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Brits really do not like the odious Trump – politicalbetting.com
Brits really do not like the odious Trump – politicalbetting.com
16% of Britons say they are *happy* that Donald Trump has been re-elected US president – we asked them to tell us, in their own words, whyPrefer to Harris/Biden/Dems: 18%Strong leader/gets things done: 16%Will end/prevent wars: 14%Is not woke: 7%Immigration: 7%? Full list… pic.twitter.com/CC6tYSxO0x
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A former boxer prosecuted for saying in a YouTube video that "young white girls are being raped by these grooming gangs". He initially pled not guilty and was remanded in custody without bail in August. After being locked up for months he's eventually pled guilty to a charge of 'sending communication of an offensive nature' and will now be sentenced.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce328p9330eo
It goes at least as far back as Ford pardoning Nixon in the 1970s.
Here's the Wikipedia selected list. The Hunter Biden one is mild. It's a corrupt element of a signficantly corrupted system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States
The quite convincing argument I have seen for Biden issuing pardons not just to Hunter Biden but also to all the people Trump says are on the "list" he will target using the DoJ such as Judges, Investigators, Prosecutors, Witnesses etc is because if Biden issues broad pardons to them all it will protect them from Trump's illegitimate attempts at revenge.
It's interesting to see what has cut through to the making-money-from-Yougov community !
Do they understand nothing ?
https://x.com/Tendar/status/1864247719922897197
(Many of those damaged planes will be 'old' damage)
Result due in an hour or so
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgxw9wj241t#player
As for Heggie, the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom said Heggie was convicted of sexual assault on 10 Aug 2005 and committed several other sex crimes, including raping a domestic partner in 2018 and an ex-partner in 2013. He also allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a minor.
UK authorities warned the BI that Heggie is known to be violent, with an extensive criminal history that includes different types of sexual abuse, damage to property, possession of narcotic substances, among other grave offenses. Both aliens are temporarily detained at the BI office in Mandaue City pending their transfer to the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.
https://immigration.gov.ph/bi-nabs-us-british-pedophiles-in-cebu/
Total dorkhead Rachel Reeves being Chancellor, now thats an outrage.
France in a mess but Macron invites Trump to attend the reopening of the Notre -Dame
The response by the French to Trump's presence will be interesting
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-attend-notre-dame-cathedral-reopening-first-foreign-trip-since-election-2024-12-03/
The Russian stock market was down another 2% today and back down to the lows of last Wednesday's panic.
Did you hire a cherry-picker to pick that cherry?
1) "Someone was sent to prison for 16 years for saying the word 'lemon' "
2) Turns out that the backstory is that that they were setting fire to immigrants at the time
You'd think that learning would occur, wouldn't you?
Asda have apologised and apparently Tesco are also having issues
It appears to be weather related in Italy, Spain and Greece
According to that poll, 1 in 5?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/04/google-deepmind-predicts-weather-more-accurately-than-leading-system
But, it's not AI. In many ways it's a return to older statistical methods of weather forecasting, but using stick a large number of parameters that it gets much better results.
The really interesting thing would be looking at how such a system coped with a situation that was different and extreme, outside of its training data.
The alternative is to kick off a pointless spat with him.
I do think if they manage to cut immigration next year and the next they’ll be perceived quite differently.
It seems they are being ramped by the French in reviews to drive food tourists to take refuge in Paris
Gary Eats a £50 steak ... and has a sore jaw ... eventually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAIhplLRRgM
But I cant be arsed
I think the end result of Farage's continuing support for Trump is that he will eventually convince most Tories likewise. Farage is, after all, the politician most responsible for taking the idea of Britain leaving the EU from the extreme margins to winning a referendum and our current reality.
I disagree with a lot of what Farage stands for, his willingness to divide people and to insult and ridicule normal people who want to do their best. But he realises that the central task of a politician is to change people's minds by successfully advocating for his beliefs, while every other politician is so paralysed by fear at losing public support that they don't even try, or they're so convinced of their moral superiority that they're offended by the notion that they might have to argue their case.
And what about people who spread untruths regards say BLM protests? Should they be sent to prison? Or is it just certain types of unrest that you are bothered with?
FWIW from my involvement with projects inside government, is that the Civil Service implements what it is told to do, albeit slowly.
Matt Gaetz who has already resigned
Elise Stefanik who is becoming Ambassador to the UN
Mike Waltz who is becoming National Security Advisor
Of these, Elise Stefanik's seat in New York *might* be vulnerable in the event of low turnout.
Most Russians wouldn't buy anything Russian if they could avoid it.
New research shows that British employees are among the world’s least happy
Szu Ping Chan
Economics Editor"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/03/lockdown-broke-will-to-work-former-waitrose-boss-lord-price/
Equally people wearing a kippah should be allowed to go about their business unhindered. Anyone impeding them because they don't like Bibi's government should also face the full force of the law.
This isn't be a right/ left thing. It's about right and wrong.
Spooky.
I blame the Government.
It's much narrower than previously, and we know how 'interesting' that became. After the special elections (ie byelections in English English) it may still be narrower than previously.
Shecorns88 and CharlieSharky are not bots from Putin, they are straight out backroom of Labour and Tory Party HQs. Not SovBots, but BritBots.
I say we should leap on, challenge and ridicule everything these bots post, just as we do with the SovBot’s, just to show we are a no spin community of honest free thinkers, disgusted at their attempts to steer us and force the party political narrative on here.
Shecorns might even be Morgan McSweeney himself - though CharlieSharky clearly not (yet) in Kemi’s top team because the posts in here are far sharper and more effective than Kemi is at PMQs.
It’s easy to work this out, as all they post is political spin, when 99% of PB can’t even stay on topic let alone politics. No joining in the puns = weirdo’s. Simples.
"Kill the fucker!" - in a gaming session of Call of Duty
"Kill the fucker!" - while participating in a gang, armed with knives, that have pulled a victim to the ground....
Bring it on.
Stuff the orange prick and his Apartheid runt
Leaving what was to become the EU was a major component of Labour's manifesto in 1983, which wasn't exactly the most popular prospectus ever offered to the British electorate.
He took down Gangs at the CPS he believes he can take down Gangs as PM
He's certainly got a plan. He's not bowing to some to his left and he is setting about showing that his word on this is credible.
It will be 2 to 3 years before we know but he's made more progress in 5 months than the Tories have in many years...
The wheels are turning
😀
(Yellow Peril excepted, of course.)
Everyone from Starmer to the Adam Smith Institute has suddenly changed their tune and decided that we've had far too much of it after years of defending it and arguing that we needed more.
If there is no more context to this case than that presented here it is an outrage. Despite his back record. There might well be such context - we don’t know
Stop flagging you pathetic fools
We used to have threads running regularly to over a thousand comments. Now we are doing well to get past five hundred.
You just can't get the posters these days.
No more: paid breaks, time and a half for weekends or extra for national holidays. Rotas are flexible but they generally flex only one way. Contracts are initially for < 21 hours a week and topped up by insecure hours. Staffing rates are continually pressured, often to the point of expecting heroics every day. Rotas are monthly and pseudo-random meaning most will expect to work at least one weekend a week and possibly more, curtailing second jobs and upskilling.
Seriously, talk to people in low-end retail work. There are reasons they are unhappy. Continually declining working conditions and terrible union representation means they are living shit lives.
@GavinBarwell
@BorisJohnson won the Brexit referendum by promising control of our borders. And then he did this
At least this time no one can blame the EU!
Merry Xmas you lot...
https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/04/full-list-junk-foods-new-advert-ban-including-porridge-crumpets-22119393
Change is scary to a lot of people. Not everyone goes "fuck the rent, I'm out of this job. I'll find something else"
COVID did a massive reset at the low end. Tons of such people lost their jobs - no hours for their zero hours contracts.
So many found new jobs. I talked to a couple of Amazon drivers who are revelling in being on short distance parcel delivery - small, low weight packages, a warm van with their own music on. And a lot more pay than the previous shitty jobs.
When you are revelling in the joy of a job with Amazon.....
The police were conducting their investigation in the immediate aftermath of a vile murder of young children. Only a **** would make up a false story with details about Syrian refugees being responsible under such heartbreaking circumstances,, and only an even bigger scoundrel ( or ****, take your pick) would publish "the facts" when he didn't know whether they were bollocks or not. He claims to be a serious politician. Well that wasn't serious , it was shocking.
However, he blamed lockdown for triggering a range of issues, including an increase in poor mental health among young people. Lord Price added that the rise of work from home was also leading to a worse experience of work among young people.
He said: “For a lot of young people, they take on jobs and they never go to the office. They never meet a team. It isn’t like when I started work, when you went in and had socials.
“These are people who are being recruited into jobs who are not seeing their managers face-to-face. They’re not seeing their colleagues face-to-face, and guess what? After four or five months, they’re pretty disillusioned.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/03/lockdown-broke-will-to-work-former-waitrose-boss-lord-price/ (£££)