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The joys of first past the post – politicalbetting.com
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Even better, IMO, would be to sever geography from constituencies for Westminster elections.
I’d go with generational representation.
Each age gets a few mps. We could even have rolling elections every month.
Leon said:
Turns out it’s not just America
‘Former Israeli space #security chief Haim Eshed has revealed that aliens from a "Galactic Federation" have been in contact with the US and #Israel for years, but humanity isn't ready to know this.
Or so he claims.’
https://twitter.com/jerusalem_post/status/1335948000707928066?s=21
Someone has put acid in the drinking water in Jerusalem AND the Pentagon?
Eshed is fascinating because for 30 years he had an impeccable record on the Israeli satellite programme, then said "For 30 years I've had an impeccable record on the Israeli satellite programme, so now I can say this stuff."
Joint human-alien bases under the Martian surface was a bit more out there than anybody else has gone, however. So maybe he was acid-spiked.
Or else he blurted out the biggest story in the history of human existence.
Presumably if @squareroot2 was an employer, they would have no problem with a supplier who bids for contracts, paying for a (potentially undeclared) significant personal benefit for one of their key employees with decision-making powers. None of his business, right?
Which is obviously bollocks. In my previous employment, every 6 months or so I was required to do extensive anti-bribery training about accepting benefits and/or gifts from suppliers and customers.
It is our business. I'm not saying it's necessarily an issue, but it is our business.
When places go dominant, they go really dominant. Some are still well run, but places with literally no second party opposition just seems problematic. Factioning must be horrendous.
I'd say no way the Conservatives would have accepted the principle of another system for local government, as it might then lead to calls for changes at parliamentary, but they allowed a non-FPTP for PCCs after the AV referendum, so maybe.
"India has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began - a day after it became the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases.
Its health ministry said 3,689 people had died within the past 24 hours."
So conservatively 30,000 deaths a day on the majority view on underrecording.
We have telescopes and observatories looking back into space many thousands of light years. Looking at stars, galaxies, black holes and other weird and wonderful things. They’d easily spot a flying saucer working its way here.
I don't think the Asian wave is just going to be India.
https://twitter.com/ODDSbible/status/1388847593946501129
“We’re raising prices. People are raising prices to us and it’s being accepted.”
“It just won’t stop,” Mr Buffett added. “People have money in their pocket and they’ll pay the higher prices.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/warren-buffett-sees-significant-inflation-amid-red-hot-us-recovery-1.4553558
A blip then a return to the status quo, or a new normal?
What do PB’ers recon?
Quite possibly the most important question in global politics, right now.
Checks turnout in the AV referendum...
42.2%!
On the flip side, you'd imagine it'd be quite easy to spot the level of activity a Galactic Federation would imply.
Via @Paul_Bedfordshire
Interesting.. I thought we don’t normally pay ransoms?
Has it? Not really. It’s intriguing but it’s hardly slam dunk
The compelling aspect of this is all the senior politicians, senators, CIA directors, intel experts, journalists, scientists (the guy at Harvard) who are now saying ‘there is something out there we don’t understand’
Either they are experiencing a mass hallucination (unlikely), or they are involved in a grand conspiracy (possible, but implausible) or they have been hoodwinked by the Chinese (how?) or everyone is just seeing a new physical phenomenon (but surely they’d rule that out)
That leaves two other explanations. Incredibly advanced unknown human technology, or the same tech but this time made by aliens, visiting Planet Earth
Mr Raab said the UK was "in a good position" to "get life back as close to normal as possible".
The foreign secretary told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "But there will still need to be some safeguards in place."
There's no party that wants to let go of this all powerful toolset they've been given over our lives. As soon as the virus is defeated (and it already is, tbh) they won't be able to rule over every minutiae of our lives, how far apart we need to sit from each other, making us check in to all venues so they know where everyone is at all times, whether or not people can have sex with perfect strangers. The politicians don't want to give up control of anything.
Britain has never refunded them. AIUI, Britain theoretically accepts that there is a debt that at some point should be repaid.
The Iranians have informally linked Nazanin’s release with repayment of the debt.
So it’s a bit more complicated than a simple ransom.
Secondly, Lib Dem members and activists do not forget the importance of local government. Top politicians do tend to do so - the higher they rise, the more they tend to forget the importance of the local base. As it happens, the present Johnson "government" is intent only in squeezing to death the last breath from local government.
But I certainly agree that it would have been much better - for the country as a whole - if we had managed to increase the democratic process at the local government level.
https://twitter.com/2351onthelist/status/1388628958145654784?s=20
I'd thought that a big sticking point was the Iranians wanting interest on the outstanding amount.
Interested in your predictions re Hartlepool /WM. I'd be the other way for Hartlepool but not heard much to suggest WM would go red. Your thinking?
Nothing solid, but it strikes me that a huge city-rich region is likely to swing with the national tide more than Hartlepool where special factors abound (huge Brexit vote, popular Tory mayor...), and the tide seems to be ebbing from the Tories at the moment. Also, to win the prize (is there a prize?) it's usually a good idea to pick an unusual prediction.
I chatted to a Birmingham Labour MP last week who said that frankly they weren't sure either way. I don't think she'd have spun that to me - she genuinely felt it was marginal, and that was before the polls started to shift.
https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1388853906697031683?s=20
The science is on the side of no restrictions in June. Data not dates is what the government said, now that the data supports a full unlockdown and no more measures they've decided to ignore the data.
I am on the Tories for betting purposes, but who knows? If those C2DE BXP voters don't fancy turning out, then it could well be Lab hold.
Fans chanting ' you will play when we let you'
Looks as if the game will be postponed but to when as this is going to repeat itself
Having said that I am not convinced the modern civil service is any better.
#BREAKING #Iran to free four Americans accused of spying in exchange for four Iranians held in the US and the release of $7 bln in frozen Iranian funds: Al-Mayadeen"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2020/09/07/will-britain-follow-in-americas-footsteps-and-repay-iran-for-undelivered-military-hardware/
West Midlands: Street 92%, Byrne 8%
Fantastic if they get the game postponed.
https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-overhaulw-last-active-f-14-fleet-photos-2015-3?IR=T
Strong steer away from this... told U.K. position has not changed, nothing new coming, Iran has claimed this many times before and the Iranian state / their media should not be trusted
https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1388861325326045189?s=20