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What do the “Turnip Taliban” think of their MP now? – politicalbetting.com
What do the “Turnip Taliban” think of their MP now? – politicalbetting.com
The hot betting favourite for the next PM, Liz Truss, first had a PB thread about her in 2009 before she even became an MP.
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What are the tabloids referred to as now?
Edit - fourth. If Aberdeen can achieve those dizzy heights this season I’ll be amazed!
Further edit. Some people obviously seem to rate her. No accounting for taste.
Great to see Truss doing well, she deserves it.
Also amusing that we have some of our own Turnip Taliban like @Nigel_Foremain that still can't stand her.
On the + side she will be my first 100/1 shot to come in
If you want to read the comments on the 2009 thread they're available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091110153842/https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/03/will-dave-prevail-against-the-norfolk-nineteen/
Objectively she’s done bugger all in terms of positive achievements but in this alternate university which the Tories live in she’s a marvelous candidate for PM .
Have we done this one earlier? It is potentially explosive surely? Or coloration is not causation?
"With direct impacts of Covid ruled out, the most plausible remaining explanation is grim: we may be witnessing the collapse of the NHS, as hundreds of thousands of patients, unable to access timely care, see their condition worsen to the point of being unable to work. The 332,000 people who have been waiting more than a year for hospital treatment in Britain is a close numerical match for the 309,000 now missing from the labour force due to long-term sickness."
Chronic illness makes UK workforce the sickest in developed world
https://www.ft.com/content/c333a6d8-0a56-488c-aeb8-eeb1c05a34d2?sharetype=blocked
This is Johnson all over again
1.43 Liz Truss 70%
3.35 Rishi Sunak 30%
Next Conservative leader
1.43 Liz Truss 70%
3.3 Rishi Sunak 30%
Sunak 3.4
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/politics-betting-2378961
1. Numerous trade deals when International Trade Secretary.
2. As Secretary of State for the Environment she launched a 10-year bee and pollinator strategy in November 2014. After a quick look I haven't yet been able to find information on whether that has been a success, but there should be some about somewhere. I'll keep looking.
3. She was named Road Safety Parliamentarian of the month while a backbencher for her campaigning to improve road design in her constituency.
Everything else mentioned is either incomplete, or subjective, or part of the normal irrelevant treadmill of politics. Not sure how that compares to other politicians. I wasn't expecting to find much.
The two big missing groups of workers post lockdown are over fifties males (mostly early retirements?) and thirty something women (perhaps enjoying time at home with the families?).
Hence, Lord Chancellor, Trade, Foreign Office.
It’s people taking the opportunity to avoid working and enjoy parenthood or retirement - and who is to say they are wrong?
Inflation may encourage them back, though.
https://archive.ph/vTxhu
I'm not convinced it justifies the claim made, but I'd be interested in others' views.
Is this a baby boomer thing? I am of an age where every conversation with a get-together of my fellow 55+ mates and old colleagues turns to the topic of early retirement.
The long-term sickness figure is 309,000, while retirees looks to be around 100,000.
Overnight Barcelona have sold 15% of their TV rights for the next 25 years, receiving €315million. They'd already sold 10% a few weeks ago for €207million. So yeah, they've got a bit of cash...
So pay down their 1bn in debt, nah, spend it all on a load of player in their 30s with zero resale value.
“We all think she [Truss] is going to be so bad at the hustings that members will change their minds,” one said. Another predicted: “He will shine at the hustings, whereas Truss is mental and will be found out.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/22/rishi-sunak-camp-says-debates-against-truss-will-change-tory-members-minds
And that anyone will pay attention to the hustings.
(Which of course means that students are within their age group.
The number of HE students in the UK increased from 2.41 million to 2.66 million between 2019/20 and 2021/22, with approx 80% being full time.
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His analysis needs a lot of unpacking.
https://archive.ph/vTxhu
Sounds bonkers, so given we are in 2020s it is probably true.
Good job England, I mean SA, bat deep....
But I do think they can do so repeatedly.
“not convinced” the result was a foregone conclusion."
I'm nibbling at 3.35 and I will go more if Sunak hits 4.
https://policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/opinion/bee-cause-are-britains-bees-and-pollinators-back-brink
Jason Groves
@JasonGroves1
Environment minister Zac Goldsmith says Extinction Rebellion & co are right to cause mayhem. Tells the BBC's Week in Westminster that 'we're not doing enough' to tackle climate change, adding: 'That kind of pressure does work, it may be annoying but it works.'
Whatever you think of his policies having a prime minister who captivates the people of the world's most populous country is unlikely to be bad for us.
I think she is a bit mad, and that's why I'll not vote for her. However what she's saying about economic policy is quite right, although I don't think she's done her homework.
Sunak is very dull and also somehow delivers dullness in a bad way. A 6% rise in corporate taxation is just nuts. It really isn't hard to ring-fence the cvoid spend. Fewer rules would be a good thing. How hard can it be?
Truss seems to be quite awful in her current role too. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this we need a person that will be taken seriously world-wide, and that's going to be a man, or a far better woman.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/17/labour-split-by-leadership-call-for-action-against-climate-crisis-blockades
Whilst for Goldsmith, it's an old position, for which he got roasted.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/12/tory-mps-criticise-ben-goldsmith-extinction-rebellion-just-stop-oil
Probably blurred boundaries, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgUAtIQjPM
Assuming he's behind into mid-August, I am sure Sunak will be reminding the membership about this facility after any Truss gaffes.
Although I think this government is already effectively finished tbh.
Clever companies will understand the incentive to invest in capital equipment, training and recruitment. SME companies will largely be unaffected. Indeed it is quite carefully structured to address Britain's longstanding problem of poor productivity growth.