Bath is probably the least angry town in England. So what does Keir Starmer do? He manages to get into an angry argument with a Bath pub co-owner. Congratulations.
Did you see him though - that "Rod" character?
If that's your typical Bath resident, I won't be visiting, Roman spa and sumptuous Georgian architecture or no.
I went to Bath for New Year in 2002 or thereabouts. I met a girl in a pub who very sadly told me that Bath was one of the roughest towns in the country (because it's surrounded by 'all the villages'). She was getting out, she said, and had found somewhere called Alfreton where she was going to buy a house, and her life was going to be much better. It was an odd evening.
I hope she was happy. But in ALFRETON?
Well quite. Struck me as very much Grass-is-greener syndrome.
What's the point having a league if fifteen of the twenty teams can't be demoted?
Once upon a time, sport was about winning stuff, not avoiding being the worst.
This is the American view. I think they basically assume nobody could possibly care enough about the difference between second and last, let alone between 17th and 18th, to make that difference matter to the extent we do.
The CDU has yes, the CSU however has not and has stuck with its leader Soder.
Thus for the first time since the War the CDU and CSU are at odds over who should be the Union chancellor candidate
So what happens next?
CDU & CSU run separate campaigns?
They're NOT competing on the ground anywhere, as CSU is exclusively (so far anyway) Bavaria and CSU all the rest. But separate campaigns would create certain degree of cognitive dissonance within heads of many German voters, nicht wahr?
Methinks this helps the Greens. Could contribute to making them #1 in terms of seats, and thus first crack at government formation.
Perhaps setting stage for potential Green - Black coalition, among other options?
And is it possible that post-election CDU & CSU might NOT agree on coalition formation, and could go their separate ways?
Bath is probably the least angry town in England. So what does Keir Starmer do? He manages to get into an angry argument with a Bath pub co-owner. Congratulations.
To be fair the pub owner sounded a bit of a knob
I've seen different views on this. I agree the pub owner was a knob (and very aggressive) but I wasn't impressed at how Keir handled it either; he got petulant with him (although in a quiet and understated way) and didn't defuse the situation. He also walked into the pub where he wasn't wanted, which escalated things.
Bath is probably the least angry town in England. So what does Keir Starmer do? He manages to get into an angry argument with a Bath pub co-owner. Congratulations.
To be fair the pub owner sounded a bit of a knob
I've seen different views on this. I agree the pub owner was a knob (and very aggressive) but I wasn't impressed at how Keir handled it either; he got petulant with him (although in a quiet and understated way) and didn't defuse the situation. He also walked into the pub where he wasn't wanted, which escalated things.
Blair would have handled it differently.
I initially thought ‘oh no’, but my son loved the way Starmer didn’t put up with any shit. He wasn’t alone.
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This is the American view. I think they basically assume nobody could possibly care enough about the difference between second and last, let alone between 17th and 18th, to make that difference matter to the extent we do.
They're NOT competing on the ground anywhere, as CSU is exclusively (so far anyway) Bavaria and CSU all the rest. But separate campaigns would create certain degree of cognitive dissonance within heads of many German voters, nicht wahr?
Methinks this helps the Greens. Could contribute to making them #1 in terms of seats, and thus first crack at government formation.
Perhaps setting stage for potential Green - Black coalition, among other options?
And is it possible that post-election CDU & CSU might NOT agree on coalition formation, and could go their separate ways?
Blair would have handled it differently.