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Could Reform leader Tice benefit from BoJo’s travails? – politicalbetting.com
Could Reform leader Tice benefit from BoJo’s travails? – politicalbetting.com
While all eyes have been on the Patison affair four weeks tonight we should be getting the result of Old Bexley and Sidcup by election which looks like a certain CON hold. I can’t see the LDs or LAB getting an upset but Reform, which used to be UKIP, are taking it very seriously indeed.
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As I said about the lib dems in C & A.
Um.
five minutesyear.Edit - bollocks, only sixth. That ruins that one.
Are you a Maths teacher?
(Teaching engineering approximations).
However overall I cannot see anything other than a comfortable Conservative win with Labour a distant second
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48513358
… In the mid-90s, Blair became the butt of lewd gay Give Us A Clue jokes on Radio 4's Sorry I Haven't A Clue. They went on for nearly 15 years, made originally by host Humphrey Lyttelton and continued by his successor Jack Dee. The audience loved it. Blair himself was less amused.
"It was merciless and just plain mean. I didn't mind for myself but my wife and family really hated it and became very upset," he told the Mirror.
"I don't understand why they had to be gay gags either. Yes, I'm very over-the-top and flamboyant but I always have been. I'm theatrical, darling!
"I could have sued, I suppose, but that would have been breaking the comedians' code - and you simply don't do that."…
However, I'd want double the 40's.
Wrong kind of Leavers to moan about tax and spend to.
If Tice does do very well, then it would show that a different opposition is poised to benefit from the travails of the government then that most often assumed.
Vital for Labour that they establish themselves as the primary repository for the votes of those disgruntled with the government.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdKFcOssnA
Rather appropriate given the way Paterson was thoroughly shafted today.
It is a new level of incompetence, it really is.
- The most highly skilled of all was Lionel Blair, but how the tears of frustration welled up in his eyes during their Italian tour, at not being allowed the use of his mouth to finish off Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
- Who can ever forget opposing team captain Una Stubbs sitting open mouthed as he tried to pull off Twelve Angry Men in under two minutes!
- Possibly the most versatile performer was Lionel Blair, and no one will ever forget the occasion he was given A Town Like Alice, when he chose to do a silent impression of the author. Such was the performance, Una Stubbs gasped in amazement when she saw Neville Shute in Lionel's face...
- Give Us A Clue was made all the better by it's resident expert Lionel Blair, who was particularly good at the films of Richard Gere. Who can forget the gleam of satisfaction in his eye when he was given Yanks by Michael Aspel for two minutes .
https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/12/18/16817/lay_off_lionel!
Anyway, I am off for the night.
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Fascinating new study: scientists have identified a gene that doubles risk of respiratory failure from COVID. 60% of people with S. Asian ancestry carry this- which could partially explain why ethnic minorities in UK & Indian subcontinent were hit harder.
Good night.
This OT button is becoming ridiculous!
Tice and Tories 33 each, Labour 24, Others 10?
It is easy to say things won't happen, and they probably won't but it does not make them impossible.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1456381782379544577
The truth of course will, as ever in human health, be complex.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/22/javier-ortiz-florida-police-misconduct-protections-516231?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
“Initial” conclusions shared with CCHQ, Commission tells Telegraph. Report to be published after party responses. With @Tony_Diver.
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1456383616586498059
MP for Ormskirk Feb 1974-1983, then MP for Knowsley North 1983-1986.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1456384728924311552
You may of course think this is just another illustration of the One rule for old Etonians, another for the rest rule which blights British life.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1456385388281573388/photo/1
* his words.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1456385388281573388/photo/1
A bleak day for ordinary, decent MPs as the rotten apples dominate the news.
BBC News - Parties may stand aside in by-election to replace MP Owen Paterson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59167967
I mean - I wouldn't lay at that price, but I've seen no evidence that Tice is an effective campaigner, and I struggle to see Johnson's Conservatives being successfully challenged from the Right.
I guess I have this slightly odd sense of Orwell being a bit of a prig. I don't know where this sense comes from, so perhaps it's unfair on him.
I have witnessed manifold ‘excuses’ such as “my cat clicked it”, “I did it accidentally on my phone while trying to eat a biryani”, and “I only pressed it to see what it would do”.
Fucking own up.
Edit: not to be, LB did a reverse Orwell apparently, changing his name from Henry Lionel Ogus. Parents emigré Russian Jews according to Wiki.
I think I like Lionel the best of the four.
My approach to the question is to read and evaluate the books, rather than look up Orwell on some sort of spreadsheet of the world's 100 most influential literary brands. The answer is he's world class at autobiography and fiction, and pretty disappointing at essays and sustained political analysis.
Run em up.
If you're going to be hanged for the crime anyway, might as well do it.
The racism that cricketer Azeem Rafiq suffered while playing for Yorkshire goes beyond the county to the very heart of the English game. It reflects the fact that, in stark contrast to football, cricket has for decades drawn a veil over racism and become less diverse, not more so.
There is, of course, a very particular Yorkshire problem, which explains why Rafiq’s teammates, and his club itself, might have felt that calling him the P-word was acceptable dressing-room banter. That was not the only racist banter he was subjected to. Recently, while researching my book, The Impossible Dream, Rafiq told me how for about two years some of his Yorkshire teammates had called him “Rafa the kafir”. For Rafiq, a practising Muslim who has been to Mecca for hajj – the pilgrimage all Muslims are meant to do once in their lifetime – that meant he was an unbeliever and is a devastating charge. He was puzzled because none of the people calling him “kafir” were Muslims or knew anything about Islam.
What he did not know was they were using the word “kaffir” – not the Islamic “kafir”, but the term used in apartheid-era South Africa to denigrate black and brown people. Rafiq only discovered this when Yorkshire later held an investigation into his allegations that he had suffered racism. His reaction was: “Wow. How was that allowed to be my nickname? These are not guys who have come from small towns. These are guys who played international cricket, travelling the world. They knew exactly what they were saying. I didn’t have a clue.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/04/yorkshire-cricket-race-row-sport-azeem-rafiq
No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wTR03jlQ8M