What is Sunak up to? – politicalbetting.com
What is Sunak up to? – politicalbetting.com
When you’re worried Labour are going to accuse you of bottling a May election, certainly an interesting tactic to then not deny a May election https://t.co/gmoblc2UrN
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I think Sunak hasn't got the foggiest idea what he was up to.
*On hearing of the death of the Ottoman ambassador: 'I wonder what he meant by that.'
As I was saying on the previous thread!!
Paying all the taxes the government levies isn't the same as paying the same taxes as everyone else, as you originally claimed.
Everyone else who is working for a living and not reached retirement age has to pay National Insurance as a tax on their earnings. You don't.
That anomaly needs fixing. You should pay the same tax rate, including NI, on your earnings as a worker does.
Because we want rid of this wretched administration asap.
Here's one that came across my screen today.
Dangerous driver in an uninsured, untaxed, un-MOTd vehicle barely avoiding killing someone because of his impatience to save a few seconds. An army soldier who has access to guns. He also plainly lied on oath, so I expect his army career will be as a Private.
The sentence? 12 month ban and a fine of £340.
The video is quite a stunner. https://youtu.be/38nxEB_w2m8?t=36
You've got more in common with HY than you realise!
As discussed per mile of a car driving there's no fatalities until you get to nine significant figures, that's how incredibly safe our roads are.
But those are averages. Averages mask variance.
Law abiding, legal drivers are even safer than that.
Criminals who break the law are more dangerous by far.
We should clamp down more on the criminals, and less on the law abiding.
Can we agree on that?
https://news.sky.com/story/wales-rugby-star-mason-grady-fined-for-driving-at-115mph-along-m4-13089175
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/boy-riding-scooter-seriously-injured-28769430
Fortunately the **** has been caught. There are *lots* of rumours swirling around; best not to put them on here, especially as some are contradictory!
Edit:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68492997
* No idea if they do this directly. They certainly do indirectly, and very happily engage with him.
Not a good look...
Bring it on, lad.
I don't really get how that's cause for suspension, though - I could understand if she'd breached an NDA, but the messages in question were clearly personal and non-work related...
The comparisons rather write themselves.
But given Sunak is crap at messaging, who the hell knows anymore.
My days of always checking the top speed of every car I owned at least once have long gone - but when I was Grady's age...
And I say that as someone who was far from being a fan of Mr Brown or his government.
On topic, I'm sure Rishi wants to call the election for a date when he can win. Trouble is, that date doesn't seem to exist.
Yesterday was more like a doomed army scabbling together whatever it could find to have one last shot, even if it was unlikely to work.
I know it's only a double glazing window discount voucher.....
Having another fiscal event means giving Labour (and commentators, and maybe the market) a chance to rip it down, all immediately before an election. If the policy won't have any practical effect in the next 5 weeks, better to make it a promise to be contingent on re-election rather than something the public's already banked. In politics, gratitude tends to come in advance.
But also, timings. If you're going to have a fiscal event then parliament needs to be sitting. That means either shoehorning something into the couple of weeks between summer and the conference season or waiting until after the conferences. The former is an extremely tight timescale; the latter means foregoing control of the narrative that conference is intended to give you, as well as meaning parliament is also available for any other purpose Labour, the LDs, SNP and so on can put it to. Plus, it pushes the window for an election back to late Nov at least, if the fiscal event is mid-Oct. Possible, but not ideal.
I still reckon Nov 14, called from the Tory conference.
Don't most companies have an anti-retaliation policy?
Oh, hang on...
Problem is, they won't.
Macron today produced maps of a poss Russian breakthrough towards Kyiv or Odessa which could oblige the west to act to prevent a Russian victory in Ukraine. In talks w French opposition leaders, Macron said there should be no more “red lines” on Fr involvement in the conflict
Sunny should go. And go now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg97wj4en4o
Ponzi scheme. £10 million unaccounted for.
Arrested 2019. Pled guilty at trial in 2024. Four and a half years' delay.
No. So he should go now when he might have the chance of closing the gap. Look brave. Be the bigger man.
Sunny, if you are reading: May 2. Do it.
I can see why they'd want to get rid of her, but surely a generous payout backed with a compromise agreement including a strict NDA would be the right way to go?
1) Separate the parties to the complaint without acting against them outside the process.
2) Call in HR and the lawyers
3) Do nothing clever
It's the only thing the Lords *does* have full veto powers on (although its 12-month veto is sufficient now for the rest of this parliament).
The next competitor, Sizzle, not doing so well.
Your reputation might matter to you though.
https://x.com/godblesstoto/status/1765770786999058911?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
However I'd say the guy in the 4x4 in the video (who nearly rolled when he put it sideways on the verge as well) is a young-lad-who-thinks-he's-immortal-and-did-not-think-of-possible-consequences (he's 25) rather than a 'criminal'.
I know something about this because I spun my parents' car off a frosted traffic island at the age of 17 years and 8 months (no injuries, bent but driveable). My sister did exactly the same thing with my first car 12 months later (no injuries, bent but driveable).
I'm not sure what "law abiding" means in this context, when perhaps 70-80% of people who drive vehicles admit to breaking various laws in any 12 month period.
But I think that dividing it into 'others', such as 'criminals', 'drunk drivers' etc, and 'us', distracts from the very significant elements caused by laziness, carelessness and complacency amongst the 'normal' driving population - for example people who can get a phone cradle from Amazon for £5, but don't bother and do hand-held phone calls instead - at a much higher risk level. Me, I switch my phone off and put it in the glovebox.
Much of this statistical, and amenable to analysis and targeted adjustments.
Here's an example of an opportunity to target high risk groups. Fatals per distance driven, segmented by age and sex. On the LHS I'd say it's testosterone, male showing off and trying to pull women. On the RHS it's mainly more old women living than old men, but 85+ year old males seem to have disproportionate numbers of casualty collisions compared to the 1/3 of the age group they comprise- I wonder why?
https://twitter.com/CountBinface/status/1765669566552707164?t=LCDZ8UlSn5TGNuQ_RZiy_g&s=19
Sky's presenter commented it looks more and more likely
Sadly this one was not a Go North East driver this time.
We did, of course, have that Fixed-Term Parliaments bit in our constitution for a while. People decided it didn't work very well. Personally, I quite liked it and think it only needed a bit of tinkering to smooth out the rough edges.