How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
As a matter of interest how do the police intercept a car travelling the wrong way on a motorway
I am familiar with the area and it is fast and if near Tebay services there is a service road between both sides of the motorway and it could be the driver went down the wrong slip, though this is just guess work
The closing speed of the cars could have been near 140mph or more
Scrap the triple lock. Starmer and Reeves are prats.
The UK throughout my life has been defined by making the lives of people older than me better.
In my 20s, it was cheap credit and cheap housing that let people in their 40s become BTL millionaires.
By the time I hit that age... houses were too expensive and Osborne's reforms mean you get taxed on income, not profit. Also, you're screwed if you're a renter as a result of that, because lack of housebuilding means Mr Osborne's tax reforms get passed on to you.
Now pensioners wealth has to be protected at all costs. Despite the fact that many are sitting on hundreds of thousands of tax free gains in their property, and even those that aren't are guaranteed a pay rise when millions of us are not.
My father owns a string of houses with a net value of at least three million (lucky him) and uses his winter fuel allowance to keep the damp out of the one spare house he doesn't rent out but pops back to when he's occasionally back in the UK in the summer. The WFA should be means tested and if we're really saying it can't be done then it's scary that the state can't distinguish a millionaire pensioner from one on 10k a year.
While at lunch last week I overheard a woman moaning about the loss of her WFA: "It covered the cost of heating the pool while we're in our villa in Spain through the winter."
She did at least spend it on fuel, in the winter, I guess.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
You'll like Titty Hill in West Sussex then.
For the Truss fans there are both Nether Wallop and Middle Wallop in the Test Valley.
The 7 pollsters with the best track record since 2008 have all been putting a Dem lead at 2-3%. We now have a pollster breaking that trend. Marist put the Dems up by 5%. If that gets backed up by other pollsters then that would be significant.
The previous day's polls saw over 60% of reported polls coming from Rep Pty-linked concerns. I'm doing a litle work on the consequences of that. They tend to give the Reps 1-2% compared to other pollsters. They also have the Trump'vote within 0.5% in each of the seven battleground states. That would be very surprising.
They are clearly gaming the system. Why is a very important question. The fear is that they intend to argue that Trump ‘winning’ the polling averages ‘proves’ the results (when Harris wins) are fraudulent.
Reckon the Why some partisan pollsters would want to game the system, is that subset of swing voters who want to vote for the winner. Thus convincing them YOUR candidate is winning, is key part of persuading them to vote for them.
Recall reading about poll in USA, taken a year or so after 1960 election, which asked people how they'd voted in that POTUS election - JFK won by several more percenage points in memory than in actuality!
The 7 pollsters with the best track record since 2008 have all been putting a Dem lead at 2-3%. We now have a pollster breaking that trend. Marist put the Dems up by 5%. If that gets backed up by other pollsters then that would be significant.
The previous day's polls saw over 60% of reported polls coming from Rep Pty-linked concerns. I'm doing a litle work on the consequences of that. They tend to give the Reps 1-2% compared to other pollsters. They also have the Trump'vote within 0.5% in each of the seven battleground states. That would be very surprising.
They are clearly gaming the system. Why is a very important question. The fear is that they intend to argue that Trump ‘winning’ the polling averages ‘proves’ the results (when Harris wins) are fraudulent.
How do you identify which are the good polls and the bad polls? Which of the pollsters in this are bad?
Rasmussen in 2022 had an average 5.1% error, 100% in favour of the GOP. InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar are also highly suspect. There are also others. The polls published often have a sample size of 500 or 600.
How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
As a matter of interest how do the police intercept a car travelling the wrong way on a motorway
I am familiar with the area and it is fast and if near Tebay services there is a service road between both sides of the motorway and it could be the driver went down the wrong slip, though this is just guess work
The closing speed of the cars could have been near 140mph or more
Went down the wrong slip and carried on driving in the wrong direction?
For an obstruction the police would get in front of the traffic and do a rolling roadblock. No idea what they'd do after that with someone coming the other way.
Scrap the triple lock. Starmer and Reeves are prats.
The UK throughout my life has been defined by making the lives of people older than me better.
In my 20s, it was cheap credit and cheap housing that let people in their 40s become BTL millionaires.
By the time I hit that age... houses were too expensive and Osborne's reforms mean you get taxed on income, not profit. Also, you're screwed if you're a renter as a result of that, because lack of housebuilding means Mr Osborne's tax reforms get passed on to you.
Now pensioners wealth has to be protected at all costs. Despite the fact that many are sitting on hundreds of thousands of tax free gains in their property, and even those that aren't are guaranteed a pay rise when millions of us are not.
My father owns a string of houses with a net value of at least three million (lucky him) and uses his winter fuel allowance to keep the damp out of the one spare house he doesn't rent out but pops back to when he's occasionally back in the UK in the summer. The WFA should be means tested and if we're really saying it can't be done then it's scary that the state can't distinguish a millionaire pensioner from one on 10k a year.
While at lunch last week I overheard a woman moaning about the loss of her WFA: "It covered the cost of heating the pool while we're in our villa in Spain through the winter."
She did at least spend it on fuel, in the winter, I guess.
I mean in a way it would be fair play if governments had been honest about it and said “for the poor it’s necessary to stop people dying of hypothermia, but for more comfortably off pensioners it’s a little bonus, a bit of joy to sweeten the sunset years of their lives. And who would begrudge a bit of joy and a splash of luxury for dear Granny?”
Georgia voter: Women are entitled to do what we need to do with our bodies. It’s necessary to save our own lives. Why is the government involved in women's basic rights?
Trump: Yeah, I think it's great. For 52 years, they wanted to end Roe v. Wade. We were able to do it
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
The triple lock will raise 100 million next year as some pensioners are drawn into tax
Utterly daft comment - it will cost many billion
Indeed, and because the DWP refuses or is unable to deduct ICT in the way every employer and every pension company in the land has too, those spensioners without private pensions will have to complete self-assessments. Often for a few £10s of tax due.
Utter madness.
Increase the personal allowance a bit.
I wouldn't be surprised for Reeves to increase the allowance to sugar the pill of higher taxes and borrowing
I suspect it will be the return of the age related personal allowance. A little extra for over 66s only to offset the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance.
I think if pensioners have high enough incomes that bring them into tax, they should pay it like the rest of us.
A better offset for WFP would be to expand eligibility for PC a bit.
So £13,000 pa income for a pensioner is 'like the rest of us' ?
No, actually.
Pensioners typically have much lower housing costs (70% own their homes outright, and only 7% privately rent) and fewer dependents, so their equivalised household income after housing costs are, on average, much higher than the rest of the population even with the same income.
If we were to adjust the personal allowance to take account of these factors, it would be significantly lower, on average, for pensioners.
Of course, a significant proportion of pensioners are in poverty, which makes the vast wealth and high incomes of other pensioners all the more intolerable when it comes to freebies like WFP. Means testing pensioner benefits, using something like an expanded Pension Credit, is by far the most equitable option.
do you have evidence that 70% own their homes outright, sounds bollox to me. I can see you at forefront of pensioner culling as well, some crazy thing against pensioners whilst being loaded, pretty shabby to say the least. Hopefully you have feck all when you are a pensioner.
England and Wales, admittedly. I'll fish the stats for Scotland out for you.
"Today, the Guardian, alongside @hopenothate , today publish an in depth undercover investigation into the efforts of a network of far right race and IQ obsessives, who have been trying to influence discourse about race science."
It's a good job we don't have a race and IQ obsessive on here...
Rutherford and Hope Not Hate are aggressive activists. I'd take anything they say with a pinch of salt.
Good advice for ANYTHING you read on Twatter AND rest of web. Also anywhere else!
In this case, the proposition that racists are trying to egg the rancid pudding of inherent non-White inferiority via tests of (alleged) IQ, is hardly a stretch, is it?
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
"Today, the Guardian, alongside @hopenothate , today publish an in depth undercover investigation into the efforts of a network of far right race and IQ obsessives, who have been trying to influence discourse about race science."
How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
As a matter of interest how do the police intercept a car travelling the wrong way on a motorway
I am familiar with the area and it is fast and if near Tebay services there is a service road between both sides of the motorway and it could be the driver went down the wrong slip, though this is just guess work
The closing speed of the cars could have been near 140mph or more
Went down the wrong slip and carried on driving in the wrong direction?
For an obstruction the police would get in front of the traffic and do a rolling roadblock. No idea what they'd do after that with someone coming the other way.
I understand a rolling roadblock but not how to stop a rogue car driving the wrong way on a motorway
The triple lock will raise 100 million next year as some pensioners are drawn into tax
Utterly daft comment - it will cost many billion
Indeed, and because the DWP refuses or is unable to deduct ICT in the way every employer and every pension company in the land has too, those spensioners without private pensions will have to complete self-assessments. Often for a few £10s of tax due.
Utter madness.
Increase the personal allowance a bit.
I wouldn't be surprised for Reeves to increase the allowance to sugar the pill of higher taxes and borrowing
I suspect it will be the return of the age related personal allowance. A little extra for over 66s only to offset the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance.
I think if pensioners have high enough incomes that bring them into tax, they should pay it like the rest of us.
A better offset for WFP would be to expand eligibility for PC a bit.
So £13,000 pa income for a pensioner is 'like the rest of us' ?
No, actually.
Pensioners typically have much lower housing costs (70% own their homes outright, and only 7% privately rent) and fewer dependents, so their equivalised household income after housing costs are, on average, much higher than the rest of the population even with the same income.
If we were to adjust the personal allowance to take account of these factors, it would be significantly lower, on average, for pensioners.
Of course, a significant proportion of pensioners are in poverty, which makes the vast wealth and high incomes of other pensioners all the more intolerable when it comes to freebies like WFP. Means testing pensioner benefits, using something like an expanded Pension Credit, is by far the most equitable option.
do you have evidence that 70% own their homes outright, sounds bollox to me. I can see you at forefront of pensioner culling as well, some crazy thing against pensioners whilst being loaded, pretty shabby to say the least. Hopefully you have feck all when you are a pensioner.
England and Wales, admittedly. I'll fish the stats for Scotland out for you.
The triple lock will raise 100 million next year as some pensioners are drawn into tax
Utterly daft comment - it will cost many billion
Indeed, and because the DWP refuses or is unable to deduct ICT in the way every employer and every pension company in the land has too, those spensioners without private pensions will have to complete self-assessments. Often for a few £10s of tax due.
Utter madness.
Increase the personal allowance a bit.
I wouldn't be surprised for Reeves to increase the allowance to sugar the pill of higher taxes and borrowing
I suspect it will be the return of the age related personal allowance. A little extra for over 66s only to offset the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance.
I think if pensioners have high enough incomes that bring them into tax, they should pay it like the rest of us.
A better offset for WFP would be to expand eligibility for PC a bit.
So £13,000 pa income for a pensioner is 'like the rest of us' ?
No, actually.
Pensioners typically have much lower housing costs (70% own their homes outright, and only 7% privately rent) and fewer dependents, so their equivalised household income after housing costs are, on average, much higher than the rest of the population even with the same income.
If we were to adjust the personal allowance to take account of these factors, it would be significantly lower, on average, for pensioners.
Of course, a significant proportion of pensioners are in poverty, which makes the vast wealth and high incomes of other pensioners all the more intolerable when it comes to freebies like WFP. Means testing pensioner benefits, using something like an expanded Pension Credit, is by far the most equitable option.
do you have evidence that 70% own their homes outright, sounds bollox to me. I can see you at forefront of pensioner culling as well, some crazy thing against pensioners whilst being loaded, pretty shabby to say the least. Hopefully you have feck all when you are a pensioner.
England and Wales, admittedly. I'll fish the stats for Scotland out for you.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
The triple lock will raise 100 million next year as some pensioners are drawn into tax
Utterly daft comment - it will cost many billion
Indeed, and because the DWP refuses or is unable to deduct ICT in the way every employer and every pension company in the land has too, those spensioners without private pensions will have to complete self-assessments. Often for a few £10s of tax due.
Utter madness.
Increase the personal allowance a bit.
I wouldn't be surprised for Reeves to increase the allowance to sugar the pill of higher taxes and borrowing
I suspect it will be the return of the age related personal allowance. A little extra for over 66s only to offset the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance.
I think if pensioners have high enough incomes that bring them into tax, they should pay it like the rest of us.
A better offset for WFP would be to expand eligibility for PC a bit.
So £13,000 pa income for a pensioner is 'like the rest of us' ?
No, actually.
Pensioners typically have much lower housing costs (70% own their homes outright, and only 7% privately rent) and fewer dependents, so their equivalised household income after housing costs are, on average, much higher than the rest of the population even with the same income.
If we were to adjust the personal allowance to take account of these factors, it would be significantly lower, on average, for pensioners.
Of course, a significant proportion of pensioners are in poverty, which makes the vast wealth and high incomes of other pensioners all the more intolerable when it comes to freebies like WFP. Means testing pensioner benefits, using something like an expanded Pension Credit, is by far the most equitable option.
do you have evidence that 70% own their homes outright, sounds bollox to me. I can see you at forefront of pensioner culling as well, some crazy thing against pensioners whilst being loaded, pretty shabby to say the least. Hopefully you have feck all when you are a pensioner.
England and Wales, admittedly. I'll fish the stats for Scotland out for you.
Just did some maths - a single parent with two secondary age kids, renting a flat with three bedrooms, would need to earn about £55,000 to attain the same standard of living as a pensioner on State Pension and owning their home outright.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
That's where Charles Dickens used to hang out I think.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
"Today, the Guardian, alongside @hopenothate , today publish an in depth undercover investigation into the efforts of a network of far right race and IQ obsessives, who have been trying to influence discourse about race science."
It's an issue on the A9 where the two carriageways split south of Drumochter. Doesn't help the the road switches between dual and single a few times in that section.
The 7 pollsters with the best track record since 2008 have all been putting a Dem lead at 2-3%. We now have a pollster breaking that trend. Marist put the Dems up by 5%. If that gets backed up by other pollsters then that would be significant.
The previous day's polls saw over 60% of reported polls coming from Rep Pty-linked concerns. I'm doing a litle work on the consequences of that. They tend to give the Reps 1-2% compared to other pollsters. They also have the Trump'vote within 0.5% in each of the seven battleground states. That would be very surprising.
They are clearly gaming the system. Why is a very important question. The fear is that they intend to argue that Trump ‘winning’ the polling averages ‘proves’ the results (when Harris wins) are fraudulent.
How do you identify which are the good polls and the bad polls? Which of the pollsters in this are bad?
How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
These days, it should be possible to automatically detect anything going the wrong way on a motorway and direct al legit traffic to pull over onto the hard shoulder until the culprit is stopped.
Though why he chose that headline when he hadn't even secured her endorsement is a bit weird?
The headline and image choice is a bit peculiar all in all, but I'm wondering if that was subediting by some Conhome intern type - the whole operation does seem very shonky there.
The headline and image choice is a bit peculiar all in all, but I'm wondering if that was subediting by some Conhome intern type - the whole operation does seem very shonky there.
How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
These days, it should be possible to automatically detect anything going the wrong way on a motorway and direct al legit traffic to pull over onto the hard shoulder until the culprit is stopped.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
And obviously Kemi's team sniffed around hoping to seriously embarrass Jenrick by clinching the PM endorsement, but she wasn't having that either. A women not to be taken for granted!
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
Driving wrong way on motorway is NOT difficult to do IF driver is distracted, intoxicated and/or gaga.
OR suicidal.
Never done it myself - and no longer driving - but did it years ago, on a backroad in Northern Ireland, because I forgot to remind myself before I left the petrol station, that UKers (and Irish) drive on the left NOT the right.
How the feck do you get on a motorway the wrong way
Confusion? Miss a turn off and try to get back to it? Come off a junction round a bout and turn down the wrong road (the motorway exit, rather than the way on).
What's weird is that the police were already on their way to intercept the driver, and there was a post on social media saying that the signs on the motorway were warning people that there was a car coming the other way.
These days, it should be possible to automatically detect anything going the wrong way on a motorway and direct al legit traffic to pull over onto the hard shoulder until the culprit is stopped.
Scrap the triple lock. Starmer and Reeves are prats.
The UK throughout my life has been defined by making the lives of people older than me better.
In my 20s, it was cheap credit and cheap housing that let people in their 40s become BTL millionaires.
By the time I hit that age... houses were too expensive and Osborne's reforms mean you get taxed on income, not profit. Also, you're screwed if you're a renter as a result of that, because lack of housebuilding means Mr Osborne's tax reforms get passed on to you.
Now pensioners wealth has to be protected at all costs. Despite the fact that many are sitting on hundreds of thousands of tax free gains in their property, and even those that aren't are guaranteed a pay rise when millions of us are not.
My father owns a string of houses with a net value of at least three million (lucky him) and uses his winter fuel allowance to keep the damp out of the one spare house he doesn't rent out but pops back to when he's occasionally back in the UK in the summer. The WFA should be means tested and if we're really saying it can't be done then it's scary that the state can't distinguish a millionaire pensioner from one on 10k a year.
While at lunch last week I overheard a woman moaning about the loss of her WFA: "It covered the cost of heating the pool while we're in our villa in Spain through the winter."
She did at least spend it on fuel, in the winter, I guess.
I can't imagine how people aren't ashamed of themselves to say such a thing out loud.
The US is surely making a mistake in moving to postal voting on demand. Will only increase peoples' suspicions about the validity of the ballot which Trump can be guaranteed to play on.
Try telling that to voters in Oregon and Washington. Where EVERY signature on returned ballot envelop, is checked against the voter's signature on file with election authorities (counties and Secretary of State.
Easy to allege fraud, when your Trump or a MAGA-maniac cultist, because you then believe that ANY ballot cast against you is ipso facto illegitmate.
Would it be fair to say that MAGA is the world's biggest cult? I can't think of anything on quite the same scale. Certainly not in the West.
Islam, Christianity, Budhism, etc all wave at this point…
They're not really cults though. Although they do have sub sections (eg evangelicals) that maybe fit the description.
Scrap the triple lock. Starmer and Reeves are prats.
The UK throughout my life has been defined by making the lives of people older than me better.
In my 20s, it was cheap credit and cheap housing that let people in their 40s become BTL millionaires.
By the time I hit that age... houses were too expensive and Osborne's reforms mean you get taxed on income, not profit. Also, you're screwed if you're a renter as a result of that, because lack of housebuilding means Mr Osborne's tax reforms get passed on to you.
Now pensioners wealth has to be protected at all costs. Despite the fact that many are sitting on hundreds of thousands of tax free gains in their property, and even those that aren't are guaranteed a pay rise when millions of us are not.
My father owns a string of houses with a net value of at least three million (lucky him) and uses his winter fuel allowance to keep the damp out of the one spare house he doesn't rent out but pops back to when he's occasionally back in the UK in the summer. The WFA should be means tested and if we're really saying it can't be done then it's scary that the state can't distinguish a millionaire pensioner from one on 10k a year.
While at lunch last week I overheard a woman moaning about the loss of her WFA: "It covered the cost of heating the pool while we're in our villa in Spain through the winter."
She did at least spend it on fuel, in the winter, I guess.
I can't imagine how people aren't ashamed of themselves to say such a thing out loud.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
OK. I have now come to the conclusion that Trump wants to lose.
Fox Host: The family of Amber Thurman, who died after not receiving urgent care needed for an infection under Georgia’s abortion ban, is speaking ahead of this town hall.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
That's where Charles Dickens used to hang out I think.
Driving wrong way on motorway is NOT difficult to do IF driver is distracted, intoxicated and/or gaga.
OR suicidal.
Never done it myself - and no longer driving - but did it years ago, on a backroad in Northern Ireland, because I forgot to remind myself before I left the petrol station, that UKers (and Irish) drive on the left NOT the right.
Oxford South services are so complicated you could end up on the wrong carriageway.
Driving wrong way on motorway is NOT difficult to do IF driver is distracted, intoxicated and/or gaga.
OR suicidal.
Never done it myself - and no longer driving - but did it years ago, on a backroad in Northern Ireland, because I forgot to remind myself before I left the petrol station, that UKers (and Irish) drive on the left NOT the right.
Oxford South services are so complicated you could end up on the wrong carriageway.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
Is it because Trump stands for one man, one vote, one time?
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
The US is surely making a mistake in moving to postal voting on demand. Will only increase peoples' suspicions about the validity of the ballot which Trump can be guaranteed to play on.
Try telling that to voters in Oregon and Washington. Where EVERY signature on returned ballot envelop, is checked against the voter's signature on file with election authorities (counties and Secretary of State.
Easy to allege fraud, when your Trump or a MAGA-maniac cultist, because you then believe that ANY ballot cast against you is ipso facto illegitmate.
Would it be fair to say that MAGA is the world's biggest cult? I can't think of anything on quite the same scale. Certainly not in the West.
Islam, Christianity, Budhism, etc all wave at this point…
They're not really cults though. Although they do have sub sections (eg evangelicals) that maybe fit the description.
How are the6 not cults? They are EXACTLY cults. Almost by definition.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
The world's great hope has to be Elon Musk. Quite how and why he has his odd political views I've no idea. His views as to the future are really rather inspiring.
OK. I have now come to the conclusion that Trump wants to lose.
Fox Host: The family of Amber Thurman, who died after not receiving urgent care needed for an infection under Georgia’s abortion ban, is speaking ahead of this town hall.
Trump: We’ll get better ratings, I promise.
It doesn’t matter what Trump does . He has a solid 45% of voters who will vote for him regardless of what he does. He could blow Bambi’s head off and start culling pensioners and the moronic cult members would still be clapping like seals .
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
Back in the day of the great "Car Talk" radio show on NPR hosted by Tom & Ray Magliozzi (aka Click & Clack) which was officially (?) conducted (?) under the aegis that fine old enterprise, Dewey, Cheetam & Howe, "Pat McCann" was listed as "Sexual Harrassment Intervention Counselor".
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
The world's great hope has to be Elon Musk. Quite how and why he has his odd political views I've no idea. His views as to the future are really rather inspiring.
Anyone who enables Trump deserves to fail miserably. We shouldn’t just give free passes to people because they might do other things that are seen as inspiring.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potential vote is more frothy than Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potentia vote is more frothy that Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
The amount of Hopium around Harris has been startling for weeks.
Note how our PBs own Sophist-in-Chief publishes a fib . . . that is directly contracted by his own source . . . then trys to weasle out of it by . . . wait for it . . . more sophistry.
Directed at our Moderator-in-Chief no less. Deserving of Ignobel award for brazen bullshitting.
The US is surely making a mistake in moving to postal voting on demand. Will only increase peoples' suspicions about the validity of the ballot which Trump can be guaranteed to play on.
Try telling that to voters in Oregon and Washington. Where EVERY signature on returned ballot envelop, is checked against the voter's signature on file with election authorities (counties and Secretary of State.
Easy to allege fraud, when your Trump or a MAGA-maniac cultist, because you then believe that ANY ballot cast against you is ipso facto illegitmate.
Any of the other 48 states? I regard the bigger issue as being the loss of the secret ballot. We used to demand good reason for a postal vote being granted.
I have NOT lost MY secret ballot.
There's lose talk about how family members coerce other family members, but that's frankly speculative BS.
Don't have list of all vote-by-mail states, though think Alaska is one of them.
Note that in WA State, one of the reasons why we went to all VBM, was because the majority of voters were already requesting absentee ballots for EVERY election.
Further note that, before Trump started frothing, it was REPUBLICANS who were most likely to request absentees.
It just demonstrates that is you repeat a lie often enough, as Trump does, even the neutral will be influenced by it.
The GOP efforts to question ballot safety, with barely a shed of evidence, have nearly half the country fully convinced, and a fair proportion of the rest taking them seriously.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
The world's great hope has to be Elon Musk. Quite how and why he has his odd political views I've no idea. His views as to the future are really rather inspiring.
Anyone who enables Trump deserves to fail miserably. We shouldn’t just give free passes to people because they might do other things that are seen as inspiring.
Musk though needs no free pass.
I have a very dim view of Trump and his supporters.
I cannot reconcile these two things, but my hats off admiration of Musk's bravado at just going for the impossible is unbounded
Note how our PBs own Sophist-in-Chief publishes a fib . . . that is directly contracted by his own source . . . then trys to weasle out of it by . . . wait for it . . . more sophistry.
Directed at our Moderator-in-Chief no less. Deserving of Ignobel award for brazen bullshitting.
When was the last time people in Washington state voted in person at voting places?
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
The world's great hope has to be Elon Musk. Quite how and why he has his odd political views I've no idea. His views as to the future are really rather inspiring.
Anyone who enables Trump deserves to fail miserably. We shouldn’t just give free passes to people because they might do other things that are seen as inspiring.
Musk though needs no free pass.
I have a very dim view of Trump and his supporters.
I cannot reconcile these two things, but my hats off admiration of Musk's bravado at just going for the impossible is unbounded
He does run an impressive engineering company, but remains a moral imbecile.
It is very interesting and impressive, but also should worry us all. This approach was undetectable by airport scanners etc and only sign something was a bit off was the battery didn't last quite as long as advertised.
When I was at Uni around 1980 some right-wing Tories I encountered there were saying that WWIII was already in progress then e.g. in Angola , Zimbabwe etc. and "we" were losing it.
It is very interesting and impressive, but also should worry us all. This approach was undetectable by airport scanners etc and only sign something was a bit of was the battery didn't last quite as long as advertised.
Undetectable by airline scanners is worrying indeed.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potentia vote is more frothy that Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
The amount of Hopium around Harris has been startling for weeks.
Smart money thinks Trump edges it.
Smart money doesn't guess about something it has zero chance of predicting with confidence.
It is very interesting and impressive, but also should worry us all. This approach was undetectable by airport scanners etc and only sign something was a bit of was the battery didn't last quite as long as advertised.
Undetectable by airline scanners is worrying indeed.
It wasn't that long ago that there was the terrorist plot that loaded much more crude explosives into printers and insert them into the world logistics system, and it appears Russia might have copied this approach now. It shows there is are significant weaknesses in airfreight, and with shear volume of them, if you can use similar approaches that couldn't be easily scanned, seems unstoppable.
Two new polls out from Quinnipiac which seem strange given what you might expect .
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
Why do you think that? In additon to moe, also differences between one state and another.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
50% in the Georgia poll said Trump is the best choice to protect democracy ! I despair , it must be very frustrating being a liberal sane person in the USA .
It appears, sadly, that people are attracted to dehumanising lies about immigrants and minorities being to blame for everything, as we see here too.
It’s tragic. Once you start de-humanizing people bad things happen . The US media are complicit in sanewashing Trump, instead of calling him out they’re dancing on the head of a pin. His campaign is a sea of hate.
The world's great hope has to be Elon Musk. Quite how and why he has his odd political views I've no idea. His views as to the future are really rather inspiring.
Anyone who enables Trump deserves to fail miserably. We shouldn’t just give free passes to people because they might do other things that are seen as inspiring.
Musk though needs no free pass.
I have a very dim view of Trump and his supporters.
I cannot reconcile these two things, but my hats off admiration of Musk's bravado at just going for the impossible is unbounded
He does run an impressive engineering company, but remains a moral imbecile.
Well, yes. I think that's right. The weird question is quite what he isn't saying when he's supporting Trump. Nobody in their right mind would support the buffoon after all. So what is it that he thinks he sees?
Dr. Foxy - Will makes this point in the rest of the column: The two presidential candidates in 1940, FDR and Wendell Wilkie, both went about as far as they could in getting the US prepared for war.
For instance, our first peace time draft was passed in September 1940 -- by one vote in the House of Representatives. (Most likely the Democratic leaders had a few to spare, if they needed them, but it was close.)
Those efforts cost FDR votes of German and Irish-Americans, but won him votes of Poles and Jews.
I watched Raise The Titanic. Classy film. Alec Guiness. John Barry score. An expensive flop - 'would have been cheaper to lower the sea'. But very good.
I loved that film. Partly because it features an old sailor in Mousehole; and on a couple of occasions my dad took us to visit an elderly friend of his in Mousehole.
I love the name Mousehole. Also that it's actually Mouzle. Excellent Christmas lights too. Could it be in the top ten place names in the whole of UK do you think?
What beats it?
Pratt's Bottom.
My vineyard is in Pett Bottom. Or more specifically the small hamlet of Lynsore Bottom in the Pett Bottom valley. Lynsore bottom sounds too much like a topical ointment so I tend to stick with the naughty sounding Pett Bottom.
That's where Charles Dickens used to hang out I think.
Ian Fleming did. He wrote James Bond novels while sitting at the Duck Inn (which is reopening soon after a hiatus of nearly a year). Bucolic spot.
Dr. Foxy - Will makes this point in the rest of the column: The two presidential candidates in 1940, FDR and Wendell Wilkie, both went about as far as they could in getting the US prepared for war.
For instance, our first peace time draft was passed in September 1940 -- by one vote in the House of Representatives. (Most likely the Democratic leaders had a few to spare, if they needed them, but it was close.)
Those efforts cost FDR votes of German and Irish-Americans, but won him votes of Poles and Jews.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potential vote is more frothy than Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potential vote is more frothy than Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
Well the polling puts him doing better than Kemi with the public.
According to the Telegraph he would get a hung parliament in 4 years time, though with Labour on 302 quite hard to find enough coalition partners for a Tory government.
Harris' problem is turnout of groups traditionally favourable to the Democrats. The upper end of her potentia vote is more frothy that Trumps. It bothers to vote and she wins, no matter whether Trump gets his potential vote out or not.
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
The amount of Hopium around Harris has been startling for weeks.
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
He won't, a shock new poll of 6300 voters by Electoral Calculus released tonight has a Tory party led by Jenrick gaining 57 seats compared to 30 the party would gain under Badenoch.
Jenrick would slash Labour's voteshare by 7% since July and Badenoch would also cut it by 6%
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
Well the polling puts him doing better than Kemi with the public.
According to the Telegraph he would get a hung parliament in 4 years time, though with Labour on 302 quite hard to find enough coalition partners for a Tory government.
Is that the Telegraph psychic department's own polling?
The US is surely making a mistake in moving to postal voting on demand. Will only increase peoples' suspicions about the validity of the ballot which Trump can be guaranteed to play on.
Try telling that to voters in Oregon and Washington. Where EVERY signature on returned ballot envelop, is checked against the voter's signature on file with election authorities (counties and Secretary of State.
Easy to allege fraud, when your Trump or a MAGA-maniac cultist, because you then believe that ANY ballot cast against you is ipso facto illegitmate.
Would it be fair to say that MAGA is the world's biggest cult? I can't think of anything on quite the same scale. Certainly not in the West.
Islam, Christianity, Budhism, etc all wave at this point…
They're not really cults though. Although they do have sub sections (eg evangelicals) that maybe fit the description.
How are the6 not cults? They are EXACTLY cults. Almost by definition.
Because only a small fraction of people who describe themselves as those things are zealous about it.
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
He won't, a shock new poll of 6300 voters by Electoral Calculus released tonight has a Tory party led by Jenrick gaining 57 seats compared to 30 the party would gain under Badenoch.
Jenrick would slash Labour's voteshare by 7% since July and Badenoch would also cut it by 6%
Honestly, if the tory press are rubbing themselves raw on how unpopular Starmer is becoming what are they going to do when Jenrick tests the very depths of unpopular polling?
Well the polling puts him doing better than Kemi with the public.
According to the Telegraph he would get a hung parliament in 4 years time, though with Labour on 302 quite hard to find enough coalition partners for a Tory government.
Is that the Telegraph psychic department's own polling?
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I am familiar with the area and it is fast and if near Tebay services there is a service road between both sides of the motorway and it could be the driver went down the wrong slip, though this is just guess work
The closing speed of the cars could have been near 140mph or more
She did at least spend it on fuel, in the winter, I guess.
Recall reading about poll in USA, taken a year or so after 1960 election, which asked people how they'd voted in that POTUS election - JFK won by several more percenage points in memory than in actuality!
For an obstruction the police would get in front of the traffic and do a rolling roadblock. No idea what they'd do after that with someone coming the other way.
Georgia voter: Women are entitled to do what we need to do with our bodies. It’s necessary to save our own lives. Why is the government involved in women's basic rights?
Trump: Yeah, I think it's great. For 52 years, they wanted to end Roe v. Wade. We were able to do it
https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/1846598000593805465
In this case, the proposition that racists are trying to egg the rancid pudding of inherent non-White inferiority via tests of (alleged) IQ, is hardly a stretch, is it?
(Will let UKers do translation into kilometers!)
In Georgia Trump leads 52 to 46 head to head . Trump up 2 and Harris up 1 since their last poll .
In North Carolina Harris leads 50 to 47 head to head . Trump down 2 Harris up 2 .
It’s quite hard to believe those numbers can co-exist !
That's 60% higher than the UK median salary.
Note that aftermath of Hurricane Helene is creating challenges for election workers AND voters in both GA and NC, which may (emphasis on conditional) impact Trump more than Harris, esp in western North Carolina. Where outside of Asheville and Boone are mostly rural.
Surprised this doesn't happen more often on dual carriageway A-roads though. The A303 has some rather dodgy minor junctions. Here's just one example:
www.google.co.uk/maps/
https://conservativehome.com/2024/10/14/robert-jenrick-im-offering-a-unified-party-a-plan-policies-people-and-penny/
Though why he chose that headline when he hadn't even secured her endorsement is a bit weird?
The headline and image choice is a bit peculiar all in all, but I'm wondering if that was subediting by some Conhome intern type - the whole operation does seem very shonky there.
And at least Badenoch isn't offering Penny to the party. (No, not like that, ooh behave, the very thought of it...)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/15/mordaunt-distances-herself-jenrick-campaign-photo-posted/
https://news.sky.com/story/m1-smart-motorway-crash-that-killed-two-would-not-have-happened-with-hard-shoulder-inquest-hears-12850805
And obviously Kemi's team sniffed around hoping to seriously embarrass Jenrick by clinching the PM endorsement, but she wasn't having that either. A women not to be taken for granted!
OR suicidal.
Never done it myself - and no longer driving - but did it years ago, on a backroad in Northern Ireland, because I forgot to remind myself before I left the petrol station, that UKers (and Irish) drive on the left NOT the right.
Long Walk Home by Miss D Buss?
Fox Host: The family of Amber Thurman, who died after not receiving urgent care needed for an infection under Georgia’s abortion ban, is speaking ahead of this town hall.
Trump: We’ll get better ratings, I promise.
https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/we-all-feel-like-that-now-and-then/
I didn't think lady gardens existed in the war...
The financial markets seem to be assuming Trump has got this, and at this point I think they are right.
Smart money thinks Trump edges it.
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/16/world-war-presidential-election-harris-trump/
I am inclined to agree with him, on both claims.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Will )
Directed at our Moderator-in-Chief no less. Deserving of Ignobel award for brazen bullshitting.
The GOP efforts to question ballot safety, with barely a shed of evidence, have nearly half the country fully convinced, and a fair proportion of the rest taking them seriously.
I have a very dim view of Trump and his supporters.
I cannot reconcile these two things, but my hats off admiration of Musk's bravado at just going for the impossible is unbounded
BBC now using an advert just before the main news extolling their amazing news gathering and fact checking - "the fight for truth".
Literally the same day they canned a ton of news gathering and ditched hard news shows like Hard Talk having already butchered Newsnight and so on.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1846591352949125270
It is very interesting and impressive, but also should worry us all. This approach was undetectable by airport scanners etc and only sign something was a bit off was the battery didn't last quite as long as advertised.
For instance, our first peace time draft was passed in September 1940 -- by one vote in the House of Representatives. (Most likely the Democratic leaders had a few to spare, if they needed them, but it was close.)
Those efforts cost FDR votes of German and Irish-Americans, but won him votes of Poles and Jews.
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General feeling I got was it will be close between Kemi and Robert and at least 1 attendee had switched from Badenoch to Jenrick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-women-could-win-election-harris-cnn-data-reporter-says
Some new swing states data
Quinnipiac
Georgia Trump 52% Harris 46%
North Carolina Harris 50% Trump 47%
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3914
Redfield
Wisconsin Harris 48% Trump 47%
Pennsylvania Harris 48% Trump 48%
Georgia Harris 47% Trump 47%
North Carolina Trump 48% Harris 46%
New Mexico Harris 49% Trump 45%
Nevada Harris 47% Trump 47%
Minnesota Harris 51% Trump 43%
Michigan Harris 47% Trump 47%
Florida Trump 50% Harris 44%
Arizona Trump 48% Harris 46%
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-us-swing-states-voting-intention-12-14-october-2024/#usvipop
Although has the advantage of being definitely thrown out in two years and so chance for a pre-election reset.
According to the Telegraph he would get a hung parliament in 4 years time, though with Labour on 302 quite hard to find enough coalition partners for a Tory government.
I'm hoping that US pollsters have overcorrected their methodologies from 2016/20, if not Trump wins all the swing states....
One thing that is for sure, a Trump victory would energise all the racist, populist notrights globally, and we have some here on pbCOM...
Jenrick would slash Labour's voteshare by 7% since July and Badenoch would also cut it by 6%
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/16/starmer-would-lose-majority-jenrick-were-tory-leader-poll/