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Tom Tugendhat changes his slogan for the Conservative leadership contest after realising it spelt out “turd” (2024) pic.twitter.com/Vo09V1TICT
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The Hundred has given us this seminal moment in cricket.
The batsman's Holden, the bowler's WIlley.
Good morning, everyone.
F1: If you're inclined to go safety first and have backed Piastri each way at 8, you can lay him (just for the win) at 5.5 on Betfair.
Not quite as good as the 1976 original, involving David Willey's father (Peter) and the great West Indian quick Michael Holding.
A great moment in the Test Match Special annals, but in my opinion beaten by the Botham "couldn't quite get his leg over" comment (and its absolutely uncontrolled aftermath).
That still brings tears to my eyes every time I rehear it, even though I'm old enough to have heard in live in 1991.
They don't make bloopers like they used to!
Wisconsin: Trump 50, Harris 49
Minnesota: Harris 52, Trump 46
Pennsylvania: Trump 49, Harris 49
Michigan: Trump 49, Harris 49
Then finish with 'one prison sentence away.'
Macquarie to acquire remaining stake in UK's National Gas
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/macquarie-acquire-remaining-stake-uks-102642211.html
https://youtu.be/D0a-FOoM9ms
The answer is going to be rigorous regulation which can be implemented as part of the approval request with an eye on ensuring the firm does not end up bankrupt as we reduce the amount of gas used over the next 30 years
Reminds me of Ed Milliband on a rainy day.
The trick the Tories have to manage now is to ignore their current instincts, remember who they once were, not get tempted by maga and avoid the latter.
Tough. Cleverly might buy them time, feels like the holding pattern candidate.
Tugendhat is though probably the most centrist of the Tory leadership candidates, whereas in. 2010 the most centrist Labour leadership candidate was David Miliband but the party chose Ed.
However regardless of the ideology of the Leader of the Opposition or their dodgy campaign slogans, how quickly they return to power depends in large part how the Labour government manages the economy and immigration
In a very cack-handed way.
Is his campaign all fart and no follow through?
Is he just going through the motions?
Enough of this shite!
Just don't let them invest in UK renewables, the leeches.
Labour will put the right back in contention - they're already shooting themselves in the foot and they've been in Government for weeks. They're going to be disastrously unpopular - an exemplar of all the worst anti-quality-of-life policies on everything that the rest of the world is currently moving away from.
What the Tories need to do is make sure that they're the ones who the public turns to as the alternative, at least the majority - some Reform presence in unwinnable red wall seats is not undesirable.
As chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee, he was a notable hindsight merchant.
Cleverly, or even Stride (who has something of the Jim Hacker about him) would be a better choice.
Today's contribution:
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817004024258003196
Though actually she's better leaving most of that stuff to surrogates, and work on positive messages.
Race start at 14.00. It should be online here: https://www.youtube.com/@T100Triathlon/streams
If you want to see it live, the bike course goes through London from Docklands to Westminter:
https://t100triathlon.com/london/100km-open/
(Amateurs race as well as the pros)
Does being last to announce put you in the spotlight?
Vickers! The last man standing in formerly Tory Teesside
Vickers! The man who can out-drink Hauge!
Vickers! The legend who campaigned to get the Parma on the menu in Westminster
Vickers! His seat is the same as Harold MacMillan’s
Get it done Matt. The party needs you
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1816436341703397765
pretty much gets the ratio right. Lots of KH smiling with just enough snarl from the other side to set it off.
I'm not even against the competition otherwise and like the men and women's teams set up.
We joke about Starmer being dull but he was what the party wanted at the time and as it turns out what they needed too. Even if Tugendhat was the latter is his pitch the former?
FWIW I voted Balls to grapple the economic argument directly.
https://x.com/chyeaok/status/1816202754039406997
(On topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEQRVhXpOQ)
"Win back the country" is a better, more positive message than "defeat Labour" anyway.
The acronym TURD is how GCSE physicists are taught to remember the behaviour of a standard thermistor (temperature up, resistance down). Maybe one of the remaining Tory Teachers did v1 of the graphic.
For instance, the T100 today has a 20-metre drafting rule.
As an inexperienced rider, I found it hard to maintain the drafting distance at times wen a rider was slightly slower than me. I didn't have too much spare power to overtake in the allotted time, nor the biking skills to 'read' the course to take advantage of gradients. But since I was so far down the order, and riding so slowly, I didn't really gain anything and I doubt anyone cared.
https://www.carpixel.net/w/94574fadcf626a43cf0310e5f118815a/mercedes-amg-gt-black-series-f1-safety-car-wallpaper-hd-107844.jpg
(Which is perhaps an another definition of what the Tories used to be.)
https://x.com/Victorshi2020/status/1816888331000529352
The fact you can only define a space to the right of Lenin is the hint of the problem. Who are the Tories and what are they for? It’s not clear right now. Are they conservatives or are they populist maga? Do they care about protecting the environment? Or are they drill baby drill? Do they care about individual liberty or are they social conservatives? Do they follow Thatcher or Truss when it comes to sound money?
The Crowdstrike head dickhead owns the Ferrari "Big 5" so that's cool.
I guess next year they’ll swap it for the new 800bhp hybrid one.
https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/mercedes-amg-gt63-s-e-performance-ph-review/48784
Crowdstrike guy should be forced to auction his Ferraris, with the money going to his pissed-off customers. Hit him hard where he’d notice.
This tends to reinforce that.
https://x.com/mattsheffield/status/1816900473540214863
It also feels curiously flat. The events fight so hard to grab its audiences attention - often with stuff they remain stubbornly indifferent to, like DJs and inane presenters - that the audience starts to switch off from everything its attention isn't explicitly directed towards.
Also, while its supposed to be for the kids, no amount of BBC3-style guff can compensate in my kids's opinion fot tge excitement of a man dressed as a giraffe and the sporadic projection of free tshirts into the crowd.
To br fair, Labour are not immune to this, and will often present "defeat the Tories" as a self evident good. (Shades of Gordon Brown, after the bust of 2008, claiming hr never said "No more boom and bust" but "No more Tory boom and bust" - as if a Labour boom and bust was self evidently better - which he was such a mad tribalist I can well imagine he believed.)
Leaders with high bossiness quotient include Cameron (shades of David Brent), Sturgeon (team leader in a public sector or financial institution across middle Scotland), Starmer, May. Low bossiness: Corbyn, Johnson (unusually for a successful leader), Truss.
I'd say if I was to distil the Conservatism I'd like to see into onr overriding principle, it would be that our grandchildren should become better off than we are. That's what all policy positions should be tested against. The answers will always be complex, but it's a good starting point.
1) Make right wing dog whistles to attract the membership.
2) Ignore once elected and mix woke Libdem social policies with economic policies that protect the wealth of the rich and large corporations, while continuning managed decline and the place generally going to pot if you are not lucky enough to live in a rural estate or gated community, what?
Which is why 'drill baby, drill', 'burn baby, burn', and 'borrow baby, borrow' are such unconservative things to do. See also Boomer Service, which often boils down to spending the grandkids' inheritance.
This is why it is so popular among the wealthy centrist elite running the Tory Party. Providing they say the right things they are absolved from patriachal care of the Oiks. Indeed they can demonise the Oiks for wrongthink.
'Delayed Gratification is also the total antithesis of both conservatism and Christianity as it preaches a gospel of instant gratification and moreover a *right* to instant gratification.'
I'm not going to complain at that price..
https://x.com/nypost/status/1816551361476977006?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
I did, however, try some lovely MOLDOVAN sparkling wine on my recent visit there. A lot of places now make good fizz