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Why the Republicans are favourites to take the crucial two Georgia Senate seats – politicalbetting.c
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1344044279782502401
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1344045566418800641
Though Trafalgar has a surprisingly good poll for the Democrats in Georgia today while OpenModel has the GOP ahead
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1344018431805448196?s=20
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1344019079615623169?s=20
Fingers crossed they can grab at least one though.
Well, for a start, the whole series is quite a clever and accurate critique of early 19th century misogyny, and patriarchy. It has a feminist character who eloquently bemoans the way women are treated like cattle in the aristocratic marriage market, and the rest of the plot reflects that critical attitude. So this is not some alt-history steampunk fluff.
Also, it randomly picks and chooses when to sexualise black men (and occasionally women) for their blackness, and when to completely ignore it and pretend they are white. There is a poor black boxer who is matched against a white Irishman and race here becomes an issue. Yet there is a black Duke of Hastings (absurdly) whose colour is entirely ignored.
It's fun to watch and I like it, but I can't help feeling that if it had been made by a white production company, the Guardian would be slaughtering it daily as an outrage.
Anyway, back to episode 4. The heroine is luminously beautiful, which helps pass the time.
Not really a sound base for triumphilism is it?
I doubt that we'll ever find out whether the factor driving the "vote for it" support is "... because the alternative is worse", or "... to JUST MAKE IT GO AWAY, please (sobs)"
But if people don't want to hear about Brexit any more (and who can blame them?)... how does BoJo take the credit for his great defining triumph?
Undignified as his position is, Starmer's probably got this one right.
Incidentally, the "minors" part of our EED was quiet today, but the bed state is looking bad. I counted 14 ambulances parked up with lights on inside, meaning patients on board for whom there is no space in "majors".
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1344029212605374464?s=20
https://twitter.com/UKBriefing/status/1344028455864848384?s=20
Both seemingly the same point, true to a point, but one implying a lot more than the other.
Now. About that pandemic...
Nonetheless, support for voting it through is not the same as support for the deal. That much is obvious, even before the devils in the detail come out.
. . . or is it because of social distancing meaning that normally these ambulances could be emptied into a busy A&E etc packing people in like sardines but due to social distancing they're needing to stay outside?
Boris, Starmer and maybe Davey have called this right, Sturgeon and Blackford though have clearly called it completely wrong
*our estates dept are some unsung heroes. They were putting up walls and screens overnight, within hours of a request going in. I will never complain about them taking weeks to change a light bulb again!
1. Much worse than membership / status quo
2. Much better than No Deal
3. Mostly meets UK government red lines.
4. Could have been better.
Starmer has foolishly fallen into your fiendish trap. He has just lost GE2024!
1. Much better than membership / status quo
2. Much better than No Deal
3. Mostly meets UK government red lines if they were serious about them and not just bargaining chips.
4. Could have been better but equally could have been worse.
Just curious: how did you wangle getting your job as a freshly knapped flint sex toy manufacturer designated as a key worker?
Should we start guessing those in Government to whom you are a supplier?
Then they moan their towns are "left behind".
Hard hit in the spring and winter but mildly in the summer and autumn.
Luck or something more fundamental ?
OTOH, if you’ve spent the previous half decade insisting that this water thing is just what you need for lighting fires ?
https://twitter.com/GovofCO/status/1344031800230780933
Now, now, you know Trafalgar is the gold standard.
Young people are less likely to get ill (and less likely to end up in hospital) but more likely to break the rules and go out partying in Hackney or picnicking in Regents Park, thereby catching it and ultimately spreading it, especially at Xmastide when they visit their older rellies.
And here we are.
I don't know why so many run for the positions really. I can kind of see why so many go the easy route in responding to local concerns.
Only people with an agenda will say voting against the deal is voting for no deal. (By default blah blah)
Potential LibDem voters will know that the LibDems are certainly not in favour of no deal, but are not in favour of this deal either.
The LibDems are the Remain party. They are not pursuing a rejoin policy (at this stage) but favour a much closer relationship such as CU/SM. A lot of people will support that. The LibDems are at about 7% in the polls at the moment. This clear difference from the two major parties may well be a winning formula. You can't safely say that it isn't.
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1344050366640390146
https://twitter.com/Reza_Zadeh/status/1344009123004747778
It is pathetic for the Lib Dems to try and be a Remain but maybe not Rejoin party. We've left its done. What do the Lib Dems stand for besides refighting an old referendum that has already been fulfilled now? Can anyone say?
https://twitter.com/COVID19actuary/status/1343982937193254917?s=19
Replicated on a smaller scale up and down the country.
You need an inspiring leader to restore your fortunes. Until that happens, I cannot see a revival, but until you revive, you have no better choice of leaders. Your party is perilously close to termination.
My vote at the last election was a pure protest vote and I would not have voted thus if I'd felt for one minute there was any danger it might help return an MP. Which it didn't. Voted Con, got Keir. Result.
If they can do the Twist, they can shoulder arms and shoot us all in the head
They can already shoot us all in the head.
He said racists weren't a problem. They don't give him any trouble cos he's a local.
The problem was the large number of white supremacists who want his servitude or his death.
At least, not quoted...
The Worst Predictions of 2020
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/29/worst-predictions-about-2020-451444
The fact that you view fewer commitments as a negative rather than positive sums it all up.
Disappointing for the likes of @FrancisUrquhart et al.
https://www.wheretoskiandsnowboard.com/blogs/what-really-happened-in-verbier/
That is the future. I am sure. I just don't know who wins.
Brexit isn't over. It has only just begun. The battle will be over convergence (stronger together) versus divergence (sovereignty). It will mirror the Scottish independence battle.
Only the LibDems will be on the Union side in both battles (better together). All the other parties will inconsistently favour sovereignty for one and union for the other.
You, at least, will consistently favour sovereignty both for Scotland and for Britain I think.
Apropos of nothing, are you married, Philip... ?
Nobody compelled us to get married. It wasn't an arranged marriage. It was freely and voluntarily entered into rather than a commitment foisted upon us by others.
Who said 2021 couldn't be worse...
Also there are more seats with potential for the Lib Dems to win next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgEptmz_eE
International commitments aren't voluntary personal ones, they compel everyone to abide by someone else's choices in a method that wasn't chosen by them and can't be changed by them.
Democracy is superior to others pre-arranging things for you. It means the nation gets to choose its path just as I chose mine when I proposed to my wife, rather than having others make the choice for you.