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The Truss premiership gets more impressive with each passing day – politicalbetting.com
The Truss premiership gets more impressive with each passing day – politicalbetting.com
Every PM since 1970 has been defeated at least once in the Commons. Except for Liz Truss.
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Or... in the last 500 years, only one Prime Minister has truly looked like a rabbit caught in headlights: Liz Truss.
I made a video about it at some point.
This looked a bundle of laughs. One for @Leon
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woker-than-woke-african-female-santa-claus-cancelled-by-belgian-city/ar-AA1l1W5y?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=70305958cee748a78a67fb70c40849d5&ei=12
They’re all about to have their lunch eaten by BYD and MG.
She was defeated by a lettuce though.
And the Queen died on her watch.
Soon, she'll have more headers on PB about her than the number of days she served as PM.
Churchill and Truss had one thing in common though, they were both Liberals before they became Conservatives
9times out of 10 Liz Truss will be the answer
My current favourite stat is that only one person born after the end of WWI has led Labour to a general election victory.
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It's fine to be a loser in Britain as long as you do so in something that (1) doesn't matter very much, (2) we never do well in anyway - although there's a rider there that it's OK to lose in something we do do well (or we think we do), as long as you greatly exceed general expectations, and (3) you don't make an idiot of yourself in the process, unless it's a joke which you're in on.
Truss fails on all three.
https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1731720857578328492
The US economy:
- GDP growth 5.2%
- Inflation zero last month
- Wage growth remains robust
- Strongest recovery in G7
- Lowest uninsured rate in US history
- Median wealth up 37% 2020-2022
- Dow nearing all-time high
Or national costume jewelry? Lett'uce debate!
Which is a bit mean, as pretty much the only payoff we got from the Truss premiership was saving us from being led by that lying smirking clown at such a somber and tragic national moment.
Doug Burgum drops out of presidential race.
(Actually a good 18 hours ago, but no one noticed.)
Is it given to them as a memento, or are they all kept in a cupboard in Downing Street?
BUT... she got her way by 326 votes to 230 - a stonking majority.
That shows her unparalleled political skills. There's no Commons vote you can't win if you have Therese Coffey kneeing your MPs in the back and Jacob Rees-Mogg threatening to talk to them on your behalf.
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My point was a slightly different one.
Simply, it's easy to forget how big a deal auto dealerships are. For example: 20% of Americans in the top 0.1% of earners are auto dealer owners!
This has a couple of consequences. Firstly, dealers are big political donors, and that means there is a lot of anti direct-sales legislation in both the US and Europe. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it means that legacy auto makers don't have to fund working capital, because dealers borrow from local banks.
This second one is the key one, especially if you want to build cars in China, and then sell them direct in Europe. The automaker will have a four or five month gap between buying components and the like, and receiving cash from customers. Rapid growth, therefore, requires borrowing lots and lots of borrowing.
BYD has recognized this challenge. They have dealer networks in Asia (Sime Darby in Singapore, for example). They have announced they are building one out in Germany. But this takes some time. (You need to find local entrepreneurs, who need to have credit with the bank, etc.) But this means that the pace of market share growth is limited.
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There can be only one.
https://youtu.be/y0C59pI_ypQ?si=RwJZBi1_BVc_qsKR
https://x.com/arindube/status/1730702029603901663
Bidenomics has also created strong wage growth-esp for working class families-that has outpaced inflation, by supporting a tight labor market through policy.
This real wage growth for the bottom and middle income Americans has led to a historic reduction in wage inequality.
Do Americans perceive the economy as weak because - although their income have risen - so have mortgage and car payments? Or because inequality has declined?
Is there any evidence that it is the latter?
Germany: 56.68% of GDP
United States: 78.03% of GDP
Australia: 119.32% of GDP
Canada: 107.49% of GDP
United Kingdom: 86.11% of GDP
France: 66.61% of GDP.
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I am thoroughly disappointed by this. In an interview, Kelsey Grammer has said he still supports Donald Trump and will back him to be President again in 2024. I had no idea he was a Trump fan."
https://twitter.com/RossKneeDeep/status/1732007822823412122
And I think it's more likely than not that between election shenanigans, procedural abuse, a lack of energy from Biden and a load of abuse from Trump, he will win.
NYT ($) Some Republicans Have a Blunt Message for Chris Christie: Drop Out
Several anti-Trump Republican donors and strategists are pushing Mr. Christie to end his presidential campaign and back Nikki Haley.
Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, has traveled the world in his quest to stop Donald J. Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. In New Hampshire living rooms as well as the charred homes of Israeli families killed by Hamas, he has assailed the former president as being unfit to lead, antidemocratic and an aspiring dictator.
But now, six months into Mr. Christie’s presidential primary bid, Republicans who share his goal of defeating Mr. Trump are suggesting an entirely different approach for the long-shot candidate.
Quitting.
Republican donors, strategists and pundits are publicly pressuring Mr. Christie to follow the lead of Tim Scott and Mike Pence and formally end his campaign. Many would like him to throw his support behind Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who has risen in the polls in early-voting states in recent weeks.
The focus on Mr. Christie’s bid reflects the anxiety that has consumed anti-Trump Republicans as the race moves into the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15. Despite three debates, tens of millions of dollars and many months of campaigning, none of the six candidates still challenging Mr. Trump have made much of a dent in his double-digit lead. And they are rapidly running out of time.
. . . Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist who has spent years working to defeat Mr. Trump [said] “The main thing that Christie could do to make a difference [in 2024] is to drop out.” . . .
Mr. Christie has run a relatively low-budget campaign, powered by a small staff and frequent television appearances. He has largely ignored Iowa to burrow into New Hampshire, a state where independent voters can cast ballots in the primary. Mr. Christie has made an aggressive push for those voters, who are more open to his anti-Trump message. This fall, organizations aligned with his campaign ran ads urging Democrats in the state to become “undeclared” voters and back his bid.
But as the deadline to switch party registration has passed, Mr. Christie has shown signs of weakness. In recent weeks, he has barely cracked 10 percent in polling in New Hampshire. It remains unclear whether he will be on the ballot in every state. Last week, officials said he had failed to collect enough signatures to qualify to be on the ballot in Maine. Mr. Christie plans to appeal the ruling. . . .
SSI - Sooner that the Great Gasbag of the Pine Barrens drops out of the 2024 race, the better . . . though NOT for Donald Trump.
(That said, the new Frasier is painfully unfunny.)
I can never watch it now.
Which, speaking as a far-out woke-job, takes away NOTHING from his comedic genius.
When he's got a decent script, that is. When he don't, he suffers. As with last seasons of "Frasier" (dreck).
BTW, here in Seattle the el cheapo geezer broadcast channel provides two hours of Frasier reruns every weekday.
Which highlights the quality gap between good episodes (almost all earlier) versus bad (mostly later).
Also reminds Seattleites just how clueless the show and it's writers (even in better scripts) were about the Emerald City. Which entertained us with chronic mispronunciations of local locales, as well as continually showing barista's taking coffee orders to customers at their table - something I've yet to see in thirty-plus years living in Seattle.
It was Phidias who was in charge of their production, although he wasn’t doing all the carving himself. He had a team.
However, that show was able to limp along, because it had become so entrenched with millions and millions of fans worldwide.
No such luck for retred. Typical of such mis-guided attempts to breath new life into old US TV hits.
Have you also seen the way Americans seem indoctrinated to revere their military? Almost regardless of how it behaves.
Anyone who is not unintelligent, and still supports Trump, is more than a bit of an arse.