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This must be the Tweet of the Day – politicalbetting.com
This must be the Tweet of the Day – politicalbetting.com
Liz Truss denies ever "inviting comparisons" between herself and Margaret Thatcher, and blames "the media for keeping going on about it." pic.twitter.com/PtGeDFeHY1
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1.08 Liz Truss 93%
13 Rishi Sunak 8%
Next Conservative leader
1.07 Liz Truss 93%
13.5 Rishi Sunak 7%
Truss will be taking over immediately as PM 12 years into a Tory government. So in fact a better comparison to Thatcher may be who succeeds Truss as Tory leader. Especially if a Starmer government sees strikes and high inflation. Truss may just end up being Heath without the election win with Starmer as Wilson/Callaghan on that basis
That wasn’t a kink shame btw.
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Labour lead at twelve points in latest results from Deltapoll.
Con 31% (-)
Lab 43% (+1)
Lib Dem 11% (+1)
Other 15% (-2)
Fieldwork: 19-22 August 2022
Sample: 1,588
(Changes from 21-23 July 2022) https://t.co/fPNaHN9kUV
We appear to be back where we were shortly after the defrnestration, double digit doings
Pitts Special flight done.
As my wife has said on various stuff I have introduced her to: 'I really enjoyed it but never want to do it again'
Still added benefit is I lost 7 kg to make the weight for the flight.
After 2 rolls and 2 barrel rolls I was feeling a bit ill. I tried to wait it out with some straight flying, but sadly had to call it a day, as another stunt would have been the end. Still feeling the effects, although the 2 pints and a toasted sandwich after, may have something to do with that. Learnt two things:
a) You can't see forward in a Pitts Special so you have to weave both on the ground and when flying so you don't hit stuff and you have to sideslip when landing because otherwise you can't see the runway.
b) What that diamond on the end of the red pole attached to the wing strut is. Anyone here want to hazard a guess.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1562340882287890432
Truss: "Watch this space."
https://twitter.com/mattgreencomedy/status/1562464432978276354
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/23/uk_bt_national_security_altice/
HMG's press release says the 5.9 per cent purchase is OK but does not mention this takes the French company's stake to 18 per cent.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-take-no-further-action-under-national-security-and-investment-act-on-bt-share-acquisition
IANAE but until DA weighs in, it looks like a sort of sight to make sure one's position and orientation are correct in respect to some landmark or simply the horizon, for instance when initiating an aerobatic manoeuvre. It seems to be on a transverse line passing through or over the cockpit, in particular.
The attachment on the wing, is it a 360º pitot tube, so the pilot can see his airspeed at any weird angle? Or is it the attachment for the wing-walker to hold on to?
It's been very calm on here this afternoon. Can't think why?
Someone so concerned with concocting an image that it gets in the way of her thinking at work, and affects how she is perceived, by other states as well?
We've had quite a lot of that sort of thing since 2019.
PS This point is not gender-related - far from it.
I lived through the Thatcher years and I'm of an age with the younger echelons of the Tory Party members. I know what I an seeing here and I know how the members will react to that. That has been in the plan for years now.
And she was in post when thopse photos were taken - in Defence, Foreign Office ...
Being as how 649 constituencies will be in Shetland
We shall see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVk4TMny0M
Warning: read the rules before following advice on the US Senate where various bookmakers have different rules on how to count so-called independent Senators who caucus with the Democrats.
I retain hope that we’ll see some fresh thinking. Perhaps I’ll be disappointed before even carving my Halloween pumpkin. But they deserve a chance, as does any incoming government of this country.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3613998-cheney-independent-presidential-run-would-hurt-biden-more-than-trump-poll/
Truss is a concern. She seems to have picked up the characteristics of her immediate predecessor.
I'ds say that *anyone* emulating that style and other poses is very definitely claiming to the Thatcher Mk 2, or would very soon be warned off if that wasn't the intention.
I'm not the only one to get that instant response. Imagine if Mr Johnson turned up in pinstripes and a cigar. It's that close. Nothing to do with being a supporter or not - but very much a generation thing.
PS As for 'focussing' (!) on policies, what the hell are they? She's been all over the place. But that is a related matter. When I see someone concocting an image then I wonder what their policies actually are.
Light hearted mask anecdote
My other half had to wear a mask to the hospital for our little ones appointment today with the dietician, who thought it was very funny when she took it off
She's 4 months old.
"Recent evidence suggests that capital punishment may have a significant deterrent effect, preventing as many eighteen or more murders for each execution. This evidence greatly unsettles moral objections to the death penalty, because it suggests that a refusal to impose that penalty condemns numerous innocent people to death. Capital punishment thus presents a life-life tradeoff, and a serious commitment to the sanctity of human life may well compel, rather than forbid, that form of punishment. Moral objections to the death penalty frequently depend on a distinction between acts and omissions, but that distinction is misleading in this context, because government is a special kind of moral agent. The familiar problems with capital punishment— potential error, irreversibility, arbitrariness, and racial skew—do not argue in favor of abolition, because the world of homicide suffers from those same problems in even more acute form. The widespread failure to appreciate the life-life tradeoffs involved in capital punishment may depend on cognitive processes that fail to treat "statistical lives" with the seriousness that they deserve."
source: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/287/
Cass Sunstein is not a traditional conservative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein (FWIW, that Wikipedia biography does not mention the paper I quoted.)
For the record: I do not have the training to evaluate this paper, technically. (Though I can add that Nobel prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago did say publicly, years ago, that he thought Sunstein was right. Can't remember which one, possibly Robert E. Lucas.) And I can say that at least a few other economists have come to similar conclusions.
The extraordinary generosity of UK plc last year reached an astonishing £2,184 for every man, women, non binary and child in the country, whatever their orientation. As usual many on this board will be reluctant to acknowledge this kindness and commitment to the Union and even be somewhat curmudgenly about it so I just thought I would put it on the record. Thanks.
“We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting
We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/ai-technology-progress.html
I have many Scottish business customers; they rarely talk politics. Almost all of them have quietly told me they'd be straight down the motorway to England if any schism happened; the comment is always unsolicited, but is almost always followed by 'assuming there would be any buyers for my house, that is'.
Mind you, what is the solution to woke? The fact all our institutions are getting ever woker even after 12 years of Tory PMs suggests that Tory solution to woke (put up with it but grumble about it) is no better than Labour's.
We all have to endure the cost of living crisis to support Ukraine. How not to retain support for the west backing Ukraine in this conflict. It’s rather tone deaf.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62663247
I do hope he is well.
It is a rare occurance where Boris is right and the message is right.
'Put a jumper on to hurt Putin!' ought to be this Winter's mantra
Generation X just aren't up to the job.
It’s another way the West is doomed
Obviously such studies are controversial and have been criticised. For example:
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/deterrence/discussion-of-recent-deterrence-studies
You'd need to look at the details of the statistical analysis, but statements like "each execution prevents some eighteen murders, on average" don't suggest a very sophisticated grasp of the potential complications. There's a footnote saying, in effect, that he will use that claim for "expository convenience" while taking it as read that it isn't accurate. But in any case, as the author is a lawyer rather than a statistician, it would be pretty surprising if he were able to evaluate the statistical evidence adequately.
I wonder if Frazer saw dildos everywhere, believed in little green men, toked joints and had a tiny shoe size?
Look how we have screwed the climate. We need a robot to rule us
https://twitter.com/malcolm48762561/status/1562466695989452800?s=20&t=WWZqM5KtyMAf_Zw6YdA4Fg
"I'll call my article," meditated the war correspondent, "'Mankind versus Ironmongery,' and quote the old boy at the beginning."
And he was much too good a journalist to spoil his contrast by remarking that the half-dozen comparatively slender young men in blue pajamas who were standing about their victorious land ironclad, drinking coffee and eating biscuits, had also in their eyes and carriage something not altogether degraded below the level of a man.
In the meantime we can mitigate some of the ongoing damage by kicking out this wretched Tory administration.
#ToriesOut
'If I put a hashtag on a site with one of the most sophisticated communities of comments audiences on the internet, it'll really strike home'?
The right wing nutters who live on this blog seem to think she is something special. She is no Thatcher. She is likely to give Cameron and Johnson a good run for the worst PM ever.
I used to like it when he'd talk about a day he'd had at the races, and genuine happiness and enthusiasm would come into his day, quite apart from his success or otherwise. Like a ray of sunshine on a stormy day.
The only way it goes away, is with some very well-crafted legislation, that can survive the process of judicial review and “human rights” legal challenges. That and, as suggested by Mrs Badonock, holding the chief execs of qangos accountable for their failure to implement directions from the government of the day.
Output from the North Sea has been falling for many, many years now and a reluctance to open new fields has not helped.
24 weeks is the legal limit for other circumstances. Personally I don't care enough to argue about that, I'd prefer birth for all circumstances, but can live with 24.
Life is not "sacred", there is absolutely nothing "sacred" about life at all and if people wish to end their own life then that is not the state murdering them, it is them killing themselves. A humane and dignified method of ending your own life should be available to anyone of sound mind who wants it, rather than forcing them to inhumane continuing of life they don't want, or inhumane suicide as an alternative.
Euthanasia is people legally and humanely controlling and choosing the end of their own lives, its not murder.
In what way is it sexist ? I’d like to hear the ‘arguable’ argument.
We have tried and tried and tried not to pressure her. But she feels it anyway.
I don't say this to say that the 11+ is wrong. (It may or may not be, but if it is wrong it is not because it makes my daughter miserable. Something can make children miserable and still be the right thing to do.) It just, in the Cookie house, at the moment, feels a very high price to pay. That's all.
1. AI isn't going to have time to Go Bad off its own bat, cos it's not as if bad men are not strongly attracted to computer based nefariousness anyway. So it's not about misinterpreting a paperclip goal, it's about accurately interpreting instructions to take over the world.
2. When AI Goes Good is just as big a problem anyway. It is easy to mock dear old IA and the laws of robotics but you do actually need something like An AI may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. So assume a tech billionaire appointing an AI as his secretary: assuming a famine anywhere in the world the AI is duty bound to take over the bank account, leave the billionaire enough for subsistence living in the Bay Area, and spend the rest on famine relief. Try explaining how the rule needs qualifying to avoid this outcome.
Was George W Bush trying to look like a monkey?