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Don't laugh but I'm betting on Jeremy Corbyn or Zarah Sultana becoming PM before 2030
Don't laugh but I'm betting on Jeremy Corbyn or Zarah Sultana becoming PM before 2030 – politicalbetting.com
A golden rule of betting is that you shouldn’t get involved in markets where the bookies do not offer both sides of the bet and I think these markets from Ladbrokes fit that criteria.
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Perhaps metaphorically kneecapped him. That’s a reference to a shit band rather than anything else
https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1942202403446538425?s=61
Advantage Musk...
What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again …
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1942132189229162960
I do not understand why he post such nonsense and insults
There's dysfunctional. There's completely fucked. But there isn't a level beyond that allows either to be PM.
The 'Gaza vote' will likely have subsided by 2029 somewhat too.
I can see them scalping Wes though
Kjh was saying the government should have deprived him of his WFA, if he didn't use so many tax minimisation schemes and take cash in hand from his capital he would have been well over the taxable income threshold for losing his WFA
https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/1942214679763325200
Former first deputy head of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya), Colonel General Viktor Strigunov, has been arrested and placed in Moscow’s high-security Lefortovo detention center.
Preliminary arrest relates to alleged embezzlement during the construction of a military training facility near Novosibirsk.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1942226118574031260
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1942209099321524658
A PM younger than you, thanks Rishi.
Dame Amanda Spielman on with Tom Swarbrick on LBC.
Hell, the government made it mandatory (in effect) for IFAs to recommend pensions and ISAs!
Another Russian Transport Ministry Official Found Dead at Moscow Headquarters
42-year-old Andrei Korneichuk, deputy head of the Department for Regulatory Support and Land Relations at Russia’s Ministry of Transport, died during a working meeting today at his workplace in the ministry’s headquarters on Stara Basmannaya Street in Moscow.
According to Russian media, Korneichuk suddenly experienced heart problems, stood up from his desk, and collapsed.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1942231804825702752
It has a Conservative MP, Richard Holden, and Reform were third.
The South half of the town is combined for parliamentary purposes with the East of Thurrock and that area has, I grant you, a Reform MP.
There's a long piece in today's NYTimes on Miller. A fanatic to put it mildly.
You mentioned OPT about MAGA obsessives who believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag.
They weren’t the first. Jeanette Rankin, Representative from Montana, thought so too, saying ‘The British are such clever propagandists they might have cooked up the whole story.’ She said this while casting the only vote against declaring war on Japan.
Oddly this absolute batshit line is missing from a Wiki entry that tries to pretend she did it as a point of principle.
Also, we might mention that of course it was Hitler declared war on America, not the other way around (although Congress voted to reciprocate in which vote Rankin, realising what an utter twat she had made of herself over Japan, abstained).
If we give the LDs their 13% from last time, the SNP and Plaid 4% between them and 3% for the others - Habib, indies, Lowe, Kippers, Galloway etc, that eats 20%
ConRef are polling about 48% splitting around 29 19 RefCon atm.
That leaves 32% for Labour, Greens and 'the Collective'
Unless the LD vote gets cannibalised its difficult to find a path to a left wing administration and very easy to navigate a total meltdown
Fox News: The economy shrank. First time in three years. People are pointing to the tariff policy.
J.D. Vance: This is Joe Biden’s economy.
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1941929574624854319
You should accept you are out of order and apologise
Best go and see a pensions advisor if you intend to retire.
But unless you're saying Trump is now completely senile, this is ultimately on the President.
Vance is only in his 40s and is supposed to be quite bright. What’s his excuse?
Various Russian media cited law enforcement sources as saying a pistol belonging to Starovoit had been found alongside his body in his Tesla, though other reports suggested he was found in a nearby bush.
But "socially conservative"? He actually enabled a dangerous criminal to escape the death penalty prescribed by Almighty God for the offence she had committed!
‘Is it true the entire Ukrainian party secretariat committed suicide after Chernobyl?’
‘Yes. Well, all but the party secretary.’
‘Why did he not kill himself?’
‘He couldn’t be found.’
They're not even taking the time to carry them up 10 storeys first.
The old Basildon seat was, more or less, divided across the middle. Some of the area in the South of the town isn't built on; there are a couple of country parks. And a tip!
Perhaps in more mellow mode but we all know the Reform "hard right" schtick is going to flounder before too long. The next logical political development would be something along the lines of BSW in Germany - a kind of "Reform of the Left" for those who need the simplicity of labels.
A culturally conservative, nationalist, anti-immigrant, interventionist political movement ostensibly from the socialist side of the street wouldn't be unpopular after the ruin of the "hard right" and those with long memories will recall "the dockers" marching "for Enoch" in the 1960s. Such a movement would be strong in its support for institutions like the NHS and local councils though obviously its financial mismanagement would in time be as poor as Reform's.
Whether it can align with the pro-Muslim groups in parts of East London, Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester and other areas will be interesting as there's an inherent contradiction lurking not far below the surface.
It was interesting to hear Rupert Lowe come up with "restore Christian principles" in his launch blurb for Restore UK. On the back of what are reported to be increasing Church attendances especially among younger people and a move away from secularisation, time will tell if Restore UK can latch on to this sentiment. I'm not 100% sure what Lowe means by "restoring Christian principles" - does he mean Old Testament or New Testament?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Basildon_and_East_Thurrock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/07/iran-deportations-afghans-spying-israel/
For the final time @hyufd what are all these so many tax minimising things I did again? Can you provide a list. I have given you all the details so prey tell.
And what the hell does 'and take cash in hand from his capital he would have been well over the taxable income threshold ' mean? It is gobbledygook nonsense. What the hell does 'cash in hand' in this context mean?
There is no income tax on withdrawal of capital. I have already paid income tax before creating it. Some of it may attract CGT which I pay. There is no cash in hand stuff, whatever that means in this context. You are getting confused with people not declaring income which I have never done.
You are barking. You haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Say it ain’t so…
Which means there are an awful lot of people on the Afghan border with little food, shelter or money.
NEW
Jeremy Corbyn held a campaign event in Wes Streeting’s seat just hours after announcing his new left-wing party.
Joined the candidate who almost beat the Health Sec last election. Railed against the Starmer record.
Also raised £1.5k selling his jam.
#subtlepunning
Con gain Bootle
You were the one who was whinging your cash withdrawals from your capital and your ISAs didn't mean you lost all your WFA not me.
If your income was otherwise over the taxable income threshold where WFA was lost you otherwise would have
As I said the area of Basildon to the South of the A13 is largely uninhabited until one gets into Thurrock.