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The Tory party is the party for traitors – politicalbetting.com
The Tory party is the party for traitors – politicalbetting.com
Rather be a traitor or faithful? How you vote might tell us which… Today's @restisents discuss our @Moreincommon_ finding that if only Traitors viewers who'd want to be a faithful voted, Labour lead by 14. If only those who'd want to be a traitor voted the Tories lead by 12 pic.twitter.com/EoY3uC9tFJ
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/08/banishment-level-posh-why-is-the-traitors-so-middle-class
I did notice, however (because they posted the data), that the YouGov poll yesterday, when split by gender was:
Men:
Ref 30
Lab 27
Con 20
LD 13
Grn 6
Women:
Con 25
Lab 25
Ref 19
LD 15
Grn 10
Which is quite a striking difference (yes, sub-groups aren't weighted but the male/female groups are so large as a proportion of the whole that the lack of weighting shouldn't matter too much compared with smaller groups).
The Traitors is the best TV show of the last 20 years, IMHO. Or maybe second best after Succession.
Worth catching up with. UK series 2 and Aussie series 1 the stand-outs so far.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/14/actor-dirk-bogarde-was-disturbed-by-kgb-sting-warning-declassified-files-reveal
..With Bogarde ruled out as a candidate, MI5 agents scoured magazines including Variety for other actors who may have been in Moscow. Tommy Steele, Peter Arne, Michael Craig, Stanley Baxter and Bill Travers were all noted to have reportedly visited Moscow.
The defector Kago had described the actor as “a young actor, a very nice man” and “nice looking”. That ruled out Bogarde’s co-star in Campbell’s Kingdom, James Robertson Justice, who had visited Moscow. “No one could call Justice ‘young’ – he was born in 1912 [sic]; or good looking – he wears a full beard,” read one memo...
Makes you wonder how we won the Cold War.
lol this is genuinely the shittiest government ever, isn’t it? Didn’t we once say Starmer was a “lucky general”? You don’t hear that any more
Ditto Jess Philips and thingy
And Rachel from Accounts who can’t actually do Accounts
If he reads this I'm sure he'd be hurt!
Going well, isn’t it? Now the adults are in charge again
Theyre hopeless too.
To be honest I would be surprised if the two investigations in Bangladesh find much out - they seem a bit just going after the old regime and any relations (albeit the latest one does seem to drag her parents into the game).
However, the picture of her with Putin and the various free houses she’s enjoyed over the last few years would be published every time there is a story about it. And quite frankly Labour voters would have found that pretty distasteful.
Pete Hegseth says US military bases should restore names of Confederate generals
https://x.com/KFILE/status/1878817312566108529
And David Lammy the Foreign Minister is actually the Minister for Giving Bits of Britain Away, to Foreigners. And we have to pay
Seems a stretch.
Let's not forget how close she was to Starmer and how he supported her, there aren't many like that. We will see how much he gets dragged into this, but a clear case of lack of judgement in appointing her as anti-corruption minister.
Will give Reeves a bit of a space.
When will he have a good day?
This is basic basic stuff which anyone of sense should be asking. She may not have been corrupt herself but did she really think that she was being given an expensive property just because she had a pretty face?
A byelection in Hampstead and Highgate would be a near certain win for the LibDems, one would have thought.
Mind-boggling
If I was a proper journalist, I’d be checking the social media of the Minister For Stopping The Raping Of Newts, to see if he spends a lot of time near ponds
UK bans cattle, pigs and sheep imports from Germany after foot-and-mouth case
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7zv87nywo
From fourth place?
Anyway you agree about Reeves, don't you. She's safe as houses in her position. If you think otherwise there could be a bet to be had.
However, it’s always been the case that money does it for Labour MPs and sex for the Conservatives MP.
Guido beating TSE to not very nice puns about a certain Labour politician.
How's your numbers, Alan?
2 ministers lost in 6 months who's next ?
The recent photos of her show her looking haggard and deeply stressed. And very out of her depth
I wonder if she might resign on some pretext? I can’t see Starmer dumping her as sacking or losing a COTE is usually terminal, in the end, for a PM
Regardless I’d say the chances of her departing Number 11 have gone from minuscule to small but non trivial
Those scorch marks from the burning crosses are a bugger to get out.
SKS has lost one minister on a theft accusation and the next on a link to corruption. Pick your crime.
If you get the chance I recommend watching Rachel Reeves in the Commons today.
She is awful. You can easily imagine her political brand collapsing in a matter of days if a genuine crisis emerges.
The Starmer government is so....flimsy!
She strikes me as way more insubstantial than Truss or Kwarteng.
It's like watching a Potemkin government. This person is in charge of the country's finances? Really?!
If your questions were sincere rather than rhetorical, I might occasionally answer them.
You fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb
You fought all the way, Johnny Reb
Saw you a-marchin' with Robert E. Lee
You held your head a-high, tryin' to win the victory
You fought for your folks but you didn't die in vain
Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAbZ3I6-1lY
Is there a market for the next resignation?
With Labour unpopular, the Conservatives moribund, the Greens having no meaningful byelection experience, and this hardly being fertile Reform territory, then yes I'd make the LibDems favorites, with the Greens being second most likely.
@georgegalloway
We will contest what seems like the inevitable by-election in Hampstead and Highgate"
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1879202906760716574
Gray is another resignation though not an MP...
He’s still on the left, for sure, but you can never be certain of his take - generally a positive sign - and he’s a very good Noticer of Things
Honourable like Benning ?
What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery.... If things are allowed to go on as they are, it is certain that slavery is to be abolished. By the time the North shall have attained the power, the black race will be in a large majority, and then we will have black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that? It is not a supposable case.... War will break out everywhere like hidden fire from the earth, and it is probable that the white race, being superior in every respect, may push the other back.... We will be overpowered and our men will be compelled to wander like vagabonds all over the earth; and as for our women, the horrors of their state we cannot contemplate in imagination. That is the fate which abolition will bring upon the white race.... We will be completely exterminated, and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then it will go back to a wilderness and become another Africa.... Suppose they elevated Charles Sumner to the presidency? Suppose they elevated Fred Douglass, your escaped slave, to the presidency? What would be your position in such an event? I say give me pestilence and famine sooner than that.
— Henry Lewis Benning, Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention, February 18, 1861
Fine examples of military leadership like Bragg ?
Even Bragg's staunchest supporters admonished him for his quick temper, general irritability, and tendency to wound innocent men with barbs thrown during his frequent fits of anger. His reluctance to praise or flatter was exceeded, we are told, only by the tenacity with which, once formed, he clung to an adverse impression of a subordinate. For such officers—and they were many in the Army of Mississippi—Bragg's removal or their transfer were the only alternatives to an unbearable existence.
Crap.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/10/louise-haigh-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-that-phone-was-stolen-paper-shows
Import of pork, lamb and beef as well as live cattle, sheep and pigs suspended amid outbreak near Berlin"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/14/uk-bans-german-pork-products-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-near-berlin
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=louise+haigh+theft&mid=4530BEFECCBD8BD7C3704530BEFECCBD8BD7C370&FORM=VIRE
"As a child, she met Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, and her family was invited to the White House"
"Her maternal grandfather is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader and first President of Bangladesh.[12] Her mother's elder sister, Sheikh Hasina, was Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 2009 until ousted in 2024."
"She has worked for Amnesty International, the Greater London Authority, at Philip Gould Associates, the political consultancy firm run by New Labour strategist Philip Gould, Save the Children, and Brunswick Group, where she worked on corporate social responsibility initiatives for major British manufacturers, as well as for MPs Oona King, Sadiq Khan and Harry Cohen. "
That may go to explain why there was not enough inquiry into her background.