Things to look forward to in 2021: An exciting by-election – politicalbetting.com
Things to look forward to in 2021: An exciting by-election – politicalbetting.com
Yorkshire, once again, may prove to be the most important place in the United Kingdom, if not the world.
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Don't understand the argument
If they vote Tory then we might not get a by election.
Yorkshire is truly weird.
Albeit he might be slightly relieved at using the representation argument to hide the fact that he doesn't want Balls promoted to a position that would give him a springboard to challenge Starmer as leader.
We are nearly through this enormous pile of shite
Mr Halloran's priorities for the campaign included:
A full range of NHS services delivered locally (including restoring a full A&E department including intensive and high dependency care, and consultant-led maternity services at Dewsbury and District Hospital.)
More school places for children and restoration of parental choice over preferred schools.
A "clean" Brexit.
"A managed and controlled immigration system.
A reduction in foreign aid.
A crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour.
Police reform.
More support for the armed forces, including veterans, and increased investment in defence.
Against the proposed travellers’ site close to Junction 27 in Birstall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Woollen_District_Independents
Their wiki entry suggests it's fairly right-wing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Woollen_District_Independents
The seat should be a winnable one in a good year for the Tories.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1368561807208636421
Ah, a good brushfire is cleansing I guess.
Edit: I see France doesn't really trust any of the vaccines as very safe. I'm sure Louis Pasteur would be proud.
I still don't really understand WHY they did it, apart from some kind of petty spite against Britain because Brexit, and Astra-Zeneca because failed deliveries - but the UK suffered those as well, and we didn't then denounce the vaccine as ineffective to "get at" the company.
MAD
The desire for Ed Balls -- who I don't remember as being very good, remember the sacking of Sharon Shoesmith in the HoC -- is the same mistake as the appointment of SKS in the first place.
Labour need a fresh & young team (preferably with more women) not an old team of stale, male has-beens.
There are plenty of fresh voices in Labour. If they want to replace Dodds, Rachel Reeves would be a better choice than Ed Balls.
I would have a great deal of sympathy for Harry and Meghan if they had just run off and got on with their lives. I have no problem even with them milking the media to raise funds for either their charitable work or their lifestyle. However, turning the media spotlight on internal family dynamics to make a bigger buck is totally naff in my view.
The only way they can survive - in their accustomed style - is by monetising the terrible relationship with the Royal Family. Turning grievance and gossip into cash. So endless Oprah interviews and more "revelations"?
But that cannot continue indefintely, they will run out of material. Her looks - she remains very lovely, despite being 40 - will eventually fade, his vulnerable boyishness - which he still has - will also dwindle.
I wonder if at that point they will twist the narrative, and reach out for a grand reconciliation. More time in the UK. Big hugs by the brothers. That keeps their story going, keeps itinteresting, and also means money and help. If GPT3, sorry, a good fiction writer was telling their story, that is the obvious big upcoming plot twist. About 3 years away
https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/status/1368559799361806339
Perhaps the company is scared of the EU when it is in this present psychotic state.
At the very least AZN should sue Handelsblatt. "8% effective in the old". Absolute BOLLOCKS, and no retraction
Yeah, she loves it. We hate it.
And she wants it on all the time.
You were right.
The thing is they'll get to age where they no longer love it but they know you hate it so they keep on playing and singing it.
The Tories didn't make progress by reaching back for the 'right' people from Major's old team. They made progress when they found new stars in Cameron and Osborne especially.
Who is Labour's Cameron? Who is Labour's Osborne? It does not look like either Starmer or Dodds fit the bill.
If Balls is the answer you're asking the wrong question.
That's also a 40% reduction week-on-week, after a similar reduction the previous week as well. If that rate of progress can be maintained then the equivalent value by mid-April should be down into single figures.
The average European is, however, scared the Oxford vaccine doesn't work, thanks to those same idiot politicians
It is the oldest story in psychology, the oedipus one. In Meghan Harry has found a substitute for his mum and he will not let that go, he will do anything for her, because keeping her safe eases the psychological wound the poor chap still carries from being a child and unable to protect his mother. Hence "Meghan gets what she wants." Of course she does. She's his mother, only now he's a grown man with enormous wealth and power and he can protect her in a way he never could protect his mum as a child.
So in my opinion this story has little to do with racism or even "the institution" that the monarchy is. It is just childhood trauma being played out, unfortunately, on the front pages, due to the fame of the individuals involved. And we should cut them all some slack.
Harry would do well to read Larkin's "this be the verse"... for that reason I feel nothing but sympathy for him (and Meghan - they are clearly deeply wounded individuals). But at the same time he should take his money and lead a peaceful, quiet life away from the spotlight, rather than weaponising it against his geriatric gran and using the very media he professes to hate to attack his own family. He has chosen a very self-destructive path and I feel nothing but sadness for the whole family.
Our youngest loves Hop Little Bunnies 🐇. Quite an active song she picked up at nursery, alternates between them lying on the floor pretending to sleep and getting up and hopping like mad energetically. It is much cuter and more adorable than Baby Shark and burns her energy too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjsyzbvqsc
They are like a Greek myth, the Royal Family. Cruelty and sex, power and hallucinations
I rather suspect we've already reached the point where there's no excess deaths this week in reality, though it will take a while until this week's figures are released.
IF we are it is nothing to gloat aboui, because the backlog of undiagnosed cancers and untreated heart problems - and all the rest - will elevate it again. The scars of this terrible year will linger for a decade, in multiple ways
(poss exception made if you can convincingly impersonate a 15 year old Californian girl).
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1368502203607113734?s=20
The cynical would say that the politicians like this - they can point to reluctance to take AZN as a reason to wait for Pfizer to some people, and to others AZN being naughty is the reason for slow vaccination. Match bullshit to audience and they can make it until the winter....
However, it does look like the release of the little Plague spreaders tomorrow is the final major obstacle left to go. If that doesn't cause everything to go to crap then, hallelujah, I think we're almost done with this thing. We're not completely safe from the dreaded super-variants, but where mutations have been appearing so far they all seem to be shifting the disease in the same direction, so hopefully the fact that the evil Kent Plague has already descended upon us and now predominates will mean that there are no more nasty surprises.
She's two and a quarter.
Mine is in Tuesday to be tested. On the school bus, which defeats the purpose somewhat, but doesn't start till Wednesday.
One niece Tuesday, the other Friday.
1) Would not be possible to bring them in before September 2022 for contractual reasons, so this is a long term goal.
2) Ideas on holidays are not stupid. In fact, that would in many ways be a preferable system to the one we have now in pedagogical/management terms. Would likely mean more people taking holidays in May and October which would reduce the stress on August. Two week breaks after eight weeks' teaching would in all likelihood see us and the children much fresher and mean time is used more efficiently. Certainly I think it would help with energy levels and planning loads.
3) If, however, school terms are reorganised in this fashion then it would not be possible to get A-level results out before mid-September - even on the assumption that GCSEs in their current form are scrapped, which given the DfE's lack of understanding of assessment isn't a safe assumption. That would make it out of the question to do post A-level applications to uni. The only way out of that conundrum would be to move the start of the university year to January or to say that you start uni after a year off. Again, neither are in and of themselves stupid and impossible ideas, but I can already hear Vice Chancellors exploding and I am confident for financial reasons it will not happen (a golden opportunity to do that this year having been needlessly wasted at enormous cost to us all).
4) Longer school day is not feasible unless many more staff are hired. If more staff are hired, it would probably be more useful to reduce the staff/student ratio in tough schools rather than lengthen the school day overall. Private schools do, of course, in general have longer days and longer contact hours, but they also have much smaller class sizes and three weeks of extra holiday.
That's my 2c. I speak only for myself.
NO MORE CLAPPING
I think the Welsh and NI figures will push us into the very low hundreds anyway - and it is Sunday.
Johnson misled the House, but he won't resign, of course.
Why is he not suggesting tithing our income and bringing back droit de seigneur?
Woke bollocks.
Seeing some passion now at Anfield at last.
We're getting close to that point but we're not there yet.