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Expect a lot of bishop bashing from the Tories – politicalbetting.com
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Will this lead the radicalised Tories to espouse republicanism?
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Oh, and first?
I wonder if it's a sign Welby is considering retirement in the near future? I know he's said he would go on to 70 but he's had rather a lot on his plate since his sabbatical.
Would be some fun betting opportunities on the replacement. Graham Usher would surely start as favourite but that would seriously annoy the evangelical wing of the church.
Is there not the opportunity to hire somebody who has made a real success with another religion?
The catch is the phrase "sensible Tories". Still, we've been spared a "Fr Calvin for archbishop" campaign by GB News, so there's that small mercy.
Th other complication for the next AbOfC is that the nomination panel will be a lot more global than in the past;
https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/global-anglican-communion-given-voice-choice-future-archbishops-canterbury
https://nypost.com/2023/12/19/news/its-me-don-post-reporter-falsely-tagged-as-judge-engorons-son-at-trumps-fraud-trial/
Literally, he and his supporters are making any shit up they can to disrupt legal processes.
(And, of course, they're doing the same with Joe and Hunter Biden.)
Such people really are dangerous.
there is no evidence whatsoever that is available to the British government to suggest that alien life forms have ever existed
Though that could be because the evidence was on WhatsApp.
https://youtu.be/r0LoLdjGy9o?si=djU2TSTNZdluJVa1
Would that explain the Case?
PS In precedence, AIUI, the Archbish ranks much, much higher than a mere Kt. So he'd be accepting demotion. Rather like a former Colonel acting as Corporal in the Local Defence Volunteers.
Although, of course, TFS3 is quite right!
Mis typed & corrected.
So he's likely to do it.
It is slightly ironic to watch those who claim to be conservative coming out with ever more radical, even revolutionary, sentiments. After so many years of a bull in a china shop, the country craves responsible competence. The fulmination of the radical right merely underlines how far they now are from the mainstream
So, congratulations to His Grace, and confusion to his enemies.
Well, it is the run-up to Christmas. Baubles is topical.
It gets on my wick how fast you are but for today I shall simply wax lyrical about your word-smithing.
I hear on the grapevine that there is a lot more to come out concerning several others in the network of a leading lately ennobled Baroness, including serving MPs, and that Michelle Mone may be only the most egregious example of flagrant and likely illegal profiteering by Tories during the pandemic.
The ennui, even despair, of the Tory Party at this point may not just be the normal swing of politics, but that there is actually so much more to emerge.
It may be safer for Sunak NOT to hang on, and take the shellacking now, because if this starts coming out before the election, then the Tories really could be facing an ELE.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12895233/How-lying-Baroness-Bra-used-attack-dog-lawyers-try-silence-free-Press-deceit-prove-downfall.html
https://x.com/skynews/status/1738225381361258873
Stanley Kubrick’s chilly psychodrama – an erotic, dream-like Christmas Carol – is fast becoming part of the festive canon. Quite right too
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/eyes-wide-shut-christmas-kubrick-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman/ (£££)
Or if you prefer more traditional Yuletide films, Die Hard is on Channel 4 tonight, while SkyMax has The Unofficial Science of Die Hard.
Before I tackle the final part of the Christmas shopping odyssey, the final two polls (presumably) of 2023 from Techne and We Think warrant a mention.
Techne has a 20-point Labour lead (43-23) having started the year with a 21-point Labour advantage (46-25) so not much movement in 12 months (both the LDs and Reform up slightly as the two larger parties have drifted back).
We Think ends the year with a 14-point Labour lead (41-27) and its lowest Labour vote share since November 2021 which may be an outlier but there's plenty of evidence Labour has slipped back from the mid-40s to the low-40s in the past few weeks with that loss being widely spread to other parties. Compared with the first Omnisis of 2023, Labour are down eight with the LDs up two and Reform up five and the Conservatives unchanged.
In terms of the Lab/LD/Green vs Con/Ref split (a shade false as we know barely a third of Reform voters would support the Conservatives in the absence of a Reform candidate) Techne has 61-33 and We Think 59-36 so not a massive difference - the Dec 2019 equivalent was 48-47 so the swing ranging from 11.5-14% at this stage.
Prediction for 2024 - more polls, lots more polls....
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/the-new-european-michelle-mone-suing/
Hard cheese: Canada rejects British attempt to secure tariff-free exports
Many UK cheese makers could face 245% duty from 1 January, making exporting unaffordable
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/23/hard-cheese-canada-rejects-british-attempt-to-secure-tariff-free-exports
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
So it’s not an inevitable feature of change elections. I wonder if it’s more a feature of the conditions at the end of 2022 that made the public unusually focused on the two main parties: the top issues were the economy, inflation and Ukraine. All tending to focus the mind on the likely two options for government.
"What we need is a drugged up flint knapping specialist paying hot young women."
Apparently my Bach is worse than my byte.
And have a good morning.
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The Conservatives remain becalmed in the mid-20s - every time there's a little local difficulty, they slip a bit but when it's business as usual, they pull back so my advice to Sunak would be to say nothing and do nothing.
The LDs are now in double figures - basically 10-12% with Reform just under 10% though we've yet to see the latter vote tested at a parliamentary or even local by-election and what evidence we do have is the vote is a chimera.
There's a sense of minds made up, I think, and where we've seen Conservative mid-term troughs before they've usually turned by now. There's no underestimating the mountain Labour still has to climb to win a majority and the evidence of the local elections is there will be areas where the Conservative vote proves more resilient and others where it will collapse.
I'm also still to see any coherent reason for voting Conservative - there seems no thinking as to what the Conservative Government of 2024-29 would look like or do or try to achieve. On that basis alone, there's a sense of marking time until the election is called and the exercise then becomes damage limitation or sauve qui peut if you prefer.
https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/lingerie-tycoon-british-politician-selling-15-million-french-riviera-estate-68048
Horse Racing tips unleashed from the PB Restroom 🐎
ASCOT - 1.50 Cap Du Mathan
ASCOT - 2.25 Red Risk
ASCOT - 3.00 Blackjack Magic
ASCOT - 3.35 Hansard
Enjoy your holidays 🥰
Edit: not very memorable contribution, though.
And if you are, what’s in it for you ?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5SWjEspsvDM
ETA spoiler: if targets are pie in the sky, there is no point striving to meet them.
"Archbishop Lang was created a GCVO after the 1937 coronation and Archbishop Fisher was made one after the 1953 coronation.
Archbishop Temple received the higher ranking Royal Victorian Chain for the 1902 coronation."
So perhaps it's just tradition, not some grand statement.
I’ve read this, now my mums put the paper down, and do I trust what he is saying or is he just making it up, or wouldn’t this be covered by some sort of official secrets act ongoing after office?
Of course you can't trust what he is saying.
Blueking D'Oroux who has looked unstoppable over hurdles the two races I have been on it, however has never raced 3 miles in its life, whilst Botox Has beat Red Risk over the distance a few weeks ago, but only by 1l, Red Risk a battler was right there.
Anyone who’s read The Republic begins to wonder….
I disagree with a good chunk of what Welby has said/done, especially during Covid, but think he more than deserves a a knighthood
On that logic, anyway, judges ought still to be wearing black squares and executing innocent people. Tradition.
He certainly is missing the No 10 hairdresser. Not his usual neat self in the video.