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Some Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
Some Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
Ladbrokes have bets on Nigel Farage, to be honest none of them very attractive, sadly there’s no market on Farage becoming Donald Trump’s personal proctologist in the next year or going back on I’m A Celebrity to eat a kangaroo’s bung hole.
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Edit: Bugger!
https://x.com/daithaigilbert/status/1832016542629830922
Australia v Scotland in Edinburgh on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/live/c5y5z04gkndt
catparty?And if you remove Nigel... what's left?
I also expect they won't allow me to put much money on what is an 8% return in 16 months.
(Unless anybody annoys me or insults David Cameron, then I will deploy it)
https://x.com/richardajkeys/status/1831668295348449648
Every day is a school day on PB So you are predicting both a Labour win and Reform in second place or a Farage reverse takeover of the Tory Party. All plausible HY. All plausible!
If so, I will agree to revise my opinion of him ,slightly. upwards
However, Boris Johnson likes cats.
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What a day for bumping into unpalatable people. I just saw Jamie Redknapp. Happily I needed a No2 which was much more pleasant than stopping to talk.
I'm Hitler
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-france-blames-britain-for-the-channel-migrant-crisis/
I'm interested in your logic. Surely, morally, imprisonment can't exclusively require intent? The outcome, there, ^ was catastrophic and avoidable. The road rules are there for a reason and have to be enforced, right?
If that happened to you, or a loved one, surely you would expect your society/government to exact some form of visible punishment?
I don't know what the term of imprisonment should be for that ^ but I think imprisonment is a morally correct outcome. You don't, Why?
BTW, credit to the family who (presumably?) allowed that video to be released.
Here are the murder numbers for the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/ Most, but not all, are committed by guns, so you would have to correct for that.
Possibly true, even so, at the crime peak around 1980. Not true, now, assuming my arithmetic is correct.
(Currently, fentanyl is about three times as big a problem as murders: https://www.statista.com/statistics/895945/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-us/
To some extent, I blame the Biden administration, just as to some extent I blame the Loser for some COVID deaths.)
If that happened to me or a loved one I would expect a community order or a suspended sentence as the maximum, prison should be confined to those who are genuinely dangerous or pose a serious threat to society as I said
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/27/in-30-states-a-child-can-still-legally-own-a-rife-or-shotgun/
Ricky Jones pleads not guilty after video emerged in which he appeared to call for far-right protesters’ throats to be ‘cut’"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/06/suspended-labour-councillor-ricky-jones-denies-encouraging-violent-disorder
Do you think the cyclist did something wrong?
Aren't people who disregard the road rules a serious threat to society?
I'm not trying to make out that the driver was evil, or anything, and credit to him for stopping. Actually, no credit for stopping. It's what people who live in a society do. We just do it, don't we?
The driver should also have stopped for longer and looked more closely but the cyclist was not without fault either.
So no, a driver who was not speeding very fast and not on drugs or drunk and not doing an illegal manoeuvre on a motorway say is not a serious threat to society no and should not be in prison. At most a community order and driving ban for a few years would suffice
In the last two months I've had seven days off
I think that makes my average "week" equal eight and a half days including the one day weekend
Can't wait for my holiday in just over a fortnight..
The woman at the centre of the sexism row involving former Sky Sports pundits Richard Keys and Andy Gray has launched a legal action against parent company BSkyB.
Louise Glass, the former partner of Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp, filed legal papers at the high court in London on Thursday, 17 months after Keys and Gray lost their jobs over the controversial comments.
Glass said in January last year she planned to sue the broadcaster for breach of privacy and defamation.
Keys resigned and his co-host Andy Gray was sacked by Sky in January 2011 after leaked footage appeared on YouTube of them making sexist remarks about women.
Keys, now a TalkSport presenter, referred to Glass as "it" and twice asked the former Liverpool footballer Redknapp whether he had "smashed it".
In the leaked footage, a conversation begins with someone off camera mentioning a former girlfriend of Redknapp called Louise. Keys asks Redknapp whether he "smashed it" and the former player replies that he "used to go out with her".
Although Sky Sports did not originally air the footage, BSkyB-owned Sky News replayed the comments after they appeared on YouTube.
Glass told the Sunday Mirror in January last year that the remarks made her feel "awful". "Richard Keys spoke of me like I was some old whore, like I was nothing. I'm not a prude, I've got a sense of humour, but the level of aggression in there was awful," she said. "I wasn't even a whore. I was an 'it'. My life has turned upside down and now I'm paying the price for their slapstick."
She added: "I just feel that if so many people are talking about me I should tell them I'm not an 'it', that it's not 'banter', it's very detrimental to my character and whoever leaked that should be punished."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jun/18/redknapp-bskyb-legal-action
That said, it was impressively fast for a lady in her 70s! Speed limits don't apply to bikes, but if she was doing well over the (motorised vehicle) speed limit then I'd have some sympathy that cyclist had some fault. But if that's a 30 then it's unlikely.
It's pure bigotry from you, I'm afraid. If you think that's "very fast", it looks like Epping will be getting blanket 10mph speed limits in the near future.
Oddly enough, I also agree that it should be a shorter sentence, or none at all. But it should be a much, much longer driving ban.
What a piece of work that man is
I'm having baguette with butter, bacon, brie and balsamic blueberries
I'm going to bake the bacon, and boil the balsamic and blueberries before, and then build a bulging brown bread baguette
I thought about adding basil, but there must be barriers to barminess
There's a lot of good food in England, but the difference in the distribution is interesting.
I agree though driving ban at most not prison for the driver
Its not particularly funny but there seems a rather hopeless attempt at humour there. I certainly don't get her impression.
Again, if a pedestrian had wandered out in front of a car to adapt your example, you'd not be blaming the driver if they were within the speed limit, not on drugs or drunk and stopped.
The rest of your perspective, I find odd.
If it does then you are helpless, as we see here.
Sentence about right imo. But what about that silver people carrier, did it actually stop? Looks like perhaps not.
FWIW, I never overtake free-flowing traffic, so if I'm in a 20 I'll be sticking to 20 if the cars are. I don't tend to trouble 30mph unless going downhill and it's pretty flat around here (there was one part of an old route for my commute where I often cleared 30mph down a long hill, but that was a 40mph stretch of road anyway)
But Putin's a lot more desperate now. As is Trump.
Looking at the driver's reaction, I think it a simple case of "didn't see". It happens, usually without serious consequence. But I can't see any respect in which this is in any way the cyclist's fault.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/35
A cyclist follows the rules of the road to the letter yet is blamed for an crash that they could neither predict nor control caused by a car driver who utterly failed to yield the right of way as they were required to by both the rules of the road & their duty of care to other road users.
One can reasonably argue about whether a custodial sentence is appropriate in this case. Arguing that the cyclist bore any responsibility for this crash is simply car-centric, driver responsibility minimising thinking that should not stand.