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After what’s being seen as a good interview with Piers Morgan Starmer recovers a touch in the “Next
After what’s being seen as a good interview with Piers Morgan Starmer recovers a touch in the “Next PM” betting – politicalbetting.com
During the day Keir Starmer has continued to recieve laudits for how he coped with the Piers Morgan grilling last night and there’s been a little bit of movement in his price on the Betfair next PM market.
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Praise for a particularly efficient bit of accounting.
If you won’t have the vaccine, you’re no friend of mine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wont-have-vaccine-no-friend-mine/
But, of course, any calculation based on that assumes everything is linear and easy in terms of education. It makes no allowance for lumps inthe road of progress (y’know, reality).
As I have said before, the best place to start would be by ripping out the administrative structure. It’s expensive, wasteful and in many crucial respects counterproductive. That would free up ample money that could be redirected via parents or schools directly to something useful.
What I would say is that it would be better to have no money at all than to spend a token amount on a pet project. That’s going to be £1.5 billion pointlessly wasted.
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kieran Trippier both start, with Alexander-Arnold set to line up at right back with Trippier likely to be either playing as a right-sided centre-back, or at left back.
There's no Chelsea or Manchester City players involved in this game, having played in the Champions League final on Saturday.
But, I don't think it won't change anything.
https://order-order.com/2021/06/02/viewers-turned-off-by-sir-keirs-life-stories/
Any academic wishing to appear on the BBC or Sky with a view that we need to extend lockdown for months should be immediately put on furlough and told that it is uncertain whether their academic contract will be renewed in the autumn because of the economic situation.
Might concentrate their minds to be in the position of millions of other people.
I am saying this only half in jest.
Risks face all of them in failing to get the politics right in office, but that applies to Rishi too - who is heavily overpriced IMHO.
Subs: Calvert-Lewin, Johnstone, Godfrey, Phillips, White, Watkins, Ward-Prowse, Henderson, Sancho, Ramsdale.
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That looks a weird team that won't be anything like the one that plays at the Euros. Not sure what Sir Waistcoat learns from it. Seems more like a run out for a lot of those that aren't going to play much at the finals.
This is an actual story in the Mail.
Probably not seen by enough people to make a difference unfortunately for Sir Keir
Torvill & Dean got 5.8m!
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ratings/a464524/piers-morgan-achieves-best-life-stories-ratings-since-2010/
Cheryl Cole got 8m
Though I suppose Sir Keir’s 1.7 will go up after the +1s etc are added
After providing one tenth of the funding recommended to education today, I fear the Dishmeister will be disappointing plenty of other groups in the near future.
Particularly if interest rates go up as seems highly probable. Summat a lot of folk only vaguely recall is possible.
Who the hell wants that, unless you are some z-list celeb that is all tits and teeth who makes their money from appearing on reality shows.
If it was a charming young lady wearing a mini skirt and no knickers then that would have been an actual story in the Sun.
The channel.
Lay the favourite applies. As much as Rishi was value at 250/1, nobody surely should be 25% at this stage.
Given the vacancy is unlikely to appear for at least five years, even the most presumptive of favorites probably shouldn't be more than a 10-12% shot.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/18/groucho-tv/
No one who has commented on twitter that I have seen has a bad word to say about it, and, although mainly preaching to the converted, that’s worth something given his falling ratings.
I’d be a buyer of 1.7m if Boris did it though 😊
One suggestion would be to make them wear yellow Covid badges.
1) While I'm as enthusiastic a vaxxer as the next man, this comes across as more than a little holier-than-thou.
2) Do dinner parties exist any more? My parents used to have them. But that was back in the days when restaurants were very expensive and not very good. I don't think I've ever been to a dinner party. I have eaten my tea at other people's houses, but I wouldn't have called it a party.
3) IRL, I know no-one who won't have the vaccine. Well, possibly I do, but they haven't said. This woman appears to have anti-vaxxers coming out of here ears.
And 4, as Robert says above.
This woman has taken a position I agree with (you should have the vaccine) irritated me with it.
Or at least, probably less than the chance you'd catch a serious dose of influenza off them.
I'd like to lay more but my pockets aren't deep enough, so I only have a very very low four figure sum committed.
The media should have a diversity of opinions on it, even controversial ones, but the BBC in particulars will only bring on people who will attack the Governments from one side.
Chairman Houchen did one the other week with Unherd and was a refreshing change. He actually outlined his politics very well. For me it struck the right balance of allowing him to explain himself, without either being a gotcha interruptathon or totally letting him get away with just a propaganda piece to camera.
My first trip to a meeting at a rented office space and my first face to face with colleagues in 15 months.
As for the journey, fascinating to see the changes from pre-Covid. A seat on a fairly quiet Jubilee Line tube from West Ham at 8am. The old flood of office workers from Stratford to Canary Wharf gone. Indeed, the busiest station for people getting on was Canada Water and without wishing to go too far, the disparity between those who have continued to have to travel to work and those who have worked at home transcends the traditional blue and white collar divide but isn't a bad guesstimation.
Working at Home has largely been the preserve of the white collar administrative and professional workers in both the public and private sectors while those either attending the office or still having to travel are either skilled trades or lower paid admin staff again in both the private and public sectors.
Coming home, a seat on an eastbound Jubilee tube at 5.15pm - almost unheard of. Busier at West Ham, both the train and tube platforms but with a busier District Line eastbound.
The SWR train journey to and from Woking was very quiet - I had a carriage to myself both ways. I had thought there might be some half-term rail traffic but it seems people have chosen to go away for the whole week rather than have days out.
What he and his team need to do now is follow it through. On its own, last night's interview won't have any significant impact. But if, over the next few weeks and months, he can get airtime to display the attributes he showed last night (e.g. a sense of humour), then he could get the wind in his sails. The task should be easier if Covid continues to die a death, if you pardon the phrase. A packed House of Commons may also help him; though I'm sure others will think it would help the PM more, I'm not so sure.
For example while 44% of North Western voters would prefer to see him be the replacement for Starmer, only 16% of South Eastern voters would like him to replace Starmer.
He does lead in every region however, only in London do other candidates get to double figures with Nandy on 12% and Lammy on 10% to Burnham's 21%
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/plurality-of-british-voters-would-support-replacing-keir-starmer-as-leader-of-the-labour-party-with-andy-burnham-as-a-possible-successor/
At some point we've got to say "once you're double jabbed go about your daily business as normal".
That might well have been unfair when we were stuck in the 70-80's band, but in a few weeks we'll basically be deep into the younger cohorts at which point such criticisms of unfairness/bias can't be levelled and indeed getting jabbed becomes the carrot rather than the stick of the vaxxport.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9642563/Israel-sees-probable-link-Pfizer-vaccine-myocarditis-cases.html
Good job its not British, Mini-Trump would be off on one.
https://twitter.com/nogofroc/status/1399858952414793730?s=20
or Rishi to change his name by deed poll to Starmer
CDU/CSU-EPP: 25% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 24% (-1)
SPD-S&D: 14%
FDP-RE: 14% (+1)
AfD-ID: 9% (-1)
LINKE-LEFT: 6%
Incredible to see the FDP tied with the SPD for third place.
Another country due to head to the polls later this year is Iceland and the latest MMR poll:
Independence Party*: 25% (unc)
Pirates: 14% (+5)
Progressive Party*: 13% (+2)
Left Green Movement*: 11% (-6)
Liberal Reform Party: 11% (+4)
Social Democratic Alliance: 11% (-1)
Centre Party: 7% (-4)
Icelandic Socialist Party: 6% (+6)
People's Party: 3% (-4)
Changes from the last election.
* = Government parties
The governing coalition still has 49% of the vote and should survive as I'm not sure what an alternative coalition would look like and what kind of majority it could command in the Althing. Currently, the governing coalition has 33 seats and the opposition 30 so the government might lose two seats on the current numbers.
I did though lay Corbyn at 3.1, Swinson at 12, and Bercow at an astonishing 13.5 (admittedly only in 1p)
At the moment, one of the main props holding the Conservatives high is the cash-splashing that has (rightly) gone on this year. Whilst he may remain popular during the transition from Rish who gives you cut-price dishies to Stingy Sunak, it's not going to be easy.
If the other man is wearing trousers, his trousers get wet, and if there is enough piss, so will his leg.
If the pisser is wearing trousers but the other man is naked, most of the piss stays inside the pisser's trousers, but some might escape to wet the other's leg
If both are wearing trousers, it is unlikely the other's leg will get wet at all.
If it was ever shown that Covid-19 was born in that lab, and from that research, Fauci would go to jail for decades. It is overwhelmingly in his interest that the final determination is: natural zoonosis outside the lab
The emails released today imply Fauci was steering the attention of the media to the wet market hypothesis, despite early warnings that it could be from the lab. It all gets very murky
The broadsheets give the impression that every other proper adult in the country is in an endless cavalcade of dinner parties.
Aint going to happen
https://twitter.com/SkyCricket/status/1400168632831856640
Update - Dykes is playing for Scotland.
Way to diminish a potentially fruitful line of questionning by including a posturing one at the end.
I went to a dinner party once, in August of 1962. I remember some of the conversations and first encountered the word "eschew".
First time I drank neat port was at my university graduation.
That would result in either a more infectious, or a more deadly disease.
Why Covid19 has been so incredibly effective at spreading around the world has been for almost the opposite reason: it takes a considerable time after initial infection before there is enough virus in a person's system to be detectable.
The result of this is that carriers have spread far and wide, without realising they're carriers, and without being able to be detected as carriers.
No denials from the government.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/uk-to-give-quarantine-free-travel-status-to-handful-of-new-places-say-sources
Probably doesn't go down well with the 'dinner party set'.