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The German election looks very tight – politicalbetting.com
The German election looks very tight – politicalbetting.com
German election exit polls show a dead heat in the race to succeed Angela Merkel https://t.co/4IZ1jXX9yG
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https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2021/ergebnisse/bund-99.html
He groomed an entire nation's Establishment. Using him to have a pop at just the BBC is a bit reductive.
Strangely. It was widely rumoured about amongst the younger generation. We knew not to go to his club in Manchester. Don't know anyone my age who thought him other than a total creep.
But our elders and betters couldn't contain their gushing enthusiasm for the living saint amongst us.
Any forensic dramatisation might expose the hypocrisy of an entire generation.
https://youtu.be/RcZn2-bGXqQ
So Merkel will stay while the horsetrading goes on.
Lashcet speaking now saying clearly his party cannot be satisfied with the results but parties must come together to form a stable government and that the votes his party did get were clearly to prevent a government formed by the left
an estimated 50-85% of UK petrol stations (outside of the motorway network) have run out of fuel after Britons engaged in panic buying over the weekend
https://www.ft.com/content/7e79e4a8-7a1e-4b2c-8f81-cbf4e9969e28
The other PB knew about Jimmy from about day zero as the rev (goatboy) spent a lot of time providing tales…
I don't think it changes things much ether way for a coalition prospect, It would make a CSU & FDP & AfD coalition numerically possible, but I think this has already been ruled out, or at least is improbable. Unless the Greens start being too ambitions/greedy, in which case the threat of this coalition might contain there ambitions.
The FDP and Greens are in an extraordinarily strong position.
I wonder if any of them will ever actually get built.
It stunk.
Yes, parts of the NHS also came out of it terribly. But the BBC should not be excused. They were central to Savile's power and influence.
I do wonder what the subsidies for this will look like and what share of the liability the state will take on. RR isn't in any kind of financial position to take on all of the liability of a civilian nuclear programme.
On a related note: how the heck is John Peel still revered?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2017_German_federal_election
But, that time they also got 8.7% of the vote, so to me it I would guess that they might not hold them all. Again nail bighting.
Looking back it was clearer how Savile would push boundaries, manipulate people, and generally be a hard person to read in a sort of "is he serious or joking?" way. I'm sure lots of people thought Savile was odd, very odd even, but I don't think that vast numbers of people really knew what he was like.
It's worth watching if it's available online somewhere, Theroux makes it clear that he made many mistakes in making the original programme, and really ended up looking like a bit of a fool with hindsight. Looking back at Savile knowing what is now known he comes across as downright sociopathic.
Louis Theroux: Savile is on Netflix.
Due to Brexit...
However: we should not get into a place where someone 'odd' or 'weird' is automatically distrusted as a potential threat. Most of us are 'odd' or 'weird' in some way: after all, some of us obsessively post on a political betting website.
Odd and weird does not equate to danger. Plenty of dangerous people appear relatively normal, hiding in plain sight - until the truth comes out.
The problem with Savile wasn't that he was odd or weird. It was the fact he was given massive amounts of power - how the heck did he get 24 hour unsupervised access to hospital wards, ffs? Why didn't someone query that?
How could someone doing such immense public good be questioned?
I really fear another Carrington event. We're utterly unprepared for a big one.
A secondary difference was a strong urge to protect institutions. The combination of these two factors is why cases were swept under the carpet.
50-85???!!!
https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1442183851720257544
Do we know who the '1' is when it lists the results of other party's e.g.
https://www.google.com/search?q=german+election+exit+polls&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB898GB898&oq=german+election+exit+polls&aqs=chrome..69i57.15228j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I'm guessing somebody stood in a directly elected seat who is popular enough as an individual to win that one seat outright, but who, or which party? I don't think it will change anything, but just interesting.
So there will be no fuel crisis this week. Unless there is a new actual shortage of delivery drivers. Which would be quite funny now.
The UK has got absolutely zero economic resilience. We've decided that paying for redundancy wins less votes than giving old people yet another freebie.
The common factor? They didn't believe victims. And, if they did, it was a bit of a laugh anyways. Which was very much the prevailing attitude. This is the generation which also gave us widespread mindless vandalism, and football hooliganism.
Should imagine a lot more of the involved will need to be dead before we find it all out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel#Personal_life
There were also various other accusations. And apparently he had a 'School girl of the year' slot in the seventies ...
At best, he certainly was not whiter than white.
There is another factor going on, which people don't want to accept but is the reality. Most people are just not particularly moral. Probably 60-70% of people will do what's in their interest as long as they won't face consequences for doing the immoral thing. Speaking up is a lot of hassle for you if you do it, while being one of many not saying anything is unlikely to create any negative consequences. So people do what's in their own interest and then rationalize their excuses afterwards.
The only reason things have changed is that the negative consequences of not reporting it has been ramped up. There are now specific laws where authority figures will get into legal trouble for not reporting it, and the media climate now has visibility into these things so you might have your reputation destroyed.
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014/10/peel-reveals.html?m=1
I think the difference is one of scale, but also of emphasis. Peel had a transparent excellence at spotting new musical trends that transcends his sexual misbehaviour. His evening show in the Eighties was a cornucopia of the brilliant and the avant garde alongside stuff like The Fall, which no matter how much I listen, I cannot get.
(And yes, I know that a chunk of the design of PWR3 is American.)
This could potentially be done with a much lower initial subsidy and once they've got it figured out incremental costs could be very low indeed. One of my colleagues compared it to a submarine programme (the top of the week), the first one will be expensive, late and people will slate it because it won't be what was promised. The ones that come after will be cheaper, faster and will bring improvements to the original that they couldn't figure out.
Would anyone believe they would stop at that, given the history?
Very different attitude now, of course. Even so, I don't think the 21st century, with its abysmal record on children's mental health, is in a strong position to claim the high ground.
That’s a lovely confused mess the Germans have given themselves.