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Will George Galloway be purring tonight? – politicalbetting.com
Will George Galloway be purring tonight? – politicalbetting.com
If the betting is correct then overnight George Galloway will become an MP again, this time for a fifth different constituency. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a result similar to the 1992 Inverness, Nairn, and Lochaber result where the winning candidate won with 26\% of the vote and a mere 3.4% covered the top four candidates.
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😂😂😂
Who knows?
Galloway winning would be both funny and terrible.
A startup claims to have developed a very efficient jet engine that could potentially be used as the first stage of a rocket. Early days, and all that, but they have small-scale prototypes.
https://twitter.com/k2pilot/status/1763007610993991722
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-68420275
My first memory of junior school is being surprised when my father took me out of class one afternoon, with the head's permission, to go and see Fantasia at the Odeon.
the Green candidate dared to be not sufficiently pro Palestine in some tweets so is now just a paper candidate.
Wouldn't have saved his deposit anyway.
For anyone with a brain, Galloway is disgusting. But this is Rochdale. And the candidate who was supposed to win got defrocked. Perhaps postal votes already in will win it. Or voters coming out in desperation.
Sadly, I expect that George Galloway will be the latest chapter in the book of Rochdale's shame.
And the effect of that has been to open the door to someone far far worse.
The court could indeed already have ruled, as did the federal appeals court, by summarily dismissing the appeal without a hearing.
They chose to hear arguments in the case - something they can only do if they believe the case has a reasonable chance of prevailing.
It is an abysmal lack of judgment.
There will come a time when this Court and its members will be held to account for its destruction of democracy. Or there won't be any democracy left to save.
I have heard similar complaints from other parents. A very quick 'win' for any government would be to allow children one week off school term-time. Yes, I know that has consequences, but I also think it will be popular with everyone except teachers and price-gouging travel firms.
I must surely flee
And good morning everybody; another grey day here, but not as bad as yesterday!
She's a smart operator. We have an era of crap politicians. She does shine out a little bit.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/labour-in-power-faces-dire-economic-inheritance-says-rachel-reeves/ar-BB1j3vBK?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=0af78ca16ae44370a292537b1ea633e6&ei=29
Isn’t there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan
This is the first I've heard of them being decoupled to this degree. An interesting notion.
His dad was quite something. He raped anything that moved - mainly chambermaids and slaves but also the wives of his best friends
It got so bad the church sent out a special mission to investigate him. The church decided that all the women were lying despite their identical accounts - yet nonetheless issued him a stern warning to stop raping so many women
It’s difficult to decide who comes out of this story as the hero
One of my favourite rocket stats was that Saturn V had lost 5% of its launch weight by the time it had cleared the tower. The weight is all fuel, and more weight needs even more fuel to carry it off the pad. You’d never choose a vertical launch if other options existed.
I do agree he is a narcissist. I would not vote for him.
However your comment does strike of "vote for whom I approve of"
When Everton last won a trophy the father of Jayden Danns was still in school.
A simple, but profound innovation.
But Labour no longer have a policy to scrap non dom status. See my previous post.
Under their new flag “fiscal prudence or death” Labour realise they cannot get scrapping nom dom bringing in assured promise of money past the OBR and City as confirmed extra money every year, and realise the damage it will cause scrapping it, so Labour are now keeping it, only calling it another name to pretend they scrapped it as promised.
Rather than “political genius” from Tories, is the truth here a sign of their struggle and desperation to cobble together legitimate funding for the tax cuts?
Not attempting to be controversial, just interested. It is a part of history I know little about.
… we've been expecting you
There is definitely “bad weather” - cold, wet, maybe dark - and I detest it
No matter how many nifty layers you wear, the mood sinks when you stare into the murk of a northern February
Let us advance upon the new world
There's a clue in the name.
Oh, that's still in the future.
You're just whingeing about the normal.
Telegraph
I'm shocked I tell you, shocked...
It’s a cruel reminder of the winter I largely escaped
I go to the jungle soon. I don’t mind rain so much if it’s warm. I prefer sun of course, but warm rain can be meditative
Cold rain is just grim. Cold rain in the dark is satanic
So far I’m rooting for the dad
Unfortunately, they are the lucky rabbit's foot for the Conservatives. (Sorry for bringing it up, Moon), so they have to happen, whatever the effect on the rabbit (sorry again).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/28/sir-keir-starmer-has-absolute-confidence-in-angela-rayner/
Stand by for the back flip.
And holiday companies aren't gouging, they're just responding to demand. I think they'd be very pleased to have more customers for the out-of-school-holiday weeks.
Any type of tax cut in this budget the voters will see through as a total joke, a total bribe - voters will see it as paid for from how tax take has been stealthy hiked and the Postmasters and blood scandal victims haven’t been paid. Hunt has already introduced £20 billion’s worth of rises in 2023-24, whilst scheduling £17 billion more for after the election, including continued threshold freezes.
Let’s be honest, Tories cutting tax in this particular budget could cost them more votes than it gains.
High borrowing, zero growth, crumbling public services. Tax cut paid for how?
Conservatives win elections on fiscal discipline, not this financial fantasy gibberish. These millionaires untouched by what the people have gone through the last five years, are going to get hammered at the election on the basis in their minds they actually think it helps their cause to cut taxes just before this one, that the bleeding obvious bribe half paid for and half future paid for by the voters themselves, won’t look like the bleeding obvious bribe it is.
Tories can’t read a room or relate to the electorate anymore. They will never come back to power until they can.
Even a good result for the blue team will cause ministers to stop being ministers and many MPs to stop being MPs. It requires a degree of selflessness to do that prematurely for the sake of the Conservatives in 2028 and 2032.
I'm lovely, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do it.
It's now light from 6 to 6, my forsythia and daffodils are out, and much else is budding, and I have an all day clinic of long-waiters. It's a beautiful day.
Those who want Tories to get the worst possible result, perhaps wipe out, trying to influence it to much later in year - talk up and tempt, like siren ferrets sitting on rocks and hiding their teeth, wait till later in the year where you can meet your pledges - and those who care about the party and wish to give the Conservatives the best possible result to recover from, suggesting this is May 2nd before sailing into choppy waters through summer and autumn.
Halcyon birds nest in summer, just like humans attracted by calm look of the weather and water. But however you delve into this and analyse it, this summer offers our sitting government no respite at all.
It's hard. I doubt the kids gain much from the average term time holiday. I bet there are more beaches than visits to the Louvre. At the same time, the last weeks of the summer term are not known for academic hothousing so no harm done.
More worrying in that BBC report is that a quarter of secondary pupils missed more than a month out of the school year. What the answer is, I do not know because the fines system does not seem to be working.
Here it is
It asks you to click through, then pay for a new delivery. Just £1.35 or something
However the demand for money got me suspicious, so I started checking the “links” and none of them really works - they all click through to the same cash demand
But wow. They absolutely nailed the font, the styling, the imagery - at first glance it is entirely plausible. No obvious typos or weird phrases
These will only get better with AI. Beware!
Sad times
As I've mentioned passim. one of my son's friends is off school nearly as much as he is in - school started after half term on Tuesday, and I don't think he was in Tuesday or yesterday. Another friend has had three recurrences of chicken pox in just over a year (unusually, and worryingly), but that's the only reason he misses school.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/europe-consensus-climate-crumbling
It is interesting how much Western politics are currently driven by anti-incumbency following the stresses of the last few years
"Walker is a 1987 American-Mexican historical, hybrid/weird western film directed by Alex Cox and starring Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval and Marlee Matlin. The film is based on the life story of William Walker, the American filibuster who invaded and made himself president of Nicaragua. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who has a small role as a member of Walker's army."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(film)
F1: first two practice sessions are today.
https://www.sbir.gov/content/trans-atmospheric-turbojet-engine-2
Keyword MIPCC
The closer the tech got to live use was the a souped up F4 for Israel - https://avgeekery.com/the-mach-3-f-4-phantom/
Fuel is very cheap, and rocket engines have insane thrust to weight ratios. Jet engines are much heavier, and even Mach 3 is hard. So you have to stage very low.
These ideas were popular back in the 90s when it seemed that making a reliable, reusable stage with rocket engines was a pipe dream.
Now we have an operational first stage that costs a few million to get you higher and faster. And a successor on the way.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/0345806298
Indeed if convicted it is possible Trump could be in jail by the time the SC eventually delivers its ruling on whether he can be tried over the insurrection he allegedly led
Yes, it's grim down south.
Take a holiday in a reasonable but not fancy self catering cottage with a garden but no pool, somewhere in central France. Ferry 200, fuel and tolls around 250, accommodation say 1,800, 5-6 meals out 500, shopping for self catering another 200, museum & attraction tickets maybe another 100, that’s just over 3 grand.
The accommodation cost would be similar if
you went Eurocamp.
That sort of holiday doesn’t vary in price quite so much around school holidays though.
I can see the Tory party returning as the 3rd or even 4th party is Rishi was that stupid
Chump:
I need a lawyer to boil down for me the implications of the trade offs (trades off?) between the Chicken Supreme Court needing 4 votes to take the case, and 5 votes to find in Mr Trump's favour.
I think it means that one of the Justices is Private Godfrey, and that the SC as a partly rational forum is shot to ribbons for some time into the future.
This is not the line I was expecting tbh, and I think it means various things are somewhat buggered, but it will still be unexpected for him to win the Election given how he has poisoned the Electorate.
On Galloway, I suggest he is the nearest thing we have in UK politics to Trump, and his position vs Trump's position in society shows us as still relatively fortunate.
The hearing is on April 22nd. I think it is unlikely that we will get a decision until June. Even if this is against Trump (and with this Court, who knows) he will get 90 days before the start of the trial. A verdict before November is possible but the decision is not final until after sentence and that will be post election.
When Trump needed a fast decision from the SC they ruled within 45 days. The timetable here is a disgrace and deliberately designed to protect Trump.
Bolivar then handed Miranda over to the Spanish - in return for a negotiated self conduct for himself (Bolivar) from the Spanish.
Miranda died in a Spanish prison.
Feb in the NW has been - okish. Sunnier than Jan, anyway. Cloudy but bright presently.
The giveaway is the greeting: "Hi". No name, and not the sort of casual greeting the Royal Mail would usually use. I don't know why the scammers don't fix this - it can't be that hard to do so.
In any case had other criminal
cases gone forward then the
Stormy Daniels case may
have been postponed, now it
and the classified documents
case in Florida set for May
are more significant. Conviction in either would see Independents desert Trump and likely prove fatal to him.
Remember too it was tax evasion which got Al Capone in the end not his gangland killings