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Will eating a kangaroo’s bunghole improve Nigel Farage’s ratings? – politicalbetting.com
Will eating kangaroo’s bunghole improve Nigel Farage’s ratings? – politicalbetting.com
As 'I'm a Celebrity…' gets underway, Britons are twice as likely to view Nigel Farage unfavourably than favourablyhttps://t.co/X3xVglddS7 pic.twitter.com/4f96mm4Ix5
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Well certainly his credit rating with that £1.5 million in the bank....whoever negotiated that deal should have negotiated Brexit as they got an amazing deal for Nige.
https://x.com/FM1_3316/status/1726694084298059884?s=20
Not coming to London....
Build it on the green belt instead.
I don't expect the producers to try and demonise him. They haven't with others who have been hate figures. Obviously Ant and Dec will tell jokes at his expense.
Ed Balls on Strictly seems to have achieved the sought after turnaround in public opinion.
Hancock on celebrity who dares wins has by all accounts further buried his reputation.
Galloway in celeb big brother, Widdecombe on Strictly and Nadine on I'm a celeb seem to have left with their reputations unchanged from when they went in.
I would guess Farage will come across as fairly avuncular in the Clarkson mould, possibly annoying at times but generally inoffensive, but that will have little or no impact on his ratings as a politician.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/netanyahu-hamas-chief-indicate-deal-on-gaza-truce-and-hostages-is-close/ar-AA1kigpf?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=9b3972519ca9459d8aae3d164a9590e9&ei=17
As in they were fucked.
I think it’s as simple as that.
There’s something deeply decadent in British culture.
Yes, I’d certainly do it, for my family.
Fannies.
Even Zelensky got noticed first as a TV comedian
On the bubonic plague: Here's a map of cases in the US since 1970:
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
As you can see, the plague is most common in the rural West, so blacks would now be under-represented, because most live elsewhere. (If you visit any of those parts of the US and see a sick rodent, don't go near it.)
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A BBC spokesperson said, “We are aware of a number of inaccurate claims being made online in relation to last night’s episode of University Challenge and we utterly condemn the abuse that has been posted and shared.
"For the avoidance of doubt, this episode was filmed in March. The mascot is one of many chosen by the team during the course of the series and is one of their favourite animals.
"The jacket worn by one of the contestants was navy blue, orange, pink and green, bought from a High Street retailer. It has no connection to any flag.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/university-challenge-viewers-criticise-blue-octopus-mascot/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67489711
Worst news in that report, he has already reproduced.....
I have informed my children that their favourite bath toy has now been cancelled
Apparently sometimes used by Nazis as a symbol of Jewish world control.
Good job it wasn't a Mimic Octopus; the outrage-bots would be confused about which version of Mimic to be offended about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvAVrOKvGLI
The lady of beachy head was identified by such a manner and only after actually doing DNA testing was it found to be nonsense.
And Ringo Starr is in big trouble - a whole Garden of Octopuses.
This one - a son and father played a round of golf at a Trump Club in 2015, and got drunk in the clubhouse. Son then drove home drunk, lost control of car, killed father in the crash. Son charged with various things including vehicular homicide, reckless driving, driving while intoxicated, and displaying a fictitious inspection sticker.
Trump's club fined $400k under "responsible vendor" laws. Son fined $1000 plus 3 years on probation.
To me that does not seem to be a very strong anti-Trump attack line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75HJRV3gLU
The instant IC was mentioned anywhere I assumed a basic rate cut, with a flourish, at the end.
Awarding of contract to create new data platform prompts immediate concerns about security of medical records
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-privacy-fears-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir-wins-nhs-contract
Donald Trump pretty much launched his Presidential bid from pretending to be a red-hot entrepreneur rather than a narcissitic Daddy's Boy on the Apprentice after all. All publicity is good publicity these days it seems.
Farage is no svengali who has gamed this out in 3D chess: he's a man who has been offered £1.5m for a month's work. That is a pretty attractive offer.
How he performs is an open question. Nadine crashed out after a week, and she is pretty personable.
On the other hand... That £1.5m means the producers won't want him to disappear too early. My guess: week 3.
Very good piece by Col Richard Kemp in the Torygraph (is it still called that?)
Why is there such disbelief about Hamas using hospitals for military purposes? The only bit I would dispute is the claim that the IDF 'has been exclusively targeting terrorists.' Don't know that there is sufficient evidence to say that with certainty.
Seriously though - Nadine personable?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESGpRUMj9E
Sadly Mr Octopus turned up his toes, or rather suckers, and there is now a memortial to him.
Edit: he'd be very useful here. Even a half sapient squid would shift the odds very nicely.
With Nadine Dorries on I'm a Celeb and George Galloway on Big Brother, it didn't necessarily impede their future careers (Dorries went on to join the Cabinet and Galloway appeared a few years before his by-election win in Bradford) but I'm not convinced that was because of, rather than despite, those appearances.
It probably did help Penny Mordaunt on Splash, and Ed Balls on Strictly (he's not returned to the political frontline but he's pretty clearly more positively thought of now than a decade ago).
The study in question got the prominence it did on our national broadcaster (IMHO) because it either appealed to the BBC’s sensibilities OR they considered it to be great clickbait. Neither is a particularly great reflection on them.
Bunghole eats bunghole.
https://x.com/AlastairMeeks/status/1727009895378276546?s=20
We could do with seeing some polling for seats that are harder to reach for Labour. The Red Wall is gone already. The blue wall was always much more strongly Tory but that's a mixed battleground with Labour and LD in the mix.
I'd love to see polling of:
- The 2015 and 2017 Tory conquests in the North and Midlands, as Alastair suggests (the red inner wall?)
- The pre-2015 Lib Dem heartland of the rural Southwest (the hedgerow)
- The urban edgelands (call it the dry ski slope or garden fence or something) taking in the likes of Uxbridge, Bromley, Chingford, Solihull, Tamworth etc.
I think there’s something substantively different in the UK, and it comes from the exceedingly close connections between politics and the media, and in turn the debauchment of the media itself by reality tv formats.
With the very notable exception of Trump, most US politicians would consider it beneath their dignity to appear on the “Golden Bachelor” or whatever the latest format is.
In the UK, it’s increasingly normalised, and you have the slightly less harmful podcaster version where “old chums” like Ed Balls and George Osborne create content in the hope of making it big.
On one hand, it’s part of a “gaiety of the nation” thread in the national culture which seems to be such a prominent part of modern British life. On the other hand, it’s kind of an undercutting of the idea of public service itself.
Was Boris really a politician, or just a media personality in desire of a larger platform? I think the answer is the latter, and there are more and more like him in British public life?
Didn’t happen, which was a shame. I’d have enjoyed a few months a year there, for a few years.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23938240.scottish-parliament-calls-immediate-ceasefire-gaza/?ref=ebbn&nid=1457&u=f140ec39d500193051a33e140c12bd95&date=211123
'The Scottish Parliament has backed a Government motion calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the conflict, as well as condemning the “barbaric and unjustifiable” Hamas attacks of October 7 and demanding the release of all hostages taken.
A Labour amendment calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate the conduct of all parties in the conflict was also accepted by the Government.
A Conservative amendment calling for humanitarian pauses instead of an immediate ceasefire was voted down.'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23936580.recap-scottish-parliament-debates-motion-gaza-ceasefire/
I am hopeful for a good showing in the old Lib Dem Wessex and South West heartland, independent of the overall national swing.
I am working on a project where we replaced a system that had resisted Big Bang replacement for decades. We did so by incremental replacement of the system, piece by piece. While the original system was a monolith, we gradually switched functionality over to the new, modular system.
The Standard not very enthusiastic about any tax cuts in the Autumn Statement. The suspicion is the changes will be in NI rather than, for example, changes to personal allowances to alleviate the infamous "fiscal drag".
Plenty of caution especially after today's borrowing numbers and a scathing op-ed piece from Matthew D'Ancona who I recall was the first real Cameron devotee (even before @TSE ).
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-economy-trust-b1121744.html
The disconnect between "official" economic statistics and the reality of individuals in their daily lives is considerable.
Let's hope Jeremy can follow it up by increasing the personal allowance to help poorer workers. I am not holding my breath on that.
The age discrimination that is.