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Too many tweets, Part I – politicalbetting.com
Too many tweets, Part I – politicalbetting.com
While every group thought that it was more inappropriate than appropriate, it's interesting that Loyal Nationals – the segment that best reflects 2019 switchers in places like the Red Wall, were more likely than average to say inappropriate. pic.twitter.com/ekf6XtSLGH
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"Yemen Houthi Leader Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti:
“If Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are part of any coalition to attack Yemen, we will not leave an oil field or a gas field in Saudi Arabia or the #Emirates, and we will target all ships transporting oil.”"
https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1736506022250869141
Iran's really going for it, aren't they?
https://twitter.com/MartinStott65/status/1736495065822871588/photo/1
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12871883/Vape-scare-stories-lead-rise-smoking.html
Unintended consequences, but hardly unpredictable.
https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1736536277099430210
Twin B then mentioned that she had been in the loo somewhere in Leeds and vapes were available from the tampon vending machine...
If you are going to use a tagline and image like that tweet, then you want it uncredited and targeted. Dirty Social Media campaigns are about motivating the base and demotivating the opponents base by sowing discord.
If Hungary were applying fur EU membership today, it would be firmly rejected.
The EU’s capitulation to the Hungarian PM’s blackmail is a grave mistake. He seeks to reshape the bloc in his image
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/17/viktor-orban-hungary-eu-ukraine-vladimir-putin
...This sets a perilous precedent: extortionists always come back to demand more. What is the EU’s gameplan? Are leaders willing to hand out huge sums of money and send Orbán out of the room whenever a unanimous decision looms?
The fact that just hours after absenting himself from the negotiations on accession, Orbán used his veto anyway to block €50bn in funding for Ukraine shows the wiles he is capable of. The accession process for any new member state is long and complex, and requires unanimity every step of the way. EU leaders are shockingly naive if they believe they have secured lasting support in exchange for their money. Orbán is likely to repeat this tactic, again and again, as he leverages Ukraine to unblock more money for his regime...
..The timing of the EU’s concession to Orbán is particularly disastrous, coinciding with Hungary’s “sovereignty protection bill” – a shockingly oppressive piece of legislation threatening journalists and civil society organisations with jail if they participate in international funding programmes. Its sole aim is to suppress dissent, muzzle independent media and quash opposition parties. The commission’s decision practically rubber-stamps this law and fails to muster a grain of solidarity with remaining independent voices in Hungary.
If they were "really going for it" this would have already happened by now and Hezbollah would have declared Jihad in the North of Israel.
He basically goes on a long train ride to Reading reflecting on all his prejudices about Brexit, immigration and the Tories throughout (but without talking to anyone) and then basically exchanges a classically British, "huh, typical!" at the end of it that he thinks validates the lot.
Sublime.
Meanwhile The Express screams that the evil small boats gangs will be smashed (again, apparently).
Am I wrong, or was it not our own Conservative government that played a major part in clearing the field for the European migration crisis with the disastrous Libya intervention? I suspect the Tories aren’t the ‘evil gang’ about to be smashed though, despite CCHQ’s efforts to self-immolate with cringe memes.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4364473-haley-gains-on-trump-in-latest-new-hampshire-poll/
..The latest CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found that Haley has emerged as a top alternative to the former president, consolidating much of the non-Trump vote. Among likely GOP primary voters, 29 percent say they would vote for the former South Carolina governor, 15 points behind Trump.
Eleven percent say they would vote for GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and 10 percent say they would vote for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. No other candidate received more than 10 percent...
https://x.com/adamscrabble/status/1736453257587822834?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg
He is the holy grail for the GOP. The young articulate persuasive non-mad Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4365075-trump-notes-he-was-indicted-more-times-than-the-great-al-capone/
Capone died with syphilitic dementia. Just saying.
To adolescents at Durham CSS.
The leaflet has an apostrophe. The Tweet doesn't.
Which one is correct?
I think I have a bit of a reputation for eccentricity....
Serbia's Vucic claims big election victory for party
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67742032
The polls tend to support my view over yours.
It's an irregular verb. I am individualist, you are eccentric, he* is round the twist.
*I inserted the name of a certain poster here, but decided that actually there is nothing wrong in knapping flints into dildos for a living while burbling about AI and buying voice activated plugs to brighten up your life, er, flat.
Not too many banks to rob or people to terrorise out on the hills and moors, and if it's cold it sort of makes sense.
I'd still take it off when talking to someone though.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/jeremy-hunt-to-hit-imports-of-iron-steel-and-cement-with-new-green-border-tax-to-stop-uk-firms-being-undercut/ar-AA1lEXUo?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=7ca6408932104ba59f8dc2adafdd9188&ei=57
And good morning everyone; sadly looks to be clouding a bit here.
He was roundly derided at the time for it.
However, he was right.
I would not dismiss him lightly.
But the raw political talent is obvious. He has that charm. Sure, he’s very self confident and a little vain - so was Blair
I can see him as a GOP prez candidate in the next decade - and winning
But...
...the polls suggest he is right!
As the Americans have just rather graphically demonstrated, executive presidential systems work only when you have passably sane and/or moderate people elected to them.
Just seen a red rainbow; only a partial one due to cloud. I've only ever seen the phenomenon once before.
One is that the meme artists are less good. Another is that we, as an audience have grown wiser to this sort of thing. The third is that, apart from the remaining loyalists, we don't want to believe Conservative messaging, and approach anything any of them say with suspicion.
One of the problems Team Sunak has is that they are trapped in the public opinion equivalent of quicksand. The more noise they make, the more the "just make it stop" segment of the population will hate them.
This is cross party support for extreme revenge on hamas
Israel has changed since Oct 7
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/17/rolls-royce-talks-build-mini-nukes-ukraine/
I think he's just a boilerplate Guardianista and looks exactly what AI would draw one as.
I suspect the Russian Troll farms will be mobilised again, but not in favour of the Tories this time because of Ukraine. Neither will they like Labour. I anticipate that they will be briefed to go negative, or support the right and left wing fringes.
I can’t see Bennett winning under a presidential system, and Lapid or Gantz might have won in recent elections. If Bibi had won, corrupt though he is, a Bibi less dependent on the coalition support of extreme nationalists might not be as bad.
Israel kind of tried the system in 1996, 1999 and 2001, although it retained a very strong legislature. Bibi scraped a win by the narrowest of margins in 1996 and then lost resoundingly to Ehud Barak in 1999. Ariel Sharon won in 2001.
I fancied a bacon sarnie, so I joined the end of the queue. This parted like the Red Sea, allowing me to go first. "Very kind of them," I thought. I got my grub and walked on.
A couple of days later I met a couple of walkers who had been doing the trail behind me. They said they'd arrived at the burger van shortly after I left, and the truckers told them of this strange figure who came out of the mist, wearing a balaclava. The monster stamped his feet whilst in the queue, and they decided to let him go first so he'd leave soon.
Yes, I frighten truckers!
What makes you think they were in favour of the Tories last time? A Corbyn government might have suited Russia quite well.
(Then again, I believe the Russian trolls are often more interested in spreading discord and argument over any specific agenda.)
"...This is the fourth debate that you would be voted, in the first 20 minutes, as the most obnoxious blowhard in America. .."
The EU implemented its emissions trading scheme many years ago. After a faltering start - prices were too low and too many credits issued - it was very successful and an important driver of emissions reductions. But industrial carbon cuts started slowing as businesses exported their emissions to dirtier countries. But politically it was becoming difficult to squeeze EU manufacturers further. So the CBAM comes along and is more politically palatable because it’s dressed up in the language of protectionism.
Still, it will influence emissions policy and behaviour in the rest of the world. So any protectionist impact will be temporary but hopefully the environmental impact will be permanent.
They're not too good with candidates that are only a little bit bonkers.
Their best bet at the moment is probably stirring the pot on Israel & Gaza and encouraging those new Islamist parties.
A market where there will only be 2 winners and we haven’t done everything we can to ensure Rolls Royce was one of them
I’m trying to imagine the international reaction if the Ukrainians set up an enrichment plant of their own…
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2021 and fully expected Ukraine to fall within days (remember the stories of officers taking dress uniforms). Two reasons Ukraine would not have been a factor in 2019.
That's an interesting design as it's engineered to produce high pressure steam, so could operate as a drop in boiler replacement in a fossil fuel power station to utilise the existing generation assets.
If Russia did indeed want Johnson's Conservatives to win in 2019, they judged spectacularly poorly, as indicated by the respective responses from Johnson and Corbyn to the build up and aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.
Regarding the Russian attitude to Brexit specifically, I would not be suprised if efforts went into both supporting the Brexit campaign before the referendum, and the Rejoin/Remain campaign after the referendum - this would indeed cause the most prolongued disruption, and they appear to have encouraged both sides simultaneously in American protests before, so this would be nothing new.
In this ban happy era I'm surprised they can still be purchased rather than be labelled some kind of criminal or terroristic apparatus.
There was that pollution deregulation a few months ago, that Labour opposed. That was supposed to enable 100k houses, wasn't it?
Thunderingly dishonest, given that the one thing we know is that Starmer is committed to getting more houses built, but technically true.
Like a lot of political advertising, then.
Highly sensible, given the cold wind we can get around here.
@Dura might be able to provide some instances of use on the other side.
Russia had everything it needed to become a great power after the calamities of the 1990s - aside from one thing. Leadership. Instead of trying to use its resources to raise Russia up, Putin and his cronies decided to steal, and to reduce everyone else down to their level. That's what he's truly interested in: not raising Russia up, but reducing everyone else.
And Ukraine, or Georgia, or a/n/other, would have been a factor. Putin is a fascist imperialist, and he'd know he might want to attack somewhere soon. It's not as if he had not already done so, is it?
Though as I get older I tend to use my Hat, Tweed, Irish, Anglers for the use of.
* https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30100387
Partly, as you say, just to stir the pot. But also with a medium-term aim of replacing the Tories with them, either by supplantment at the polls or reverse-takeover (a road which the parties are already some way down).