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It’s 52% vs 48% all over again – politicalbetting.com
It’s 52% vs 48% all over again – politicalbetting.com
Excluding Don't Knows this translates as 52% support Cameron's return and 48% oppose Cameron's return.52% is a lot higher than the Tory VI excluding DKs. https://t.co/MahhqRCRoj
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https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1729153470765428937
It is meant to help fund 'necessary office costs and secretarial costs arising from their special position in 'public life'.
The annual allowance is £115,000 — and in the past four years Cameron has drawn £440,000
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Jonathan Aitken, former Tory Cabinet minister but now a chaplain after a spell in jail for perjury, backs Cameron's return. Aitken was a junior speechwriter at the time of Ted Heath's 1970-74 government. 'Sir Alec Douglas-Home (PM 1963-64) was recalled by Heath to serve as a foreign secretary... I admired his charm, his integrity, his long experience, and his sure diplomatic touch in difficult foreign capitals,' he said. 'David Cameron will surely bring many of the same qualities to his new role.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12793669/ANDREW-PIERCE-Lord-Dave-counting-cost-new-role.html
35% of 2019 Labour voters though think he will do a bad job to 21% a good job
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/british-voters-have-mixed-views-of-david-camerons-legacy-as-prime-minister/
The problem was that the West allied itself with various tyrannies in the Gulf, and with a local branch of Al Qaeda, to achieve this. What could possibly go wrong? The great piles of corpses, the vast mounds of rubble and the millions of refugees, bear witness to the total failure of that policy, still barely understood by most in this country.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12790719/PETER-HITCHENS-Lord-Slippery-Tripoli-david-cameron-centrist-lie.html
Peter Hitchens is not a fan.
Personally would prefer to think of him as former First At-Sea Lord.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/die-hard-advent-calendar/s?k=die+hard+advent+calendar
'sacrificed the country'? Am I right to read that as a disapprobation of Brexit?
Washington Post - Expulsions from Congress are extremely rare. Only five members of the House have ever been expelled in American history: Three lawmakers were expelled in 1861, at the start of the Civil War, for fighting for the Confederacy. Then-Rep. Michael Myers (D-Pa.) was expelled in 1980 after he was convicted of bribery, and Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) was expelled in 2002 after being convicted of racketeering, bribery and fraud.
The alternative in Libya was simply to permit a bloodbath, which would have resulted in ... a vast wave of refugees.
The ruin of Syria is entirely upon Assad's shoulders, and those of IS.
Inevitably, he blames us for provoking Putin. It's all very much "The big boy made me do it."
Getting criticised by Hitchens is like getting criticised by Piers Corbyn.
In Germany, the fascinating Sahra Wagenknecht, an Iranian-German former Communist raised and educated in Marxist East Germany, has set herself up as an apostle of an entirely new politics – Left-wing on social policy, but opposed to mass immigration.
Unlike many of her concrete-headed Left-wing comrades, who have for years told their working-class supporters to like mass migration or lump it, Ms Wagenknecht has grasped these sudden vast increases in population make perfectly reasonable people genuinely unhappy.
Until now, the uncomfortably Right-wing Alliance For Germany (AFD) party has been picking up their votes. Ms Wagenknecht thinks this should stop and has sensibly argued: 'Germans don't vote for the AFD because they're Right-wing. They vote for them because they're angry.' Imagine a smart and combative female combination of Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn, and you might get close.
I gather, however, that it's for real.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton it is now. He sounds like he solves mysteries from the pen of Dorothy L Sayers. In fact, he told the House of Lords, it was the vicar’s wife who telephoned to say he absolutely had to take the village name (so I guess we’re lucky the rector of Pratts Bottom didn’t get to him first), revealing all in a debut speech that was elegant and funny.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/21/lord-david-cameron-offers-brexit-boris-jokes-debut-speech/
https://x.com/hermannkelly/status/1728915680744157497?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
Dave could bring peace to the Middle East and it won’t change many votes whilst the cost of living crisis continues in the UK.
* Including the 2011 Welsh referendum.
“People don’t realise how extreme Ireland’s hate speech bill is. Up to 12 months in prison for refusing to give password to your devices if suspected of committing hate speech. 12 months for refusing to allow the State read messages between you and your spouse. It’s authoritarian.”
https://x.com/robertburke84/status/1728725632362651658?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
57 varieties of the same joke pointing out the coincidence of Cameron's return and our first case of new swine flu.
All of this has massively undermined the traditional centre left, and has been intellectually disastrous, encouraging group think even (!) among quite bright students (look at Oxford).
It is just another version of the much derided populism. Starmer has a possible chance to rewrite this hackneyed script. He would do well to read Matthew Goodwin, throw it all out in the bin and then reassemble the useful parts into a coherent worldview.
Where as the Irish PM has trouble identifying terrorists.
Not sure that's entirely new. Isn't it essentially what Pim Fortuyn stodd for in the Netherlands, and to a somewhat lesser extent (he is mixed on social policy) Geert Wilders?
Seriously, though, if the argument is "if we give in to the media narrative on immigrants as the enemy, then we can win and do left wing policies" then get ready for the next group the media will decide are the enemy. There's a famous cartoon of Hitler pointing at the name Socialist Nationalist where the first word is tiny and the second is predominant when talking to a crowd of workers, and then flipped with emphasis on Nationalist and a tiny Socialist when talking to business. I don't know much about Sahra Wagenknecht, but I'd be willing to put money on where the movement will end up.
Which plays better in her stronghold of the east of Germany than old West Germany.
Who was the last Foreign Secretary that cut much ice with the Great British Public?
Antony Eden?
Similar phenomenon in USA.
WTAF
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By Tantri Wija - Special to The Seattle Times
IT BEGINS SLIGHTLY before noon. . .
When Amazon moved into South Lake Union back in 2007, it transformed the neighborhood into a de facto tech hub where, today, roughly 55,000 employees work out of its downtown towers. The area cleared out a bit during the pandemic, but now that Amazon is requiring people in the office three days a week, they’re surging back. . . .
As the sun peaks invisibly in an overcast Seattle sky, employees from all walks of tech descend from their work in the Cloud to tend to their physical bodies, drifting from aroma to aroma, badges swinging around their necks as they speed-walk to their chosen feeding spot to make the most of their lunch time. The crowd isn’t only tech workers, of course — retail workers dart out of shop doors for a bite; students creep in from Cornish College and Northeastern campuses; and even reporters from the local newspaper wander through, as hungry for sandwiches as they are for leads.
But the overwhelming vibe is that of an ersatz tech company campus. The epicenter of this feeding frenzy seems to be the giant 2200 sign just outside the South Lake Union Whole Foods, where the easiest meal is found at the grocery chain’s labyrinthine hot bar, offering a pan-global cornucopia of delicacies that allow the hungry to build plates where samosas, Chinese stir fry and falafel all tumble together in international harmony.
Outside, tech buzzwords and delicious smells waft through the air as the hungry branch out to the neighborhood’s restaurants and visit the even more international rotating plethora of food trucks that descend during peak feeding hours and park nearby at the corner of Thomas Street and Terry Avenue.
Of course, lunch hour isn’t just about eating — other parts of the body must be tended to, too, so down the block from Whole Foods, a string of businesses will wax the brows, extend the hair and lashes, and manicure the nails of the area’s daytime population.
The environment directly around the 2200 sign is like a dream of a future “Star Trek” universe Seattle: clean and punctiliously landscaped, the population multiethnic and upscale, like the business end of a Benetton ad, even though one block away, John Street, with its deserted industrial buildings, broken windows and walls plastered with graffiti, is far less so. . . .
And of course, because Whole Foods is owned by Amazon, this is a bit like the snake eating its own tail, but hey — at least you can pay with your palm now, so maybe the corner of Westlake and Ninth really is Tomorrowland.
SSI - Sorta like the old-school company store in an old-time coal mine camp . . . IF the coal barons ran an upscale, over-priced foodie boutique to further milk & mulct THEIR worker bees . . .
As someone who did not think Braverman fit for any public office, let alone Home Secretary, I of course approve of the change but I don't forget either.
The irony of ironies if they end up calling in the UK for help....
Humbly suggest that ALL peers-in-parliament be required to adopt "Lord Dingleberry" as their title.
With individual variations of rank and place, for example Baron Dingleberry of Dripping Bottom, etc. etc.
Funnily enough, it is never their children or their areas that get attacked....
Baby needs a new pair of shoes? & etc., etc., etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFis4ZFozUM
Like Sir Richard Acland, he's "humourless, fanatical, self-righteous, and intolerant."
Hopefully, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime are goners at some point. Then the Middle East really would be more peaceful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67514362
There seem to be all sorts of oddities attached like different increases, reduced banding, increase from January but not paid till April (another spring election sign?).
But cautiously, because I expect the teenagers experiencing Israel's onslaught on Gaza this past month will have inevitably become more radicalised and a new Hamas will emerge.
Winning the battle ≠ winning hearts and minds.
Braverman: leave the ECHR and change the law to meet policy aims.
Sunak: ignore the policy aims, instead blame the courts for applying law as is and sow further public division in the vague hope of becoming popular.
TBH I've grown to ignore the opinion of people whose career is based on having opinions.
Was also somewhat true in early-20th century America, with difference that, back then, anti-immigrant sentiment and politics also included suburban areas where immigrants of that era had yet to penetrate in large numbers.
Of course, back then the fault line in USA debate over immigration, was Catholicism, not Islam (or race).
So much so that in the Pacific Northwest, the Ku Klux Klan, which required members to be natural-born US citizens, enrolled Canadian and Scandinavian Protestants into a special KKK auxiliary.
On other side of USA, the Acadians/Cajuns of Louisiana were KKK targets (along with Italians in New Orelans) and thus key part of the anti-Klan coalition.
Whereas by turn of 20th>21st century, many Cajuns were supporters of former KKK Wizard (and Nazi) David Duke when he ran for governor.
In America, the grandchildren of one pack of immigrants, are frequently prominent in the nativist "UnWelcome Wagon" confronting yet another passel of (for the time being) outlandish outlanders.
Which is something of an upgrade, or reduction in downgrade, depending on your starting point.
What's the reduction in sound of one knee fewer jerking?
Anyway, I’d say his ‘likes’ include
Train travel (pre privatisation)
Cycling (he recently wrote about how great it was to see so many people now cycling in London)
The Lives of Others & Never Look Back (two films he recommended that I enjoyed)
The King James Bible
Travel
Trombones.
https://youtu.be/ty1TJBf9Khg?si=Tkir2paXtr4eyCj8
"At every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.
If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one."
So I make the point because you are making the classic mistake of downplaying the implications because you agree with who is bringing it / why it is being brought rather than the principle.
I can't comment on how good it is, as I've only just started listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIsoDKN81pk
If you have a population area that is 50% immigrants, then you are unlikely to find much support for stopping immigration amongst that segment. In effect, your addressable market is only the remaining 50%.
Cmon hit that dolly for six!