Punters think today was a good day for Wes Streeting – politicalbetting.com
Punters think today was a good day for Wes Streeting – politicalbetting.com
I think it is amusing that Angela Rayner is still rated as a better chance of becoming PM than the Chancellor which says so much about tenure of Rachel Reeves.
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The video claims to show Guy Gilboa-Dalal in Gaza City in late August, where he says he and eight others are being held and will remain despite Israel's planned ground offensive. It also shows captive Alon Ohel.
Reform +
Labour =
Con -
Lib Dem -
Some Lab to Ref balanced by some Lib and a few Con to Lab
We await the weekend polls.
Sir Ed Davey said: 'If Labour believes that having a reshuffle will solve the deep-rooted problems of this government, they are learning the wrong lessons from the calamity Conservatives before them.'
The Lib Dem leader added: 'Until Keir Starmer is ready to grab the bull by the horns and confront the problems our country really faces, it makes little difference who sits where around the Cabinet table.'
The thing that seems to have been forgotten in all of this is that she is the MP for Ashton. Now, we hear about Farage not actually owning his constituency home, but presumably he does use it from time to time. The same applies to the Rayner and the Ashton property. Presumably she considers it to be her home as that is where she is MP for (leaving aside having to be away from home for work in London).
In which case, why didn't she just pay the second home stamp duty?
Tuesdays YG and Weds MiC will both be post today/Refconference
Yvette now is in her second great office of state, it’s a “safe” one, it’s moved her on from the potential pitfalls of the Home Office; and she stays at the top of government. If Starmer were to fall under the proverbial bus, she has the profile and the seniority to be in pole position to succeed, I think.
Mahmood could be an even bigger winner, if she is able to present herself as tough on immigration (she is on the right of Labour on this) and if she benefits from any kind of good news on that front she could become a very strong candidate for next leader. She does however have the poison chalice of the Home Office, so any benefit is potential at this stage - if Labour are seen to fail, her chances recede.
It's like how the average person's view of a local government or civil service worker is that they do absolutely nothing of worth and are incompetent as well, plus they are far too many of them and they are vastly overpaid, which, whatever, people can believe that if they like, but they often illustrate it by adding up the entire cost of them as something that could be put elsewhere, as if they literally do nothing.
A Trumpian coinage, that.
Union members pay for the union roles do they not?
She is now surely heir apparent? And without a brief that almost always kills a career.
If Ed Balls is on TV first thing in the morning tomorrow he may look a little hungover me thinks.
“Telegraph all celebrating tonight. Pearson is beside herself.
Not surprising as they have it seems knocked the one foe that Farage feared out of the game.”
Are there any newspapers still supporting the Tories?
I would recommend getting vaccinations and covid boosters and don't be part of the throng in ED.
Australia has had a bad flu season, and we tend to get the same strain.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/worrying-signs-as-peak-flu-season-draws-near
The singer and her husband Jay-Z are in the final stages of buying 58 acres of land on the outskirts of Wigginton in the ‘Hamptons of the UK’"
Who knew I lived in the Hamptons.
Reminds me, must spray some White vinegar on the Black mould.
I think Starmer wanted this reshuffle and Rayner handed him the golden opportunity
This has been in the making for a while though shuffling the same names is hardly inspiring
And I'm not joking
Could be a very tight race
On the other hand, it's entirely possible to see a 40 LD, 35 Reform, 20 Conservative type result.
Yet to see a similar shift to public health but one can dream.
Im narrowly on LD hold at the moment though but very very tight. I shall be watching the council results closely
Edit to add - Reform undershot UKIPs 2015 performance here which must be unusual in last year's results. Having said that its much more wealthy elderly brexit than it is 'Workington man' Reform
ETA more worrying is American pressure on Big Pharma to increase prices here to avoid dropping them there.
My feeling is that this is all becoming normalised; or is it the lull before some fresh hell is unleashed?
An accountancy administrator has been awarded more than £14,000 after an employment tribunal ruled the time she spent browsing sites such as Rightmove and Amazon was not "excessive".
She was fired from her job in July 2023 after her employer used spy software to track her computer to find out she had been using it for personal matters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwywlk07rj4o
What about posting on PB? Asking for a friend.
"They had this new way of presenting shows — which I would get absolutely, desperately frustrated with — where they would show, in the first five minutes, all the great moments of what was to come because this captured viewers. Otherwise, as soon as they see Michael Palin, they’ll switch off.
"The BBC were going in a different direction and presentation was going in a different direction."
His time with the BBC had its ups and downs, in 2009 Palin said he felt "very let down" by the BBC's response to his 2007 documentary New Europe. The programme was censured by the BBC Trust, who concluded Palin had oversimplified the conflict of the Balkan wars in the 1990s after a complaint was made by a viewer.
Speaking at a lunch for the Royal Television Society years after the programme was released, the Guardian reported Palin as saying: "The complaint was upheld. That, I believe, brings the BBC into disrepute. I think it was a stupid decision. I felt very, very angry and very let down.""
ITV and C4 could never put on something like that, they would have to think of titles like Love Island, Big Brother and Married at First sight so luckily the Beeb are going where nobody else can or will.
While Labour’s attempts to prove itself more ethical than the previous administration have already been bruised by controversies including over freebies, perhaps the most serious impact of this latest row is that it will reinforce the corrosive view held by many people that all politicians are in it for themselves.
Her departure also creates an even greater political headache for Rachel Reeves as she plans her autumn budget. With the Treasury struggling to find up to £40bn to balance the books, the option of imposing a new property tax on more expensive homes, or any wider change to property taxes, becomes a harder sell.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/damage-labour-angela-rayner-resignation-only-just-beginning
Angela Rayner - resigned in disgrace
Louise Haigh - resigned in disgrace
Tulip Siddiq - resigned in disgrace
Rushanara Ali - resigned in disgrace
Then there's Reeves, Kendall, Phillipson, Nandy, maybe a few others and all deeply unimpressive.
LD 21K
Ref 14K
Con 12K
Meantime, incompetent and generally not very bright ministers who were just about getting the beginnings of a grip on their brief can start again. Things can only get better I think the song went.
Admittedly pretty low expectations.
Also occurs to me, now that I write them out - the North is very well represented in the national treasure list.
Edit: Leicester is certainly Midlands, definitely not North.
It’s spread to drama too where the accompanying soundtrack has to inform the viewer they have amazing taste in music, “see, we are so in touch with the era we have the best tunes”, The Gold was great but it felt like there was some arch need to show they got the music and the vibe yet the guys and the times weren’t surrounded by these hip tunes, they had some shitty radio stations that played whatever was on not a playlist of the best of the 80s.
I love music but there seems to be an inability to separate the Spotify world with real life.
Half of that is due to US jobs data, but beggars can't be choosers.
I don’t see it but I didn't see Rayner resigning this time last week