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Why Farage might be next out – politicalbetting.com
Why Farage might be next out – politicalbetting.com
Previously in this market I thought given the structure of Reform it was unlikely that Farage could be ousted but now the party is like the traditional parties it is rather more possible following today’s announcement.
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Not only is he much of an age with Farage, but there’s an obvious replacement who is clearly eyeing up the spot in his back to plunge her knife.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/02/19/285d6/1
This is starting to feel quite serious.
The mass membership will now be important in how and whether they distance themselves from Trump and/or Putin - we know what their supporters think, not necessarily their members.
And leadership rules and constitution will be important in determination whether it acts more like Labour or more like the Tories in terms of regicidal tendencies.
Badenoch - Badger. Rather gruff, set in the ways, enjoys a fight.
Starmer - Rat - bit of a lightweight, well meaning but not a thinker
Davey - Mole - important but somehow not quite at the centre of events
Farage - well, that leaves Mr Toad.
Many of us warned the stance would take before he was elected.
Trump told us the stance he would take before he was elected.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Honestly. Why doesn't he emigrate?
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/24/ukip-nigel-farage-toad-hall_n_5205277.html
Trumpers don't like being questioned.
I assume Zelenskyy has told him where to shove his agreement?
We are through the looking glass now. This is absolutely absurd.
The difference with Vance is that he is articulate. I agree with very little that he says but his clarity in his recent speeches has made him the coherent voice of the Trump cavalcade who can at least provide a gloss or a rationale (of sorts) to what is going on.
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Jabba the Hutt. - Boris Johnson obviously
Jar Jar Binks - Liz Truss
C3PO - Jeremy Hunt
Nigel Farage - Sarlac Pit
Kemi Badenoch- General Hux
Keir Starmer - Bail Organa
The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end. No one should be surprised: This was predictable, and indeed was predicted.
Anne Applebaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43IM3vsXOts
https://edreform.com/news-and-analysis/analysis/unions-and-establishment/what-it-is/
(For the record: I have a mild liking for the original movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob Let me repeat, mild. )
Do we have any US polling broken down by party and faction (ie MAGA, not MAGA for the GOP) on any questions around attitude to Putin / Zelensky, who started the war etc?
People get all excitable about PepGuardiola scratching his head because Man City are losing matches - but Jesus Christ you can imagine Zelensky just sitting there stunned thinking “I’ve got a war to fight to save my country against a murderous psychotic bastard and Do and Trump and his team are treating me like a criminal and at the same time trying to steal my country’s wealth”.
What a man.
Just think of when you’ve been stressed them more shot cones. And multiply it by millions.
BB-8, at best
(500 million is a reasonable approximation, militarily, if you subtract Hungary and Slovakia, and add the UK.)
In general I don’t have an issue with encouraging investment. The issue is that a lot of people aren’t particularly clued up about investing, or building a diversified portfolio, so maybe they just won’t bother or will expose their savings to too much short term risk/speculation. And then the banks won’t be able to encourage mortgage lending. So it all becomes a bit counterproductive.
I’m fairly agnostic, I just ponder whether there’s a law of unintended consequences that will come into play.
The problem with the British ISA is that I wouldn’t trust it - I want control of my investments
Which is to same all of them bar a few whacko platoon level infantry who will suddenly find themselves as 4 star generals.
Many indeed most of us on PB have been predicting that Trump 2.0 would be an utter catastrophe. The few others should now apologize.
Bond - fucked
Dr Who - apparently put in deep freeze for a decade....
If anyone can guess where this is they are an absolute fucking genius
For no reason whatsoever except that it is the first place which came to mind when I saw the image, I'm going to go for: Turksih occupied North Cyprus.
In further news (well, not really, we all know it) OFGEM are useless twits exhibit 746b:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vwxyq33k0o
Chewbacca: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!"
TSE-PO: "He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you!"
Han Sunil: "Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee."
TSE-PO: "But, sir! Nobody worries about upsetting a Lawyer-Droid!"
Han Sunil: "That's because Lawyer-Droids aren't known for pulling people's arms out of their sockets when they lose!"
TSE-PO: "I see your point, sir!"
[to RCS-D2] "I suggest a new strategy, RCS: let the Wookiee win!"
But wrong (this is quite hard, but also genuinely interesting as an answer)
Clue: you can get excellent bacon here
That’s a reversal from the vast majority of previous polls, which showed Trump in net-positive territory.
And in the Post-Ipsos poll, significantly more Americans strongly disapprove of Trump (39 percent) than strongly approve of him (27 percent)."
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-policies-opposed-by-americans/
(It wasn't much of a honeymoon to begin with. His approval ratings were higher than in his first term -- but lower than the approval ratings for every other recent president.)
In the end, after six or seven hours of labour, an emergency caeserean was needed. Wife was whisked off to the operating theatre where, incongruously, surgical staff were preparing with the sound of Saturday Night on Key 103, Manchester in the background. My daughter ended up emerging into the world to the accompaniment of the Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men." Which wasn't exactly the start I would have given her, but doesn't appear to have held her back.
Daughters 2 and 3 were planned caesereans, and the need for hours of music for labouring to was not there. But I did enjoy slipping Morrissey's "Pregnant for the last time" into the playlist for the car on the way to the birth of my final child.