Johnson rated as a just 3.4% chance to be election leader – politicalbetting.com
Johnson rated as a just 3.4% chance to be election leader – politicalbetting.com
For all his hopes the betting markets give Johnson. a very small chance of actually being the election leader.
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It is actually getting quite boring, TBH (no offence intended to the mods who have to find new subjects so often). And the Boris-haters are doing their best to keep this story going just as much as the Boris-defenders
ENOUGH!
He is political herpes.
There is a slim chance if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election heavily and Starmer's government becomes unpopular, Boris as Prince across the Water will be begged by the Party faithful to return in a by election in a safe Conservative seat to lead the party in opposition to try and make a triumphant return like his hero Churchill in 1951 but that is it
Unlike the Yanks, we will be swift and decisive in dealing with insurrection.
More freaking FAKE NEWS from PB's very own Chat-Bot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Catholic_Church
The Catholic Church recognizes as sacramental, (1) the marriages between two baptized non-Catholic Christians or between two baptized Orthodox Christians, as well as (2) marriages between baptized non-Catholic Christians and Catholic Christians, although in the latter case, consent from the diocesan bishop must be obtained, with this termed "permission to enter into a mixed marriage".
https://twitter.com/BBCDavidWL/status/1668610751945396224
In the Bible it is stated that only 144,000 people will be saved (Revelation 7:4-8 and Revelation 14:1-5), so you need to have been pretty bloody good to get into heaven.
https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1668637305752485890
All to do with anticipated traffic.
Dan Hicks - "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA
https://news.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/update-on-city-centre-investigation-after-three-people-killed-468413
They’re not looking for anyone else, and believe the town is safe.
The original two deaths are believed to be students at the university, which has cancelled the graduation ball.
I have multiple obsessions. I am diverse in my manias
I’ve had my suspicions for a long time. My family would like to request privacy over this difficult time. It has been a shock but ultimately only wish for his happiness. Thank you 🙏
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity/status/1668586935500013571
Prick News…..never right for long…..
Keyu Jin is a Chinese economist teaching at the LSE.
Is the west getting China wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIXR8vcnXw
She comes across in this interview with Gideon Rachman as bright, eloquent and knowledgeable. However I left it feeling distinctly uneasy. One of the comments underneath the video highlights all the things she fails to mention in her remarks. A couple of the things she did say left me a little flabbergasted. On the issue of democracy in China she thought that many young people had been put off by the 'chaos' in Hong Kong. I suppose chaos is one word you could use to describe it. As for tensions between the US and China she very much takes the 'both sides' approach, ignoring China's consistent wolf warrior diplomacy and belligerence. What of all the other countries in south east Asia and the threats they feel from the CCP? In her view the best way to resolve the conflict in the Taiwan strait is between the parties on both sides (suggesting that it is US involvement that is making war more likely). She mentions the one child policy in China and how the only child in her class at school who had a sibling was a Uighur. That was the last mention of Uighurs in the discussion.
This is one of our top universities but I've always felt there was something odd about the LSE. Remember Colonel Gaddafi's son? And it does seem to be the Labour Party's university of choice. Perhaps because it is more classless than Oxbridge seems to be?
Mods can delete it if they wish.
“Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Through the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine”
Please let us savour his removal from the political scene for just a bit longer.
Talking of which, as I mentioned earlier, we have a very bizarre situation today. There has been *no official denial* from the US inspectorate of intelligence, on the quote that they find Grusch's absolutely breathtaking claims "credible and urgent" , a Senator has confirmed today that hearings will be held as a result, and most of the media are still not touching the story for fear of being seen as nutters, and the stigma surrounding this sort of topic. Very, very odd indeed.
I hope nobody has been caught out on the Kintail or Mullardoch hills.
Whiteouts / blizzards I can deal with, but thunderstorm risk is the one thing I'm paranoid about.
Perhaps I spent too long speaking to the Professor who documented UK lightning incidents.
The old order is dying and this is a time of monsters. Gramsci.
They once stole the head of our founder Jeremy Bentham. Bastards
Also, the only real bar brawl I have ever seen was between UCL and LSE students when all of us in Ramsay Hall of residence went drinking in their hall next door. It was the proper stuff. Hurled glasses and broken mirrors and waist coated barmen ducking the flying bottles
I confess I simply hid
I shall now depart the pub and go home, and perhaps return here in the morning!
But - the people's princess is still beloved by so many. And headbangers are up for the chop at the election unless something radical happens.
As I keep posing, there is a scenario where Boris! leads a breakaway from the Tory party to ensure there is conservative representation at the GE. If you are Jonathan Gullis and Scott Benton et al you barely know what day it is, but you do know that the constituents you haven't blocked are hopping mad about the Brexit.
They won't vote for you. But they might vote for you if they are voting for Boris! Its a personal vote for Boris! and they are not Conservative voters anyway so the party doesn't matter. They want Boris! and they want what they were promised from Brexit.
So time for the New Party. Amalgamate the remains of UKIP, the SDP, ReFUK and that Fox wazzock. Mould them into the English equivalent of Forza Italia, led by Mr Bunga Bunga no honestly she was just a minor aid and not my bastard daughter himself, Boris!
And yes, I will now always type Boris! with an exclamation mark going forward.
Tho I do wonder if the Boris haters will actually miss him in a masochistic way. They so loved to loathe him. They enjoyed their sense of righteous repulsion
It’s quite hard to hate Rishi Sunak, at best you can find him laughable or hypocritical but he is not the brilliant panto villain like Bozza
My friends have come off the hill safely - phew!
https://twitter.com/JamesDFMellor/status/1668614826128707588/photo/1
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/june2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/13/mother-legal-battle-school-share-sex-education-material/
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects
"Europe Elects
@EuropeElects
·
6h
Italy, Winpoll poll:
FdI-ECR: 29% (+3)
PD-S&D: 21% (+2)
M5S-NI: 14% (-1)
FI-EPP: 13% (+5)
LEGA-ID: 7% (-2)
A-RE: 4% (n.a.)
AVS-LEFT|G/EFA: 3% (-1)
IV-RE: 2% (n.a.)
+E-RE: 2% (-1)
...
+/- vs. 2022 election
Fieldwork: 12 June 2023
Sample size: 1,000
➤ https://europeelects.eu/italy"
I was also in Ramsay and nicked their (LSE) bar blackboard from their hall over the road which they were thrilled about. Whenever they had a fire alarm at night we would throw water on them from the balcony on our floor because we were very mature.
You can help by here and now resiling from what unless I've missed something (unlikely but possible) was your most recent take on him as a 'flawed colossus' whose downfall was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions because it was self-inflicted and he 'could have been great'.
He thrives on attention; ergo forget him. (Which reminds me, I need a new avatar.)
Time enough to rake over his dubious legacy in the runup to the next election.
For some reason, the official song of his Marine regiment was "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along" - the traditional theme song of the US Army.
My Daddy Dearest and some buddies where having a few beers in an off-base bar near Camp Lejeune, when someone put a nickel in the jukebox and requested the Dogface anthem.
At which point my father and his friends got up and stood to attention (as per regulations). Causing Marines from other units to start hooting and heckling.
Result was a bar room brawl . . . but without waistcoated barmen . . .
We can only pray that the answer is yes.
I raise you Sir Gavin Williamson, who in December 2020 took local education authorities to court to stop them closing because of Covid then a few weeks later closed the schools himself.
However while it is now unacceptable to say you like Boris at upper middle class London and Home Counties dinner parties, it is acceptable to even say you will vote for Rishi at such events
I believe the world witnessed the first open parliamentary debate on sex and gender in the world yesterday - in the UK. For years, gender identity enthusiasts have used a variety of techniques to suppress this debate. It will not work any more.
https://youtu.be/7-9MsJo6-Uo /1
https://twitter.com/BevJacksonAuth/status/1668562192583516160?s=20
Meanwhile, across the pond;
After calling for an adherence to facts, US Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine calls gender-affirming care “literally suicide prevention,” despite the fact that researchers have not proven such care prevents death by suicide.
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1668453261077106689?s=20
“Live son or dead daughter” is the reprehensible rhetoric used by some “affirmative care” (sic) advocates.
Seriously, there are two tragedies at work here - there's Boris's own tragedy where, having manoeuvred and schemed for 20 years to become Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister and won an election, the prize he sought was undermined by a microscopic virus.
The second tragedy is those who engaged in politics because of Boris Johnson - those who had neither voted not engaged in politics but did so because of Brexit and Boris Johnson. They will presumably withdraw to the margins with only their contempt for politicians and the political system enhanced.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/13/boris-johnson-nadine-dorries-tory-infighting
..."A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue..."
However the rivalry was (is?) definitely with LSE. Because they are a big world class institution like UCL. Kings College not so much
How brilliant that you also experienced the Ramsay-Carr Saunders altercations. Ramsay is also where I lost my virginity. Room 247
Exclusive: Get ready for super-Thursday!
CCHQ is considering holding three 'Boris by-elections' on the same day next month 👇
I think Greenwich went to court on December 14/15 https://www.lgcplus.com/services/children/greenwich-backs-down-in-school-closure-dispute-with-government-15-12-2020/
And on the 19th Bozo announced the Xmas lockdown. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/timeline-lockdown-web.pdf
In a time when “30” (as in “thirty days and thirty nights”) was a synonym for “many”
Meanwhile, the approach of most of the British and American media this week has been "nothing to see here, possibly lone nutter".
This is essentially not because of the stage the process is at, but purely because the claims are so outlandishly bizarre.
It's all very, very odd, as I mentioned.
Former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in federal court in Miami, Florida.
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1668628864510349312
Anyone know the significance of the pig's head on a stick ?
https://thecritic.co.uk/The-Stroppy-Appeal/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/kirsty-blackmans-genitals/#more-137957
It is really worth watching the 2 pieces of video in this piece, if only to see Joanna Cherry's responses behind her. It is seriously funny.
You have an obsession with COVID labs
You have an obsession with UFOs
You don’t believe that COVID was spread by UFOs to soften us up for an alien invasion (I think. I hope.)
Hence all your obsessions (plural) are monothematic
Looks like upper Mullardoch was worst hit. Lightning tracker shows 100+ strikes on Mullach na Dheiragain alone
and the north side of the loch is no better. Beinn Dearg (Ullapool) also seems to have been picked out.
Fingers crossed there were no incidents.
I did get caught out on Am Basteir once, which was a hair raising experience...
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity/status/1668612947713617920
Or, to put it another way, God doesn't seem overly inhibited by planning regulations.
"Thrilled - saves me a job😉"
https://twitter.com/mercer_felicity
Though generally spekaing, his legal advisors end up with their heads on a pike AFTER rather before commencing representation. Getting ahead of the curve?
No sign of any appointment on the HM Treasury website.