Anecdata. Went into the Toon yesterday. Train as busy as a usual weekday afternoon. 75% face mask compliance. Metro Centre similar to normal. Got to the quayside. Half the pubs and restaurants open. They seemed about the same. But. Around 5:30 I turned around and the place was suddenly emptied. Walked back to the station and it was quiet. By 7:30 was as dead as a Sunday evening. Seems daytime shopping and leisure about the same, but a complete absence of any after work trade, or anyone coming into the City for a night out. Eerily quiet.
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
Believe this photo was taken in 1840s when Lincoln was (briefly) a member of US House of Representatives. By 1860 he looked older & gaunter.
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
Believe this photo was taken in 1840s when Lincoln was (briefly) a member of US House of Representatives. By 1860 he looked older & gaunter.
True, but it showed Lincoln wasn't actually a gargoyle....
This is the powerful stuff, breaking down the idea Johnson is any different to the previous lot
The problem with that is the supporters of the last lot are hostile to Boris, this government hasn’t really been in charge for ten years
This Government wears the badge of a group that has been in power for 10 years.
The leadership at the top may have slightly changed but it's the same group...
No, that's just wrong. People are criticising Boris for trying to tie Starmer to Corbyn, so it is equally incorrect to say Boris has anything to do with Cameron/May era Tory govt. Starmer probably has more in common with Miliband than Boris has with PM May or Cameron
As the Donald would say "WRONG". "Boris" as you affectionately like to call him, was in TMay's government and was the most incompetent Foreign Secretary of all time, so he was part of her government and he jumped before he was pushed. He was also a great confident of David Cameron before he decided that his career prospects were best served by pretending he believed in Brexit, to the great surprise of even his immediate family. He is most definitely part of the same continuum. He is part of that 10 years of government, but just a much more incompetent and immoral version of what went before.
A nice thing about Brexit, and Labour appointing Starmer, is that it correctly puts the people who pretended to disagree on policy between Cameron and Miliband 2010-2015 in the same party. What a non choice that was - the voice of an enormous percentage of the country's voters just not represented in parliament
Latest on the coronavirus situation. Today I received a letter from my local council signed by the Leader, the Chief Executive, and the Director of Public Health. It warned of a possible spike in new infections and re-iterated all the precautions to be taken. But interestingly the core message was repeated in Arabic, Urdu, Gujarati, Kurdish, Mandarin, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian (an interesting collection of languages).
Which local council, as a matter of interest?
I will keep an eye out for it. Only multilingual letter I've had from the council this week is a green bin non compliance - lord knows why, and I've phoned for clarification. But the reactionary cynic in me guesses that's probably higher priority round here than mere COVID.
A nice thing about Brexit, and Labour appointing Starmer, is that it correctly puts the people who pretended to disagree on policy between Cameron and Miliband 2010-2015 in the same party. What a non choice that was - the voice of an enormous percentage of the country's voters just not represented in parliament
You are either talking incomprehensible bollox or that is just so clever that I don't understand. As you are a Leaver it is very unlikely to be the latter, so I suspect it is the former.
This is the powerful stuff, breaking down the idea Johnson is any different to the previous lot
The problem with that is the supporters of the last lot are hostile to Boris, this government hasn’t really been in charge for ten years
This Government wears the badge of a group that has been in power for 10 years.
The leadership at the top may have slightly changed but it's the same group...
No, that's just wrong. People are criticising Boris for trying to tie Starmer to Corbyn, so it is equally incorrect to say Boris has anything to do with Cameron/May era Tory govt. Starmer probably has more in common with Miliband than Boris has with PM May or Cameron
As the Donald would say "WRONG". "Boris" as you affectionately like to call him, was in TMay's government and was the most incompetent Foreign Secretary of all time, so he was part of her government and he jumped before he was pushed. He was also a great confident of David Cameron before he decided that his career prospects were best served by pretending he believed in Brexit, to the great surprise of even his immediate family. He is most definitely part of the same continuum. He is part of that 10 years of government, but just a much more incompetent and immoral version of what went before.
Like Donald most of the time you would be wrong saying that and spouting Fake News. Maybe step away from the Donald.
Boris was one of a large slate of resignations from the most incompetent PM of all time's government, that of Theresa May and he then helped lead opposition to her awful deal.
I agree he was close with Cameron though and he is much closer to Cameron than May ever was, Brexit-aside. I have made that point myself on many occasions
Its a shame you're too blinded by hatred of Brexit to have sound judgement because you were close to having a good point then, you just couldn't latch on to it. Better look next time..
Latest on the coronavirus situation. Today I received a letter from my local council signed by the Leader, the Chief Executive, and the Director of Public Health. It warned of a possible spike in new infections and re-iterated all the precautions to be taken. But interestingly the core message was repeated in Arabic, Urdu, Gujarati, Kurdish, Mandarin, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian (an interesting collection of languages).
Latest on the coronavirus situation. Today I received a letter from my local council signed by the Leader, the Chief Executive, and the Director of Public Health. It warned of a possible spike in new infections and re-iterated all the precautions to be taken. But interestingly the core message was repeated in Arabic, Urdu, Gujarati, Kurdish, Mandarin, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian (an interesting collection of languages).
Which local council, as a matter of interest?
Kirklees
Seems to be trending *better* in the last few days....
Dominic "Emperors New Clothes" Cummings strikes again. Has there ever been a better confidence trickster at the heart of government? Other than a dubious claim to tilting the 2016 referendum, which he, and only he was capable of (definitely not the resource rich Russians) what has this grotesque charlatan achieved in his cynical miserable life? Other than the obvious duping of a terribly incompetent PM, not a lot!
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
I know cheap portrait painters couldn’t do hands, but I didn’t realise that applied to some photographers as well.
Just a thought. If Unite are unwilling to spend their members money on yet another high court adventure, perhaps the faithful could chip in.
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
Dominic "Emperors New Clothes" Cummings strikes again. Has there ever been a better confidence trickster at the heart of government? Other than a dubious claim to tilting the 2016 referendum, which he, and only he was capable of (definitely not the resource rich Russians) what has this grotesque charlatan achieved in his cynical miserable life? Other than the obvious duping of a terribly incompetent PM, not a lot!
Bozo has deemed the matter closed ! This rancid government continues to sink further into a cesspit of corruption and lies.
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
I know cheap portrait painters couldn’t do hands, but I didn’t realise that applied to some photographers as well.
There is speculation that Lincoln had Marfans syndrome, explaining a number of his physical features, including unusually long fingers.
This is the powerful stuff, breaking down the idea Johnson is any different to the previous lot
The problem with that is the supporters of the last lot are hostile to Boris, this government hasn’t really been in charge for ten years
This Government wears the badge of a group that has been in power for 10 years.
The leadership at the top may have slightly changed but it's the same group...
No, that's just wrong. People are criticising Boris for trying to tie Starmer to Corbyn, so it is equally incorrect to say Boris has anything to do with Cameron/May era Tory govt. Starmer probably has more in common with Miliband than Boris has with PM May or Cameron
As the Donald would say "WRONG". "Boris" as you affectionately like to call him, was in TMay's government and was the most incompetent Foreign Secretary of all time, so he was part of her government and he jumped before he was pushed. He was also a great confident of David Cameron before he decided that his career prospects were best served by pretending he believed in Brexit, to the great surprise of even his immediate family. He is most definitely part of the same continuum. He is part of that 10 years of government, but just a much more incompetent and immoral version of what went before.
Like Donald most of the time you would be wrong saying that and spouting Fake News. Maybe step away from the Donald.
Boris was one of a large slate of resignations from the most incompetent PM of all time's government, that of Theresa May and he then helped lead opposition to her awful deal.
I agree he was close with Cameron though and he is much closer to Cameron than May ever was, Brexit-aside. I have made that point myself on many occasions
Its a shame you're too blinded by hatred of Brexit to have sound judgement because you were close to having a good point then, you just couldn't latch on to it. Better look next time..
Oh dear, the non-thinking man's Useful Idiot speaks. Johnson has stolen the most incompetent PM title from Mrs May. She, who was pretty awful, was a colossus of competence in contrast. Worse than that though, he is an unwitting de-facto quisling for advancing the foreign policy agenda of a hostile state. What is curious about him is that having abjectly failed as Foreign Secretary the swivel-eyed nutters that now dominate the membership of the Conservative Party (Putin's much beloved activists) thought it was a good idea to make an incompetent Foreign Secretary Prime Minister!!
Thanks for the "better look (sic) next time wish, most generous of you, and well done for congratulating yourself on your bleeding obvious observation that Johnson, who went to school with Cameron was closer to him than May who obviously did not. Your depth of insight is astounding.
So on the 20th July we have had 3 deaths recorded in English hospitals and 48 in all settings. Is this likely? Where did the other 45 die?
Care homes, lots of them from natural causes but they get included in the stats until the DoH figures out how not to.
They are basically nonsense figures
That's why excess deaths is the key metric - and in UK there were 77% more deaths than normal in the March to end June period. Since the end of June, we've had slightly below average mortality.
Just a thought. If Unite are unwilling to spend their members money on yet another high court adventure, perhaps the faithful could chip in.
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
Just a thought. If Unite are unwilling to spend their members money on yet another high court adventure, perhaps the faithful could chip in.
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
How much did suckers donate to BLM UK? About £7m wasn’t it?
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
I know cheap portrait painters couldn’t do hands, but I didn’t realise that applied to some photographers as well.
There is speculation that Lincoln had Marfans syndrome, explaining a number of his physical features, including unusually long fingers.
This is the powerful stuff, breaking down the idea Johnson is any different to the previous lot
The problem with that is the supporters of the last lot are hostile to Boris, this government hasn’t really been in charge for ten years
This Government wears the badge of a group that has been in power for 10 years.
The leadership at the top may have slightly changed but it's the same group...
No, that's just wrong. People are criticising Boris for trying to tie Starmer to Corbyn, so it is equally incorrect to say Boris has anything to do with Cameron/May era Tory govt. Starmer probably has more in common with Miliband than Boris has with PM May or Cameron
As the Donald would say "WRONG". "Boris" as you affectionately like to call him, was in TMay's government and was the most incompetent Foreign Secretary of all time, so he was part of her government and he jumped before he was pushed. He was also a great confident of David Cameron before he decided that his career prospects were best served by pretending he believed in Brexit, to the great surprise of even his immediate family. He is most definitely part of the same continuum. He is part of that 10 years of government, but just a much more incompetent and immoral version of what went before.
Like Donald most of the time you would be wrong saying that and spouting Fake News. Maybe step away from the Donald.
Boris was one of a large slate of resignations from the most incompetent PM of all time's government, that of Theresa May and he then helped lead opposition to her awful deal.
I agree he was close with Cameron though and he is much closer to Cameron than May ever was, Brexit-aside. I have made that point myself on many occasions
Its a shame you're too blinded by hatred of Brexit to have sound judgement because you were close to having a good point then, you just couldn't latch on to it. Better look next time..
Oh dear, the non-thinking man's Useful Idiot speaks. Johnson has stolen the most incompetent PM title from Mrs May. She, who was pretty awful, was a colossus of competence in contrast. Worse than that though, he is an unwitting de-facto quisling for advancing the foreign policy agenda of a hostile state. What is curious about him is that having abjectly failed as Foreign Secretary the swivel-eyed nutters that now dominate the membership of the Conservative Party (Putin's much beloved activists) thought it was a good idea to make an incompetent Foreign Secretary Prime Minister!!
Thanks for the "better look (sic) next time wish, most generous of you, and well done for congratulating yourself on your bleeding obvious observation that Johnson, who went to school with Cameron was closer to him than May who obviously did not. Your depth of insight is astounding.
I don’t think you should be so confidant of picking up other people on their spelling mistakes
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
What is being bought includes the internationally agreed frequency allocations. Which might well be worth more than a billion, just by themselves.
This is the powerful stuff, breaking down the idea Johnson is any different to the previous lot
The problem with that is the supporters of the last lot are hostile to Boris, this government hasn’t really been in charge for ten years
This Government wears the badge of a group that has been in power for 10 years.
The leadership at the top may have slightly changed but it's the same group...
No, that's just wrong. People are criticising Boris for trying to tie Starmer to Corbyn, so it is equally incorrect to say Boris has anything to do with Cameron/May era Tory govt. Starmer probably has more in common with Miliband than Boris has with PM May or Cameron
As the Donald would say "WRONG". "Boris" as you affectionately like to call him, was in TMay's government and was the most incompetent Foreign Secretary of all time, so he was part of her government and he jumped before he was pushed. He was also a great confident of David Cameron before he decided that his career prospects were best served by pretending he believed in Brexit, to the great surprise of even his immediate family. He is most definitely part of the same continuum. He is part of that 10 years of government, but just a much more incompetent and immoral version of what went before.
Like Donald most of the time you would be wrong saying that and spouting Fake News. Maybe step away from the Donald.
Boris was one of a large slate of resignations from the most incompetent PM of all time's government, that of Theresa May and he then helped lead opposition to her awful deal.
I agree he was close with Cameron though and he is much closer to Cameron than May ever was, Brexit-aside. I have made that point myself on many occasions
Its a shame you're too blinded by hatred of Brexit to have sound judgement because you were close to having a good point then, you just couldn't latch on to it. Better look next time..
Oh dear, the non-thinking man's Useful Idiot speaks. Johnson has stolen the most incompetent PM title from Mrs May. She, who was pretty awful, was a colossus of competence in contrast. Worse than that though, he is an unwitting de-facto quisling for advancing the foreign policy agenda of a hostile state. What is curious about him is that having abjectly failed as Foreign Secretary the swivel-eyed nutters that now dominate the membership of the Conservative Party (Putin's much beloved activists) thought it was a good idea to make an incompetent Foreign Secretary Prime Minister!!
Thanks for the "better look (sic) next time wish, most generous of you, and well done for congratulating yourself on your bleeding obvious observation that Johnson, who went to school with Cameron was closer to him than May who obviously did not. Your depth of insight is astounding.
I don’t think you should be so confidant of picking up other people on their spelling mistakes
Sunak will make a great next PM when Boris retires in 2028.
I think in a system like ours even the greatest would struggle to make that long, and that without massive unforeseen events.
I do though think Sunak is being massively over hyped.
His rise reminds me somewhat of John Major’s.
A politician of obvious ability, promoted far too rapidly because an authoritarian PM was refusing to work intelligently with colleagues and couldn’t bear dissent even while cocking up massively everywhere.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
What is being bought includes the internationally agreed frequency allocations. Which might well be worth more than a billion, just by themselves.
The ESA launches are not locked in.
Sounds similar to the Solyndra scandal under Obama administration, where feds reportedly threw over $500m down a similar rat-hole.
Dominic "Emperors New Clothes" Cummings strikes again. Has there ever been a better confidence trickster at the heart of government? Other than a dubious claim to tilting the 2016 referendum, which he, and only he was capable of (definitely not the resource rich Russians) what has this grotesque charlatan achieved in his cynical miserable life? Other than the obvious duping of a terribly incompetent PM, not a lot!
Begs an interesting question. When it all goes pear - as I think most who combine intelligence and objectivity pretty much know by now that it will - who should take the lion's share of the blame? The organ grinder or the monkey?
I've given this a fair amount of thought since it's not an easy question. There's a strong case either way. But on balance I'm going for the monkey. Johnson. Why? Because he is a willing stooge. Or to put it more weightily and academically - he's a monkey with agency.
Sunak will make a great next PM when Boris retires in 2028.
I think in a system like ours even the greatest would struggle to make that long, and that without massive unforeseen events.
I do though think Sunak is being massively over hyped.
His rise reminds me somewhat of John Major’s.
A politician of obvious ability, promoted far too rapidly because an authoritarian PM was refusing to work intelligently with colleagues and couldn’t bear dissent even while cocking up massively everywhere.
And it didn’t end too well for Major.
But not before Major won a General Election.
Now, who's going to be Blair Mk.2 in 2029?
Given that Blair first got elected on Michael Foot's manifesto, perhaps the answer is a young Corbynite.
So on the 20th July we have had 3 deaths recorded in English hospitals and 48 in all settings. Is this likely? Where did the other 45 die?
Care homes, lots of them from natural causes but they get included in the stats until the DoH figures out how not to.
They are basically nonsense figures
That's why excess deaths is the key metric - and in UK there were 77% more deaths than normal in the March to end June period. Since the end of June, we've had slightly below average mortality.
The problem is the announced figures are effecting far more than the mood on PB.
The ONS numbers are gold standard - but they have a severe reporting delay.
So on the 20th July we have had 3 deaths recorded in English hospitals and 48 in all settings. Is this likely? Where did the other 45 die?
Care homes, lots of them from natural causes but they get included in the stats until the DoH figures out how not to.
They are basically nonsense figures
Yes, sadly they are. Hopefully Matt Hancock gives us an update on the progress of this restatement soon. It's fucking up a lot of the UK economic projections we're doing.
It's almost as if the wonky death stats had been made up on purpose to undermine the Government - simultaneously frightening a lot of customers for high street businesses into perpetual self-isolation because they are terrified that the disease is still running rampant, and providing Nicola Sturgeon with yet another valuable weapon to use against the Union.
The extent of the self-harming incompetence on display here would be laughable were the topic itself not so serious.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
What is being bought includes the internationally agreed frequency allocations. Which might well be worth more than a billion, just by themselves.
The ESA launches are not locked in.
Sounds similar to the Solyndra scandal under Obama administration, where feds reportedly threw over $500m down a similar rat-hole.
Thinking about it - how much would Starlink/Musk pay for the frequencies for OneWeb? Completely shut down the possibility of a competitor + all the extra frequency allocation...
Hmmm - would such a transfer work, legally?
Second thought - a merger/buyout. One Web brings the frequencies. Starlink brings the satellites and launches.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
I'm actually fine with the principle of picking winners on this one. This company isn't making tomato ketchup, its technology could be very important to defence.
Civil servants are right to raise the considerable risks, and Ministers have the right to ignore them given the wider geopolitical concerns.
O/T - Has anyone watched 'The Plot Against America'?
Any good or is it a Westworld Season 2?
Would like to know before I commit to a binge watch tomorrow.
I am two episodes in. Brilliant recreation of 1940s America, particularly working class jewish New Jersey. Some people may find it a little slow to get going, but I would recommend it.
Edit: The youngest kid is brilliant. Amazing acting for a youngster.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
What is being bought includes the internationally agreed frequency allocations. Which might well be worth more than a billion, just by themselves.
The ESA launches are not locked in.
As I understand it, those frequencies are "use it or lose it" - so if they don't get satellites into space they lose the frequencies.
It is a reality that has passed the fanbois by. Although I am coming around to the realisation that bad news has little negative effect on Johnson's electability. The more ridiculous he appears, the greater the Tory lead.
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
O/T - Has anyone watched 'The Plot Against America'?
Any good or is it a Westworld Season 2?
Would like to know before I commit to a binge watch tomorrow.
I am two episodes in. Brilliant recreation of 1940s America, particularly working class jewish New Jersey. Some people may find it a little slow to get going, but I would recommend it.
Edit: The youngest kid is brilliant. Amazing acting for a youngster.
Sunak will make a great next PM when Boris retires in 2028.
I think in a system like ours even the greatest would struggle to make that long, and that without massive unforeseen events.
I do though think Sunak is being massively over hyped.
His rise reminds me somewhat of John Major’s.
A politician of obvious ability, promoted far too rapidly because an authoritarian PM was refusing to work intelligently with colleagues and couldn’t bear dissent even while cocking up massively everywhere.
And it didn’t end too well for Major.
But not before Major won a General Election.
Now, who's going to be Blair Mk.2 in 2029?
Given that Blair first got elected on Michael Foot's manifesto, perhaps the answer is a young Corbynite.
***hurriedly Googles the 2017 Labour intake...***
Marsha de Cordova? OK, she doesn't qualify as particularly young, BUT...
In favour: female and black and with a disability, hasn't (as far as I can see) become embroiled in any major controversies, already in Shadow Cabinet
Also: marginally older than I am, which would therefore put off the fateful moment when I am older than the Prime Minister for another few years at least. But, sadly...
Against: not a white man, so Labour will never pick her
Any suggestions for young and (currently) left-wing white men to take over from Starmer?
If you think that's odd, have a look at this rare photo of Joe Biden I've found. Why do you think he's shaved his beard off now? Is it because he's secretly an extremist and is hiding that from us.
We demand the truth!
Any kind of lie we'll swallow Swallow any kind of mixture. But don't, oh don't we beg and pray you Don't for land's sakes show his picture.
(Democratic campaign ditty, 1860)
In 1860 Abe Lincoln did NOT have a beard. He started growing it after receiving a letter just before election day from a little girl urging him to grow a beard.
Note that Lincoln without beard was NOT a thing of beauty; if anything it helped improve his looks.
I know cheap portrait painters couldn’t do hands, but I didn’t realise that applied to some photographers as well.
There is speculation that Lincoln had Marfans syndrome, explaining a number of his physical features, including unusually long fingers.
It is a reality that has passed the fanbois by. Although I am coming around to the realisation that bad news has little negative effect on Johnson's electability. The more ridiculous he appears, the greater the Tory lead.
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
It is a reality that has passed the fanbois by. Although I am coming around to the realisation that bad news has little negative effect on Johnson's electability. The more ridiculous he appears, the greater the Tory lead.
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
It has no effect because labour would have done the same sort of thing as Johnson in response to COVID.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
What is being bought includes the internationally agreed frequency allocations. Which might well be worth more than a billion, just by themselves.
The ESA launches are not locked in.
As I understand it, those frequencies are "use it or lose it" - so if they don't get satellites into space they lose the frequencies.
They've got some satellites up already.
There is precedent for using makeshift cheap satellites to "hold" frequency allocations - that's how Surrey Satellites saved Galileo.
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
I'm actually fine with the principle of picking winners on this one. This company isn't making tomato ketchup, its technology could be very important to defence.
Civil servants are right to raise the considerable risks, and Ministers have the right to ignore them given the wider geopolitical concerns.
Compared to the defence budget this sort of investment is chump change. That it could potentially be profitable is a bonus if so, it is good to have significant R&D for the space race in this country.
It is a reality that has passed the fanbois by. Although I am coming around to the realisation that bad news has little negative effect on Johnson's electability. The more ridiculous he appears, the greater the Tory lead.
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
Alternatively, Tory support is holding where it is because Labour's support currently has a ceiling. Labour's fate then depends on being able to break through that ceiling.
Sunak will make a great next PM when Boris retires in 2028.
I think in a system like ours even the greatest would struggle to make that long, and that without massive unforeseen events.
I do though think Sunak is being massively over hyped.
His rise reminds me somewhat of John Major’s.
A politician of obvious ability, promoted far too rapidly because an authoritarian PM was refusing to work intelligently with colleagues and couldn’t bear dissent even while cocking up massively everywhere.
And it didn’t end too well for Major.
But not before Major won a General Election.
Now, who's going to be Blair Mk.2 in 2029?
If I'm right and Sunak takes over in 2028 then Blair Mk.2 could take over in 2034.
By then Labour should be able to detox from Corbynism.
Peacefully at home (location unclear) after a long illness, 'RBS will leave an indy Scotland' passed away in its sleep surrounded by regretful Unionists.
Nae floors.
Requiescat in pace
'RBS will leave Scotland if voters back independence'
It is a reality that has passed the fanbois by. Although I am coming around to the realisation that bad news has little negative effect on Johnson's electability. The more ridiculous he appears, the greater the Tory lead.
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
Could be worse, you could be an Everton fan.
There is nothing more disappointing than following the Baggies. Ironically I started following the Albion after they smashed Everton one nil in the 1968 Cup Final.
That's good going in this weather. I had a stab at it this afternoon but gave up after 6K, stood around gasping for about five minutes, and then jogged pathetically the rest of the way back home. But I am old and extremely slow.
My feeling is Starmer knows the report is going to force him to kick out Corbyn and a load of other Corbynites and he's laying the groundwork for a purge
Just a thought. If Unite are unwilling to spend their members money on yet another high court adventure, perhaps the faithful could chip in.
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
Where do we chip in for a wreath - for Corbyn's career?
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Just a thought. If Unite are unwilling to spend their members money on yet another high court adventure, perhaps the faithful could chip in.
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
Where do we chip in for a wreath - for Corbyn's career?
Corbyn may have the largest fall from grace of any leader in history. I get he left as the most unpopular opposition leader in history but to torpedo your reputation in one day is impressive
Maybe it's because I'm not Dominic Cummings but I fail to see:
(a) Why the government is picking winners (b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
Corbyn may have the largest fall from grace of any leader in history. I get he left as the most unpopular opposition leader in history but to torpedo your reputation in one day is impressive
Well there is Aung San Suu Kyi, but in a British context I would say it is pretty steep, except Corbyn is acting exactly in the manner expected of him before becoming leader, during his tenure as leader and after being leader. His reputation went up hugely when he became leader, but although he is not on top anymore, overall his reputation is likely still higher now than it was pre his being leader. He's an elder statesman of the party now!
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Got to the quayside. Half the pubs and restaurants open. They seemed about the same.
But. Around 5:30 I turned around and the place was suddenly emptied. Walked back to the station and it was quiet. By 7:30 was as dead as a Sunday evening.
Seems daytime shopping and leisure about the same, but a complete absence of any after work trade, or anyone coming into the City for a night out.
Eerily quiet.
Nearly 1,000 people applied for ONE job at a Manchester restaurant
"It’s very sad to see how many people are in need of employment"
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/nearly-1000-people-applied-one-18643868
A game of pass the parcel. Only the parcel is ticking.
Boris was one of a large slate of resignations from the most incompetent PM of all time's government, that of Theresa May and he then helped lead opposition to her awful deal.
I agree he was close with Cameron though and he is much closer to Cameron than May ever was, Brexit-aside. I have made that point myself on many occasions
Its a shame you're too blinded by hatred of Brexit to have sound judgement because you were close to having a good point then, you just couldn't latch on to it. Better look next time..
Have you decided how you wish to be addressed after the recent conversation.
If Mr Horse is not acceptable, what do you prefer?
(Admit I am leaning towards Mr Battery
*For those not in the know, 'Y Doethur' is Welsh for 'The Doctor.'
Are they planning a meat ban this time around?
JEZ-AID. Broadcast on Novara Media, Bastani imploring true socialists get their hand in their pockets to fund the damages of the Great Leader. Totaliser in the background. Offers that if you donate a grand you can accompany Jeremy on stage to campaign with the anti-semitic terrorist of your choice.
The brilliance, originality and energy of that band still blows me away.
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Thanks for the "better look (sic) next time wish, most generous of you, and well done for congratulating yourself on your bleeding obvious observation that Johnson, who went to school with Cameron was closer to him than May who obviously did not. Your depth of insight is astounding.
(a) Why the government is picking winners
(b) Why the UK government would want to invest in OneWeb, even if we were picking winners. It's structurally much higher cost than SpaceX, because it has to pay ESA launch prices. It's also at least 12 months behind SpaceX (and maybe more).
The ESA launches are not locked in.
Now, who's going to be Blair Mk.2 in 2029?
Any good or is it a Westworld Season 2?
Would like to know before I commit to a binge watch tomorrow.
I've given this a fair amount of thought since it's not an easy question. There's a strong case either way. But on balance I'm going for the monkey. Johnson. Why? Because he is a willing stooge. Or to put it more weightily and academically - he's a monkey with agency.
The ONS numbers are gold standard - but they have a severe reporting delay.
The extent of the self-harming incompetence on display here would be laughable were the topic itself not so serious.
Hmmm - would such a transfer work, legally?
Second thought - a merger/buyout. One Web brings the frequencies. Starlink brings the satellites and launches.
Civil servants are right to raise the considerable risks, and Ministers have the right to ignore them given the wider geopolitical concerns.
Edit: The youngest kid is brilliant. Amazing acting for a youngster.
When Michael Gove called mask-wearing a form of politeness, he was referencing a oft-forgotten virtue
By Niall Gooch"
https://unherd.com/2020/07/manners-maketh-the-society/
Talking of bad news. I can feel it in my water, West Bromwich Albion 1 Queens Park Rangers 2. Anything less than a win for the Baggies is end-of-the-world catastrophic!
Marsha de Cordova? OK, she doesn't qualify as particularly young, BUT...
In favour: female and black and with a disability, hasn't (as far as I can see) become embroiled in any major controversies, already in Shadow Cabinet
Also: marginally older than I am, which would therefore put off the fateful moment when I am older than the Prime Minister for another few years at least. But, sadly...
Against: not a white man, so Labour will never pick her
Any suggestions for young and (currently) left-wing white men to take over from Starmer?
Some of the putting into historical context is a bit clunky.
'Hey, let's look at a new house 'cos house prices are still low due to the lingering effects of the Depression'.
I paraphrase but that was the gist of it.
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There is precedent for using makeshift cheap satellites to "hold" frequency allocations - that's how Surrey Satellites saved Galileo.
By then Labour should be able to detox from Corbynism.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is cack.
Sometimes I wish Everton had won!
I was expecting wholesome family entertainment that I could watch with my father.
Police needed for Keir Starmer, we have a murder
*Changes with GE
My feeling is Starmer knows the report is going to force him to kick out Corbyn and a load of other Corbynites and he's laying the groundwork for a purge
If Starmer can royally shaft the anti-Semitic barsteward over the months all can be forgiven.