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Nadine Dorries quits an MP to help write Labour attack lines – politicalbetting.com
Nadine Dorries quits an MP to help write Labour attack lines – politicalbetting.com
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries resigns Commons seat, two months after promising to quit, telling UK PM Rishi Sunak "history will not judge you kindly" https://t.co/gx0p7vvSiv
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Rishi is a bad PM, but of the reasons he is, it is not because he denied Mad Nads her bauble.
The only skill she appears to have is exaggerating her CV.
At least Dorries has had a job and was a minister (albeit a very shit one).
(Incidentally the first Google auto fill on her name still speaks volumes as to why people think she was ennobled.)
However, in this seat it may be more likely as the gap between Lab and LD is larger than in some others, and the LDs are starting from even further back.
I think Con could hold in those circumstances, but feel like some Tory locals will want to teach the party a lesson - from a Dorries direction wanting to punish Sunak, and from a general unhappyness position.
Nevermind Paul Flowers. What about Brandon? He’s on the BBC at Reading Festival and I’m looking out for my son who’s somewhere in the crowd and by all accounts (from a few scarce texts) is having the time of his life.
And there was talk of Mormons above too.
The Killers set makes me feel doubly inadequate. It reminds me I’m now too old for pop festivals (or rather, too old to go to a pop festival without standing out as above the recommended age limit); and it reminds me I will never be as irritatingly good looking as Brandon Flowers, who is admittedly a few years younger than me.
And on topic, I think is is probably one worth Labour and Lib Dems both going hell for leather on, even if the Tories sneak through as a result.
It's just they apply, frequently with more force, to her as well.
On the spanish kissing story, this article on the BBC website is really poor reporting. It purports to be an account of the situation but gives no sense that there may be an other side of the story, nor that there may be other countervailing social forces in Spain. It actually just reads a jubilant facebook post from one side on the culture war. Obviously a lot of people on here will like it and fair enough, but the BBC has to drop it's claim to be 'impartial'. You can just make your choice between it and GB News, the output is at the same level.
All 47,000 personnel have been notified about the potential exposure of their photographs, names, and ranks, The Sun newspaper reported.
The breach occurred when cybercriminals managed to infiltrate the IT systems of a contractor responsible for printing warrant cards and staff passes.
In response to the report, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told Sky News: "We have been made aware of unauthorised access to the IT system of a Met supplier.
"We are working with the company to understand if there has been any security breach relating to Metropolitan Police data."
https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-admits-details-of-officers-at-risk-of-exposure-after-warrant-card-supplier-was-hacked-12948602
He admitted there were divisions within SNP but insisted independence “is closer now than it ever has been” with nearly 75,000 SNP members.
Mr Yousaf added: “It’s so important first of all, that even in the face of let’s be frank, some of the most difficult weeks and months in our party’s history, support for independence remains rock solid.”
He called for a “legally binding referendum” and said “humane migration” could help repopulate rural areas of Scotland such as Dumfries and Galloway, and the Borders.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/humza-yousaf-says-support-for-independence-has-never-been-stronger/ar-AA1fOqxR?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fdfb5bfcc3504b28cc8a1a4604a5be1c&ei=7
Now, I don't really know those areas, though my dad used to live in the Dumfries and Galloway region for a time, and I'm not going to say anything negative about them as a result, but when you have migrants how often do they go for the less populated, rural areas, which presumably have fewer current migrants?
It's happened in the USA I'd guess, with those big empty areas out west and German settlers and the like, but are there recent examples of being able to encourage migrants to settle into depopulated rural areas?
Granted this one is a of a different kind than the usual reason.
I jest, but I remain skeptical that parties 'giving a free run' is necessarily as impactful as they think. We get inconsistent reports about how much candidates are really trying, and how much support they have, in these situations, especially as they rarely openly admit they are doing that. I suspect it's all much murkier and more fluid, and that the confused mass of the public in the seat can just sort of align on who makes most sense as the main anti-Tory candidate regardless.
Makes a pleasant change that this Police scandal isn't about Police engaging in indecent exposure or other behaviour towards members of the public.
Thieves in Switzerland have conquered one of the country's most challenging protected climbing routes.
They ascended to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges on narrow steel cables - all to rob a collection box...
The donation box was found smashed open and empty. The thieves were not only good climbers, equipped with all the necessary mountaineering kit, they took the tools with them to break open the donation box "with brute force" the climbing club said.
Astonishingly, it appears they then continued their ascent, with the money, to the top of the Dauberhorn, at 2941 metres...
The climbing club is not sure exactly how much money was stolen; but club member and mountain guide Richard Werlen told the BBC it was likely to be at least 400-500 Swiss francs (€420-520; $450-560).
Des violons
De l'automne
Edit: seriously, think it means the Usyk fight (boxer)
1: He's freezing tax thresholds at a time of high inflation, so that take home pay is down even if people get an inflation-meeting pay rise.
2: He's encouraging below-inflation pay rises.
3: He's opposing the construction of much needed housing.
4: Taxes are continuously going up on those working for a living, while spending goes up on client voters who aren't.
5: No positive vision for growing the economy.
6: Spending is being redirected towards client voters instead of investment.
...
976,456,159 An ex-MP didn't get her promised bauble.
Maybe a bad one, but one grounded in truth after all that's happened over the past 12 months of Met Officers abusing women; of course its a big deal.
...a whole life term.
It worked in Tiverton, among others, though Labour are further ahead in this one than those.
He's possibly realised that setting 'goals' of things to achieve is difficult, even 'reducing inflation' when inflation is falling globally now and will fall without the government doing anything.
Better for him to set goals of things that we're already doing, then he can say mission accomplished by not doing anything and saying that his goal has been achieved.
If Labour can win Selby, why should Labour not go full gas for Mid Beds?
It depends on who you go to see what the age of the audience is.
Anyway onto the by election which both Labour and the Liberal Democrats will likely target and will be a challenge for the Conservatives to hold on current polls and midterm protest vote
Oh that's going a bit far.
He's not even the most manifestly inadequate and damaging PM we've had in the past decade.
He's a dud, yes. A waste of space, yes. He's going to waste the last 2 years the Tories hold Downing Street. He's simply not up to the job and doesn't have anything to do.
But PMs who do the wrong thing, are more damaging than PMs who do nothing like Sunak.
He's basically leaving the country to decline on auto-pilot, he's not crashing the plane.
1. Labour victory: confirms they are on course, and can win in the semi-rural Home Counties
2. Lib Dem victory: yet more evidence they will destroy the Tories in the blue wall
3. Tory hold: signs of trouble ahead for the tactical voting coalition, and another Uxbridge-style straw in the wind that things might not be all that bad for them after all
4. Tories third: lol
"It became clear to me as I worked that remaining as a back bencher was incompatible with publishing a book which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corrupted."
and
"Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. What exactly has been done or have you achieved?"
Got to be value if it is true they are going for it.
Quite an extraordinary story. Alabama, in the twenty-first century.
The UK is a developed economy that is doing OK. We could do better, we could do worse.
He's "meh" more than actively harmful. Not remotely good enough to PM, but not a disaster either.
Braxton followed all of the legal procedures to declare his candidacy, despite Stokes’s efforts to obscure from residents that they could run for mayor or for the council...
Because the town had never had a proper election, Stokes argues that they could not have known it was illegal for them to attempt to uphold their positions through a closed election.
“There is no clearly established law regarding what to do when an Alabama town does not hold elections for decades,” their brief said.
The “elected” councilmembers[this relates to allies of the old mayor filing late papers for an 'election', but not telling anyone about it, so declaring themselves council members by default) started holding meetings without telling Braxton. Then, because he wasn’t attending the meetings, they voted him out as mayor and appointed Stokes instead.
At a time where the country had voted to Leave the EU, she utterly failed to draw a consensus either on her own side or across Parliament in order to find a way to do so. This was much worse for business investment etc than today's failure to act by Sunak, as we needed a solution and firms needed to know what was going to happen.
After losing her proposal by 230 votes in the first "meaningful vote", the worst defeat by any Prime Minister on any issue ever in modern times, she had no solution other than to refuse to take no for an answer and to keep retabling the same proposal without changes hoping without reason that Parliament would eventually change its mind.
Her Premiership was an unmitigated disaster that meant even Boris Johnson was positive in comparison in being able to get a solution through Parliament unlike her. To be less collegiate, less able to shepherd Parliament than even Boris Johnson shows just how utterly awful she was.
Even without getting into my personal gripes about her being a horrid xenophobe or citizens of nowhere etc
Jesus.
There are many parishes in this country with around that many electors or fewer, though if you are creating new parish of that size if would not have a council, but only a Meeting. And of course there'd be far fewer powers. They might have a village hall, if they are lucky and they had one from a time when they were larger and it was suitably set up to be sustained into the future.
One of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots and two other airmen have been killed in a mid-air crash.
Andrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of Russia's invasion.
The Ukrainian military called the airmen's deaths "painful and irreparable" losses, and paid tribute to Pilshchykov as a pilot with "mega knowledge and mega talent".
The crash involved two L-39 training planes flying over northern Ukraine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66631182
That said, I missed the low blow in this fight, which Dubois and Frank Warren are now suggesting leads to a rematch here first. Lots of argument on both sides on where to draw the line on low blows, which depends to some extent on the briefing to the fighters from the referee before they started.
(shaded area current constituency)
(shaded area new constituency)
https://commonslibrary.shinyapps.io/new_constituencies_insight/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448979/Secret-plan-change-drivers-mile-Ulez-start-Labours-carless-society.html
"Weak weak weak"
Done it on a PC before, so not my first time using thermal paste etc, but still a bit nervous. Handling this stuff with PCs always seems easier to me than with Laptops despite them being essentially mostly the same thing.
Good point that the Laptop will just shut down if it overheats, that's happened before when I was playing a game in bed so the exhaust ports were all blocked by the duvet so it overheated. Suppose so long as I don't f things up myself then presumably worst that can happen is I've wasted £21 and need to do this again with official parts.
I've been monitoring the temperature since the noise became an issue, in case that was it. Its typically running at CPU 50-70C though sometimes higher and GPU seems to fairly consistently stick to reasonably close to 50C. Currently running at 60 and 50 respectively, so I have a baseline to compare before and after.
Thanks for the advice.
Have a special chartered organisation (like the BBC Charter, but only charging road users not other transportation/TV users like the BBC does) set up to run the roads and responsible for handling the proceeds of such revenue, maintenance of roads and construction of new ones.
I for one would then welcome either the vast increase in road construction that could be funded from charges equivalent to our current taxes, or the dramatic reduction in charges/taxes that would happen instead.
But of course we know that the anti-car fanatics would just want this to be another general tax to penalise people who go about with private transportation on infrastructure funded and then some from taxes on private transportation. They would seek to raise tens of billions from road charges and spend it on public transport or the NHS instead of roads.
I disagree with a lot of Atlee and Gladstones’s policies. But it doesn’t make them bad PMs. In fact I’d even say they were rather good
A PM should govern for the whole nation, just just his or her client vote.
You can make a case for his keeping Jeremy Hunt in post to settle market nerves, but what the hell else has he done or is planning to do?
It’s a zombie administration.
“The windows on the space station don’t open. It’s the safest place in the solar system for a Russian.”
Why indulge her further?
These politicians are not as important as they think they are. She was the future, once.
"Rachel Reeves has ruled out any version of a wealth tax if Labour forms the next government, declaring that additional taxation will not lead to prosperity.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the Shadow Chancellor launches a bold bid for support from businesses and wealthier households, saying she will not introduce a levy to target wealth or expensive properties, and will not increase capital gains tax or the top rate of income tax."
So appears as if the next GE will have no impact on the level of taxes. And indeed spending as nobody is going to risk additional borrowing.
We've got Sunak under attack from both Left and Right. But the Left isn't going to do anything different. And when the Right (ie Truss) tried to do something different it completely blew up in their faces.
Realistically there is no significant scope for doing anything different however much people might dislike it.
That historic precedence shows that in 1997 they polled 30.7%, well below Andy's 'at least 35%'. For all the talk that Starmer is no Blair, 2024 is also no 1997 in terms of the background and conditions. Most commentators would argue that the situation now is far worse than in 1997, when this country was in fact in pretty good economic health.
In 2001 the Conservatives still only polled 31.7%
And in 2005 32.6%
They didn't get back over the 35% mark until 2010, and even then only by just over 1%.
Based on that, and the current polling, I see no firm basis at the present time for Andy's optimism.
Is the “top rate of tax” the same as the “additional rate”?