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Two warnings for Johnson in today’s YouGov poll – politicalbetting.com
Two warnings for Johnson in today’s YouGov poll – politicalbetting.com
There’s a new YouGov poll out with its regular trackers two of which should seriously concern Johnson as the EU discussions reach a critical stage.
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https://twitter.com/Jord_an1/status/1336044936144228357
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/nigella-lawson-goes-viral-pronunciation-19420223
So we've established she'll sign a bill expelling Jews from the UK but she'll happily interferes in democratic votes.
https://twitter.com/michpoligal/status/1336742066261553156?s=19
Has anyone noted the the NI trusted trader border scheme provides a rather near template for independent Scotland border arrangements, should they join the EU ?
There are persuasive reasons for a republic, I don't know why you don't just make those unless you are in fact a secret royalist. Frankly, that seems more likely at this point. I find that more believable than that you actually have a problem with a figurehead monarch not having power.
Biden 1.05
Democrats 1.05
Biden PV 1.02
Biden PV 49-51.9% 1.04
Trump PV 46-48.9% 1.05
Trump ECV 210-239 1.07
Biden ECV 300-329 1.07
Biden ECV Hcap -48.5 1.05
Biden ECV Hcap -63.5 1.06
Trump ECV Hcap +81.5 1.01
AZ Dem 1.05
GA Dem 1.05
MI Dem 1.05
NV Dem 1.05
PA Dem 1.05
WI Dem 1.05
Trump to leave before end of term NO 1.1
Trump exit date 2021 1.09
And just look across the Atlantic. This is not a good time to be asserting the superiority of presidents over monarchs in Anglo Saxon polities. At least she doesn't tweet much.
There was something about itr in a recentlyt published political memoir, too, which rather emphasised the impoirtance Mr Cameron placed on getting Her Maj to come out with it, which ctrengthen's TSE's point considerably. But I fotget he details, not being a slavish royalist (was put off for life byt doing a scrapbook for Cub Scouts and readingf that book by Her Maj's nanny/governess).
In any case once we have a new sovereigh and PM the wish to retain a monarchy will change downwards.
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1336672178981449731?s=20
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=38&LAB=38&LIB=6&Brexit=3&Green=5&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVBrexit=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=19.3&SCOTLAB=19&SCOTLIB=5.7&SCOTBrexit=1&SCOTGreen=1.7&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=51.7&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019
So the Tories would be largest party but Starmer would be PM with SNP and LD support, the Labour and SNP and LD combined total coming to 327 MPs, an overall majority of 1.
It would be the first time the party with most seats failed to form the UK government since Baldwin's Tories won most seats in 1923 but Macdonald's Labour formed a government with Asquith's Liberals.
So Boris jets off to do his steps in the great Euro-Deal dance - will it be a triumph for the Prime Minister or a triumph for the Prime Minister? Who knows....
Anyhow, counting continues in the US presidential election where Biden now leads Trump by 7,060,412 according to CBS News.
Maryland has finished its count with Biden up by 33 points.
States with 99% counted are:
Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Rhode Island
In Alaska, ED14 is only 92.7% counted and I note ED27 and ED28 were both won by Write-Ins. In Colorado, only a handful of votes left. In Illinois, there still seems quite a bit of counting to do albeit in the small rural counties and finally Rhode Island where four counties have counted 95% of the vote and all the others 100%.
Finally, in the two House results to be declared, the Republicans lead by 6 votes in Iowa 2 and by 12 votes in New York 22 so it may be a while yet...
Disappointing bronze medal for "Oven Ready Deal", which would've stormed it in any normal year. Still, in fairness Johnson really put down a marker for the 2020 award with "This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain!" and two thumbs up on day one.
That's a shocking place for a country to be in.
A future monarch with extreme views could cause anarchy and real harm to the country, I'd rather preempt that from happening.
Post a thank you video. Or get a real job. Or do it next year post vaccinations. No need to be meeting people during a pandemic.
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1336744969499971585
Calling for tougher measures, she appealed for restraint over the holidays to protect friends and family. While the government will seek to keep schools open, closing non-essential stores, sending children home for the holidays early and further reducing contact between people is the right path, Merkel said on Wednesday in Berlin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/merkel-pleads-for-tougher-virus-curbs-to-fight-stubborn-outbreak
And we are going to open up more for Christmas...shaked head....
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1336353763418906639?s=20
Since when?
'queen says scots should think very carefully' gives 13.5million hits on Google, with this at the top.
https://twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/1336752474753908739?s=20
If the devolved administrations have not spent "business support funds" on "business support" the Chancellor should claw it back
England would have a Tory majority but the SNP would tell PM Starmer what to do
I'd be like "I've thought carefully about it and am voting Yes".
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/28/snp-conference-free-breakfast-lunch-primary-john-swinney
It's bloody irresponsible and stupid to be making unnecessary trips like this when we are trying to suppress the virus with Tiers.
Maybe if they only visited Tier 1 locations it would be different but that would be a short trip.
https://twitter.com/ReutersUK/status/1336753766842986497?s=20
I think there's some justification for that action in the national importance of both these events. Nobody would think twice about the Royal family supporting the UK against an external aggressor, so it seems somewhat unrealistic to expect them to be blase about the prospect of internal political dissolution, or (and I accept this is a more niche perspective) of external political subsumption. I wouldn't expect the monarch to take a view on other political issues.
Although it's probably inaccurate and out of date as https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-us-logs-3157-more-coronavirus-deaths-a-record-for-a-single-day-12150371 says there was 3157 on 1 day
https://www.bing.com/search?q=covid+deaths+usa&cvid=9d2b4b1639654e469155deb6349846ce&FORM=ANAB01&PC=U531 also has a chart with daily new deaths on it.
It's an interesting question, would Ian or Nicola have been a better fit for Change UK? We'll never know I guess...