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What’s this going to do to the May results? – politicalbetting.com
What’s this going to do to the May results? – politicalbetting.com
Police are to investigate whether Angela Rayner complied with the law around registering on the electoral roll before she became an MP. Last month, Rayner told @nicholaswatt she was a victim of a smear over whether she should have paid tax on the sale of her house. #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/LpES7DCzO5
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Sounds credible if you think GBeebies is news.
The British establishment in a nutshell.
The former chancellor believes his old ally is acting like the prime minister and has ‘upgraded Britain’s clout’
Lord Cameron is “acting like the British prime minister” on the world stage, George Osborne has said.
Mr Osborne said that the ex-prime minister had “upgraded Britain’s foreign policy clout” since becoming Foreign Secretary in November.
He added that Lord Cameron was “getting the kind of meetings that no normal British foreign secretary would get”, citing his recent visit to Mar-a-Lago to visit Donald Trump, the former US president.
Speaking on his Political Currency podcast, Mr Osborne said: “On the world stage, Cameron is acting like the British prime minister, which he was, and he’s getting the kind of meetings that no normal British foreign secretary would get.
“There’s no way that James Cleverly, or Liz Truss before him when she was foreign secretary, would have had dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.”
The Foreign Secretary made the trip to the Florida residence of the former US president, who is hoping to return to the White House, earlier this week to discuss the war in Ukraine, Nato and the Middle East.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/12/david-cameron-acting-like-british-pm-says-george-osborne/
Mone, and Rayner do seem to prove that the full force of the law does apply if one grew up on a council estate.
The only problem as can be seen now on the media is Starmer, and all Labour spokespersons, will be asked about it incessantly
So can Scully be prosecuted for wasting police time and it’s good to see that the best campaign story / argument / idea is to desperately attack someone for no valdi reason because Guido thinks it’s fun
Reality was they lost on every point and the total bill is likely to be millions in legal costs
To add what is really weird is that Labour don’t seem to want to mention how corrupt Ben Houchen has been only the Lib Dem leaflet has mentioned it so far
Anyway, she's just endorsed Sadiq Khan this time around on the grounds that (a) Susan Hall is awful, and (b) the voting system is now FPTP: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/siobhan-benita-liberal-democrat-candidate-sadiq-khan-mayoral-election-b1150816.html
She repeats the narrative that maybe Hall could win. I ain't buying it.
Why can’t PBers, for all their purported intelligence, GCSEs, A-Levels and degrees, even manage to spell the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party’s name?
Not only will he go and meet with anyone anywhere, but everyone else will take the meeting with the former PM.
I do wonder if Starmer might actually want to keep him on, at least for a few months.
There’s precisely no chance of Trump meeting with - checks notes - David Lammy.
Change the record.
I wouldn't have paid Crozier in washers; let alone the million or so he was remunerated.
Incidentally, Crozier and C(r)ook rather well suggests Vennells...
The actual point is still valid though - the police have been asked to investigate something that is time barred so it’s just a waste of their time for political reasons. Hence the person making the complaint should be prosecuted for wasting police time and presented with the bill for the cost of the wasted investigation
It’s undoubtedly a good idea though, to use a former PM as an international ambassador. Cameron could get a meeting with pretty much anyone in the world next week, if he wanted it, which a massive display of British soft power.
Thereby crossing the line between comment (fine) and news reporting (not fine).
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/17
17 False accounting.
(1)Where a person dishonestly, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another,—
(a)destroys, defaces, conceals or falsifies any account or any record or document made or required for any accounting purpose; or
(b)in furnishing information for any purpose produces or makes use of any account, or any such record or document as aforesaid, which to his knowledge is or may be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular;
he shall, on conviction on indictment, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
(2)For purposes of this section a person who makes or concurs in making in an account or other document an entry which is or may be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular, or who omits or concurs in omitting a material particular from an account or other document, is to be treated as falsifying the account or document...
October 10th election, first day at the new job on Monday 14th, six months and two days after resigning?
It is telling that the Conservative Party is more concerned to secure charges in this case than to press for action on the sort of matters which the general public might really wish to be prioritised. An example of the latter is the need to bring charges against vastly overpaid senior managers in a publically owned company who all appear to have perjured themselves in order to put innocent people in jail, probably in collusion with civil servants and possibly even government ministers.
I simply cannot believe it is just where she lived for electoral purposes
https://order-order.com/people/angela-rayner/
He's 62 but hasn't indicated an intention to stand down, and it appears he'd like at least one more term.
People who care are divided into three:
People who will be reminded of their resentment over lack of council housing and it being sold off cheaply.
People whose net worth and their friends and families net worth is significantly down to selling ex council houses, often with what they considered minor shenanigans.
Hardcore Tory press readership.
This is another self inflicted vote loser for the Tories. At least Corbyn was winning some voters whilst polarising more against him. This lot just shed votes here and there and everywhere each month.
Virgin Galactic (purveyor of dangerous, falling apart, rocket planes that kinda of get near space) is suing Boeing
"Virgin, in its suit, claims that Boeing performed “shoddy and incomplete” work on the initial phases of the project, which included an integrated baseline review (IBR) and preliminary design review (PDR). Neither review was acceptable, Virgin stated.
“The quality of the IBR Boeing conducted was so poor that Virgin Galactic and Boeing agreed that Boeing was required to redo the review,” the complaint states. The second IBR was even worse, Virgin said, providing less than half of the required deliverables, and failed to include items such as organization charts, a program execution plan and risk management process.
Virgin’s complaint states that in the subsequent PDR, Boeing provided only 348 of the required 580 “artifacts,” or items of intellectual property and supporting analyses required. “These 348 artifacts were of such poor quality that only sixty percent (60%) of them had any value,” Virgin stated. “These missing artifacts related to critical aspects of the Mothership program, including avionics, design, flight physics, propulsion, stress engineering, vehicle sub-systems, and material and process.”
“Boeing’s failures with respect to its agreement with Virgin Galactic are consistent with Boeing’s record of poor quality control and mismanagement,” the complaint concluded."
LOL
https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-countersues-boeing-about-mothership-project/
Hence the boards with silver tape, new block work and the netting while they clear out stuff in what was the ceiling voids.
Is there a serious reason? (genuine question)
People overestimate how many doors it opens to be a relatively nondescript, long in the tooth, ex-MP from a party which isn't in office. If someone gives him a job, it'll be a bit of a favour really.
@Chris I’ve lived in London lots.
I guess when you return from the UAE, Qatar, or Singapore this kind of grubbiness hits you especially if you land at the increasingly grotty Heathrow.
Friend of mine is a pilot and reckons the British have simply become used to crappy standards. Our hotels are invariably shit and over-priced shit at that. (He’s a British patriot by the way.)
[Waits for Casino Royale to cast doubt on whether I actually have a friend who is a pilot]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13289877/amp/queen-elizabeth-advice-liz-truss-revealed.html
I know lots of HTB acronyms, but none that would make sense there.
The CGT investigation also doesn't seem to have any legs as, even if she moved in full time with husband, that wouldn't mean that she would lose her CGT allowance on her pre-marital home - just a proportion of it.
Unless the government levelling up agenda has been so successful that there is now no crime in the North, some people should be charged with wasting police time.
I had thought Hendry's seat, Inverness, Skye & Wester Ross, would be an SNP banker at the GE (one of the few), but I'm not so sure now. If the LibDems can persuade unionists they are the main challengers it could be close. There is a real sense that the Highlands are being neglected by ScotGov and its quite possible the voters will wreak some kind of vengeance. That said, I would still put Hendry as favourite, as I don't think the Tory vote will crumble to the extent it would need to. But remember, up til 2015 this area was represented by Danny Alexander and Charles Kennedy.
This is the actual result (First Prefs):
Ind 22.1 % ( new Indy)
LD 19.7% (+11.1)
SNP 19.4% (-15.8)
Con 16.1% (-0.8)
Lab 11% (+3.7)
Green 7.2% (+1.8)
Alba 3.2% (+1.3)
Sov 1.2% ( new)
And this is the result if you take out the Independent and add his second prefs to the parties - makes it even worse for SNP:
Lib Dem 856 25.9% +12.0%
SNP 695 21.0% -20.0%
Conservative 650 19.7% -2.3%
Labour 447 13.5% +3.8%
Green 272 8.2% +1.4%
Alba 135 4.1% +1.8%
Sovereignty 66 2.0% New
Non-transferrable 184 5.6% +1.3%
HTB? Holy Trinity Brompton?
Edit: Oh!!!!!!!!!!!! The HTB daubed on the tube train!!! Haha. Good spot.
I don’t know?
The main difference is interest rates are materially higher. And real house prices have still got a long way to fall to reach their levels from periods with comparable interest rates.
I think there's plenty of scope for them to fall further as more people come off low-cost fixed-rate mortgages.
I could really get into a rant about how rubbish Heathrow is but I’ll spare y’all!
NB that the right-wing Tory media have alreadfy provided excellent evidence, in the form of timing of applications for adaptation of the later house for a disabled family member, that there was indeed a valid overlap period when the family were using both houses.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/21/protesters-iain-duncan-smith-tory-scum-reasonable-court-rules
But the accident rate is quite high in Beverley and Holderness so I imagine it's the sort of issue that excites a fair few people in his area. It's perhaps not wildly surprising - large area, quite a few A-roads without dual carriageways or central reservations. Quite rural so ambulance take a while. So there is probably an issue with speed and crashes can presumably be pretty nasty in terms of consequences when they happen. Data here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-traffic-accidents/
We dream of grubby public transport...
I quite like her but I don’t know anyone else who does.
I didn’t actually realise you ‘have’ to put yourself on the electoral register. That would certainly encourage me to refuse to do so. The anti-State libertine in me objects. I may have mentioned before that I refused to fill in the census for similar reasons.
We can speculate as much as we want but we simply do not know the circumstances of the investigation but we will once the police conclude their investigation
Edit: JUST A BIT OF FUN EVERYONE FFS CALM DOWN.
Roads safer - smart M-ways and banning LTN and going all wokehunter on 20mph. Broadband? More like trying to control the net. More dentists and GPs, forsooth. And they've just told many flooded farmers that their land isn't flooded because not next to a river. Not sure about the defibrils though.
(How many times in a day am I allowed to write that?)
I mentioned this last week. In Rayner world I don't believe "scum" is as offensive as Tories understood it to be. When JRM claims people are trogladites or plebians, I suspect in his world that is as offensive in design as "scum" was for Rayner.
You wouldn't do that, would you?
You offered getting insight which is more than most do here.
I wonder how much money you could make by digging the A4 into a tunnel, then sell the land. Think of the boost in property value either side of it. I even worked out how to do it with a semi-submerged tunnelling shield to allow traffic to flow over it…
Havic: The Bothering, a parody card game
Heat loss due to linear thermal bridging (HTB)
Heavens to Betsy, a polite version of WTF.
Hierarchical token bucket, a computer networking algorithm
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, the UK branch of Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir
Holy Trinity Brompton, a church in London, England
Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, in Japan
Household Troops Band of the Salvation Army