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No leads Yes by 28% in the latest independence poll – politicalbetting.com
No leads Yes by 28% in the latest independence poll – politicalbetting.com
'No' leads by 28 points.Welsh Independence Referendum Voting Intention (23-24 March): No, against Independence: 58% (-3) Yes, for Independence: 30% (+3)Don't know: 11% (-1)Changes +/- 18 Februaryhttps://t.co/8GY51avq4j pic.twitter.com/CTpLpfICXK
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Just listening to the ITV Post Office tape.
This sounds like several senior people potentially behind bars.
https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1773475971292627072
ETA maybe Rishi can ask Keir Starmer for a DPP view at next Leader of the Opposition's questions. If I were potentially in the firing line, that would worry me. As it is, the inquiry is kicking it into the long grass.
File under 'Jumping before they are pushed':
So far, 66 MPs elected as Conservatives in 2019 have announced they will not stand again – this includes four who have since lost the whip and sit as independents – which is close to one in five of the total.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/29/tory-party-lose-almost-1000-years-commons-experience-mps-quit
Such as, the management being a load of rich slimy well-connected bastards.
And would using that phrase actually be libellous on a betting website?
Tailors stitch others up.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/29/the-shed-swansea-grace-dent-restaurant-review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_independence#:~:text=In 2020, a poll by,30% didn't know.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/mental-health/lying-floor-time-posture/
Nice one, the youth. Rock. And. Roll.
Techne - 59-35, 21 point Labour lead - right in the trend , 17% swing Conservative to Labour.
Elsewhere, just seen the latest Dutch poll where the post-election Government formation goes on. The PVV are on 31% (+7.5) with the main losers the NSC (Omtzigt's party) down from 13 to 7 and the VVD, the traditional centre party in the Netherlands, down from 15% to 12.5%. BBB are also down 0.5.
One of the most likely Government coalitions was PVV-NSC-VVD-BBB which would have a comfortable majority with 88 seats in the 150 seat House of Representatives so the votes are moving within rather than across the blocs. However, the four parties cannot agree to form a majority cabinert so some form of minority looks likely - negotiations are continuing.
As usual, it's not an easy debate - you'll have on one side the "build more prisons, lock 'em up and throw away the key" types and on the other those who say since the prison population is so high, we should we looking at alternatives to incarceration. What proportion, for example, of the UK prison population aren't UK citizens?
It is astonishing that there still have not been any arrests, not just one or two but a whole multitude. A couple of interviews under caution so far is not even scratching the surface.
Incidentally I wonder who is paying those lawyers!
Still, if they are being driven mad with worry there’s a degree of justice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdB-md2Ngho
That's Times Radio but if you prefer LBC:-
Is Rishi Sunak 'abusing' the UK honours system? | LBC debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UL8HAYRAsw
Is there no-one left in Number 10 who has a clue about politics?
The Welsh Tories meanwhile need to squeeze the sizeable 15% Reform vote
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mps-quit-general-election-matt-hancock-sajid-javid-b1046170.html
For one thing, reckon Jeffrey Donaldson (and his alleged accomplice) are quite likely and (allegedly) highly qualified, to be very special guest(s) of honor, at the next Mom's for Liberty "get-together".
Can get together in great big pile, to explore their favorite positions regarding anti-Woke activism . . . and etc.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1773118657574420892
If you are middle aged, a Minister and capable of earning £100k+outside Parliament and don't fancy the paycut and life on the opposition backbenches for years then stepping down as an MP makes sense.
There are some decent MPs who will always put public service first, whether their party is in power or not and some ideologues who even see Opposition as a chance to return to purity but for reasonably centrist middle aged careerists if they have been in government, been a Minister and MP and got that on their CV going into Opposition means that they can only go backwards career wise unless they leave Parliament. While if they are in a marginal they know the voters might make that decision for them so they may as well start sending CVs
Should be 'meddwl ysgol' in this context.
The appointment of Gething has been largely welcomed in Wales as he seeks to address many serious issues, not least the worst performing NHS and Education in the four nations, and the issues around transport policy
To this end he has appointed North Wales MS Ken Skates as the new Transport Secretary.
The MS for Clwyd South said that new schemes would be considered if they reflect the "climate emergency" and put Wales at the "forefront of design".
Mr Skates' comments come after the Welsh Government scrapped all new major projects last year, which saw a controversial end to the 'red route' in Flintshire.
The Flintshire corridor and Menai crossing, Mr Skates added: "Absolutely, they are certainly on my desk for consideration and they have been considered extensively by the North Wales Transport Commission.
"There is popular support for both of them, amongst people who want to improve air quality and congestion, but we can’t just consider the schemes that were designed many years ago.
"We have to ensure they reflect the climate emergency we face."
As well as plans for new schemes, Mr Skates revealed a large part of his new role will include 'listening' to the views of residents, councillors and experts on issues such as the 20mph speed limit.
Mr Skates said: "I’ve had a very full discussion with the new First Minister about what he wants me to do and the priority is to listen and to take action based on the listening.
"Whether it’s on 20mph, road building or any other matter and that applies to both portfolios of transport and north Wales.
"I am going to listen to people, I’m going to listen to councillors that represent communities and I'm going to listen to experts. I’m determined to solve problems."
It is certain the conservatives will suffer a heavy defeat in Wales, but it must be remembered that the anger towards the conservative party goes back to Thatcher and her confrontation with the miners
It is highly likely labour will be in power not only in Westminster, but in Scotland as they are in Wales and the one benefit from this will be that neither Scotland or Wales will be able to blame the 'Tories' In Westminster for lack of funding and legislative problems which will remain, and likely deepen
Which puzzled me as Carwyn Jones was an Aber man as well and I don't recall this level of enthusiasm when he succeeded Morgan.
Also, it was in Welsh. Which is ironic as Vaughan Gething doesn't speak it...
No way on Earth the execs suffer for this. Vennells having to hand back her gong is as far as it'll ever go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akXMYvKjUxM
He really is a kind of cartoon character, made real
TL;DW: He says compute going into AI is increasing by ten times every six months. That's 100X a year. Wildly exponential, and he expects this to continue
In that light he makes these predictions, a form of AGI - a computer smarter than any individual by next year, 2025, and a computer smarter than all of humanity combined, ASI, by 2029-30
Five years away
Now, I may be misconstruing him in some way, but that sounds like The Singularity. That is the world transformed - within 5 years. This is hurtling towards us at extraordinary speed. He actually says that - "I've never seen anything grow this fast"
I know PB has quite a few Musko-skeptics, so maybe he is wrong on this (as he has been wrong on self driving cars, consistently). Alternatively, he is right, and whooooooh
As he puts it: "what about the human rights of all the people that were getting shot, killed, chopped, raped and blown up by the gang bangers he has now put in jail"?
Bukele has reduced El Salvador's homicide rate from one of the worst in the world to one of the lowest in the Americas
I think it's horrendous, demeaning and dangerous to compare the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene or Donald Trump to scum.
I therefore call on you to withdraw that remark, and apologise to any scum that may have taken offence at the unjustified slur you have made.
Or
Are you Amanda Spielman?
So that doesn't really translate very well.
But to ensure I don't have to endure her presence for a second longer, I'll content myself with inviting her to fuck off.
You could even argue that using the richer half of England as a cash machine to bolster the finances of the rest of the country is a necessary consequence of a redistributive platform and of the whole levelling up schtick. We could argue all day about the degree to which this should apply to Scotland, but you can make a very good argument for Wales being short changed by the existing settlement.
Welsh nationalism grew out of defending Welsh culture and especially the language. Scottish nationalism grew out of the sense that Scotland remained a de facto separate country from England.
As I said the other day, I’m just waiting for the revelations
1) that money was actually stolen. By post office investigators under orders from the Post Office to frame more innocent people. In conjunction with a drug cartel.
2) that the coverup included vat growing genetically modified super-ninja to murder the witnesses.
What else is left?
“I’m not a politician; I’m a businessman with a sense of history. I’m also a Londoner. Our country is not an island anymore. We’re a leading European state. I believe this is a decade where London will become Europe’s capital.”
State directed capitalism and one party autocracy can work pretty well, as long as you have the rule of law (not true in Putin's Russia, of course)
Most people in the world would be very happy to live in crime-free, super-rich Singapore
So he's put 1% of the country behind bars. The equivalent in the UK would be 700,000 in jail. That is exceptionally brutal, but then El Salvador was exceptionally messed up, and probably required exceptional ruthlessness
As long as you're not one of the 1%, or closely related to them, you will worship Bukele
https://youtu.be/Q4h6oO6y_Ss?si=slX7DbDiA7jgcxeV
For many people in the world, freedom means safety and security, the freedom to walk the streets without fear, the freedom to buy food and take it home to the family.
That is freedom - not freedom of experession, the right to offend or the whole free speech debate. It's about feeling safe and secure in your world. For us, that comes with a large and largely unaccountable state security apparatus which shuts down terrorist plots to disrupt and destroy but the converse of that is security at the granular level. Can I walk down the High Street without being mugged late at night - will I be robbed of all my valuables and frightened to within an inch of my life by some thug?
The emphasis is on terrorism but most people don't encounter terrorists, it's bog-standard crime they want Govenrments to spend time and money sorting out.
*) Mass immigration is really bad. Immigrants should have parents who own emerald mines.
*) The US's population needs to roughly triple, to a billion.
*) He is concerned with population collapse.
The only way to currently reconcile these views are to totally restrict women's reproduction rights, which oddly enough is something the (ahem) odder Republicans are in favour of.
Next you’ll be asking if someone in the NKVD pointed out that they were sure finding a lot of British and American agents in the Russian population in 1936…
Same thinking there. “Shut up and look at the profits”.
It certainly looks as if Labour intends to carry on with the current policy of allowing English councils to collapse into bankruptcy, so that local politicians can be blamed for the evisceration of services. This does not bode well for the finances of the devolved administrations.
See also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9guKu6s19Fw
Am rather attached to PoJ, as it was the main charge at the trial of The Lord . . . wait for it . . . Archer of Weston-super-Mare.
Only time yours truly ever observed a classic (in more ways than one) English trial at the Old Bailey, over several days.
Had better view of proceedings up in visitor's gallery than the press corps. For example, one day they all reported that Archer was taking copious notes of the proceedings (consisting of damning testimony from variety of those he'd connived with, conned and/or betrayed).
When, as we plebes in the cheap seats could plainly see, the defendant was actually going through his appointments diary. Making note here and there - maybe about the trial, but more likely re: schedule - and crossing a LOT of engagements off his dance card for the foreseeable (back then) future.
Smart planning.
It was interesting observing the trial when court was in session, then reading about it in every evening and morning newspaper. Being a tourist limited myself to merely a half-dozen or thereabouts.
At one point, was standing on the sidewalk in front (or was it out back?) of the Criminal Court, waiting for Archer to depart via classic car, along with small throng of fellow gawkers, when a photographer (or was he paparazzi?) requested me (firmly) to absent myself from his camera angle.
I complied . . . and the rest as they say is history.
Tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
Truth on my side
Accusations
Lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
If for honesty, you want apologies
I don't sympathize
For kindness, you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
Condemnation
Why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
And that was my crime
Feel elation
High
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness, you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes