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The economy and inflation dominate the latest Ipsos Issues Index – politicalbetting.com
The economy and inflation dominate the latest Ipsos Issues Index – politicalbetting.com
We have not looked at the above polling for quite some time and this is unique in that those sampled are not giving a list of issues from which they can choose. Instead they are asked to think of their main concerns completely unprompted. Arguably this gives a better picture.
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1:55 Newbury - Porticello
Far too good a price for a horse I love so much
2:10 Newcastle - Not So Sleepy
Yes I am betting against Constitution Hill. I went racing at Newcastle with my friends, and I was on a favourite that slipped up on a piece of paper! Added to the fact returning Superstars have in general had a difficult first outing this autumn, it made me think there’s horses for courses, and some courses have kebab wraps blowing in the wind.
3:05 Newbury - Corach Rambler
Will love the distance and going.
3:48 Bangor - Whenitrainsitpours
Yep. A debutante in a 2m Bumper In Bangor to bring the bet home. Why you ask? Because someone else didn’t hand over 50k for no good reason I’m thinking.
Whatever you are on, good luck PB racing punters 🙂
The main surprise is the NHS at 21%
There is a very real sense everything is not working, and the only hope for the conservatives is that the economy does improve and specifically inflation falls
It is 2 years to the next GE but is difficult to see a conservative majority, and most likely Starmer will have a workable majority either on his own or in coalition with the lib dems
It would be interesting to see just how he would progress as the one thing about Starmer is he always seems to support anything that he thinks will see him elected, but has never faced a question where the answer is an unpopular no
If I were playing the happy europhile game c.2008-2011 I would point out that 'Europe' is at least 10th on this list under a generous interpretation, and probably lower, and therefore "no-one cares about Europe" - as dozens of thread headers argued at the time.
But, that would be churlish - so I won't.
Quite funny. Nimbys are upping their game, and have donned green camouflage.
And are coming out with a lot of fictions about the current planning system / planning policy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fm2w
(at about 27:40)
Similarly housing or immigration. Are people concerned that we have too little or too much?
Not convinced by the causal link though. I argued at the time of the referendum it was a false figure to be quoting and never understood why they used it when the real figure of £280 million a week was bad enough. Just made a rod for their own backs.
The problem with such thinking is it is based on the idea that people can't walk, talk and chew gum at the same time. People are asked to rank their priorities, not whether they care or don't care about the other issues. Just because something ranks low on the table (which extends far beyond the list posted in the thread header) doesn't mean people don't care about those issues, just that other things are to the forefront at present.
The issues questioning is very useful, but too often it is misinterpreted.
Yes, the £350 million was false, but it could only be rebutted by talking about other large figures, making the point Vote Leave wanted made.
Appalling dishonesty, but excellent practical vote winning. We'll never know if that was what tipped the balance.
Sky News reporting that a private equity firm has proposed buying a 75% stake in the Hundred
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has received a £400m private equity approach that would see it relinquish majority ownership of The Hundred while raising funds to inject into the sport's cash-strapped counties.
https://news.sky.com/story/english-cricket-bowled-over-with-400m-private-equity-bid-for-the-hundred-12755799
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It’s not going away is it
https://twitter.com/ashkent91/status/1596466477435068418
I challenged the chairman of Gloucestershire CCC on this point at a recent meeting, and his answer was because of the way the ECB budgeted, and the rights deal it had negotiated, there was no way they could get rid of the Blundred without bankrupting themselves and every county bar Surrey.
It is no coincidence that Surrey were consistently and outspokenly opposed while everyone else fell in line.
It is ironic to reflect their chairman and CEO of the time are now tasked with clearing up precisely the mess they warned about, but can't undo.
https://twitter.com/IvanKasanzew/status/1595913359760785409?t=nc65VJ1bKyl8Zqctc7PwbA&s=19
I'm guessing the answer is 'not nearly as many,' if only because education is actually quite a gradual process while ambulances stacked outside A+E are an immediate emergency.
I suspect it will change when schools have to start closing.
Should I cut them out of my life?
I'm honestly not sure what level of money would be required to totally transform the NHS.
£100bn a year?
And it's not just the cash either. There are several poles in the tent, one of which is available trained doctors/nurses, and the other estate.
In fact, it includes new wings for existing ones and even refurbishments of very old one.
It's really an estate modernisation and consolidation programme, with maybe only 20-25% new capacity.
It's a reminder of the dual purpose of the education system, though. One cynical take is that the primary purpose is childcare so that parents can work, and if they're in a building we might as well try to teach them stuff...
I'm not really convinced we give a shit about kids in this country, except our annoyance at them when they become feral.
We care far more about animals.
A bloke form a popular football podcast went to England Vs USA last night in fancy dress as Mary Poppins and got detained.
Basically, over half who can afford it are going private - several quite liberal-lefty parents who keep it all very hush hush, but they tell me.
This isn't open to everyone but quite a significant number are doing it, IMHO. It's a vector for stopping Starmer getting votes in quite a few SE marginals if he persists on a manifesto of VAT on private school fees.
It was a scam that could only be played once. And it was bound to degrade politics in the future. But for a referendum campaign planned as a one off win, once
was enough and future politics was someone else's problem.
Anyone in fancy dress at a football match should be nicked.
Tod TV, owned by Qatar-based broadcaster beIN SPORTS, holds the rights to the tournament In Saudi with 22 matches free-to-air.
But 42 can only be watched via a streaming service, that was blocked an hour before the opening ceremony.
Wish I had the time.
The subsidised nursery care for 3-4 year olds (which was a LD policy, to be fair) is hugely popular with parents, and certainly makes our lives easier.
Brexit - 2%
Trade Deals - 1%
U.K. Union - 1%*
* No, that’s not higher in Scotland - it’s an England response…
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2022-11/ipsos-issues-index-november-2022-tables.pdf
Better to cut fees for cheaper subjects like creativity arts and humanities and increase fees for high earning subjects like law and economics and IT at top universities with some subsidies for subjects like medicine and engineering the country needs graduates in
Now that's genius...
We might need to subsidise a few subjects like medicine and engineering ans physics to ensure a skilled workforce in those areas but that is it
Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain etc all have lower birthdays than the UK
Is this the moment to talk about his - ummm - impact on education again
Killer is that you'd need to build lots more classrooms.
You choose to lay the blame on one side of the equation whilst conveniently forgetting the other side. I see the blame (more or less) equally on both sides.
Not every oldie is a selfish old git, but a decisive number are.
The reason we have private schools is because our state system doesn't deliver the goods to the standard pushy parents want. If it did, they would not exist or at least, only in small numbers.
So what are the issues? Class sizes that are much too large is certainly one problem. A school day and term system that is not properly thought out and seems to be more about childcare than about the optimum system for education is a a second. A curriculum and assessment process that is designed around the prejudices of rather dim civil servants than a realistic appraisal of what would actually serve the children, our society and our economy well is a third. A tendency to micromanage by people who are so fucking clueless they seem to have spent most of lockdown having boozy parties and issuing three sets of HSE guidance a day while coming up with arbitrary dates on opening and closing schools is definitely a fourth.
But unfortunately, the biggest vested interest of the lot in education is the DfE and the civil service. And the system is entirely designed to suit them and unless they are all sent to a metaphorical Siberia there is no chance of it changing.
I agree with you to an extent about the anti-elitism, but that actually comes more from the civil service and the managers than from ordinary teachers. We respect bright people.
As for the lowest common denominator, again that is a function of the National Curriculum and - ironically - the grammar schools for all process, which was a civil service invention under first Wilson, carried on through Callaghan and then finally came to fruition under Thatcher.
I think it's easier to blame teachers than ask the really difficult question - if it's their fault, why have people ostensibly in power for so many years let them get away with it?
It's the same with investment in infrastructure and science/technology.
Britain seems to be doing the reverse - shaving the budgets that will deliver future growth in order to pay for the boomer generation now.
If this is all the fault of Cummings and Gove then why did the UK PISA rankings drop from 7th in the world in 2000 to 26th in the world in 2009? At a time when Labour were supposedly spending lots more money on education? Our rankings had actually improved substantially between 2015 and 2018 - a time when teachers were decrying all the curriculum changes that were taking place.
Education is a mess and that is the fault of decades of anti-elitism and ideology. But teaching organisations bear a great deal of responsibility for that alongside the civil servants and politicians.