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Johnson inevitably dominates the front pages – politicalbetting.com
Johnson inevitably dominates the front pages – politicalbetting.com
For someone who loves the limelight just about more than anyone else in British politics, Johnson should love the Friday front pages.
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The end of the road politically for Boris was when he had no choice left but to resign from Downing Street.
Boris is history now. Any talk of "other avenues" is for the birds.
We were discussing numbers, facts and what was influencing the death rate.
The fact that you found those facts so disturbing you had to jump in with "yeah but second amendment" goes with the fact you consistently sup the kool aid of American extremists.
When a big Ponzi falls over, the investors fall into a few different categories. First, you've got the winners. Ponzis do have winners - those who got in early and got out early. They make themselves scarce and emphasise how absolutely tip-top fine it seemed to them all along (Rees-Mogg). Then you've got the average investors, who lost a bit but not more than they could handle. They shake their heads and walk away, poorer but wiser (Sunak and most of the Conservative MPs). Then you've got those who lost enough to hurt, who rage against the fraudster behind the scheme and try to enact vengeance upon him (Philip Davies).
And finally, you have those who lost the most. The ones who know deep down that after this, they're out on the street and digging through bins for the remnants of half-eaten kebabs. They deny that they've been conned. They deny that any fraud has happened. They plead, desperately, that the fraudster is a good man and that their money must be safe with him. They rage against the police, against HMRC, against the FBI, against whoever else is investigating, because it's their fault that the whole thing is falling apart. We know who's in that category.
https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1669451466111631361
Tuckwell is Hillingdon born and raised and still works and lives there with his family
https://twitter.com/SmallwoodCorner/status/1669471087430709256?s=20
https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1669466600855019520?s=20
https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1669478406256205825?s=20
EDIT - in the American sense, NOT "lower class".
Or do they think there should be some limitations on the rights of citizens to bear arms?
This is the kind of thing party committee officers - and hacks - generally are pretty aware of, in my experience.
Back when WA State had precinct party caucuses, yours truly was responsible for calculating Democratic delegate allocations from precinct to district level and from there to state convention, based on last presidential election. AND every decade factoring in redistricting of state legislative and congressional boundaries.
So am rather baffled WHY the Selby Con Assoc is in this situation? And how frequent is this type of confusion and/or kerfluffle re: parliamentary constituency boundary changes?
The surveillance society was cleverly predicted by this 1982 BBC drama called "Crimes".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REj9bDPDaiI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Nearly two thirds of Americans want stricter gun control.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/26/politics/cnn-poll-gun-laws/index.html
Though slightly more so than Boris Johnson.
Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 in reform of sex crimes law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/japan-raises-age-of-consent-from-13-to-16-in-reform-of-sex-crimes-law
https://www.ft.com/content/ccfe4c77-72a7-4519-b529-333354c6b4c9
This looks like it could be massive tbh
Just simple maths.
Good to see Carol Vorderman exposing the lies and hypocrisy of Wes Streeting.
Some of you may think I'm just a pro left stooge. Not a bit of it. I loathe political corruption in all its forms and although I want Labour to win the next election I expect it will be a short time before they're getting corrupt like the current Conservatives.
https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1669356836175351809
They see private involvement as a way of tackling backlogs, but the reality is by doing so they hollow out the NHS service to the point that it is no longer viable. It isn't a serious long term plan but rather a sugar rush that sets up future failure.
On our way home this afternoon from a lovely holiday with fantastic weather and have completed the whole TT course including the mountain road, albeit in our car
We have only had the hotel wifi so really good to avoid the toxic Johnson and his sycophants continuing to debase honesty and integrity
Sunak has a moment on monday to become his own PM and vote for the report and not abstain by being somewher else
We have the digital mail because of my wife's love of the puzzles but even she was angry with its coverage today and we discussed cancelling it, but as ever a wise lady she responded saying 'at least we can see what the enemy is saying'
Those words should terrify the conservative party
https://www.ft.com/content/29fa2998-186b-4178-a860-6a3cbd3d5059
TLDR: they were floating for $7.5 billion but the market would only offer two-thirds of that, while the underwriters would only pick up at most $800 million.
Don't know how accurate the claim is, but if it is correct you can see why that wouldn't work.
The interview yesterday was very much him being questioned about whether maybe their expectations of their valuation might have been too high.
Quite difficult for the CEO to argue against that as he had been shouting about how London would value it correctly just recently.
I expect they will have a sneak peek to see if they can list somewhere in the future and get a higher valuation but they’ve boxed themselves in a bit.
Is the NHS, as it is constructed at the moment, inviable anyway? Increased funding *may* help a little (if spent wisely), but the demand for NHS services seems to outpace any feasible funding.
But that's even more heretical than your post, I'm afraid.
I don't know if Streeting has lied about this, as I haven't actually seen what he's supposed to have lied about; but Vorderman doesn't come out of that well.
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/07/01/three-score-and-ten-has-the-nhs-reached-the-end-of-its-natural-life/
When Xi Jinping once enthused about the virtues of a higher education, he told prospective students that university was a “place not just for academic studies but for seeking truth”.
The truth is, however, is that many Chinese students are now reluctant to leave university at all, seeking to fail their finals in an attempt to avoid entering a workplace in which jobs are increasingly hard to find.
Even in a nation where failing to graduate on time was rare and considered to be a social stigma, many are trying to avoid graduating at all this year as youth unemployment hits record highs.
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The unemployment rate for the 16-24 age group hit a new high of 20.8 per cent in May, up from 20.4 per cent in April, according to the latest official data. Yet a record 11.58 million college graduates are entering the job market this summer, up by 820,000 from 2022.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-students-fail-exams-avoid-looking-for-a-job-36s0nrhtj
Safe journey home!
The difference between Japan, the US, China, S Korea, Germany ... and us, is that the first five persistently spend billions in its pursuit.
Sounds like you had a nice break in the Isle of Man anyway
Of course if it was spent earlier in their lives many would still want it spent again when they became sick oldies.
It has been good to be away from the Westminster physco drama
https://www.ft.com/content/3256ba64-437f-4484-8012-1776194cfe23
So companies' expectations are inflated.
That might start to unwind, as it doesn't look as though higher interest rates are going away anytime soon.
But the story does put into context the claims made here that 'London is back', when the listing was originally announced.
It seems like the Tories have finally alienated their core voters beyond the point of no return.
On the downside, reading these headlines which scream of Johnson's innocence, his client journalists really are telling us black is white and white is black. This is worrying for all of us who hoped Johnson',s malign influence on the body politic was once and for all over. He still has his influential cheerleaders.
She didn't say she hated the mail those are your words
She was angry with the Johnson coverage but suggested if we retain it at least we can see what the enemy is saying
Its coverage this morning is the enemy of honesty, decency and integrity something my wife and millions others hold dear but it seems that you do not recognise it sadly
Surely they would want a Proper Massive Weapon like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_17_nuclear_bomb
They have shown that they are motivated and organised, willing to vote as required to punish the party. Instead of thinking "lets not do the bad thing", we get amoral lickspittles like HY prepared to defend anything, call the sky green and denounce anyone insisting it is blue, deride any objectors as not true Tories.
All this is doing is pushing an even firmer determination on voters to remove the government from office. Anyone see Newsnight last night? The ever scary VD in the chain, interviewing the Tory MP for Bassetlaw. Instead of fighting for his constituents he was on the "sky is green" pitch, raging against the Boris! report.
VD managed to restrain herself from laughing, but did have to keep pulling him back to reality, and "have you even read the report???".
While wealthy voters in Surrey may vote LD locally (not just to protest against Brexit but also as a NIMBY protest vote against new housing), a general election is a different matter. For if they elect a LD MP who votes to make Starmer PM and put Labour in government that means higher taxes for them. So I expect Sunak's Tories to do better in Surrey at the general election than local elections would suggest, given the Tories don't control a single district council in Surrey anymore except Reigate
Labour 51.8% (+13.0)
SNP 27.1% (-13.7)
Conservatives 8.5% (-5.1)
British Unionist Party 4.3% (n/a)
Alba 3.9% (+1.7)
Greens 1.6% (n/a)
Liberal Democrats 1.2% (n/a)
Scottish Family Party 1.1% (n/a)
Freedom Alliance 0.3% (n/a)
UKIP 0.3% (n/a)
The number of first preference votes polled for each candidate was:
Joseph Budd, Scottish National Party (SNP) – 753
Colin Cameron, Scottish Conservative and Unionist – 236
John Arthur Henry Cole, Scottish Liberal Democrats – 34
Leo Francis Lanahan, Scottish Family Party: Pro-Family, Pro-Marriage, Pro-Life - 30
John Marshall, Alba Party for Independence – 107
Anne McCrory, Scottish Labour Party – 1,440
Rosemary McGowan, Scottish Greens - 44
Simona Panaitescu, Freedom Alliance. Stop the Great Reset – 7
Billy Ross, British Unionists – For a Better Britain - 120
Neil Wilson, UK Independence Party - 7
Total of first preference votes: 2,778
The percentage poll was 22.7% and the electoral quota was 1,390.
Bellshill is in the neighbouring constituency to Rutherglen.
Otherwise, the Conservatives are still below 30% in the poll averages, now with nineteen months tops until the next election, and about sixteen realistically. Apart from "Britain is Booming (no, really, it is if you look hard enough)", what have they got left?
Your point was perfectly valid. The Heil is a mass market news platform, possibly *the* mass market platform. And when it dives off through unreality and makes stories and opinions up, the comments are hugely negative.
Lets all be non-partisan for a minute. There are millions of decent respectable conservatives out there and they deserve a party worth their vote. They don't currently have one, and the media outlets supposedly representing their position instead have been corrupted by Trumpian alt-facts and open lies.
Some people have been sucked down the rabbit hole, and for those people GBeebies and the Express are there. But for the mainstream of conservatives? It gets to the point when the media lose their audience and people just switch off listening.
What did it for the Tories in 1997 wasn't just Tony Blair. It was the absolute collapse of the Tory vote. Labour went up by 2m. Tories fell by 4.5m. The same is brewing for 2024. Even if millions of 2019 Tory voters simply stay at home it will be a cataclysm. That HY cannot see this is baffling.
You talk as if you are the low tax party! You are not!
He may or may not be a lickspittle. That’s fair to debate but Amoral ?
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23592933.just-stop-oil-protesters-target-opera-glyndeborne/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65924584
#TheAshes
Other than "Public and Racket," which I did find and rather regretted. Unless I wanted to learn more about a dozen UFOs operated by the US in secrecy. Or about the authors of these two blogs and their "plot to dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex in London.
A podcast by RFK Jr. Plus a defence of RFK Jr a bit later.
That UFO stuff.
An attack piece on a vaccine scientist who came up with a patent-free coronavirus vaccine.
Lots of stuff on "The Twitter Files."
A piece on Nazi symbols by Ukrainian soldiers, apparently.
Plenty of trans stuff.
I may be being all "beta" or whatever, but I'd prefer to find out better sources than that. Mindful of the fact that the US Intelligence Community reports, while much disagreement was there, were in agreement that the "three WIV researchers falling ill" was a red herring (and had been suggested since the very start but apparently repeatedly counter-indicated), and that they were in agreement that it wasn't engineered to be a bio-weapon, I'd like to see something other than "someone anonymous told us" by these particular people.
Plus - the furin cleavage site stuff has looked more and more like a blind alley as the years have gone past, especially as it's not unique (MERS has it, as well as several other human coronaviruses), and it's not the kind of insertion anyone would make to improve transmissibility.
I get Leon's assertion that it's all down to the US wanting to cover it up, but that's just someone asserting something.
I could well believe a lab leak - after all, there was an abortive SARS leak several years back, although this would be a first for a novel virus - but it would need some reals rather than just feels. The stuff on the wet market was very well researched and convincing that it blew up from there rather than anywhere else, and was very compatible with zoonotic transfer (the two lineages - which would require a minimum of two identical lab leaks; not impossible, but needs more evidence).
Either way, more work needs to be done to prevent zoonotic spillover (it either happened here or is prone to happen more and more in the future, anyway, unless something is done).
I’m presuming the good doctor is a gut specialist with a private practice and is trying to boost his custom with the poor unfortunates who follow his advice.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65918754
We've just popped onto an immaculate Avanti West Coast train. We've got two heavily laden bikes, but a "Cycle Quartermaster" raised an eyebrow and beckoned us towards the front.
This man is everything that is good about Scotland. A degree of congenial exasperation as he helped us onto this 8:52 service to Euston. A cavernous cycle storage area, reserved area for our panniers, and reserved seats right next to the bikes. Silence and air conditioning in the coach.
All booked at short notice for £13. The UK/Scotland does occasionally work.