That don’t impress me much – politicalbetting.com
That don’t impress me much – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch is much less likely to be seen as a 'PM in waiting' than Keir Starmer was when he became Labour leaderBadenoch first poll (Nov 2024): 15% Starmer first poll (May 2020): 32%https://t.co/FiifPne8wb pic.twitter.com/9ujjRv9IgV
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Hey, kids. After endless faffing about finally got the audio for a review of the F1 2024 title fights up here:
https://undercutters.podbean.com/e/f1-2024-title-fight-undercutters-ep1/
Hope you give it a listen. Second episode will be about the battle for sixth between RB, Haas, and Alpine.
FPT 2 F1: if you prefer words, there are many here, and about nine delightful graphs. Marvel at the graphics. Gosh, they are lovely:
https://morrisf1.blogspot.com/2024/12/f1-2024-title-fight.html
So they've put up a shedload of sportswash money for a snooker tournament.
And $1m for anyone who makes a 147 then pots the gimmick golden ball.
Anyways, Zhang Anda has nine reds and nine blacks. When. Power cut.
Energy crisis, you see.
We should trial taking these decisions out of the hands of the professional panels and using the general jury pool.
Just fucking knock it off. Give her a year to either bed in or prove a disaster. Until then, your daily diatribes are just deathly dull.
Once seen cannot be unseen.
(Read on a football forum –– and so true)
B-O-R-I-N-G......
This is what I’ve written
What must sting for Kemi Badenoch is that she is doing worse than Starmer at a similar point, but as with those writing off Starmer now, there’s plenty of time for Badenoch to turn it around.
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/12/16/badenoch-is-absolutely-right-on-a-potential-tory-and-reform-alliance/
Starmer, Reeves and Labour are in government and are not popular whilst Kemi is completely new to her role and may well grow into it
I would be far more worried if I supported Labour with the economic climate in disarray directly as a result of their ill considered choices
Seems to be the case, although early days.
I'll be surprised if she is still leader by next GE to be honest.
She may well be another William Hague.
They have not yet started. Nor do they give this Tory a sense that they know how to, or that this is the job they have to do if they care about our country.
EXCLUSIVE:
The Treasury has drawn up detailed plans for closer economic ties with China
They focus on financial services and clean energy, draft policy proposals seen by Bloomberg show
Comes ahead of Rachel Reeves’ trip there next month
“Unprecedented” decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
Kids who were in 8th grade at pandemic's start have ushered in an era of abstaining.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/the-kids-are-maybe-alright-teen-drug-use-hits-new-lows-in-ongoing-decline/
The Chagos Islands for Hong Kong, Kowloon, the New Territories etc.
I want to live in a country that has the rule of law, which means the courts can tell the government to get lost. This is a major difference between us and Russia et al. I like it that way.
This particular case has a potential for 4 levels of hearing - Tribunal, Appeals Tribunal, Court of Appeal, SC. If the government is right it can appeal.
Government through parliament makes the law and through parliament can change it. Courts don't make the laws.
Which leaves us with ... Europe.
(Runs for cover.)
In our multi-party world, she needs to work out and understand what do the Conservatives stand for and what are the important dividing lines with the other parties. This includes in particular Reform.
It is too early for these to be well developed, and so she is currently firing off blanks trying to see what is working.
I would expect to see the start of a more coherent approach by Easter.
It has taken Labour 6 months to start finding their feet in Government, so we shouldn't we expect the same from the Conservatives?
We want very much to know how brilliantly and competently they would run the UK, and on what principles and policies, especially the hard and intractable issues that don't accede to slogans, and we want on display the brilliance of the top team that will do all this.
0/10 so far.
Have you seen my latest trainers, they are on half price, an utter bargain.
https://www.versace.com/gb/en/odissea-trainers-gold/1004524-1A02259_DSS_395_1Y420__.html
(And about half of a pack of cocoa dusted chocolate coated almonds, which are subversively moreish.)
It is a Boxing Day feast with British chicken and oak-smoked pork, with cheese coleslaw and balsamic onion chutney. No partridge, Alan or otherwise.
I don't get where Boxing Day comes in. Other than it is this morning's sandwich, so is technically a left over.
A lesser being would be in the sin bin for posting that.
We take all the Uyghurs and Tibetans from the Chinese government and put them to work picking strawberries and wiping old peoples arses. For nothing.
And get paid by the Chinese government for doing so.
What’s not to like?
Ask these questions of the Tories: What is your USP. Where are you going. How do you plan to get there.
Blank.
Kemi should be talking this all the time, day after day, big speech after big speech, until we know it by heart. Has she heard of Blair or Thatcher?
How does that charge work? Regardless of the verdict, the allegation of going after the chap with a gun and shooting him dead seems a little planned and intentional - which I thought was First Degree.
China can offer us a lot of investment, we should be wary, but are they a threat to us in terms of subverting our democracy and culture NO
America can take a lot but not offer too much that we can't provide for ourselves or get on better terms from elsewhere. Trump will always want best buck and control. He puppetmaster is a far greater threat to Global, Western, European, British democracy right now than China could ever be.
China would be the better bet for me every time. If Starmer can't see this and ignore pillocks like IDS and Tugenhadt then he is doing the Country a disservice.
Work shy, aloof, arrogant, lacking empathy and personality.
No wonder she is a dud.
Looking at that Tory Front Bench today, especially either side of her was terrifying.
No one with gravitas or the spark too reignite them
They desperately need a Penny Mordaunt type to take over ASAP.
Maybe 2030.
A 99 year lease is more than sufficient
Can anyone seriously argue that a runway will be worth anything strategically on 99 years time
It's not the isle of wight, isle of man or even Alderney.
It's just a badge for little englangers to whinge and moan about.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/2024/12/18/luigi-mangione-terror-thompson
There's an assassination addition of these coming soon, and the rest of the products.
If you think Trump is transactional, wait till you deal with the Chinese government. And they are currently eliminating 2 separate cultures.
So at least you can save £000s in VAT on shoes.
In voteshare terms though the Tories are doing at least as well as Starmer Labour were in 2020 and almost as well as Cameron's Tories were in 2006 relative to the governing party.
Note Kemi has a much better net approval rating than Starmer though, +2% compared to his -27% and also better than Farage on -10%
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Kemi_Badenoch
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Keir_Starmer
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Nigel_Farage
Given the over fishing in much of the world, the Chinese want to move their factory ships into the area. And strip it clean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/opinion/us-china-musk-swift-tariffs-manufacturing.html
"I learned a new term on this visit: “dark factory.” A retired Chinese official mentioned to me in passing over dinner that she wanted to buy a new high-tech bed and decided to go see the offerings at the factory. When she arrived, though, she found it was a “dark factory” — so the lights were turned on just for her. It wasn’t dark because it was out of business, she told me. It was dark because it was so fully roboticized that the company doesn’t waste electricity keeping the lights on for any humans..."
"Am I bovvered"
Fishing rights on the other side of the globe... Let the locals argue the toss, what's it got to do with us?
As I just posted the reaction to Musk's money will go a long way to determine the future of Farage and Reform
And I wait to see, as I am genuinely intrigued and think it could go either way
No beer and sandwiches at Number 10 if Kemi becomes PM.
If you have something to hide from them fair enough... I'm far more worried about Musk
Plus the current deal is to give them to Mauritius along with the islands. This may not actually benefit the actual Chagos islanders.
The moral deal would be to find out what the actual Chagos Islanders want….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14205951/Head-teacher-banned-Swiss-ski-trip-sex-knives-booze.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14205975/Cowardly-Assad-gave-Israel-locations-weapon-depots-missile-systems-return-letting-flee-Syria-helped-IDF-launch-airstrike-blitz.html
Reform let no one forget is not a political party. It is a limited company with a handful of shareholders.
It is what it is a vehicle to make a few rabid right wing individuals very rich irrespective of a right wing coup d'etat that Hitler failed to deliver using the ex King and Moseley in the 40s
Does anyone seriously want Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate, disciples of and associates of Musk running our streets with hate, division and fear.
We saw a sickening glimpse of that from the Farage Riots on July. That showed just how dangerous Musk, Farage, Robinson and their thugs are.
Chagos is utterly expendable.
Should have grabbed Sainz when they had the chance
It is similar to Brexit and why did remain lose
.. They deserve each other
“Not a great look” is beside the point.
As the money piles into Reform (forget Musk, I'm talking Candy and Co.), that will inevitably enter policy, and it is a concern that their policies and positions will simply become bought ones. I am slightly comforted by the fact that most of their donors seem to want to make money by reviving the British economy, not by feeding off its decline like some notable Labour donors. But it's still a concern.
It will be particularly interesting to see how their electric car ideas develop with Musk's burgeoning influence. If I were them, I wouldn't tell him to F-off (that would just be silly) but I would balance him carefully with other donors and hypothecate any donations to specific areas of Musk/Reform joint concerns, like free speech.
He’s white. English speaking. Omnipresent on people’s devices therefore considered “us” rather than “them”.
Reform voters won’t give a shit. They like Trump after all.
He's bought up with hardline Apartheid DNA
Thats why he's attracted to Robinson, Tate, Hopkins, Farage, Fox and other associated rabid fascists
If Reform start wanting to bring forward the timetable for banning petrol and diesel cars, I'll have very strong objections.
He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words - basic ones. Like his brain was buffering.
Finally asked if he was okay. His response floored me.
"Sometimes I forget words now. I'm so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it's not there, my brain feels... slower."
He'd been using AI for everything. Writing, thinking, communication. It had become his external brain. And now his internal one was getting weaker...
https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1869202002783207622
Give Spain the Isle of Portland and put Gibraltar to bed as an issue forever. And get ourselves a nice tapas and fino spot for summer evenings and stag parties.
Take back the pale of Calais. Macron would be delighted as it’s all Le Pen voting up there. In return, give France South Ken. They practically have it already.
Get Heligoland back from Germany and give them Oxford. BMW is already there.
Finally, get Switzerland and give the Swiss Aviemore.