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With just three months to go before the Scottish elections a ratings boost for Sturgeon and the SNP
With just three months to go before the Scottish elections a ratings boost for Sturgeon and the SNP – politicalbetting.com
We don’t often see Scotland specific YouGov favourability ratings but these have just been published by YouGov. It is striking how much better Sturgeon is doing than her party.
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Edit: Apparently so.
My goodness. The Scottish elections are still three months away? I'm not sure how much more not caring at all I can take.
I will not mention my brilliant record in Scotland.
Winning on the SNP winning a majority in 2011.
Accurately predicting No would win the Indyref.
Following Alastair's magnificent tips on the SNP landslide in the 2015 GE.
Winning at 10/1 and 8/1 on election day the SNP wouldn't win a majority in 2016.
My brilliant tip of 20/1 on the Tories to win more than 9.5 seats in Scotland at GE2017.
#LegendaryModesty
*Which I am assuming, as a good Muslim you can’t.
Sibley, Burns, Crawley, Root, Stokes, Pope, Buttler, Moen Ali, Archer, Leach, and Anderson OR Broad.
Lawrence for Crawley keeps the same balance if the latter is injured.
Btw, the weather is set fair and apparently the pitch is likely to be quite lively for the sub-continent, so the usual PB mantra of laying the draw should work,
He reminded me of Alan Clarke’s infamous defence - ‘how do you know if a pass is unwelcome until you make it?’
I wish I could tell you what my half Scottish, whisky loving friend described it as. It can only be really posted after the lagershed.
Seems distinctly unlikely to me whatever people are saying now.
At the moment there are two geniuses in the public face of UK politics: Boris and Nicola. Characteristically their first name is enough to identify them. Either could fall at any moment and they are set on absolute collision course. What larks!
If so don’t worry, I was quoting Shakespeare.
*Sorry, Hanoi Nic.
My friend said non alcoholic scotch was like performing a certain sex act on your sister. It tastes the same but deep down you know it is just plain wrong.
Hurrah for the Danes.
https://twitter.com/umairh/status/1356978672545259520?s=20
(It's a LD Bar Chart)
I'm still on the previous topic, I'm afraid.
Do we have murky commercial motives here.
Is there potential for the AZ model to upend part of the industry, here?
I don't know big pharma well enough to judge *at all*.
No, that was not what I said about David Perdue, even though he was from Georgia and we all know what they’re like round there.
I said, thatat the moment Ossoff withered him over his insider trading issues, that he looked like he was being forced to drink neat horse piss.
Actually thinking about it, I think I took a bet on her going in 2020 struck in November/December 2019, was a proxy/hedge if the SNP had a sub optimal GE2019 performance, where I was on the other side of the bet.
Making up, or at least shutting up is the best thing he could do for the cause
Genuinely curious as to why it is quite like this.
That's not something you can forgive or forget. Salmond will fight to the end, win or lose
The Vaccine rollout started well then trailed off badly in comparison to England last month but just when things started to look sticky it seems Scotland has posted a decent (as a proportion of England jabs) 1st and 2nd of February.
#TheSturge to win a 30 seat majority and immediately declare UDI backed by a rapturous population.
There's the National, but it's always seemed quite on the wokist side anyway.
Business for Scotland? Not sure what its reach is like.
On thread, well, I guess I keep a red passport when I renew in 2029. Salmond is a liability of course, and it is not a given that separation happens, especially not with the same economic illiteracy of a "sterling" currency that the SNP seems determined to inflict on us, yet TBH, unless England turns against the Tories, it is hard to see the Union continuing at all.
The problem is not the powers of Holyrood, it is the powers of Westminster and Whitehall. So, when we start to talk about those problems, then maybe I´ll believe in a common future. The problem is changing London, not Edinburgh.
“Oliver is good at this stuff — he knows this can’t just be about brute economics,” said one colleague. “It’s about passion, identity and about promoting the idea that you can be proud to be Scottish and British.”
The future of the UK has become a central challenge for Mr Johnson, after opinion polls have suggested sustained support for Scottish independence. Mr Lewis’s role will be central to Number 10’s efforts to counter the Scottish National Party.
According to officials with knowledge of the dispute, Mr Graham was unhappy with both his role and Number 10’s strategy for the union. “There was a lack of faith in letting him do what he needed to do. A lot of his efforts were frustrated by other people in the building,” one said.
One Scottish Tory said: “Luke was the only Scottish person in there, it’s a big shame he’s gone and speaks to their total lack of a strategy on how to deal with the SNP.”
Mr Graham will now move to Scotland to assist the Scottish Tory party’s campaign for May’s Holyrood elections.
Another Whitehall official said: “Luke Graham has improved the focus of the government on delivering for Scotland and all parts of the UK and has helped ensure communications focused on demonstrating the practical value of the union to people in all parts of the country.”
But others in Number 10 put the blame on Mr Graham for his exit. “Luke had gradually pissed off more and more people. He didn’t endear himself to other spads [special advisers], ministers or civil servants. No one was weeping to see him go,” one government official said.
PB Tories like to talk about Boris Derangement Syndrome but it is nothing compared to the absolute frenzy it would drive political opponents of Salmond.
So everyone who hated Salmond still hates him. Salmond the absolutely fucked himself when he did the Russia Today talk show.
A lot of people, like me, who thought him their political hero suddenly realised that actually no - he was a c**t. He was putting himself above Indy. Absolute wanker.
So that leaves only those people deeply personally comitted to him. And that's not many people.
You get the odd mention on Sky News or the odd BBC half-article, but considering what's being claimed, implied, whatever, it's curiously quiet outside of the indy blogs (and the odd newspaper).
Which is extremely interesting in itself.
Anybody know anything about this?
(Although actually, I agree with you, particularly if the pitch is going to be lively. But he’s wasted at 8.)
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/20/revisiting-the-uks-strategy-for-delaying-the-second-dose-of-the-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/
HMG seems to have got it right, AND followed the science, with one dose ofOxfordAZ - tho the age thing is still a concern, and now Switzerland have said they won't approve it, which adds to the doubts. The Swiss have no agenda against the UK/AZ
I am much less convinced HMG got it right with Pfizer
Edit: it was his own talk show production firm IIRC and RTjust broadcast it as none of the UK media would do it - but the effect was the same.
Edit: Or Addiewell. I'm not up to date as a patron of such establishements. ,
A different government might have made a different call, though I see no evidence of that from what other parties are saying, but there's no reason to believe the advice given to government would have been different.
You know it makes sense...
I know of one fellow who caught it in the vaccine queue. He had completely isolated both before and after, and his wife was housebound.
And being in the presence of such exalted martyrs might cause him to reflect on his sins.
We shall soon see if that risk has paid off as well as their vaccine procurement.
https://twitter.com/umairh/status/1357063820439617536
So over three weeks ago.
If we're going to hear "got infected because didn't receive second Pfizer dose" stories then they're going to happen very soon.
I'm surprised there haven't been some already.
Ooops. I can see why this might be misleading:
"Can I go back to normal activities after having my vaccine?
Yes, you should be able to resume activities that are normal for you as long as you feel well."
The mad Irish Oxford FBPEing academic how now given us a song, and sung it on Twitter, to help everyone "get through" Covid
https://twitter.com/OxfordDiplomat/status/1357050950410772486?s=20
She has Trumpite levels of self-obsession and narcissism, and a pathological need for attention. It is cringeworthy, and yet compelling.
Its almost as if sane people from outside Epping Forest are running the country and know that if the Scots vote for independence then we're not the Chinese or Spanish.