Are John Rentoul and Dan Hodges right? – politicalbetting.com
Are John Rentoul and Dan Hodges right? – politicalbetting.com
There was the Makerfield by-election which the national polls indicated should be an easy Reform gain yet there’s not a Labour poilitician that appears to blunt Reform.
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We must hope for a Brexit benefit.
That side of the draw now looks much more open.
I explained that I would simply support whoever was playing Germany. Unless it was Argentina.
Like the Germans.
What's their word for schadenfreude ?
Worst part of being an impressionist?
People in interviews asking, “Is there anybody you can’t do?” You get it every single time. It’s always asked as if it’s never been asked before. The answer is David Cameron, because there’s a generic poshness to him, he’s a little entitled, and feels like someone who doesn’t want to be there.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/best-and-worst-jon-culshaw/ (£££)
I can't see Tice being happy in such circumstances.
Anderson is in to about 9s on BFX.
Being asked to perform on command.
With Labour we have a different issue, AB's election expenses haven't even been filed yet. When they are they are bound to be front page news and there are six months from election day to file a complaint. I find it hard to believe there won't be an application for a writ of undue election, probably emanating from Lancashire rather than Greater Manchester. Lancashire Police have an honorable track record of taking complaints seriously unlike many other forces.
I m definitely going to watch it
'I have often wondered if deep down Nigel Farage really wants to be Prime Minister, it would feel like too much hard work and he prefers to carp from the sidelines yet becoming Prime Minister would allow him to reshape the country in his own image.'
I have been absolutely sure for a wee while now that Nigel Farage does not want to be Prime Minister and simple because it would feel like too much hard work to have to become a full time 24/7 politician leading a party and the country with all the responsibility that comes with that position with and for what I now suspect for him would be a very underwhelming annual salary that would dwarf what he is now earning outside politics as an MP and party Leader at Westminster.
Farage is far more comfortable being an Opposition politician and leader carping from the sidelines part time at Reform rallies addressing the party faithful or on his GB News show unapposed by awkward scrutiny and questioning. Trying to reshape the country in his own image would take too much hard work and more importantly serious detailed policy which on the evidence of the last couple of years is not where he or his party shines.
I have never seen Farage outside his own various opposition party vehicles/fiefdoms being someone who would then settle down to the hard daily grind and graft of detailed governing of a country when he cannot even now devote himself to the full time job of being a party leader and MP at Westminster. The very fact he is now under incredible media scrutiny due to the £5M gift he accepted back in early 2024 and still arrogantly refusing to accept why it should be of such media/public interest or worthy of some tough questioning from the media suggests this is a hypocritical politician who would not thrive in No 10 being under constant scrutiny and tough questioning on his delivery rather than his comfort zone of using protesting tough single issue soundbite rehetoric from the sidelines.
The interesting question is what would happen to Reform in a post Farage era in Opposition in the longer term if Andy Burnham decides to play it long and does not go for an early snap GE with a resurgent Conservative party under Kemi Badenoch and with Rupert Lowe's Restore party mopping up disaffected Reform members as others head back to the Conservatives?
Do we have any Yorkies here?
I am told that there is (finally) a "Barrier Removal Programme" starting to move - the Council "put aside a fund"! in 2021.
I'd be interested to hear If anyone notices.
This after a friend who is a Professor at York University who has multiple sclerosis, and now uses a 3-wheeled mobility aid (having gone from cycle to stabilised cycle over the years). sued the Council under the Equality Act 2020 after they blocked the entrance to a green space (Hob Moor) with the following custom-made anti-wheelchair obstruction, which was uniquely abusive of them. They spent taxpayers' money installing barriers quite widely, at several thousand a pop to implement law breaking.
Before that he attempted to engage the Council for 3 years. They did the usual things - ignore him, ask for more time, dissemble, then cave at a cost of several thousand.
This is his own account from 2021. Only a disabled victim personally can take legal action, and in 2021 it cost £600 to get to Court. Thank-you David Cameron (mainly):
https://yorkcyclecampaign.bike/2021/03/20/taking-legal-action-on-barriers/
The problems with facilities designed by people who do not understand disability, or without thinking about it, are covered in his article.
If you remember, he pretty much did all he could to stop Vote Leave winning too during the referendum.
Being in charge or responsible terrifies him.
Ivory Coast
£39.50
Draw
£2.00
Norway
-£24.64
Draw onside because well can quite possibly see it going to ET.
https://x.com/letsarmukr/status/2071605588635590999
This is a quadcopter that looks like a hobby drone, with upgraded radio and battery, flown by a pilot 55 miles away!
I suspect you are looking at people and thinking they cost money, volunteers know they won’t get expenses and pay their own money to be there
Tell me how the absolute hell is a train line in the South of England that goes to London and terminates up in the Midlands in Birmingham is "for the North"?
If HS2 were actually for the North then it would have made sense to start construction with the Northern legs of it and deal with the Chilterns and South of England later on, and scrap that if anything were to be scrapped. But no, it was never for us.
Only a Southerner could think that what the North is desperately crying out for is another line in London.
Got it.
The Right are hopelessly fracturing at the moment and for all what Burnham isn't what he IS , is an incredibly shrewd "politicial" and "tactician!.
Farage is losi interest, Lowe is gaining traction and then there is Kemi, god i almost feel sorry for her, the classic rabbit in the headlights.
She will work with NO-ONE , not Farage not Lowe. No one will work with her, not Farage, Jenrick, Lowe.
She drifts right right right in to a political cul de sac with narrowing bandwith.
She attacks Burnhams speech, before he speaks, and simply looks desperately LOST.
The biggest problem she has is this.
IF she canot quickly realise the fact that the Right Wing Pool is full .
There will be millions of centre ground voters, many Tories in the Midlands / North / Scotland and Wales who cannot stand Farage, aren;t in the same parish as Lowe, hated Starmer, who suddently have someone they can vote for with the sole aim of stopping Farage and Lowe.
That ain;t Kemi.....it;s BURNHAM!
He’s a disruptor. He snipes from the sidelines. Has he ever had any real,responsibility.
But yes the whole project has been a mess from start to, well clearly not finish, and the Northern routes now need to be prioritised, alongside upgrades of the E-W lines from Liverpool through Manchester to Sheffield and Leeds. Train travel in the North of England is a disjointed mess.