly with Corbynism, but his head knows that it is economically illiterate and, more importantly from his point of view, political poison. So he is stuck with a kind of lazy, bossy managerialism, under which the nanny state is the solution to the country's problems, and the private sector is just the cash cow that enables it. A recipe for an even more depressing stagnation and decline than we're currently suffering from.
Another alternative I've head is introducing lynx.
Corbyn disciples like BJO can be measured in micro votes. Like the oddballs who voted Michael Howard because they didn't like Cherie
And then look what you'll have done.
I travel extensively in Schengen.
There are two problems:
- firstly capacity: the EU for bullshit reasons have said that the UK can’t use the automated gates (unlike South Korea, Australia or the US for example). That massively reduces the available capacity - from 10-20 gates to, usually, 2-4 officers
- The individual checks are marginally longer. The electronic check is the same as pre-Brexit but then the officer flips through every page of the passport and stamps. I’d guesstimate it’s about 30 seconds extra per passport
- We share a queue with countries that are deemed high risk so their passport checks and officer discussions take longer
In the case of Dover it’s a combination of several factors: (i) holiday demand; (ii) bad weather delaying sailings; (iii) staff shortages/work to rule by French officers who are grumbling about pay & conditions; and (iv) the elongated time required - especially with coaches where school kids have to get off the coach to be checked rather than a single teacher being able to take the passports down as a single bundle.
So part of it is normal stuff, and part of it is the French being silly and petty. So it’s not Brexit per se, but…
After all they were native and it was humans who drove them to extinction
The preferred alternative is cattle grids, which are unlikely to block rhinos.
Corbyn fans please explain.
So people who are blaming Brexit for this are essentially saying that the French should be expected to be silly and petty, which is rather xenophobic.
Thankfully the vast majority of naturalists and experts have no fucking clue who you are or what you think about it all.
term that will be socially important:
botsexual — being primarily sexually attracted to AI
have a pretty strong belief that a meaningful percentage of kids born today will end up being botsexual.
the impact on birth rates in countries with GPUs are going to be pretty clear.
https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/1643082685315956736
It was like having to chose malcolmg or Baldrick to lead your team on University Challenge.
Yes, stamping of passports takes a little extra time, but the major factors are the work-to-rule by the border staff, and the recent weather.
We have come to a place of eco-diversity and getting all het up about < 1/1,000,000,000th of it seems very strange no matter how cute and cuddly red squirrels may be.
Africa has had it their own way with the lucrative safari market for too long, and our traditional "Big Five" (hedgehogs, robins, tabby cats, wombles, and chavs) just aren't pulling in the punters. We want to see a lion fighting a polar bear over the carcass of a yak, whilst majestic bald eagles circle overhead, all on Dudley high street. That's what people really meant when they voted for Brexit, and it's high time for politicians to deliver.
If you are talking TB - it was the cattle that gave the badgers TB in the first place.
They are never wrong.
Yes there have been queues at ports before. I have been held up on the tunnel for hours twice before Brexit, so yes there will always be times when it falls apart because of something or other, but those times are made worse by Brexit and there will be times when before Brexit it was just coping and now it won't.
The same applies to the impact on businesses. The cry goes out that the company was probably going to collapse anyway, they were barely making any profit for this reason or that. But Brexit doesn't help if it tips them over the edge and of course this applies to the more successful companies as well. Yes they will carry on being profitable, but less so.
The exclamation that it is always another reason and not Brexit is often/usually not true, both contribute. If you eliminate Brexit, it might just be you get by regardless of the other disaster (weather, overbooking, working to rule, etc)
Of course there will be times that Brexit has nothing to do with it at all and Brexit gets blamed (that's life), but equally there are examples where Brexit is not just contributory but entirely the reason for a failure, so that cuts both ways.
I have this strange feeling that the populist press will focus more on the few (slow, fat) ones they eat rather than the 68 million they don't.
"They mostly don't eat people" is not a winning slogan for a new policy.
As someone who could see both sides of the EU membership debate, and who decided quite late to vote Leave, the enthusiasm with which some in the commentariat seem to be enjoying every little problem really grates.
Grey squirrels may not have been native to the UK hundreds of years ago, but they've been in the UK for hundreds of years now. They're established in the UK now.
Australia places strict restrictions on the introduction of foreign flora and fauna which makes sense because they have a unique ecosystem, and new arrivals there might have devastating effects like the arrival of rabbits did in the past.
But as far as the grey squirrel is concerned in the UK, that barn door was left open hundreds of years ago now.
Your welcome.
Isn’t it the case that even in his 2019 shellacking Corbyn received more votes than Blair in 2005, Brown in 2010 and Miliband in 2015?
Tony Blair got less in his last GE.
Gordon Brown got less
EICIPM got less
SKS will not get 12.9m IMO
Some liability who gives a fuck what non Labour voters think of Jezza
(Unless that was deliberate, in witch case it was to meta for me.)
‘Look, the water’s just a bit muddy, everything is fine.’
SKS supporters please explain.
If for every extra vote you add, you add 2 to your opposition, then you are a liability.
It was aptly noted by @Cyclefree that Jeremy Corbyn was Britain's Trump and the same happened in 2020.
In 2020 Donald Trump got 9 million more votes than Barack Obama did in 2012.
The problem for Trump, is that he was such a liability that Joe Biden got 16 million more votes than Obama did in 2012.
You are the red hat MAGA/Momentum obsessive saying "look at our extra votes" while ignoring how repellent your guy was that he drove up the opposition even higher.
"You will then be asked to sign a form to confirm your voluntary participation in EasyPASS-RTP and consent to the storage of your personal data. Afterwards the Federal Police will check whether you meet the participation requirements by means of a questionnaire....
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[Using the E-gate:]
After successful face recognition, registered travellers (RTs) from outside the EU - in contrast to the usual EasyPASS procedure - will see a special symbol and have to wait until a border guard opens the exit door.
RTs have to move forward to the monitoring booth, which is located directly behind the EasyPASS gate.
An officer will then check the additional entry requirements and stamp the passport."
https://www.bundespolizei.de/EasyPass/EN/EasyPASS-RTP/rtp_node.html;jsessionid=36333294EA8D832A852F64F8FCBB4A35.2_cid334
OTOH, UK visitors can use some French e-Gates (but still have to get the passport stamped).
None of this is very relevant to the current problem at ports, of course.
As to why the UK hasn't negotiated a deal with the EU, the question should be addressed to Boris Johnson primarily. It should of course have been negotiated as part of the Withdrawal Agreement, but since he wanted that agreed in three days without anyone reading it, he didn't.
Every time you enter Schengen your passport was scanned.
Now it is done by an officer rather than on an automated gate (which aren’t really automated as an officer still verifies the photo) but do speed up the processing.
Otherwise omit. So that the (sometimes cited as a nice test) "Haberdashers' Aske's Old Girls' Club"
would read
"Haberdashers Askes Old Girls Club"
And we could, like the Latin speakers of old, work out singulars, plurals and genitives by experience and intuition.
It didnt have to be this way because 'get Brexit done' took precedence over 'making Brexit work'. But this is what we have got.
Politicians should stop trying to blame everyone and everything for why it doesn't work - and instead do something about it. Like negotiate with compromise not bluster.
Incidentally the film was on the telly on Sunday night, I’d forgotten how good it is, probably only behind The Road and Threads in terms of bleakness.
This would be typical of legislation that makes life a little harder for the great innocent majority, some of them quite hard pressed, while making do-gooders feel better about themselves.
As for your last point, Sunak's been doing a decent job of that lately.
Hmmm we should have a system for trading off one issue against another. Perhaps have a bunch of people, selected by the population.....