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The Speccie on the possible implications of BoJo’s comments on the miners – politicalbetting.com
The Speccie on the possible implications of BoJo’s comments on the miners – politicalbetting.com
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There was a novel by an American SF writer about someone being transported back intime to Ancient Rome and finding it unexpectedly hard to introduce modern tech ideas for all sorts of reasons. I can't recall the author - Spinrad, Blish, someone of that 1960s-70s era.
I’m a big fan of the view Thatcher should have done more to support the communities when the pits closed. But I think most people in those areas recognise the direction it was heading in and see it now in the past.
Don’t think this will make any difference at all
This climate conference is going to be popcorn time. 🍿
The Scots see through him.
Anyone who makes such a comment should have the integrity to identify themselves
When Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Barnsley etc take on Nottingham Forest or Notts County the Nottingham teams are still referred to as the scabs.
Can't be Mr Gove. But the reference to the 'North' could imply a southron. Who might be worried about the North?
Another one for the list.
Samit Patel.
Ex miner Patrick McLoughlin?
Climate Change is going to be the issue of the century. The stories this week of the Canadian "heat dome", failure of the Gulf Stream, and wild fires everywhere are profoundly depressing.
I think that we have left it too late. I am tempted to get off and see the Arctic and Africa again before the wildlife goes extinct. It is like being on the Titanic with no lifeboats. As the ship sinks we may as well enjoy the bar.
A thread that combines Scottish independence and AV.
Note: I also managed to segue into a discussion about Latin v. Ancient Greek.
Talking of which, here's the latest Wikipedia swam graph of the polls;
The striking thing is how steady the Conservative decline from 44% and 10 points ahead to 40% and 4 points ahead has been.
The intentional, single-minded, vicious annihilation of the mining industry in Wales, Scotland and England was *huge*. It dominated the news for months and months on end. There was something primeval and savage about it. It was very public sadomasochism. There was no alternative media either: everybody was forced to observe the slaughter.
https://news.sky.com/story/euro-2020-what-happens-if-covid-outbreak-hits-squad-and-could-matches-be-abandoned-12339055
The Jocks have a parish council.
At my sons wedding last week I (77) was talking to the bride's father (68) who is an ex pat and we agreed that no matter what we say and do we are unlikely at our ages to be able to do anything but accept whatever is coming down the line and we agreed we have had such a fortunate life we just count all our blessings every day
It wasn't just a matter of economic rationalisation, and certainly not of green politics. It was a deliberate final battle to crush the trade unions, and the miners in particular. Maggie was after all a Minister in Heath's government during the 1970s miners strike. She wanted revenge, and had it.
Tory voters agree with the PM's remarks by 35% to 26%, Labour voters disagree with his remarks by 40% to 18%.
Older voters tend to disagree with the PM, as narrowly do 25 to 49 year olds, 18 to 24s narrowly agree with Boris by 27% to 20%.
Northerners disagree most with Boris' remarks by 39% to 22%, 37% of Scots also disagree with 25% of Scots backing Boris, those in the Midlands and Wales disagree with the remarks by 30% to 27%, Southerners agree with the PM by 30% to 26% and Londoners are split 27% each.
Middle class ABC1 voters are also split 29% to 29% for or against the remarks but working class C2DE voters disagree with the PM by 34% to 24%.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1423664805991362564?s=20
However most Tory and Labour voters and voters in every region and GB country and across every age group would back closing coal mines if they were still around today, although working class C2DE voters would keep them open by 35% to 33%
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1423664816443600905?s=20
1. It's Scotland
2. It's Scotland, we've always plundered it, then shut it down as and when, it's a colony, that's what they're for
3. Something else
4. Oh yes. Mines. These are coal mines, Horrid things. They weren't closing beautiful gardens in the Hebrides
Anyone who follows football knows how training sessions work, how players spend their down time.
PHE had no option but to accept the word of the SFA.
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1423746582848102407?s=20
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No. She she planned, she stockpiled, she lulled Von Paulus-Scargill into the salient, and then she sent in the crack troops to pincer them. She won
Revenge was not in her emotional lexicon. Triumph? Yes
Latest VI polls:
Con lead in London 7%
SNP lead in Edinburgh 22%
Because, you know, the Sapphic Krankie and Handsy Alex are quite partial to a Saltire
*While the leaders were hard left, the union members were not so much interested in politics as grabbing a better share of the economic benefits of capitalism. Pay rises, secure employment, and the like. The Seventies were a time that the working classes finally got a decent slice of the economic pie, and Britain's Gini coefficient was at its most equal.
Who?
I am not Sean. I am, however, sure that you are Stuart "der Sturmer" Dickson, purveyor of blood and soil ethno-nationalist memes to your fellow Gestapo-Jocks from your tiny bungalow in, er, Sweden
Good music, granted, but otherwise, relentless shite and national decay. Britain was a morbid pool of feculent matter. We produced nothing, and went on strike to moan about it. It was awful. The mood was remorselessly sour
You are either too young to remember, too old to think straight, or just fibbing, if you are the right age
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1422473591250169881?s=20
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1423698630742007809?s=20
Facts: the average life expectancy of a Cornish miner was about 42. They often spent 18 hours underground. Some only saw the sunshine in high summer on one day: Sunday. Their daughters were sent to the mines age ten to sort rocks, as "bal maidens"
The lament for the mines is pathetic faux working class sentimentality from middle class people, tinged with typical wheedling Celtic self pity. I have seen it in my own people. Time to grow up
segmented something or other
The fact they have gone down better with younger voters and voters south of Watford might provide some small comfort to the PM but a lot of Tory MPs in Red Wall seats will be waiting nervously for the next opinion polls
Why?!
What could fuck the Tories is the migrants crossing the Channel. Terrible optics. They need to sort
When was the last time a Unionist party had a poll lead in Scotland?
But I remember the Seventies well, and we came back every summer. It is though an objective fact that Britain's Gini coefficient was at its most equal in the Seventies.
https://www.closer.ac.uk/data/gini-coefficient-income-inequality-measure/
Those were the days that workers finally gained access to the consumer goods that had been the preserve of the middle classes before. Gormley had gained the pay rise that gave miners a much better standard of living, though these good pay rates, pensions and secure employment were all part of the reason that foreign coal was cheaper, and our mines uneconomic.