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Tories take 4% lead in the “Blue Wall” – politicalbetting.com
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/bbc-and-blm-exposed-virtue-signalling-class-moral-depravity/
Its very strange how the likes of Gary Lineker appear to have nothing to say on the matter, when they normally can't shut up about world affairs.
It really isn't hard, in the way you can criticise Israel actions and particular the (alleged) corruption of their PM / previous statements of some ministers in the government without being an antisemite....you can call Hamas depraved terrorists up their with ISIS, with an agenda not dissimilar to the Nazis, without being an Islamophobe or hating all of Palestine.
In fact when we have had Islamic terrorism in the West, normally the same people being totally silent are the first to say wow wow wow, and bring out the standard lines of don't blame all Muslims, religion of peace, think of the increase in hate crimes etc etc etc.
But against the Jews....tumbleweed.
https://twitter.com/Matt_building/status/1712070937741279416?t=OaFEMgL-GzNPERbyXHSThQ&s=19
We northerners drive, of course, so this could never happen in Liverpool etc
Inner London: area = 123 sq mi, pop = 3.4m
Gaza Strip: area = 141 sq mi, pop = 2.4m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
The Margaret Hodge thing was a low, worst of all he later portrayed himself as a victim of bullying, in that encounter
I still have hopes he will return to the light. He is eloquent, clever, gay, leftwing, candid, he could be a real and worthwhile voice, positively marked by his unusuality
I'm off work, but see me afterwards anyways.
Dear, dear.
On topic - given its Redfield & Wilton with their curious sub samples, probably not.
It's still a 12.5% swing to Labour and a 6% swing to the LDs.
Let's see if this is more than Conference Season "noise" in a fortnight.
I was in Soho last night (a mild Tuesday night in October, nothing exceptional) and it was totally chocka in ways I have not seen before 2022. And I have lived in London for nearly 40 years
This has been the case on all my recent visits to Soho: so many people it is nearly impossible to drive down the streets. This used to happen on occasional hot summer weekends, now it is standard
It's great for central London, why can't we do this across the North? Do it. If you build, they genuinely will come
However, a question from ignorance: The Blue Wall. Is this a set of seats in which the Tories come first, with a division between those where Labour and those where LD come second and are the challenger?
If that is so then the figures mislead. The Tory 36 represents, a fortiori, the Tory support in each seat held by them, on average.
The LD and Labour figures average together those seats where they are the challenger, and those where they are third, so failing to compare like with like.
The real question is where do the figures go seat by seat in relation to (a) Tory and (b) the challenger party.
We need to weaponise our population density. We don't need high speed trains, our country is too small: we need dense, efficient, fast urban networks like Crossrail
He could have been more conciliatory in tone rather than suggesting he was going to just ignore local concerns.
Telling people to like it or lump it I don’t thinks going to play well and he has gifted the Tories an attack line.
And there’s a wider context here , Lib Dems in those Tory marginals need Labour to not come up with a policy that’s toxic to the Blue Wall .
Otherwise you’ll get the “ we’d like to vote for you but can’t risk letting Starmer in “ response .
The Lib Dems Electoral prospects are very much entwined with Starmer remaining non-threatening .
Exactly the same story in Edinburgh for a £120 million tram extension. DOUBLE, and that's just on the existing bit of the line! And in a city with already brilliant public transport!
I'm convinced that HS2 has been sabotaged by a pessimism bias for public transport. How can our government look at our rammed trains and not think - "huh, maybe people will leave the car at home if they have an alternative?"
How can they justify cancelling HS2 because "travel patterns have changed", when the change is that DOUBLE the number of people are using Crossrail????!!!
Even if your rapist is convicted, they still won't go to prison because there is no space.
May as well not bother having trials. Or reporting crimes. If the state won't do its job and protect us, we'll have to revert to older forms of self-protection.
Bastards.
Build and they will come
Build and they will come
It's surely brilliant if you are a trader, it's annoying if you want to get somewhere, it is a conundrum for town planners, it is definitely better than the fate of many other cities, nationwide and worldwide, which are not recovering from Covid
Commuters face YEARS of chaos on the Elizabeth line as Network Rail plans engineering works on TfL route until 2029 - following 12 months of strikes and rising fares after opening to fanfare from Sadiq Khan
Which actually is great if you're trying to run a railway. Commuters are a pain in the arse. They all want to travel in the same direction at the same time. Leisure travellers spread themselves out, allowing you to nake much more efficient use of yoir assets.
We shouldn't get new lanes on pre-existing motorways, especially from removing hard shoulders.
We should get new motorways.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/bbc-and-blm-exposed-virtue-signalling-class-moral-depravity/
"Warrington would be Singapore with one extra motorway"
It’s just a shame the walk across to Crossrail is a bit of an arse.
Gary Lineker won't be allowed to share his political views on social media while MOTD is on air under new BBC guidelines - but stars will be free to express opinions 'about issues that matter to them'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12570503/gary-lineker-bbc-stars-climate-change-opinions-social-media.html
I would never have built HS2 as it was spec'd. We don't need 400kph for fuck's sake. England is tiny. We just need more capacity and bigger trains, and we need a Crossrail across the north, connecting all the major northern cities like the Liz Line. I am convinced that would add squillions to our GDP
Instead a combo of rail geeks who wanted the best fastest rail conceivable, NIMBYs, idiots, nerds, spads, and cretinous MPs have contrived to nearly fuck it all up
I hope that Kir Royale at least builds the Northern Power rail. Just do it!
Looks like LAB overall soon, maybe with just a small majority 1964 style.
And yes, getting from Thameslink to Crossrail is a bit of a pain. But only a bit.
Gary Lineker has spoken up about the situation in Ukraine,
https://www.indy100.com/news/gary-lineker-russia-ukraine
Football star sparked fury after tweeting that killing of West Bank gunman Ahmed Daraghmeh was ‘awful’
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/bbc-hit-with-complaint-over-gary-lineker-tweet-about-killing-10UXjXnXqTRoy5kpKOIjoT
Now he can't even manage a "my heart goes out to the Jewish victims of terrorism"....and of course it isn't just him, it lots of the other usual loud mouth suspects on the tw@tters. They are obviously shit scared to appear to virtue signal support for something that their echo chamber might not be 100% onboard with.
Warrington is a fantastic place to live as it has not one but three motorways. The M62 across the north, the M6 across the East, the M56 across the South. Plus of course Warrington Central heading to Liverpool and Manchester, and Warrington Bank Quay heading express to London or Edinburgh too, if you're that way inclined.
The rest of the North should have the same opportunities.
Though if it were up to me one other motorway (I've mentioned many others before) I'd build is an M59 in the West, going at least from the M56, up North to the East of Runcorn, across the Mersey, north between West Warrington and Runcorn, continuing north past Saint Helens, then NW past Skelmersdale, across the Ribble and up to the M55.
The fact that there'd then be an effective Ring Road using the 4 motorways is an incidental bonus.
Labour could build some of its promised new towns off a new motorway, win/win.
Come to mention it, it makes getting to Bedford to see OGH much easier too.
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The preconditions are: a strong, unshakeable belief in the rightness of the cause; the physical means to commit violent acts; a dehumanisation and resentment of the victim population (through long held grudges or more recent events); and the - I think there’s no other way to describe it - esprit de corps, the team spirit, that involves each participant giving tacit permission to their fellow combatants to indulge in ever more extreme acts of violence. In for a penny in for a pound.
That’s how babies end up beheaded and women gang raped. I think it’s what happened in Bucha, Rwanda, and at small scale in every beating that happens daily in police stations around the world. It’s something I suspect is deeply embedded in our evolutionary makeup.
The possibility of becoming a participant in this sort of orgy of violence haunts many of our worst nightmares, as much as the possibility of being a victim. We should be glad none of us will probably ever be in that sort of situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/spains-high-speed-trains-arent-just-efficient-they-have-transformed-peoples-lives?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Even allowing that Spain has a lot more open space (though also has mountains), building 4000 km for the price of our 110 km is quite impressive.
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1712206467997004061
As @leon says, we need that linking Manchester/Liverpool/Leeds/Newcastle.
As well as motorways, not instead of it.
We need both.
Isn't that telling?
"heavily armed men intent on killing and kidnapping"....you missing some rather crucial bits there mate, it was more than that, it was barbarism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Yj3yrg6Iw
- Jubilee Line extension
- DLR extension
- Crossrail
- Thameslink
- Heathrow Express
- Redevelopment of St Pancras and Kings Cross, Paddington and London Bridge
- Boris bikes
(and equally importantly)
- Uber
It would be great if the rest of the country got the same attention.
Seville to Granada has 4 direct trains a day in each direction, for example. Everything else involves a change. Hopefully this will improve with time.
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:WAC/2023-10-13/2350?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
That seems reasonable to me.
I grew up in Warrington. It’s a dead end town for dead end people. Harsh but (mostly) true. How about a suburb in north Manchester / greater Manchester? Somewhere near the metro, rather than the trains perhaps?
Shades of poppy fascism, which now I think of it is just a week or two away.
"In June 2022, a year after her auntie went missing, Seraphine Warren readied herself to take the first steps on a 2,400-mile walk from Arizona to Washington, D.C.
It was 2:30 in the morning — the same time her aunt Ella Mae Begay had disappeared a year earlier. Warren, a 41-year-old Diné mother and ironworker, had packed a bag and told her boss she wasn’t coming back until her aunt was found. She carried with her photos of her aunt, a ribbon skirt and one of Begay’s weaved rugs with her."
source: https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/prayer-justice-and-remembrance-dine-woman-reclaims-the-past-as-she-walks-to-bring-her-missing-aunt-home
The Navajo (Diné as they call themselves) are one of the larger US tribes, so they have their own police force, but it needs more resources. (The FBI handle more serious crimes on the reservation. It's not a popular assignment.)
(Washington state has started to do a litle more for a smaller tribe, the Yakama, which has even worse problems, proportionately, than the Navajo. Their problems get about 1/100 of the news coverage of Orca problems -- at most.)
Are the Americans going to talk them down? Again it might all be for show, but Sleepy Joe didn't sound like he was going to come in and say "Bibi, leave it, leave it, its not worth, lets get a kebab instead" anytime soon.
I think it should worry everybody that obviously the situation could snowball.
And the only reason houses are identikit in our current system is the planning system resulting in an oligopoly building estates en-bloc.
Look at Japan where planning permission isn't needed to build a home (or demolish an existing one and rebuild it to your desires) and they don't have identikit homes. Or a housing shortage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_Israel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_cabinet
Oblivion if country-wide surely???
Labour admit their 28 billion green annual spend will not be met before the end of the next Parliament
https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754?postid=6567296#liveblog-body
Tweeting about what Israel or Palestine should do, yes that is political.
He will be back tweeting about other causes, where he doesn't have to worry about with his mates disagreeing in due course. The rules have been deliberately written not to really impact him.
And as I say, it isn't just him, its loads of the usual suspects, who are straight out the blocks with their take, virtue signalling left, right and centre.
Total cost £2bn??
This time Hamas have gone too far and bitten off more than they could chew. They were counting on the fact Israel would be held back so there would be no major retaliation, just a few pointless airstrikes and that's that.
They were wrong.
Hamas need to be destroyed, and should be.
. . . unless anyone thought that building was a town? Is that all that Sir Keir Starmer meant when he promised new towns?