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Disgraceful.
Starmer probably wouldn't want to mess up his poll lead, but a bad look for an opposition leader to duck it I would guess.
Hence that ridiculous pantomime chicken fight - one hired by the Tories to represent Blair, and one hired by the Mirror for shits and giggles.
Ex-QC versus a Hedgie geek who easily gets riled? I am sure Starmer will be gagging for a TV debate or two. Sunak however will be 'too busy'.
Although now of course a KC not a QC.
Also important in terms of effects on elections, fake news and the like is how much attention people pay to news at all in the first place...
He has to do the debates- he's the one who is twenty points behind and is desperate for something to shift. But he is likely to be terrible at them and they will probably make things worse for him.
Or not.
Sunak used to be very convincing, less so these days. Let's hope the lectern covers his big boy school trousers.
Is it really a straightforward question? I'm not convinced.
FPT
People have their own reasons . For me
1. To bring british politicians back under the control; of their electorate
2. To stop the disadvantage of an anglo saxon economy in a social market structure, You can have one but not both
3. To be able to develop our own economic interest and not those of a collective
But if it's Starmer who trips up in any debate, and that ends up with Labour failing to win a majority, well, he'd never live it down.
Which meant that in a set of results that said all the money spent on advertising had been wasted a single person well outside the demographics their cared about had seen the (crap) advert multiple times and had made multiple purchases (they didn’t ask why and I wasn’t going to talk about the 98.9% discount I had received due to a currency conversion bug that wasn’t a priority to fix).
1. We are focused on the people's priorities.
2. Stop the Boats.
3. Labour are just going to take us back to Square One.
4. Jeremy Corbyn.
5. Is my helicopter ready?
6. Back to 1.
Israeli politics has shifted rightwards over the years, to a more pro-settler, pro-annexation, anti-2 state solution position. There's no reason why it can't shift back over coming years... but, sure, it will take years. Getting rid of (and preferably locking up) Bibi will help!
Western grandstanding is largely pointless, but diplomatic pressure from the West, specifically the US, does matter.
British voters love kicking a man when he is down.
Starmer will be fine. He is the master at not saying anything controversial, or indeed saying anything at all.
8. Leftie Lawyers defending Hamas
9. Leftie Lawyers who can't define a woman.
10. Leftie Lawyers defending Jimmy Saville
11 Lefty Lawyers who prosecuted Post Office sub Postmasters
12. Leftie Layers who don't have a plan, I have a plan and it is working, don't let Leftie Lawyers take us back to square one
Ireland?
Poland? (The ambassador suggested that only anti-Semites would call the murder of aid workers murder. You've insulted your hosts, mate. Get fucking out. True that the notion that only terrorists offer armed resistance to occupation has been dominant in western countries for years. But that can come to an end.)
Another Independent TD has said that they will back Simon Harris as Taoiseach in next week's Dáil vote.
Noel Grealish, the Galway West deputy, said he will support the Fine Gael leader, following a meeting this morning. Independent TD Cathal Berry is also meeting Mr Harris today.
The Government has a slender majority in the Dáil, and therefore has the required support to elect Mr Harris as Taoiseach on Tuesday. However, more support is always welcome when difficult decisions lie ahead.
Yesterday, two Independent deputies said they would support Mr Harris - Tipperary TD Michael Lowry and Denis Naughten, TD for Roscommon-Galway. Sligo-Leitrim TD Marc MacSharry had previously said he would also back Mr Harris for Taoiseach.
In addition, two other TDs declared their support for the Fine Gael leader. Dublin Central deputy Neasa Hourigan, who is currently suspended from the Green Party, said she will be backing him. Donegal TD Joe McHugh, who resigned the Fine Gael party whip over the mica issue, said the same.
There is a possibility of two further TDs backing Mr Harris. Independent deputies Seán Canney, TD for Galway East, and Matt Shanahan, TD for Waterford, say they are waiting to hear back from Mr Harris about their concerns.
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0404/1441586-harris-politics/
SSI - So who the heck is Simon Harris TD?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Harris
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-jerusalem/how-the-religious-right-transformed-israeli-education
So we have a self-radicalising state, and every sign of that accelerating. While secular liberal Israel still exists, it is being phased out. Its a mirror image of the self radicalisation of the Palestinians and other neighbours. The secular, nationalist PLO supplanted by Hamas for example.
It doesn't bode well for future peace from either side.
With only months to go before what is shaping up to be a hotly contested presidential election, Nebraska’s Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes. . . .
Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split their electoral votes by congressional district, and both have done so in recent presidential elections. Both states’ lawmakers have also made moves to switch to a winner-take-all system and have found themselves frustrated in that effort.
In Nebraska, the system has confounded Republicans, who have been unable to force the state into a winner-take-all system since Barack Obama became the first presidential contender to shave off one of the state’s five electoral votes in 2008. It happened again in 2020, when President Joe Biden captured Nebraska’s 2nd District electoral vote.
In the 2016 presidential election, one of Maine’s four electoral votes went to former President Donald Trump. Now, Maine Republicans stand opposed to an effort that would ditch its split system and instead join a multistate compact that would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president — even if that conflicts with Maine’s popular vote for president.
A spokesperson for Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills said the governor has not said whether she’ll sign the bill, which received final approval Wednesday in the Maine Senate. But even if it’s signed, it would be on hold until the other states approve the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. . . .
Despite [Gov.] Pillen’s call to pass a winner-take-all change, it seems unlikely that Nebraska lawmakers would have time to get the bill out of committee, much less advance it through three rounds of debate, with only six days left in the current session. Some Nebraska lawmakers acknowledged as much.
SSI - Note that Nebraska is the only US state with a one-house legislature - aka "the Unicameral".
As in the once-common but now fast-dying acronym "WASP" = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Interesting piece on the ultra-orthodox whom the Israeli state support to do religious studies and exempt from conscription - a policy which has now been banned by a court.
Absolutely no idea what effect this will have beyond what is said in the report.
It'll be a social media election, lots of basically lying videos (eg. of the London is feral kind as of late) and meme's. Can't see it working. The Tories are now basically toxic with the general public.
A further issue is that the ultraorthodox refuse to serve in mixed sex units, which are presently common in the IDF.
Not seen a similar one about the Tories yet; perhaps Labour etc are letting the Tory record speak for itself!
Everything he said came to pass.
Whatever you think about him, we'd have been better in every conceivable way had he remained in charge.
"Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be an American, according to a new poll.
The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 9 in 10 U.S. adults say the right to vote, the right to equal protection under the law and the right to privacy are extremely important or very important to the United States’ identity as a nation. The survey also found that 84% feel the same way about the freedom of religion."
source: https://apnews.com/article/ap-poll-democracy-rights-freedoms-election-b1047da72551e13554a3959487e5181a
poll: https://apnorc.org/projects/most-say-democracy-is-important-for-the-u-s-identity-but-few-think-it-is-functioning-well/
Israel has a very diverse Jewish population drawn from all lands , with very different languages, values and degree of secularity. Since the beginning, Israel has consciously tried to unify this as far as possible by systematic national policies. Particularly in recent years this has become controlled by the orthodox and ultra-orthodox.
I was expecting at least 5% answering Political Betting!
If I wanted to increase the manufacturing of vehicles in the UK, I would study the policies pursued by Michigan (decline) and those pursued by Kentucky (increase) in recent decades.
"Let’s start with automotive success – Did you know Kentucky is the nation’s top producer of cars, light trucks and SUVs per capita?
More than 5.7 million vehicles were made in Kentucky over the last five years including Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks, General Motors’ Corvettes, Ford Escape SUVs, Toyota Camry sedans and Lexus ES300h hybrid vehicles. Ford operates two plants in Louisville, Toyota’s largest production facility is in Georgetown and General Motors’ Corvette manufacturing plant is located in Bowling Green."
source: https://buildingkentucky.com/news/kentucky-means-business-how-manufacturing-drives-the-commonwealth-forward/
The Gordon Brown who hired people who smeared a grieving David Cameron?
That Gordon Brown?
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/04/the-unclaimed-pamela-prickett-stefan-timmermans/677957/?gift=Q2xxhS27Csx4yHsp7QhJgRuNtN6EVTg5ibsoUrpiExc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Another policy was to make Hebrew the national language. As far as I understand almost no-one at the end of WWII had Hebrew as a first language, but was widely learnt by Jews as a religious language. By making Hebrew the official Israeli language now much (? most) of the population speaks Hebrew as a first language.
What he needed was a tough, no-nonsense deputy like John Prescott.
Or, given half a dozen more seats, a real Social Democrat LibDem leader like Kennedy.
Michael Gove has admitted that he showed “moral cowardice” by failing to be upfront with David Cameron about his plans to play a leading role in the Brexit referendum campaign.
In an interview for his Political Currency podcast George Osborne, the former chancellor, said Gove had told Cameron in the Downing Street plan that he would “not play a prominent role in the campaign”. “Did you deceive David?” Osborne asked. “He certainly felt betrayed.”
Gove, who is now the levelling up secretary, said that while he did not believe he had deceived Cameron he ended up “going further than you’d imagine or anticipated at the beginning of the campaign”, adding: “I didn’t want to take part in the debates, the TV shows that I ultimately took part in or play a prominent role.”
However, he said that during the campaign he was urged by Dominic Cummings, who oversaw the Vote Leave campaign, and others to take a more prominent role with the argument: “If you don’t do this, they’ll have Farage on.” He said he was told that he would let people down if he failed to do so. “I didn’t believe I deceived, but as I mentioned, I do think that I could have been clearer earlier.
“And I think that was an example of on the one hand, cowardice on my part, moral cowardice … on the other hand, a recognition that perhaps there’s this feeling in politics, perhaps something will turn up, perhaps this moment won’t come when we have to make that decision,” he said. “But I think David entirely fairly, should have expected me to have been more upfront earlier.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/michael-gove-brexit-vote-george-osborne-david-cameron-vgpvzcfnh
“My single piece of advice to any future PM is never, ever have a referendum on anything.” Michael Gove to @George_Osborne & @edballs
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1775915195916861860?t=7X5OU0tAnEe_YS1puzGngA&s=19
He is a large part for why I voted Conservative in 2010. He was a very poor PM, and only marginally better as Chancellor.
Although perhaps I am being harsh about the man who abolished boom & bust and saved the world.
Still much better than Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
I don't regard Brown in any particular ill way, I remember thinking he did not come across as badly as his campaign team obviously thought he did, given their panicky overreactions to his less polished manner.
He destroyed productivity in this country by increasing the tax on pension funds, and then regulating them so they had to prioritise "investing" in government bonds and in property.
I might called him an utter [moderated], a piece of [redacted] and a [censored] Max Verstappen.
David Cameron missed a trick by not appointing me as his consigliere during the referendum, I would have dealt with Gove.
And they would have won it.