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Clearly Lord Alli needs to spend more money on the glasses he donates to Starmer so Starmer can read the teleprompter. https://t.co/nGCYtL1YPB
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As people talk about the path to 270 this year, worth remembering that by 2032 (two elections away) the path could look very different thanks to the next reapportionment.
https://x.com/mcpli/status/1838216648773325294
"Singapore’s former transport minister pleads guilty to receiving gifts" (£)
https://www.ft.com/content/e829ffc7-9475-4e4c-ba8f-04da0fd015c4
Interesting article in NYT today re: Nebraska - NOT a daily occurence!
Subject is failure of Trump lobbying effort, spearheaded by . . . wait for it . . . Lindsey Graham, to get a fillibuster-proof super-majority of legislators in Nebraska's unicameral legislature, to pass legislation making the Cornhusker State winner-take-all for POTUS electoral college voting. Instead of awarding three EVs on congressional district basis, which resulted in Obama winning the Omaha CD in 2008 and Biden in 2020.
Reason for MAGA failure due to refusal of key NB legislator to go along, a senator (all members of officially non-partisan Unicameral are styled suchlike) from Omaha who is a former Democrat now Republican, who's term-limited AND gearing up to run for mayor of Big O.
This is truly crazy. Imagine if HRC paid Jill Biden or Michelle Obama $237,500 to speak at their dinners…. The entire board would be fired.
I have never once paid (beyond expenses/travel costs etc which we have to do legally) a speaker for any political event I have ever done.
https://x.com/rufusgifford/status/1838254612823842911
I think it speaks to how much standards have been lowered, that everyone thought this was normal now in the US.
Not good.
It seems it must have resonated for the BBC to be reporting it
A young man met Uxbridge at an event and noticed that he only had one leg. He enquired of a friend what had happened to be told that Uxbridge had lost his leg at Waterloo.
“oh,” he replied. “Which platform?”
The language from the sergeant at the medical centre was, apparently, ripe!
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66f19f7975446d60123ee2e3/Skills_England_report.pdf
If this works well it could be an game changer on productivity.
Skills England is a new arms-length body to tackle skills shortages and support sustained economic growth.
This report includes:
the role of Skills England
skills challenges limiting economic growth and barriers to opportunity
an initial analysis of current and future skills needs, including which occupations are high in demand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler
Trump: California, they have blackouts and brownouts every single day.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1838311444015911269
This is like Starmer saying "Where's John Timpson ?"
Trump demands that NBC bring back Johnny Carson. "Where's Johnny? Bring back Johnny." Johnny Carson died in 2005.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1838311444015911269
Were he still with us, Johnny would have LOTS of funny ragging on Donald Trump, the same way he did with Ronald Reagan . . .
ADDENDUM - Note that standard "Tonight" show entro for Carson, delivered by his long-time sidekick Ed McMahon, was "Heeeeeere's Johhhhhnny!"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-two-of-president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive/#textNearly2017520years20later2C20twowas20sworn20in20as20president
In olden days, egregious mocking
Was looked at askance by folk like Topping.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Ex Presidents too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
At MAGA shows.
Anything goes.
If AR15s you like
Or groping teens you like,
If fight, fight, fight you like,
If the extreme right you like,
If mass deportation
Is how you’d fix the nation,
Why, nobody will oppose.
When Vance’s Project Twen-
-Ty Five plan goes ahead, then
Donald knows,
Anything goes.
This, from,the Sinnerman, is funny for those of us of a certain generation.
https://x.com/paulybengali/status/1838589873764065613?s=61
He was truly a national laughing stock back in the day! So who's laughing now?
That gaffe today is the least of his worries electorally I would say.
(Not smart given the Judaism context, but if Labour are going after the farming vote...)
BUT ARE THEY PORK SAUSAGES???
We need to be told
And my daughter has traced the English side of the family through marriage records to 1522 in the Cotswolds
And everyone is going to have to eat them.
…for a bunch of liberal arts graduates to fill the upper echelons of the new quango, writing lots of reports and commissioning lots of studies over the next few years.
Forgive my cynicism, but more often than not these organisations have mostly enriched those working there.
First impressions count and this government has made a very poor first impression.
The budget will be an important moment I think. Will it reset the dial? Or just make things worse?
Your link is much more interesting though.
It will be interesting if this has had an effect
Vegan venison. Obviously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21RudiPoC0
Note that intro to show on this clip, is by Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinson NOT sidekick Ed McMahon.
ADDENDUM - yet more Carson on Trump . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJSZ1TtG_M
The Legal Eagle people have a good video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnJ6Ttaiu9M
I find it deeply disturbing that we were not considered influential enough for a straight bribe. Come on Kremlin, cash out, and we'll let the trolls in.
It's also a counter to all those who say 'Labour doesn't have any plans to improve productivity'. It does.
An interesting 2/3 day reinhabiting former memories in Nottingham, with a niceish lunch out and walking round the centre and the Park Estate, which became a "no through traffic" area in the late 1980s iirc, but may have been the same before it was opened up as it has been there since mid-Victorian times. A big flat building site where whatever replaces the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre will be.
It seems to be doing reasonably well as a pleasant place to me, and will benefit from being one of the places which will not have a chargeable Low Emissons Zone, as they have had an "anti-congestion and provide alternatives" strategy in place for a little over 25 years.
And my first experience with mobile phone payable parking spaces. I can see certain benefits - such as remote time extension. And certain benefits for the parking scheme administrators.
Harris 48% Trump 47% Oliver 2% Stein 1%
' The latest poll finds Harris and Trump roughly even with independent likely voters – Harris at 45% to Trump at 41% - with a gender gap that is centered among independents. Independent women break 51% Harris to 36% Trump while independent men split 47% for Trump to 40% for Harris, with very little difference between men and women in either party.
The gender divide in the poll is also more concentrated among White voters (White men break 58% Trump to 35% Harris, while White women split 50% Trump to 47% Harris), with very little gender divide among Black or Latino voters. Harris is well ahead among likely voters younger than 30 (55% support her to 38% who favor Trump), and among Black (79% Harris to 16% Trump) and Latino (59% Harris to 40% Trump) likely voters.
A scant 2% of likely voters say they haven’t yet chosen a candidate to support, and another 12% have chosen one but say they could change their minds.'
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/24/politics/polls-trump-harris-presidential-election/index.html
However.
The key thing is that, after nearly five years of trying, neither Starmer's opponents nor his enemies have been able to identify a viable alternative. And personally, I'm highly unconvinced that Jenrick or Badenoch are that viable alternative.
"Best of a poor bunch" is still best, however poor they are.
Good PR for Israel’s premier sausage manufacturer: “separation barriers”.
We declined.
We should have gone and taken the money and pumped out pro Ukraine content.
I remember one of the great things about George H. Bush's legendary slip of the tongue where he said he and Reagan had had sex instead of setbacks was how he had a fit of the giggles.
For what THAT's worth.
One wonders how many votes THAT shaved from HC's total in 2016? Not many, but maybe enough.