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A “baldie” to succeed Boris as CON leader – previous ones haven’t done well – politicalbetting.com

Having been bald myself since my mid-thirties I’ve always been conscious of suggestions that it could be a limiting factor in a political career.
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But in politics, like those being chased by the bear, you don't need to be good or fast, just better or faster than the others.
It's been interesting to see the differing views of Wallace, Tugendhat, and Ellwood during this war. Of the three I think I prefer Tugendhat's views (a bit more spending, although that is of course tricky in the current climate). Ellwood's advocay of a NFZ seems dangeous to me.
Tory leader won't be facing Blair.
Worse luck.
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-22/army-will-be-cut-to-72500-troops-by-2025-defence-secretary-says
However in the UK you do yes have to go back to Churchill in 1951 for a bald leader who won. Though Hague and IDS faced Blair at his peak and had a tough time of it, had either been facing Neil Kinnock, another baldie, or Gordon Brown I expect it would have been closer.
Wallace is not particularly charismatic but serious and hardworking if a bit dull. Given the usual pattern of Tory leaders goes charismatic then dull eg Thatcher, Major, Hague (who was a charismatic speaker), IDS and Howard, Cameron, May and Boris, Wallace looks an excellent bet to succeed Boris as Tory leader when he eventually goes. Though I think Boris is safe as PM until the next general election
The Academy does not condone violence of any form. Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.
https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1508310547564953606?s=20&t=ZYh6upw8RzT8F7n3DddLjg
And an hour later...
Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to Will Smith for his incredible performance in 'King Richard' Congratulations!
https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1508292151389548544?s=20&t=ZYh6upw8RzT8F7n3DddLjg
Best Hair Timothee Chalamet
Best Legs Kristen Stewart 🤤
Worst Dress Billie Eilish (by the same mile as the length of it)
Surely you've got some polling to cite from You Gov or wherever on % willing to vote for a) hairy, b) balding or c) bald PM, and whether there are any significant differences between the Red Wall and middle England, and between Remainers and Leavers?
Wallace just needs to ride a horse, topless, to show he is man enough for the top job.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2022/03/saudi-arabia-post-race-analysis-2022.html
Also, adding new capacity to existing ports won't be a cheap or quick.
Building the new LNG terminals that has been announced, in Germany, will definitely take more than a year or 2.
from https://www.gie.eu/download/2018/GIE_Brochure_The_Benefits_and_Role_of_LNG_in_Europe_January2018.pdf
I read that his first name is actually Robert; Boaby Wallace has a fine ring to it.
The main insight from this morning's LBC interview with Starmer is that Labour is going to get hit with a whole bunch of culture war wedge issues in the run-up to the next election. Those issues say a lot more about the distorted concerns of Westminster/media than the country.
https://twitter.com/drjennings/status/1508384695234478082
I'm not sure "women's rights & safety" are a "distorted concern"....
The trashing of Russian tank regiments will be as nothing to the way this war will be remembered for destroying the Russian economy.
But it isn't - it's in Sunak's...
Even The Rock’s gross box office is over $5bn, the 20th highest grossing actor of all time. And that’s his second successful career (as per Will Smith).
Like gay marriage. Your average 'straight' isn't bothered, finds it mildly amusing, but if it's not hurting anyone, and it protects the survivors rights on death, why not?
The only dickheads are those who have invested in a portfolio of properties expecting young people to keep paying them rent, and view that investment as their "pension". If they lose out, then sucks to be them, investments can go down as well as up.
People being able to afford their own home is more important a priority than people's investments being secure.
It's a big deal in the Green Party, where quite a few activists are very deeply entrenched on both sides - I know some senior party people who said they'd quit if the leadership candidate with the "wrong" view got elected.
After about a hundred years, houses would be affordable again.
The chances of creating that situation are about equal to Putin & Co. making it to the English Channel...
But its like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - a property providing a roof over the head of someone, and that someone being able to afford their own property is almost infinitely more important a priority than someone who is investing in homes they don't live in, in order to extract a rent from that person.
Especially given our f***ed up planning system that doesn't allow new housing to be built to replace any homes that people who don't live in it own. If the planning system was reformed so that anyone who wanted a home of their own could just build one anywhere they wanted, instead of having to rent it off someone who is closing the market off to purchasers, then it wouldn't be an issue.
Now it looks likely that the next Tory Leader will be Leader of the Opposition, the polls are close enough now for Boris to stay PM and lead the Tories into the next general election (although he could be re elected still of course even if Labour narrowly lead polls now)
Mike is clearly onto something with this. There seems to be a fair amount of anecfacta that voters don't warm to bald political leaders. Probably not to ginger ones either.
Renting not ownership is still mainly a London problem and to a lesser extent a Home Counties problem. In the North and Midlands and Wales and Scotland and NI while people may rent when young they can still afford to buy a property in their 30s relatively easily as prices are far cheaper
Most everyone under 40 knows Will Smith by name, sight, probably voice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LBC/status/1508151165363658757
Useless idiocy seems to run in the family.
Trump too of course in the end fought for re election in 2020 despite earlier talk he would bow out and although he lost it was still reasonably close
You have some very warped views and they have nothing to do with the rights of people to be non-binary.
BBC Scotland recently did a survey on public attitudes to trans issues and GRA reform in Scotland; the general consensus seemed to be that folk weren't that bothered and in general had a mild preference that life should be made a bit easier for trans people. You could almost see the cloud of thwarted disappointment above Pacific Quay.
I find the idea anyone doesn't know who he is pretty incomprehensible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Hates_Chris
And whatever Tyndall thinks, as I said most trans people are invariably non-violent.
Of course a few slip through or, worse, use this as a cover but there's violence everywhere and they are in the extreme. I've seen very violent cis women in ladies loos after a few drinks.
A good example, at the moment, is the absolutely mindblowing failure that is the Ferry contract. There is an article in the Scotsman by a former Auditor General saying that Nicola really should resign for this. A fixed price contract for £97m for 2 ferries has turned into £240m for one rusting and unusable hulk and one that doesn't even exist. The latest cunning plan seems to be to blame Derek Mackay on the bases that (a) he was once Transport Minister (b) he is a bye word for utter incompetence and (c) he is no longer about.
Which rather begs the question of why Nicola thought it was a good idea to promote him to Finance Secretary.
I know you are not a fan of Nicola or the current leadership of the SNP but someone like Wallace would be well out of sight of the bear before that lot had their running shoes on.
I'm saying that it's wild exaggeration by you. As I mentioned, there will always be some exceptions and there are also some who use it as a cover. But by and large transsexuals are non-violent.
As I say, I've seen a fair few violent women in the ladies after some drinks inside them. Which leads to a better discussion about the place of alcohol in society.
As you, I suspect, know nothing of the topic and have never been inside a ladies I shall park your rudeness in the category of 'ignorance.'
Invariably definition - "in every case or on every occasion; always."
So if a 'few slip through' then they cannot be 'invariably' non-violent.
PS Never heard of whoever it is we are talking about.