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Alba just get 3% in first Scottish poll since Salmond launched his new party – politicalbetting.com
Alba just get 3% in first Scottish poll since Salmond launched his new party – politicalbetting.com
Survation has ALBA at 3%, the SNP likely to get a majority on its own (49% in the constituencies and 37% in the lists), and the Greens in with a strong showing at 11% in the lists. ALBA is going the way of Change UK. https://t.co/Evj4yhM6fw
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Not like Salmond, who may have led to many interesting briefs but was not merely of brief interest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-56569863
Genuine question as this seemed equally horrifying.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes...
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1377672962191544321
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
Anybody got any recommendations?
Thanks!
I think this summer and autumn might be the best ever time to be a tourist in London - everything open (hopefully) but no foreign tourists competing for space.
But, I suspect it’s a bit wanky for you.
I predicted as much.
It is REALLY hard to get over 5% as a new party, especially when your leader is a known (but legally unblemished) sex pest.
What is disappointing from a Unionist perspective is no obvious “bounce” for Anas Sarwar and little damage to the SNP. And the Greens appear completely unscathed.
Interesting times ahead
Horses, water cannons, and tear gas.
No doubt some PBers would approve of importing this continental innovation.
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1377667538490916864?s=21
That's a major, major issue. Because auditors should check pretty much all major trading relationships actually exist, and then should spot check invoices.
(I don't personally think this is quite as bad as Wirecard, because GFG/Greensill didn't get the UK regulator to threaten journalists who asked awkward questions.)
You said that the important factors are knowledge, empathy, imagination and insight. If you acknowledge that anyone, black or white could have knowledge, and you previously said that the other factors had to be good (implying that white or black people could have these) then you accept that the colour of your skin is unimportant when it comes to understanding racism.
The only way this election is going to be tight is if all the candidates are locked in a distillery.
The question is whether the SNP are the largest party or win a majority. Anything else is noise.
Dukes, in St James' Place, for a classy, quiet hotel in a superb location
Sadly Le Caprice is no longer around the corner.
Dukes was actually one of my very few socialising events post March 2020. And no I didn't fall over but damn those martinis are good.
And The Stafford has also sadly gone downhill.
As @rcs1000 said, shame about Le Caprice but, for all its faults, The Wolseley is always fun
https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1377692487918227459?s=19
The Euros in 2019 did get decent numbers of Remainders working out how to tactically vote n multi member constituencies, an element of the remain campaign which was broadly successful with smallish numbers of people.
What Alba have done is thrown open the supermajority idea, and what may actually happen is greater SNP / Green splitting where that is helpful: both as a positive attempt at a supermajority and a defensive move to prevent Alba's odd success bringing them the balance of power.
Don't get me wrong, this won't be loads, but could be enough Green list votes to get the SNP/Green comfortably over the line.
Upside is that if you are in the Shard you can't see it.
* this is not a recommendation - I just wanted to point out the upside
And I agree with @MrEd - nothing wrong with the Wolseley. As long as you can sit in the inner circle...
https://twitter.com/andrewlearmonth/status/1377690692382769152?s=21
Here’s a pic of the Winter Gardens from my insta!
I'd agree with Browns as well as a good spot
1859, if we’re talking about their longest lived ancestral party.
1679, if we’re talking about *their* longest lived ancestral party.
So ‘over a century’ is technically untrue, and even if it were technically true, it would be true only on a technicality.
‘It’s bollocks’ is quicker.
And we were right.
1. Far too early to write off Salmond. Firstly his party has only just become a thing. Secondly we ought to know better than to read anything into a single opinion poll. Polls are potentially deeply unreliable as it is - the least we can therefore do is look at a whole series of them and try to spot trends.
2. However, because it's no fun not joining in the game of wild guesses, I'm going to do it anyway. A possible explanation for the list vote changes is as follows:
(a) Younger pro-independence voters - particularly likely to be raring to dump the English and about the Greens' platform - are voting Green in larger numbers. They can pick something they approve of *and* follow the logic of Salmond's supermajority plan without having to go anywhere near the man himself: what's not to like?
(b) The decline in Tory support is the product of some Yes/Leave voters, who dislike the SNP even more than they approve of nationalism as a concept, going to Alba, and some wet centrists who liked Ruth deserting to the Lib Dems.
(c) Regardless of how much of an improvement Anas Sarwar is over his predecessor, he's making no progress because Labour has a low, and gradually declining, ceiling of support. Left voters are predominantly pro-independence and the more elderly unionist ones are disappearing through, ahem, natural wastage
And technically true would still be true, you don't lose points on a technicality (but this one it is technically untrue anyway).
After all, they are all TOSSERS.
April Fool!
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Puts card back in wallet.
If you want an apostrophe, Brown's. If not, Ritz.
None of it of course matches the Travelodge at Blyth for elegance, romance and pampered comfort.
On the way we somehow got talking about cosmology. My older daughter is 14
Presuming she knew very little of the intricacies, I vaguely mentioned the infinite multiverse theory, expecting her to be gobsmacked or incomprehending or to revert to her default option of "Dad shut up stop talking bollocks"
Instead she said, quite calmly, "Yes but one of the problems with the infinite parallel universes theory is that there must be a universe where this theory does not apply, and thus there is a universe within the multiverse which has no multiverse, so how do you solve that paradox?"
I was simultaneously silenced, but also (without showing her) very very proud.
Then we got new puppy chews
Just a warning about some of your top end hotels in London, they list the nightly rate, but very sneakily add on a circa 5% service charge.
Claridges are arses for that.
But Brown's is pretty good for the price range @Benpointer mentioned, but you have to find the right dates.
My next stay in London will be in the Hilton where you take the private ferry. But not at £400 a night.
And some lettuces to deal with the cosmology.
Pretty much what I thought really. He could be say the same about almost any aspect of life
If Alba do this badly, Salmond has done terrible damage to indy. We shall see
Or Veeraswamy.
It appears that Greenshill lent $475m to a Softbank investment just months before its collapse. And that exactly none of that money was repaid.
It would be surprising, but not impossible, if this were an exception, but so far it looks like proving the rule
I readily admit that if Alba gets 15 seats on the List (and the SNP gets zillions of constituency seats) then that will boost the indy cause. Boris will still refuse a vote, but there is then a chance that Scotland will surge into passive mass resistance and Mahatama Gandhi stylee bullshit.
And then, after five years, the YES vote could be consistently over 60% and Britain is done for. Certainly possible
First against the wall.
If point 2 had anything to do with it then why would the majority of the press that is NOT particularly forgiving of failed asylum seekers being left at liberty to commit horrendous crimes not pick up the ball and run with this?
Whilst we are fortunate not to live in an atypically brutal society, people are nonetheless murdered regularly, and killings therefore need to be exceptional to achieve notoriety. The depressing monotony of young men stabbed to death on the streets, and women bludgeoned to death by violent partners at home, goes mostly unnoticed because society is used to it. Like deaths from Winter flu or road traffic accidents, if it doesn't involve you personally, it's just background noise. One column at the bottom of page 14 of a newspaper. Statistics.
The reality is that algorithms for selling advertising space, based on time to read story, engagement rates, shares, etc., determine what gets shown.
Sarah Eversted, for one reason or another got traction. This other story did not.
This was not to do with "The Left" covering it up. It was to do with which stories garnered click throughs and shares and sold advertising.
* See the Left blaming the media for covering up stories about Palestine... when the reality is that stories about Palestine don't sell advertising, when stories about Meghan do.
Congratulations btw!
Mrs Foxy had it, I didn't in the same house. I saw a guy today who nearly died of it, in his fifties, who took a couple of months to be able to walk and speak.
London's a big place with lots of posh hotels, several of which have already been recommended. The question is whether it is better to choose one and book in advance at a reduced rate, or wait as late as possible and book at lastminute.com or one of the other late booking sites. Usually they describe but not name the hotels but googling phrases from the descriptions can often identify them. So book early, or late. Sorry if that's not much help.
Should it have been the lead story of the day? That's an editorial decision for newspapers and the media. It's a terrible crime and yes of course it has been reported.
I'm still not quite sure what's being implied here.