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Like Brian Rose, Laurence Fox seems like a clear lay for London Mayor – politicalbetting.com
Like Brian Rose, Laurence Fox seems like a clear lay for London Mayor – politicalbetting.com
The leader of @thereclaimparty says he is entering the race for City Hall as part of the fight against "extreme political correctness".New polling shows a significant minority of Londoners are uncomfortable about the Mayor's 'woke' policies.Polling here: https://t.co/mYEGIo8Vco
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Aye. Not a chance. Wonder what the odds will be, though.
Surely the only question of any note regarding the mayoral election is whether Sian Berry can beat the Libdems again...
Yes: 46% (-3)
No: 47% (+3)
Excl. undecideds:
Yes: 49% (-4)
No: 51% (+4)
via @Panelbase
, 03 - 05 Mar
Chgs. w/ Jan 2021
This pol and the other one yesterday offer a great opportunity for Unionist parties to fight effectively agsinst the SNP. However, I doubt whether either the LDs or Labour have it in them to play their part of the bargain and vote Tory where they are the challengers. In failing they could well bring the Union down.
The Cabinet Office run by Michael Gove has been officially reprimanded by the UK Statistics Authority for using unpublished and unverifiable data in an attempt to deny that Brexit had caused a massive fall in volumes of trade through British ports.
Genuine question - I had always assumed that they were very partisan in the report but not necessary in the selection of the facts they disclose
(I have no idea what data they used and whether it is fake or not)
There are a couple of minor issues with the instructions in the letter, and submitting and exiting the web page are not quite as clear-cut as they might be.
On the question of Jewishness discussed a few threads ago, and I do not want to reopen this debate but give this as information only, Jewishness is not listed as an explicit choice under ethnicity but is under religion. Anyone who does wish to register their Judaism under ethnicity (no doubt a minority) could choose "other ethnic group (includes Arabs or other ethnic groups)" or alternatively, "White" and then "any other White ethnic background". In any case, the religion question follows where Jewish is an option.
It just gets worse and worse.
*Of course, this may just be because the Unionists are inept.
If you go to Israel you'll quickly find that they have their own views on ethnic minorities depending upon where their Jewish immigrants have come from.
There’s no point to them but in the list of constitutional aberrations to debate and amend, they’re well below EU membership, the purpose and makeup of the House of Lords, the bodge job of the Supreme Court implementation, regional devolution, and of course the very union itself. And outside about half of Scots and the small band of Lib Dems, no one can be arsed with any of that stuff either.
Doesn’t mean the royals should get complacent mind. Unlike the rest, there’s an easy answer to “what do we replace them with?”. Nothing. I’d stretch to a Lords clerk to literally rubber stamp acts of Parliament in place of royal assent but we must have plenty of them already.
Will it happen? I doubt it. Do I care? Not one way or the other. One does hear shall we say, unflattering rumours about the direct male heirs from time to time, so it can’t be entirely ruled out I suppose.
He's not running away before he gets the blame for the ongoing catastrofuck, AT ALL...
As for ethnicity, it’s all about skin colour, which is understandable to a certain extent if not strictly accurate.
So yes, a clear lay.
However we've an excellent independent butcher nearby and an equally excellent farm shop.
Or possibly a covert 'I don't know how he gets away with it!'
She later had a sly smile of satisfaction that she had finally got the better end of the bargain from a lifetime of paying for car insurance...
She has all the classic long covid stuff still and given consultant said that as they could not ever work out what caused the COP it was likely viral. I am still of a mind it was Covid before the supposed start of it. If not it must be similar type of thing.
Still all well.
But.....apparently these figures are not weighted by voter turnout (why?) and will be updated later this week....
On the other hand, most normal Labour and Lib Dem voters strongly dislike the Tories, and even more so under the leadership of the present shower. There is nothing I want to see as much as Conservative candidates defeated. I could even be persuaded to consider voting SNP (were the conditions right), so much do I detest and despise the present government.
My error or Vanilla, who knows?
I agree it doesn’t speak well for Robertson’s personal integrity - but equally Ruth Davidson seems to have known about these allegations and she never raised it.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1368320274723115013?s=20
I need a complete black 997 interior at the moment which is a bit of a challenge.
Just bought a 22,000km S54 BMW motor though so that's fucking mint.
I am sure there are some supply problems but I have not been inconvenienced by them
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph are repositories of moaners, a British pastime. I was at a vaccination centre the other day and some lady was moaning away loudly in front of everyone about having to wait 15 minutes after she'd received her jab.
Interesting challenge for the SNP if those two notions remain inextricably linked.
It is all just a few people did not like the boss being a hard barsteward.
You still are far short on Robertson.
That our government has chosen to act illegally in contravention of "lets go" WTO rules to not bother with most of the 3rd country checks they insisted on is the only reason things aren't much worse for importers as they are for exporters.
Hence the need to take action now. At the end of the month the first big wave of phased compliance with international trade law was due to come in. We aren't remotely ready, so they're going to kick it into the long grass. The accusation from the usual sources is "WHY ARE THESE BEASTLY EUROPEANS INSISTING ON CHECKS, OUR STANDARDS HAVEN'T CHANGED". Yes - that is true. But instead of accepting that we would keep the same excellent "we won't diminish food safety" standards, we insisted on 3rd country status because sovrintie.
There is still time for back scuttle action. Quietly strike what the Truss will parade as a NEW TRADING DEAL to reinstate most of the previous aligned standards. That way we don't need to keep throttling our ability to trade by trying to impose rules and regulations that we can't afford, can't physically implement and don't need.
The government keep putting out radio adverts telling whopping great lies to keep the ignorant ignorant - farmers should use NEW TRADE DEALS to flog cow carcasses to Tokyo. That there are no new trade deals and such trade is logistically insane doesn't matter - its propaganda. So all they need to do is tell a different lie to keep the ignorant ignorant and everyone can carry on as before...
Scott XP tritely remarks that it's pure essence of Brexit but I do loads of online shopping and haven't been affected.
Interesting reading the Times over the past few days on the number of big deals heading the UK's way and the unexpected decision of Joe Biden's team to drop the tarrifs. Allied to the immigration tweak by the Home Office and we've started the ball rolling for the UK to be the Singapore of the West.
This country is likely to boom over the next decade. Bet accordingly.
No foreseeable government is going to touch an issue which is at one massively complex, long term, 10 times more divisive than Brexit and the GFA combined, is electoral suicide with no dividend in the popular mind. Notice that even Jezza killed the issue dead immediately and rapidly when he was asked. Salmond and Sturgeon won't touch it. No-one will.
Parliament can, has and would legislate for change within the system - abolition of male priority for example. That is fairly simple. Abolition is a nightmare.
I don’t think that’s necessarily due to Brexit, btw, there was a problem with bee disease last year, but it’s still a shame for those of us who like honey.
BoZo is fuelling Irish reunification, Scottish independence, and even the Welsh are stirring
Head
Desk
Thump.
Although Contrarian will probably want to emigrate there...
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1368490410503454721
Truss is single-handedly bricking up that route back to Brussels.
I'm sure the minimum wage earning cashier will be heartbroken at the nurse earning much more than they earn getting a less than expected pay rise.
Especially in a year that many of the cashiers customers far from getting a pay rise have had substantial pay cuts or lost their job altogether.
What a laugh that is!
But I don’t quite see Robertson as a Caesar. Even if you think he is duff.
Is he half brain dead for his views or even 100% against understanding we are not in the EU