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Sunak’s ratings hit a new low – politicalbetting.com
Sunak’s ratings hit a new low – politicalbetting.com
Rishi Sunak's net favourability rating slips to a new low of -49 (fieldwork 11-12 Dec)Favourable: 21% (-5 from 28-29 Nov)Unfavourable: 70% (+5)https://t.co/nU5Ha277UU pic.twitter.com/a3I4BwIz7B
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Say what you like, she wasn't dull, was she? The rapidly descending lightning bolt of British PMs.
It's quite a moment. As with Thatcher and later Blair going, whatever your views on the individuals, these were epoch-defining characters who changed politics and the nation for better or worse.
In what way is Drakeford an “epoch-defining” character?
Like Dave, he will return.
AP (via Seattle Times) - Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot
Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.
Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the update will increase warnings and alerts to drivers and even limit the areas where basic versions of Autopilot can operate.
The recall comes after a two-year investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a series of crashes that happened while the Autopilot partially automated driving system was in use. Some were deadly.
The agency says its investigation found Autopilot’s method of making sure that drivers are paying attention can be inadequate and can lead to “foreseeable misuse of the system.”
The added controls and alerts will “further encourage the driver to adhere to their continuous driving responsibility,” the documents said.
But safety experts said while the recall is a good step, it still makes the driver responsible and doesn’t fix the underlying problem that Tesla’s automated systems have trouble spotting and stopping for obstacles in their path. . . .
In its defect report filed with the safety agency, Tesla said Autopilot’s controls “may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse.” . . .
SSI - Getta load of the "driver misuse" excuse. MusXmelons please explain? Maybe IF you're a Welsh speed bump?
Respect to him if that is the case. He looks quite mild mannered.
Who would stake their name on you
Made to change with every new day
No one's gonna miss you
That of course will change during a GE campaign. That may not help him, but I don't see it hindering him much. I think he is fortunate to be out of the spotlight until then.
His opponents are doing a great job of making him electable.
(1) Every opinion former must conclusively treat the Prime Minister of the United KIngdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (for the Time Being) as a popular politician.
He cleverly (no not that one) finished his sixth question with a conciliatory festive question, knowing Sunak would spit back a vengeful retort, when all Sunak had to do was say "yes" and sit down.
If Sunak was holding a firearm at PMQs, after the fifth question he would have shot Starmer clean between the eyes. The PM was that angry.
Extending to devolved nations, I’d put Drakeford below Sturgeon and Salmond, Paisley, Trimble and even Foster.
Sunak's really got quite a short fuse, which I suspect does not bode well for him in the heat of a GE campaign.
What's more: this 'recall' is an indication they've pushed the 'progress' pedal too strongly, and they're having to brake a little. As predicted, the two different routes towards autonomous driving are converging...
Sorry?
In what way is Drakeford an “epoch-defining” character?
Maybe IF you're a Welsh speed bump?
Yours truly wishes to affirm that by "Welsh speed bump" I was NOT referring to Big G!
So that there's no chance of deportation
Does she have the right
To come in on that flight?
No one knows
She comes and goes
How much will "I, Drakeford" gross at the box office. Surely the biggest movie of all time just waiting to be made.
Which made him a Caesar SLD.
It is widely accepted 20mph zones are sensible around schools, hospitals, and specific residential areas which we already had, but in my 58 years living in Wales I cannot recall such an unpopular policy as Drakeford's national change from 30mph to 20mph
You would think that Starmer is better equiped professionally and politically to deal with head-to-heads during the campaign too, and it's not as if he has to knock the PM out to win.
Sorry but I'm not seeing this stroppiness at all. If anything he seems bizarrely tiggerish (in public) in spite of everything. Could he be deemed a little tone deaf? Yes but the reality is that day after day he is being asked to make decisions that affect thousands or indeed millions of people. Individual anecdotes are no basis for doing that even if more experienced politicians are better versed in responding to them. Still it sees as though there is a certain Rishi derangement syndrome. I find it hard to understand how people who weren't irked by Cameron nonetheless get really irate with Sunak. Perhaps it's his size, I say this as someone who was the smallest kid in the class, though I assumed people grew out of that one. The billionaire wife? I mean why would she choose someone like him? Pure luck I presume on his part. Same reason he was Head Boy at Winchester, got a first at Oxford and a Fullbright scholarship. Pure luck.
I would hate to say it's to do with the colour of his skin but I have to wonder. Is a non-white person choosing the Tories considered an act of betrayal by some?
And equally obvious is the fact that the people who get most irate with him are Tories, for obvious reasons. People who don't support the Tories may find themselves amazed at his antics, but scarcely annoyed, given the likely consequences.
His decline from those heights to what we see now is pitiful. What does his ethnicity have to do with anything - that hasn't changed since I sang his praises on here. What has changed is that he has been promoted PM and is fucking useless at it.
He is going to need to hide in a Boris fridge for the entire campaign. Any time anyone challenges him he gets angry and increasingly petulant. Not a good look.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cekp9elx7j7o
A migrant staying at the Wethersfield asylum centre in north Essex says there is “almost nightly fighting” between different nationalities.
The BBC has seen video footage that appeared to show a fight involving several men in a canteen where chairs were thrown and one man had a bloodied face.
The asylum seeker, whose identity we are protecting, says the asylum centre on the former military base “has many, many problems".
He told the BBC there was “almost nightly fighting with another nationality, because the number of people is many”.
We need to use the wrong address format (no postal town FFS) apparently to be consistent. Yes, consistently wrong. Is an incomplete address accepted as an address by customs assholes?
A worse approval rating than Suella....
I didn't have high hopes for Sunak, but he's still surprised on the down side. That probably makes many of us exaggerate just how shit he is, as we're disappointed.
All politicians disappoint to some extent, I guess, but in my politically aware memory it goes something like this:
(We have since attempted to moderate our taking of the Lord's* name in vain within the household)
*is it still taking the Lord's name in vain, what with the holy trinity etc - Jesus is also the Lord?
I have been blaspheming a lot recently and I am not one to usually swear.
What the PO scandal, the various child abuse scandals, the contaminated blood scandal etc. have in common is the revelation that a considerable number of people in positions of authority have complete and utter contempt for the people they are meant to be serving.
The plan for what that treatment involves has now been set out by Milei’s new government and includes several striking measures, including the devaluation of Argentina’s currency, the peso, by more than 50 per cent against the dollar.
Luis Caputo, the new economy minister, said in a televised address: “It is better to tell an uncomfortable truth than a comfortable lie.” He also announced plans to cut energy subsidies and cancel tenders for public works.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/argentina-peso-dollar-currency-javier-milei-3gmh0jzqq
- https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/other-ideologies-anarcho-capitalism
- https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/other-ideologies-anarcho-capitalism-part-two
Does the article writer think that he isn't one?Current external lawyers accepted the policies are legal, but wanted to create ones "more appropriate". External lawyers don't know about ecommerce - unlike the last client's lot who signed off the policies.
I now have clueless external lawyer and clueless client lawyer asking me to referee the debate about cookies. Have pointed out that I am not a web developer and that the existing boiler plate policies are legal. Apparently I know more than they do so please advise.
Client refused to hire web developer. "You know how to do this don't you Ian". Yes, to a point. Client has now spent more than a web developer on lawyers and we're no further on. And is complaining that my time is being used up on something they asked me to do...
He supports the apartheid government of Netanyahu but I agree that calling him a Tory is a step too far
I agree. He supports the apartheid government of Netanyahu but calling him a Tory is a step too far
If they are in favour of replacing him this, they are racists who are overcompensating.
If they are against replacing him this, they simply racists.
Has anyone got a very large pair of scales and a duck?
Essentially the important bits of your address are the top line and the postcode. Everything else is just error correction in case you get either of those two wrong.
Not that all of the above lacked personal, professional and political ability. Rather that these factors were not the X factor that made (in Jindal's case) and still make (Haley, Scott and Herrera Beutler who is currently running for WA State Lands Commissioner) such strategic assets to & for the GOP.
But the heat of a campaign is also going to be similarly tough, so while the geeks only watch PMQs, he’s going to have to learn to slow down and speed up as needed - and show some human.
The final Starmer question was a classic. PMs get the last word and always use that one to slag the opposition leader and throw around facts that suit their argument to gee up the troops before lunch knowing that the opposition leader can’t pick him up on the veracity of those facts (lower taxes and cheaper mortgages indeed). Prime Minister Sunak just went through his lines without, seemingly, being aware that the Labour leader had changed the tone entirely.
Hmmm. So you are suggesting that a batshit ideologue has inconsistent and hypocritical views?
So what I have up is "inappropriate" but legal. They spend 3 months faffing with it. Can't get group legal to sign off as they keep reading about other thongs to check. So now I am the arbiter about what needs to be included. You couldn't make this up.
(*) Yet another misapplication of AI in the computer world. Sighs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOtGbkFlD8
To call him a Tory, well, he’s not.