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I cannot see Trump winning the election with these expectations – politicalbetting.com
I cannot see Trump winning the election with these expectations – politicalbetting.com
In one word, what would you say Donald Trump most wants to achieve from a second term as President?Among Independents:.@JLPartnersPolls/@DailyMail, 984 LV, 12/15-20 https://t.co/or5yC9lOFR pic.twitter.com/iDYyb0p0ey
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Rishi Sunak has abandoned Boris Johnson’s signature Brexit “dividend” of allowing British shops to once again sell products in pounds and ounces.
In an announcement slipped out quietly over Christmas, the Department for Business and Trade said that ministers had dropped plans to bring back imperial measurements after 98.7 per cent of people opposed the move in a government consultation.
Instead they would make a far more limited change and allow the reintroduction of Winston Churchill’s favoured pint bottles of champagne, which were banned by the EU.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-scraps-imperial-measures-f58n7dvzd
What sort of uncouth chav drinks champagne by the pint?
Champagne is so classy because of the name of the bottles such as.
Magnum
Jeroboam
Methuselah
Salmanazar
Balthazar
Nebuchadnezzar
The one I wanted was for beer to be sold in pints in shops and stores, rather than cans and bottles always being this 500ml nonsense.
The only thing that seems certain is a very turbulent year in America, and the only person of any significance who will stick with Trump through thick and thin is Vladimir Putin.
However, when you have a header talking about one of the sides being ‘odious’, from a betting perspective you know you are going to be getting an irrational perspective.
The only bets I’m having at the moment is on the Democrat 2024 nominee because I think Slow Joe will be shoved aside at the Convention if his ratings don’t improve. There are some good value bets on the Governor candidates - I only do long only bets on Ladbrokes but I’ve put money on Whitmer at 130/1 with some on names like Pritzker, Polis and Cooper. Newsom is way too short - he would get hammered in an election.
8) The consultation ran from 3 June to 26 August and we received 101,108 responses. 170 responses were considered as void, therefore, in total we analysed 100,938 responses. Responses were marked as void when they were either blank, duplicated, or had technical errors that prevented them from being viewed.
Out of the responses we analysed, we identified 93,041 as being from consumers, 4,718 from businesses and 3,179 from academia, healthcare, government and trading standards, and other organisations.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales/outcome/choice-on-units-of-measurement-consultation-response#consultation-responses
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/12/24/we-need-to-talk-about-the-smell-of-trump/
Why can't you supporters of the Insurrectionist-in-Chief take a joke?
AIR the question was ‘should we only sell in Imperial?’
To which my answer was no, because I don’t see what damn business it is of the government to mandate what form of measurement a willing buyer and a willing seller use.
If they want to use metric, let ‘em. If they want to use Imperial, fine. It doesn’t bother me either way in the slightest.
(And I took that view about compulsory metrification as well, before anyone asks.)
I can use either and it isn’t a point of principle with me as to which I use.
Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing 'chaos' for UK nature
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67705812
(It’s not what the article says either.)
1 For All,
a) Are there any specific areas of consumer transactions that should be a priority
for allowing a choice in units of measurement, and why?
b) Are there any specific areas that you think should be excluded from a choice in
units of measurement, and why?
c) If an item is sold in imperial measures, should there be a requirement for a
metric equivalent alongside it?
2 For Businesses,
What would be the consequences of your business having the freedom to sell
products in imperial measures, if you wished?
3 For Consumers,
a) If you had a choice, would you want to purchase items:
(i) in imperial units?
(ii) in imperial units alongside a metric equivalent?
b) Are you more likely to shop from businesses that sell in imperial units?
c) Do you foresee any costs or benefits to you from businesses being permitted
to sell:
(i) solely in imperial units?
(ii) in imperial units alongside a less prominent metric equivalent?
d) Do you have experience of buying solely in imperial units?
4 For Trading Standards,
What potential impacts might there be on regulatory activity, including any costs or
benefits?
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales
Not easy to express opposition, and I suspect the responses were more than a bit organised. Voodoo poll and all that.
But it highlights what I suspect will be a theme- the stuff we blamed Brussels for will continue to happen because, overall, it's preferable to the alternatives.
Dividing X by a/b is the same as multiplying X by b/a.
In my job I do a lot of multiplying because of calculating capital adequacy requirements, etc.
They thought Trump was doing well on the economy but his ratings on everything else pointed to a Trump defeat.
I am following that strategy again.
Point however - I can imagine the MAGA loons might want revenge for their imaginary grievances, but the word cloud is independent voters, ie people who are *not* committed to Trump.
Another fun fact, Biden is doing better than Obama in 2011 and Trump worse than Romney in 2011 at this point in the electoral cycle.
The other factor that also helps Biden is abortion.
One thing that is shredding GOP votes is how the GOP have gone from saying it should be left to the states to decide, the states decide we want to keep abortion and now the GOP are talking about bypassing the states and introducing a national ban on abortion.
The elephant in the room remains the US constitution. The Supreme Court in Colorado has ruled smelly to be ineligible under the 14th Amendment. For the US Supreme Court to overturn this will take some legal gymnastics which overturns the rest of their Giled via the Courts strategy.
As a very old, and indeed retired and non-practicing, pharmacist, when I qualified we used both the ancient apothecaries system and the metric. Indeed we had to be able to convert one to the other accurately, and recognise incorrect doses in both.
I have some sympathy with ydoethur with regard to the divisibility of the old system and, too, it is much more difficult to err by 100 with the apothecaries system. I’m sure Dr F will agree with me about the disadvantages of erring by factors of 100 in dosages!
However I’m also very much happier with a universally consistent system!
If you doubt that, look at the makeup of the Supreme Court.
Or remember the Republicans in congress have been interfering with due process over Hunter Biden’s crimes to force additional prosecutions on him while trying to block actions against Trump for crimes he’s been stupid enough to boast about.
Or look at any statement of Rudy Giuliani.
There is one organisation that has completely lost respect for the law, and whatever their many faults that isn’t the Democrats.
I am not too surprised by the word cloud. I have mentioned a few times here that Trump's Achillies heel is that he has little to offer the American voter. Its all about himself. Sooner or later voters will want to see more in the way of policy.
I am ambivalent about this. The failure of the justice system to properly hold Trump to account for January 6th is deeply concerning and suggests, again, that money and patronage can put people beyond the law in the US. On the other hand, much of the rest seems politically motivated and what comes around will go around to the detriment of everyone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Do you actually think such people put ‘revenge’ in as a positive? And it will make them more likely to vote for Mr Caps Lock Malfunction?
As such I am one of the few Britons who weighs themselves in kg rather than stones. Stones are an interesting anachronism, as seemingly only used for weighing people. No one buys a stone of potatoes or of rice etc.
PM hopes spring giveaway will increase chances as Labour prepares for early vote
Downing Street is considering axing inheritance tax in three months’ time in a pre-election giveaway to boost Rishi Sunak’s chances of victory.
The move is one of a handful of major tax cuts that have been discussed by senior figures in Number 10.
The Prime Minister has ordered a “gear change” on tax, having made bringing down inflation, rather than reducing the tax burden, the priority early in his premiership.
Other cuts being considered include increasing the threshold at which people start paying the 40 per cent rate of income tax, and reducing the basic 20 per cent rate.
But scrapping inheritance tax is the least likely of the three moves to be matched by Labour – potentially creating the tax “dividing line” craved by Tory election strategists.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/12/26/rishi-sunak-end-inheritance-tax-spring-ahead-of-election/
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-surges-ahead-joe-biden-independents-1849625
The polls had Labour leading but Dave led Ed on all the supplementaries.
But yes. The percentages are no more meaningful than "Isn't Jeremy brilliant? Retweet for a bigger sample." poll results.
My kids are far more comfortable in grams and kilograms, having been taught that at school. We will get there eventually and I don't see the need to hurry to be honest. I have never found this anything to get excited about. Simply removing the ban on imperial for us oldies would be enough and it would be daft to go further.
Workers of the world unite.
The truth is that we will stick to metric on this as we will for most EU directives because the rules are sensible.
Watt Hours per Mile AND Miles per Kilowatt Hour...
Also #Trumpsmells.
Mr. Boy, food banks started under Blair. They expanded under every PM until at least Cameron and probably since him too. Given that covers boom, bust, slow recovery, pandemic, and now, that implies policy is having minimal impact on their proliferation.
Easily missed though.
You'd think JRM would have been able to drum up more than 403 votes for Imperial from the 'Silent Majority'.
That will go badly for the Luddites.
Really must dash now.
Actor Lee Sun-kyun found dead amid investigation into drug use allegations
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=365886
I can’t see any way that could possibly go wrong for him.
Alternatively, if they are independent it is because they aren't taking the party line of either monolith. I would anticipate that some of the "who we are" issues would come into play.
All may be academic if Trump's exclusion under the 14th is upheld...
Five ways that Hitler was preferable to Trump
1. He fought for his country
2. He never used a teleprompter
3. He was nice to dogs
4. He wrote his own books
5. He never played golf
6. He wasn't a big fat slob
Five ways Trump is preferable to Hitler
1. He doesn't practice genocide
2. He has nicer hair
3.
4.
5.
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1739815081951850568
The replies are something else...
And Hitler didn't fight for his own country.
Poor pensioners like me of course would be seeing a huge increase from 20% to 30% at £50k. Shocking.
(Although actually, Cleese is wrong on 4. Hitler dictated, no pun intended, Mein Kampf and large parts of it may have been altered by his scribe.
Just imagine how much worse the original could have been...)
If it were me I’d reduce the rate to 20% and restrict some of the reliefs.
One thing they’d almost certainly do if they abolish IHT completely is remove the CGT step up for inherited assets.
Those were just perfect for a single person. Enough to have a nice drink, but not to either drink too much or see much of it go off.
Maybe instead we have:
PA £20,000 and everyone gets a PA
20% on next £50,000 ie £20k to £50k
40% on further £50,000 ie £70 to £120k
50% beyond £120k
The problem with Brussels is the lack of democracy and accountability, not that all decisions made were bad.
Democracy is preferable to the alternative.
Trump couldn’t even make the trains run on time.
(I’m sure the far-left also miss the irony that Cleese is also mocking their constantly comparing contemporary figures to Nazis)
‘Pint’ size wine stocked on Britain’s shelves for the first time ever thanks to new freedoms from leaving the European Union
Still and sparkling wine to be sold in 200ml, 500ml and 568ml ‘pint’ sizes in 2024
900 British vineyards set to benefit across the country from new freedoms
Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business Kevin Hollinrake said:
"Innovation, freedom and choice – that’s what today’s announcement gives to producers and consumers alike.
Our exit from the EU was all about moments just like this, where we can seize new opportunities and provide a real boost to our great British wineries and further growing the economy."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pints-of-wine-stocked-on-britains-shelves-for-the-first-time-ever
Everyone who isn't barking mad knows that drivers are utterly fleeced in taxation, while public transport is heavily subsidised, but still not popular anywhere the roads are remotely functional despite that.
Lets end duties and subsidies and go to true user-pays level of expenditure for the roads and rails, see what happens then . . . 🤦♂️
In many cases it's actually nearly all the month speaking to people I know who volunteer at Foodbanks
And something definitely started to go wrong as soon as the coalition policies started to take effect - Can't however say whether it was austerity or DWP starting to sanction people given kick off point.
I’m sure Rathfinny will sell pint bottles of sparkling. Or rather they’ll probably keep selling in 50cl bottles, which he calls the “modern pint”. Why go to the expense of a new bottle size for a very limited market when you’re already selling at 50.
I think the take up beyond that will be very limited. Similar to the existing market for 50cl bottles, which are used for some sweet and fortified wines.
Why does it need to be 200, 500, 568 or 700?
If someone wants to sell a bottle in 420ml then so long as it clearly says 420ml then why should that be verboten? Or any other number, just make clear what it is and let the consumer decide.
Reality is I suspect no company will use it because it ain't worth the hassle...
https://metricviews.uk/2017/06/01/pint-sized-beer-and-cider-in-british-shops/