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How the papers are reporting BoJo’s big day – politicalbetting.com
How the papers are reporting BoJo’s big day – politicalbetting.com
This is terrible for the ex-Tory PM. YouGov finds that even the majority of CON voters think Johnson is dishonest pic.twitter.com/uCvvwg7ntL
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If Johnson is suspended and heads for a recall I guess he would resign. He's not one to like ignominy.
Whatever happens this is all playing into Labour's hands and, of course, come the election next year they will be sure to bring all of this up.
We all want to move on from what happened with the pandemic but there's still a day of reckoning, a blood letting, that will be a necessary part of the catharsis.
The tories are going to take an absolute hammering at the next General Election.
Three examples, each direct in their different ways:
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1638580693600018451?s=20
https://twitter.com/SimplyRedHQ/status/1638559655352778754?s=20
https://twitter.com/supertanskiii/status/1638553725726781440?s=20
Those who try to claim that this is all past us now and we need to move on really have not engaged with the country's mood. There will be a national cathartic day of reckoning and it's called the General Election.
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1638573935783542785?s=20
You're like one of these batty street preachers who stand on the corner shouting with a billboard round their necks, and a bible in their hand.
Everyone ignores them.
I'm jet lagged from Asia but that doesn't negate the truth of what I've written, evidenced in many quarters including the national press coverage this morning.
The real issue here is yourself and your ilk like Felix. The tories who cannot face holding up the mirror to their own faces and seeing the inherent characters flaws, the same lack of personal morals and ethical conduct, which have led to Labour leading the Conservatives by double digits. The "batty" ones are those who refuse to read the writing on the wall. There has been a sea-change in public opinion. Labour are on course for a handsome victory. Nothing now will change that.
The polls don't lie.
Have a nice day.
He was only 59. Pancreatic cancer.
It truly is a terrible disease.
It doesn't work for me or many others. There needs to be a reckoning.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/23/teacher-vacancies-in-england-93-higher-than-pre-pandemic-study-finds
The findings indicate staff turnover is still rising, with vacancies in schools in England up 37% compared with 2021/22. “This likely indicates that teachers who may have put off the decision to leave teaching during the pandemic are leaving now that the labour market is recovering,” the report said.
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Personally I find he has a strangely unhateable quality compared to a lot of Tories; a geek, a bit of a twat but not a complete ****. Dunno if that transfers to people who might possibly consider voting for the ghastly party.
A hung parliament with the uncoalitionable tories as the largest party is the GE outcome with the highest entertainment value.
https://link.chtbl.com/DefendingDemocracy
Nearly half of Britons believe that they have been a victim of ‘sonic snooping’ s
NordVPN said apps can potentially pick up on private conversations and noise"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11892567/Cybersecurity-specialists-say-microphones-constantly-picking-clues-someone.html
I say 0.25% increase.
It is very fitting that, having finally made it to being above everyone else (in getting the top job), it is this same attitude that has brought him down,
I was told yesterday that my non-surprise at these events was somehow proof of my bias. Perhaps the fact that the Earth is round is proof of my bias against the Flat Earth people.
The only question that remains is how much of a sanction is imposed. His parliamentary crime is about as bad as it gets and doubling down yesterday just made it worse.
Happily for non-biased people they will soon be able to watch non-biased news where presenter Lee Anderson gets to interview Jonathan Gullis and Simon Clarke and finds that everyone of a right mind thinks this is all a wokeist remainder plot.
I say that as a former cat
ownerslave.BREAKING: Xi Jinping invited the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in May for the "first China-Central Asia Summit" - AFP
https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1638254443727581202?s=20
I think you're smelling your own emanations.
No increase pound slides feeds inflation.
Because assume that's the one they'll take.
You couldn't be expected to sense the change in mood away from Labour.
But now you're back. you should note it.
Hint: the people that always hated the Tories now REALLY hate the Tories. Floating voters? Not so much.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65047436
Canada's population grew by over a million people for the first time ever last year, the government has said.
The country's population increased from 38,516,138 to 39,566,248 people, Statistics Canada said.
It also marked Canada's highest annual population growth rate - 2.7% - since 1957.
The increase was in part fuelled by government efforts to recruit migrants to the country to ease labour shortages, Statistics Canada said.
The country also depends on migration to support an ageing population...
The best either of them can do is move on with new perspectives and policies. Its easier to do that in opposition because you don't actually implement policies. Harder for Sunak because they did - but he is trying as the Windsor Framework demonstrates.
Some of the usually level headed Max's economic predictions seem to have a touch of wishful thinking about them, too.
My view, FWIW, is that we're in phony war territory at the moment. The battle lines for the next election have yet to be clearly defined.
Not that it's impossible.
I find it a little implausible we are headed for sub 4% soon.
We've had deep real term pay cuts, and yet the labour market is still tight. Something has to give there.
This one was whether Sunak/Starmer were compromised by happily serving under a flawed leader
Propaganda is a dark art - needs to be subtle and convincing at times, rabble rousing at others. When it is at its most effective is when it is barely detectable as such. And yet the hate and suspicion of both extremes towards the "mainstream media" pushes both in turn to produce their own news which is a pitiful parody.
The hard left tried its own online news platform - The Canary - and then its own "TV" service - Novara. Short of cash neither were convincing in their presentation, and their content was so absurdly one-sided that it was excruciatingly obvious what it was.
The hard nats have their own newspaper - The National - which prints comedy "come on everyone lets cheer the boss!" headlines. A Scottish version of the Daily Express.
Neither of these fell into the trap the hard right have done with GBeebies. They've started hiring serving Tory MPs - not as guests, but as presenters. They have the budget and the production values so it looks like news. But increasingly we have Tory MPs presenting "news" where they interview Tory MPs.
Aside from their core 20%, does anyone pay any attention to it? They already have newspapers which tell utter whoppers (cf Big-Gs take on the Heil's front page). But the whoppers are written by 3rd parties - they don't have Lee Anderson write the story or even the headlines.
So why do it on their TV News station? Talking to yourselves and only yourselves is reassuring I am sure. But if the aim is to win hearts and minds, to be a mass movement the masses will once again vote for, this isn't the right approach - self-parody.
The splintering of media and narrow-casting news outlets, so we can all sit in our micro-bubbles is not a good thing for national unity.
To give her some credit, that was at least proof that Rwanda is making a start on preparing to take people from here. I will stop quoting 200 as their capacity. The problem for her and PB supporters of the plan is that to render people to the Rwandan gulag, first you have to lock them up in the UK.
They are building detention blocks in Rwanda. We are not building detention blocks in the UK. Which means we literally have nowhere to house the people coming in we want to deport. Every time a location is proposed locals are up in arms. Though they do keep choosing Tory areas. Surely its only proper to use Labour areas as punishment.
Frankly, if they barracaded the centre of Barnsley and used it as a detention camp, they would improve the place...
Just went out to do a quick 6k run to burn off the remaining alcohol from last night's celebrations. Before going to a restaurant in town at lunchtime for even more alcohol.
I'm 40 in a couple of weeks. Is that old enough to start counting backwards?
Edit: only for males, admittedly.
I mean, I can use the abacus but it's a real nuisance lugging it around. And people give you funny looks when you have to pause to add things up on it.
When medieval heretics were burnt at the stake it took three hours for the corpse to turn to ashes. The Martyrdom of St Boris lasted roughly the same time but by the end it was not clear who had been vapourised. Johnson looked annoyingly chipper but the privileges committee’s Sir Bernard Jenkin was a bit singed at the eyebrows and Harriet Harman was the colour of hot lobster.
Highlights the challenge for Team Rishi. There's still a non-trivial minority who are deeply invested in Boris and will take his necessary destruction really badly. Not enough to win, but enough to make a lot of noise. And they are concentrated in the Conservative Party.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/san-francisco-reparation-plans-black-residents
There is also the demand for climate reparations, which is growing and largely supported by charities who would help administer the funds.
I wonder where this all ends and how it is afforded ?
More than one customer was astounded when Raj added up the bill in Swahili! He had such a nice smile, though that nobody seemed to mind.
As has been said the mail and band of 22 voting against the WF are like the Japanese soldier in the jungle still fighting a battle long ended
Yesterday was a good day for Sunak and the signing of the WF on Friday in London creates his legacy no matter what happens in 24
Indeed I believe Sunak is pragmatic enough to take us much closer to the EU starting with the Horizon programme and continuing to develop a mutually beneficial and friendly relationship with the EU
Indeed Starmer will need to adjust his pro Brexiter credentials if he not to be left in Sunak's slipstream
If ultra-liberals in San Francisco proceed with this they will find themselves rapidly out of office.
Ah, reparations paid by people who did nothing wrong to people who suffered no harm. For people who love grievance, but not logic.
Labour 49 (+3)
Tories 23 (-4)
LibDems 10 (-1)
Greens 6 (nc)
Reform 6 (nc)
SNP (-1)
No fieldwork dates, but likely to be 21st and 22nd March. Looks like an outlier.
The Mail and Express seem happy to go down with him
Personally speaking I would rather we had never left, I would have been content for another referendum fo prevent the economic (if not the social and political) chaos. But anyway now we have left, it is disingenuous of you to imply we can rejoin in a heartbeat a single market, when as a nation we won't accept FoM. In reality there is not a cigarette paper between the Labour and Conservative (under Sunak) policies. Both are unsatisfactory, but both have a client vote to appease. You saw for yourself yesterday Sunak's dilemma. Initial excitement that only 22 "headers" had voted against was tempered by the dozens of abstentions. He has the voters and the nutters to worry him, Starmer only has the RedWall to fear.
But the underlying positionm is of course outrageous - of course he shouldn't have assumed that the stringent regulations didn't apply to his circle, as he quite obviously did. The more people go into micro-detail, the weaker the case compared with that fundamental fact.