Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
Ash Regan seemed quite likeable. I don’t think the Nats can afford to lose many more before they utterly implode
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
He is a total and utter lightweight clown, Sturgeon's last stab in the back for the SNP, job well done Agent Sturgeon.
TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine
That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy
In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.
However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.
I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
From above, you could get a view straight down. Not especially cunning software could recognise the pattern of a human from above.
You’d probably get a count accurate to a percent or 2…
But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
He is a total and utter lightweight clown, Sturgeon's last stab in the back for the SNP, job well done Agent Sturgeon.
He’s also a racist
The notorious “white” speech was outright racism. Pure and undiluted. What he said is what he is. He abhors white people, what other explanation is there for n son-of-immigrahts who immediately tries to break up the country his parents moved to? Where the heck does such a motive come from?
Careerism and racism. He hates white British people, he despises Britishness per se, he hates Britain, i reckon if you dug deep enough you’d find he hates Scottishness as well, in all its freckled pale tartan WHITEness
An absolutely catastrophic choice for First Minister. And they had Forbes ready and waiting!
Trials start this week in Colorado and Minnesota as to whether the US Constitutional bar on insurrectionists being US Officers applies to Mr Chump standing for the Presidency.
Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.
Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.
But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.
But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.
"BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."
Pence was a no-hoper. It is now pretty clear IF Trump were in some huge moment to drop the baton, then the ones who would be challenging for it would be DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy (and I suspect Haley would get it). Pence didn’t even have the ‘possible backup’ vote engaged.
New Zealand are going to muller SA, and are the value bet, surely?
Near enough evens atm.
Nah, the South Africans are much too resilient to be done over like that. They will grind out a close result in either direction. If there is a rout then I think SA are more likely to inflict it than be on the wrong side of one. Though the chance is slim.
But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
Yes. "Not a great loss" = saying that your party chooses losers to foist on the electorate. Not a great piece of diplomacy. Courtesy is free and looks good to voters.
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
Yes. "Not a great loss" = saying that your party chooses losers to foist on the electorate. Not a great piece of diplomacy. Courtesy is free and looks good to voters.
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Trials start this week in Colorado and Minnesota as to whether the US Constitutional bar on insurrectionists being US Officers applies to Mr Chump standing for the Presidency.
Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.
Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.
A 3% swing to the minor parties I think reflects the end of conference season and a bit of general voter malaise. I don’t for a moment believe Green and Ref are really on 7 and 8% though.
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
She only got 11% of the vote because she was squeezed by the far more credible Kate Forbes. The 11% almost certainly under-represents the proportion of the SNP membership that sympathises with her position.
The point about Yousaf's comment is that it underlines how tone deaf he is.
"A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.
Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”
I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…
Aside from that though, he's doing well. Apart from the other things. Ignore those. It's all fine. Look over there - a unionist!
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Yesterday they were saying that they saw all dual national hostages as Israelis, and wouldn’t listen to please to release them.
(Guardian) … “From the Russian side, via the foreign ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
“We are looking for those people... It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go… We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a close friend,” he said...
I had dinner last night with Jewish friends of ours, and they were incredibly down, and the reason was not that they have faced any antisemitism (on the contrary, being in LA, they feel pretty personally insulated), but they are very worried about how Israel - and Jews - are being percieved in the US.
They spread the blame pretty widely: partly on US universities, and the Left's obsession with power dynamics, but they were also incandescently angry at Netanyahu.
To their mind, he dropped the ball completely as far as keeping the US and the West on side. They brought up the snub to Hillary Clinton on her trip to Israel back in 2009 when she was SoS, and that they chose her visit to push into the West Bank with a big new settlement, while she was there.
And they blamed Netanyahu for effectively supporting Hamas for domestic political reasons.
Their hope is that they can free the hostages quickly in Gaza, and decapitate as much of Hamas as possible. But they also didn't think it would be either wise or ethical to ethnically clear Gaza and the West Bank.
But above all, they're worried that it will descend into a war, and that will threaten the safety of Jews all over the world.
I had dinner last night with Jewish friends of ours, and they were incredibly down, and the reason was not that they have faced any antisemitism (on the contrary, being in LA, they feel pretty personally insulated), but they are very worried about how Israel - and Jews - are being percieved in the US.
They spread the blame pretty widely: partly on US universities, and the Left's obsession with power dynamics, but they were also incandescently angry at Netanyahu.
To their mind, he dropped the ball completely as far as keeping the US and the West on side. They brought up the snub to Hillary Clinton on her trip to Israel back in 2009 when she was SoS, and that they chose her visit to push into the West Bank with a big new settlement, while she was there.
And they blamed Netanyahu for effectively supporting Hamas for domestic political reasons.
Their hope is that they can free the hostages quickly in Gaza, and decapitate as much of Hamas as possible. But they also didn't think it would be either wise or ethical to ethnically clear Gaza and the West Bank.
But above all, they're worried that it will descend into a war, and that will threaten the safety of Jews all over the world.
All of which is completely rational. Netenyahu’s various government have been deeply damaging to Israel.
"A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.
Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."
On the subject of killer dogs I had a strange encounter with what I think was probably a rabies-infected stray in Georgia, at a stop on the road up into the mountains.
There are strays everywhere in the Caucasus. Literally a couple on every street. But this one had a creamy foaming mouth. And was not aggressive but was acting rather weirdly and looking somewhat unsteady on its feet.
I only noticed it when my son alerted me to the fact it was nosing my trousers, and left a couple of flecks of foam on them. Which I then wiped off with a tissue and then spent several days scaring myself about contracting rabies before reading enough online to realise the risk in that case would be infinitesimal.
Yesterday they were saying that they saw all dual national hostages as Israelis, and wouldn’t listen to please to release them.
(Guardian) … “From the Russian side, via the foreign ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
“We are looking for those people... It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go… We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a close friend,” he said...
I suppose when Russia and Iran are your only friends . . .
Judge people by the friends they carry too.
Its remarkable to think that 18 years ago when Sharon pulled Israel out of Gaza, hoping for peace with the Palestinians prior to Hamas taking over that one of the parties to the Road Map to peace was Russia, led by a certain Vladimir Putin who seemed keen on the idea of peace and engagement with the world.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Best story in today's NYT is about a rogue turkey in New Jersey.
NOT PB favorite Chris Christie. Instead, an actual wild turkey alternating terrorizing and amusing residents of West Orange NJ (occasionally same people) along a local thoroughfare.
Dubbed "Turkules" by some, "Cluck Norris" by others, and "Tom" by at least one class of kindergarteners, the bird so far has defied attempts to trap or subdue it; in fact it sports a tranquilizer dart sticking out of it's chest, which you must admit is WAY more macho than, say, Chuck Norris.
ADDENDUM - Or even Chris Christie when giving one of his typical bravura orations.
TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine
That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy
In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.
However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.
I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
"A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.
Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."
On the subject of killer dogs I had a strange encounter with what I think was probably a rabies-infected stray in Georgia, at a stop on the road up into the mountains.
There are strays everywhere in the Caucasus. Literally a couple on every street. But this one had a creamy foaming mouth. And was not aggressive but was acting rather weirdly and looking somewhat unsteady on its feet.
I only noticed it when my son alerted me to the fact it was nosing my trousers, and left a couple of flecks of foam on them. Which I then wiped off with a tissue and then spent several days scaring myself about contracting rabies before reading enough online to realise the risk in that case would be infinitesimal.
Was bitten by a dog in India in 1982, when I was only 6 years old. Only a small wound just above my knee. But as a precaution, underwent a course of SEVEN rabies jabs in my stomach muscle in as many days
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How does that interact with party conference season 2024?
It's basically the last possible date that won't just annoy everyone?
You’d probably get a count accurate to a percent or 2…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681617/What-irony-deranged-defence-Hamas-campuses-West-fuelling-counter-revolution-finally-loosen-stranglehold-wokeism.html
The notorious “white” speech was outright racism. Pure and undiluted. What he said is what he is. He abhors white people, what other explanation is there for n son-of-immigrahts who immediately tries to break up the country his parents moved to? Where the heck does such a motive come from?
Careerism and racism. He hates white British people, he despises Britishness per se, he hates Britain, i reckon if you dug deep enough you’d find he hates Scottishness as well, in all its freckled pale tartan WHITEness
An absolutely catastrophic choice for First Minister. And they had Forbes ready and waiting!
"BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."
Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.
Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/27/trump-14th-amendment-colorado-minnesota/
PB servers are gonna be in meltdown mode.
Plus Mike probably has a holiday booked.
It took Dan Fucking Quayle to save the Republic
Tired of this shit.
These people wouldn't last 5 minutes in Palestine, and nor do they particularly care about it except to signal things about themselves.
Thinking I'd be strong there.
But I was a fool - playing by the rules.
Whereas if the extra hour started at 10 pm on election Thursday, Sunderland could try to declare at 9.58 pm.
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications
Edit: at one point someone in New Labour started calling it The Third Way. I dropped my monocle in the gin, when I heard that.
Good Haka
"Merely a flesh wound."
https://www.depop.com/products/emilychivers-brand-new-pretty-little-thing/
Our taxi driver asked us how the holiday was and my wife replied “hectic, a bit like a geography field trip”. Make of that what you will.
Aubergine curry. And a chicken curry too.
Yum.
· Labour 42% (-2)
· Conservatives 27% (-1)
· Lib Dems 10% (nc)
· SNP 3% (n/c)
· Greens 7% (+1)
· Reform 8% (+2)
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1718341872064598424
The point about Yousaf's comment is that it underlines how tone deaf he is.
Wonder who'll be next to jump.
Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67248779
(Note: I know very very little about Rugby)
(Guardian)
… “From the Russian side, via the foreign ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
“We are looking for those people... It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go… We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a close friend,” he said...
They spread the blame pretty widely: partly on US universities, and the Left's obsession with power dynamics, but they were also incandescently angry at Netanyahu.
To their mind, he dropped the ball completely as far as keeping the US and the West on side. They brought up the snub to Hillary Clinton on her trip to Israel back in 2009 when she was SoS, and that they chose her visit to push into the West Bank with a big new settlement, while she was there.
And they blamed Netanyahu for effectively supporting Hamas for domestic political reasons.
Their hope is that they can free the hostages quickly in Gaza, and decapitate as much of Hamas as possible. But they also didn't think it would be either wise or ethical to ethnically clear Gaza and the West Bank.
But above all, they're worried that it will descend into a war, and that will threaten the safety of Jews all over the world.
SSI - an unquiet hush tonight at The Vicarage as darkness descends and The Dream dies.
Now it is Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Southern Baptist) who is the Great Holy-Roller Hope. At least in America.
And I don't mean Net Zero.
What a damp squib for rugby
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Netenyahu’s various government have been deeply damaging to Israel.
There are strays everywhere in the Caucasus. Literally a couple on every street. But this one had a creamy foaming mouth. And was not aggressive but was acting rather weirdly and looking somewhat unsteady on its feet.
I only noticed it when my son alerted me to the fact it was nosing my trousers, and left a couple of flecks of foam on them. Which I then wiped off with a tissue and then spent several days scaring myself about contracting rabies before reading enough online to realise the risk in that case would be infinitesimal.
Judge people by the friends they carry too.
Its remarkable to think that 18 years ago when Sharon pulled Israel out of Gaza, hoping for peace with the Palestinians prior to Hamas taking over that one of the parties to the Road Map to peace was Russia, led by a certain Vladimir Putin who seemed keen on the idea of peace and engagement with the world.
Whatever happened to that fellow?
Rugby really needs more depth
Imagine if France or Ireland were here. Or both. Or indeed England
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1718350363927937084
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/28/john-cleese-surprised-at-gb-news-showcase-for-serial-liar-boris-johnson
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
We could have beaten this NZ.
NOT PB favorite Chris Christie. Instead, an actual wild turkey alternating terrorizing and amusing residents of West Orange NJ (occasionally same people) along a local thoroughfare.
Dubbed "Turkules" by some, "Cluck Norris" by others, and "Tom" by at least one class of kindergarteners, the bird so far has defied attempts to trap or subdue it; in fact it sports a tranquilizer dart sticking out of it's chest, which you must admit is WAY more macho than, say, Chuck Norris.
ADDENDUM - Or even Chris Christie when giving one of his typical bravura orations.
To be honest slo mo replays don’t help. Makes many split second things look worse than the full speed version.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a7121/the-curious-science-of-counting-a-crowd/
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union