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Why Sunak’s ratings might not be enough – politicalbetting.com
Why Sunak’s ratings might not be enough – politicalbetting.com
Public opinion towards the [X] brand:LAB: 37% positive / 35% negativeGRN: 28% / 31%LDEM: 23% / 36%CON: 20% / 52%REF: 13% / 38%via @IpsosUKhttps://t.co/T8J3lBRQkS pic.twitter.com/tXIQr6BAbV
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Yep Sunak is doing okay but the brand stinks.
This is going to be a General Election where leadership ratings count for very little. Besides which, in the campaign itself I strongly suspect Sunak's ratings will dive in similar way to Theresa May's. He's not only very dull, he also has some murky material in the background.
Never in any General Election will there have been such a clutch of dull leaders.
F1: will start looking over the markets shortly.
Emirate hailed for offering higher wages, better weather and a break from Britain’s endless culture war
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/30/dubai-uk-professionals-high-tax-britain/
One for @Sandpit.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2023/04/azerbaijan-pre-race-2023.html
2.25 on one or both AlphaTauris not being classified.
Honestly, F1’s owners seem dumber than the DoH.
He said: 'It is something which has been adopted from serving with the US Navy Seals and Delta Force.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029855/SAS-troops-told-shave-photo-emerged-soldiers-sporting-beards.html
I always thought the US special forces had long hair and beards after the SAS pointed out their regulation hair cuts made them too distinctive in the field.
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1652313774085513218
Former Prime Minister sent bill for last summer when preparing administration
Towelling robes and slippers are said to have disappeared from Chevening
The Cabinet Office bill also includes food and wine she and her aides consumed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029411/Former-PM-Liz-Truss-refuses-pay-12-000-Cabinet-Office-bill-row-lost-items.html
I’d imagine anything that promotes a sense of elite difference and esprit de corps would be encouraged.
We've seen this before with both Conservatives AND Labour. Following a heavy defeat the next term sees the defeated party retreat into an even more entrenched position, which becomes even more unelectable.
William Hague did it with his lurch to the right.
Generally though the Right come to their senses more quickly (not the ERG obvs) perhaps because money and power are more innate.
The Left are spectacularly adept at political suicide: Michael Foot, Militant Tendency, Arthur Scargill, Derek Hatton, Jeremy Corbyn. All utterly unelectable.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12029197/DAN-HODGES-Sir-Keir-Starmers-mask-torn-away-Graygate-probe.html
Would you buy a used car from Starmer? I wouldn't.
Hilarious.
Rain at Bristol today.. Sussex may be thwarted. Surrey are looking good......
A bit odd and feels somewhat at odds with the ‘reforming modern monarch’ thing KCIII is generally going for.
While I might watch the Cozza if I’ve nowt else to do, the idea that I’ll chant an oath of allegiance to the telly is a non-starter.
People forget there are six times the amount of savers as there are mortgage holders. Savers have had a pretty raw deal until recently. But now we can lock in deals that should beat inflation if it falls in line with forecast.
For todays generation I’d guess they have not experienced the volatility of interest rate hikes that we had, really, until around 2008.
It is good we are getting back towards where long term rates should be.
"One senior director at a schools business in Dubai says whereas years ago they would receive hundreds of applications per teaching job, they now receive “thousands”, and many of them disgruntled Brits.
“They are fed up with the conditions in English schools, with the politics, with Ofsted, with all of their income being eaten up by mortgage payments,” the director adds.
A teacher in Dubai can earn a starting salary of £2,750 per month, on top of a housing allowance, furniture allowance, private healthcare, school fees for their children and travel expenses. This compares to a starting salary of around £2,250 per month for London teachers – which can be reduced to around £1,700 after taxes and pension contributions."
The behaviour of far too Conservative MPs is absolutely appalling.
Not on coronation day!
I expect we’ll be far too busy, amusing the baby to watch the coronation. Even if its on!
Sunak is at least attempt at solving the first problem, but with people like Braverman still in post it’s at best a work in progress.
Meanwhile, on the later point you can’t trash the economy and expect people to vote for you as if nothing happened. That takes time.
Todays Tories are nasty and they make you poorer.
All forms of audiences participation - with the singular exception of panto - feel a bit naff to most British adults, but I can see what they are thinking of with that, and there's just a chance it might work really well for them.
"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426
I'd axe the sprint altogether. Having it as stand alone nonsense on Saturday only makes sense if it's for third drivers. It's nuts to put qualifying on at 2pm on a Friday.
It can't be denied that Dan has a first hand insight into both Starmer's malevolence and Rishi's genius. Perhaps we need to take heed. Or is Dan just writing any old s*** for the Daily Mail because he needs the salary.
Let's not forget: multiple Labour MPs were prosecuted over the expenses scandal, and some jailed. And, Brown left the public finances in an absolutely dire state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal
My broader question is: what is it about Westminster and our politics that makes people behave like this, as soon as they have power?
Charles is either deluded or taking the p***.
And it doesn't solve the other problem. Part of the package for visiting young European hospitality workers was the year of immersion in British culture. I suspect that was worth quite a lot to them, so they were happy to be paid less cash.
Replace them with Brits and they don't value that and they will want more money to compensate. Given the thin margins in hospitality, there isn't the spare money to do that. And automation is of limited benefit.
But, he is no longer Charles Windsor. He is now King Charles III, and I will pledge allegiance to the King, who represents us, our country and our constitution.
There is no contradiction: I'm not a cuck, unintelligent or seduced by 'woo-woo'. It's about my love of this country: loyalty to the office and to the state, our national stability, continuity and our history and heritage.
And, I will genuinely wish him well too. It's not an easy job to do.
While I think we should hold MPs to high standards, and have robust procedures for exposing wrongdoing and imposing suitable punishments, we shouldn't be too surprised at a constant parade of dishonest MPs.
We probably need another £150bn of tax revenue coming in a year, each year, of which £80-90bn needs to go on extra spending on the education, science, R&D, transport, energy, crime & justice, defence and the NHS and about £50bn on reducing income taxes and NI.
No party can get close to that. Unless they can get Britain to grow an insanely fast way, which would need us to develop new technologies and capabilities and retain all the workers & IP (we normally cash out to the Americans inside 18 months).
https://genius.com/Nine-inch-nails-closer-lyrics
Far too many people who enter politics have issues, and there is no HR or disciplinary system worth the candle.
"if the locals were solely about Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer ......."
They were for mr thats why I spoilt my ballot
If we had the Single Transferable Vote in multi-member constituencies, electors could discriminate between parties (as now) but also within each party.
This, of course, gives much more power to the electors, instead of the current stitch-up from the top of the party machine - which is why both Snak and Starmer are opposed to any kind of change.
But how do you find the financial headroom at a time when the demographic transition inevitably means that the demands for increased spending on the NHS and pensions are immense?
There's a lot of egoism here, and not much duty. People who react like this tend to have a puffed up sense of their own importance and not much sense of their wider obligations to the country, which they take for granted.
You are swearing loyalty to our Head of State, and thus more broadly to the State, not a man who you have to personally and humiliating genuflect to in some sort of docile submission gesture of servitude - the monarch is, in effect, a public servant who represents our State and us on our behalf. He works for us.
It's a ritual of mutual obligations, and it's your duty,
So, get over yourself, and take the pledge.
Have I misread this?
Also, we are currently leaching all our nuclear fusion expertise to the Americans (where we are actually ahead of them in the science atm) for that time-honoured reason that we won't invest and won't pay.
The time-old British disease.
That's difficult with single-member plurality voting, which is why Britain needs either a much broader system of recall for MPs, or a different voting system that allows voters to choose between candidates representing a party, such as STV or open list PR.
Then, if the voters do elect the Healy-Raes, Michael Collins, Neil Hamiltons or whoever of this world, then they only have themselves to blame.
(But I know what you mean. I have to remind the priest at Evensong every time to intone “O Lord, save the King”…)
I do have a genuinely banging Christmas piece (Naji Hakim’s Adeste Fideles) which begins with the same notes as the final “No Future”s, so I might steal that.
"Missiles or Rockets with a range 100-300km; land, sea or air launch. Payload 20-490kg"
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/international-fund-for-ukraine-ifu
But seeking to shame people into it over apparent their lack of duty is just textbook virtue signalling wokery performing. Even HYUFD was just having fun over it with celebrating the lack of hanging drawing and quartering for recusants.