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Who shall win the first debate? – politicalbetting.com
Who shall win the first debate? – politicalbetting.com
Ladbrokes have a market on who wil the CNN debate scheduled for the end of June and I can see no value in this market. I suspect the response will be a plague on both your houses as the debate will be a bit of a disorganised poo-show and that could lead to either side winning.
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In which case, Trump is the value, no?
edit; First, ffs? Come on guys, wake up.
Rishi Sunak’s team blocked proposals to allow veterans to use their veteran IDs to vote because it would “open the floodgates” to students being able to use their ID cards too.
Perish the thought that students should be allowed to vote
https://x.com/AdamBienkov/status/1793016479899685077
I think this is a bit complicated.
(Well, that's not a risk, it's a certainty. But I meant as in says 'Nikki Haley was in charge of the Capitol as Speaker on the day my triumphant re-election was stolen from me by Judge Merchan ruling ILLEGALLY that I defrauded New York by quoting the REAL VALUE of Mar a Lago the most VALUABLE and BEAUTIFUL property in the world!')
Because it would neutralise his attack line against Biden - that Biden is old and confused.
(Further point - Biden has always flubbed like that. Partly because of his stammer, partly because he is rather impulsive and fails to fully engage brain before opening mouth.)
In which case Trump is the value bet.
Small debates are just not his thing, although he's the world's greatest mass debater.
Mr. Boy, Rayner was not right. Taking exception to Sunak or a particular Sunak action is fine. Labelling a large group of people as 'scum' is wretched, especially in politics which democratically depends on the quaint notion that people can have different but still valid opinions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/debates-joe-biden-donald-trump/index.html
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1792955785531601232
And I'm not sure the Republicans will ever accept (2) applies to Trump anyway.
A public debate might speed things up.
Will be interesting to see what the independents say.
But it was established in 1872 that dead people are not eligible for the presidency.
I'm definitely not a fan of the "Macro policies are all very well but Mrs Trellis from North Wales has emailed to say' thing. How do we know that Mrs Trellis isn't just the shadow Chancellor making things up? Or the producer?
Keep that nonsense on Radio 5 please.
He not only thinks that vaccines are the work of the Devil (not just covid vaccines, any vaccines), he also thinks that abortion should be totally unregulated, allowed at any time for any reason (although he’s now trying to walk that one back after a backlash). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-abortion-ban-interview-b2392827.html
What is the best way to get an awareness of which Conservative MPs will be most likely to survive the coming Election?
(I was listening to a speech by Theresa Villiers in a debate in Parliament about of all things LTNs - I thought we had dealt with that one, and it came across as ... interesting.
Her majority im Chipping Barnet is about the same as IDS's, ie not a lot, and I'm wondering how high the likelihood is that she will be down the road when the time comes.)
It’s was an absolutely pointless interview where the interviewer has their mind set on asking a specific line of questioning regarding micro and “feels”and the chancellor is trying to explain why the big picture actually affects those feels.
EB just did not want to analyse what Hunt was saying and then question him on those comments, she just wanted to ask him why nurses aren’t feeling really rich and does Hunt feel richer - as usual an attempt at a gotcha rather than a serious question - allied with her repeatedly dropping he is a landlord.
There are valid questions about Hunt feeling richer and being a landlord but this was as you wrote just pure Radio 5 bollocks.
But The Economist has done the work for you. Type any constituency name at:-
https://www.economist.com/interactive/uk-general-election/forecast
I am expecting three days of the same tripe we got from Alwyn Lyons yesterday - dogged lying and memory lapses - but you never know. Minister of the Church and all that...she may take the oath seriously.
Await the resurrection
"Terrorism works"
As Jason Beer noted to Angela vdB "what exactly _did_ you do at the Post Office".
None of them knew anything about anything with ofc Jarnail Singh being the master of not knowing anything in particular how to save a file.
You might not like the way she framed the question, but the twin issues of housing costs, and actual changes in standard of living for large sectors of the workforce are perfectly valid ones to raise.
I note you ignored the point about rental costs rising 9% in the last year. Which is somewhat at odds with 2.3% inflation.
That's why individuals' experiences matter.
https://x.com/hotspothotspot/status/1793030797592535192
"If they'll do this to Israel, we're next."
What a waste of time.
This was about all I could find on google for the past 24 hours (other than the video feeds).
..Four months after leaving the Post Office, Lyons was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list. This was picked up by Sussex World (Lyons lives in Worthing), who reported her as saying:
“It’s been amazing to get recognition. It was such a surprise. I was doing something I really believed in.”
On her 33 years at the Post Office, Lyons told the paper: “When I said ‘We need to change things’, they listened… It’s a fantastic organisation to have worked for. There are so many different jobs you can do and opportunities. I liked the people I worked with, all the teams I worked with and for.”..
And the map points to Manchester as being at the centre of the only other area that might begin to compare. Anything Britain can do to improve the competitiveness of the wider region centred on Manchester could lead to significant gains.
Who actually was it they were trusting ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlKH7qLiyM
Scathing assessment by Ben Wallace (in full)
Foreign Office HQ is where British interests go to die
"It is hard to pick out a low point from my dealings with the Foreign Office when I was defence secretary. Hard not because there weren’t any low points, but because there were so many.
https://x.com/DianaHarding7/status/1793163115611222113
We all know Jeremy Hunt is a landlord and that some people may not be feeling rich at the moment but there's no need to spend more than half of the interview talking over him in order to tell us this. I honestly think she'd have preferred to just talk at the Chancellor for 10 minutes and had him just sit there.
If she wanted to go down the personal route she could have asked a question about why investment in rental properties is apparently so lucrative compared to other forms of investment that might be more productive for the economy, and as a side comment asked the Chancellor why he himself chose to invest that way.
I fear 'feels' as Boulay put it has replaced actual facts.
Every NU10Ker lives a life of fear - crouching behind their Herman Miller Aeron chair like a small child watching Dr Who in 1968. Every moment a torment as the Unknown Masters toy with lives, giving them incomprehensible orders about the organisation. An organisation that they (the NU10Kers) have no idea what it does or who they work for.
See this documentary - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0050873/
We really do owe them a debt for doing this.
Coz it’s fucking boring?
Don’t get me wrong. I watched the ITV drama. It’s outrageous. I hope these mediocre fuckwits get keel-hauled etc etc
But in the end it is still the post office and it’s still about sub-postmasters, the boffo potensh is limited
https://x.com/adamboultonTABB/status/1793183009820033376
Similar to, say, a travel writer describing his breakfast of scrambled eggs on toast in Puglia.
Not going well at all.
Then again, there is plenty to do once here. Plenty of good theatre on atm well worth seeing and uniquely London-ish.
I have no idea what went on at the organisation I was in charge of and I only wish that someone had told me what was happening while I was CEO.
For context: As of May 2024, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 146 of the 193 member states of the United Nations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine
As I think I have said before, the British political commentariat aren't as knowledgeable about international politics as one would like.
Bloody hell.
As for the question from the voter I share your cynicism. Either made up or from an opposition party activist. Probably as authentic as an audience on Question Time.
Often these interviews, I used to get the feeling, were more about the interviewer scoring points and getting a quote for the hourly news bulletin that informing the listeners and with some of the news it is more agenda driven reporting than objective reporting.
Vennells. It's not my fault. It's all to do with the way the company was run
Beer. Who was running it? It was you.
I am starting to get seriously
This has always been the case and always will be.
But why do we seem to have an insistence that because one group is losing out that everyone else must be losing out as well ?
Or the whiny demands that 'help' must be given to any group which is loud enough in its claims that it is losing out.
A process which leads to endless contradictory subsidies and handouts given to almost everyone.
Ironically the smarter voices in the CofE have observed that a lot of that organisation's current troubles are from people (e.g. Justin Welby) trying to run it like a complex business.
Nor am I sure if he is released pending Appeal if imprisoned.
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