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Kemi-kaze does it again as punters abandon her – politicalbetting.com

Another ‘clarification’ coming soon https://t.co/1Wciu3irwS
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Not sure quite how we find space for 50,000 additional prisoners given the disaster that was Conservative prison policy.
I should know but I don't !!!!!!!!!!!!
They will vote for the most red meat fantasy politics candidate of the two put before them it seems.
But maybe somehow sense will prevail and Cleverly will make it.
But then again - the tory position is so dire, maybe rolling the dice with her might work out?
At least everyone in UK would know who she is by time of next election as there is one outrage after another.
But if this is it, my God that is pathetic
The whole of social media is full of pro-Hezbollah, Shiite militant, Israel-hating rabid dogs screaming for Iran to finally take proper revenge, SMITE the Jewish state. avenge all the terrible humiliations,. from the pagers to the assassinations and now the invasion... and.... this is it???
They are not happy. They are very unhappy. Iran looks like a damp paper tiger scared of its smartphone
Could be a regime-toppler
Trafalgar (Very Rep bias) - Trump 291, Harris 232, Tied 15
Patriot (Very Rep bias) - Trump 281, Harris 241, Tied 16
InsiderAdvantage (Leans Rep) - Trump 275, Harris 252, Tied 11
AtlasIntel (Rep bias) - Trump 274, Harris 248, Tied 16
Siena (Neutral) - Trump 262, Harris 255, Tied 21
Emerson (Neutral) - Trump 256, Harris 241, Tied 41
Redfield & Wilton (British) - Trump 251, Harris 241, Tied 46
Marist (Neutral) - Harris 251, Trump 246, Tied 41
CNN / SSRS (Neutral) - Harris 273, Trump 230, Tied 35
YouGov (Neutral) - Harris 276, Trump 262
Morning Consult (Leans Dem) - Harris 303, Trump 219, Tied 16
Focaldata (British) - Harris 303, Trumpo 235
So that is the (very tight) state of the polling. I suspect the sstate of the actual race may be somewhat different but we shall see
https://x.com/jackelsom/status/1841158990824116663
Be that as it may, it also seems to me that an interesting test is being conducted, perhaps consciously by Israel.
The Palestinian cause has apparently huge global backing, and Iran the principal backer, is part of a huge global power network. The Arab world, the Islamic world (all factions more or less), Russia, China, and others too support the cause in the form of a one state or two state solution. Collectively this is gigantic militarily and economically. Israel has no friends immediately adjacent and NATO is looking another direction.
However they have all been remarkably backward in coming forward to do anything useful to further the cause in military or other terms.
I think Israel has decided to call that global bluff and see what happens.
(Full disclosure: I'm a woolly liberal supporting a two state solution with UN responsibility for peace keeping).
A chap I knew inherited a South London bomb site that had been used for various business. With light buildings (ports cabins) on it at the end.
He rebuilt it as the 3 missing houses in terrace.
Apparently the first thing they did was dig out all the infill and disturbed layers. Partly to check for any unexplored stuff and partly because of settlement concerns. So he did deep basements for the new houses. Once you have a hole….
A few places have not changed.
Perhaps even a handful of individuals in the civil service, if only by the law of averages.
50k civil servants ?
That's the idle dream of a would be authoritarian.
But then you look at the other three, and...
But it could equally have the opposite effect.
The assassination of Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon will have the tacit approval of quite a few. A large scale attack on Iran is something else again.
"Saying what she thinks" is the core of her appeal.
Oh.... sorry got carried away and forgot
Tory-boy will attempt without notes I suspect.
One of the great unknowns- how much is this pony and trap show costing the party to run? If you told me £3-£4 per member, I'd be surprised but not that surprised. And presumably the party manages its own finances with the same prudence that have managed the nation's in recent years.
Presume this is a legit site.
https://x.com/n12news/status/1841184016688357766?s=61
Fairly true to life, then. 😏
If you look at the Liberals of the 1970s and work out what proportion of them should have been in prison, and then apply that proportion to current numbers, you probably get to 50+. And that's just from a single party.
Of course, that would mean building more prisons, and NIMBYism will win out against all, including a desire to throw the book at people.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/robert-jenrick-frontrunner-tory-leadership
Read that article on the candidates' fundraising and begin to see why it is the media, not the Conservatives, making the running on Starmer's freebiegate.
(Now, not then.)
She could easily have made a very valid point that she believes that there's too many civil servants who work against elected ministers and there are loads who see it as their duty to block Tory policies and they should be rooted out and moved on. Suggesting jail time for them just makes her look ridiculous.
I like Kemi and think if she had the ability to think for a bit longer before speaking or forming an opinion on something she might be brilliant, as it stands she's just behaving like someone who wants to get a rise out of the people she opposes which isn't a grown up way to lead a party.
As opposed to Kemi, who said something stupid.