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Ayrshire hotelier wins the GOP nomination – politicalbetting.com
Ayrshire hotelier wins the GOP nomination – politicalbetting.com
Breaking: It’s official—President Biden and Donald Trump have clinched the nominations. And the first presidential election rematch since 1956 now begins. https://t.co/qwLw26vucl https://t.co/qwLw26vucl
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The common factor is Private Equity taking over and looting the system with financial engineering and charges delivered by a casualised and dumbed down workforce. There is little or no attempt at improving the quality or competitiveness of the business. Its how we end up increasing spending and getting a shit service.
As i say unacceptable face of Capitalism
O/T: does anyone understand what is happening in Haiti? I get that gangs have forced out the Prime Minister, but what is their desired outcome? Do the gang leaders want to form a Government, or are they demanding a new Government with gang-friendly legislation, or what?
How could police at the most-policed venue in the UK - Downing Street - have not noticed the daily lockdown parties that broke the law?
https://twitter.com/marcuschown/status/1767863818581938601
OK, it's not the most timely tweet X'd today but PB's physics nerds will recognise the author of popular books about gravity and quantum mechanics.
I doubt they have a well-worked out prospectus for the aftermath. There wasn't one for Iraq in 2003, or for Brexit in 2016. Why would the Haitian gang leaders have one?
I mean, the Haitian gangs are clearly way more effective…
Starmer is 100% going to mention he was head of the CPS.
But will he push for a May 2nd election? Or Labour now loving the idea of Autumn election and big majority?
Was looking forward to action packed salmagundi Wednesday, a bumper, the cross country, and after bookies stung yesterday by favourites winning sometimes a little too easy imo, today the races are a lot more competitive and I think some surprises.
But no cross county 😭. It’s waterlogged. I love the cross country “as they come off the embankment, they will cut through Mrs Miggins Tea Garden, up to the Elephant next, round the castle, and will take on the proverbial conifers.” Also, a 3m5f country chase through heavy mud that still doesn’t have a handicap on it, Coko Beach was absolutely nailed on, my Napoleon.
It was dry overnight and shouldn’t rain this afternoon. On the main courses they are saying the going is soft, heavy in places - but arguably they shouldn’t have started with that going yesterday only to change after two races.
And my tips for today. With those revised times, though your bookmaker like mine might not be using them
Cheltenham 1.45 - Handstands
Cheltenham 2.30 - Stay Away Fay
Cheltenham 3.15 - Da Capo Glory e/w
Cheltenham 4.00 - Elixir De Nutz
Cheltenham 4:50 - Madara
Cheltenham 5.30 - Romeo Coolio
Have a good afternoon 🙂
The original owners (presumably mostly the family?) sold to the highest bidder. CD&R have proved so wildly incompetent that they took a profitable business that was subject to a bidding war to near bankruptcy.
I'm not sure how it would be drafted, but there does seem to be a need to be able to penalise thosewho strip money from a business which then fails, without penalising those who are unlucky (or even just honestly incompetent). We've seen a lot of 'failures' where the business owners have done very nicely, thank you.
Just shouldn't be allowed.
But what if his decision-making is governed by less rational concerns? He might do something unexpected and seemingly irrational because we've missed the basis on which he is making the decision.
No jokes. That really sucks.
I mean, trisuit and wetsuit.
The deal saw £6.1 billion of debt piled onto Morrisons’ balance sheet, resulting in large interest payments and high exposure to increases in borrowing rates.
Ben Shapiro on Medicare and Social Security: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."
https://x.com/mmfa/status/1767580260642467895?s=20
https://twitter.com/jsm2334/status/1767713307274698982
Nearly 5 times as many coronary events in the 30 days after Covid infection among unvaccinated cohort.
Friday May 3rd - worst local election results for the Tories since the Stone Age - airwaves filled with defeated candidates - and the usual suspects on the backbenches - blaming Sunak
Tuesday May 7th - after a weekend of plotting, counter- plotting, formation of circular firing squads etc Graham Brady asks for a meeting with Sunak to inform him that 53 NC letters have been received
Wednesday May 8th - Sunak announces that Parliament will be dissolved immediately and a general election will be called for late June.
Republican leadership of the House cutting off military supplies to Ukraine has made Putin drop his pretense about desiring peace talks. He wants it all.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1767824155108311284
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
Probably one of the most disliked people in the USA tbh.
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Genuine Blair moment from Starmer: “He’s scared of his party. I’ve changed my party”
Because the other option would be for the election campaign to be being held as the Torys selected a new leader - which would definitely be fun for the lols but would result in the Tories getting about 2 seats at the next election
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
Like HMG and student loans.
I think Rishi is toast.
As to the rest of it, two points.
Abuse of politicians is going to be fair game as long as politicians abuse each other. Listen to Trump. Listen to PMQs. Etc.
Secondly, voters are locked into a destructive cycle with politicians. They believe, with evidence, that they will lose elections unless they lie, distort, evade, ignore etc. Almost any interview with almost any politician has some unsatisfactory element to it. This leads to contempt on all sides. This leads to abuse. Even PB is not completely immune.
1848 - Taylor (63) v Cass (66) - 130 years
1984 - Reagan (73) v Mondale (56) - 130 years 7 months
2016 - Trump (70) v H Clinton (69) - 139 years 5 months
2020 - Biden (77) v Trump (74) - 152 years 4 months
2024 - Trump (78) v Biden (81) - 160 years 4 months
I could be wildly out on this because that's not how finance works, but I'd love to know how the ever expanding need for global pension funding influences the markets.
After 2007, does anyone even now know where all the money is??
Sunak has to call a general election just before enough letters are in for such a strategy to work.
Gratifyingly, you did. So, thanks. It really is the sincerest form of flattery
That doesn’t fit ANY of my preconceptions. It’s borderline perverse
Probably the best move would be to grant it anyway but there is an argument that a dissolution should be deferred until, at a minimum, the Confidence vote was held.
At that point, either MPs rally around Sunak because election, or they rally against him because of the stunt he’s just pulled.
I think the whole scenario is very unlikely. Sunak is not a Trump. I don’t think he’d call an election in such circumstances.
Which is a comment on what Trump has done to the American political system, I suppose.
Barry Sheerman (79) beat Ken Davy (78) - 157 years 7 months combined
There is a non-negligible risk of what I would call the chaotic run-out scenario. The governing party is stuck in a quandary about three things: 1. the timing of the election, 2. sticking with or kicking out the current leader, 3. Going after the voters lost to Reform or trying to win back the centre-right. They are, to deploy the cricketing analogy, hovering by the crease deciding whether or not to go for the run.
We've all seen those embarrassing scenes where one batsman goes for it, then the other holds out his hand and shouts no, then the batsman freezes midway down the track, then the other decides to run anyway and at least one of them ends up run out by several yards. That's what could happen to the Tories if they don't make some decisions and make them fast and decisively.
Keep that image in mind. It's getting more and more plausible.
https://www.chrischope.com/campaigns/covid-19-vaccine-damage-national-campaign
I presume the party could also choose to interpret “MP” as not counting the dissolution. What would Sunak do? Sue them?
The reality is that the Conservative Party is not, unlike the GOP, a personality cult. If Sunak played silly buggers, they’d dump him. He can’t lawyer his way into staying leader. Nor do I remotely think he’d try!
Follow that with a 269-269 electoral college tie leading to a contingent election that Trump wins despite losing the popular vote handsomely and 2024 would be the most lolsome year in politics ever.
I would go with FUBAR not SNAFU.
Also delightful if true, due to being so out of character. Almost as good as NPXMP’s Swiss Threesome
Imagine if Labour got 480 seats they could do what they want and nothing could stop them
Rishi is such an appalling media manager/party manager and so politically indecisive that he can’t even to do a “seriously everyone, pull it together” message.
If there were a row about how Tory rules worked in the case of enough letters being followed by a dissolution, the courts would adjudicate the Tory party issue; the UK constitution would march along in its stately way.
Could become quite an overhead.
If Apple did that it would be great news for all the poor saps and mugs forced to move their ISA's and pensions over to British stocks to "boost Britain"