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edited May 12 in General
Vance should get on the couch and talk to a therapist about Trump’s insults – politicalbetting.com

I am so old I remember when Donald Trump used to call Marco Rubio ‘Little Marco’ so getting insulted by Donald Trump isn’t a new thing, I find it interesting that Marco Rubio might get the MAGA backing rather than JD Vance.

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  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,278
    Also first
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156
    Second first.
  • londonpubmanlondonpubman Posts: 3,918
    Top three
  • TazTaz Posts: 28,973
    Do we still do the Tim Vance (who ?) gag that Vance fucks settees ?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156

    Top three

    First second, no?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    He's fallen sofa in Trump's esteem.

    Although I'm actually more disappointed in Rubio than anything. I always thought of him as a bit slippery but fundamentally intelligent and thoughtful in a way Vance simply isn't.

    And here he is smarming his way up Mushroom Shaped's arse.
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  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 27,923
    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    ANTIQUE COFFEE CANS

    Has beens?
  • ydoethur said:

    He's fallen sofa in Trump's esteem.

    Although I'm actually more disappointed in Rubio than anything. I always thought of him as a bit slippery but fundamentally intelligent and thoughtful in a way Vance simply isn't.

    And here he is smarming his way up Mushroom Shaped's arse.

    You should read Vance's book. He is definitely very smart, and very articulate, and very thoughtful

    Of course, he has to hide much of this and act like a gimp, in the Court of The Donald
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156
    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Or else?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    BBC News - Mayor of Californian city resigns over Chinese agent charge
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz87vmj65o
  • Penddu2Penddu2 Posts: 933
    First...... Rhun ap Iorwerth elected as First Minister for Wales.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    RobD said:

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Or else?
    They are falling in line. It's like watching fecking dominoes go over.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,278

    ANTIQUE COFFEE CANS

    Shouldn't you be watching Flog It about now?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,221
    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Have they not heard of Liz Truss?
  • tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 24,661
    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Did they spend 2022 in a coma?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,221

    ydoethur said:

    He's fallen sofa in Trump's esteem.

    Although I'm actually more disappointed in Rubio than anything. I always thought of him as a bit slippery but fundamentally intelligent and thoughtful in a way Vance simply isn't.

    And here he is smarming his way up Mushroom Shaped's arse.

    You should read Vance's book. He is definitely very smart, and very articulate, and very thoughtful

    Of course, he has to hide much of this and act like a gimp, in the Court of The Donald
    Of course he's very smart, he's a lawyer.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Maybe we have to keep Brittas after all....
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Have they not heard of Liz Truss?
    I’ve been working with my therapist to forget about it.
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 4,497
    Trump... There is something ever so slightly camp about everything he does - the Late Liberace love nest in the White House decor, the Rat King pantomime evil villain in [insert your choice of incompetent crime here], the slutty trophy wife, the cornucopia of fuckwitted drivel spewed out on everything he knows precisely nothing about.
    It's like the Child catcher and Mr Humphries had a love child no one knows about.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 22,164

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
    You’ve changed your tune since Liz Truss
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,891
    Didn't know Trump watched South Park
  • TazTaz Posts: 28,973

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
    She’s worked in the public sector all her life before becoming an MP. 🤷‍♂️
  • MattWMattW Posts: 33,808
    Good afternoon everyone.

    A fascinating presentation by Kate Carpenter, Vice President of the Chartered Institute for Highways and Transportation, about how demographics and population variability affects transportation and safety.

    (An example is the impact that Crash Test dummies largely being based on a 50th-percentile man has on the safety of women - who are smaller and have different muscular-skeletal and soft-tissue, children - who are very different, and older people - who's bodies are not used, has on their safety in motor vehicles.)

    Deep link to the start of her presentation:
    https://youtu.be/qfc1UFVWsXs?t=658

    There's a Q&A at the end for enthusiasts, and a further short presentation on the effect of sideroad Zebra Crossings.
  • tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
    You’ve changed your tune since Liz Truss
    I don't remember expressing an opnion on the Liz Truss meltdown other than - like the rest of us - gawping at the insane spectacle, while posting photos of my luxury train journey through the Rockies
  • FossFoss Posts: 2,787
    Scott_xP said:
    And the .com.

    Though last time we had one of those (wesforleader.co.uk) it turned out to be an attack site.
  • Penddu2Penddu2 Posts: 933
    44 Rhun - 42 Plaid (43 less one Deputy Llywydd) plus 2 Green

    34 Dan Thomas (34 Reform)

    6 Darren Millar (Cons)

    9 Abstentions (9 Labour less one Llywydd) plus 1 LD.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 64,013

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
    You’ve changed your tune since Liz Truss
    The markets will fall in line.

    If borrowing goes up, so will the cost of borrowing.

    Perfectly in lockstep with the governments actions.

    Isn’t that what they meant?
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 27,923

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Maybe we have to keep Brittas after all....
    This nameless MP - what odds he or she doesn't have Burnham's best interests at heart?
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 43,627
    @_tomscotson

    Labour MP texts: "PM banned no fault evictions which has come in handy because he’s not moving out without the full legal process."
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    Penddu2 said:

    44 Rhun - 42 Plaid (43 less one Deputy Llywydd) plus 2 Green

    34 Dan Thomas (34 Reform)

    6 Darren Millar (Cons)

    9 Abstentions (9 Labour less one Llywydd) plus 1 LD.

    Labour are going to be embarrassingly irrelevant for most of this term, aren't they?
  • I've no idea if this Tweeter is reliable, or doing it for gags, but still. Just in case


    BREAKING NEWS

    Reporters on the ground say Angela Rayner was seen in the rear of the vehicle alongside Andy Burnham.

    The car appears to be heading toward the Millbank Studios (BBC/Sky News). This strongly suggests a televised joint statement is imminent.

    We are no longer waiting for a "slow move." The arrival of Burnham and Rayner at a TV studio, combined with the 81-letter threshold being hit, means we are likely hours away from an official leadership contest being triggered."



    https://x.com/RogueUnfiltered/status/2054177168234573843?s=20
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    Scott_xP said:

    @_tomscotson

    Labour MP texts: "PM banned no fault evictions which has come in handy because he’s not moving out without the full legal process."

    Somebody nicked my gag from earlier!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    Scott_xP said:

    @_tomscotson

    Labour MP texts: "PM banned no fault evictions which has come in handy because he’s not moving out without the full legal process."

    Somebody nicked my gag from earlier!
    It's OK, they can evict him because they want to sell out.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208
    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Presumably the MP in question had a somewhat different view when Liz Truss was in No.10?

    The markets will treat the situation as they see fit, which right now means the highest borrowing costs for the government since 1998.

    Up 0.2pp in two days, which is somewhere around another £6bn a year over time.

    If you’re expecting a stock market crash, UK gov gilts at 5.15% look like they might be value.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303

    I've no idea if this Tweeter is reliable, or doing it for gags, but still. Just in case


    BREAKING NEWS

    Reporters on the ground say Angela Rayner was seen in the rear of the vehicle alongside Andy Burnham.

    The car appears to be heading toward the Millbank Studios (BBC/Sky News). This strongly suggests a televised joint statement is imminent.

    We are no longer waiting for a "slow move." The arrival of Burnham and Rayner at a TV studio, combined with the 81-letter threshold being hit, means we are likely hours away from an official leadership contest being triggered."



    https://x.com/RogueUnfiltered/status/2054177168234573843?s=20

    Burnham and Rayner both demonstrating neither are fit for high office. Do your dirty laundry in private.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    Lewis Goodall - Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 22,164

    Lewis Goodall - Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    Honestly what a complete shit show
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208
    MattW said:

    Good afternoon everyone.

    A fascinating presentation by Kate Carpenter, Vice President of the Chartered Institute for Highways and Transportation, about how demographics and population variability affects transportation and safety.

    (An example is the impact that Crash Test dummies largely being based on a 50th-percentile man has on the safety of women - who are smaller and have different muscular-skeletal and soft-tissue, children - who are very different, and older people - who's bodies are not used, has on their safety in motor vehicles.)

    Deep link to the start of her presentation:
    https://youtu.be/qfc1UFVWsXs?t=658

    There's a Q&A at the end for enthusiasts, and a further short presentation on the effect of sideroad Zebra Crossings.

    Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 60,272
    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 43,627
    Starmer's inability to admit it's time to go is one of the reasons he has to go...
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    I've no idea if this Tweeter is reliable, or doing it for gags, but still. Just in case


    BREAKING NEWS

    Reporters on the ground say Angela Rayner was seen in the rear of the vehicle alongside Andy Burnham.

    The car appears to be heading toward the Millbank Studios (BBC/Sky News). This strongly suggests a televised joint statement is imminent.

    We are no longer waiting for a "slow move." The arrival of Burnham and Rayner at a TV studio, combined with the 81-letter threshold being hit, means we are likely hours away from an official leadership contest being triggered."



    https://x.com/RogueUnfiltered/status/2054177168234573843?s=20

    Burnham and Rayner both demonstrating neither are fit for high office. Do your dirty laundry in private.
    Burnham and Rayner doing laundry in the back of a car sounds like the worst ever OnlyFans film.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 32,814
    On the subject of strange Council coalitions I give you Lancaster in 2019.
    A coalition of Labour, Green, Eco-Socialist Independent and Liberal Democrat councillors. They were supported by, but did not include. another independent Group, with Conservatives and Morecambe Bay Independents (doughty campaigners for Morecambe to be free of the oppressive yolk of Lancaster and their city ways) in opposition.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 43,627
    @cjmckeon.bsky.social‬

    PM was supposed to meet Labour-affiliated unions this afternoon, but it appears that meeting has now been cancelled.
  • I've no idea if this Tweeter is reliable, or doing it for gags, but still. Just in case


    BREAKING NEWS

    Reporters on the ground say Angela Rayner was seen in the rear of the vehicle alongside Andy Burnham.

    The car appears to be heading toward the Millbank Studios (BBC/Sky News). This strongly suggests a televised joint statement is imminent.

    We are no longer waiting for a "slow move." The arrival of Burnham and Rayner at a TV studio, combined with the 81-letter threshold being hit, means we are likely hours away from an official leadership contest being triggered."



    https://x.com/RogueUnfiltered/status/2054177168234573843?s=20

    If this IS true (and I have major doubts) it must mean Rayner is going to challenge Skyr, and she's come to some weird arrangement with His Messianic Majesty (PBUH), Andrew "the Lord of the North" Burnham
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 22,164
    ydoethur said:

    I've no idea if this Tweeter is reliable, or doing it for gags, but still. Just in case


    BREAKING NEWS

    Reporters on the ground say Angela Rayner was seen in the rear of the vehicle alongside Andy Burnham.

    The car appears to be heading toward the Millbank Studios (BBC/Sky News). This strongly suggests a televised joint statement is imminent.

    We are no longer waiting for a "slow move." The arrival of Burnham and Rayner at a TV studio, combined with the 81-letter threshold being hit, means we are likely hours away from an official leadership contest being triggered."



    https://x.com/RogueUnfiltered/status/2054177168234573843?s=20

    Burnham and Rayner both demonstrating neither are fit for high office. Do your dirty laundry in private.
    Burnham and Rayner doing laundry in the back of a car sounds like the worst ever OnlyFans film.
    Speak for yourself pal
  • ManOfGwentManOfGwent Posts: 322
    ydoethur said:

    Penddu2 said:

    44 Rhun - 42 Plaid (43 less one Deputy Llywydd) plus 2 Green

    34 Dan Thomas (34 Reform)

    6 Darren Millar (Cons)

    9 Abstentions (9 Labour less one Llywydd) plus 1 LD.

    Labour are going to be embarrassingly irrelevant for most of this term, aren't they?
    And no by-elections, we are stuck with whichever numpty was next on each party list. A boring five years of pointless nationalist bellyaching.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    Something something crossing his desk.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    ydoethur said:

    He's fallen sofa in Trump's esteem.

    Although I'm actually more disappointed in Rubio than anything. I always thought of him as a bit slippery but fundamentally intelligent and thoughtful in a way Vance simply isn't.

    And here he is smarming his way up Mushroom Shaped's arse.

    You should read Vance's book. He is definitely very smart, and very articulate, and very thoughtful

    Of course, he has to hide much of this and act like a gimp, in the Court of The Donald
    Of course he's very smart, he's a lawyer.
    So are Richard Burgon, Amanda Spielman, Andrew Parsons and Keir Starmer.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 23,155

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Maybe we have to keep Brittas after all....
    Once more, with feeling:

    No, Starmer is not very good. He plods, he has no political antennae, he's terrified of asking a question where he's not sure what the answer is going to be. He's also old- the country has moved on in how it thinks about the world, and his map is stuck in the issues and fears of the 80s and 90s. It would be much better for everyone; for him, for us, if he hadn't ended up as Prime Minister. Had things gone to plan, and he had lost in 2023 having de-Corbynised the Labour Party, nobody would be calling him the Greatest PM We Never Had.

    But. He was better than the alternatives in 2020. He was better than the alternatives in 2024. And the last few days have been a crash course in how he's better than the alternatives in 2026. That's the mess we are all in now.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 32,814

    Lewis Goodall - Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    if they can't meet with him, they can't tell him to resign.
    Genius!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303
    Scott_xP said:

    Starmer's inability to admit it's time to go is one of the reasons he has to go...

    It is all very Johnsonian.
  • https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    Starmer is now literally hiding in a wardrobe in Number 10, with his hands over his ears

    If they can't find him, or make him listen, they can't remove him

    Ladies and gentlemen, The First Lord of the Treasury, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 43,627
    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    dixiedean said:

    Lewis Goodall - Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    if they can't meet with him, they can't tell him to resign.
    Genius!
    They have to go in distant awe of his Maggie-sty.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 24,661

    Lewis Goodall - Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    The idea of confronting Starmer at cabinet was to give him the opportunity to bow out with relative dignity - perhaps announce that a leadership contest would start in a couple of months time and end in September. As soon as he refused to talk about it at cabinet then cabinet ministers should have gone directly to the Press outside Number Ten and announced their resignations and loss of confidence in the PM.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986

    Scott_xP said:

    Starmer's inability to admit it's time to go is one of the reasons he has to go...

    It is all very Johnsonian.
    Sounds like he is currently hiding in a fridge like Boris.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 33,808
    Michael Wolff and Scaramouche have been suggesting for some time that Trump will be destroying JD Vance, as he is a competitor in the attention-seeking stakes, and that making him the lead negotiator for the Iran peace settlement is part of that process.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 60,272
    edited May 12
    https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303
    edited May 12

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    Starmer is now literally hiding in a wardrobe in Number 10, with his hands over his ears

    If they can't find him, or make him listen, they can't remove him

    Ladies and gentlemen, The First Lord of the Treasury, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Perhaps he's hiding in a fridge. That used to be a popular passtime for Prime Ministers.

    Beaten to it by @FrancisUrquhart
  • https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10

    Surely a joke

    But please tell me it is true
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    Scott_xP said:

    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street

    You have to be kidding.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 61,156

    https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10

    CUK takeover imminent?
  • Perhaps Chuka is the only guy with the key to the wardrobe, where the Prime Minister is, at present, hiding
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 60,272

    Scott_xP said:

    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street

    You have to be kidding.
    Starmer thinks people voted for Change [UK].
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    RobD said:

    https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10

    CUK takeover imminent?
    The cucks took over long ago.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 33,808
    Sandpit said:

    MattW said:

    Good afternoon everyone.

    A fascinating presentation by Kate Carpenter, Vice President of the Chartered Institute for Highways and Transportation, about how demographics and population variability affects transportation and safety.

    (An example is the impact that Crash Test dummies largely being based on a 50th-percentile man has on the safety of women - who are smaller and have different muscular-skeletal and soft-tissue, children - who are very different, and older people - who's bodies are not used, has on their safety in motor vehicles.)

    Deep link to the start of her presentation:
    https://youtu.be/qfc1UFVWsXs?t=658

    There's a Q&A at the end for enthusiasts, and a further short presentation on the effect of sideroad Zebra Crossings.

    Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
    Indeedy !

    She makes an argument that a proper equality comes from understanding all the data about your whole user population, rather than philosophical or political dogmas of any sort.

    I quite like that.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208

    BBC News - Mayor of Californian city resigns over Chinese agent charge
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz87vmj65o

    That whole city appears to have been run by the Chinese mafia.

    https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/2054158034851557674
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 60,711
    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    He's set off a chain reaction.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208
    RobD said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    Something something crossing his desk.
    Nothing nothing crossing his desk.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 60,711

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    Or maybe that should be unclear...
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303
    edited May 12

    https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10

    Since his political career died on its arse I hear he does a great rendition of the Boccelli/ Brightman classic "Time to Say Goodbye".
  • MattWMattW Posts: 33,808
    Penddu2 said:

    44 Rhun - 42 Plaid (43 less one Deputy Llywydd) plus 2 Green

    34 Dan Thomas (34 Reform)

    6 Darren Millar (Cons)

    9 Abstentions (9 Labour less one Llywydd) plus 1 LD.

    I wonder if Rhun is where Tolkein got the "Sea of Rhun" from in Lord of the Rings?
  • AbandonedHopeAbandonedHope Posts: 227
    I've checked (so you don't have to).

    burgonforleader.co.uk has not been registered.

    Yet ;)
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208
    MattW said:

    Sandpit said:

    MattW said:

    Good afternoon everyone.

    A fascinating presentation by Kate Carpenter, Vice President of the Chartered Institute for Highways and Transportation, about how demographics and population variability affects transportation and safety.

    (An example is the impact that Crash Test dummies largely being based on a 50th-percentile man has on the safety of women - who are smaller and have different muscular-skeletal and soft-tissue, children - who are very different, and older people - who's bodies are not used, has on their safety in motor vehicles.)

    Deep link to the start of her presentation:
    https://youtu.be/qfc1UFVWsXs?t=658

    There's a Q&A at the end for enthusiasts, and a further short presentation on the effect of sideroad Zebra Crossings.

    Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
    Indeedy !

    She makes an argument that a proper equality comes from understanding all the data about your whole user population, rather than philosophical or political dogmas of any sort.

    I quite like that.
    Also the greatest ‘90s music reference in the history of PB!

    More seriously they do now use female and child dummies in crash tests, modeling the elderly is a little more difficult but you could mostly do it with different sensor thresholds.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783
    MattW said:

    Michael Wolff and Scaramouche have been suggesting for some time that Trump will be destroying JD Vance, as he is a competitor in the attention-seeking stakes, and that making him the lead negotiator for the Iran peace settlement is part of that process.

    Which is entirely typical of Trump.

    And much though I despise the craven ignorant fool, very unfair on Vance who undoubtedly opposed this mad war to start with (albeit likely for less than noble reasons).
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 43,627
    @chadbourn.bsky.social‬

    LBC reporting there’s an “imminent” announcement of a Greater Manchester seat coming which would be ripe for an Andy Burnham candidacy.
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 5,522

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Jesus Z Christ on a tricycle

    The terrifying thing is that they are so stupid they probably believe this. All it needs is "political will power" and you can face down the bond markets. It's like thinking you can change the laws of mathematics by frowning a lot
    We are getting a Peronist government?
  • Perhaps this is what they mean by "critical"

    "The Chancellor (Rachel Reeves) is reportedly in "emergency talks" with the Bank of England. History shows that once gilt yields hit these levels, a Prime Minister usually has only hours to restore order before the financial pressure forces their hand."

    https://x.com/RWTaylors/status/2054186335284424794?s=20

    This pathetic and interminable fucking about, by Labour, is lierally going to bankrupt the country

    But, don't worry, Andy Burnham will give the markets a good talking to
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 23,155
    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    He's set off a chain reaction.
    They're looking for an alpha to lead them.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 90,349
    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    Self-feeding neutron flux leading to a meltdown ?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 62,208
    Scott_xP said:

    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street

    WTF?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    Or in the words of The Jam, "Going Underground"
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 14,481
    edited May 12
    Scott_xP said:

    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street

    Starmer has a great sense of humour, it turns out.

    Peter Murrell next?
  • TazTaz Posts: 28,973
    ydoethur said:

    RobD said:

    https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/2054206510880698503

    Chuka Umunna (????) just walked into No 10

    CUK takeover imminent?
    The cucks took over long ago.
    Calling @JosiasJessop
  • JohnLilburneJohnLilburne Posts: 8,337

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    Or maybe that should be unclear...
    I recall a physics module at my University that was always known as "Atomic and Unclear".
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,783

    ydoethur said:

    ydoethur said:

    https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2054199860958552502

    Am hearing critical cabinet ministers still trying to meet with PM and so far have not succeeded…

    In what sense of the word 'critical?'
    The are going nuclear...
    He's set off a chain reaction.
    They're looking for an alpha to lead them.
    They beta be quick or the gammans will be in.
  • Perhaps this is what they mean by "critical"

    "The Chancellor (Rachel Reeves) is reportedly in "emergency talks" with the Bank of England. History shows that once gilt yields hit these levels, a Prime Minister usually has only hours to restore order before the financial pressure forces their hand."

    https://x.com/RWTaylors/status/2054186335284424794?s=20

    This pathetic and interminable fucking about, by Labour, is lierally going to bankrupt the country

    But, don't worry, Andy Burnham will give the markets a good talking to

    Isn't it nice? The quiet?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 60,272
    edited May 12
    Maybe the plan is a counter-coup against Burnham by arranging a safe seat for Chuka Umunna.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 60,711

    I've checked (so you don't have to).

    burgonforleader.co.uk has not been registered.

    Yet ;)

    Do you think there will be MP votes lent for a Corbynista to stand this time?

    No?
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 21,328

    tlg86 said:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/2054197764704088335

    Guido Fawkes
    @GuidoFawkes
    Burnham-Backing Labour MP: “The Markets Will Have to Fall in Line”

    Did they spend 2022 in a coma?
    Can't blame them if they did.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 91,986
    WTF...the chosen one is in final negoitations for the Real Madrid job.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 32,814
    Sandpit said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @catneilan.bsky.social‬

    Chuka Umunna has just gone into Downing Street

    WTF?
    Has anyone at all backed Chuka Umunna as next PM?
    Chapeau if so.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 40,303

    Maybe the plan is a counter-coup against Burnham by arranging a safe seat for Chuka Ummuna.

    Apart from there being no safe Labour seats there is quite a beautiful symmetry to your post.
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