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Democrats look to be weathering the California Recall Election – politicalbetting.com
Democrats look to be weathering the California Recall Election – politicalbetting.com
On Tuesday 14 September California votes on whether to replace the Governor, Gavin Newsom. California has a strong ‘recall election’ law, allowing ad hoc challenges to be made against incumbents. Indeed, virtually every Governor for the last few decades has faced serious attempts at a recall election, though none has made it to the number of signatures required to trigger a full ballot since 2003 (the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger won).
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I'd also add the utterly dismal quality of the Republican candidate, whom even some of his supporters have acknowleged is unfit for the post. If the Republicans had had an Arnie waiting, they might be favourites.
Looks like the US isn't in a good place at all.
Slight improvement in the weather here; some sun yesterday and 12degC early this morning. Cloud cover looks a bit thinner, too.
However, all is not well chez Cole; plumber came to service the boiler yesterday and some work needs to be done. Not very expensive, but enough to be disturbing.
A hypothecated one off wealth tax at age 60, payable in one go or spread over the rest of your life, would do it. Max’s feckless baby boomers would have to pay for their own costs without leaning on the next generation. And Cyclefree’s ungrateful Gen X to Alpha will pay too, when the time comes. Everyone’s a winner.
My grandfather’s younger brother was gay so moved to Switzerland after the war because he suffered from several asthma. He had to live somewhere… so split his time between Lutzern and Grindelwald.
But I have cousins who live in France and Belgium as well as an uncle who spends time in Italy and Greece.
So we are a fairly cosmopolitan lot despite our deep roots in the UK and Ireland
Seems like he was used by the owners to get an OFCOM license and now that they’re up and running they can pursue the alt-right digital meme generator they always wanted to.
Bit weird. I got logged out upon refreshing, then later magically was logged back in (I didn't log in myself).
And how Adam Finn finds the case for vaccinating 16-17 Yr olds 'very compelling' but doesn't recommend for 12-15 is astonishing.
GB News won’t suffer any of that nonsense - only hard hitting news and opinion from serious heavyweights
https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1433863614419644421?s=21
UK's version of Fox News can begin in earnest. Another baleful moment in our recent history.
Because polarisation is working so well in America.
I voted remain and am happy to accept the vote of the referendum
I watched GB news for 48 hours and have not watched it since and could not care less about Andrew Neil
Furthermore , my membership of the conservative party has now lapsed and I am a free political spirit
https://youtu.be/-leURXzhKIk
I would not watch Burley anymore than Andrew Neil
And I am no longer a member of the conservative party
"The money is expected to be split between the NHS and social care, with a suggestion that it will go first towards clearing backlogs and then increasingly into care. But what guarantee is there that it won’t all be swallowed up by a health service that can never have enough funding?"
(Camilla Tominey - Telegraph)
Which is exactly what I said on here yesterday morning.
As Pagel has pointed out they didn't look or at least didn't mention Long Covid.
The mood music this morning seems to indicate they will be overruled and the vaxxing will start within days.
See Dixie’s note last thread that a decade of austerity (and tax rises) awaits. Lazy commentators are still locked into the idea that this is the biggest spending Tory government ever, which is only true superficially.
So long as the councils are still there to blame for any deficiencies in elderly arse wiping, the temptation to funnel away all the money to correct deficiencies in hospital care, for which the Government is more likely to be blamed directly, must be huge.
Slightly less importantly, Royal Mail doesn’t really seem to work anymore either.
Furthermore, seeing ones loved ones falling victim to dementia is one of the most distressing experiences one can go through
Telemedicine is, in truth, a very positive development - notably for managing chronic conditions, especially in older people, without having to force them to drag themselves to and from surgeries every few weeks - but it'll do more harm than good if used simply as an excuse to follow much of the retail sector, shut up shop and take everything online.
Best of luck for the little isams!
It's another idiotic system from a country that specialises in them. Really bad systems that can just about work when there is a central consensus but shown to be useless as the country becomes ever more partisan and incapable of having a useful conversation about what is needed.
These sorts of divisions are very damaging in politics. We have been victims of it in Scotland on the independence issue for nearly 20 years now and the UK has similar problems with Brexit. Politicians really need to be more aware of the risks, to be moderate and temperate in their language and to find common ground where they can. But they won't.
Regardless of who pays or how, I would be surprised if we can do social care well over the next decade well as a society without paying at least 50% more in real terms than we currently do.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1635501-d2229341-Reviews-Upminster_Windmill-Upminster_Greater_London_England.html
From high unemployment in the late 1970s and 1980s meaning we took what jobs were available rather than what we wanted, to having the pension rug pulled from under us. This in terms of both quality of schemes available (death of the final salary) and an uplifting of the claimant age for the state pension.
My late father and his colleagues were taking their substantial employment pensions so they could be on the golf course every morning at 09.00 from the age of 61.
When it was thought that majority of those vaccinated would be immune this was an issue. Now that it is apparent that the vast majority of those vaccinated, possibly all, are likely to catch Covid in the medium term it is arguably the largest single issue we face.
Some of the difference is definitional and it doesn't help that long Covid seems to take so many forms but we really need better information on whether the NHS is going to be dominated by the sequelae of this disease for the next 10 years or not.
That said, I’m moving on Thursday!
(The third best thing to do is the big dance festival anyway… once a year)
Edited extra bit: with boost, Sainz is 19 and Leclerc 9.5 at Ladbrokes.
Up north we know all about this because Austerity took away any spare money for councils with lots of cheap (council tax band A-C) housing.
Glad to hear of your DiL… hope it’s the same for us!
On GB news Neil may have a giant ego and be long in the tooth but he brought some credibility and was prominent. Going so soon looks bad.
The stewards will need an armed escort out of Zandvoort if they do penalise him though, so I suspect they’re trying to find a way out of it.
In other F1 news, Kimi Raikkonnen is being replaced by Robert Kubica for the remainder of the weekend, the veteran Finn having failed a Covid test.
1) 2001 GE turnout
2) Iraq
3) 2004 Romanians etc FOM
4) 2007 No GE
5) 2008 Crash
6) 2010 Clegg turns Tory
7) 2010 The wrong brother
8) 2015 SNP
9) 2017 etc Corbyn delusion
10) 2016 (and continuing ad infinitum) Brexit
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/09/labour-s-lost-future-inside-story-20-year-collapse
And just kicks the can down the road.
Typical of this government.
Shame about Verstappen, given his bad luck elsewhere (this being his own fault, though).
What is harder to predict is the ratio of prices to the surrounding smaller villages or indeed to zone 1/2 London.
https://twitter.com/MrMattKnights/status/1434065923384791041
Edited extra bit: and I'm still being continually logged in and out.
A good one so far. The Water Bill turns out to be a 10% rebate for the mechanical water supply problems a few weeks ago.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/severn-trent-water-nottingham-supply-5668707
In other news, the Politico (!) has exposed the EU announcement that "We reached 70% by the end of August" as being based on numerical inexactitudes, according to the stats of their own vaccine tracking agency. Never mind - only short by 10 million or so.
https://www.politico.eu/article/has-the-eu-really-vaccinated-70-percent-of-adults-against-coronavirus/
"End of August" being redefined Real Soon Now.
One is something that doesn’t really exist in practice, is completely useless and sensible people use in sarcastic moments as an example of a joke.
The other is made of chocolate.
Before TV
Before the Beatles
Before home computers
Before Star Wars
Before the internet
Before Google
Before mobile phones
Before social media.
But that is nothing compared to differences between people who grew up in a loving home and those that were farmed out to an institution.
Even before that, things were tight. I've a relative who was a senior councillor about 20 years ago; even then, there was very little spending on anything discretionary. Now councils have cut pretty much everything they can- bus contracts, branch libraries, everything that isn't explicitly required by law- to try to keep social care bumping along in some form.
Because we don't like paying enough tax. And when shysters come along and say we don't need to pay, we've endorsed them rather than saying "chinny reckon".
Having said that I did roll race an RS6 (I hate those fucking things) in my 997 turbo last week after I put the new turbos in it. I got out of it at the top of 4th (so 140mph+) and I had only gapped it by and length and a half. They must be very aerodynamically efficient and have fuck all downforce.