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A big question after this week is whether Johnson’s leader ratings are moving up or down – political
A big question after this week is whether Johnson’s leader ratings are moving up or down – politicalbetting.com
We have now had the first leader ratings on the PM following the seven hour Cummings Commons committee appearance on Wednesday. Number Cruncher Politics finds 42% saying they are satisfied with Johnson and 45% dissatisfied. The only problem is that this appears to be the first time NCP has asked the question so we have nothing to compare them with.
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https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1398343325850247176?s=19
23 Satisfied
48 Disatisfied
So Boris leads by 19 on Gross Positives & 22 Net
It is pure Boris
I'll never understand why they did that, Nixon was always going to beat McGovern.
Blair did lose votes after Iraq but the Tories largely backed his decision to join the Americans in the invasion and they didn't make a big election issue out of it.
With out next election still 3 years away, there's plenty of time for Cummings to be forgotten about, he's shot his bolt so from now on, we'll be hearing less and less from him or about him.
He/She/Whatever obvs likes games with feathers.
Equally it’s hard to see what would deprive Boris of his majority next time around. Winter lockdowns this year might do it I suppose.
I do wonder if journalists hate him because he essentially has the attitude of a journalist - that government is incompetent and needs sorting out - but he also has the same attitude towards journalism. He's one of them, but not.
'The Appeal to Futurity'? 'One-Dayism'? I like 'One-Dayism'.
https://twitter.com/nivsee/status/1396729012815372289?s=21
People like him can go far on a favourable tide, but ultimately have no friends to fall back on when the tide goes out, as it does for everybody eventually.
Expats to get lifetime general elections vote as 15-year limit abolished
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/27/british-expats-get-lifetime-general-elections-vote-government/
So my son in Spain is to be re-enfranchised.
My bet is no, because entertaining though his malicious character assassinations were, they told us nothing we didn’t already know, while there’s every reason to suppose he was either totally mistaken or wilfully misleading on matters of fact.
Rendering his evidence, as I have said before, of little value,
The Government may relaunch a team of UFO hunters in the wake of a US report into alien visitors, a senior defence source has revealed.
Ever since the Ministry of Defence's dedicated UFO desk was disbanded in 2009, no agency has been responsible for monitoring the skies over Britain for unidentified flying objects.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/28/britains-x-files-governments-ufo-hunters-may-restart-search/ (£££)
He may however have down a seed of doubt into the minds of red wall voters. Particularly, I would say, the mums.
It may not resonate now, but as the economy faulters it Cumming's testimony will be remembered, along with Carrie's wallpaper.
But what about the 'v' shaped boom cry the fanbois? Anecdote alert, I was due to fly to NI this week, but got out of it. Huzzah! My business partner, nonetheless had to go. He said nothing has reopened at Bristol Airport, some of the shops, the big bar and Frankie and Bennies have all gone, and it looks permanent. When staying in Lisburn we occasionally eat at Frankie and Bennies in Sprucefield- gone for good too. Anyway next month and July we have tickets from Cardiff, so weyhey!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/27/british-expats-get-lifetime-general-elections-vote-government/
Reassuring to learn it is not just crude party advantage!
Rebecca Long-Bailey doesn't fail to disappoint in her questioning that manages to completely miss the point of everything said thus far.
It will be of interest to political historians when they write of either the Pandemic, or of Johnsons regime. The descriptions of chaos, back biting and fueding between the Mekon and Carrie Antoinette, while the Emperor parades his new clothes will be very much of interest to the historians.
(As Fysics Teacher pointed out to me the other day when I called him a scientist.)
ALIENS
"As you might expect from my comments in the past few weeks, I agree completely with this piece from Zeynep Tufekci.
"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/covid-vaccine-variants.html
"Everyone's going to see this the virus. The more people who see the vaccine first, the fewer deaths and long-term health problems. But our race against the virus to reach people before it does keeps getting harder. We need a massive ramp up of vaccine production, yesterday."
[My bold and italics]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/watch/new-footage-shows-ufos-swarming-us-navy-ship/vp-AAKupzQ?ocid=st
πατρὸς δ' εἴμ' ἀγαθοῖο, θεὰ δέ με γείνατο μήτηρ:
ἀλλ' ἔπι τοι καὶ ἐμοὶ θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή:
ἔσσεται ἢ ἠὼς ἢ δείλη ἢ μέσον ἦμαρ
ὁππότε τις καὶ ἐμεῖο Ἄρῃ ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται
ἢ ὅ γε δουρὶ βαλὼν ἢ ἀπὸ νευρῆφιν ὀϊστῷ.
And on that day what are you going to say? You never bother to make the case that Boris is doing a good job with the huge political capital he now has, so you won't be able to say Well, he had a good innings. You are just going to look silly, perhaps sooner then you think.
In lieu of aliens, I thought I'd try a more reflective post.
You can walk up East Ham High Street and you'd be hard pressed to think anything had happened. Only a couple of units remain unoccupied (and they are being worked on) and the High Street seems as bustling as ever.
That's the thing - local perception can be local illusion or even local delusion.
It's obvious in other areas retail has been severely damaged - walking up a quiet Villiers Street from Embankment to Leicester Square yesterday, the closures were there for all to see. Leicester Square too has been decimated in retail terms - Chinatown survives but there are gaps even in Gerrard and Lisle Streets. It's not as it was and the absence of tourists is being keenly felt.
Today at the O2 and with the arena quiet, no more than half the restaurants were open and even in the Icon Outlet, there were gaps where there were no gaps soon after the place was opened. There were people around the O2 but passing through, enjoying the day and not really stopping for lunch.
Obviously, the O2 is a special case and the return of the Arena will bring back the numbers and I'm sure the return of tourists in 2022 will help London but is there something else going on? Is traditional High Street retailing, like traditional office working, being transformed at speed by events and facing an uncertain future?
I'm not sure - it may be local retail will be able to weather the storm - indeed, one can argue more people working at home should be good news for local shops and services.
@hendopolis
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TIMES: Plan to keep face masks if infections go on rising #TomorrowsPapersToday
The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
Joe Biden looks at a little girl in the audience, the daughter of a veteran, and says "I love those barrettes in your hair. Man I’ll tell you what, look at her she looks like she's 19 years old sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.""
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1398347198149152774
Deeply, deeply uncomfortable
Check this thread. It's probably written by a Trumpite, but who cares. I defy anyone to read this without coming away and thinking Who the F is in the White House
https://twitter.com/RAMRANTS/status/930065838387863552?s=20
Biden looks like a Jimmy Savile in plain sight. He does it IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
It is all intensely creepy
I'm not quite sure how you can reliably use electoral rolls to determine seat population when some people (students particularly) can be registered in more than one place.
@OwenJones84
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This polling was completed after Dominic Cummings' testimony.
If Labour can't make progress after *Boris Johnson's number two told the nation that the government killed tens of thousands of people by being catastrophically shit* it needs to ask itself some pretty big questions!
Maybe Owen. But I don't think you'll like the answers.
F**k right off already now. This is religious by some people now.
I cannot. This is a deeply weird man, who has no boundaries
@EricTopol
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Lombardy, Italy was one of the worst-hit places in the world in the 1st wave of the pandemic. Now, a year later, how many had reinfections?
0.3%
Possibly a few expat Scots overseas may get the vote, such as Mr Connery in the Bahamas.
It may well be that those disenfranchised are the ID free older CDE voters in the Red Wall.