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My email from Boris suggests the Tory database is not as sophisticated as you might expect – politicalbetting.com
I have never quite worked out why the CCHQ have me on their database as a supporter and potential donor.
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Why wouldn't any party try their luck to get a donation, it costs them nothing to send you an email, while it costs them money to actively trim a database that they use for mass email shots.
Its the same reason I get offers from some boutique hotels I stayed in once upon a time years ago, costs nothing to spam me an email and they hope it will trigger a booking from a few people.
Everyone is in bed again.
Thanks for the header Mike. Like everybody else, you are becoming more Tory as you get older (obviously).
Did you used to be a Trot?
Fewer dead names than 38 degrees obviously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9451639/Travellers-set-free-Covid-testing-kits-countries-join-green-list.html
On Thursday, the government said it now recommended that people aged under 50 get the Pfizer jab over AstraZeneca's.
The country is already running about 85% behind schedule - it has inoculated about one million of its almost 26 million people so far.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56684833
Still brisk compared to NZ...who has done a massive 71,000 doses so far.
A man in the Philippines has died after being forced to do 300 squats for breaching Covid curfews, making him the latest victim of the country's often brutal approach to enforcing restrictions.
What they are trying to do is give the impression things are being made easier for summer travel whilst in practice continuing to make it exceptionally difficult. No wonder the travel industry appears to be unhappy. It would be more honest to continue with a ban, rather than have so many costs and restrictions that in practice only those with a lot of spare money and time can go abroad.
Get the impression someone has done this before....
I'm afraid that a lot of Unionists still haven't appreciated that Brexit isn't their real problem, it's that the British state itself has been fatally undermined by the total mess created by devolution. De jure the UK is still a unitary state; de facto it's neither that nor a fully-functional federation, but a wobbly, uneven, lop-sided confederacy, in which - unlike the vast majority of the world's nations - a right of secession is assumed. The result is that, with every passing year, the percentage of people within its borders who think of themselves as actually being British declines and the forces pulling it apart become that bit stronger.
All the bad tempered arguments over Brexit, who did and did not vote for it, and its effects are primarily a symptom rather than a cause of the malaise. The cause is that the UK is now a horrible chimera of an institution, still with some of the attributes of a conventional sovereign state but in many respects rather like a small, crap European Union - with a central authority that nobody likes, where all the members increasingly dislike each other, and where there's a one-way ratchet not of "more powers" but "less powers" as the clock ticks balefully towards its inevitable collapse.
As to whether the reality of their doomed situation has yet to dawn on the Loyalist rioters in Belfast, and they therefore think that their nonsense might still get them somewhere, or it has and they're acting out of nihilistic despair, who can say? The important point to absorb is that most voters in England, especially those likely to support the Conservatives, don't care very much about Northern Ireland - and why should they? In Scotland, Northern Ireland, and increasingly in Wales as well (where Labour is a nationalistic force that now offers pro-independence candidates to the electorate,) the political scene is full of angry nationalists who like nothing about England except its money. For them, the devolved parliaments represent the sole legitimate expression of the political will of their respective peoples; the British state is an imperial master to be defied and pulled down. The English, meanwhile, who don't get to have a parliament, are meant to sit there, disregard their own interests and hand over fat bribes every year in order to prevent the whole thing collapsing. It's small wonder that this doesn't work very well.
As was posted yesterday, Conservative short-term solutions in Ireland have a habit of doing that.
North Korea: Kim Jong-un warns of 'difficult' crisis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56685356
If even a serial fantasist and liar like Kim considers that things are bad...
Between this, China’s actions in Xinjiang and Taiwan, the threat of war in Ukraine, the chaos in Lebanon and the EU’s collective nervous breakdown, the world is not a safe or happy place right now.
Which does not suggest this is a good moment to cut the armed forces...
This was known before the vote.
And still the fanbois cheer.
Russia looks likely to invade the Donbass, but that could be quite the quagmire for them. It will keep them busy for years.
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin
We're gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run
Keep your foot hard on the pedal
Son, never mind them brakes
Let it all hang out coz we got a run to make
The Pontiac Firebird is one of my automotive guilty pleasures. I've got a really clean LHD 1980 T-Top shell in France that I bought off a USAF A-10 driver in Germany. Mine is 'Pontiac Platinum' not Bandit Black though. I'll put an engine in it one day.
If you want a truly extraordinary story to start your day, try this video.
https://youtu.be/PdxPCeWw75k
I'm going to ignore it. I'm not donating to a party that takes chumocracy so far it basically becomes low-level corruption.
Apart from when we brutally hammer them to pieces on the rugby pitch, of course.
Simon Jones, and he last played for England in 2005.
Apparently they also need my campaigning skills in the upcoming locals, mayorals. and police commissioner elections.
I'm guessing the coffers are pretty low from having three general elections and a UK wide referendum in a little over four years.
First, we've all seen Boris recently, and he doesn't look like that just now. Partly Lockdown (lack of) Haircut, partly the last year has taken it out of him.
Second, he's gone for Power Pose, but it's also Boris turning his back on the camera, so there's a sense of him not looking us in the eye...
Except Mark Drakeford, he truly is so brilliant, he must have Yorkshire blood in him.
He was so shit at times.
I remember going to several tests in which he kept wicket and he was so bad he made the slip cordon so nervous.
More seriously, lack of funds seems to be quite the issue for all UK political parties at the moment. If rumours are to be believed, Labour have lost a big chunk of funding from Unite, while the SNP have had to draw on the £600,000 set aside for Sindy II to stay afloat (assuming that Wings’ implicit analysis that Sturgeon paid the money to the independent inquiry to be cleared is wrong).
That will make campaigns a bit quieter going forward, and will surely accelerate the trend towards internet campaigning.
Can we claim Michael Vaughan? I know he was born in Manchester and played for Yorkshire, but he had Welsh ancestry.
The initials would describe them very well...
The Conservative Party don't so much as send me alection leaflet, a wise use of their resources.
Even internet campaigns cost a lot of money, you need to place the ads in the right place, usually before YouTube videos.
But even that is proving problematic with YouTube premium and the fact say Vodafone is offering free subscription to YouTube premium.
Facebook is bricking it for several reasons, and have also jacked up their prices.
I was told digital campaign costs have gone up 70% since 2015.
If it does happen it probably means casualties to match - in the thousands or tens of thousands, and not just the hundreds - which we haven't seen since at least Korea.
I don't know how Western electorates would react to that. I don't think it'd be a simple clear cut answer either way.
https://twitter.com/marknorm/status/1380232649361530883
They told me they'd transfer it all automatically to YouTube Music but did no such thing. So now that's all been permanently lost.
And people wonder why I still like to buy CDs and DVDS.
And there was even a reminder that Cheltenham College is, after all, a school when a page torn from an exercise book drifted onto the pavilion balcony. It read as follows: "Senior School Punishment Ledger: Note to Graves (C) Upper Sixth: Write out 200 times: The County Championship is the greatest glory in English domestic cricket. We do not need The Hundred."
The paper blew away before anybody could grab it. But maybe everyone had seen enough.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-div-2-2019-1166901/gloucestershire-vs-worcestershire-1167018/match-report
I just loved the wonderful dry sarcasm that the Hundred was something a delinquent schoolboy would dream up.
The Hundred is designed to bring in people who aren't cricket fans, to get them hooked.
I've never been canvassed by the Tories for an election, which is either indicative of the wards and seats in which I've lived, or indicates an impressive level of sophistication in being able to predict my response before doing so.
I have laid so many people in this election, pretty much everyone except Khan.
I even broke my cardinal rule of betting, and dipped into my savings to lay Fox, Rose, and Bailey.
#IDoNotHaveAGamblingProblem
https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/opinion/who_on_earth_is_the_hundred_for_we_try_to_identify_the_ecb's_mysterious_'new_audience'.html
Anyway, 91 moths of 19 species, including Angle Shades and Powdered Quaker new for the year. Then off canvassing for the county council election this morning. Lazy f##ker my arse!
Franchise cricket in England (and Wales) is such a bad idea it must have been designed by someone who puts pineapple on their pizza.
I think one of the stats that really scares the ECB is that cricket has stopped being played in state schools and is pretty much the preserve of the private sector.
I get frequent emails as a "supporter" from the Tories, Labour and Reform UK (as well as from the LibDems).
It enables me to keep an eye on their activities and their latest "lines".
I always associated the title with the membership of Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
(/lie)
I had a Google Play subscription that got converted to a YouTube subscription (music and ad-free YouTube) but I needed to speak to them to get it sorted properly. There was an online chat I went to and it was all sorted rather quickly.
I think Leicestershire are in for a very tough season. They’re in a group with five international hosting clubs, four of them Tests, four of them Div1 in old money. Anything other than a defeat in any match unaffected by weather will be a great result for them. If they win, I’ll give a huge cheer as long as they’re not playing Glaws.
I suspect Sunak's fate will be far more tied to whether and how the UK economy bounces back from Covid than anything to do with texts with Dave.
Sunnyngdale and the AngloIrish Agreement worked well, and Major deserves a lot of credit for the GFA (although it was Blair who got it over the line).
Stop trying to make political jibes from something that is so important.
Some on here seem to think that because it is the Conservative and Unionist party then it is inevitable that support for the Union will continue. But a party will also represent its support and as we recently saw with the Lib Dems wanting to ignore the democratic referendum result in accordance with the views of its support.
This could be fine for the Tories as they essentially have better support in England, but would this continue without the threat of Scottish Nationalism enveloping national politics?
Of course it is not all good for Labour either. The most devastating piece of political advertising - Labour isn't working - plays on the same theme, and for the other name 'co-operative' is hardly an apt moniker for Labour most of the time!
They should live in all the other countries.