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100 days in and so far it’s not looking good for Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
100 days in and so far it’s not looking good for Kemi Badenoch – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage tie when asked who would make the best prime minister, with only 35% of Tory voters favouring BadenochBadenoch: 22%Farage: 22%2024 Conservative votersBadenoch: 35%Farage: 26%2024 Reform UK votersBadenoch: 6%Farage: 73%yougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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Note how almost as many LD voters as Tories think Badenoch would be a better PM than Farage, so she is at least making progress with LDs given comparison with Reform even if most Reform voters overwhelmingly prefer Farage to her.
The fact most Conservative voters also think she is doing a good job should secure her position until the next GE given she won both the Tory MPs and Tory members votes
Starmer failed the test, and I fear Kemi B is the same. It’s a shame, I quite like her, she is bright and interesting, but….. she’s just not *papabile*
She’s not assisted by the fact that Jenrick, Tory shit that he is, seems to have mastered social media AND makes fast, punchy, aggressive points in the Commons while looking like the lead singer of the Killers. He would be mincing Starmer weekly at PMQs
Interestingly, 78% is the same % as the USA as a whole at their 2020 Census.
Oversubscribed state schools have no room for private pupils
At least 27 local authorities are full in certain age cohorts, raising fears that schools would struggle to cope with an influx after Labour’s VAT raid
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/no-spare-state-school-places-private-school-fears-3rd87xqq2
https://x.com/tom_nuttall/status/1888919745300152810
It's not a real German election campaign until a senior politician has to deny that they plagiarised their doctorate.
2. Jenrick was seen as too horrible.
It wasn't Kemi Good, Bob Bad so much as Kemi poor, Bob terrible.
But non incumbent PM head to heads are fascinating which is why I said that Badenoch trails Davey on this metric would sting.
Kemi could use some tactical advice, like asking only one question at a time. I fear CCHQ is staffed by idiots but this does seem to be a deliberate tactic.
It was no doubt drawn up by people in London who believe parents have a choice in schools and there is plenty of room to accommodate parents who are priced out (though of course who also believe that parents and/or schools will just absorb the costs). In Trafford, no such slack exists in the system.
She is more of an intellectual than natural party leader. Having said that she is not really a negative for the Tories either like Truss was, more of a shrug shoulders leader
Such sites are fairly straighforward to block for a professional (or indeed amateur) publication, so imo if a newspaper or media site leaves a hole in its paywall then that is a deliberate decision.
It changes if a complaint has been received.
A twitter thread on the case of the teenager who,is a fussy eater. A rarity among surly, moody, teens for sure, and the stalled deportation of a serial criminal who lied about his asylum claim.
https://x.com/lara_e_brown/status/1888927058744467932?s=61
I mean the number of extra children in Nottinghamshire and Stoke could reflect recent arrivals far more than a change in private school number
* offhand I can’t remember exactly where the peak of the bump is - I thought it was 2023 for secondary schools but would need to look at the figures in detail
Basically, the lower tribunal said he can stay, but this was overturned at the next level up:-
The judge, David Merrigan, said the only example of why the boy could not go to Albania was that he “will not eat the type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”.
“We are not persuaded that the addition of this sole example approaches anywhere near the level of harshness for a reasonable judge to find it to be ‘unduly’ so,” he said.
He remitted the case to be reheard by a different judge in a lower tribunal to decide the “sole issue” of whether the consequences of deportation would be unduly harsh on the 10-year-old boy. The case is ongoing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/09/albanian-criminal-deportation-halted-over-chicken-nuggets/ (£££)
So clickbait from the Telegraph; ragebait from Jenrick & Philp.
So, among those in Thatcher's first cabinet were: Hailsham, Whitelaw, Howe, Carrington, Walker, Prior, Heseltine, Joseph, Jenkin.
Now name 10 of Kemi's first cabinet....
The difficulty I have is this: is Jenrick good looking? Flowers is (or was, in his heyday) incredibly so. See the video for Human. Jenrick: he has much of the same thing - the clear skin, strong cheekbones and steely look that’s a bit German or Swiss. A little reminiscent of a young Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List. But he also looks unavoidably Tory-Boy. And a little pallid and baby-faced.
A sort of Quantum politician, both good looking and not good looking simultaneously.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/10/andrew-gwynne-whatsapp-chat-non-crime-hate-incident/
Ex-Labour minister’s WhatsApp chat recorded as non-crime hate incident
Police confirm they have begun inquiry into Andrew Gwynne’s messages
The police have plenty of time on their hands to focus on some ill judged social media posts given there are so few criminals about committing actual crimes after all....
Davey also outpolls his party's voteshare on the best PM metric unlike the other 2 opposition leaders
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/06/19/by-32-to-26-more-brits-think-ed-davey-would-be-a-better-pm-than-rishi-sunak/
What other historical subjects have we predetermined the verdict on before we even teach them? The toxic legacy of Elizabeth I? The toxic legacy of the Romans? The toxic legacy of the Industrial Revolution? The toxic legacy of the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act?
It is a cretinously ahistorical approach, which is how we can tell it is propaganda by grifters.
The insanity of that is that scientific management had identified running at 100% as leading to inevitable organisational failure in about 1890.
The noted symptoms from those days included - “collapse in worker morale, collapse in quality, ‘soldiering’ - performing tasks by rote without a care for the result, frequent stoppages due to missing staff or materials….”
Dirty Davey's down the front
And he's met the coppers there
He'll be taking you in 'cause they hate your skin
And you're dragged away by the hair
It's a kick in the head and a prison bed
And you tell me it's the law
Well Davey's out on two weeks bail
And he's down the town to score
When it all falls in and he's pinned by the chin
And they've busted every floor
Davey's down the old grey squat
And he's lying with his lass
When there's a brick through the pane
And he's out on the lane
With the bailiffs and the glass
The court comes up on a Monday morning
And Davey's in the dock
He can't stop his tears
When he gets two years
And he can't turn back the clock
Well Davey's had it up to here
Banging his head on the wall
So he's tied his pants to the prison bars
And he's hung till he's clear of it all
There's a law for the rich
And a law for the poor
And a law for Dirty Davey
His body's gone but his soul lives on
Here's to you Dirty Davey
Corrupt, corrupt from the bottom to the top
And you tell me it's the law
When a *court ruled* that they needed to dispose of DNA and fingerprints taken from innocent people under certain circumstances, the police carried on keeping them. Not just while appealing, but after all appeals had been exhausted.
Good afternoon, everybody.
Then again, we all forget things and misquote them unintentionally and @Casino_Royale put the phrase in quotation marks. I wonder whether they really were the exact words used.
"electricity was clearly evil, just look at the electric chair, that's what we'll be studying"
It's a Woke version of anti-vaxxery
Good luck to anyone trying to pull Davey away by his hair though!
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/08/14/ed-daveys-cunning-stunts-worked-but-as-for-the-betting-scandal/
As mentioend to @Luckyguy1983 I don't think, from an academic study and investigation perspective, they should have appended the word "toxic" to the exercise because that is for people to determine themselves.
But I'm glad you are thinking along the right lines of investigation, although I'm not sure where rich privileged white females fit into the hierarchy of oppression.
https://news.sky.com/story/mps-set-for-above-inflation-pay-rise-to-nearly-94-000-13306631
Just rejoice at that news.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/plagiatsvorwuerfe-gegen-habeck-unbegruendet-110287644.html
We need words and phrases to replace these racist words, I offer 'incentive based decision making' for blackmail.
https://khinskitchen.com/morning-glory-stir-fry/
The bitterness of the morning glory is superbly countered by the hint of sugar, the heat from the chili, and the umami from oyster/fish and soy sauce
https://khinskitchen.com/morning-glory-stir-fry/
Takes 10 minutes?
Wow
https://www.thaicookbook.tv/thai-recipes/side-dishes/sir-fried-morning-glory-pad-pak-boong-fai-daeng/
Begs the question who polices the police then
Of course there were never any Empires built by Asian or Muslim or African or Latin American nations and slavery was always perpetrated by white men as was the climate destroying industrial revolution which certainly did nothing at all to ease poverty and create wealth. Women and gay men and trans were also subordinated into inferiority by evil patriarchical white males. Woke history teachers should therefore get white boys to stand up with a dunces cap on and walk around the classroom 3 times to be shouted and abused and shamed for the toxic legacy of their ancestors and their unjustified privilege
OK on to the ludicrous but entertaining new season of Outlander
Many are not.
Some of the lyrics are really excellent, and they scan much better with the melody than some other political songwriting efforts (the Manics are the worst at poor scanning and excessive syllables per line).
A journalist of enquiring mind downloaded the theses in question and ran them against plagiarism checkers….
So many were found, in fact that the institutions in question simply ignored the issue.
IIRC 40% of Ursula von der Leyen’s thesis was copy and pasta…
- She recently gave CCHQ a collective kick up the arse. Granted, she perhaps should have just given them their marching orders, but one must start somewhere.
- Her last PMQs outing was a growling display of conservative populism, reducing Starmer to a heap of separated mayonnaise. More of that please.
- She has (against all expectations) finally released a policy. And whilst being small, it was an OK one. Not even close to a solution to mass migration, but broadly sensible, not heavily criticised from the right, and not caused an upset with the wets.
Well done Kemi!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/10/lord-hermer-labour-calls-to-quit/ (£££)
Trouble at t'mill.
Advice to Kemi – you have six questions. Do not ask three questions in one, or Starmer will just answer the easiest one. Do not make a short speech in any of the questions. Do not reply to Keir, just move on. In short, ask six questions.
“Blackmail” is “persuasion.”
If you want to make an informed judgment about Habeck's 'plagiarism' read the article linked above. It amounts to some typos in the footnotes.
In general post-colonialism prioritises between conquerors.