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The polls don’t look good for Johnson – politicalbetting.com
The polls don’t look good for Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Above is the latest polling on Johnson and this is in line with other earlier surveys that we have seen. By a very clear margin voters, including 38% of Tory voters want him out.
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https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1486094264593436684
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1486095482388631556
It also calls into question everything else that's been "reported" today beyond the fact that Sue Gray has referred some elements to the police.
They don't know. They can't know.
“At worst it will be like getting a fixed penalty fine for speeding, nothing to worry about,” he said.
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1486096364790558720
https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1486096208846282756?s=21
As for Broady, as explained, his expenses are vast and sponsorship small. I don't have the video link to hand, but he explains if he doesn't win a round at one of the grand slams in a year, he can't pay for his strength and conditioning coach. He spends £12k a year out of his own pocket on restring-ing his rackets alone. The constant travel for tennis is eye wateringly expensive, without the sort of income that say golf can provide.
I think he says from that $1m, he has made about $100k....in 10 years.
Every alternatiive leader bar Sunak doing worse v Starmer Labour than him and more 2019 Tory voters wanting him to stay PM than go
Funny that.
https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1486096922821677057
Had to apologise for lies more often than Boris
@MichaelPDeacon
We cannot possibly afford to change Prime Minister at a time of international conflict. Just ask the man who led us to victory in the Second World War, Neville Chamblerain.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPDeacon/status/1485917546930970624
The two fastest growth predicted are UK and France, though France still has to go through most of it's Omicron wave, and the wine harvest is the lowest for a generation. OTOH they are selling arms everywhere at present (except for a pause in Russia! ). Whilst the UK has a certain amount of queues, and any impact from Boris the Uncontrolled.
UK and France both equalled their pre-Covid GDP (2019 Q4) in Nov 2021 afaics.
Guido had an interesting though not wholly contextualised graph, with growth rates showing Germany to be 5% slower than UK and France over 3 years.
BUT Germany's point of recovery to pre-Covid is not shown and I cannot find when they hit their pre-Covid level.
I'm half thinking that it is another aspect of Merkel's Mess; Germany did fall back far less, but also their investment level suffered badly in 2021, and they are far more a metal-bashing / manufacturing economy than UK or FR.
Does anyone know when Germany reached its pre-Covid level of GDP again?
He's doing worse than May and Corbyn at their worst.
I don't think a sitting PM has ever won a general election from such a dire position.
Senior Government figures now think it might not be delivered tomorrow and might not be handed over until next week.
Everyone may have to stand down. #partygate
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1486098951510102027
Confusing!
Should resign:
Scotland 75%
London 67%
North 65%
Rest of South 59%
Midlands & Wales 55%
GB 62%
As well as Welsh, but short of Welsh refreshment tonight.
He also still leads Sunak as preferred PM in the West Midlands and Wales
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-gb-voting-intention-24-january-2022/
So - someone in Drowning Street organized these parties. Not all of them will get a speeding fine.
I should be drinking Benromach though, as that is the village where my Scottish ancestors migrated from, but alas the bottle is dry.
Something like golf, the base is much wider in terms of pay outs, but also you don't have to beat the World #1 to make any money, you just need to be in top ~64 after 2 rounds. You can be 200-300th (even lower) in the world at golf and be earning a very decent living. Not $10s millions, but better than a 9-5.
And is there a list - IPSO only seem to have one upheld complaint.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/713426f2-7df8-11ec-bbb7-54d5cd4b43b0?shareToken=daf6a13042980c2485e2599a44d9b079
Now most council estate children and parents won't want their children to go to that school but the parents that do should be granted the first places available rather than being rejected on distance grounds.
That isn't a problem round here as the best local comprehensive games the system to get them in.
Boris is counting on overtaking events to divert us.
What a crook he is. I hope the photos are leaked soon.
No10 is prepped for the Gray eport to be public domain tomorrow.
If it's official publication: PM will give a statement post-PMQs & full report will be published at a later date, probs Feb1, when oppo has control of business
If it's leaked, different ball game. No lock in, no statement. Government will encourage oppo to push into Feb1 to go through formal process.
But government fears briefing will push the leak.
There are three factions pushing the leak
1) Tories who want Boris gone. They just want their day in court
2) Oppo who are worried Police investigation pulls the teeth from Gray report so put pressure on it coming out asap
3) Boris supporters who think report will not meet the hype so get it out asap
Government is basically ready to fight this whatever happens. Boris wants to be PM and wants to not be kneecapped. Rumour has it some (not in government, backbench supporters with legal background) are even making arguments that the Tory party constitution isn't legally binding
Meanwhile the Boris out crowd is pushing for 22 to rewrite the rules to change 12 month lock to six. This is going to be horrible messy. A leak would be the messiest way to kick off months of horror
https://twitter.com/lukemcgee/status/1486097060352909320
The reason the game is not up is because so many backbench Tory MPs, the only people in country who can shape this till general election, still unsure if they gave it a few months the crisis will blow over and ratings improve.
And there you go. Beautiful PB. Two opposite but reasoned points of view.
Natasha Clark
@NatashaC
Liz Truss on the morning round tomorrow Popcorn
But the big thing is because it is a cut system, if you make the cut its a guaranteed several $1000, without ever challenging for the tournament. Even those coming well down the bottom of the list for money rankings are winning $100k's in prize money.
100th on the USPGA tour money list last year won $1,294,062. I think he can probably afford to pay his caddie and coach out of that....
You may as well force every shopper to go to Tesco and ban Waitrose, M and S, Asda and Lidl. Same socialist answer to everything, end choice, dictate and force everyone to only have one service they are allowed to use
When I lived in South Africa in the 90s, I bought a couple of malts from the early 70s. One day, I’ll open then (hopefully before I drop dead).
I fully expect him to survive until May and if the locals are horrendous, or even just bad, he’s gone.
[Very much an ‘if’, PM’s spokesman today said Johnson believes he has not broken Covid laws] https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1486105110811922436/photo/1
There is a choice (which in your world doesn't exist at all) and most people take the easy option but it's available to all who want it. There is no selection involved here at all, parents choice the school and the school pulls the tricks it can to get the disadvantaged children into that school.
And as I said wait until you have children (God forbid) and enter the world of School Admissions where you will probably discover that due to admission criteria you have a chance of admission into 1 school and it won't be the one you want.
Golf - millionaire perhaps ? 6 figure earnings annually
Tennis - Not far away from golf
Athletics - relying on a 20-30k a year UK sport grant probably
Snooker - on the breadline
Darts - is a postman/builder
Cricket -60k a year playing as a senior pro at county/state level?
Football - multi milliionaire ,fawned by fans earning 7 figure sums annually .
Always be a footballer!!
Bl**dy cowards! They know what they need to do
The 100th best tennis player is winning more like $100-200k, before massive expenses.
Cricket, its £25k a year base salary for a country cricketer. Senior pros will be lucky to be £60k. Its why guns for hire for world T20 leagues is such a popular job.
Downing Street seems to be run with less care and discipline than even the shittiest places I’ve worked in my career.
Harry Cole
@MrHarryCole
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I think it was Peter Kennaugh on the Tour de France coverage last year said he made more money in a single year he didn't even ride the grand tours than basically the rest of his career, because Team Sky totally dominated and for that year they paid even split to everybody who was a member of the team.