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On topic - When Kentucky is called instantly, but Indiana is not - that's the early warning system the shit has hit the fan for Trump.
"We are a master race, which must remember that the lowliest German worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the population here." - Erich Koch in 1943.
Erich Koch was "Reichskommissar" for Ukraine 1941 to 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskommissariat_Ukraine
And then there's the Soviet ethnic cleanising of people like the Crimean Tatars and the Buddhist Kalmyks.
https://twitter.com/flaviblePolitic/status/1290276072328634370?s=20
Fortunately not usually as bad as that.
I thought that was rather the point of being a MP.
Just back from Devon. A few observations:
- We were after a takeaway coffee on the seafront, but ended up sitting in and drinking it as it was half price. Cafe owner tipped us off. Full price if we had walked away with it.
- In evening we had a meal in a cafe (three of us) and £46 bill became £23
- In both instances, we would have bought these goods at full price if scheme wasn`t in existence
- the discounts were applied automatically. We didn`t have to ask for them.
This is going to cost a fortune and may not flush out as many scared homies as intended. I think the cost will be considerably greater than the benefit.
Parents being notoriously blaze about their kids future, expect SNP polling leads to widen...
That turned out equally well.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Thatcher used to get p*ssed off if the Tories weren't behind in the polls early in their term - it just showed they weren't getting the unpopular decisions out of the way.
I guess it is different things that tell you he is an idiot. A friend of mine who doesn't follow these things too much found the fact that he thought the F35's stealth capability meant it was invisible to the naked eye when next to you a 'slam dunk'.
Just think about that.
What other category of MP will they try it on next?
He even talked about the spike in Australia in an earlier clip as a comparison. For crying out loud the entire Australian figures for cases and deaths are 1/3 and 1/5 of the USA for just 1 day!!!!
Are resits allowed in Scotland?
Last 3-5 days are subject to revision. This means that anyone who tries to use the last 3-5 days to prove a point is a self-diagnosed idiot.
Headline - 6
7 days - 6
Yesterday - 2
I think this means that their plan (at the senior level) is to hope the issue goes away.
Andy Burnham not happy with the rich getting cheaper food whilst the poorer suffer.
Yes, I know that there are indirect impacts, but that's not the point. You don't have to be a rabid English nationalist to see that as an issue.
The correct solution is further devolution to England, but for practical reasons that's hard.
The alternative is for Scottish and Welsh MPs to be very careful about what they vote on and why - for example, not buggering about with fox hunting - so as not to draw too much attention to it. Unfortunately, for their own reasons the SNP have taken exactly the opposite course.
The basic point is that the English government shouldn't be determined by Scottish MPs.
Given that Health and Education are devolved matters, if the English elect a Tory majority would it be appropriate to have a Labour government with Labour Secretary of States for Health and Education etc because of SNP MPs?
Tony Blair screwed both England and Scotland in different ways with his asymmetric devolution farce.
This coming year he will be doing advanced highers in Economics, maths, statistics and modern studies. He had to drop computing to get an essay based subject for PPE.
It`s for August only and I`ll bet that a few days prior to its end Starmer will call for it to be extended. If it is he`ll claim it`s down to his pressure and if it isn`t he`ll criticise the governement for "not supporting a struggling sector and withdrawing vital support". I can see it now.
Or is it not going to be the same as what Scotland has? More power for Councils is not what the Scottish Parliament has.
The obvious way - and it is the obvious way - is to devolve power directly to the main metropolitan areas and then have an English parliament over the rest. That would solve the Prussian problem at a stroke while avoiding the 'Balkanisation' argument. And London, to take the most obvious example, is far larger and wealthier than either Scotland or Wales. The West Midlands, Merseyside, Cleveland, West Yorkshire etc all added together would be a big counterweight to an English parliament in say, Stafford or Derby.
But, it has always had its opponents and critics. So it's unlikely to happen. Meanwhile England as a single block is far to big to make asymmetric devolution work.
I thought it would be much more localised from what I have read.
More akin to what you see in other western democracies where the national / federal government plays a much smaller part in decision making.
You'd have things like health managed locally in Greater Manchester, West Midlands etc. with budgets and foreign affairs maintained in Westminster.
David's priority seems to be an oven rather than his tutors but an army marches on its stomach and all that.
Corona virus has been no fun at all for anyone but those in the latter years of their school education have been hit particularly hard.
Unless the proposal is that the law in Greater Manchester would be different to the law in Merseyside which is different to the law in Lancashire or the law in Cheshire . . . but I somehow doubt that is the proposal.
So absolutely 100% not the same thing. The only way to deal with asymmetric devolution is to make it symmetric. Every single power devolved to Holyrood needs to be controlled by the English and then the WLQ goes away. A bit more Council involvement is not that.
About 45 cars in the car park at my local "Probably the Best Pubs in the World" pleasant eating pub for the 2pm sitting. That is busy even with tables about 20% fewer. Somewhat reduced menu. Usual beers - Abbott, Landlord and several others. They say they have been busy throughout opening today - moreso than this time last year.
Staff wearing face visors, like the Urban Spaceman.
Joy of joys - not enough time to fashion the lemon into shapes impossible to squeeze. Just wedges.
Hoping that Little-Miss-Cyclefree is doing as well.
And thank goodness Gloucestershire have their own answer in Jack Taylor...
plus ca change...
It is puzzling though that he's had such a dismal series. In Tests, no surprise he failed, but in one day stuff he's always been quite reliable.
You're not joining Worcestershire until NEXT season.
You shouldn't be giving away your wicket when we're fighting to save the match.
The Tory attitude is that the English bit should have supremacy. How else can it be explained?
The Scots chose to abandon most of Westminster by setting up Holyrood.
It's the Unionist MPs in Scotland that do. As, infamously, the LD MPs in Scotland did - over student grants.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fox-hunting-ban-snp-goes-back-on-pledge-not-to-vote-on-matters-that-purely-affect-england-10389077.html
OK, so it was five years ago. But it's exactly the sort of thing that does raise the profile of the two classes of MP.