Not arguing for that, just that don't expect anything different from Starmer.
Do you think Starmer would have pulled a stunt like this?
If not, that's a necessary difference. Maybe not sufficient, but it's a start and beggars can't be choosers.
(As for me, I'm trying to work out why I'm so cross. I think it's that I knew Johnson was a liar and Truss was bonkers, so it wasn't a disappointment when they tuned out that way. Sunak, I though was a better person. And he isn't.)
Yes, I do. And I'd say: be prepared to be disappointed in Starmer too.
He'll be Prime Minister and that means making difficult choices in an environment where there is very little money.
Oh, in terms of choices and lack of money, absolutely.
But that's not what Sunak did. He said "there are better ways to spend this money", and showed us a list. It's a list that seems to be falling apart within 24 hours, but it was a list.
I didn't take that list seriously for more than a minute.
This admittedly wild prediction is only based on the fact that 12,000 people signed the recall petition.
Otherwise I'd have gone way lower.
Just hedging here
OTOH, bear in mind that that recall was not aimed at a SNP MP, in a strict sense, and to some extent a real one (despite Slab). The SNP had got rid of her PDQ from the party. So that argument isn't as applicable as it is to other cases where the recalled MP was not defenestrated. Adds to the fun of estimation!
By the way, anyone can go to the World Economic Forum. Tickets are expensive, but this isn't like Bohemian Grove or the Bilderberg Group, which are closed invite only events.
I'm waiting for my invitation from the Mont Pelerin Society to their Bretton Woods conference later this month
I dont think anyone can go. The ticket prices likely make it inaccessible to all but the 1%.
Gobsmacked by some of the predictions below. On the betting markets Labour are 95% on to win.
If you get this wrong, as I suspect, I'm going to be even more insufferable over the next 12 months on my certainty of an outright Labour majority, probable landslide.
A bit of diplomatic friction has apparently cropped up between the South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol and the Royal household regarding his visit in November. About karaoke.
When President Yoon paid a visit to the White House earlier this year, he sang American Pie at a state dinner and it was rapturously received. It sounds as though he is trying to recreate a bit of that same magic for his UK visit too – as he's requested to do Bohemian Rhapsody for his audience with King Charles.
The request was politely turned down. But he's insisting.
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If you get this wrong, as I suspect, I'm going to be even more insufferable over the next 12 months on my certainty of an outright Labour majority, probable landslide.
Is interesting - 90% tunnelled.
Makes you wonder what HS2 would have been like if 100% tunnelled - straight line from X to Y to Z…
The more I think about it, the more we need automated, cheaper, deep tunnelling.
They basically have a state tunnelling group that goes round doing one project after another.