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The screen-grab from the BBC’s LE2017 coverage that sets out the huge challenge for Johnson’s party
The screen-grab from the BBC’s LE2017 coverage that sets out the huge challenge for Johnson’s party on Thursday – politicalbetting.com
As we know local elections are scheduled for every May with a different set of seats coming up each year on a four year cycle. So this year we have those that were last contested in 2017 as well as 2016 when COVID prevented elections being held,
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And I claim my licence fee back
Not going too well for Murphy right now. 3-1 to Selby since the mid-session interval and even when he gets a chance he’s twitchy. He needs a mess up from Selby here.
The media will fixate on the former, but the latter is what shows us the state of the parties.
As Mike has pointed out above we did very well in 2017, and we would be expected to go backwards.
Also not expecting anything in London, Wales or Scotland.
But there's 3 years to the GE, we have an 80 Maj and the pressure is all on the other parties. 👍
What a pot that was.
Not a millimetre to spare either way and it never even brushed the edge.
Shame about the blue.
If this LoD ending was worse than that, it must have been bad.
I take it they are still playing?
(*Tony Blair's idea, I believe https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-tony-blair-suggests-using-up-uk-vaccine-stock-on-first-doses-and-prioritising-spreading-students-12171116)
I had forgotten this earlier when I said it might be 10-6.
Ok fair enough - I stand corrected.
That's probably my second favourite.
I think you're taking expectations management to silly levels.
If we look at the national equivalent vote shares at similar stages then:
1976 Opposition leads by 10%?
1981 Opposition leads by 3%
1985 Opposition leads by 7%
1989 Opposition leads by 6%
1994 Opposition leads by 12%
1999 Government leads by 2%
2003 Opposition leads by 5%
2007 Opposition leads by 14%
2012 Opposition leads by 6%
Though the 1999 Champions League has to be the best ever final finale.
Albeit most of the series was pretty shit, so it may be not many people noticed.
The TV series lost its way when it got ahead of the books.
Though I doubt Martin knows how to end it either.
Side effects wise I've had a splitting headache and sore arm. Hopefully that passes tomorrow.
Hancock briefed him on it as an idea his department had come up with and he was considering. He asked Blair’s opinion.
Blair then ran and brief the media about his wonderful idea.
Hancock was so pissed off that he ceased all briefing of Blair
It was extraordinary poor behaviour by a former PM
I will still defend the later seasons. There were genuine issues particularly with the last season which for some reason they cut down to only 6 episodes when, I'd argue, what they sought to do needed more time, but I still think many of the major elements which some people hated stand up and make sense within the overall arc of things, with admittedly some elements seemingly being more poor attempt at defying expectation. But the big Dany arc which for me is the heart of the show ended up pretty much exactly where I thought it was always setting up for, from the very early seasons. They just rushed the fall from grace which was always coming.
Endings often seem to happen very quickly, as the writers stop laying the clues and the misdirections and suddenly somebody spills the beans and everything is revealed.
As someone said above, there are few good endings. With US series this doesn’t matter as anyone who has stuck it through to the end of series eleven will clearly put up with anything. For European series I thought The Bureau ending was very good. And bravely created as well.
70% of Republicans don't think Biden won the election....
I am rather surprised Hancock spoke to Blair about the idea though. I would not have expected any contact at all between any member of the current cabinet and Blair.
However, was fatigued for a week. Everything 50% more tiring. Though nowt impossible.
Well done both. Hopefully you'll both be feeling better tomorrow. Mrs P felt ill for 36 hours, then right as rain. I had no ill effects at all.
Babylon 5 had the opposite problem of course - it thought it was ending and so rushed what would have been a brilliant ending to the major plotlines, but then kept going.
Person of Interest ended pretty well
It's not the spelling of definite that's the issue, it's the pronounciation.
Feels like a proper LoD ending would have been an hour long interview scene
Granted, that is essentially what the Netflix show Criminal is (and is quite good).
And of course the best episode of The Thick of It was the public inquiry episode.
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, I'm looking at you.
Also Jericho, although they did eventually bring it back for a second (short) season, if I remember rightly.
The actual worse as The 4400, which I quite liked, which was renewed for a final season, but then there was a writer's strike, and it got cancelled. I even bought the novelisations that were released to tie things up (which they didn't really).
Just asking.
Incidentally, I reently changed computers, and before getting my new one used to finding politicalbetting.com, it persistently offered me what looks like a spam site, telling me I've won something or other. Do the moderators know about it?
Wonder IF they could have a seance to brief and consult Sir Robert Walpole, Pitt Elder & Younger, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Churchill, Atlee, Macmillan, Wilson, Thatcher?
Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy on the other hand - great endings.
Personally have my own final episode for Frasier, where the protagonist wakes up screaming in his bed, and realizes that the last few seasons that actually got made and aired were all a horrible bad dream (which they were).
And that he and his brother have been confined for the entire time in the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Which turns out to be a MUCH more pleasant existence than either staring in the final years of Frasier. Or watching them for that matter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55173605
Another copy-cat piece of crap was American version of The Office. Some decent actors (not Steve Carrel obviously) wasted (and not in a good way) by lousy writing.
My own theory is that extreme pro-Cornish independence elements burrowing in the bowls of the Foreign Office were responsible for Lord Stanley's treachery (likely unconscious but still unconscionable!)
I never liked the English version of the Office so have never watched the American one.
Compared to West Wing, it was like a carthorse next to a Cadillac.
At least what I saw and heard of it. Could be wrong. But that was my strong impression, and also of at least some others I know in US politics.
The problem was more the quality of this season compared to earlier ones, well expressed in this Guardian review (which uncharacteristically, and refreshingly criticises agitprop):
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/02/line-of-duty-review-an-audacious-deranged-reverse-ferreting-finale
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on coronavirus has told the government to "discourage all international leisure travel" to protect the UK from COVID-19 variants. The group said that airport arrival halls are a "breeding ground for infection" and the importation of variants could lead to "further lockdowns and inevitably further loss of life".
Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, who chairs the APPG, said: "It is staggering that the government is even contemplating encouraging overseas holidays when airports are already struggling to keep the virus and new variants at bay. "Urgent measures are needed to better detect fake COVID test certificates, reduce overcrowding in arrival halls and separate those arriving from red and amber list countries. "The country's biosecurity cannot rely on border staff spotting a spelling error.""
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-mps-urge-ministers-to-maintain-ban-on-foreign-holidays-after-17-may-amid-variant-fears-12293772
If it isn't hurting, it isn't working.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/551331-gop-wrestles-with-role-of-culture-wars-in-partys-future
...” Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC. I urge my GOP colleagues to do the same. For too long, Republicans have allowed the left & their big-business allies to attack our values & ship jobs overseas with no response. No more,” Cruz tweeted on Wednesday.
That prompted an enthusiastic response from Hawley, who retweeted Cruz the following day.
“Yes! Corporate America has put Americans last. They ship our jobs to China, mock middle America’s way of life, try to control our speech and run our lives,” Hawley wrote. “It’s time we stood up to them. I won’t take corporate PAC donations & I’ll fight to break up their monopoly power.”
The bashing of corporations is striking a discordant tone with other Republicans at a time when they’re trying to marshal a unified defense against Biden’s plan to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, from 21 percent, to pay for his infrastructure agenda.
“It’s repudiating a segment of the American economy and the American electorate that has traditionally been very loyal to the Republicans. It’s an amazing example of ideological shapeshifting to wage war along cultural lines,” said Ross K. Baker, professor of political science at Rutgers University and a former Senate fellow....
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You Rang My Lord had a really good ending as well.
The ending of Blake’s Seven was a belter.
Makes sense.