"I’ll always be a Milifan. Ed was the best prime minister we never had" - Abby Tomlinson "The rightwing smear against Ed Miliband angered me. But his bravery and integrity in the face of it was an inspiration"
Yakima Herald (via Seattle Times) - Yakima County coroner accused of using dead people’s drugs and lying
Yakima police are accusing Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice of evidence tampering, making false statements and official misconduct after he falsely maintained for more than two weeks that someone tried to poison him with drugs.
Curtice told Yakima police that an energy drink, his workout energy shake powder and water in an electric tea kettle were spiked with cocaine and fentanyl, and he was taken to the hospital with drugs in his system after sipping a drink.
His claims fell apart after failing a lie-detector test, according to a Yakima police report, and he admitted he had been snorting drugs he obtained from dead bodies in the course of his job for a couple of months. . . .
While here, cops sell on to wholesale dealers. Really.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
Another good poll for Kamala Harris just released .
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
She is going to win and Trump will finally be over
IF he loses (yet again) in 2024, Donald Trump will remain ELIGIBLE under US Constitution to be elected POTUS.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
Another good poll for Kamala Harris just released .
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
She is going to win and Trump will finally be over
IF he loses (yet again) in 2024, Donald Trump will remain ELIGIBLE under US Constitution to be elected POTUS.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
New York Times - Parts of Appalachia are under warnings for landslides in Helene’s wake.
The National Hurricane Center predicted a chance of “numerous significant landslides” across southern Appalachia through Friday in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The Blue Ridge Mountains could see an additional 15 to 20 inches of rain as Helene approaches, with some areas seeing up to 30 inches, or almost three feet, of rain. . . .
The areas at risk of extreme rainfall and flash flooding included parts of eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and where the western half of North Carolina meets South Carolina.
Asheville, N.C., was at the epicenter, said Carl Schreck, a climate scientist at North Carolina State University. But other cities like Greenville, Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tenn., were also at risk.
Between 3 p.m. on Wednesday and 7 a.m. on Thursday, Dr. Schreck had measured 6.5 inches of rain at his home in Asheville. That almost doubled his previous record of 3.5 inches over the past 12 years of measuring daily rainfall.
“In the past, when we’ve had major rainfall events there certainly have been landslides,” Dr. Schreck said.
The big plume of warm, moist air that produced so much rain is called a predecessor event, or a storm that can come before a hurricane still hundreds or thousands of miles away, according to Dr. Schreck. That storm soaked soils and could make landslides even more likely as Helene brings rain and hazardous gusts of winds on Thursday and Friday.
At a news conference on Thursday, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina called Hurricane Helene an “unusually dangerous storm.”
He warned residents in the western part of the state that they could see more than a foot of rain, which was likely to “cause significant flash flooding, landslides, damaging debris flows, slope failures across steep terrain and river flooding.”
Over the last decade, flooding from extreme rainfall has been the deadliest cause of fatalities in the U.S. linked to tropical cyclones, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
Another good poll for Kamala Harris just released .
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
She is going to win and Trump will finally be over
IF he loses (yet again) in 2024, Donald Trump will remain ELIGIBLE under US Constitution to be elected POTUS.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
You are best placed on this but practically I just do not see Trump standing again, though I accept I could be wrong
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
Another good poll for Kamala Harris just released .
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
She is going to win and Trump will finally be over
IF he loses (yet again) in 2024, Donald Trump will remain ELIGIBLE under US Constitution to be elected POTUS.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
You are best placed on this but practically I just do not see Trump standing again, though I accept I could be wrong
Certainly hope you are correct! Just NOT ready to assume you are . . . quite yet.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
Cleverly speaks best, in that format, but his answer to the 'naughty' question came across a bit dour.
Tugendhat's naughty answer is even worse on seeing it. Badenoch's refusal was done with a lot more charm on screen than comes out from reading the page. Jenrick actually makes you warm to him with his answer.
But Cleverly comes across as generally the most human/normal and maybe with an ability to think about things, whether or not he actually has any answers.
In the printed form, they are all just themselves.
Cleverly offers nothing, absolutely nothing. No policies beyond that which just got the Tories utterly gubbed. He talks about earning trust and delivering - how do you do that from opposition? His political career was weak and trend driven. He'd promise little and deliver less.
Kemi also says nothing, but says it very well. That's her political career in microcosm too - great talker, very little doing stuff.
Tug end 'I was once in the miltary' - OK.
Robert Jenrick says what he wants to do, and why. He could be the most loathsome creep ever, but he says what he wants to do, and why he wants to do it. That puts him miles ahead of the rest, and those who 'cannot see the appeal' are deliberately dissembling because they dislike his politics, or plain stupid.
Don't you think the Disney cartoon episode might repulse even the average non psychopath?
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Another good poll for Kamala Harris just released .
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
She is going to win and Trump will finally be over
IF he loses (yet again) in 2024, Donald Trump will remain ELIGIBLE under US Constitution to be elected POTUS.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
Better to vote for him and get it over with then
No thank you! For one thing, however I vote, WA State is gonna go for Harris-Walz, methinks.
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
Cleverly speaks best, in that format, but his answer to the 'naughty' question came across a bit dour.
Tugendhat's naughty answer is even worse on seeing it. Badenoch's refusal was done with a lot more charm on screen than comes out from reading the page. Jenrick actually makes you warm to him with his answer.
But Cleverly comes across as generally the most human/normal and maybe with an ability to think about things, whether or not he actually has any answers.
In the printed form, they are all just themselves.
Cleverly offers nothing, absolutely nothing. No policies beyond that which just got the Tories utterly gubbed. He talks about earning trust and delivering - how do you do that from opposition? His political career was weak and trend driven. He'd promise little and deliver less.
Kemi also says nothing, but says it very well. That's her political career in microcosm too - great talker, very little doing stuff.
Tug end 'I was once in the miltary' - OK.
Robert Jenrick says what he wants to do, and why. He could be the most loathsome creep ever, but he says what he wants to do, and why he wants to do it. That puts him miles ahead of the rest, and those who 'cannot see the appeal' are deliberately dissembling because they dislike his politics, or plain stupid.
Don't you think the Disney cartoon episode might repulse even the average non psychopath?
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Not if I delete a whole bunch of your old liked posts...
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Not if I delete a whole bunch of your old liked posts...
You should extend the courtesy to the idiots who flagged me for accurately describing Lammy's first UN speech
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
Yes indeed. Lammy can be a bit of a prat but it's probably a decent strategy given some of the most pro-Russia nations outside the new axis of evil are sub-Saharan African ones who quite like Russia's no strings, no questions asked approach to money and corruption, and resent the post-empire/WW2 international settlement.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
'Spectator article'?
Difficult to find one that has the edge of craziness as the American term.
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
It’s like the Tory politicians who allegedly support Ukraine but also want Trump to win . You can’t have both . Any Tory politician supporting Trump is therefore on Putin’s side and a total disgrace .
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
'Spectator article'?
Difficult to find one that has the edge of craziness as the American term.
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
For both sides there is an element of hanging on until the outcome of the US election is known. If Harris wins the pressure building on Putin might become unsustainable. So many lives, so much treasure and increasing damage to Russia itself. If Trump wins the pressure on Zelensky to reach a peace deal whilst he still has some support will become huge.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
'Spectator article'?
Difficult to find one that has the edge of craziness as the American term.
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
It’s like the Tory politicians who allegedly support Ukraine but also want Trump to win . You can’t have both . Any Tory politician supporting Trump is therefore on Putin’s side and a total disgrace .
No, they are just stupid. It is not only the White Queen who can believe 6 impossible things before breakfast.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
'Spectator article'?
Difficult to find one that has the edge of craziness as the American term.
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
Crackpot's reasonably close.
It needs to hint at something that has gone beyond eccentric, to teetering on the edge - without saying it.
"I have carrot juice on my cornflakes. My Aunt Flo lived to 93, and she died the day she stopped drinking half a pint of carrot juice with her breakfast."
The kind of idea that could have been the basis of a plot for the Goodies, translated to be a proposal for real life. Or perhaps that has escaped from Last of the Summer Wine.
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Not if I delete a whole bunch of your old liked posts...
Oh, oh, you're so harsh. My self esteem might collapse.
A load of daft hacks pouring endless nonsense about frocks.
Labour still leading. Indeed up (MOE).
Funny old world!
Labour are doing stuff that’s unpopular, but it’s hard to see any long term advantage.
The risk is he's misread the electorate: he becomes unpopular and stays unpopular.
Governments that win elections become unpopular and then win reelection generally do so because they've set out a vision, secured a mandate, executed some difficult choices to further it, and then some of the fruits of that vision are eventually realised.
That's what leads to swingback. It's not an inevitable force of nature.
Has everyone in the whole world noticed that David Lammy is black so he knows how a slave feels? And go Ukraine
Do you want to elaborate? Is this your interpretation or his?
Did you see his UN speech attacking Russia? He talked about his blackness and slaves, then mentioned Ukraine
Considering that most UN members AND their representatives to the UN are predominately non-White, perhaps Lamy referencing "blackness and slaves" in advocating for Ukraine is NOT as cockamamie as you might think?
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
I wonder what the best British English equivalent of cockamamie is. Laughable maybe? Risible? Paper-thin? Harlequinade?
'Spectator article'?
Difficult to find one that has the edge of craziness as the American term.
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
Crackpot's reasonably close.
You live in north Yorkshire?
I have never been to North Yorkshire. I have watched enough tens of thousands of hours of 1950-2024 US TV to have some sense of what Cockamamie means. But I defer to you as a genuine American, of course...
Carnforth, of course, is in Lancashire, unlike Crackpot. Never been there either.
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Now you're merely nearly 10k likes short of 40,000....
A load of daft hacks pouring endless nonsense about frocks.
Labour still leading. Indeed up (MOE).
Funny old world!
Labour are doing stuff that’s unpopular, but it’s hard to see any long term advantage.
The risk is he's misread the electorate: he becomes unpopular and stays unpopular.
Governments that win elections become unpopular and then win reelection generally do so because they've set out a vision, secured a mandate, executed some difficult choices to further it, and then some of the fruits of that vision are eventually realised.
That's what leads to swingback. It's not an inevitable force of nature.
Not sure that's true. However unpopular a Government may be, their chances of re-election are increased by the quality of the opposition facing them (2024 is only a slight exception to the rule). The Conservative win in 1992 was undoubtedly related to the inability of Kinnock to convince he would be a good Prime Minister.
The key for the Conservatives by 2028/9 is to be that good quality opposition with a clear vision of how Britain in the 2030s is going to be governed and what kind of country and society it will be. There's zero evidence of that currently (which is no surprise - it's very early) but this year's winner has to use the 2025 Conference to start enunciating their vision. That vision may of course be very different to what they say next week which is about winning the current leadership election.
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
Now you're merely nearly 10k likes short of 40,000....
But how many gallons/litres short of a full tank/whatever-you-UKers-call-that?
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
I rather liked seeing Lammy sticking it to Putin at the UN. Not sure what has upset people about that. Starmer also talked about Russian soldiers being treated as meat. About time we had some plain speaking.
Hurricane Helene is turning out to be extremly serious.
NYT Update (10 min ago) - Even many storm veterans chose to evacuate.
Here’s the latest. A two-story-high wall of water is forecast to swallow a large stretch of the Florida coastline overnight as Hurricane Helene rages ashore after sundown. Already rain and heavy surf is pounding much of the state’s Gulf Coast, with forecasters warning of a “nightmare” scenario for the communities along the Big Bend region [south of Tallahassee].
Up to 20 feet of storm surge is predicted — an amount exceeded on the Gulf Coast in recent decades only by Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. Cities across the Southeast, including Atlanta, will also face pounding rain and flooding after Helene makes landfall, likely sometime before midnight on Thursday.
SSI - we've already had reports from Ian re: situation in western NC, already affected by the massive storm in far-off Gulf of Mexico, and where officials, residents AND visitors are preparing (hopefully) for worse.
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
I rather liked seeing Lammy sticking it to Putin at the UN. Not sure what has upset people about that. Starmer also talked about Russian soldiers being treated as meat. About time we had some plain speaking.
Lammy made his skin colour the main topic
It was fucking weird
Sensible, sane and measured DavidL criticised the same speech as racist idiot Livermore
Roger's few remaining brain cells must be struggling
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
I rather liked seeing Lammy sticking it to Putin at the UN. Not sure what has upset people about that. Starmer also talked about Russian soldiers being treated as meat. About time we had some plain speaking.
Lammy made his skin colour the main topic
It was fucking weird
Sensible, sane and measured DavidL criticised the same speech as racist idiot Livermore
Roger's few remaining brain cells must be struggling
Well I saw a 6 or 7 minute clip which I assume was the whole thing? He mentioned slavery at the end which undoubtedly highlighted something not apparent to much of the global south. That Russia is a racist white empire. As SSI said you tailor your message to the audience. I don't see anything wrong with that.
A load of daft hacks pouring endless nonsense about frocks.
Labour still leading. Indeed up (MOE).
Funny old world!
Labour are doing stuff that’s unpopular, but it’s hard to see any long term advantage.
You can see the long term advantage to the most howled about. Means testing the WFA frees up a bit of money by cutting something that has become a bit of an anachronism and shibboleth politicians of all colours were terrified of scrapping due to the power of the grey vote. You can tell that because it's stayed the same for 20 years while the amount paid in the state pension has more than doubled over that time. At some point you'd have to increase or scrap it.
It means longer term, all other things being equal, that bit of freed up money can be targeted at another group Labour wants to feel a bit better off who generally now vote for them when the time comes. Or thrown at a problem they need a quick fix for.
But it obviously upsets people because it was so emotively branded by Gordon Brown when it was really something of an accountancy trick to allow Labour to do something on pensioner poverty when they got in power without screwing around with uprating.
VP Harris points out that "there are some in my country who [want] to force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory...these proposals are the same as those of Putin. Let us be be clear. They are not proposals for peace. Instead, they are proposals for surrender" https://x.com/atrupar/status/1839394402365510135
Note that Zelensky asked to meet with both Trump and Speaker Johnson. Both refused.
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
I rather liked seeing Lammy sticking it to Putin at the UN. Not sure what has upset people about that. Starmer also talked about Russian soldiers being treated as meat. About time we had some plain speaking.
When you said "meat", were you actually talking about sausages?
He makes Chamberlain and Halifax appear resolute opponents of warmongering dictators.
He's more akin to Stalin. Quite happy to do a deal with the Nazis.
I'd say personally he's more akin to Brezhnev. A senile old grifter stoked to the eyeballs on drugs with delusions of his own vast omnicompetence and personal popularity.
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
He comes across as a chump. He's a former Brexit Party candidate.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions. https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
Who cares about Ike
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
I rather liked seeing Lammy sticking it to Putin at the UN. Not sure what has upset people about that. Starmer also talked about Russian soldiers being treated as meat. About time we had some plain speaking.
Lammy made his skin colour the main topic
It was fucking weird
Sensible, sane and measured DavidL criticised the same speech as racist idiot Livermore
Roger's few remaining brain cells must be struggling
Well I saw a 6 or 7 minute clip which I assume was the whole thing? He mentioned slavery at the end which undoubtedly highlighted something not apparent to much of the global south. That Russia is a racist white empire. As SSI said you tailor your message to the audience. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I think it would probably help even more if he addressed the UN in pidgin
"It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip. This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current Party are far removed from the Party I joined and served in Cabinet. My decision is a reflection of how far right my Party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter"
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Or will get his P 45?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/11/milifan-prime-minister-ed-miliband
"I’ll always be a Milifan. Ed was the best prime minister we never had" - Abby Tomlinson
"The rightwing smear against Ed Miliband angered me. But his bravery and integrity in the face of it was an inspiration"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/25/detective-found-guilty-after-stealing-cocaine-and-giving-it-to-dealers
Let's hope that stacks up better than the GCE lies or he has broken electoral law and is a gonner..
Worse still is a Streeting or Reeves Premiership.
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1839367851091845479?t=vObi7EqB2zWzICLLRwVJNQ&s=19
The latest Echelon Insights which is ranked highly on 538 has her up 52-45 in a head to head with Trump and up 49-44 in the full ballot .
https://x.com/DSFireUpdates/status/1628394515563270146?lang=en-GB
And other than the Director's Box at the Emirates, SKS is not going anywhere. Sorry.
Thankfully, no-one you have listed has ever taken an illicit substance.
He recently said that he didn't "think" he run again, but that's hardly a self-denying ordinance.
AND assuming Trump would be, as a pracical matter, unelectable let alone un-nominatable, would be as risky as betting in 1964 that Richard Nixon was finished as a potential candidate . . . or in 2004 that a DJT nomination/presidency was "obvioiusly" impossible.
New York Times - Parts of Appalachia are under warnings for landslides in Helene’s wake.
The National Hurricane Center predicted a chance of “numerous significant landslides” across southern Appalachia through Friday in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The Blue Ridge Mountains could see an additional 15 to 20 inches of rain as Helene approaches, with some areas seeing up to 30 inches, or almost three feet, of rain. . . .
The areas at risk of extreme rainfall and flash flooding included parts of eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and where the western half of North Carolina meets South Carolina.
Asheville, N.C., was at the epicenter, said Carl Schreck, a climate scientist at North Carolina State University. But other cities like Greenville, Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tenn., were also at risk.
Between 3 p.m. on Wednesday and 7 a.m. on Thursday, Dr. Schreck had measured 6.5 inches of rain at his home in Asheville. That almost doubled his previous record of 3.5 inches over the past 12 years of measuring daily rainfall.
“In the past, when we’ve had major rainfall events there certainly have been landslides,” Dr. Schreck said.
The big plume of warm, moist air that produced so much rain is called a predecessor event, or a storm that can come before a hurricane still hundreds or thousands of miles away, according to Dr. Schreck. That storm soaked soils and could make landslides even more likely as Helene brings rain and hazardous gusts of winds on Thursday and Friday.
At a news conference on Thursday, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina called Hurricane Helene an “unusually dangerous storm.”
He warned residents in the western part of the state that they could see more than a foot of rain, which was likely to “cause significant flash flooding, landslides, damaging debris flows, slope failures across steep terrain and river flooding.”
Over the last decade, flooding from extreme rainfall has been the deadliest cause of fatalities in the U.S. linked to tropical cyclones, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9RKbkGY-U
Buddhists don't Budge
Confucianists don't Count
Shintoists don't Shift
Greek Orthodoxts don't give a s[that's enough - Ed]
@ikeijeh
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Lammy is at the UN to defend Ukraine's identity, not his.
He is an atomic mushroom cloud of embarrassment.
https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1838919683405169069
I don't know who Ike Ijeh is, but I doubt he's a white far right racist
There's hope for me yet! I could still be PM! I managed to dress myself unaided this morning!
* How the UK is becoming a ‘third-world’ economy (CaspianReport): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTWDzMjgsEY
* Britain is a dump (BritMonkey): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ
https://x.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1838964768591220937
I've read the FAQ on the Trump watches, and it is glorious
https://x.com/BGrueskin/status/1839369248403316788
Pitching one's arguments when possible to one's audience, is certain smart debating . . . and politics.
Christian guy : "It is proof of Jesus love for us and the word of God"
Muslim guy : "It is proof of the teaching of the Prophet and the word of God"
......
Hindu guy : "I've no idea what's happening, but isn't it marvellous!"
Or will the electorate sneer at the notion?
Musk not invited to a conference about encouraging investment in the UK. Crazy. The man is nuts but he is also a potentially huge investor. Its almost as childish as Lammy's behaviour at the UN.
BTW, I am currently sitting on 29,999 likes. Just saying.
And I am NOT alone.
Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh 17h
Would never have happened were an Elizabeth still on the throne. Historically, female monarchs are better than female chancellors at repelling Spanish invasions.
https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1839130033614422042
Historically ... female Chancellors.
All the commentary has been about how she's the first one.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-0f4d539aa73a943474d779716e5fe42a
Did Lammy bore on about his ethnicity and slavery when he was supposed to be talking about Ukraine?
Or will he be dropped off at Job Centre Plus?
Or will Starmer endorse someone different - the toad!
Perhaps "harebrained", or "crackpot", or "pea-brained"?
Is there anything frm Yiddish or Anglo-Saxon that could apply? It needs to have sharp-cornered syllables.
Or switch on the telly to watch his unseating.
"I have carrot juice on my cornflakes. My Aunt Flo lived to 93, and she died the day she stopped drinking half a pint of carrot juice with her breakfast."
The kind of idea that could have been the basis of a plot for the Goodies, translated to be a proposal for real life. Or perhaps that has escaped from Last of the Summer Wine.
Governments that win elections become unpopular and then win reelection generally do so because they've set out a vision, secured a mandate, executed some difficult choices to further it, and then some of the fruits of that vision are eventually realised.
That's what leads to swingback. It's not an inevitable force of nature.
Carnforth, of course, is in Lancashire, unlike Crackpot. Never been there either.
The key for the Conservatives by 2028/9 is to be that good quality opposition with a clear vision of how Britain in the 2030s is going to be governed and what kind of country and society it will be. There's zero evidence of that currently (which is no surprise - it's very early) but this year's winner has to use the 2025 Conference to start enunciating their vision. That vision may of course be very different to what they say next week which is about winning the current leadership election.
Crucially, the main weapon at media’s disposal is Labour’s insistence, for months and years while in opposition, that the Conservatives were rotten to the core while they were white as snow. “Elect us and we’ll clean up politics”, they told the country at the time, carefully placing Chekov’s gun on the table. The country listened and elected them, and now has the temerity to expect the party to live up to the higher standards it had promised them. Gun, meet foot.
NYT Update (10 min ago) - Even many storm veterans chose to evacuate.
Here’s the latest.
A two-story-high wall of water is forecast to swallow a large stretch of the Florida coastline overnight as Hurricane Helene rages ashore after sundown. Already rain and heavy surf is pounding much of the state’s Gulf Coast, with forecasters warning of a “nightmare” scenario for the communities along the Big Bend region [south of Tallahassee].
Up to 20 feet of storm surge is predicted — an amount exceeded on the Gulf Coast in recent decades only by Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. Cities across the Southeast, including Atlanta, will also face pounding rain and flooding after Helene makes landfall, likely sometime before midnight on Thursday.
SSI - we've already had reports from Ian re: situation in western NC, already affected by the massive storm in far-off Gulf of Mexico, and where officials, residents AND visitors are preparing (hopefully) for worse.
It was fucking weird
Sensible, sane and measured DavidL criticised the same speech as racist idiot Livermore
Roger's few remaining brain cells must be struggling
It means longer term, all other things being equal, that bit of freed up money can be targeted at another group Labour wants to feel a bit better off who generally now vote for them when the time comes. Or thrown at a problem they need a quick fix for.
But it obviously upsets people because it was so emotively branded by Gordon Brown when it was really something of an accountancy trick to allow Labour to do something on pensioner poverty when they got in power without screwing around with uprating.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1839394402365510135
Note that Zelensky asked to meet with both Trump and Speaker Johnson.
Both refused.
Go away, Sayeeda