Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Who could have predicted that? Zac's a fool as I said from the outset...
Lets hope its more accurate than the last Lib Dem polling effort:
"Polling by Survation which looks at voting intentions broken down by individual candidates in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine puts the Lib Dems holding onto the seat.
When asked if there was a general election tomorrow, who would people vote for knowing who was standing, 30.4% opted for Sir Robert.
The result will be a blow for the SNP as 25.3% said they would vote for their candidate Stu Donaldson, behind Scottish Tory Alexander Burnett 26.6%. Labour’s Barry Black polled 11.5%."
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
The SNP just hate the English. The EU are not English.
Correct.
Many people underestimate the SNP's cultiness and xenophobia and the infantile chip-on-the-shoulder "true believer" mentality that it plays to.
I have heard Scottish nationalists declare that Scottish people didn't get a vote in the EUref because they weren't asked whether they wanted to stay in the EU. They seem to have forgotten that only an independent country can belong to the EU and the Scottish people recently rejected independence.
Try telling an independence supporter that
* what they are saying is that it's more important for Scotland to be in a single market (freedom of movement sense included) with Germany, Poland and Romania than with England
* it is impossible for an independent country to be in a single market with two countries that aren't in a single market with each other
(this gets harder to recognise the more someone has been shouting that the NO result in the EUref means there should be another indyref, because they might have to accept how mentally drugged they were not to notice)
* an independent Scotland would have no "right" to be in the EU, and that isn't the fault of the English
* an independent Scotland would have no "right" to a high credit rating
* an independent Scotland would have no "right" to be in a single market with England, and it won't be in one if Scotland is in the EU and rUK is outside the EU and the single market - and that means customs posts on the border. And no, that's not "scaremongering". That's the truth.
* England or rUK or E+W would not have to give an independent Scotland everything it wants in negotiations.
* Considering the cons as well as the pros of what you want is what an intelligent person does. It is revoltingly ugly to consider such a person to be a "race traitor".
They shouldn't be described as supporters of "independence" at all. They're supporting precisely the opposite of what the word says, if they want to be part of the EU post Brexit.
This is superb - I must have missed it at the time:
We asked Mr Campbell if he had any fetishes and he said: “I must have a thousand but, hand on my heart, I couldn’t tell which is the most important one. Probably the horses.”
They shouldn't be described as supporters of "independence" at all. They're supporting precisely the opposite of what the word says, if they want to be part of the EU post Brexit.
What do you suggest as an alternative? Perhaps the Scottish Equality Party? In favour of having the same status as Ireland as a full sovereign member of the European Union.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Just read about the possible infiltration of German intelligence services by a possible ISIS spy. Sounds extremely serious, hopefully this was just an isolated case. The last thing we need is for ISIS to have access to any European intelligence.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Is the Spanish economy considered to be "advanced"?
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Corbyn should have asked May whether she considers Spain to be an advanced economy or not.
It's got some ground to make up, let's put it that way.
But I would generally prefer to live in a country that has taken a hit and is now growing (SPain and to a lesser extent the UK) than one that has flatlined (France).
Betfair doesn't believe the Lib Dem poll, Zac still 1.345 midprice not the ~ 2.2 implied by the 'poll'.
Whilst Zac is favourite, I think it will be closer than expected. Libs have a great ground game. Zac will have none. If I had a bet, I would go with the Lib.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Betfair doesn't believe the Lib Dem poll, Zac still 1.345 midprice not the ~ 2.2 implied by the 'poll'.
Whilst Zac is favourite, I think it will be closer than expected. Libs have a great ground game. Zac will have none. If I had a bet, I would go with the Lib.
Sorely tempted to put some money on Zac - I know the LibDems have good form on this kind of thing but all my instincts say that Zac still has too many things going for him, for him to lose this.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Is the Spanish economy considered to be "advanced"?
In what way would it not be considered advanced?
On the index of economic complexity (i.e. how advanced an economy is), it scores more highly than Canada, for example.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
Why are ourselves, France, Germany and Italy all in the G20 twice ?
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
Fair point. But I think the EU should leave the G20 to make way for Spain...
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
The EU is a member of the G20, so de facto..
Edit: ah, 'Spain, being the 14th largest economy in the world and 5th in the European Union in terms of nominal GDP, is a "permanent guest" of the organization, although the Spanish government's policy is to not request official membership.'
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
Fair point. But I think the EU should leave the G20 to make way for Spain...
(I admit to being a little bit of a Spainophile.)
Yes, I can agree with that. I personally don't think the EU should be involved in any of this stuff. I can understand being given WTO representation because it is a customs union, but beyond that it is completely pointless and an affront to democratically elected leaders that aren't able to get their voices and the voices of their electors heard.
Just watched Zac on DP. He's long winded in public. Quite a bore.
I have a quite irrational dislike of Zac.
I think it is rational. I've spent a lot of time with him. He is mild and civil, but reality he is selfish. He's not interested in other people's ideas. He's a brilliant MP locally because he shares the concerns of his residents. But that is coincidence, not because he does what they want. This by-election is all about a cry for attention.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
Fair point. But I think the EU should leave the G20 to make way for Spain...
I spotted something similar in the latter part of Kingdom Asunder during the proofread. The note I wrote myself said to remove the apostrophe, then cut my hands off
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
Is Zac accident prone? Goldsmith was late to the last hustings of the byelection on Tuesday night after a car accident in which he was struck by his own vehicle, though he escaped unharmed.
I spotted something similar in the latter part of Kingdom Asunder during the proofread. The note I wrote myself said to remove the apostrophe, then cut my hands off
I'm awed that you were able to proofread your own book. Bloody impossible job in my experience.
The minimum or living wage acts like a magnet that will attract more and more jobs to be paid at the lowest (or close to the lowest) legal rate. It sets a floor that will become the norm for many jobs that are currently paid well over the minimum.
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
Fair point. But I think the EU should leave the G20 to make way for Spain...
- In the great scheme of things it's no great shakes, but it’s the little things like this that make one question Corbyn’s suitability for PM.
People often say the wrong thing, but think they are saying something different. This is on the Guardian live blog:
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Ummm: surely Spain is the fastest growing advanced economy in the world right now? They're running at c. 3% for the second year in a row.
Spain isn't in the G20 iirc and definitely isn't in the G7.
Which is strange, because it's economy is the 14th largest in the world, and is the same size as Australia's or Russia's. (It's economy is more than 4x larger than South Africa's, and they get into the G20.)
I think it's a combination of not really having a military and already having enough European members in the G20.
Fair point. But I think the EU should leave the G20 to make way for Spain...
Mr. Rex, it's hateful, but I'm also loathe to let others do it. I only ever get anything remotely OCD in two situations, one of which is proofreading. I imagine some have slipped through the cracks, though one of the best compliments I ever got was for Sir Edric's Temple [since unpublished but included in The Adventures of Sir Edric], where the reviewer didn't find a single typo.
It's just as well that vegans don't tend to be militarist. The Indian mutiny was sparked by very similar concerns to those expressed about the new £5 note:
It's just as well that vegans don't tend to be militarist. The Indian mutiny was sparked by very similar concerns to those expressed about the new £5 note:
Liberal Democrats in Richmond Park are predicting they will narrowly snatch the west London seat from Zac Goldsmith, after a campaigning blitz in which the party claimed activists spoke to more than 30,000 voters.
No - it's a very risky message. If the LDs are already winning, they don't need my vote. The message of being a couple of % behind is safer.
Having said that, my LD source is bullish - there was a sense a while back that polling day would come too soon, but not any more. Real question is whether the tactical votes promised from ex-Labour supporters who don't like Corbyn / Brexit will come off. If they sit on their hands, Zac will squeak home.
Mr. Rex, it's hateful, but I'm also loathe to let others do it. I only ever get anything remotely OCD in two situations, one of which is proofreading. I imagine some have slipped through the cracks, though one of the best compliments I ever got was for Sir Edric's Temple [since unpublished but included in The Adventures of Sir Edric], where the reviewer didn't find a single typo.
Only time I've ever done it was with the one book I published through Lulu. I thought I'd made a good job of it until I got my first bound copy. It looked like someone had copied the typescript in crayon and then run it through an OCR program. Never again!
it was your lot that wanted the government to give away indefinite right to remain for EU citizens without the government agreeing the same for British citizens in the EU.
It's just as well that vegans don't tend to be militarist. The Indian mutiny was sparked by very similar concerns to those expressed about the new £5 note:
It's just as well that vegans don't tend to be militarist. The Indian mutiny was sparked by very similar concerns to those expressed about the new £5 note:
Its rather curious that only British banknotes appear to be affected - out of the many countries that use film......either cock up at the British end, or lots & lots of central banks are praying that their vegans don't notice......
After its been used a couple of times, minute traces of tallow would be the least of my concerns......
Edit - and good for you, Mr Meeks - calling the First War of Indian Independence by its Colonial Oppressor name!
Its rather curious that only British banknotes appear to be affected - out of the many countries that use film......either cock up at the British end, or lots & lots of central banks are praying that their vegans don't notice......
No we won't. The minimum or living wage acts like a magnet that will attract more and more jobs to be paid at the lowest (or close to the lowest) legal rate. It sets a floor that will become the norm for many jobs that are currently paid well over the minimum.
Not if immigration is radically curbed for those jobs. If the supply side drops then firms will have to pay more. In a given year circa 1/4 to 1/3 of new job entrants are migrants, most at the minimum wage level. For example if the rules for non-EU workers applied to EU workers then >80% of EU workers would not be eleigible to work here. PS I favour a work permit system rather than quotas.
Scottish politics are still almost totally driven by the independence question. Greens are seen as a pro-independence alternative to the SNP. Support for the SNP plus Greens is 85%+ correlated to whether you think Scotland should be independent. If you do, you vote for one of those parties; if you don't, you vote Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem.
My interpretation of the poll is that people are getting unenamored with the SNP performance in government and they also think independence is off the agenda for the time being. If it comes back on, that should bolster the SNP as they are seen as more serious in getting independence than the Greens, which are a (mild) protest vote in reality.
Looks like Brexit killed Scottish nationalism stone dead.
I think the Scots have easily worked out which 'Union' is more important - the SNP really have stuffed it.......
And whether or not you would support it, if Scotland is still part of the UK do you think it would be relalistically possible for Scotland to remain part of the EU after the rest of the UK leaves?
Possible: 22 Not Possible: 62
By positing it as 'the Uk or the EU' the SNP have focussed people's minds......not to their advantage....
Erm, have you misunderstood the question? This is asking about Scotland having special status after Brexit of being both part of the UK and in the EU.
Carlotta will use any lie to denigrate SNP and Scotland. I would love to know what she was chucked out for to make her so bitter and twisted.
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"Polling by Survation which looks at voting intentions broken down by individual candidates in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine puts the Lib Dems holding onto the seat.
When asked if there was a general election tomorrow, who would people vote for knowing who was standing, 30.4% opted for Sir Robert.
The result will be a blow for the SNP as 25.3% said they would vote for their candidate Stu Donaldson, behind Scottish Tory Alexander Burnett 26.6%. Labour’s Barry Black polled 11.5%."
2015 Result:
Conservative: 15916 (28.8%)
Labour: 2487 (4.5%)
Lib Dem: 11812 (21.4%)
SNP: 22949 (41.6%)
Green: 885 (1.6%)
UKIP: 1006 (1.8%)
Independent: 141 (0.3%)
We asked Mr Campbell if he had any fetishes and he said: “I must have a thousand but, hand on my heart, I couldn’t tell which is the most important one. Probably the horses.”
Realising we were speaking at cross-purposes we provided Ronnie with a definition of fetish provided by the campaign.
https://twitter.com/philipjcowley/status/803940819371782144
This is all that voters really care about, this shows how weak Obama was considering that Carrier relies so much on government contracts.
May says the IMF says this will be the fastest growing advanced economy in the world. Unemployment is down, and there are a record number of people in employment.
Corbyn says the deficit was meant to be eradicated by 2015, and then by 2020. Now the date has been put off again. And she mentions the IFS, but it says the prospect for workers is “dreadful” and that this will be the worst decade for living standards since the 1020s.
To me that looks like Corbyn heard May mention three letters beginning with I and thought IFS - his team would have talked about them last week - and thought he had an opportunity to score a goal.
Step forward Henry Smith on Daily Politics complaining about animal products used in the £5 note.
Lib Dems need a modest proposal to overcome this.
But I would generally prefer to live in a country that has taken a hit and is now growing (SPain and to a lesser extent the UK) than one that has flatlined (France).
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/803746391449280512
On the index of economic complexity (i.e. how advanced an economy is), it scores more highly than Canada, for example.
(I admit to being a little bit of a Spainophile.)
Apparently RBS shares 'plummeted' after failing the Stress test. They're down 2.59%.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MXKdXl6Wk
Edit: ah, 'Spain, being the 14th largest economy in the world and 5th in the European Union in terms of nominal GDP, is a "permanent guest" of the organization, although the Spanish government's policy is to not request official membership.'
Science Cat
Visual Effects have come a long way https://t.co/5KBS6IAUEO
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000896#constituency_result_headline
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/24699-mcdonald-s-response-to-15-minimum-wage-automation-in-every-store
Labour has no idea how to stop Ukip. Labour MP Frank Field in today's Times https://t.co/9UbslRKkmh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP).
I spotted something similar in the latter part of Kingdom Asunder during the proofread. The note I wrote myself said to remove the apostrophe, then cut my hands off
Goldsmith was late to the last hustings of the byelection on Tuesday night after a car accident in which he was struck by his own vehicle, though he escaped unharmed.
The minimum or living wage acts like a magnet that will attract more and more jobs to be paid at the lowest (or close to the lowest) legal rate. It sets a floor that will become the norm for many jobs that are currently paid well over the minimum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita is the best measure for how the "average" person is, though. And we are 25th here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Indian_Rebellion_of_1857#The_Enfield_Rifle
Having said that, my LD source is bullish - there was a sense a while back that polling day would come too soon, but not any more. Real question is whether the tactical votes promised from ex-Labour supporters who don't like Corbyn / Brexit will come off. If they sit on their hands, Zac will squeak home.
After its been used a couple of times, minute traces of tallow would be the least of my concerns......
Edit - and good for you, Mr Meeks - calling the First War of Indian Independence by its Colonial Oppressor name!
Scottish plastic notes not affected
PS I favour a work permit system rather than quotas.