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Could the new SNP leader declare UDI? – politicalbetting.com
Could the new SNP leader declare UDI? – politicalbetting.com
New: John Swinney faces a leadership contest after allGraeme McCormick, a veteran SNP activist and long-time leadership critic, tells me he has the required nominations to trigger a contest SNP hierarchy hoped Swinney was on course for a coronation when noms close noon Monday
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhE42Noj1Lw
This scene featuring Bernard Hill gave me the horn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lwJOxN_gXc
England needs to move on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhzuH924bM
Is there a slight Jezza vibe here with McCormick? If so is there any sort of 2015 Labour vibe about the SNP?
BBC News - Behind-scenes NHS problems leave new doctors without jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68849847
Without Foundation jobs they cannot work in UK medicine.
ALBA adjacent types are getting excited by the thought of getting ‘their’ SNP back but the success of the cunning plan to get Alex Salmond in an Ash Regan skin suit to hold the SNP to ransom indicates their strategic nous.
https://x.com/observeruk/status/1786713155676369316?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
He could hide as a camouflaged speed trap on a motorway roundabout.
In the film an orc says 'meat's back on the menu' after capturing Frodo.
Do you think there were restaurants and takeaways in Middle Earth?
[Paying more to get less] it seems to me, also explains why the Tories are now in political freefall. Beyond the kind of explanations beloved of political pundits – about Partygate, the Liz Truss disaster and the plain fact that Rishi Sunak cannot do politics – large swaths of the country are now characterised by a sort of low hum of injustice, and people feeling that they have simply been conned. Their taxes have risen, interest rates have rocketed, bills have hugely increased and inflation has soared – and, contrary to the message in that Tory leaflet, wages have failed to keep pace. Last week, the Financial Times published analysis of official data showing that over the past three years, UK households have drastically reduced their spending on beer, bread, meat, recreation, furniture and more. Paying more and getting less, it seems, is now the basic national condition
John Harris in bankrupt Thurrock
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/rishi-sunak-tories-local-elections-thurrock-tory-council
A personal statement coming shortly.
What a generation
A further problem is that Scots are not fools. As and when they want independence they won't trust the sorts of people who would have it, and keep it, by vainglorious acts of unconstitutional sabotage.
At least for those staying the night.
She’s also really smart and likely to ace her A Levels (🙏) but that seems to provide no immunity to Woke lunacy
On the other hand she thinks “noom” is a really good neologism. So hey Ho
So sorry to see about the Foxes travails though. The 2016 title was one of the great sporting stories of our time. You deserved this division’s title this year. We were both helped by Leeds’ inexplicable implosion though.
Which shows I guess independence isn't a serious prospect right now.
Their 15% from Miami is quite a bit bigger than that on offer at Portman Road
Make no mistake, the core story contained in these numbers is yet more confirmation of the disastrous standing of the Conservative party. As loudly and clearly as they can, voters are telling the Tories that their time is up.
All of which comes as sweet vindication for Keir Starmer and what we might call his receptacle strategy. His aim has been to turn Labour into the acceptable vessel of national discontent with the party that has governed Britain for 14 years. Voter fury, at first Boris Johnson and the partygate revelations and next Liz Truss’s sabotaging of the UK economy, saw trust in the Tories plunge – but it was never automatic that that would translate into support for Labour. Starmer’s central objective has been to remove every obstacle that could stand in the way of a disaffected Conservative contemplating a move towards the main party of opposition.
Playing safe, saying nothing that could frighten the floating voter, might bring victory – but it doesn’t deliver a mandate.
There is a subtler problem, more in the realm of vibes than policy. So keen to seem like the adults in an increasingly chaotic room, Starmer and, say, Rachel Reeves do now look the part of PM and chancellor. Voters will be impatient for results from Starmer and Reeves, because of the vague, albeit irrational and indeed unfair, sense that they have been around for years. They will be cut little slack.
The Tories are so unpopular because so much is broken and there is not enough money to fix it. Right now, that is the Tories’ problem, one that promises to sweep them out of power. But once it has, it will become Labour’s problem. And it could hardly be more daunting.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/george-galloway-hangs-up-asked-explain-gay-relationships-not-normal/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLZTgkIse8
If you want a speedo on a bike fine, but it is not necessary because:
a) if you are going through a built up area you shouldn't be anywhere near the speed limit anyway. To do so is plain dangerous as you could hit a pedestrian, be hit by a car coming out of a side road, be thrown by a pot hole and go under a car or swerve around a pot hole and get hit by a car. You should be well below the speed limit. I tend to go through at less than 10 mph loads below the limit and I'm not going to look at the speedo then anyway because it is so busy and to do so would be dangerous.
b) If you are on the open road then when it is clear you can glance down to the speedo, but as you say if you are pushing the speed limit of 30 - 50 mph (something I couldn't imagine doing) you damn well shouldn't be looking down at a speedo. You can only see 1 metre in front of you then and at that speed it is highly dangerous. If you hit a pot hole you are a gonner.
I suspect like me you are cycling between 10 and 25 mph and at those speeds you can afford a glance at the speedo (although I probably wouldn't much above 15 mph) but this is so much below the speed limit it is academic.
Speedos on bikes are useful for various reasons, but they should never be used to check you are below the speed limit. If you are going that fast you shouldn't be taking your eyes off the road and you should never be doing it in a built up area anyway.
A shade too personal in my view - it is possible to over-share.
Yousaf has left a complete shambles behind him. In fairness to him he inherited exactly the same. What we need now are some more charges. A small soupcon of misery added to the dish.
(Sorry - the site stretching small images again.)
https://www.noom.com
https://www.noom-home.com/
It's the sweetest of sweet spots. Unusual too. So much so that I can't think of a precedent. Can anybody?
"On 10 July 2022 Chishti announced his bid to succeed Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership election.[48] He withdrew two days later, having failed to win the support of any other Conservative MPs,[49] before endorsing Tom Tugendhat[50] and subsequently Rishi Sunak.[51] He had been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for North America, Sanctions and Consular Policy on 8 July 2022 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but was sacked by Liz Truss when she succeeded him in September 2022.[52]"