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The Lib Dems look likely to give it a go in Chesham and Amersham – politicalbetting.com
The Lib Dems look likely to give it a go in Chesham and Amersham – politicalbetting.com
If you had asked the Lib Dems after the 2019 General Election about the sort of seat where they would like to fight a by-election they would have probably said somewhere that voted Remain, where they were in a clear second place and not too far from the M25.
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Meanwhile, professional football matches stop for the breaking of the Ramadan fast: because, "respect"
https://twitter.com/one_jason/status/1388760623081721856?s=20
https://twitter.com/KieranCHodgson/status/1389186251564142598?fbclid=IwAR09ZqpYwy1Oo8nmDSJhV-KBK9Kp3YzVR9SFU6I5Vv-zTStmQ8KwrzR2yZo
To the best of your knowledge, which of the following statements is correct?
OA (SNP GE2019 vote) %
Scotland sends more to Westminster in taxes than it receives in spending: 39 (65)
Scotland receives more in spending than it sends in taxes to Westminster: 40 (19)
This is basic Christian doctrine, I believe? Besides, this is a matter of opinion, and he is entitled to his opinion and entitled to speak it. He does not stir up hatred or violence
And that was with a trebling of the Tory vote.
Another test for the oft-predicted, yet seldom seen, Unionist tactical vote.
Something has gone from been against the law to do, to been against the law to not wanting to have done.
Though.. it hasnt really, i havent followed further but i would imagine theyll be no charges brought and the police officer involved told to stop been an idiot in future.
Ask the fisherman if they still love BoZo?
Ask the DUP...
Marriage is between a man and woman only?
All gay people will go to hell?
All gay people should go to hell?
Gay people will go to hell and you should help them get there?
Gay people are trying to pervert your children, dont let them, resist.
This happened up north.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian-street-preacher-receives-4000-payout-from-police-for-wrongful-arrest/133775.htm
EDIT - Perhaps the main, possible exception, is when the widow or widower of a sitting but now deceased politico is running to replace their loved one.
Which may have helped Susan Wright in Texas 6th congressional district special election yesterday. Was not the major factor, but no doubt helped. Especially after robocalls accusing her of murdering her husband for political gain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9xuXQjxMM
It would be more accurate to call it the Jolyon Maugham Law Project.
https://twitter.com/anyabike/status/1389197809686130693?s=20
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9521123/Moment-police-arrest-elderly-preacher-71-street-quoting-homophobic-statements-Bible.html
Two remarkable paragraphs
"Mr Sherwood [the preacher] said officers grilled him over his attitude to gay people. He was even asked what he would do if his children were gay. The married father-of-two said: 'The question was irrelevant to the allegation against me. I said I would seek to bring them to Christ, but of course I would love them no matter what, because they're my children.' "
"'The officer also stated that there is no freedom to make statements in public which offend people."
Jesus F Christ. A police officer doesn't know the basic tenets of Free Speech. We have overturned the Enlightenment to satisfy a bunch of Marxists, Islamists and hardcore trans-campaigners, and the result is that we are hopelessly confused and spineless, and every time we take the cowardly path of surrender, another bit of Freedom disappears
The West is Doomed. It really is. Bring on the aliens
This is your standard reaction to Yet Another Example of Woke Madness. First shoot the messenger, then smear the message, then claim it's all irrelevant, then when it becomes apparent the story as presented is true and concerning you try and talk up some other issue very quickly so we all move on.
We see your game
If ever a sympathy vote was deserved it was then and the voters did not do so with quite some gusto.
It's going to get worse.
Arkansas politicos believed the widow was a political nothing, and a fierce competition emerged to replace her. However, Mrs. Caraway decided she'd run in the special election anyway. And found support from an unexpected source: her Senate colleague, Huey Long from Louisiana.
Huey Long was THE power in Louisiana politics, and was beginning to emerge as a national figure on the political stage, as a populist radical alternative to Franklin Roosevelt. Huey saw Hattie and the seemingly hopeless race in neighboring Arkansas as a golden opportunity - for himself.
With Hattie in tow, Huey launched a whirlwind political invasion of Arkansas, complete with sound trucks and an army of advance men, organizers and helpers to prepare the way. He and Mrs Caraway criss-crossed Arkansas over a two-week period before the special election.
Huey's message was simple and clear: a horde of cheap-jack, politicians-as-usual were fighting like cats in a bag, trying to pull themselves up because they wanted Hattie Caraway's job! And working together to get rid of her cause she was fighting alongside me in the Senate for YOU - for the working people of Arkansas and the United States!
(Sound familiar?)
The impact of Huey's intervention and invasion was decisive. Hattie won the special election handily. And Huey Long was well-launched as a national political force to be reckoned with, by every politico AND voter in America.
The Chinese surely, cannot believe their luck. Just as they ascend to power, the West decides to unilaterally disarm, throwing away one of its greatest assets: the principle of Free Speech, the essence of the Enlightenment
Look at the way the preacher is grilled by the cops:
"Mr Sherwood [the preacher] said officers grilled him over his attitude to gay people. "
They are literally seeking out thought-crime. Do you have bad thoughts???
We are no better than the Chinese, in many ways - no freer in our minds - and at least the Chinese are militantly proud of their own culture, and would never let it be warped or degraded in this fashion.
In short, We're fucked
Johnson has ridden the storm and seized back the agenda. Sky headlines are "Boris Johnson..." followed by good news, this time, social distancing to end.
Johnson has won the war on Covid and the war on wallpaper. Move along, nothing to see.
Seattle Times - Downtown Seattle dying? Not so fast. Demand for office space roars back to pre-pandemic levels
. . . . An index that measures the demand among companies for leasing new office space showed that in December, the Seattle market had experienced the biggest drop in the nation since the start of the pandemic — and that happened despite the fact that our office-using employment numbers had fully recovered.
What a difference a few months can make.
That same index now shows that demand for office space in the Seattle market has come roaring back since the beginning of the year, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.
New York-based VTS, which provides leasing and asset management software for commercial real estate landlords, has produced this index number for major markets since January 2018 — the level of interest in new office space in that month was set as an index score of 100 for each market.
From 2018 to 2019, Seattle had an average monthly index score of 90. That, of course, was before the pandemic had closed down offices, requiring millions of employees to work from home. By December 2020, Seattle’s index number had plummeted to a dismal 17 . . . .
But in 2021, Seattle has experienced a tremendous rebound, with interest in new office space growing each month. As of March, the index for interest in office space had shot past the pre-pandemic average, hitting 107.
“There can be a dramatic effect when you’re combining some of the pent-up demand for office tenants to return to the market with an improving employment situation,” said Eli Gilbert, head of market research for VTS. “The growth of the employment base in Seattle is the highest among the core markets.”
And of course, the rebound couldn’t have happened without the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines.
“A lot of tenants are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Gilbert said. “They want to at least begin the space-search process, which can take months if not quarters before it turns into a signed lease.” . . .
TheLDs are good at BEs but it's a stiff order to defeat a reasonably popular strong Gov't seat. Reform might be able to peel a bit off the Tories to help them.
https://twitter.com/cia/status/1387431636732633089
I'm not sure that an example of over-zealous coppers really marks the end of the Enlightenment, although the preacher concerned doesn't seem to have benefited from the Enlightenment. It's poor policing, though, I agree.
Incidentally, I had a look at the Twitter account that you fed the story from originally. 'one_jason' also doesn't seem to be suffering from an absence of free speech, as evidenced by his vitriolic attacks on Bill Gates, vaccines and masks. He's a nutter, freely tweeting (and yes, I know that doesn't make this particular story untrue).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgJC4Pu_tbo
"But I am gonna tell you a story. It's a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin', 'cause it's sure a funny story. It's about a hick. A hick like you, if you please. Yeah, like you. He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm. He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse. Aw, this hick knew what it was to be a hick, all right. He figured if he was gonna get anything done, well, he had to do it himself. So he sat up nights and studied books. He studied law, because he thought he might be able to change things some - for himself and for folks like him. Now I'm not gonna lie to ya. He didn't start off thinkin' about the hicks and all the wonderful things he was gonna do for 'em. Naw, naw, he's done it all thinkin' of number one. But something came to him on the way. How he could do nothin' for himself without the help of the people. That's what came to him. And it also came to him with the powerful force of God's own lightning back in his own county when the school building collapsed 'cause it was built of politics' rotten brick...."
If Huey Long was even a tiny fraction as good as Wille Stark, small wonder he won.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-oktoberfest-canceled-again-in-2021-due-to-coronavirus/a-57413659
Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.
(paywall)
Street preachers tread that thin line.
Looks like the police overreacted in that case. He deserved an apology. Not sure about the payout, though.
@Leon ’s talk of the end of the enlightenment and fall of the west is somewhat overblown.
It's too much of a traditional Shire Tory seat, notwithstanding it voted Remain, and in every election the Conservatives have had an absolute majority of votes cast.
T. Harry Williams was living legend at Louisiana State University when I was a student there. At one point in my checkered academic career found myself imprisoned in a VERY boring class I could not stand. Until I discovered that T. Harry was lecturing on the Civil War at the same time in the same building, only he was in the BIG lecture hall with a class of hundreds of students.
So stopped going to the class I was registered in (without informing the registrar) and started sitting on on T. Harry's class (ditto). And have NEVER regretted it, even though I ended up with a big fat F on my (already blotted) grade report.
Prediction: Con 50%, LD 40%, Others 10%.
Similar area. I think.
14-11 or 13-12?
Seb Payne’s take;
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/e8fb3676-b4df-499c-a289-168dc580891c
That guarantees injustice, polarisation and division. What's remarkable is how few people seem to be able to see this as the wholly backward step that it is and at odds, for example, with the classic tenets of liberalism.
It's not nutters either. Matthew Syed wrote powerfully about it this weekend.
A B/E is a chance for the electorate to send a message - an open goal for the LDs if they want it.
If you wanna knock a brick through the red wall pay wall, copy/paste ^ into google, then click through.
Alternatively, if you want to help pay Seb’s rent, get an ft sub.
Personally, I’m a tight bastard.
https://coconuts.co/singapore/news/tan-tock-seng-hospital-bars-visitors-after-vaccinated-nurse-contracts-covid-19/
She'll have had either Pfizer or Moderna.
It would help if we were to abolish the notion of recording "hate incidents". Something is either a crime or it is not, and the police should only be concerned with the former.
An academic at the centre of a freedom of speech row at Edinburgh University will face “action”, his department head has suggested.
Several students have used online forums to accuse Dr Neil Thin, senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, of being racist, sexist and “problematic”.
Thin was targeted after he raised concerns over an event entitled Resisting Whiteness featuring an area that was exclusively for people of colour, which he branded “segregation”." {£}
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edinburgh-lecturer-neil-thin-faces-action-over-problematic-views-77rqkfwqf
If citing a story behind a paywall, I like to include a brief summary of the gist so that others can decide IF they think they need to actually seek it from the horse's mouth (or other end as case may be).
Be sure your sins will find you out, whether bad taste in decoration or giving Cummings the key to the sweetie shop.
Which I'm beginning to think MAY be grounds for a legal suit challenging certain adverse rulings in education settings, as being result of the problematic teaching I suffered due to problematic teachers hired, nurtured & upheld over me by a problematic education system.
Would retain TSE, but he's already fully occupied with my representation in the West West Virginia matter.
Gallowglass? Could be just the case to establish your legal reputation! All you need to do first, is pass the bar exam in about a half-dozen states this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific).
As alternative, wonder what Sidney & Rudy are up to these days?
Sorry, couldn't resist
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1387377318021189632
Literally no-one is asking for this -> OK, a few fringe academics are talking about it but no-one serious -> What's your actual objection to this? -> This needs to happen as a Matter Of Justice -> If you oppose this, you are killing people -> It's the law now, you lost. Shut up.
I don't think you can characterise what took place subsequently that way.
Should add at the time he's talking I was using the airport weekly