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How Sunak’s PMQ record compares with predecessors – politicalbetting.com
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https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1677732598150201354?t=rS-vykpDF1KiehcynrQqeA&s=19
But it wasn't boring.
Sounds much better than 251.
That seems short enough to me - the Australians will be fired up and if they take a couple of early wickets, it'll be interesting.
Expect Stokes will probably have to haul us over the line mind
And it'll be better viewing than us winning easily; win, lose or tie
Plus the £40 will sooth the pain if the series is over by lunch…
Series needs an England win. Cricket needs an England win.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/22/nadine-dorries-completely-gave-up-on-job-as-mp-long-before-announcing-exit
Campaigning in Iowa, former President Donald Trump attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an enemy of corn-based ethanol in his largest campaign event in the leadoff caucus state in nearly four months.
Trump, appearing Friday in Council Bluffs in the western part of the state, criticized his top 2024 Republican presidential rival for voting as a member of Congress to oppose the federal mandate for the fuel additive that Iowa leads the nation in producing.
Trump declared himself “the most pro-farmer president that you’ve ever had” at the event, which was aimed at promoting his administration’s agricultural record and touting his oversight of clawbacks of regulations on farmers. “I fought for Iowa ethanol like no president in history,” he said.
On a rainy Friday, Trump spoke to more than 1,000 Iowans and Nebraskans packed into the event hall inside Mid-America Center, with hundreds more huddled under umbrellas in line outside the arena.
As a congressman from Florida, DeSantis co-sponsored a bill in 2017 that would have immediately ended the renewable fuel standard, a position consistent with fiscal conservatives who see such mandates as government overreach.
“Iowa also needs to know that Ron DeSanctus totally despises Iowa ethanol and ethanol generally,” Trump said, intentionally mispronouncing his rival’s name as he routinely does. “He’s been fighting it for years. Don’t forget, as a congressman he was voting against it, and fighting for years to kill every single job.” . . .
Trump spoke for 80 minutes, starting with the agriculture theme but blending his attacks on DeSantis and President Joe Biden with asides on such subjects as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — “I told him: Don’t do it.” — an impression of French President Emmanuel Macron and a dismissal of climate change science, saying during the hottest week in history that global warming is just going to give more people beachfront property.
He touted his three picks for the Supreme Court, who helped make up the majority that voted to overturn Roe v. Wade on abortion last year and to end affirmative action in college admissions last week. . . .
Ethanol is a fuel additive blended with gasoline and sold across the country that is usually produced by fermenting corn. The ethanol industry consumes about half of Iowa’s corn crop, and the state leads the nation in corn and ethanol production.
As a candidate, Trump has promoted the executive order he signed as president increasing the retail sale of fuel containing 15% ethanol.
Recent history, however, suggests a lack of support for ethanol may not be disqualifying. In 2016, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who opposes the mandate, won Iowa’s Republican caucuses, handing Trump an early defeat in his ultimately successful White House campaign. Trump carried Iowa by more than 9 percentage points in 2016 and 8.2 points in 2020. . .
The Sun piece repeats the oft-mentioned rumour that Dorries wants to quite at a time that will make it hard for Sunak to avoid calling the by-election during party conference season, but if she just wants to stay put and collect her salary for doing nothing then no means exist to force her to go.
Knowing how dramatic cricket has become, a tie - could you rule it out?
These Johnson disciples need to be given a resounding 'out' verdict from the electorate
https://twitter.com/byteecosystem/status/1677662389502902273
First evidence of Sunak taking a less hawkish approach to Ukraine than Boris and Truss, his predecessors and the US now starting to be more hawkish under Biden than the UK on Ukraine. Canada and Spain like the UK opposed to sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
'Joe Biden has taken a difficult but brave decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine. He is right. These are terrible weapons. But they have been used by Putin for over a year in his programme of indiscriminate slaughter of an entirely innocent people. The faster we help the Ukrainians to win, the more lives we will save all round. And never forget - it is the Ukrainians who will use these weapons on their own soil, and to protect themselves.'
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1677725588344254464?s=20
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66142554
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66144153
I give Sunak credit for criticising the deployment of these weapons
Canada, Spain and many others are right to attack Biden's decision
https://apple.news/ASslvL49lRnWEO_DrRsRBvw
Firstly it's a small sample. I seem to recall people making a big deal early with Boris too saying he was missing them too much, yet oddly from the chart he has the second lowest rate missed despite that.
Secondly there's a war on at the moment etc and so yes sometimes the PM will have other things to do. The danger you have in the LOTO turning up or making a big deal about it when the PM is elsewhere is it can backfire by suggesting you don't think whatever else the PM is doing is important.
It's important in the sense that high public opinion for supporting Ukraine makes it politically easier to continue on, but on a tactical level we're poorly placed to make such a judgement on specific assets.
Nadine Dorries has now been quitting longer than Liz Truss was ‘leading’
Now I am not saying this is comparable and cluster bombs are a particularly brutal weapon but nonetheless public opinion is not always right when it comes to standing up to dictators threatening their neighbours.
I am sure Boris tonight though would very much love a comparison between him as Churchill and Rishi as Neville Chamberlain
They should not have one arm tied behind their back. They need to be given whatever support can work. If it's these weapons its by far the lesser evil.
There's also the fact the reason why these weapons are frowned upon doesn't really apply here. The danger of these weapons is they can fail to go off so be left behind essentially as mines that can go off against unintended victims. However Russia have used so many of these munitions and used landmines so frequently that there'll need to be a massive demining operation after Russia is driven out anyway.
The sooner Russia can be driven out, the sooner that the killings can end.
So we are too hawkish so Baldy Ben loses NATO top job but we aren’t Hawkish enough. Weird.
If every other test nation goes with the bazball smash game it will be good but otherwise Test cricket will become a curio that’s maybe only played in the ashes.
It's about the only thing we haven't had in the series so far.
And Zeleniskyy's address in Bulgaria today, just wow.
Labour: 43% (-1)
Conservatives: 28% (+3)
Lib Dems: 9% (n/c)
SNP: 3% (n/c)
Green: 6% (-1)
Reform UK: 8% (+1)
(Changes are from a poll released in the Observer last week)
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1677758557029105664
🚨 Latest poll for @ObserverUK Labour lead at 15 points.
Labour: 43% (-1)
Conservatives: 28% (+3)
Lib Dems: 9% (n/c)
SNP: 3% (n/c)
Green: 6% (-1)
Reform UK: 8% (+1)
(Changes are from a poll released in the Observer last week)
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1677758557029105664
SNP in danger of finishing third in Scotland behind the Tories.
Labour 31%
SNP 31%
SCons 28%
I mean it is a subsample so as about as accurate as an American war movie.
He rule of Mandy Rice-Davis applies...
stop the boats@charleshymas
Channel migrant crossings hit new daily record for 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/02/labour-under-pressure-to-axe-two-child-benefit-limit
Tryl, who acted as the moderator, said: “These were by far the worst set of groups we’ve done on impressions of Rishi Sunak. Whereas previously people have been willing to give him some benefit of the doubt, and usually fell back on the fact that even if he’s out of touch he’s competent and the best person to clear up the mess from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, things have shifted. The cost of living crisis being compounded with the mortgage crisis has exacerbated Sunak’s personal weaknesses.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dead-like-a-dodo-by-election-voters-are-giving-rishi-sunak-both-barrels-pbz5zpvfb
It is very unlikely Australia will win by more than 50 runs, or England by more than a few wickets, so the prospect of a tie is much higher than in most normal games where the result is usually predictable some way out.
Anyway, I just had a couple of quid on it at 120/1. At the very least I expect to be able to lay it off at a profit at some point.
If more boats come, but they passed legislation, then huzzah. People will say "ok so we're drowning in the forrin invaders, but they passed a law to stop that happening so I am satisfied"
Tories will win a 704 seat majority at the next election
He should probably screen his photo ops better, mind…
Stopping the boats is much harder than the Govt thought it would be….
https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1677735811494694912
It's all a bit "man the lifeboats, every MP for themselves" now.
No wait that wasn't oracy.
The politicians simply don't want to admit their powerlessness, that's all.
The man is 5'6", a little below average but no pigmy, and who the hell cares anyway? What kind of a voter is preoccupied with height?
It reminds one of the remark attributed to Churchill that one's belief in Democracy is unlikely to withstand more than five minutes conversation with a constituent.
But alas, he blew it.
Now the people who care about it seem to have lost hope it will be addressed, and do not fear Labour enough to stick with the Tories regardless.
So Rishi successfully stopped the boats 6 days out of 7.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
Anyway, I’m not going to quibble over a +1. 😁
I don’t think Opinium are getting it right though. When they changed their methodology to build in perceived swingback to the Tory government February last year, did it account for any sort of tactical vote in the election. Despite Tories as low as 28, despite what we saw in Blue Wall in local elections, This poll has Lib Dem’s stuck on 9, not too far ahead of reform and greens. Do any of us think Lib Dem’s will get a PV as low as 9 at the general election?
They could be “over selling” their poll as a GE indicator.
I'd hope it is really just a consequence of seeing him as weak and therefore finding any outlet to criticise, but as Dr Palmer has revealed, some voters will openly say they will vote for the person who is taller! (In that case, him, so all was well).