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Sunak gets the worst Ipsos opening ratings of any PM over 23 years – politicalbetting.com
Sunak gets the worst Ipsos opening ratings of any PM over 23 years – politicalbetting.com
Whenever there is a new Prime Minister the pollster, Ipsos, issues it’s updated version of the above chart showing the opening satisfaction ratings for the new man or woman at Number 10.
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Edit sorry, she is there but below the line
Sunak maybe but no, Starmer headline in the Telegraph
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1594817089646497792?t=qWry-uEwaa9s3C-f-r97xg&s=19
What should worry him is they all broadly moved in the same direction, even if they started low they got lower. Only Major's is really different (though Cameron's was pretty flat for awhile) in trajectory, and not in a way which will make Sunak feel positive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63706016.amp
But it turns out it was all OK. Phew. No connection between loan and lobbying at all.
The level of *unquestioned* corruption is just extraordinary. The UK feels like a minor West African failed state.
Mr Major really did hand over a golden legacy.
Tuesday's Independent: Labour pledges to relax UK immigration rules
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1594816254870622208
A message that lets different papers take what they want from it? The lad's learning to have what it takes.
It might even be the right thing for the country.
So he really was appointed solely because Sunak wanted to reward him with an 'attending Cabinet' post, as whatever work he was supposedly going to be doing can apparently be handled without needing an entire person for the role.
Conclusion: Sunak's a highly ambitious empty vessel.
They didn't have coherent ideologies to achieve, more a mixture of policies, probably half of which were included after focus testing or political necessity only, and desperate to survive. May and Johnson at least had a major idea in Brexit to achieve, even if they had no clue how to achieve it or what that meant.
As for pressure on wages... I can't shake the doubt that, if the government tries to make businesses go cold turkey on immigrant staff, many firms will respond by closing down or moving abroad. A variant of "things cost what they cost".
The trouble with boats is that they're so visible, whereas people overstaying visas isn't.
Residents and workers say occupying forces used site to burn bodies of fallen Russian soldiers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/21/russians-accused-of-burning-bodies-at-kherson-landfill
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/63690352
You're welcome.
Always willing to point out wasteful duplicate roles in the Public Sector.
The only chance for Sunak is the economy surprising on the upside. I actually don't think that is impossible. I mean statistically it's 50/50. The oil price has come down. The gas price has reduced from its peak. Wheat prices are now no higher than a year ago. It's not all that bad.
"Go to any major pizza restaurant in the world and you’ll find pineapple on pizza. This is because customers eat pineapple on pizza in droves. Thousands and thousands are sold and consumed every single day. The market has dictated that pineapple objectively belongs on pizza. "
Baked beans on pizza? That’s worse than pineapple!
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/nov/21/baked-beans-on-pizza-thats-worse-than-pineapple
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/biden-xi-china-cold-war-not-hot/
And, if you had asked me a month before the election what the odds were that would happen, I would have guessed 1 in a 100, or higher. Your guesstimates?
(If either of us were betting actual money, I would have done some quick research on Yee.
And the Arizona treasurer's office. In some states, Washington for example, the secretary of state gets to put their name on all kinds of official documents, which gives incumbents a signficant advantage. That might be true for the treasurer's office in Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Yee )
The last four awful years have somehow made it more significant. This is a wounded world coming together, to share every nation's scars
Apart from Russia, but fuck them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_without_portfolio_(United_Kingdom)#21st_century
@GoodwinMJ
CBI demand more immigration. CEOs like Lord Wolfson demand more immigration. Economic forecasts demand more immigration. Both Labour & the Conservatives clearly want more immigration. It appears the only ppl who don't want more immigration are the British voters ... #PoliticsLive
12:40 PM · Nov 21, 2022"
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1594672012248612867
Mourning the death of free speech of anyone asked
What's the plan to boost automation to the level of our peers?
Qatar announce attendance figures higher than the actual capacity of the stadium TWICE, despite plenty of empty seats being seen at World Cup matches
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11454227/Qatar-announce-attendance-figures-higher-capacity-stadiums-TWICE-despite-seats.html
Edit: also, don’t know about you, but there is a degree of skill involved in doing it well…
One of the most eloquent and interesting comments I have ever read on PB. By @northern_monkey
"It would be a boring world if we were all the same…
FWIW I hate working. I’ve hated working since my first Saturday job. I’ve done shitty jobs and cushy jobs. I’ve worked at height on scaffolding through cold winters. I’ve worked in supermarkets, stacking shelves and on the tills. I’ve had public facing jobs and back office jobs. I’ve worked with dangerous chemicals. I’ve topped frozen pizzas. I made the metal plates that go in record presses and press the groove into vinyl records. I’ve sorted mail. I’ve worked with politicians. I’ve washed pots. I’ve led teams and had to do appraisals. I’ve worked in pubs. I signed people on for their dole and benefits. I’ve been in the public and private sector. I got some degrees and now I largely work from home, a couple of days a week in an office, in a job where I have to use my brain.
They’ve all been shit in different ways.
In shitty jobs you often work with nicer, funnier people.
In offices you often work with brittle. status obsessed wankers.
They’re all, in my inconsequential opinion, terrible ways of spending the limited time I have on this planet.
Bring on UBI! Or a nice inheritance. I have no kids. As soon as I can stop, I’m done.
I think the least worst job was working in the warehouse of an international drivetrain company, packing and dispatching gearbox parts around the globe. No one bothered me, i wasn’t responsible for anyone, I could listen to whatever music I liked, I was chatting to different people all day long, having a laugh. Great job. Shame the pay was shite."
Bravo, Bravo
Having watched young men old before their with fucked up bodies from too much heavy lifting on building sites, it’s not very funny. They often drink heavily and take drugs to numb the pain.
Is @tiktok_us actually online training a custom model for each user? Wild if they are, that sort of stuff is the future.
https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1594825854327980033
https://twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1594818534852403206
So far this year 17 athletes from the ( Kenya) East African country have been suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a range of violations. A further eight Kenyans have been provisionally suspended, with the outcomes of their cases pending.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/63400004
Enjoying your work is a drug if you feel you're doing it well - every day you get another shot of endorphins. The obvious answer is to start cutting back and explore the non-work world, and I'm doing a bit of that. But it's honestly hard.
With the boats there is no such guarantee.
The day I stop enjoying it will be the day I stop doing it, because I am forced to stop by circumstances/health/etc
I feel terrible pity for the many many people who deeply dislike their work. I know a lot of people like that. It is just luck. A lottery
FWIW it sounds to me like you are sorted. You CAN carry on working and doing what you want until you basically drop dead. Enjoy. You too are lucky (as you accept)
You’re not done until you are scratching on the inside of a coffins lid. And even then…
- Company is hiring again and wanting employee referrals.
- Musk was clear that layoffs are over
- Twitter has about 2,700 employees left out of nearly 7,500 pre Musk
https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1594826034280820737
Given just few years ago they operated quite happily with 3000-3500, they aren't down that much from numbers when nobody questioned if the company had enough manpower.
@FirstEdition
"Perhaps we need to look at a bespoke scheme for them." Tory MP Caroline Nokes says the Home Office "has to be ready" for the possibility of asylum claims from Iranian players at the World Cup after their "brave stance.""
https://twitter.com/FirstEdition/status/1594821665145475072
I do have hobbies, from PB to football, to hiking and natural history. I love to travel both in this country and out. I am active in my church. I don't think that retirement would be empty, but that is for the future, not for now.
A farmer patient of mine, still working in his Eighties said to me once "I would rather wear out than rust out" and I intend to go the same way.
Argentina 1.16
Saudi Arabia 29
Draw 9.2
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/football/fifa-world-cup/argentina-v-saudi-arabia-betting-31348652
Cross country skiing in the winter, Nick, to begin with. It's about as good an exercise as there is.
And England played very well.
Such jobs are physically exhausting - every day is hard, much harder than being in an office - and it wears you out. And, you don't get paid very much.
If you think about it it's almost completely irrelevant to this tournament, but makes them feel slightly better about themselves- so they do it.
That will get increasingly harder to sustain as England progress but, for now, I'm blissfully ignoring it.
Or is this just, for you, de rigueur?
Everyone knows that’s just an endless circuit of pub crawls and frat boy parties…
He was a shocking judge of people as well.
* figuratively speaking. I have no idea. Add, to state the obvious, you asked for a reason, not a *good* reason
Expecting a gay bloke to sit quietly and listen to hours of mindless pontificating about the wind kicking action in somewhere like Qatar is, frankly, a bit of a stretch. They might just as well have given the gig to Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Medieval religious bullshit and fun don't sit well together.
What does interest me are those fans who are normally really into all things footy but can't engage with this one, either for ethical reasons or for others such as the seasonal variation. I have some footy friends who are refusing to watch it on principle.
So I guess for what it's worth I should say what I think I feel ...