J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
I wonder if Majorie Taylor Greene's opponent has the ads all ready to go calling her a 'Commie stooge?'
Her district is full of in bred trailer trash so they’ll still vote for the Putin arse licker .
Not wanting to defend Moscow Marjorie but those are the type of comments which make people vote for her (and Trump).
I think this is true.
You can only begin to understand the vitriolic hostiity of Trump supporters towards the Libtards when you learn to appreciate their resentment at that kind of sneering.
There are certainly people who are, to coin a phrase, deplorable but most voters are generally decent, even if perhaps misguided, whoever they vote for.
The divisive hostility usually originates from those at the top for the purposes of those at the top and the rest of us should be careful not to encourage it.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
It’s great though that Rowling and her pals are really dialling down the emotions and feelz in this debate.
Why the fuck should you call for her to back down when you don't call for the looney wing of the trans ideoligists to stand down? Now if you had called for both then fair enough but you didn't
Touchy little fucker aint you. Insofar as it would make the slightest difference I'm not asking the ridiculous narcissist to do anything, though I daresay she'd enjoy some of the simping on here.
Touchy little fucker because I pointed out the truth here, I didn't support rowling I just said you never criticise the extremists on the other side....go vote for independence most of us south of the border dont want you anymore....oh right you cant because even the scottish hate you
You'll be turning your little weenie anger on the posters highlighting 'a deadly mixture of woke and identity politics' of a damaged generation on the other side shortly I suppose?
Glad I don't live next door to Angela Rayner or her neighbours.
Angela Rayner confronted her neighbours demanding £240 and calling herself “the landlady” after a window was smashed at the property she claims had been her principal house, police were told yesterday.
The Times has learnt that Greater Manchester police began interviewing neighbours at the deputy Labour leader’s former home in Stockport on Friday as part of their investigation into multiple allegations relating to where she lived in the 2010s.
Residents of Vicarage Road are understood to have told the force that Rayner was involved in a row with the family of a boy who kicked a football through her front window in 2015.
Hillary Clinton got 48.2% of the vote in the 2016 US presidential election. 48.2% is, of course, more than Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Wilson or Heath ever got, although Wilson in '66 was close. (Macmillan and Eden did better.)
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
Hillary Clinton got 48.2% of the vote in the 2016 US presidential election. 48.2% is, of course, more than Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Wilson or Heath ever got, although Wilson in '66 was close. (Macmillan and Eden did better.)
So US presidential elections are comparable in this way to British general elections in the percentages game?
Hillary Clinton got 48.2% of the vote in the 2016 US presidential election. 48.2% is, of course, more than Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Wilson or Heath ever got, although Wilson in '66 was close. (Macmillan and Eden did better.)
I'm not sure there's really anything useful in that comparison given the electoral systems and types of elections involved, not to mention the different political situations of the two nations.
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Can I suggest a compromise?
She lost because it was an unfair system *and* she was a shit candidate?
Well, it's a system designed for electing a President of the United States of America, which is a federation of those same States- hence the electoral college electing the President via weighted delegates from each State.
It's not a unitary state so winning the popular vote means nothing unless you win the electoral college too.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Free up 6 million people from paying Income Tax by lifting the minimum threshold to £20,000 from £12,571 p.a. This amounts to 1 in 5 taxpayers. Basic Income Tax rate stays at 20%
Lift threshold for 40% income tax rate to £70,000.
If you cannot be seen by a GP in 3 days, you get a voucher to go private elsewhere.
Reform the voting system: To make it more representative. Smaller parties mean more choice, new ideas, and better debate. Proportional representation is essential.
Net zero immigration means that the number legally allowed to enter to live and work in the UK each year should equal the number emigrating, so the overall population remains approximately the same
They have policies, it's easy to come up with them and put them in a document - how many would be in a manifesto when one is produced, and how many of those currently supporting them know about most of them is another matter.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
In the wrong places
In a shit system , how can you win most votes and lose , mental
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
It’s great though that Rowling and her pals are really dialling down the emotions and feelz in this debate.
Why the fuck should you call for her to back down when you don't call for the looney wing of the trans ideoligists to stand down? Now if you had called for both then fair enough but you didn't
Touchy little fucker aint you. Insofar as it would make the slightest difference I'm not asking the ridiculous narcissist to do anything, though I daresay she'd enjoy some of the simping on here.
Touchy little fucker because I pointed out the truth here, I didn't support rowling I just said you never criticise the extremists on the other side....go vote for independence most of us south of the border dont want you anymore....oh right you cant because even the scottish hate you
You'll be turning your little weenie anger on the posters highlighting 'a deadly mixture of woke and identity politics' of a damaged generation on the other side shortly I suppose?
Of course the Americans already had a perfectly fine system of being under British colonial rule, so it's their own fault for casting that off in favour of some electoral college nonsense.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
In the wrong places
In a shit system , how can you win most votes and lose , mental
Their system is what it is. That's the game they were (and are) playng. You want them to move the goalposts?
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
It’s great though that Rowling and her pals are really dialling down the emotions and feelz in this debate.
Why the fuck should you call for her to back down when you don't call for the looney wing of the trans ideoligists to stand down? Now if you had called for both then fair enough but you didn't
Touchy little fucker aint you. Insofar as it would make the slightest difference I'm not asking the ridiculous narcissist to do anything, though I daresay she'd enjoy some of the simping on here.
Touchy little fucker because I pointed out the truth here, I didn't support rowling I just said you never criticise the extremists on the other side....go vote for independence most of us south of the border dont want you anymore....oh right you cant because even the scottish hate you
You'll be turning your little weenie anger on the posters highlighting 'a deadly mixture of woke and identity politics' of a damaged generation on the other side shortly I suppose?
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Even people who hated Donald Trump and thought he would be bad probably did not think he would turn out to be 'refuse to accept he lost' bad.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
My middle lad just told me Captain Spok or something (his spelling) is at a Comic Con that my lad has wandered into 2 minutes from his girlfriend's house in Ohio. Turns out it's William Shatner, some Dukes of Hazzard and the first female R2D2. Ole Kirk wants 270 bucks for a photo and autograph. My lad is more interested in the Pokemon resellers.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
It’s great though that Rowling and her pals are really dialling down the emotions and feelz in this debate.
Why the fuck should you call for her to back down when you don't call for the looney wing of the trans ideoligists to stand down? Now if you had called for both then fair enough but you didn't
Touchy little fucker aint you. Insofar as it would make the slightest difference I'm not asking the ridiculous narcissist to do anything, though I daresay she'd enjoy some of the simping on here.
Touchy little fucker because I pointed out the truth here, I didn't support rowling I just said you never criticise the extremists on the other side....go vote for independence most of us south of the border dont want you anymore....oh right you cant because even the scottish hate you
You'll be turning your little weenie anger on the posters highlighting 'a deadly mixture of woke and identity politics' of a damaged generation on the other side shortly I suppose?
I don't believe I have ever joined the woke debate here. I was merely highlighting your hypocrisy in only calling out one side of the debate. Thats a you problem not a me problem.
Even in the historical Centre around Chatelet & Les Halles - after 8pm it takes on a very threatening feel compared to the day..
I’m trying to remember if I found anywhere within zone 2 of London (just a random way of thinking about the larger centre of London) remotely threatening at night and it wasn’t as far as I remember. I found central Geneva at night much more dangerous and dodgy with lots of mates being mugged a lot, girls threatened by big gangs of guys.
Maybe because our drinking culture you are more likely to get into a scrap in a bar than when everyone is wandering around pissed on the streets en masse.
I’m in Les Halles now. My god. Horribly menacing
Groups of men all drinking. Hundreds. Like a convention or aggressive young hobos. Very few women. This is meant to be the Parisian Covent Garden
I mean, they look friendly don’t they. Charming French characters. Might go over for a chat about patisserie
Say what you want about the French but their media is ace. Le Monde means the world to me.
Again the trans debate rears it head...for such a niche issue it touches a lot of nerves.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Both candidates were. There’s no dressing that up, either. If she’s learned nothing from it, more fool her. To be fair, her opponent has learned nothing either. The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
In the wrong places
In a shit system , how can you win most votes and lose , mental
Just infuriating to think how many damage has been done by the delay.
Indeed. And had they voted for it earlier, the GOP would have also got a bill which delivered billions in funding for making it more difficult to cross the Mexican border.
Again the trans debate rears it head...for such a niche issue it touches a lot of nerves.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
And yet lots of legal and political questions and issues get raised, by both sides, pushing for changes to law or policy or against said changes (or indeed, a reversal of some other change).
So it won't be going away since the legal effects of people choosing their gender, or lack of legal effect, or what can be offered to support people transitioning or discourage it etc, are absolutely political questions.
Politics is where such matters get determined, it's what politics is for - indeed, to determine where the line between state involvement or not is a political question.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Even people who hated Donald Trump and thought he would be bad probably did not think he would turn out to be 'refuse to accept he lost' bad.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
Maybe. I admit to being baffled at the time by normally intelligent people on this site saying, "You would have to put a gun to my head" before they would support Hillary when it was obvious to me she was night and day better qualified to be president, on her track record, than Donald Trump.
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Even people who hated Donald Trump and thought he would be bad probably did not think he would turn out to be 'refuse to accept he lost' bad.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
Maybe. I admit to being baffled at the time by normally intelligent people on this site saying, "You would have to put a gun to my head" before they would support Hillary when it was obvious to me she was night and day better qualified to be president, on her track record, than Donald Trump.
Hilary Clinton was directly involved in the death of a friend in benghazi, yes I dislike her therefore
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Even people who hated Donald Trump and thought he would be bad probably did not think he would turn out to be 'refuse to accept he lost' bad.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
Maybe. I admit to being baffled at the time by normally intelligent people on this site saying, "You would have to put a gun to my head" before they would support Hillary when it was obvious to me she was night and day better qualified to be president, on her track record, than Donald Trump.
Oh, I think it was a clear choice. I'm sure I even recall some surprising people who might be thought of as Trump boosters are admitting at the time they'd back Hilary when push comes to shove.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Hilary Clinton was a shit candidate only because she lost. Otherwise she's would have been fine as a president compared with Trump, as anyone with half a brain cell would have realised at the time.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Even people who hated Donald Trump and thought he would be bad probably did not think he would turn out to be 'refuse to accept he lost' bad.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
Maybe. I admit to being baffled at the time by normally intelligent people on this site saying, "You would have to put a gun to my head" before they would support Hillary when it was obvious to me she was night and day better qualified to be president, on her track record, than Donald Trump.
I will admit I was doubtful as to how much worse he could be than she was.
My middle lad just told me Captain Spok or something (his spelling) is at a Comic Con that my lad has wandered into 2 minutes from his girlfriend's house in Ohio. Turns out it's William Shatner, some Dukes of Hazzard and the first female R2D2. Ole Kirk wants 270 bucks for a photo and autograph. My lad is more interested in the Pokemon resellers.
Followers of PB must range from those for whom every word of this means something, to those for whom the entire thing communicates nothing at all. funny old world.
Just infuriating to think how many damage has been done by the delay.
Indeed. And had they voted for it earlier, the GOP would have also got a bill which delivered billions in funding for making it more difficult to cross the Mexican border.
Bunch of idiots for dancing to Trump’s tune.
More of them would have backed the aid had it been earlier as well, as there would have been less time for Trump's directive to stop supporting Ukraine to take effect. I'm a little baffled why Johnson has finally done this and allowed a vote, when there was always the votes for the aid, and it's not like the MTG crowd would ever have been mollified on the issue, so the caucus is no less split by doing it now then doing it 4 months ago.
My middle lad just told me Captain Spok or something (his spelling) is at a Comic Con that my lad has wandered into 2 minutes from his girlfriend's house in Ohio. Turns out it's William Shatner, some Dukes of Hazzard and the first female R2D2. Ole Kirk wants 270 bucks for a photo and autograph. My lad is more interested in the Pokemon resellers.
Followers of PB must range from those for whom every word of this means something, to those for whom the entire thing communicates nothing at all. funny old world.
Pentagon arms will reach Ukraine in less than a week once aid bill clears Congress - The Washington Post
The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said. They also noted that the Defense Department initiated the assembly of this assistance package well before the coming votes in a bid to speed the process.
One official, on condition of anonymity, said that once the $95 billion foreign aid bill is signed into law, it will take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield.
This package is almost certain to contain desperately needed ammunition for systems Ukrainian personnel rely on most, including 155mm shells used in NATO howitzers and munitions for medium-range rocket artillery.
I have been impressed by the help he gave to Lincoln and the Republicans during our great Civil War, as mentioned in Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln.
Something like the biographies in Tuchman's "Proud Tower" would be fine.
Again the trans debate rears it head...for such a niche issue it touches a lot of nerves.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
What doesn't really work is to say 'we all should out of this debate' and then immediately take a particular and precise view about what we should all think. To get out of the debate is to not have a public view on a matter.
"Tony Blair: ‘Politics is for the weird and the wealthy’
The former prime minister has reinvented himself as a secret global influencer and the Tony Blair Institute’s 800 staff are now helping to run almost 40 countries. If Labour wins, will he be pulling the strings?"
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
BTL and Hannan don't appear to be, er, in 100% agreement.
I'd like our politics to have a 'big call' protocol.
An MP can stand in Parliament and say for me this is a big call. From then they're actually listened to. The BBC and assorted media are mandated to cover your idea, the clerks write it up and a free vote happens three weeks after.
However If said idea turns to shit you're done. No columns, articles, junkets or appearances. You get bed and board in your old constituency and you disappear.
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Ignore him, Paris is a lovely city. Not particularly exciting but pleasant. The area around Parc Monceau, Bvd Malesherbes and Bvd Courcelles is my favourite bit. Sort of Parisian Marylebone. And the grandeur around the Tuileries eclipses anything in London for the projection of raw political power.
But it’s definitely not as good a city overall as either London or NY. Better than Tokyo. Better than anything in Germany, Italy, China, Canada. Better than Moscow. But sub-NYC and London.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Can I suggest a compromise?
She lost because it was an unfair system *and* she was a shit candidate?
Well, it's a system designed for electing a President of the United States of America, which is a federation of those same States- hence the electoral college electing the President via weighted delegates from each State.
It's not a unitary state so winning the popular vote means nothing unless you win the electoral college too.
Smaller states have disproportionally more electors per capita than the larger states.
This has been a good day. The world is a safer place tonight. And Mike Johnson might well have shown that there is a future for the GOP beyond that scumbag currently being tried in New York.
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Although if you go to Bordeaux, be careful when drinking alcohol:
One way to understand the US electoral college is that it was originally intended for nominations, not the election itself, which would take place in the House of Representatives.
(Everyone involved in writing it knew that George Washington would be the first president, so the writers of the Constitution (our second) paid less attention to the details than they perhaps should have. And they did not realize that mass elections were on their way.
In their defense I should add that they were doing something unprecedented, in creating rules for a democracy on that scale.
"Constitutionally, the legislature of each state determines how its electors are chosen; Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 states that each state shall appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct".[15] During the first presidential election in 1789, only 6 of the 11 eligible states chose electors by any form of popular vote.[16][note 2]
Gradually throughout the years, the states began conducting popular elections to choose their slate of electors. In 1800, only five of the 16 states chose electors by a popular vote; by 1824, after the rise of Jacksonian democracy, the proportion of states that chose electors by popular vote had sharply risen to 18 out of 24 states.[17] This gradual movement toward greater democratization coincided with a gradual decrease in property restrictions for the franchise.[17] By 1840, only one of the 26 states (South Carolina) still selected electors by the state legislature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election#History
The Campaign Against Antisemitism - whose CEO Gideon Falter was threatened with arrest by a London police officer last Saturday - is calling for Met commissioner Mark Rowley to resign or be fired.
They are also having an organised walk next Saturday, the day of London's next big pro-Palestinian march, on which they hope to "force" the London police service to "make London actually safe":
Buck takes swing at ‘Moscow Marjorie’: She is just ‘mouthing the Russian propaganda
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4608004-buck-takes-swing-moscow-marjorie-mouthing-russian-propaganda/ Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her anti-Ukraine position in an interview on CNN Friday. “Moscow Marjorie has reached a new low,” Buck said in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” with anchor Erica Hill. “You know, during the Russian Revolution, [Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir] Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as ‘useful idiots.’” “And I don’t even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a useful idiot here,” Buck continued. “She is just mouthing the Russian propaganda, and really hurting American foreign policy in the process.”..
Again the trans debate rears it head...for such a niche issue it touches a lot of nerves.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
Odd logic, that you want to get out of the debate but then dictate what everything is and that "feminists" get no say.
People's gender is not a choice, its a characteristic they're born with. Cyclefree didn't choose to be a woman, she is a woman. Someone with a penis is not.
They may identify as a transwoman, and good luck to them if so. And so long as safeguarding is not violated then they can be called whatever they choose.
But they are not, and never will be, a woman in the same way as Rowling and Cyclefree are. That's just biological fact. When safeguarding matters, then reality as opposed to how people identify, is what matters.
I'm not sure of this 'Starmergeddon' stuff from Reform, it looks pretty amateurish (even without the blur for some reason)
The “they’re both the same” messaging is useful in persuading Tories to sit this next one out.
Perhaps, though in truth they're not really quite the same, are they?
Spending a large sum of cash on a truly outstanding meal with a lot of booze makes one more sympathetically inclined towards the Tories. Somehow one feels that they are marginally less inclined to bleed ones disposable income to spend it on the smelly poor which, when one is in an advanced state of inebriation and therefore feeling really quite selfish, is an important consideration.
I have decided that I like Rishi this evening. And Jeremy Hunt too. There should be more government by multi-millionaires. They understand that massive restaurant bills need to be paid for and are, moreover, a social good. Indeed, a necessity.
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Can I suggest a compromise?
She lost because it was an unfair system *and* she was a shit candidate?
Well, it's a system designed for electing a President of the United States of America, which is a federation of those same States- hence the electoral college electing the President via weighted delegates from each State.
It's not a unitary state so winning the popular vote means nothing unless you win the electoral college too.
Smaller states have disproportionally more electors per capita than the larger states.
That's a deliberate decision to prevent the small states being overly dominated by the large ones. It's a feature of the design. Everyone knows that is part of the rules.
The popular vote is good for bragging rights and in terms of measuring the size of a victory, but the system is decided on electoral college votes.
One way to understand the US electoral college is that it was originally intended for nominations, not the election itself, which would take place in the House of Representatives.
(Everyone involved in writing it knew that George Washington would be the first president, so the writers of the Constitution (our second) paid less attention to the details than they perhaps should have. And they did not realize that mass elections were on their way.
In their defense I should add that they were doing something unprecedented, in creating rules for a democracy on that scale.
"Constitutionally, the legislature of each state determines how its electors are chosen; Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 states that each state shall appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct".[15] During the first presidential election in 1789, only 6 of the 11 eligible states chose electors by any form of popular vote.[16][note 2]
Gradually throughout the years, the states began conducting popular elections to choose their slate of electors. In 1800, only five of the 16 states chose electors by a popular vote; by 1824, after the rise of Jacksonian democracy, the proportion of states that chose electors by popular vote had sharply risen to 18 out of 24 states.[17] This gradual movement toward greater democratization coincided with a gradual decrease in property restrictions for the franchise.[17] By 1840, only one of the 26 states (South Carolina) still selected electors by the state legislature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election#History
Yes, and I believe that the Italian President is still elected by a vote in the Italian Parliament, so it's not unusual for a ceremonial President to be elected in such a way. Perhaps if the US Presidency hadn't accumulated so much Executive power then things would be better?
The Campaign Against Antisemitism - whose CEO Gideon Falter was threatened with arrest by a London police officer last Saturday - is calling for Met commissioner Mark Rowley to resign or be fired.
They are also having an organised walk next Saturday, the day of London's next big pro-Palestinian march, on which they hope to "force" the London police service to "make London actually safe":
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Ignore him, Paris is a lovely city. Not particularly exciting but pleasant. The area around Parc Monceau, Bvd Malesherbes and Bvd Courcelles is my favourite bit. Sort of Parisian Marylebone. And the grandeur around the Tuileries eclipses anything in London for the projection of raw political power.
But it’s definitely not as good a city overall as either London or NY. Better than Tokyo. Better than anything in Germany, Italy, China, Canada. Better than Moscow. But sub-NYC and London.
I wouldn’t necessarily disagree. That’s possibly fair. It is still Paris - as I said today “it is still a magnificent city”. At its best it is the most impressive city in the world architecturally. The harmony and the grandeur
I’m just shocked at how tatty it is looking and how much that homeless seedy Gare du Nord vibe has spread to several other significant areas. I’ve never felt menaced by anywhere in Europe as I did in Les Halles this evening. It’s fucking horrible
American states were much closer in population sizes at the time the Constitution was written than they are now. (It is true that smaller states can be over-represented; it is also true, for example, that a voter in California can influence far more electoral votes than a voter in, for example, Wyoming.)
J K Rowling tweeting that Dr Hilary Cass feels she can no longer safely travel on public transport. Jeez.
Just incredible how this irrational trans ideology has taken hold. A deadly mixture of woke and identity politics.
Had a long discussion last night with my 21yo youngest daughter. She is at Edinburgh Uni and told me that a lot of her friends think emotions and feelings are more important than facts when making decisions - lived experience is more valid than measurable outcomes or the law. What on earth have we done in educating that generation? Social media has done so much damage.
The new CEO of NPR in the US has explicitly said that seeking the truth is a problem:
“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”
I can top that. The then US President got much of the country to believe he hadn’t lost an election that, in truth, he had lost.
Hillary Clinton got much of the country to believe that she was legitimate winner in 2016 too.
She and Liz Truss would get on.
To be fair she got almost 3m more votes than the Orange One. She just didn’t win enough States.
Shoulda woulda coulda.
She lost. And she's learnt nothing from it, even today.
She lost because of the system. As Attlee did in 1951. And as he did, accepted it. Doesn’t mean it’s a fair system, or a good one.
She lost because she was a shit candidate.
There's no dressing that up.
Can I suggest a compromise?
She lost because it was an unfair system *and* she was a shit candidate?
Well, it's a system designed for electing a President of the United States of America, which is a federation of those same States- hence the electoral college electing the President via weighted delegates from each State.
It's not a unitary state so winning the popular vote means nothing unless you win the electoral college too.
Smaller states have disproportionally more electors per capita than the larger states.
That's a deliberate decision to prevent the small states being overly dominated by the large ones. It's a feature of the design. Everyone knows that is part of the rules.
The popular vote is good for bragging rights and in terms of measuring the size of a victory, but the system is decided on electoral college votes.
The other thing to say about this - and it shouldn't really need to be said among this group of voting system nerds - is that there's no such thing as a perfect electoral system. It's been proved mathematically that it isn't possible for any voting system to satisfy all the properties that you might want a perfect voting system to have.
So in choosing a voting system you have to choose which properties are most important to you. And then everyone has to agree that the choice made is legitimate.
A voting system will fail if too many voters no longer see it as legitimate - which might come to be the case if Republicans repeatedly win the electoral college while losing the popular vote - but could also be the case if one side were able to force through a change without the consent of the other.
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Ignore him, Paris is a lovely city. Not particularly exciting but pleasant. The area around Parc Monceau, Bvd Malesherbes and Bvd Courcelles is my favourite bit. Sort of Parisian Marylebone. And the grandeur around the Tuileries eclipses anything in London for the projection of raw political power.
But it’s definitely not as good a city overall as either London or NY. Better than Tokyo. Better than anything in Germany, Italy, China, Canada. Better than Moscow. But sub-NYC and London.
But would you agree the general atmosphere in Paris has gone downhill in recent years?
When I think of what Paris ought to be like, I tend to think of this Clive James documentary from 1988.
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Les Halles, of course, is (or, rather, was) the Parisian equivalent of Covent Garden. After the demise of the vegetable market they could have had a congeries of winding streets of niche boutiques and single-sex gentlemen's clubs but decided instead that a bleak, urban dystopia would better reflect the French inventive genius.
This has been a good day. The world is a safer place tonight. And Mike Johnson might well have shown that there is a future for the GOP beyond that scumbag currently being tried in New York.
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
It is possible to achieve Reform's goals, just not in the way they pretend. I think Milei is demonstrating this in real time. Usually in politics, what is thought to be impossible is anything but. It's just that the cost is more than thought...
Imagine watching 3 seasons of Emily in Paris then actually coming here. Lol
Isn’t there the “Paris syndrome” thingy where Japanese tourists (and others) were so discombobulated by the disconnect between their preconceptions of Paris v the reality?
Yes exactly. I just never expected to experience it myself
You are making me feel really great , I am off to paris next week
Just avoid Les Halles (especially at night) and most of the 1st arr. and the banks of the Seine. And anywhere really touristy. And all the suburbs. In fact don’t go there. Skip it and go to Bordeaux. Much nicer
Les Halles, of course, is (or, rather, was) the Parisian equivalent of Covent Garden. After the demise of the vegetable market they could have had a congeries of winding streets of niche boutiques and single-sex gentlemen's clubs but decided instead that a bleak, urban dystopia would better reflect the French inventive genius.
They were right.
What’s brilliant about Les Halles is that they demolished all the nice Victorian stuff and installed a truly grotesque bit of modernist crap which everyone agreed was awful. Then they knocked it down and everyone breathed a sigh of relief - and they’ve built something even WORSE
It already looks 40 years out of date and they only finished it about 8 years ago and it is a perfect urine yellow colour. And it’s beginning to rust. It was immediately hailed as a disaster
My middle lad just told me Captain Spok or something (his spelling) is at a Comic Con that my lad has wandered into 2 minutes from his girlfriend's house in Ohio. Turns out it's William Shatner, some Dukes of Hazzard and the first female R2D2. Ole Kirk wants 270 bucks for a photo and autograph. My lad is more interested in the Pokemon resellers.
Take the Shatner. He's in his 90's now and it'll only go up when he dies. Nobody cares about the Dukes of Hazzard. Christine Galey (R2D2 inhabitant) has some time to go yet.
See I identify with the hermit here, however the article is wrong in so many ways.
Yes I don't go down my local like my father did every night. But then when he did he just talked to the same 6 or 7 people every night. I on the other hand talk with about 100 people round the world on a weekly basis varying from usa, several european states, the uk in various localities, australia, china, russia even. This year I expect visits from people from the us and holland of these friends and have been invited to northern ireland for a long weekend which I plan to take up.
Yet somehow I am the social hermit rather that the person who meets the same people week in week out, yeah that guy with that study can sit on one of leons flinty toys and bounce on it. He sounds like my father its not a real friendship if you dont meet face to face in a pub what a twat
See I identify with the hermit here, however the article is wrong in so many ways.
Yes I don't go down my local like my father did every night. But then when he did he just talked to the same 6 or 7 people every night. I on the other hand talk with about 100 people round the world on a weekly basis varying from usa, several european states, the uk in various localities, australia, china, russia even. This year I expect visits from people from the us and holland of these friends and have been invited to northern ireland for a long weekend which I plan to take up.
Yet somehow I am the social hermit rather that the person who meets the same people week in week out, yeah that guy with that study can sit on one of leons flinty toys and bounce on it. He sounds like my father its not a real friendship if you dont meet face to face in a pub what a twat
Never mind what some stupid bastard scribbles in a review in the Spectator to get through his word allowance, or maybe he shares a publisher or agent with the author whose book he's reviewing, or will do in the future.
The hikikomori phenomenon is interesting. You are not a hikikomori. A hikikomori doesn't meet people IRL.
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
It is possible to achieve Reform's goals, just not in the way they pretend. I think Milei is demonstrating this in real time. Usually in politics, what is thought to be impossible is anything but. It's just that the cost is more than thought...
These are the key paragraphs 'When we were in Brussels together, Farage often used to talk of the 1993 Canadian precedent, where Preston Manning’s prairies protest movement, significantly also called Reform, overtook and eventually merged with the Tories, providing the combined party with its first leader, Stephen Harper.
Harper is a hero of mine and a personal friend. He may be the greatest Canadian PM since Sir John A Macdonald. But Harper would be the first to confirm that he governed as a mainstream conservative. Not because he had forgotten his Reform roots or gone soft, but because he had to govern in the real world.
In the mean time, first-past-the-post brutally punished the split on Canada’s Right. If the same thing happened here, Labour would be in office until 2037. Then we would have ample time to test the bizarre claim that the two main parties are the same. '
Milei won the Argentine presidency because he was the only rightwing candidate in a presidential runoff of 2 against an unpopular leftwing governnment's candidate.
Again the trans debate rears it head...for such a niche issue it touches a lot of nerves.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
And yet lots of legal and political questions and issues get raised, by both sides, pushing for changes to law or policy or against said changes (or indeed, a reversal of some other change).
So it won't be going away since the legal effects of people choosing their gender, or lack of legal effect, or what can be offered to support people transitioning or discourage it etc, are absolutely political questions.
Politics is where such matters get determined, it's what politics is for - indeed, to determine where the line between state involvement or not is a political question.
It's almost as if somebody wrote an article about how the politics of the body will be a key issue in the 2020s.
I'm not playing it. If I press the wrong button it'll install bad things on my laptop and Chinese people will laugh at my rude bits. Not that I'm paranoid or anything...
"Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them DANIEL HANNAN"
It is possible to achieve Reform's goals, just not in the way they pretend. I think Milei is demonstrating this in real time. Usually in politics, what is thought to be impossible is anything but. It's just that the cost is more than thought...
These are the key paragraphs 'When we were in Brussels together, Farage often used to talk of the 1993 Canadian precedent, where Preston Manning’s prairies protest movement, significantly also called Reform, overtook and eventually merged with the Tories, providing the combined party with its first leader, Stephen Harper.
Harper is a hero of mine and a personal friend. He may be the greatest Canadian PM since Sir John A Macdonald. But Harper would be the first to confirm that he governed as a mainstream conservative. Not because he had forgotten his Reform roots or gone soft, but because he had to govern in the real world.
In the mean time, first-past-the-post brutally punished the split on Canada’s Right. If the same thing happened here, Labour would be in office until 2037. Then we would have ample time to test the bizarre claim that the two main parties are the same. '
Milei won the Argentine presidency because he was the only rightwing candidate in a presidential runoff of 2 against an unpopular leftwing governnment's candidate.
Good point, thank you. Although I might be the only people on here who was (once and briefly) an expert on Western Canadian politics...
... is that it? I mean, we all know that the Conservative ideas cupboard is pretty bare, but really?
(Of course, what it really is is a crude attempt to put SKS on the spot. Which it might, but at the price of emphasising Sunak's Stingy Squillionaire image.)
... is that it? I mean, we all know that the Conservative ideas cupboard is pretty bare, but really?
(Of course, what it really is is a crude attempt to put SKS on the spot. Which it might, but at the price of emphasising Sunak's Stingy Squillionaire image.)
... is that it? I mean, we all know that the Conservative ideas cupboard is pretty bare, but really?
(Of course, what it really is is a crude attempt to put SKS on the spot. Which it might, but at the price of emphasising Sunak's Stingy Squillionaire image.)
"And the union workhouses - are they still in operation?"
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She lost because it was an unfair system *and* she was a shit candidate?
The divisive hostility usually originates from those at the top for the purposes of those at the top and the rest of us should be careful not to encourage it.
The fact remains that she won the popular vote.
It's like suggesting the man who put on running shoes when trying to escape the bear was actually a good runner.
Trying to work both sides of the street . . . like at least one PBer . . .
Nobody disagrees with their basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them
DANIEL HANNAN"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/20/nigel-farage-general-election-reform-conservative-party/
What is their “basic list of policies” then ?
Copyright infringment?
Lower taxes
Net zero immigration
Cheaper energy
Zero waiting lists
What are their policies ?
It's not a unitary state so winning the popular vote means nothing unless you win the electoral college too.
You need to win. I don't downplay that. But for anyone making a choice she was the better candidate by light years.
Eg
Free up 6 million people from paying
Income Tax by lifting the minimum
threshold to £20,000 from £12,571 p.a.
This amounts to 1 in 5 taxpayers. Basic
Income Tax rate stays at 20%
Lift threshold for 40% income tax rate to
£70,000.
If you cannot be seen by a GP in
3 days, you get a voucher to go private
elsewhere.
Reform the voting system: To
make it more representative. Smaller
parties mean more choice, new ideas,
and better debate. Proportional
representation is essential.
Net zero immigration means that the
number legally allowed to enter to live
and work in the UK each year should
equal the number emigrating, so the
overall population remains approximately
the same
They have policies, it's easy to come up with them and put them in a document - how many would be in a manifesto when one is produced, and how many of those currently supporting them know about most of them is another matter.
- The whole unit was watching. After the vote, one could hear all over the trench: “YESSS!”
Thank you!
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1781746268739448975
I guess the question needed to be forced.
Stopped being funny over a year ago mate.
That's pretty apparent from how most of his Cabinet refuse to back his current attempt at re-election, some in the strongest possible terms.
FWIW...I think the likes of Rowling and our own Cyclefree are old school feminists who just hate the idea that men want to take ownership of their gender. And it really winds them up. For The Right it presents a golden opportunity to attack Liberals (aka Wokes) because most people on the doorstep think it's odd that some people want to change their gender. And the Trans community just get really angry and feel violated that other people are making very personal judgements on something that is fundamentally important to them.
My own view is that we all should out of this debate. People's choice of gender is entirely up to them, their families and health care professionals if treatments are required. It's got no place in political discourse.
Won't last long, and might take a while to hit the front lines, but let's hope that's come in the nick of time.
New game I've discovered recently. The Watermelon Game.
https://suikagame.com
And had they voted for it earlier, the GOP would have also got a bill which delivered billions in funding for making it more difficult to cross the Mexican border.
Bunch of idiots for dancing to Trump’s tune.
So it won't be going away since the legal effects of people choosing their gender, or lack of legal effect, or what can be offered to support people transitioning or discourage it etc, are absolutely political questions.
Politics is where such matters get determined, it's what politics is for - indeed, to determine where the line between state involvement or not is a political question.
The House also passed a bill in favour of handing about $8bn of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
I will also admit I'm regretting finding out.
The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said. They also noted that the Defense Department initiated the assembly of this assistance package well before the coming votes in a bid to speed the process.
One official, on condition of anonymity, said that once the $95 billion foreign aid bill is signed into law, it will take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield.
This package is almost certain to contain desperately needed ammunition for systems Ukrainian personnel rely on most, including 155mm shells used in NATO howitzers and munitions for medium-range rocket artillery.
It is also likely the Pentagon will provide Ukraine with a fresh tranche of air defense equipment and ammunition to defend against Russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1781697485179683299
(This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bright )
I have been impressed by the help he gave to Lincoln and the Republicans during our great Civil War, as mentioned in Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln.
Something like the biographies in Tuchman's "Proud Tower" would be fine.
The former prime minister has reinvented himself as a secret global influencer and the Tony Blair Institute’s 800 staff are now helping to run almost 40 countries. If Labour wins, will he be pulling the strings?"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-tony-blair-doing-now-prime-minister-labour-k7779cst9
An MP can stand in Parliament and say for me this is a big call. From then they're actually listened to. The BBC and assorted media are mandated to cover your idea, the clerks write it up and a free vote happens three weeks after.
However If said idea turns to shit you're done. No columns, articles, junkets or appearances. You get bed and board in your old constituency and you disappear.
But it’s definitely not as good a city overall as either London or NY. Better than Tokyo. Better than anything in Germany, Italy, China, Canada. Better than Moscow. But sub-NYC and London.
Hope there's no more delays and that America elects a POTUS and Congress that takes defending democracy seriously.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/04/12/fatal-stabbing-in-bordeaux-connected-to-victims-alcohol-consumption-on-eid_6668222_7.html
(Everyone involved in writing it knew that George Washington would be the first president, so the writers of the Constitution (our second) paid less attention to the details than they perhaps should have. And they did not realize that mass elections were on their way.
In their defense I should add that they were doing something unprecedented, in creating rules for a democracy on that scale.
"Constitutionally, the legislature of each state determines how its electors are chosen; Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 states that each state shall appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct".[15] During the first presidential election in 1789, only 6 of the 11 eligible states chose electors by any form of popular vote.[16][note 2]
Gradually throughout the years, the states began conducting popular elections to choose their slate of electors. In 1800, only five of the 16 states chose electors by a popular vote; by 1824, after the rise of Jacksonian democracy, the proportion of states that chose electors by popular vote had sharply risen to 18 out of 24 states.[17] This gradual movement toward greater democratization coincided with a gradual decrease in property restrictions for the franchise.[17] By 1840, only one of the 26 states (South Carolina) still selected electors by the state legislature."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election#History
They are also having an organised walk next Saturday, the day of London's next big pro-Palestinian march, on which they hope to "force" the London police service to "make London actually safe":
https://twitter.com/i/status/1781032832204214308
In that earlier statement, they didn't call for Rowley to go.
Rishi Sunak is going to have to address this, possibly this evening.
(Cf. Boris Johnson on the Oxford Street incident of November 2021.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4608004-buck-takes-swing-moscow-marjorie-mouthing-russian-propaganda/
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her anti-Ukraine position in an interview on CNN Friday.
“Moscow Marjorie has reached a new low,” Buck said in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” with anchor Erica Hill. “You know, during the Russian Revolution, [Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir] Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as ‘useful idiots.’”
“And I don’t even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a useful idiot here,” Buck continued. “She is just mouthing the Russian propaganda, and really hurting American foreign policy in the process.”..
People's gender is not a choice, its a characteristic they're born with. Cyclefree didn't choose to be a woman, she is a woman. Someone with a penis is not.
They may identify as a transwoman, and good luck to them if so. And so long as safeguarding is not violated then they can be called whatever they choose.
But they are not, and never will be, a woman in the same way as Rowling and Cyclefree are. That's just biological fact. When safeguarding matters, then reality as opposed to how people identify, is what matters.
Spending a large sum of cash on a truly outstanding meal with a lot of booze makes one more sympathetically inclined towards the Tories. Somehow one feels that they are marginally less inclined to bleed ones disposable income to spend it on the smelly poor which, when one is in an advanced state of inebriation and therefore feeling really quite selfish, is an important consideration.
I have decided that I like Rishi this evening. And Jeremy Hunt too. There should be more government by multi-millionaires. They understand that massive restaurant bills need to be paid for and are, moreover, a social good. Indeed, a necessity.
Yay for the Conservative Party!
The popular vote is good for bragging rights and in terms of measuring the size of a victory, but the system is decided on electoral college votes.
https://archive.is/gNKQo
That was quick off the mark.
I wonder who else will join her.
Rowley is toast. It'll be interesting to see who else is.
https://archive.is/mvNH2
I’m just shocked at how tatty it is looking and how much that homeless seedy Gare du Nord vibe has spread to several other significant areas. I’ve never felt menaced by anywhere in Europe as I did in Les Halles this evening. It’s fucking horrible
A new anthropological type is emerging, says Pascal Bruckner – the shrivelled, hyperconnected being who no longer needs others or the outside world
Stuart Jeffries"
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-we-all-becoming-hermits-now/
So in choosing a voting system you have to choose which properties are most important to you. And then everyone has to agree that the choice made is legitimate.
A voting system will fail if too many voters no longer see it as legitimate - which might come to be the case if Republicans repeatedly win the electoral college while losing the popular vote - but could also be the case if one side were able to force through a change without the consent of the other.
When I think of what Paris ought to be like, I tend to think of this Clive James documentary from 1988.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=przhiqnhOdI
They were right.
Yah!
It is possible to achieve Reform's goals, just not in the way they pretend. I think Milei is demonstrating this in real time. Usually in politics, what is thought to be impossible is anything but. It's just that the cost is more than thought...
It already looks 40 years out of date and they only finished it about 8 years ago and it is a perfect urine yellow colour. And it’s beginning to rust. It was immediately hailed as a disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/06/les-halles-paris-architecture-custard-coloured-flop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
(Also Stephen Baxter's story "Glass Earth Inc.", which uses the same trope)
That paper would still be arse licking the Tories even if they started a forced euthanasia programme for pensioners.
We'll be hearing more about hikikomoris. It doesn't seem to be a particularly negative word. I've met a few online.
The truly committed hikikomori doesn't breed...so we segue straight away to China's "last generation".
Yes I don't go down my local like my father did every night. But then when he did he just talked to the same 6 or 7 people every night. I on the other hand talk with about 100 people round the world on a weekly basis varying from usa, several european states, the uk in various localities, australia, china, russia even. This year I expect visits from people from the us and holland of these friends and have been invited to northern ireland for a long weekend which I plan to take up.
Yet somehow I am the social hermit rather that the person who meets the same people week in week out, yeah that guy with that study can sit on one of leons flinty toys and bounce on it. He sounds like my father its not a real friendship if you dont meet face to face in a pub what a twat
The hikikomori phenomenon is interesting. You are not a hikikomori. A hikikomori doesn't meet people IRL.
Harper is a hero of mine and a personal friend. He may be the greatest Canadian PM since Sir John A Macdonald. But Harper would be the first to confirm that he governed as a mainstream conservative. Not because he had forgotten his Reform roots or gone soft, but because he had to govern in the real world.
In the mean time, first-past-the-post brutally punished the split on Canada’s Right. If the same thing happened here, Labour would be in office until 2037. Then we would have ample time to test the bizarre claim that the two main parties are the same. '
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/20/nigel-farage-general-election-reform-conservative-party/
Milei won the Argentine presidency because he was the only rightwing candidate in a presidential runoff of 2 against an unpopular leftwing governnment's candidate.
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/04/07/transhumanism/
Kate Ferguson
@kateferguson4
EXCL - Rishi Sunak reveals a key manifesto pledge.
The PM says he will keep the 2 child benefit cap if reelected.
It is part of his mission to curb Britain's ballooning benefits bill
https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1781767145375854662
(Of course, what it really is is a crude attempt to put SKS on the spot. Which it might, but at the price of emphasising Sunak's Stingy Squillionaire image.)
I doubt anything has changed since then...