Punters unmoved by recent events – politicalbetting.com
Punters unmoved by recent events – politicalbetting.com
If Sir Keir Starmer is ousted in the next few months I suspect the Labour price might improve as new Prime Ministers usually get a bounce, even Liz Truss experienced a bounce.
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It was part of the last purchase the US made from Denmark... and now Trump wants to make another. Coincidence?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/jeffrey-epstein-scandal-politics-mass-abuse-women-girls
Look at the headlines, or what’s dominating all the news bulletins. We’re talking about anything but the things that most need to be reckoned with. In the UK, we’re talking round the clock about Peter Mandelson, the one guy in this we at least know wasn’t making sexually abusive use of Epstein’s trafficked women and girls. Even if he did offer Epstein image rehab advice, which, as discussed here in depth on Tuesday, was a foray into the moral abyss. (Again.) But the frenzied and remorseless focus on political fallout – and not the male-on-female debasement that is the entire heart of this story, and always has been – is weird, isn’t it?
Can’t say more because of legal stuff for OGH
“Desp. for a CuAm”
Staunch the bleeding. Best that could be hoped for. Take note, Labour.
It's an absolute game changer and as I said in the run up and aftermath of Trump's second victory it was largely YouTube personalities and content creators that really won it for him. Baron Trump pushing aside traditional media in favour of YT outreach was a hugely successful strategy for them and it's where every single political movement needs to be to win.
If I was Burnham I'd be ringing Starmer up and thank him for saving my political career
Jesus fecking Christ
Mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela
Could not win that seat for Labour in the midst of this shit storm
Epstein is accused of gay rape, as well
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/epstein-accused-of-sexual-abuse-by-male-teen-intern-in-lawsuit
It fits the pattern of a ravenous omnisexual appetite. Prefers girls but will sample variety
He was desperate to try and get something on me but I fully comply with the law and simply don't need the expense of a TV licence any more.
Times have moved on and will continue to do so...
Most of the,license fee goes to fund a service people are using less and less.
Traditional media is screwed but there is no will from the BBC or political class to acknowledge it. Only force us to keep funding it whether we like it or not.
Personally, I haven't needed a TV licence in years. I watch so much YouTube I'm happy to pay for YT premium, but the beeb won't see another penny from me.
British public sector broadcaster will make unique shows for the platform and generate revenue from ads overseas'
https://www.ft.com/content/cdcfbec7-1472-4161-a29f-71426333bd40
It will be the kids the finish it off as they simply won't pay it so as the older generation dies off the purse will shrink and shrink and shrink until there's nothing left...
None of which is about replacing the license fee, merely complementing it and they already have YouTube channels, they already have commercial channels overseas and they also license their material to other streamers.
White House are defending it.
I watched the Royal Rumble on Netflix last week, it was live so if I hadn’t got a license I’d need one to have watched it.
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The Guild navigatorsBBC Manadrins, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.”But ITVX is not broadcast so you can watch on catch up without a licence.
The BBC has a massive archive, it does little to make money from that.
Hear no evil, see no evil
WWE is on Netflix. Mostly catchup but PPVs are live and this one was in Saudi so was live from 7PM
Without a license you can watch any streamed content (Iplayer aside) as long as it is not live.
If Boris had not been removed in 2022 the Tories would still be main opposition and you might even have LOTO Sunak 20%+ ahead of Labour in the polls
I think license fee revenue should be shared with all broadcasters though, even Netflix, to fund highbrow cultural, scientific, heritage and current affairs programmes. The BBC meanwhile should have adverts in Strictly, Eastenders, the World Cup and Olympics and Wimbledon breaks etc and use that to fund it increasingly.
I think the last time I watched a live news feed was the US Presidential election result.
When we have a general election I'll have to renew it, I suppose, as I will be wanting to watch the coverage of that, live. But until then, I just don't need it.
Boris was quite incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.
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News: The White House has now taken down the post.
A senior WH official tells me: "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down"
It was up for 12 hours
Removing Boris turned a likely narrow Labour win into 2024 into a Labour landslide win
Although having said that, I've always thought he's safe;ish until the by election.
For example the BBC cancelled Doctprs, the daytime soap, as well as some of the other original drama it either made or co produced. It’s now mostly cheap filler shows and the dreary Father Brown.
ITV has had to reshape its daytime offer too. Shortening stuff like GMB and Lorraine and reducing the amount of on air talent, and I use the term advisedly, they had.
The license fee should be canned. Why should people be compelled to fund so called highbrow stuff that most people have no interest in ?
We are no longer in the 80/90s where TV was a goldmine. ITV is worth about £3bn for reasons
Iplayer could also have ads
The Conservatives would have been lucky to get nil, by 2024.
Sir Graham Brady in his book outlines how Johnson's mood shifted from defiance to resignation as it became clear support for him was ebbing away. There's an analogy of sorts with Thatcher for whom resignation was inevitable once it became clear she would not only lose a second ballot in 1990 but lose it badly.
Removing Boris did not
A bit unfair that none of the Counties saw a penny of the revenue.
As for the WH pathetic excuse . If anyone believes that then they’re a moron .
BREAKING on
@TimesRadio
Leader of the
@LibDems
@EdwardJDavey
has removed the whip from
@LordRennard
after a woman who alleged the peer sexually harassed her & others emailed Sir Ed urging him to apply the same rules to his own party as he was demanding of the PM over the #Mandelson saga
"Get your trousers on - you're knicked!"
If they'd gone straight to Sunak they would have had a chance of winning, or at least preventing a Labour majority, if inflation still swept them out of office.
If that had happened, 2024 would have been much closer.
In Thailand.
https://x.com/MikeTappTweets/status/2019816580205756556
When a few MPs who have been trying to get rid of Keir Starmer since before the election, want to get rid of Keir Starmer - it’s really not a story.
Our priority is getting on with delivery.
"Everybody knew Mandy was a wrong 'un"
"Everybody knows about Rennard..." I think is the pitch
Take the beam out of your own eye and all that
I'm sure there was a poster who told us Twitter was going to win the video war because Tucker Carlson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYUxQXpG3I