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The Great Graduate Divide: Why the Tories might fare better with Sunak – politicalbetting.com
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If you were sent back in time to an arbitrary date, what invention would you personally be able to invent ahead of its time and procure wealth, status and world domination for yourself? In my case, it's embarrassing how few answers there are. I certainly couldn't teach the bronze age how to smelt iron or make glass. I think the stirrup would be the best I could do. I know in theory how to make gunpowder, but if you can't make guns that doesn't help much. ETA nor if you can't identify or manufacture any of the 3 ingredients.
Keir just cannot get a break:
" Yesterday’s by-election saw the SNP win at stage five after receiving 42.5% of first-preference votes, up 1.7 points on the 2017 poll.
The Tories came second with 1085 votes, 24.4% of the overall total – with their support also up 2.4 points.
Meanwhile Labour received 969 votes, 21.8% of the overall share and a decrease of 9.1 points on the 2017 local council election.
The Scottish Greens were up 4 points with 7.6% of the vote, and the LibDems received 2.7% of the vote, no change on the previous election. "
I could probably beat Carter to Tut's tomb, mind you, if I could get to Luxor.
Jamaica nowhere without Bolt!
https://twitter.com/btharris93/status/1423635927524597767
What ghastly traitors these people are.
Everything is not going to "blow". Problems arise, we solve them. Human ingenuity works. Resource depletion leads to us finding ways to be more efficient or use alternative resources, or find more resources. We have plenty of room, we've barely scratched the surface of the planet.
As for so-called overpopulation - people have been making completely discredited Malthusian projections of doom since the 18th century. The reality is that declining population ratios leading to a higher retireee to worker ratio is a bigger concern both domestically and globally than overpopulation.
You're entirely right to link hairshirt zealots with zerocovidian fanatics. They may have zeal and a superficial semblence of intelligence but scratch the surface and its braindead religious fantasies twisting the world to meet their objectives.
You can be pretty advanced pretty quickly.
Bring back the birch for this England team.
And what could be sillier than a context-free "only x percent" argument? Take this pill, it's only 0.1% LSD; drink this drink, only 1% cyanide; eat this sandwich, only 2% dogshit?
I've always thought that maps were surprisingly poor until relatively recently.
When the opposition tailenders started smashing it to all parts.
What a film that book would make (but I think it's unfilmable).
Hairshirt bollocks trying to turn our back on development is feeding the problem, it is not the solution.
South Africa's population density is about a tenth of England's.
Is having a tenth of our population per square kilometre leaving them ten times better off than we are? Or is it development that matters not the myth of overpopulation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxOb8-d7Ic
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This is the fifth time this year that England have dropped 3+ catches in an innings. #ENGvIND
I could furnish them with pretty good world maps, but would that really help them much?
Which city do you think you'd rather live in? Especially as a poorer resident of that city, which would be better? The more densely populated but better developed London, or the less developed but less densely populated Johannesberg?
That you think the issue with places like Johannesberg is one of overpopulation instead of underdevelopment really betrays your complete and utter ignorance on the subject matter.
Maybe you'd rather see Africans subject to imperialistic population controls to reduce their breeding, despite them being less densely populated than we are, rather than see some actual development as a solution?
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Support: 67%
Neither: 15%
Oppose: 10%
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In your scenario, sadly I think the main thing to teach the indigenous peoples would be cynicism. My recollection is that they were naively welcoming, which did not end well for them.
So, fire arrows and burn the ships as soon as sighted would be the way to go.
That Patel is named you'd think would lead to more opposition than support from Labour and Lib Dem voters. But more strongly support the proposal than oppose it at all for both of the opposition parties voters.
Based on antibody testing of blood donors, 96.2% of the adult population now have antibodies to Covid-19 from either infection or vaccination
Probably filmable but would end up a deformed monster 3 years over schedule and 2 times over budget.
Brando reprising Kurtz was always my prime candidate for the judge, so down a man already.
Though probably self-selection bias there. Those who are afraid of needles are probably more likely refusing the vaccine and less likely to be giving blood.
PS Nine Down.
Didn't do them much good.
And as if by magic:
‘Boris Johnson offers role to Nicola Sturgeon in COP26’
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/boris-johnson-offers-role-to-nicola-sturgeon-in-cop26-3335166
If that means problems or higher prices due to higher wages to employ UK nationals that's a different question.
If as an employer you're struggling to recruit is that because of low immigration? Or is it because you're a bad employer, offering poor wages, poor terms of employment and who treats staff badly so has poor staff retention?
If as an employer you're not struggling to recruit is that because immigration is appropriate or too high? Or is it because you're a good employer.
And maybe other sectors are different to your own.
For example, Monaco has a population of 38,000 and some very nice parks, beaches, restaurants and nightclubs in just one square mile.
At that population density, you could fit billions of people into England alone. (Not recommending it, but it could be done.)
If England don't lose this by an innings I'll stop calling myself working class for the rest of 2021.
<26,000 Brilliant
<28,000 Good
<30,000 Fine
>30,000 Half baked theory is in full swing
Letting #7 get 50 is the bigger sin though.
This is where I imagine a Chris Jordon type player would be excellent with his fast direct yorkers
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-thatcher-coal-mines-b1898125.html?amp
Whether or not the public know enough to answer meaningfully the fact is they will have an opinion and that will influence their political representatives, who also may not really know enough.
So we need to know what people think is the answer, and if the public are just plain wrong you need leaders of strength to explain that.
Of course, instead they tend to just pretend the public supports a position even if they dont instead, as it's easier.
Its only things like the death penalty that politicians dont react to public opinion.
How gutted must he be?!
You'd rather they not show the competitions our athletes are competing in?
"Global Day 11 highlights
There's been plenty going on away from Great Britain's ever-expanding medal haul too.
Joseph Cheptegei and Shaunae Miller-Uibo were dominant in claiming men's 5,000m and women's 400m gold medals.
And there was a world record for Aleksandra Miroslaw in everyone's new favourite sport, speed climbing. Gladiators, ready!"