The Welsh look like cementing their role as the Mitch McConnell of British politics – politicalbetti
The Welsh look like cementing their role as the Mitch McConnell of British politics – politicalbetting.com
Welsh parliament constituency voting intention:LAB: 40% (+5)CON: 30% (+9)PC: 19% (-2)LDEM: 4% (-4)via @OpiniumResearchChgs. w/ 2016 result
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Probably very important if you are looking at Hartlepool or other seats post the 2019 election.
They could go for the UFC model, UFC still control the bulk of the coverage, Big Mouse handles all the streaming tech, and ESPN broadcast some events plus you need a subscription via ESPN+ to be able to access UFC channel and PPV, and generally ramps up the sport via analysis shows.
Your consistency would make John Bercow blush.
I mean down from 25/1 to 12/1.
Ahem.
Ben Rumsby
@ben_rumsby
MPs announce evidence session into The Super League. Witnesses to be summoned to appear before parliament.
a) God's representative on Earth?
b) Adonis' better-looking brother?
c) The brighter twin of Professor Stephen Hawking?
d) All of the above
Personally? I'm rooting for him. I'm tired of being told I have to believe in things that simply aren't true, and I think many other people are as well.
Foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta said New Zealand was 'uncomfortable' with pressuring Beijing and wanted to pursue its own relationship with its largest trading partner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9490407/New-Zealand-backs-Five-Eyes-alliance-wants-human-rights-raised-broader-group.html
https://twitter.com/mohamedbouhafsi/status/1384520390584774661?s=20
Mohamed Bouhafsi
@mohamedbouhafsi
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UEFA is preparing a counter-attack in the Super League. UEFA is working with english investment fund to come up with new LOC that would have a starting budget of 4.5 billion € but which could go up to 7 billion.
On b) are we talking Baron Adonis?
On c) I used to work with a scientist called Stephen Hawking (not that one!). He was basically ungoogleable, pretty bright though.
Edit: the Stephen I knew hadn't made professor yet, either. May have by now. Google can't tell me.
Any help much appreciated.
They won't get franchise status, and the owners of the Stupid Six have utterly trashed their reputations
For some - like FSG at Liverpool - there might be no coming back
Then they could say, look there is still the dream...we just happen to put our thumb on the scale such that most other clubs won't ever be able to compete.
Admissions down
Positive tests down
Testing up
4/4
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/MANU/
LOL
We had a brief discussion on the previous thread about the presentation of different, not necessarily consistent cases.
Always the right option. There are some good ideas in the Super League proposal but being drowned out by the Closed Shop.
The Closed Shop needs to die a death, but the rest is up for negotiations.
WILL @Leon NOW CONCEDE I WAS RIGHT? (again)
All they had to do is fudged so theoretically possible, but practically impossible for the founders to drop out the thing entirely, the owners will always be raking it in. In reality, the EPL is already fudged like that, other than Man City, none of the other big clubs have come close to being relegation and Man City was before the current ownership.
If you have relegation the teams in division 2 can't do that..
Another issue was the 5 guest teams, given you have 15 founders a system based on 32 teams (17 invites rather than 5) would have made way more sense and been way more interesting all round.
I do remember my mum crying gently on the ferry as we left St. Helier at the end of the holiday because she'd had such a good time and didn't want to go home.
I hope it's even half as good as I remember.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1384523385946972165?s=19
It initially looks like by threatening to set up their own competition, they've managed to cut themselves a slightly larger slice of the pie. But maybe as you say the winning and losing is a lot more complex than that.
And what about Puerto Rico? That's even more deserving.
When clubs ignore the wishes of the fans and proceed regardless against their wishes, that's what trashes reputations.
There are reasons to be very wary of this poll.
The best ever result in Wales by Labour was in 2003 under Rhodri Morgan (40/37 % for constituency/list) and in 2011 under Carwyn Jones (42/37 %).
This poll is predicting that Drakeford (40/38 %) will ACTUALLY do better than Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones on the list. It looks unbelievable. The Labour vote is resilient in Wales, but there is no way Drakeford is as popular as Rhodri Morgan or Carwyn Jones at their peak.
It would be -- it it came to pass -- Labour's best EVER result in the Senedd.
There is another peculiarity about this polling -- many of the parties are missing!
Polling average for March in Wales are roughly (constituency, list)
Lab: 32/31%
Con: 30/28%
Plaid: 23/22%
LDem: 5/4%
Reform: 3/0%
Green: 2/3%
Abolish: -/7%
Why are BritainElects/Opinium only prompting for UKIP? UKIP aren't even standing in most seats.They should be prompting for Abolish and Reform (the former will certainly win some list seats).
The main question in Wales is what will happen to the large 2016 UKIP vote.
But, if you don't even offer UKIP's successor parties in your poll, you are not likely to get an accurate answer.
ESL founding fathers could have the same guaranteed share idea, but without even the handicapping of the NFL style drafting system and only a tiny risk of actually ending up being uncompetitive. The "guest" teams / Johnny come latelies will be the ones at the massive disadvantage year in year out.
But I will wait until the monster has been finally slain
At the moment, it is looking good, I agree
We hired a car - as others have said, the traffic is manic. The land train from St Brelade's to St Helier is charming - all the buses radiate out from the central St Helier bus station and it's fair to say the Les Landes racecourse isn't Ascot or indeed Lingfield.
The other thing was everyone and everything was mad on Bergerac - where it was filmed, umpteen "genuine Bergerac cars" etc.
Still, I may be wrong, but I think this will be as far as Statehood has ever got.
The GOP would seek to filibuster it and Manchin has been against dropping the filibuster until now.
An ESL with founding fathers being the shareholders, unlike EPL where there is sharing out and parachute payments etc, would tip that balance even further. And this money would be guaranteed forever, unlike if you do drop down the regular football pyramid.
(Edit - typo)
If they take the fans response on board then that's not trashing anything as far as I'm concerned.
Wolves and Sheffield United were fourth division as well.
On this question, though, he is correct.
Westminster Voting Intention:
CON: 43% (+1)
LAB: 34% (-1)
LDM: 7% (=)
SNP: 5% (=)
GRN: 4% (=)
Via
@SavantaComRes
, 16-18 Apr.
Changes w/ 9-11 Apr.
The outlier was maybe wrong, but a mild trend...
The north is rural and hillier, south built up and flatter. Gorey is the picture postcard with the castle on all the posters. Through gritted teeth I admit that St Brelade's Bay is the best beach in the Channel islands.
If you hire a car it doesn't much matter where you stay but my preference would be to avoid St Helier. Either go for a nice hotel with a coastal view or either Gorey or St Aubin if you want to have somewhere to walk to for a meal/drink in the evenings. Haven't been for a while so i won't give any recommendations on exactly where to stay
(Yes I know this was taken before yesterday, I am joking).
Are you so starved of excitement in your life that you get overexcited at sub sub MOE changes in polls?
https://www.eetimes.com/atomic-clocks-get-smaller-lighter-more-precise/
Potential key technology, with national security uses, and UK players.
In other matters, the Indian variant has been with us since February. Were it materially worse than the other variants, wouldn't we expect to see positive tests rising rather than falling (especially given testing is increasing)?
2-0 down in the 89th minute.
“I got the Chinese s**t,” the Trump-loving musician said in a Facebook live video filled with racist slurs.
Still, he repeated his refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine ― a stance he first took last year in defiance of regulatory approvals and public health experts worldwide who have deemed the shots safe and effective.
“Nobody knows what’s in it,” Nugent said, falsely, in the Facebook live video. “If you can’t even honestly answer our questions of exactly what’s in it and why are you testing it on human beings and forcing it on people in such a short period of time?”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ted-nugent-tests-positive-coronavirus_n_607eb2b8e4b0df3610c03264?ri18n=true&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
Brilliant film – recommended for all football fans. See also I Believe in Miracles (on Forest's glory days).
He declares Buddhism not to be a religion because it doesn't fit his criticisms of religions.
Which ain't very scientific.
Day 3 of the Great Football Crisis of 2021 and the hyperbolic outpourings continue it seems.
Back in the real world, I wonder what the Thatcher Government's response would have been. Probably something along the lines of it's not Government's role to get involved in the internal affairs of football, market forces, blah, blah, etc.
It shows how far modern populist conservatism has travelled from the "small state" era of the 1980s and early 1990s.
You'd think Government would have more things to worry about than the fate of some football clubs. As others have said, where was the Government to help Bury or Dover Athletic?
One could argue allowing non-British domiciled individuals to take a majority stake in football clubs was the first mistake but if you live by the sword of the free movement of capital then you have to die by that sword.
MY sport is horse racing (as you've guessed) and the equivalent would be if Coolmore, Godolphin , Shadwell, Qatar Racing and three or four of the other top Owners decided they weren't going to run their horses at the scheduled meetings but they were going to run their own network of races open only to their horses. 1-2 meetings per week across Europe - say at Ascot, Goodwood, Longchamp or The Curragh.
Their closed races would be run for huge purses - far more than the main programme so their "Derby" would go for £5 million rather then £1 million. They would invite the top Australian, American and Japanese owners and horses to join "World Elite Racing".
These fixtures would then be sold back to bookmakers and media rights for huge amounts of money.
That's basically the ESL as I understand it.
If racing followed the proposed UEFA response, the Owners, Trainers and Jockeys would be barred from competing in the main schedule so Ryan Moore would never ride at LIngfield again - instead, he'd have 12-15 rides per week for Coolmore in World Elite Racing for which he would presumably earn a hefty fee quite apart from the prize money percentage.
Does football suffer if Liverpool or Chelsea don't grace Carrow Road or Vicarage Road next season? To a point, yes but to another point the door for the likes of Norwich, Watford, Burnley, Everton and others for Champions League and Europa League football swings open.
Then it's down to the broadcasters and the fans - is ESL to be deliberately shunned or, as those with experience of substance addiction on here may attest, will it be too difficult to go "cold turkey" with what remains?
Shows just how consistently 'almost there' Everton are.
Kaveh Solhekol
@SkyKaveh
Senior exec at one of 6 breakaway clubs called senior exec at one of 14 clubs this morning and said “We don’t want to leave the Premier League but people haven’t been listening to us here. We are still open to having a dialogue with you”. Phone call did not go down well.
Seems an opportunity to go. I'd also like to go to Scotland but my wife seems think its rife with midges and too effing cold.
There is a glamping place associated with Darwin zoo go I'm checking that out. Also checking out a country hotel in the middle of the island.
https://twitter.com/rebeccamakkai/status/1384240754277576711
Joseph Williams, the lead singer of Toto, is the son of John Williams, the legendary film score composer...
Utterly fascinating football documentary if you haven't seen it.
I did not agree that Drakeford would lose his seat
I have said many times that Labour are the likely next Welsh Government possibly, with assistance from Plaid
Andrew RT Davies is a poor leader of the Welsh Conservatives
Drakeford 29% approval demonstrates how poor/ little known are the leaders of all the parties, with 32% not even knowing best FM
I do give Drakeford credit for supporting the union and of course Plaid seem to be down on this poll.
And it is a fact that for those living in Wales we have suffered 22 years of failure by Welsh labour in health, education, and poverty
Carwyn Jones was a far better leader than Drakeford will ever be, but I do accept that this poll may indicate Drakeford is getting some benefit from the vaccination rollout