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The big speech reaction – politicalbetting.com
Boris Johnson now squats like a giant toad across British politics. He has expanded the Overton window in both directions. Praising bankers and drug companies, while tight on immigration and woke history. Cheered for lauding the NHS and pro LGBT. Where does Labour find a gap?
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Feels unsatisfactory to me, and open to someone targeting their broadband in important votes.
Totally unfit to be PM but who TF cares.
What's not to like ?
Thoae who don't didn't?
45 minutes. Now you're talking. Or not.
Sounds like it was the usual snake oil for the highly gullible and intellectually feeble.
If it’s comedy you’re after, there’s loads of good stuff on Netflix.
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Fantasia downgraded to default status by rating agencies as Chinese property sector crisis worsens
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2021/10/672_316576.html
Corbyn bequeathed Starmer a toxic legacy.
Boris gabbled his speech, he threw away good, funny, profound or important lines. Why does he do this? I think others are right: he’s used to addressing drunken dinners. His peroration was weak and, like Starmer, the speech lacked detail.
But Boris told a good and upbeat story (unlike Starmer), he made his audience, in the hall and at home, actually laugh. It’s pretty clear which party will be going home in better spirits, and which party is happier with its leader
The economy has to absolutely tank for Labour to have a chance of winning. That might happen, of course
If you use that, change your password ASAP.
Names don't matter.
https://noncefinance.com/
Starmer 89 mins
Johnson 44 mins
https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1445722553549561856
Disappointed she used judgement though rather than judgment.
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Something along the lines of:
Do you agree that Brexit represents an opportunity to reboot Britain and we should get on with it, or do you want to go with Starmer and open our borders again?
Shows what a game he thinks it all is when he is so happy to break the fourth wall.
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/judgement/
As others say, only an economic downturn is likely to knock the scales from the voters’ eyes.
And even then, Keir is not much use and not very ornamental.
Question is how long Boris can trundle along before, as you say, he runs out of road
There’s a decent chance he could make it to the second half of the decade as PM
Make it so whenever a voter sees Johnson they remember the Russian money, the hedge fund and financier money and the developer money. And they understand that it isn't given because of oligarchic love of sound governance but to further influence the rules of the country.
Call him Boris incessantly but do it to reference the wealth the party receives from a ruling class that has already corrupted one system and would do to ours.
Starmer has removed the wheels on the left side from the car and made it so the steering wheel only turns right.
Everyone who drives it falls asleep listening to SKS greatest hits on the cassette and crashes the car over again.
Del Boy is often regarded as one of the greatest comedy characters in the history of British television, and is regarded as an iconic character in British culture." “
http://aboutasfarasdelgados.blogspot.com/2021/04/prosecuting-del-boy.html
Which of the two of them had "Make Brexit Work" as their slogan?
Yes, Johnson should get on with it, and as Starmer pointed out he needs to but is doing anything but.
Johnson 365 seats
Corbyn 202 seats
Rising wages are great unless prices rise faster. Inflation matters - it’s about what we can afford and how families make ends meet in a tough month.
https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/1445697113812180992
Try and mount a defence of SKS without yeah but Corbyn.
Impossible task?
If things are going well, any incumbent will look like a winner, even if they are an incoherent oaf.
When things go badly, that's when politicians earn their corn. People can read the polls of 2020 in different ways, but I think they show BoJo gradually spaffing away the bump he got as we all rallied round the flag at the start of the crisis.
And sunny optimism works brilliantly in sunny times. Try the same thing when lots of people are struggling, it makes you look a bit of a psycho. So the next election depends on what it always depended on- does Bozzanomics work?
A woman who was arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil says that about 50 police officers contacted her via a dating app, leaving her “terrified”.
The image of Patsy Stevenson, 28, being pinned to the floor by two male police officers on March 13, her hands held behind her back, was one of the defining images in criticism of how the vigil in Clapham Common was policed.
Stevenson said that officers approached her on Tinder after she was handcuffed at the vigil.
“They were all in uniform on their profiles or it said ‘I’m a police officer’,” she told the BBC.
“I do not understand why someone would do that. It is almost like an intimidation thing, saying ‘look we can see you’, and that, to me, is terrifying.
“They know what I went through and they know that I’m fearful of police and they’ve done that for a reason.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/woman-arrested-at-everard-vigil-says-officers-contacted-her-on-tinder-dating-app-mkvbj9xpp
They're just OK with it. As long as things are going well, they are happy with the upbeat demeaner even if it irritates others and even if its not always serious.
People don't want dour and serious and negative all the time. If they did, they'd have elected Brown not Cameron.
And you know what? He'll be right.....
Our capabilities for holding belief systems have changed massively with the shift from national press and tv to unregulated internet.
And now? 2019 is year zero. Labour getting dragged down to 202 seats and having had the toxic terrorist as leader never happened. Starmer should be 20 points ahead and that he has failed to pull Labour all the way back out of the Corbyn pit is all his fault because what pit.
Its no wonder that @bigjohnowls has pledged to vote Tory, the argument is so delusional it may as well be from Boris.
Not an issue if you got a mortgage when you were 18 and sold it on to buy a mansion for cash so you don't have to worry about inflation. For families making ends meet though, inflation never went away in the first place.
As you say, in the meantime the question is how long Johnson can maintain the fiction.
Even in his speech today there was no reference to it - surely it should be "you can't get fuel and thats a Good Thing because we are building back better pay and conditions for British truckers!
Boris: Brexit is not responsible for shortages, supply issues, mass pigocide, etc
Also Boris: The economy is experiencing stresses and strains which you'd expect from Brexit and is part of our Grand Plan.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712250/twitch-hack-leak-data-streamer-revenue-steam-competitor
Yet Boris sails serenely on. He is protected by the praetorian guard of Leave voters, but he also has some undefinable charisma which sustains him. He is a phenomenon. He’s also clearly regained his vim after his Covid infection
If he stays in office til the next GE he will be extremely hard to defeat - as things stand
I like how all these issues besetting the government are couched as the work of their predecessors, which Johnson has been tasked with resolving.
Smoke and mirrors bollocks, that Johnson lovers will simply lap up.
You can get fuel and were it not for a media-induced panic you always could.
You can get bacon and if a few pigs bred to be killed get killed it isn't the end of the world.
There's a big difference between going through teething issues in a transition to a better place, and going through abject horrors and misery.
I appreciate that this may sound like "women shouldn't go out dressed like that", but if you want to avoid weirdos and perverts, then I'd suggest avoiding Tinder.
All he can do is say it's all marvelous and exactly what we planned and isn't everything great. And hope his supporters don't notice.
And it has worked because of supporters like you in fact, Philip, who parrot the it's all marvelous line.
They were obviously intimidating her and it is disgusting. But she should stay off Tinder.
The policemen in question need slapping. With house bricks. Because they acted like stupid arseholes.
Just because a place is full of stupid arseholes being arseholes is no excuse for being an arsehole.
If you want to get fit and you choose to exercise then that stresses and strains your muscles, but it isn't a horror, nor is it the wrong thing to do.
It is only days since there were no issues at all, whatsoever, with Brexit, according to the Daily Express wing, at least.
At work, Red 8 is also known as the stepmom, that's how bad it is.
One reading is they, yes, is damn hard for an opponent to beat, and most PMs would kill for his ratings.
The other is that he was heading for the rocks last November, only to be saved by the vaccines. And now he is drifting in the same direction.
I say that full employment, growing wages, improving productivity, a growing economy and opportunities for people is a good thing not because its a 'line to take' but because I think that full employment, growing wages, improving productivity, a growing economy and opportunities for people is a good thing.
True believers like Marquee Mark are simultaneously able to believe there are no problems with the British economy, and that the problems are an inevitable and much-welcomed transition to paradise.
It’s a psychologist’s wet dream.