The Purge: Election Year – politicalbetting.com
The Purge: Election Year – politicalbetting.com
Is the Labour party right or wrong to ban Diane Abbott from standing as a candidate for the party?All BritonsRight: 37%Wrong: 21%2019 Labour votersRight: 28%Wrong: 36%https://t.co/GnvhNj9eVC pic.twitter.com/jLEOiMIRIJ
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SKS has played a blinder.
Does this matter in the case of Abbott or Russell Moyle? Probably not.
Does it leave question marks over Starmer's judgment? I would say it does.
Hopefully it will be nothing serious. But I'm also thinking a bit about that first crop of shadow ministers he appointed. That didn't display great judgement either.
And the first sign that Sunak wasn't all he was cracked up to be was his lousy cabinet appointments.
In our latest campaign update, @MatthewPrice01 argues that we should not expect the polls to narrow as a result of Rishi Sunak's announcement of the "Triple Lock Plus".
"Even among pensioners, pensions are not the priority."
https://x.com/DeltapollUK/status/1795912530721648715
Latest Labour selections confirmed tonight include lobby journalist Paul Waugh, Rachel Reeves aide Heather Iqbal, Labour Together director Josh Simons, Camden council leader Georgia Gould
Graham Jones is out, Sarah Smith in Hyndburn
@DPJHodges
“Barzini is dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene. Stracci. Cuneo. Today I settled all family business…”
It isn't gonna switch many votes amongst those who agree a little bit.
It will lose a fair few from those who feel very strongly about it.
However, this one probably won't be in many places which make a difference.
It's not as safe as the notionals (34th or so) as they include 11% for Claire Wright the Indy who is not standing (and backs LDs). If we redistribute her votes evenly it's about 100th safest. Still a very safe seat relatively speaking
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Completely wrong. The Wuhan CDC - which also housed bats as part of the overall experimentation - is just 3 minutes from the market. I have posted the map a trillion times. I’m not allowed to post it again because of the rules. Ask @rcs1000 - he disputed this and I showed him.
Try this tweet
“One of the earliest papers on Covid-19 out of China pointed out the Wuhan CDC was 911 feet from the market and right across the street from the hospital where many healthcare workers fell ill”
https://x.com/0ddette/status/1793652838641422672?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
Or try this. Look at the locations
https://x.com/ayjchan/status/1654218534640300032?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
https://x.com/scottburke777/status/1493682712510615552?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
The CDC was notoriously low level BSL2. It spent two years 2017-2019 moving to its new location right by the market. Ideal circs for a spillage
It kept bats
“The Wuhan CDC collected and housed many bats in collaboration with the WIV. It issued a contract for the disposal of 2 tons of hazardous medical waste generated in its labs in June 2019. This waste ‘has not been effectively treated from 1994 to 2019’, the announcement conceded.”
https://x.com/mattwridley/status/1630863112411783170?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
You’ve lost the argument. Its done. Yet you’re still trotting out these pathetic lies like no one can read or look at a map. It came from the lab
More popular with people who aren't voting Labour
In the case of Lloyd Russell Moyle, yes I can see why this has happened but we now have somebody forced out of a job because of an unproven allegation. I don't think you have to be an admirer of LRM to find that a bit worrying. There should have been workarounds otherwise it's an open invitation to vexatious complaints.
Remember, it's not how things look when they happen to people you dislike that's important - it's how they could be applied to anyone. Without wishing to be all Kantian about this, the implications of these sort of procedures applied across a governing party disturb me.
On Abbott, she should have been allowed to retire in peace and I am not totally clear why she hasn't been. But I do support her not being allowed to stand again because she is racist.
https://www.itv.com/news
"Abbott: I won't be 'intimidated' after being 'banned from running'
Sir Keir Starmer has said Diane Abbott has not been barred from standing as a Labour MP at the General Election."
I doubt if it will make the slightest political difference but like VAT on private school fees (which is also unlikely to make any difference) it does for me raise some questions that I'm not liking the possible answers to.
The publication said it has been making ‘substantial losses’ with its current operation, which has prompted the need for a change of direction."
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/evening-standard-to-drop-daily-edition-in-favour-of-weekly-newspaper-b1160845.html
The price has gone up because the price of gas has gone up, not because of decarbonisation.
If we hadn't decarbonised as much as we had, we'd be paying even more for gas now.
If we had decarbonised fully, we wouldn't be paying for gas at all.
Could not be more different
Edit: original post amended.
@Tomorrow'sMPs
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🔴 NORTH DURHAM: Luke Akehurst picked as Lanour candidate.
Of course she's a racist, and a hypocrite, and a horrible human being, but that isn't the point. The point is the whole affair has been bungled. It's ended up pissing off all sides, which is poor management.
I do not care about Diane Abbott, per se. I do care about whether my Prime Minister is a muppet. We've had three of those in the last five years and I was hoping for a change.
Same argument as applied to people complaining about the Tories sudden strong interest in combating anti-Semitism as a way of attacking Corbyn. They wouldn't have been able to do it if he hadn't provided them with the material.
Any party that is serious about improving our energy situation, improving the grid must be pretty close to the top of the priority list.
"Rochdale desperately needs a Labour government and a Labour MP to end 14 years of Tory chaos and decline.
"We need an MP who can unite the town, and who reflects the basic decency and local pride that all us Rochdalians share.
"Labour is back in the service of working people. And I'll do everything in my power to ensure that Rochdale gets an NHS back on its feet and the economic renewal its residents deserve.”
https://x.com/paulwaugh/status/1795890996791693398
It just probably came from the lab to the market. Perhaps some janitor on 50cents an hour grabbed some bats to sell at the wet market.
Or perhaps it was another animal in a container on the plane next to a bat that was being sent to Wuhan. The bat went to the Wuhan institute of virology, while the armadillo (or whatever) ended up at the wet market.
Or perhaps a lab worker got bit by a bat, developed a snuffle, and then did his evening's shopping at the market.
The idea that the two theories are mutually incompatible exists only in the mind of the mentally subnormal.
The scenario is now: (a) they designed it in lab 1, and destroyed all evidence; (b) they moved the gain-of-function virus to lab 2, which didn't do gain of function research, and also destroyed all evidence; (c) it leaked to and only to the wet market, where it spread in a manner consistent with animal-to-human transmission. The evidence is also not offered that Wuhan CDC housed bats or 1994-2019 medical waste in its new location, which it finally moved to in December 2019.
You think it's bad but not important because only dud MPs are affected.
I think it's bad and possibly important because of the query it raises over Starmer's leadership skills.
I am an enthusiastic supporter of the brewing, distilling and vintner industries but even I don't drink tinned cocktails on the tube at lunch time
I don't like factionalism in Labour.
UK politics is in the toilet, may they all suffer humiliation
Aaron Bastani
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Labour’s NEC aren’t just imposing candidates. Labour’s NEC ARE the candidates.
In this case, this man - Luke Akehurst - a person whose job is to lobby and represent the interests of a foreign power.
Aaron Bastani
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These people are absolutely going to take us into another mad war, by the way.
https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/1795907878340952282
I admire her being the first black MP. But she's a racist and well past her sell by date.
For our site at it's current usage, for every 23p we pay in unit costs for electricity, we pay another 12p in network costs.
It's the additional network cost that's crippling, rather than the increase in unit cost (unit cost is down from 30.9p, two and a half years ago however all the savings are swallowed by the increases in the standing charge) and that increased network cost is basically all thanks to net zero.
Incidentally, our business uses literally tons of LPG gas - the price of which has only gone up 50% since the energy crisis started, and maybe 60% over 5 years, unlike our electricity bill which is 300% up over 5 years.
There is something making UK electricity terribly expensive compared to other sources of energy, and it's not increases in the cost of fuel.
The price of wholesale electricity has dropped massively since its peak, but because of government measures that suppressed the peak (i.e, the cap), the distribution companies are all still clawing back what they lost. That will change.
Generally samples were taken to the lab, not live animals. They weren't transported along side animals for the wet market. Armadillos are an American group: you're thinking of pangolins.
If the bat was being sent to the WIV and infected a pangolin, or whatever, then that's not a lab leak. That's a zoonotic event from a wild animal, as most scientists understand to be the cause of the pandemic.
All of your other scenarios add complications and coincidences. Occam's razor suggests they all fail against the simple theory of zoonosis via the market.
Has Labour been factional, sat on Abbott's case for months to try and get rid of her. Absolutely yes and that's wrong.
Should Abbott be allowed to stand for Labour again. In my view, no she shouldn't. Are people saying she should be allowed to stand again?
Whether its Abbott or a Starmerbot that takes Hackney its a loss for everyone but that's their choice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5114q1x09eo
Here's why I hate the phrase "lab leak". Some will read it as "they were experimenting with gain of function viruses and one got loose", when that is only one of a gazillion ways that a virus can escape as a result of bat virus research.
Isabel Oakeshott
@IsabelOakeshott
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Richard Tice is Leader of
@reformparty_uk and there won’t be any deals with the Tory party. End of.
https://x.com/IsabelOakeshott
https://x.com/cbsnews/status/1795874128387334418?s=46
An animal going to the market caught it from an animal collected for research, even though animals for a research institute and animals for a wet market are not transported together, and even though there was no record of this bat ever arriving at the research institute. It's not compelling.
Turns out I can read loads of posts about the origins of covid-19 on here and learn precisely nothing.
(Not a dig at you in any way Robert, I just find the back and forth so amusingly opaque.)