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Will Liz Truss ever be able to live this down? – politicalbetting.com
Will Liz Truss ever be able to live this down? – politicalbetting.com
The short period at Number 10 saw one of the most disastrous runs on the pound ever which had a huge impact on the country’s finances.
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Not enough though
Based on yesterday, the answer is "no".
Much the same can be asked of her predecessor as well, probably with the same answer.
Did Trump fundraise by asking for donations by cash or card?
acid trippremiership is that it reassured me if we ever got a hard left government the markets would stop the hard left nonsense in its place.Which of the following do you think would make the best Prime Minister? (5-6 Apr)
Rishi Sunak: 26% (no change from 29-30 Mar)
Keir Starmer: 31% (+1)
Not sure: 40% (+1)
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1646513050588160002
Con: 27% (+1 from 29-30 Mar)
Lab: 44% (-2)
Lib Dem: 9% (=)
Green: 7% (=)
Reform UK: 6% (-1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1646513050588160002
That may have been reversed but it wasn't strictly a "cost".
Was any money actually "lost"?
Note that I'm not suggesting we try it again, or at least, not in the same way.
5 years ago I was getting annoyed cabbies still insisted on cash only. Now, I am worried about the right to cash.
There still seem to be a fair few on here willing to sing her praises so who knows? We also assume Boris Johnson’s political career is deader than Tottenham’s season so presumably Liz Truss’s career is as moribund as Liverpool’s.
Other random thoughts - I’m not sure about President Biden but I’m getting tired of Arlene Foster and Sammy Wilson interfering in British politics.
I saw the usual suspects on here talking up the GDP data this morning. For the vast majority, the nuances of GDP numbers are meaningless and they tend to look at different economic indicators. One might be interest on savings - let’s hope we don’t go back to the days of QE and low interest rates. We need proper monetary policy - not financial methadone between elections.
Card vs Cash? Both still - I pay for the world’s most expensive newspaper with cash and try going into a Chinese buffet in Wardour Street with a card and see how far you get. That said, cards have their place and while accepting the balance is shifting I do wonder if there might be any benefit in scrapping copper coins and having all prices ending in a 5 or a zero? They tried it in New Zealand and like everything else after a bit of huffing and puffing everyone accepted it and life moved on.
With more branches closing and cash machines going it will be hard to process cash.
Honourable mention to the Post Office though.
What was the actual cost? Not the hypothetical one?
(One of the reasons the Conservatives really need some time in opposition is so they can bin the damnfool promises that have been piling up, going back to Dave's Tens Of Thousands.)
Gary Lineker.
Brexit.
Go.
Me
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Millions of people who rely on cash will be left behind without urgent action from the government, Chancellor Sajid Javid has been warned.
Consumer association Which? said that free-to-use cash machines were disappearing quicker in deprived areas than in affluent ones.
Campaigners want Mr Javid to implement a cash guarantee for those who need it.
The industry network said that cash use was falling but work was being done to ensure nobody was left behind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49730367
Unlike most political lying, in this case, it’s quite possibly demonstrable in court.
Though of course cash payments wouldn’t work for wire fraud.
I have a suspicion that pledges like this are a net positive, even when they're not remotely close to being met, because most voters make an implicit conversion of the details of the pledge into a warm fuzzy sense that the politician *really* means it. Then, when it doesn't happen, the voters find it relatively easy to add the caveat in themselves - of course it was going to take time, of course those lefty lawyers were going to create mischief and get in the way, etc, etc, but at least broken-pledge politician *really* wanted to get it done.
The politicians are playing the voters for fools, but the voters let them get away with it.
They seem to be be relying on voters having no memory as well as being unaware.
Excl: nurses could go back on strike as union members look set to reject pay deal tomorrow
https://twitter.com/Smyth_Chris/status/1646585256873525254
The famous void Grand National “the race that never was”, took place 30 years ago, in 1993.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2jHwZ1JerY
DT with a retrospective, interviews with many of the jockeys involved that day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2023/04/13/grand-national-2023-void-race-chaos-inside-story-30-years/
Er. Hang on.
Not always my favourite poster but we can't deny he's been bang on over this.
.I think she’s finished
But the Guardian piece quoted in the header dates from mid November. Was it saved for an opportune moment on a slow news day?
A propos nothing at all, my three against the field for Saturday are MR INCREDIBLE, GALLIARD DU MESNIL and ROI MAGE.
A really interesting little debate on France24 about whether it is time for a Sixth Republic of France.
(The presenting issue is that Macron bypassed his Parliament, and Les Citoyens are not delighted.)
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/french-connections/20230413-presidential-powers-is-it-time-for-a-sixth-republic-in-france
Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed real estate deal.
Crow netted two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ elderly mother was living. It’s unclear if he paid fair market value.
https://twitter.com/JustinElliott/status/1646579185131855872
Looking back, it was a total comedy of errors, with the 50m long tape, no spare one so they had to tie it back together after the first false start, the starter’s red flag wasn’t seen by the forward signaller, and half the jockeys thought that officials trying to call them back were protestors that had already delayed the start. Seven horses ran the full distance, and British bookies had to refund £70m of bets. Thankfully, no-one was injured.
Let’s hope this Saturday goes off with a little less controversy!
"I know that if Crisp could have talked, he'd have said to me: 'What a shame John Francome wasn't two years older and then he could have ridden me.'
"You've got to be an idiot if you don't know where in the pecking order you stand. Francome was better than me and he would have won on Crisp, but even he'll tell you I gave him a perfect ride that day, until after the last!"
In 2012, Pitman gave away a kidney to a complete stranger. He still walks into doors after an encounter with a filly he was trying to break in who, he recalls with half a smile, dropped him, then reversed, "kicked merry shit out of my face, turned it to pulp and left me blind in one eye – but I accept anything I can't change".
Including, of course, that day of mixed feelings in 1973, the aftermath of which has never left him. Chipper "looked as though someone had shoved a red-hot poker up his backside", as Pitman put it later, but the man in the saddle had a mindset that took the positives out of the drama.
"I felt bad because I was the one who'd been driving the bus," he recalls, "but the despair soon turned back to elation.
"I was never a tunnel-vision, winning machine of a jockey. I knew I'd had a great ride, clearing 30 fences at speed in that fashion. We broke the course record by 19 seconds, even in defeat, and money couldn't buy that kind of thrill.
"I'd bogged it up, I knew that, but still the exhilaration came back to me as I walked to the winner's enclosure. I'd never known anything like it. Most people would have been crying, but I thought it was fantastic."
https://www.racingpost.com/news/features/the-big-read/richard-pitman-people-have-spent-50-years-telling-me-im-an-idiot-i-was-an-idiot-but-not-for-the-reasons-they-think-aZASz1c6deeW/ (£££)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/04/13/brendon-mccullum-betting-ads-probed-by-ecb-england/
I know the RMT settled with Network Rail but they were still in dispute with the Train Operating Companies.
In both cases things seem to have been very quiet for some time - are these disputes just fizzling out?
If you need a team of people who aren't going to fall for a blatant phishing attempt, get some teenagers in.
What might do for him, is whether or not he told the ECB he was taking money from a bookie, or if the ECB asked him about any outside sources of income? They should have asked him, and he should have answered truthfully.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/13/king-charles-iii-cash-banknote-money-payments/
A pound at the end of her reign was worth less than eleven old pence at the beginning of it.
They will shut the branch here in Cannock soon, judging from the way they're shedding staff. Even though it's very busy and I've never not had to queue. But when they do, I'm moving my money out of there altogether.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/4302943/snp-communications-andrew-liddle-liddle/
"Instead of following either of these two courses, however, the SNP has instead opted to put Yousaf in front of the media every day, with each appearance yielding a new and more embarrassing tidbit.
As such, the scandal is growing and evolving organically while Yousaf, far from being shielded from it, is now practically its official spokesperson."
- Guardian, 28/4/2020
Well, as the continuity candidate, it comes with the territory. If he didn't know that was going to be part of it then he's even dafter than expected. Hiding from it isn't going to be any better a look...
What'll be interesting is at what point he has enough and either quits or throws Sturgeon and Murrell properly under the bus/campervan.