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The Tories are having a bad September in the polls – politicalbetting.com
The Tories are having a bad September in the polls – politicalbetting.com
Over the past week also we have seen some fairly poor polls for the Conservatives. Quite why this is the case is hard to fathom but as each month goes by we are closer to the general election whenever Sunak decides to call it.
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He's going full Johnson. Blatant lies, gambling that the voting public is thick.
Will it work? I think much depends on how journalists, and opposition, deal with it. As Johnson and Trump showed it can be very difficult dealing with a liar if they really double down on it.
He wants to make the relationship between Starmer and the likes of the Tony Blair Institute a political issue.
Sunak's announcement contained nothing, but there may be an acknowledgement of economic reality behind it which could be a good thing.
“The b@stard Gvt. The one elected in 2019, or possibly 2010, or maybe 2015. The Chancellor in 2021 told me he was going to do it. Right slippery customer, he was. Vote for me, I want change”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/other/krishnan-guru-murthy-says-gov-t-using-networks-like-gb-news-as-platform-to-avoid-scrutiny-rts-cambridge/ar-AA1h2YSc
Other things promoted by right wing think tanks with cosy relationships with the Tories include cutting benefits almost to zero, removing almost all environmental regulations from industry, ceasing all aid to Ukraine, bringing back military service, bringing back corporal punishment and so on.
Bev Turner looks OK
Michelle Dewberry can't pronounce her "o's" properly
Rees-Mogg too plummy
Farage entertaining at times
Wootton looks creepy!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/04/toyota-claims-battery-breakthrough-electric-cars
For heating, it makes more sense to focus on improving the quality of the housing stock because retrofitting heat pumps isn't always sensible.
He explained exactly where they came from on the radio today - he took quotes from the CCC, and then totally made up a new meaning for them.
In what way are "ride sharing solutions" even with "demand side measures" ever compulsory car sharing? Some countries allow multi-occupancy cars to use bus lanes etc., but that's absolutely not compulsory car sharing. The same with his "meat tax" - the quote he used was nothing of the sort.
It's simply lying.
In this weeks IPSOS poll, Sunak & Starmer were tied at 21-21
To be able to lie and be believed, or to put it another way, to sell a policy, you need to be a charmer, and the Tories don’t have one anymore
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2265637955800
Paper waste - weekly
Plastic - weekly
Cardboard and glass - weekly
Food - weekly
Main Bin - once a month
Garden waste (2) - fortnightly - (pay extra £52 pa)
The Lib Dems can tackle the blue wall: get Davey on to announce that Lib Dem MPs in the SE would reverse the new Tory government policy to sell the green belt to Barratt homes.
No optical illusion is better than this classic. The two squares with the red dot are the same colour.
They are written off, psychologically. Tough place to be. But they can blame years of over-promising and under-delivering, in the end that gets VERY stale
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sunday-times-pays-foot-damages-over-kgb-claim-1590325.html
"*Murdoch hits out at 'elites' in letter*
More now from Rupert Murdoch's resignation letter to staff.
In it, he warned that "the battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense".
His father, who owned newspapers in Australia that helped launch Murdoch's media empire, "firmly believed in freedom", he says, adding that his successor Lachlan "is absolutely committed to the cause".
"Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose.
Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class," he says.
"Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth."
Murdoch goes on to says that in his new role he will be an active member of the companies' "communities", and will watch broadcasts with a critical eye and read news reports with interest."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-66881282
It's in YouTube's financial interest to demonetize videos. They have a 6 adverts per hour of viewing policy. If you watch a demonetized video as part of your viewing habits, YouTube will still aim to show you 6 videos per hour. It's only that they won't be sharing the revenue with Russell Brand or with a history show maker that has slightly gory pictures or (as happened to me) where the conclude that you borrowed some music from an artist. (In the last case, YouTube strips me of the 0.1 cent I'd get for a view for my share of advertising so they can pay REM 0.01c for the streamed music.)
There is a simple solution to this problem; YouTube should be required to allow advertisers to publish next to "demonetized" videos. (And I would categorize demonetization as being due to one of a dozen easy to understand criteria.)
As there will be less competition for these placements, the revenue earned from them will be smaller than if you're next to a Mark Rober video. But it would mean that Google's power would be meaningfully reduced. Indeed, the power would move almost entirely to advertisers, and it would be their choice, not that platform's.
Given YouTube's near monopoly provision of video streaming, there is no reason why this could not be enforced by competition authorities in the US, UK and EU.
Don't fall for this shit. The law as crafted proposes that waste be separated into 7 streams unless councils decide they are able to manage it in mixed streams, which of course most can.
So I have 4 bins - mixed recycling, waste, food caddy, and optional garden waste - and that's what I will keep having.
Or do you think the government should force councils to mix it up all together and dump it off the Lleyn Peninsula?
Interestingly we have a different combination of five bins in all (including one garden bin) and collections, but it seems to work well enough - it's not at all often we have an overload in any bin and usually that's because of a clearout or similar.
Suella and then Sunak waded in with big emotional promises. These dogs will be banned. We've had enough. This ends NOW
And then it dribbles away and it's "around the end of the year" and "all rather complicated"
Meanwhile people (and animals) are still suffering
"Woman suffers facial injuries saving two dogs from XL bully attack
Two friends tried to fight off the huge dogs, and thought their pets were going to die"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-face-mauled-trying-save-30987318?_ga=2.232744287.1966861547.1695309171-1132188263.1691503356
*Said with nothing but affection for the gentleman.
I do not expect much change in the polls but certainty the starting gun has been fired on the next GE and who knows where this goes
And by the way it is the Llyn Peninsular
How long ago did we celebrate natural gas on a stamp?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/15/labour-figures-slam-claim-that-michael-foot-was-paid-by-soviets
How many millions did he have to pay out for Fox repeating Trump’s election lies?
Mind you the existing law around microchips could be enforced
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/compulsory-dog-microchipping-comes-into-effect
(* only kidding, I happen to be a vegetarian
Until renewables are so abundant, and our energy storage incredibly bountiful, it is the perfect way to generate electricity. (And, for that matter, good scrambled eggs.)
Indeed if Starmer does become PM after the next general election and pushes through his plans to expand development on the green belt there may well be an alliance between southern Tory and LD MPs against it
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/21/gb-news-will-not-investigate-claims-against-presenter-dan-wootton
"GB News has said it will not investigate claims of inappropriate behaviour made against star presenter Dan Wootton because none of the accusations relate to his work for the channel."
Errr, ok then
.... except that now they've realised this is really dangerous and the dogs might attack the kids (as pointed out online) so the special Bully XL dogwalk is now saying "Bully dogs are not allowed" on the special Bully dog walk designed to show how gentle Bully dogs are
No joke:
https://x.com/pursuitofprog/status/1704806072832114750?s=20
But I think you do have to have a vertical object depicted so the brain is expecting it to cast shade.
An estimated 75,000 assets including community centres, libraries and swimming pools have been sold, thinktank says
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A change in the law in 2016 meant councils no longer had to buy new public assets with money made from selling them and instead could use the money to make up for shortfalls in funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/21/15bn-of-public-assets-sold-by-english-councils-since-2010-amid-budget-shortfalls
Selling off the family silver, as Macmillan warned.
I spent all my young childhood holidays there in the 1950s as my Aunt and Uncle ran the Warren (as tenants) and long before it became a millionaires paradise
Why is the head of parliament’s culture committee calling on tech firms to unperson Russell Brand?
Laurie Wastell"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/21/the-casual-authoritarianism-of-caroline-dinenage/
That decline may have been inevitable, and nobody would ever re-invent such a spectacular wheel.
For a start it's disproportionate: it would be like banning all cars because some minute percentage of cars are involved in hit and run deaths.
For the record, I support the ban on dangerous dogs, I support extending that to all dogs bred for fighting or from fighting breeds, and I support compulsory dog licensing and insurance.
(PS Trying to remember who the awful PM who did away with dog licences was.)
https://www.gbps.org.uk/information/rates/inland/letters-1968-2006.php
BTW the PM was interviewed on R4 Today this morning (I think). I didn't listen to it as generally they are not good enough at framing the questions or ensuring there is an answer. This is a worse state of affairs than government not appearing at all. The BBC would do well to stop bothering to interview people who characteristically evade questioning.
It does irritate me a bit when an article misses the crucial point. I suspect there is a genuine issue there, but the Guardian simply haven't provided the key bit of information needed to judge that, instead opting for a large but fundamentally pretty meaningless number.
https://medium.com/britainelects/previewing-the-four-local-by-elections-of-21st-september-2023-d49911fbd979