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How Keir, Rishi and Nicola are viewed in Scotland – politicalbetting.com
How Keir, Rishi and Nicola are viewed in Scotland – politicalbetting.com
The survey carried out by Lord Ashcroft polls
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Deltapoll - Scottish subsample
SNP 48%
SLab 27%
SCon 19%
Grn 4%
Ref 1%
10-13 Feb
A month out, this looks unlikely. In fact the more this feels like a confidence vote the safer she will be. But these are febrile times.
A while ago I wrote in these pages that Scotland was heading for a crisis of constitutional nationalism. Some people scoffed. They are not scoffing now. The mother of all decisions faces the SNP on Mother’s Day.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-is-locked-in-a-torturous-tug-of-war-kx5rk3j9l
Overall though of that lot Starmer's is almost the most damning, in a way. Basically, a cloud of "who hell he?".
What is Sunak’s key policy?
What is Starmer’s key policy?
What is Davey’s key policy?
"Oh, you want to do that? we'll just throw our money at it. And open source it."
https://wellcome.org/press-release/finished-human-genome
Also, their attitude to staff is ... enlightened.
35 years ago this very evening - yes, Valentine's Day - someone I knew died from overdosing. I was young. The person was young.
Since then, my attitude towards drugs has wavered: I don't like them (but I drink), but the illegal nature of some drugs may have contributed. Hence I find it a really difficult topic.
But people screeching: "use drug xxxx!", and promoting drugs, are really irresponsible.
This will hopefully be the only time I will mention this. But be careful with drugs, peeps. And don't take advice from Internet narcissists. I'll leave it up to you to decide if I'm one of them.
And in the meantime, more wine. Because this is a really sh*t evening, as my aunt's funeral is tomorrow, and I'm sadly not going...
But M’seuir, hot chicks find Victor Hugo impossibly sexy. Tom Knox less so.
Sir Edric's Kingdom was superior to both.
In other news, the the number of people associating the ANC with the introduction of site value rating is below 1%.
I will, of course, now wash my right index
swiffing finger in strong detergent for suggesting such a travesty.
Is this a problem?
I still think NS thinks this is true and accepts it for now.
Personally I think it was probably part of the Peacock Throne. But anyway...
Then there's the Stone of Scone. C'mon, Ms Sturgeon, so you say want a J*ckolution? Block Princes Street. Let them come in to Castle Rock by helicopter as if it were Crossmaglen. (<- This is a joke.)
It sometimes isn't possible to stop that path to destruction. Who would want their own kids to be dopeheads or stoned on Tramadol?
Personal things matter. And this all hurts. But you won't care. In fact, you're probably getting a little stiffy from this very conversation, you sad little shit.
(Yes, I know he was a success too).
https://twitter.com/samfr/status/1625516191954477060?s=46&t=8GHRQGqotp5pTeG4u7jvdw
No real demurrals from the various economicky and civil servanty respondents.
However, I would agree it does make it troublingly likely as things stand.
Wouldn’t be a party leader otherwise.
Perhaps he would have made a better UN Secretary General, or EU Commission President, than British Prime Minister?
Good point, let's leave the guys not doing so well to clear up the bed they shat and go with the stable, successful trading bloc.
On that theme, just started reading Ellsberg’s Secrets (which is really very good indeed).
There’s a fun story about how he and his boss were ordered to brainstorm some plausible lies for McNamara over some incident with a crashed spy drone in China. After a lengthy session of bullsjit generation, Ellsberg comes up with the radical suggestion of saying “no comment”.
After much persuasion, a reluctant McNamara finally does just that (something he’s never done before), and garners much praise for his refreshing honesty.
I think he is a decent, honourable man who did his best. His economics was tricky (hide huge spending with PFI) and he didn’t abolish boom and bust, but he also wasn’t a massive liar, fraudster etc.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-independence-scotland-would-vote-no-to-independence-by-12-point-margin-poll-finds-4024888
*Modify to taste.
Thanks for the Madrid recommendations.
Interesting update on food banks. Notably the 'actual' rate of inflation at poor folk's level for food buying. This will be bulk at the cash and carry, but even so ... where's that 30p a meal going to get you?
"In February 2022, the cost of the items in a standard parcel (enough to feed one person for three days) came to £24.78. Today an equivalent food parcel costs £34.11, an increase of £9.33 or nearly 38%. A children’s food parcel is up by £8.24 to £25.75, a jump of 47%."
Re hate, think of all the nasty comments about him going blind/one-eyed (I forget the details, as I don't like that kind of political literature). Not sure if he still gets flak like that now.
"It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/its-not-aliens-itll-probably-never-be-aliens-so-stop-please-just-stop/
Clarkson seems to prefer hating on the ladies nowadays.
Burnley show why they are going up as champions
We would have taken a point before the game started though
Fwiw, I think it was the one truly positive achievement of a Premiership that was otherwise deeply disappointing and unsatisfactory.
The government ( actually the White House, not the Pentagon, if one listens carefully ) says there's no indication of anything other-worldly. Therefore, if you doubt this, you think they are covering something up, and are thus ( the implication of the article runs ) in the psychological category of the paranoid, the eccentric or the kooky. The Guardian article today quoting the latest White House press briefing tonight, for instance, with no attempt to discriminate from the Pentagon, also uses the word "conspiracist" to describe those positing other explanations.
But, in reality, this is a false opposition. You don't have to believe governments are hiding things, to believe they just often have no idea about particular issues, but often pretend to. This is often a key story of modern government and it was also how the Pentagon ( and successive White Houses ) pursued questions like these for over 60 years.
And as often, there's no clue the government involved actually has any idea what they're talking about. The US defence secretary himself yesterday said they had no idea what the objects are, and had found no debris. It's fairly obvious they've put up Kirby, who is actually retired, to pretend they have any idea what's going on with them, and they may never actually develop any grounds for really knowing.
He withstood the worst bullying ever seen on these threads. Utterly disgraceful.
Glad you’re posting too, enjoying your posts!!
The inflation cost is the key element, anyway.
You’re a good poster mate, we need your perspective here
It needs doing, but just puts something else down the priority list. We have no extra resources apart from robbing Peter.
If I wanted to cut costs I could get enough calories, vitamins and minerals for far less than that a week and still not goto bed hungry or underfed. For example I can make a spag bol that feeds me for three days...2*passata = 4£, 500g of mushrooms 2.39, 2 onions .0.80£ 1kg of spaghetti 1.89. 3 peppers 1.29£ minced beef 500g = 6.00 total cost for 3 days = 16£ approximately....I can afford 250g of cheese to grate without even approaching 34£