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That Was The Week That Was – politicalbetting.com
That Was The Week That Was – politicalbetting.com
It was Anti-Bullying Week. It was also 17 years since the notorious Section 28 was repealed. The government came out and admitted that last March it stopped funding schools anti-LGBT bullying programmes, despite knowing the harm that such bullying can cause. Perhaps they misunderstood what the “anti” bit actually means. After all the Home Secretary had some difficulty understanding what counter-terrorism meant. Maybe her staff were too scared to tell the fragrant Priti for, yes, she was found by an independent investigation (almost certainly the last truly independent investigation we’ll have under this government) to have bullied some of her staff in breach of the Ministerial Code. But unintentionally of course. She never realised that shouting and swearing at staff are, well, sub-optimal (despite being very firmly against bullying in March 2019). Apparently, you have to be specifically told not to. Was she brought up by wolves? Learning basic politeness is usually something you learn from your parents long before you are in the position of having any staff at all.
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She's a disgrace and Mrs Thatcher is turning in her grave at the state of the modern Tory party.
But otherwise - quite so.
There are three American State Capitals with populations under 20,000, and one with a population over 1,000,000.
Can you name either the states, or the capitals themselves?
Lowest:
Vermont (Montpellier), Maine (Augusta), South Dakota (Pierre)
Highest:
Arizona (Phoenix)
Biden 93
Harris 3
Trump 2
Pelosi, Pence, or none of the above 2
what would a) Warren Buffett, b) Nassim Taleb, c) George Soros do?
https://twitter.com/Mendelpol/status/1330105871691632641
https://twitter.com/EdwardNorton/status/1329728891808739330
I drew your attention to ths, earlier on [erdit] the previous thread, using the word "majority" myself.
You do understand this percentage business? 73 constituencies out of 129 seats = 56.6%. A thin majority.
You're not back a day and already moving the goals like a demented groundsman getting ready for the local five-a-side footie tournament.
As a consequence, they keep their heads down, content to let others challenge the prejudices of their party’s more extreme supporters. If things ultimately go as badly as they might, history will not judge kindly."
https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2020/11/david-gauke-next-weeks-spending-review-and-why-our-holiday-from-spending-restraint-is-coming-to-an-end.html
Ironically, of course, since Hannibal ultimately was destroyed entirely and had to kill himself, they are effect admitting he was somebody who had brief glory and came very close to success but will achieve nothing.
All very entertaining, but when does the discussion about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin begin?
Holyrood seats are mainly constituencies elected by FPTP in which tactical voting will be crucial with the remainder elected by straight PR on the list.
The Tory vote was up 10% and the Tories won 51% and the election on the first round as the Labour first preference vote was down 12% as Labour voters switched directly to back the Tories as their first preference, for Holyrood next year that is all that matters
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1329576355068080130?s=20
And is the Father of one substance with the son, or is He of like substance?
"Was she brought up by wolves?" - excellent
If so, who is pulling his strings? In whose interest is it that the USA is weakened, and who might have a lever on Trump to get him to do this?
It'll probably conclude with a proposal to build huge public statues to the titans like Hancock, Ferguson and Dido Harding who have 'managed' the crisis.
A: 3. James Ramsay MacDonald, James Harold Wilson, and James Gordon Brown.
Leonard James Callaghan doesn't count.
1) A liar
2) An economic illiterate
3) Is talking about things he knows sod all about
4) Can't be bothered to do basic research
Or as he's a politician probably a mixture of all four.
That suggests there will also be some links on economic policy between President elect Biden's team and Starmer's team (albeit Boris is less keen on austerity than Cameron was)
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Shire_Calendar
There might have been other issues involved.
It looks like the UK second wave might be held to a level a third of the size of the first wave.
I wonder if someone can compare how each European country is doing second wave compared to first wave.
The UK might very well have the 'best score' on such a comparison.
Something which would be more luck than judgement IMO.
Name the following states:
The Empire State
The Garden State
Wild & Wonderful (yes, really)
The Peach State
Three points to the first PBer to get all four
From case data
From hospital admission data
Attempt at charitable interpretation: is there a different definition for recession in the US? A quick glance at Q-by-Q growth in the UK shows four months from Cameron's election through to 2014 where quarterly growth in the UK was negative, and one where it was zero. The zero was between two negatives.
As I understand it, that's not technically a recession in UK terms, but I do not know whether that's a shared metric.
Either way, if it is false, it's as close to the truth as you can get without touching it, and the central charge is still possibly valid, that austerity didn't serve the economy well. I leave it up to others to argue the toss over that one.
The obvious difference is Hannibal did become the suffete of Carthage while Corbyn has no chance of becoming PM.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8973071/Anti-lockdown-protesters-chanting-freedom-clash-police.html
NJ
Alaska
Kansas
Missouri
Sure about some, guessing with others.
New Jersey
West Virginia
Georgia.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/21/uk-and-canada-to-trade-on-eu-terms-after-brexit-transition
Black and white literally derive from the same word.
The thinking is they derive from words to do with fire: black as in the ashes left over, white as a loose synonym for light, which is how a fire appears before it's extinguished.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/crossrail-tfl-london-funding-delayed-b75781.html
I'm impressed you got 5.
Possibly some other Eastern European countries as well.
Which is the beaver state, and which is the badger?
Any ideas as to why ?
Other places hit hard in the spring - Lombardy and Belgium for example - have been hit hard again in the autumn.
Now that you have done so can I (somewhat pathetically) agree? Bullying junior staff is morally disgusting and repulsive and bullying. Having a stand up row with senior officials who are impeding the Home Secretary's policies is not. I am genuinely not clear what category this falls into.
If we did a quiz about the USA, I would probably finish in the bottom half, but if it was about Missouri I'd be well above average.
And I'm reminded of another saying:
Someone who is nice to you but not the waiter is not a nice person.