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Is Gareth Southgate going to follow in Sir Keir Starmer’s footsteps? – politicalbetting.com
Is Gareth Southgate going to follow in Sir Keir Starmer’s footsteps? – politicalbetting.com
Just look at some of the sporting knighthoods awarded the last twenty-five years.
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Mind you I suppose you could argue his career effectively ended at that point given he's won fuck all since.
He strikes me as the type of man who thinks getting past a semi after several decades of trying isn’t really worthy of an honour.
2 majors before and just 1 one afterwards.
Doesn't that lend more weight to the lab leak theory?
Jon Sopel 2/1
Amol Rajan 4/1
Vicki Young 4/1
Adam Fleming 6/1
Emily Maitlis 7/1
Lewis Goodall 7/1
Faisal Islam 8/1
Chris Mason 9/1
Ben Brown 11/1
Alex Forsyth 12/1
14/1 bar
https://starsports.bet/sport/politics under politics specials.
So there's only one contender.
Robert Peston!
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/cricketing-knights-60096
My great grand uncle is in a Bradman-Hobbs sandwich.
There'd be some resistance from the Tory backbenchers, the likes of Brendan Clarke-Smith and Ben Bradley, who were triggered by Gareth Southgate backing the taking of the knee.
Those traitorous tapeworms stopped supporting England as a result.
https://izajodm.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40176-017-0096-0
Sam Coates @ 16-1 looks tempting.
Was quite entertained by the idea of Gareth fulminating over the NI protocol and RTing GB News during training.
Not that I want one.
Forget you ever knew anything about Boris.
Just imagine you'd just boarded a plane, were ready for take off, and his voice comes over the intercom as the captain doing his spiel welcoming you to the flight.
Tell me you wouldn't want to get off...
Stand-out bets for me are with Smarkets: Rajan 8.8, Fleming 15.5 and Mason @ 18.
Just back from my lunchtime constitutional round the streets of East Ham. Regrettably, that cultural abomination, "trick or treat" looks to be getting another outing. I suppose had this morning's rain fallen this evening we'd have been spared much of it.
I suppose I could drone on ad nauseam and ad infinitum about the insidious Americanisation of Britain but what would be the point? The Europeans are both the new and the old enemy and because the US are not much cop at football, cricket or rugby (excluding 1950 in Brazil I imagine) we don't have the faux enmity on the sporting field we enjoy with the Australians, Canadians, West Indians and New Zealanders.
I missed this morning's discussion on immigration - in my part of London, probably one of the cheapest, the arrival of workers from other parts of the EU after 2005 had an immediate impact. The early arrivals were the Poles and the Lithuanians (to a much lesser extent, Latvians and Estonians for some reason) and before long we had specialist food shops and the like for the growing community which initially soaked up the rental market and in time went into the home ownership market.
Most of them have now gone - some have been absorbed into the community no doubt but my suspicion is the wage differential which brought them here (especially the skilled workers) has disappeared and they can now earn the kind of money in Poland they could in the UK - one of the benefits of the Single Market some might argue, the equalisation of incomes and costs.
The second wave of incomers has been the Romanians and Bulgarians and they are now in East Ham. They too now have their specialist food shops, barber shops and the like and a network of vans to carry goods and people from the UK to Romania and Bulgaria.
Has the UK leaving the EU made a big difference? Not really - most either applied legally for settled status or exist under the radar. We know the housing issues this has caused - multiple occupancy in homes, illegal dwellings in gardens etc. There's also rough sleeping especially in summer. However, there seems no doubt the wage differential between the UK and Romania/Bulgaria remains considerable.
One side trend I have noticed is there was at one point quite an influx of sub-Saharan Africans primarily from the former Portuguese colonies who seemed to be able to enter the EU via Portugal and come to the UK. That has been turned off by the decision to leave the EU.
All of this, in my area, is dwarfed by the population movements within the Tamil and Muslim communities as people come and go from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
There are sluggish signs East Ham and Barking are moving "up" with the construction of new blocks of flats bringing a new wave of younger people into the area albeit for most of them on a rental or shared equity basis.
Because they must have been confused after Brexit. Because for me a lot of the undertones of the voting on Brexit were racial undertones.”
Most sensible people will understand and recognise the term in the context of how it happens in America and yes, I am aware there were customs which occurred in earlier times.
It's more than enough if your name is Sir Bobby Robson.
There was a gap of 11/12 years between reaching the world cup semi final and him being knighted, so it effectively became a lifetime achievement award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Robson#Honours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Southgate#Manager
Now, I think Robson's KBE was perhaps a little generous, but I think he qualified as a "national treasure".
However, the most sinister item was a home made effort: a body wrapped in black bin bags hanging from a gibbet.
Happy Halloween indeed!
Yes, he has an affable, easy manner and has been very good when doing stints on shows as banal at The One Show.
But isn’t he more a media journalist than a political one. Surely they’d want an established political journalist to take the role.
What would Milly-Molly-Mandy do otherwise?
Team Johnson: oh no we didn’t
https://twitter.com/TimRoss_1/status/1454818145731063814?s=20
"Recollections may vary"....
Everyone knows it's Sir Macca and Sir Fergie for example
https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1454832378829025283?t=KovSamOtR2iQ7E8ihS894A&s=19
The early vote is more rural and older than 2020 and 2017
https://twitter.com/CBeaune/status/1454739841380405248?s=20
Whatever given name people want to go by, that's up to them and I couldn't care less. Whether that be Keir, Boris, or Josephine but only on Saturdays.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sea-levels-rising-twice-as-fast-as-1990s-kj9jsktnr
If you accept a title and then want drop it when you're one of the few potential candidates to be PM then something is amiss.
I wonder if the government wants an excuse to bring in lots of new anti-protest laws. Maybe the met have been scarred by the Sarah Everard situation. I don't know. I just find it unfathomable.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/24/why-arent-we-in-prison-ask-insulate-britain-protesters
Sometimes you see people write their names out with all sorts of acronyms of their titles etc that they have but most of the time people don't.
I have an honours degree and a Masters degree that means I could put those titles in my name if I wanted to, but I wouldn't unless it was absolutely relevant because it's preposterous to do so in normal circumstances.
If you want to be PM - and have already accepted a knighthood - then you just have to accept being called "Sir".
We'll all be calling him Keith soon enough anyway.
The early vote tallies are here by district:
https://www.vpap.org/elections/early-voting/november-2021-election/
Looking at a congressional district level, I would make the following comments:
The top 4 districts for absolute number of early votes are 10, 7, 8 and 1, with 4 and 11 not too far behind. Of the top 4, the 8th is very Democrat, the 10th moderately so, the 7th is a swing seat and the 1st is moderately Republican. In addition, the 4th and 11th are safe Democrat seats, particularly the 11th. So looking at that, you would say by district, the Democrats should be in a good spot.
However, the 10th is the seat of Loudoun County and has the highest number of early voters. Given all the school controversies there, one argument is that the controversy is driving up turnout amongst dissatisfied parents.
In addition, the 2nd, 5th and 6th seats are not too far behind the 4th and 11th for early voting. 2 of these are safe/ safe-ish / Republican and the other one (the 2nd) is a swing seat (R+1 according to the lean).
One thing I might also be worried about on the early vote counts is that the 3rd district, which is a Democrat stronghold, has low early voting turnout relative to other seats. The other seat worse is the 9th, which is heavily Republican, rural and where you would expect a heavy election day turnout.
I'm still happy with my Youngkin bet, I think he will squeeze it out but can also accept it could be a narrow McAuliffe win. As an outside bet, I have put Youngkin's margin at >2.5% at what was then 9/2 as an outside bet.
I entered my ten best puns, sure that one would win. But sadly no pun in ten did.