In domestic one-day cricket in recent years we have seen many full tosses that were destined to hit the wicket ruled illegal because the batsmen had advanced down the pitch to meet them.
Woakes somewhat fortunate there. Not at all sure that was a no ball.
He got a lucky reprieve there. That was a fair bouncer, what was left of the Banglas' morale is quickly evaporating!
Not a bouncer but a full toss. Truly dreadful ball but a legal one.
I am not watching, but would this pitch be reported if it was in County cricket.. seems like it to me
Not sure to be honest. It is a very long way from an England pitch but it doesn't seem to be changing much. Bounce is pretty variable but its not cracking up or anything. Just really alien conditions for English batsmen which makes Woakes and Rashid's efforts all the more remarkable.
"Conflict of interest is the Clinton business model. And political influence is the product. That’s how Hillary and Bill managed to gross more than a Rolling Stones tour by delivering speeches. Looking at how successful Mrs. Clinton and her husband were in monetizing her position as secretary of state, why would any voter, of any party, want to see how much revenue she can squeeze from the Oval Office? "
Its a hell of a choice.
Better a crook than a thin-skinned egomaniac. You can impeach a crook. God knows what Trump might do the first time he gets embarrassed in an international stand-off.
I probably agree but the WSJ is spot on. Clearly the GOP is embarrassed by Trump but why are Dems not embarrassed by Hilary? She is corrupt, deeply corrupt. And that is very dangerous to a democracy, especially if people are seen to get away with it.
The smarter ones are tbh and they voted for Bernie in the primaries. It's also why there is no real enthusiasm for Clinton, most people know she's s crook and privately realise she's not going to be a good POTUS, but still the alternative is on the level of an escaped mental patient.
Also he has said the election is rigged basically because he was losing, which is even worse for a democracy.
Fantastic from Woakes and Rashid, two English bowlers rescuing the game with the bat. Again.
The Banglas in the field look completely demoralised, out to 3.3 on Betfair now too.
Rashid has 10 first class centuries to his name - and Woakes must surely be the strongest number nine in test cricket ?
That's probably right. England are very lucky with the depth of their batting at the moment, has got them out of the poo several times in the last couple of years.
I believe this isn't by accident though, the coaches have worked as much with the bowlers on their batting, as their bowling - in situations like this it can literally turn the match around.
Runs scored by the tail count just as much as runs scored by the specialist batsmen. And I would imagine that once players are top professionals picked for their country, it might be easier to coach a bowler from an average of 15 to 25 than a batsman from an average of 40 to 45.
Very true. A couple of decades ago, as others have also said, our bowlers barely knew which way round the pads went. Now we have numbers 9 and 10 who can put on a hundred partnership on a day when the specialist batsmen couldn't deliver the runs.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Buttler, please let it be Buttler. Make our mid order genuinely scary for opposing bowlers.
Fantastic from Woakes and Rashid, two English bowlers rescuing the game with the bat. Again.
The Banglas in the field look completely demoralised, out to 3.3 on Betfair now too.
Rashid has 10 first class centuries to his name - and Woakes must surely be the strongest number nine in test cricket ?
That's probably right. England are very lucky with the depth of their batting at the moment, has got them out of the poo several times in the last couple of years.
I believe this isn't by accident though, the coaches have worked as much with the bowlers on their batting, as their bowling - in situations like this it can literally turn the match around.
Runs scored by the tail count just as much as runs scored by the specialist batsmen. And I would imagine that once players are top professionals picked for their country, it might be easier to coach a bowler from an average of 15 to 25 than a batsman from an average of 40 to 45.
Very true. A couple of decades ago, as others have also said, our bowlers barely knew which way round the pads went. Now we have numbers 9 and 10 who can put on a hundred partnership on a day when the specialist batsmen couldn't deliver the runs.
I wonder if this is a result of central contracts. Are the counties just focusing on the bowlers' bowling?
Fantastic from Woakes and Rashid, two English bowlers rescuing the game with the bat. Again.
The Banglas in the field look completely demoralised, out to 3.3 on Betfair now too.
Rashid has 10 first class centuries to his name - and Woakes must surely be the strongest number nine in test cricket ?
That's probably right. England are very lucky with the depth of their batting at the moment, has got them out of the poo several times in the last couple of years.
I believe this isn't by accident though, the coaches have worked as much with the bowlers on their batting, as their bowling - in situations like this it can literally turn the match around.
Runs scored by the tail count just as much as runs scored by the specialist batsmen. And I would imagine that once players are top professionals picked for their country, it might be easier to coach a bowler from an average of 15 to 25 than a batsman from an average of 40 to 45.
Very true. A couple of decades ago, as others have also said, our bowlers barely knew which way round the pads went. Now we have numbers 9 and 10 who can put on a hundred partnership on a day when the specialist batsmen couldn't deliver the runs.
Its all in the mind . Duckett should be at 4 .Hameed opening. Balance, not up to it. Too many coaches try to tinker and play people "out of position" The England football team is notorious for it
Fantastic from Woakes and Rashid, two English bowlers rescuing the game with the bat. Again.
The Banglas in the field look completely demoralised, out to 3.3 on Betfair now too.
Rashid has 10 first class centuries to his name - and Woakes must surely be the strongest number nine in test cricket ?
That's probably right. England are very lucky with the depth of their batting at the moment, has got them out of the poo several times in the last couple of years.
I believe this isn't by accident though, the coaches have worked as much with the bowlers on their batting, as their bowling - in situations like this it can literally turn the match around.
Runs scored by the tail count just as much as runs scored by the specialist batsmen. And I would imagine that once players are top professionals picked for their country, it might be easier to coach a bowler from an average of 15 to 25 than a batsman from an average of 40 to 45.
Very true. A couple of decades ago, as others have also said, our bowlers barely knew which way round the pads went. Now we have numbers 9 and 10 who can put on a hundred partnership on a day when the specialist batsmen couldn't deliver the runs.
I wonder if this is a result of central contracts. Are the counties just focusing on the bowlers' bowling?
It's certainly a result of increased professionalism and the number of coaches employed by the ECB. The counties don't have the same resources available to make bowlers into all-rounders, compared to the Central setup.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Ali can go almost as high in the order as he needs to. He bats at 3 for Worcs...
Can Tamim wipe that out quickly and crack on? If he fails then you would have to make England hot favourites notwithstanding the excellent Monimul Haque.
Whoever wins it's been a fabulous series. I hope it encourages more teams to offer Bangladesh Tests, as they seem to be developing into one of the more interesting sides in world cricket.
Mehedi is a phenomenon. Are we seeing the very start of the next Murili?
No.
Mehedi can bat too. He might just be the spark Bangladesh need to become rather a dangerous side.
One of the reasons Murili got so many wickets is because he was so far the best in his side. Mehedi will be in that position too. The limiting factor may be how many test matches BD play but he is picking wickets up at a hell of a rate.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Ali can go almost as high in the order as he needs to. He bats at 3 for Worcs...
And Ansari opens for Surrey!
I don't think Moeen has quite the technique for a no3 in Tests. He might be a useful counterattacking no4.
Mehedi is a phenomenon. Are we seeing the very start of the next Murili?
No.
Mehedi can bat too. He might just be the spark Bangladesh need to become rather a dangerous side.
One of the reasons Murili got so many wickets is because he was so far the best in his side. Mehedi will be in that position too. The limiting factor may be how many test matches BD play but he is picking wickets up at a hell of a rate.
Yes agreed. But my point was if he continues like this given his all round skills he might actually be better than the man who is deservedly the most successful Test bowler of all time.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Ali can go almost as high in the order as he needs to. He bats at 3 for Worcs...
And Ansari opens for Surrey!
I don't think Moeen has quite the technique for a no3 in Tests. He might be a useful counterattacking no4.
There was a guest on CNN speculating about Wiener doing a plea bargain/immunity from prosecution because he could be facing a 10 to 15 year stretch for allegedly sexting the 15 year old. The CNN host, Don Lemon seemed pissed off that anyone should suggest such a thing.
There was a guest on CNN speculating about Wiener doing a plea bargain/immunity from prosecution because he could be facing a 10 to 15 year stretch for allegedly sexting the 15 year old. The CNN host, Don Lemon seemed pissed off that anyone should suggest such a thing.
That's one hell of a deal if there's any element of truth to it! He's not going to get off a 10-15 though, unless he's got enough actual evidence to put Hillary away for perjury or treason.
She's been pretty good at avoiding anything directly incriminating so far, but nothing surprises me any more about this farce of an election.
You should not be restrained in generalising from these two relatively minor cases of political cronyism.
The truth is four months into a May premiership and there is NOTHING to commend her leadership. This is government by reprimand - little peevish telling offs for Ministers who try to fill the vacuum of governance by doing or even just saying something.
This administration is heading for the rocks without a captain worthy of the name.
The truth is four months into a May premiership and there is NOTHING to commend her leadership. This is government by reprimand - little peevish telling offs for Ministers who try to fill the vacuum of governance by doing or even just saying something.
This administration is heading for the rocks without a captain worthy of the name.
I could make a rather unkind comment about how that shows she does pay attention to Nicola Sturgeon in some things...
"Conflict of interest is the Clinton business model. And political influence is the product. That’s how Hillary and Bill managed to gross more than a Rolling Stones tour by delivering speeches. Looking at how successful Mrs. Clinton and her husband were in monetizing her position as secretary of state, why would any voter, of any party, want to see how much revenue she can squeeze from the Oval Office? "
Its a hell of a choice.
Better a crook than a thin-skinned egomaniac. You can impeach a crook. God knows what Trump might do the first time he gets embarrassed in an international stand-off.
I probably agree but the WSJ is spot on. Clearly the GOP is embarrassed by Trump but why are Dems not embarrassed by Hilary? She is corrupt, deeply corrupt. And that is very dangerous to a democracy, especially if people are seen to get away with it.
The smarter ones are tbh and they voted for Bernie in the primaries. It's also why there is no real enthusiasm for Clinton, most people know she's s crook and privately realise she's not going to be a good POTUS, but still the alternative is on the level of an escaped mental patient.
What is extraordinary is that the Democrats didn't have a meaningful choice beyond Hillary or Sanders. Any quality governor or senator (or vice-president!) who'd chosen to stand would now be coasting to the White House
There was Martin O'Malley but he dropped out after coming a poor third in Iowa. The rise of Trump and Sanders is simply a reflection of the anti establishment mood across most western democracies at the moment, including post Brexit and Corbyn, our own.
I have now put a small bet on the winner of the Electoral College losing the popular vote, with these latest emailgate revelations there is a chance we could be heading for a repeat of 2000, only this time with Trump narrowly winning the popular vote and Florida and Ohio but Hillary holding on in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia and Colorado. Even now pre the latest emailgate revelations Trump leads the popular vote in at least one poll, the LA Times but no poll has him leading Pennsylvania or New Hampshire as yet
Ms Sturgeon has been vindicated twice at the polls in Scotland with votes of 50 per cent in the General Election and 47 per cent in the Scottish General Election. Her stance on the referendum was backed by 62 per cent of her electorate. Certainly she was dealt a good hand by her predecessor but she has played it well.
Her achievements are against a daily barrage from uber unionist newspapers (Mail, Telegraph Herald, Scotsman, Times and the mad Express) which many posters in this column are foolish enough to cite as if proximate to reality.
In contrast May has no mandate from anyone, not even the Tory Party, and it is showing in her obvious lack of confidence. She carries the uncritical support of virtually all of the Europhobic press, faces a pathetic opposition, but her administration is still heading south at a rate of knots.
Fantastic from Woakes and Rashid, two English bowlers rescuing the game with the bat. Again.
The Banglas in the field look completely demoralised, out to 3.3 on Betfair now too.
The tail being capable of wagging seems to be one of the biggest changes that has caused England to be much more successful than in the past. Growing up Down Under in the nineties it always seemed for English cricket to basically be 5 Out is then All Out.
An exaggeration Mr Thompson.
Growing up in England we knew full well that it was Atherton out, all out.
Mike Atherton's test average was only 37.69 - below that of Gooch, Stewart, Thorpe and Robin Smith from that era. Only fractionally above that of Nasser Hussein's as well.
Atherton really wasn't as good as he is believed to have been.
Most of his best performances came against South Africa rather than Australia.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Ali can go almost as high in the order as he needs to. He bats at 3 for Worcs...
And Ansari opens for Surrey!
I don't think Moeen has quite the technique for a no3 in Tests. He might be a useful counterattacking no4.
I'd bring in Hameed at 2, move Duckett to 4, and drop Ballance. We need two specialist openers in Asia.
The truth is four months into a May premiership and there is NOTHING to commend her leadership
That's not a fact, that's an opinion.
And for it to be a valid one, you need to be able to suggest some things that she could have done differently that you would have been happier with...
Fired Fox FFS
Which would have got comments from people like scotslass along the lines of "the fact that she has fired him so soon after appointing him shows that she is a terrible PM, doesn't know what she's doing, yada, yada, yada" zzzzzzzzzzz.
Ms Sturgeon has been vindicated twice at the polls in Scotland with votes of 50 per cent in the General Election and 47 per cent in the Scottish General Election. Her stance on the referendum was backed by 62 per cent of her electorate. Certainly she was dealt a good hand by her predecessor but she has played it well.
Her achievements are against a daily barrage from uber unionist newspapers (Mail, Telegraph Herald, Scotsman, Times and the mad Express) which many posters in this column are foolish enough to cite as if proximate to reality.
In contrast May has no mandate from anyone, not even the Tory Party, and it is showing in her obvious lack of confidence. She carries the uncritical support of virtually all of the Europhobic press, faces a pathetic opposition, but her administration is still heading south at a rate of knots.
And she has achieved all that by not being Labour. When you look at her actual achievements (which I note you don't) they are pretty thin. Scottish universities and schools are in a tailspin - more strikes this week - the health service continues to be erratic, the less said about policing the better and the budget deficit continues to appal. She just talks about independence and blames London for her failings.
Substitute Brussels for London and that is how May will operate. Of course she's not done anything. She may never do so. But against the Jezziah and Druncker she will still do well electorally because a monkey on a stick would.
Well, I've watched about a dozen hours of US news TV, read the statements, watched the Hillary/Trump respond et al.
Things I've picked up so far:
- by linking Hillary's emails [dull subject] with sexting [oooohhh], a lot more people are interested
- Comey is 'finally' doing the right thing for the FBI's reputation, and using the Weiner angle as a pretext for it. Lots of reports of FBI agents pressuring/threatening to take early retirement to speak out. He's in a cleft stick - he's either accused of rubbishing their brand by letting her off, or being political with this move.
- Strong rumours that Comey was also acting now before Wikileaks forced his hand.
- The home PC that the Weiners shared apparently has thousands of emails - and she used a Yahoo account to send stuff to herself a la Hillary. Not like Yahoo hasn't been hacked ... and her husband wasn't a blackmail target...
- Quite a few think this is all a bit too easy and could be a diversion
- Bar some rather obvious handwaving, every outlet is wall to wall coverage
- It's given a face to the sleaze/corruption with Weiner - it's no longer a too-much-attention-needed story.
- The Foundation shenanigans are being referred to as possible RICO by several, not just political axe grinders.
- It'll dampen support for Hillary, and may push some independents over to Trump - who wants a POTUS who'd could be impeached on RICO charges almost immediately?
My favourite story was that the press pool and Hillary had no idea what the FBI did as they were in the skies without wifi - only when a reporter shouted at her from the tarmac did the whole thing explode.
Ms Sturgeon has been vindicated twice at the polls in Scotland with votes of 50 per cent in the General Election and 47 per cent in the Scottish General Election. Her stance on the referendum was backed by 62 per cent of her electorate. Certainly she was dealt a good hand by her predecessor but she has played it well.
Her achievements are against a daily barrage from uber unionist newspapers (Mail, Telegraph Herald, Scotsman, Times and the mad Express) which many posters in this column are foolish enough to cite as if proximate to reality.
In contrast May has no mandate from anyone, not even the Tory Party, and it is showing in her obvious lack of confidence. She carries the uncritical support of virtually all of the Europhobic press, faces a pathetic opposition, but her administration is still heading south at a rate of knots.
May actually has high ratings in Scotland, higher than Cameron's and not far short of Sturgeon's. May has the opposition of the Guardian, the Mirror, the Independent and centre left press but also the Cameroon press like the Times. Few Scottish papers give Sturgeon the hostility May sometimes faces, certainly not the Daily Record or the nationalist mouthpiece, the National. Sturgeon did well in the UK general election but that was just aftershocks from the referendum, Salmond left her an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament which she lost at this year's elections, Cameron left May a tiny majority which on present polling she is set to increase
Well, I've watched about a dozen hours of US news TV, read the statements, watched the Hillary/Trump respond et al.
Things I've picked up so far:
- by linking Hillary's emails [dull subject] with sexting [oooohhh], a lot more people are interested
- Comey is 'finally' doing the right thing for the FBI's reputation, and using the Weiner angle as a pretext for it. Lots of reports of FBI agents pressuring/threatening to take early retirement to speak out. He's in a cleft stick - he's either accused of rubbishing their brand by letting her off, or being political with this move.
- Strong rumours that Comey was also acting now before Wikileaks forced his hand.
- The home PC that the Weiners shared apparently has thousands of emails - and she used a Yahoo account to send stuff to herself a la Hillary. Not like Yahoo hasn't been hacked ... and her husband wasn't a blackmail target...
- Quite a few think this is all a bit too easy and could be a diversion
- Bar some rather obvious handwaving, every outlet is wall to wall coverage
- It's given a face to the sleaze/corruption with Weiner - it's no longer a too-much-attention-needed story.
- The Foundation shenanigans are being referred to as possible RICO by several, not just political axe grinders.
- It'll dampen support for Hillary, and may push some independents over to Trump - who wants a POTUS who'd could be impeached on RICO charges almost immediately?
My favourite story was that the press pool and Hillary had no idea what the FBI did as they were in the skies without wifi - only when a reporter shouted at her from the tarmac did the whole thing explode.
Can't believe you used the word 'handwaving'! Didn't we go over the fact it is wrong to use such difficult to understand words here on PB?
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this partnership and its no balls, surely it is the final, clinching proof that Gary Ballance is not scoring runs because of the conditions but because he's not quite up to the mark in Tests?
Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
Buttler, please let it be Buttler. Make our mid order genuinely scary for opposing bowlers.
It already is - and Buttler's first class record is decidedly poor - in marked contrast to his remarkable one day showing. The other point is that we play so much cricket now having our best players in a particular format not play in the one they are less good at is a sensible way to prevent burnout. Root, is clearly an exception, but I fear for his long term fitness.
On the US election this is Manna from Heaven for Trump. "I called her Crooked Hillary because she is. There's never been a presidential candidate under investigation by the FBI a week before an election - can you take the risk of putting a crook in the oval office?"
Hillarys support is soft - not a lot of enthusiasm according to the polls. Detach a few of them, make sure his supporters are incandescent with rage and he can do this.
It comes to something when Donald Trump's USP is that he is not under investigation by the FBI.
But both he and Hillary are on America's Least Wanted list.
I still live in hope that there is a way found to somehow postpone the whole thing, select new candidates and start again!
Really America, a quarter of a billion eligible candidates yet we end up with a "choice" between the utterly corrupt and the sexist narcissist?
Maybe if Congress passed a bill, putting the clocks back two years? Obama stays in place for two more years, the whole candidate selection process starts again from scratch. Then when the new President is elected, Congress puts the clock forward two years. We end up with a two-year President, but if they are any good, they can get re-elected.
Sorted, America.
What about Supreme Court nominations ? And when they select Trump and Clinton again ?
You REALLY think that Clinton and Trump would get within a million miles of the nomination if we did this all again? Surely somebody decent would crawl out from the shadows - if only the VP choices.....
The Supreme Court nominations wouldn't be an issue because they wouldn't be dead yet (according to their death certificates....).
Yes I would imagine they could get the nominations again let alone get close. Clinton after all was this woeful 8 years ago and ran virtually unopposed then and got beat by an unknown, black, first term Senator that was a 50/1 shot. Hardly a surprise she 8 years later went virtually unopposed again and nearly got beat by a self declared socialist.
While if Corbyn could get nominated twice why not Trump?
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc.
The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went:
When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take action against the South Yorkshire police after the widespread media reports of its collaboration with child rapists ?
When is Childrens Minister Edward Timpson going to place Rotherham’s childrens services into special measures ?
What is Policing Minister Mike Penning doing to ensure that the police’s much hyped ‘day of reckoning’ with its ‘wave after wave of arrests’ actually takes place ?
How much did the locally well connected former Communities Minister Sayeeda Warsi know about what was happening and what did she chose to do about it ?
What is Prime Minister David Cameron doing with his 'Broken Britain' agenda regarding Rotherham ?
There was a guest on CNN speculating about Wiener doing a plea bargain/immunity from prosecution because he could be facing a 10 to 15 year stretch for allegedly sexting the 15 year old. The CNN host, Don Lemon seemed pissed off that anyone should suggest such a thing.
I'm really wondering if his wife is going under the bus despite being Hillary's best buddy. Weiner doesn't have much to lose now since they're estranged.
Megyn Kelly was a wonder to watch last night - she's incandescent, I could almost feel her thinking 'well that's my $70k donation wasted'
If I was a Middle Eastern dictator worried about the threat of Western airstrikes I would hire the South Yorkshire Police to protect myself as they seem to have some sort of immunity from action being taken against them.
It's disappointing to discover that both Sporting and Spreadex's POTUS markets remain firmly closed this morning, despite the related fixed odds markets having become much calmer, following the initial hiatus last night associated with the announcement from the FBI that they were to carry out further investigations into Hillary Clinton's email/server arrangements.
Gone it seems is the spread-betters' once time-honoured, "Windmill"-style adage of "We never close", an absolutely key, nay essential element of spread-betting, allowing punters to trade into and out of positions at all times.
In those days, the industry was led by the very much larger IG Index, far and away the predominant spread-betting firm in the world and now a FTSE 100 constituent, who sadly decided around 15 years ago, following founder Stuart Wheeler's retirement, to withdraw entirely from sporting, political and other peripheral activities in order to concentrate wholly on the financial sector. The market would never have remained closed like this in Mr Wheeler's day .... a true wheeler-dealer one might say!
That theory about Weiner doing an immunity deal in return for incriminating evidence on Clinton has legs to it IMO.
It's extraordinary what sort of people rise to the top of US politics.
There's probably some critical mass of venality which needs to be achieved.
Once that happens (and it clearly has in the USA) then more scum are attracted and their behaviour is accepted by those already there whilst honest people are put off from becoming involved.
You then get a feedback loop working.
The ultimate result is a political establishment which is rotten to the core and then revolution.
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc. The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went: When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take ....etc etc Govt failing etc etc
This is where local politicians need to be held accountable first.
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault. 2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
That theory about Weiner doing an immunity deal in return for incriminating evidence on Clinton has legs to it IMO.
Extra legs.
Biden's reaction to mention of Weiner is priceless; m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAcO5TacXVU
Well, he is quite unpleasant!
Nah, nothing to do with Weiner - more that he realised instantly the media is going to love the story & he won't be able to play a staight bar to close it down
Ms Sturgeon has been vindicated twice at the polls in Scotland with votes of 50 per cent in the General Election and 47 per cent in the Scottish General Election. Her stance on the referendum was backed by 62 per cent of her electorate. Certainly she was dealt a good hand by her predecessor but she has played it well.
Her achievements are against a daily barrage from uber unionist newspapers (Mail, Telegraph Herald, Scotsman, Times and the mad Express) which many posters in this column are foolish enough to cite as if proximate to reality.
In contrast May has no mandate from anyone, not even the Tory Party, and it is showing in her obvious lack of confidence. She carries the uncritical support of virtually all of the Europhobic press, faces a pathetic opposition, but her administration is still heading south at a rate of knots.
May actually has high ratings in Scotland, higher than Cameron's and not far short of Sturgeon's. May has the opposition of the Guardian, the Mirror, the Independent and centre left press but also the Cameroon press like the Times. Few Scottish papers give Sturgeon the hostility May sometimes faces, certainly not the Daily Record or the nationalist mouthpiece, the National. Sturgeon did well in the UK general election but that was just aftershocks from the referendum, Salmond left her an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament which she lost at this year's elections, Cameron left May a tiny majority which on present polling she is set to increase
That theory about Weiner doing an immunity deal in return for incriminating evidence on Clinton has legs to it IMO.
It's extraordinary what sort of people rise to the top of US politics.
There's probably some critical mass of venality which needs to be achieved.
Once that happens (and it clearly has in the USA) then more scum are attracted and their behaviour is accepted by those already there whilst honest people are put off from becoming involved.
You then get a feedback loop working.
The ultimate result is a political establishment which is rotten to the core and then revolution.
House of Cards seems more a documentary than a drama.
You've got Crooked Hilary leading the Democrats vs a deranged frat boy leading the Republicans. You've just seen the Attorney General of Pennsylvania being jailed for perjury. Anthony Weiner is like a character from a De Sade novel. The list of high profile figures going down for financial or sexual corruption or perjury just seems endless.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc. The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went: When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take ....etc etc Govt failing etc etc
This is where local politicians need to be held accountable first.
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault. 2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
And when they don't ?
And when the IPCC, Ofsted and all 'three monkeys' alphabet soup regulators don't ?
Rotherham was exposed not by the authorities - who all claimed nothing was wrong - but by outsiders.
The only government minister who took any action was Eric Pickles. He commissioned a report into Rotherham Council (notice that no equivalent has been made into the South Yorkshire Police) which quickly exposed that it was in 'complete denial' and 'not fit for purpose':
If I was a Middle Eastern dictator worried about the threat of Western airstrikes I would hire the South Yorkshire Police to protect myself as they seem to have some sort of immunity from action being taken against them.
It seems that it helps if you have Labour politicians in local govt.
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc. The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went: When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take ....etc etc Govt failing etc etc
This is where local politicians need to be held accountable first.
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault. 2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
And when they don't ? And when the IPCC, Ofsted and all 'three monkeys' alphabet soup regulators don't ? Rotherham was exposed not by the authorities - who all claimed nothing was wrong - but by outsiders. The only government minister who took any action was Eric Pickles. He commissioned a report into Rotherham Council (notice that no equivalent has been made into the South Yorkshire Police) which quickly exposed that it was in 'complete denial' and 'not fit for purpose': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750 Yet year after year Ofsted reported no problems. When Keith Vaz is one of the few people who have acted with integrity on an issue you know that there is something fundamentally wrong.
Why do the voters keep electing useless Labour people on the councils and for the Police commissioner? It is also the voters that are tolerating the abuses by re-electing the same party.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
We need polling urgently!!
There was a boost in the LA Times - but that is weekly so any changes are damped down (and probably just shows that the AA on their panel changed sides again).
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
We need polling urgently!!
There was a boost in the LA Times - but that is weekly so any changes are damped down (and probably just shows that the AA on their panel changed sides again).
Na, there was no change in that subsample visible on the chart (they give the breakdown per subsample if you scroll down)
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc. The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went: When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take ....etc etc Govt failing etc etc
This is where local politicians need to be held accountable first.
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault. 2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
And when they don't ? And when the IPCC, Ofsted and all 'three monkeys' alphabet soup regulators don't ? Rotherham was exposed not by the authorities - who all claimed nothing was wrong - but by outsiders. The only government minister who took any action was Eric Pickles. He commissioned a report into Rotherham Council (notice that no equivalent has been made into the South Yorkshire Police) which quickly exposed that it was in 'complete denial' and 'not fit for purpose': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750 Yet year after year Ofsted reported no problems. When Keith Vaz is one of the few people who have acted with integrity on an issue you know that there is something fundamentally wrong.
Why do the voters keep electing useless Labour people on the councils and for the Police commissioner? It is also the voters that are tolerating the abuses by re-electing the same party.
The conclusion is that many voters don't care, unfortunately.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
We need polling urgently!!
It's PB.. we always need polling.
I need some urgent reassurance on Clinton as my landslide predictions are looking very sickly after the FBI got involved again.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
We need polling urgently!!
There was a boost in the LA Times - but that is weekly so any changes are damped down (and probably just shows that the AA on their panel changed sides again).
Na, there was no change in that subsample visible on the chart (they give the breakdown per subsample if you scroll down)
Yeah it seems to be caused by a big shift amongst male voters.
But 'things are different now' and 'the government is taking action behind the scenes' etc etc etc. The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went: When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take ....etc etc Govt failing etc etc
This is where local politicians need to be held accountable first.
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault. 2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
And when they don't ? And when the IPCC, Ofsted and all 'three monkeys' alphabet soup regulators don't ? Rotherham was exposed not by the authorities - who all claimed nothing was wrong - but by outsiders. The only government minister who took any action was Eric Pickles. He commissioned a report into Rotherham Council (notice that no equivalent has been made into the South Yorkshire Police) which quickly exposed that it was in 'complete denial' and 'not fit for purpose': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750 Yet year after year Ofsted reported no problems. When Keith Vaz is one of the few people who have acted with integrity on an issue you know that there is something fundamentally wrong.
Why do the voters keep electing useless Labour people on the councils and for the Police commissioner? It is also the voters that are tolerating the abuses by re-electing the same party.
Some people vote for a party because they always have done and their fathers and grandfathers before them.
I also suspect that there are many vested interests against having change - in low turnout elections these are a large proportion of the vote.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
"Certainly some downside"
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
We need polling urgently!!
There was a boost in the LA Times - but that is weekly so any changes are damped down (and probably just shows that the AA on their panel changed sides again).
I don't pay any attention to LA Times poll. Either it is rubbish, which some PBers have pointed out for technical reasons, or they are right and everyone else is wrong and I will lose some money.
Probably too soon but the Republican voting by mail now has a lead of 59000 (was 52000) in Florida and the Democrat lead in voting early is 38,000. (The Republican lead is 3.2% so it has inched up, but not, as far as I remember as good as last time.)
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Surely better to try Ali or Ansari up the order and play Buttler or Batty instead in India?
We need US polls pronto.
Mehedi can bat too. He might just be the spark Bangladesh need to become rather a dangerous side.
Edit: New ball does the job. 244ao.
Can Tamim wipe that out quickly and crack on? If he fails then you would have to make England hot favourites notwithstanding the excellent Monimul Haque.
Whoever wins it's been a fabulous series. I hope it encourages more teams to offer Bangladesh Tests, as they seem to be developing into one of the more interesting sides in world cricket.
I don't think Moeen has quite the technique for a no3 in Tests. He might be a useful counterattacking no4.
She's been pretty good at avoiding anything directly incriminating so far, but nothing surprises me any more about this farce of an election.
You should not be restrained in generalising from these two relatively minor cases of political cronyism.
The truth is four months into a May premiership and there is NOTHING to commend her leadership. This is government by reprimand - little peevish telling offs for Ministers who try to fill the vacuum of governance by doing or even just saying something.
This administration is heading for the rocks without a captain worthy of the name.
I have now put a small bet on the winner of the Electoral College losing the popular vote, with these latest emailgate revelations there is a chance we could be heading for a repeat of 2000, only this time with Trump narrowly winning the popular vote and Florida and Ohio but Hillary holding on in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia and Colorado. Even now pre the latest emailgate revelations Trump leads the popular vote in at least one poll, the LA Times but no poll has him leading Pennsylvania or New Hampshire as yet
Ms Sturgeon has been vindicated twice at the polls in Scotland with votes of 50 per cent in the General Election and 47 per cent in the Scottish General Election. Her stance on the referendum was backed by 62 per cent of her electorate. Certainly she was dealt a good hand by her predecessor but she has played it well.
Her achievements are against a daily barrage from uber unionist newspapers (Mail, Telegraph Herald, Scotsman, Times and the mad Express) which many posters in this column are foolish enough to cite as if proximate to reality.
In contrast May has no mandate from anyone, not even the Tory Party, and it is showing in her obvious lack of confidence. She carries the uncritical support of virtually all of the Europhobic press, faces a pathetic opposition, but her administration is still heading south at a rate of knots.
Atherton really wasn't as good as he is believed to have been.
Most of his best performances came against South Africa rather than Australia.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8579.html
And for it to be a valid one, you need to be able to suggest some things that she could have done differently that you would have been happier with...
Substitute Brussels for London and that is how May will operate. Of course she's not done anything. She may never do so. But against the Jezziah and Druncker she will still do well electorally because a monkey on a stick would.
Clinton 43.8 .. Trump 46.2
http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/
Well, I've watched about a dozen hours of US news TV, read the statements, watched the Hillary/Trump respond et al.
Things I've picked up so far:
- by linking Hillary's emails [dull subject] with sexting [oooohhh], a lot more people are interested
- Comey is 'finally' doing the right thing for the FBI's reputation, and using the Weiner angle as a pretext for it. Lots of reports of FBI agents pressuring/threatening to take early retirement to speak out. He's in a cleft stick - he's either accused of rubbishing their brand by letting her off, or being political with this move.
- Strong rumours that Comey was also acting now before Wikileaks forced his hand.
- The home PC that the Weiners shared apparently has thousands of emails - and she used a Yahoo account to send stuff to herself a la Hillary. Not like Yahoo hasn't been hacked ... and her husband wasn't a blackmail target...
- Quite a few think this is all a bit too easy and could be a diversion
- Bar some rather obvious handwaving, every outlet is wall to wall coverage
- It's given a face to the sleaze/corruption with Weiner - it's no longer a too-much-attention-needed story.
- The Foundation shenanigans are being referred to as possible RICO by several, not just political axe grinders.
- It'll dampen support for Hillary, and may push some independents over to Trump - who wants a POTUS who'd could be impeached on RICO charges almost immediately?
My favourite story was that the press pool and Hillary had no idea what the FBI did as they were in the skies without wifi - only when a reporter shouted at her from the tarmac did the whole thing explode.
The other point is that we play so much cricket now having our best players in a particular format not play in the one they are less good at is a sensible way to prevent burnout. Root, is clearly an exception, but I fear for his long term fitness.
While if Corbyn could get nominated twice why not Trump?
The list of government inaction was long, I had questions which went:
When is Home Secretary Theresa May going to take action against the South Yorkshire police after the widespread media reports of its collaboration with child rapists ?
When is Childrens Minister Edward Timpson going to place Rotherham’s childrens services into special measures ?
What is Policing Minister Mike Penning doing to ensure that the police’s much hyped ‘day of reckoning’ with its ‘wave after wave of arrests’ actually takes place ?
How much did the locally well connected former Communities Minister Sayeeda Warsi know about what was happening and what did she chose to do about it ?
What is Prime Minister David Cameron doing with his 'Broken Britain' agenda regarding Rotherham ?
Megyn Kelly was a wonder to watch last night - she's incandescent, I could almost feel her thinking 'well that's my $70k donation wasted'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGXhr90BPI
You couldn't make it up
Edit: ooh, and another one, Stoakes this time. 66/2 - another collapse coming?
Biden's reaction to mention of Weiner is priceless;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wAcO5TacXVU
.@ScottAdamsSays The movie in our heads is breaking all-time box office records... and it's not even over yet https://t.co/cW44xjhK2p
Gone it seems is the spread-betters' once time-honoured, "Windmill"-style adage of "We never close", an absolutely key, nay essential element of spread-betting, allowing punters to trade into and out of positions at all times.
In those days, the industry was led by the very much larger IG Index, far and away the predominant spread-betting firm in the world and now a FTSE 100 constituent, who sadly decided around 15 years ago, following founder Stuart Wheeler's retirement, to withdraw entirely from sporting, political and other peripheral activities in order to concentrate wholly on the financial sector. The market would never have remained closed like this in Mr Wheeler's day .... a true wheeler-dealer one might say!
Okay, a tenner at 2.16 on the home team.
Once that happens (and it clearly has in the USA) then more scum are attracted and their behaviour is accepted by those already there whilst honest people are put off from becoming involved.
You then get a feedback loop working.
The ultimate result is a political establishment which is rotten to the core and then revolution.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/1998/12/can_president_clinton_pardon_himself.html
1. Labour's Rotherham Council are at fault.
2. Labour's latest Police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire Police needs to act.
PBers might have some suggestions...!
http://www.awdnews.com/political/caught-on-tape-scandalous-video-shows-vice-president-joe-biden-s-sexual-proposition-to-a-13-year-old-girl
You've got Crooked Hilary leading the Democrats vs a deranged frat boy leading the Republicans. You've just seen the Attorney General of Pennsylvania being jailed for perjury. Anthony Weiner is like a character from a De Sade novel. The list of high profile figures going down for financial or sexual corruption or perjury just seems endless.
"But in a political sense, there’s certainly some downside for Clinton in the appearance of headlines containing the words “FBI,” “investigation” and “email” just 11 days before the election."
lol
This is from the man who couldn't bring himself to say she collapsed.
And when the IPCC, Ofsted and all 'three monkeys' alphabet soup regulators don't ?
Rotherham was exposed not by the authorities - who all claimed nothing was wrong - but by outsiders.
The only government minister who took any action was Eric Pickles. He commissioned a report into Rotherham Council (notice that no equivalent has been made into the South Yorkshire Police) which quickly exposed that it was in 'complete denial' and 'not fit for purpose':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31130750
Yet year after year Ofsted reported no problems.
When Keith Vaz is one of the few people who have acted with integrity on an issue you know that there is something fundamentally wrong.
As a Bovril eater, that wouldn’t worry me of course!
https://hillaryspeeches.com/scheduled-events/
He seems to have the weekend off to carve his pumpkin though.
I'd always assumed it was an upmarket town but it looked pretty drab on the news reports:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37766708
Is it one of those south-east towns where the affluent live in surrounding villages while the town itself is much less so ?
I also suspect that there are many vested interests against having change - in low turnout elections these are a large proportion of the vote.