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LAB running neck and neck with the SNP in Scotland – politicalbetting.com
LAB running neck and neck with the SNP in Scotland – politicalbetting.com
Scottish Westminster Voting Intention:LAB: 34% (+3)SNP: 34% (-5)CON: 18% (-1)LDM: 7% (+2)Via @PanelbaseMD, 12-15 Jun.Changes w/ 28-30 Mar.
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Should be a Cub monitor though...
https://twitter.com/colinhoad/status/1669831852734001154/photo/1
Edit: and first. Unlike the SNP in Scotland.
Any red-blooded Englishman should be concentrating on the BBC B!
Admittedly people are probably bored to tears of hearing about partygate but still not a good look.
Two of those seen partying were awarded honours by the fat lying oaf .
https://twitter.com/epkaufm/status/1670006524947595265?t=frP8lrtWqf448zcU6Pdikw&s=19
:: points vaguely ::
They knew. They just didn't care.
Get the Tories out, I couldn't visit my uncle as he lay dying in a hospital bed.
Johnson partied while the Queen buried the Duke of Edinburgh - seated alone.
The first MP to tell us I think that the Red Wall is lost.
Police are still superb at finding excuses for incompetence. It will be the last skill to go.
Keir's uncle served aboard HMS Antelope in the Falklands. The ship sank at sea - luckily his uncle survived
https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1670155527702077444
Interesting approach from our next PM
Very occasionally I go on there an am bombarded with so many trailers, icons and options for new series, films and dramas that it's like attending Thorpe Park on an August summer Saturday, and all I want to do is get out.
Scumbag.
So one group (people with large mortgages) effectively foot the bill for controlling inflation.
The people with large mortgages are the aspirational under 40's, the professional classes who supposedly vote conservative.
So unless the Conservatives find a way of controlling interest rates, they are going to lose nearly everyone under 40.
These remarks from the government about rising interest rates being necessary are politically unwise.
(I can't any more, at least in my head...)
Basically; it will require a revolution in tech, not an evolution and throwing more processor power and stolen data at it.
Personally, I do wonder how thought-through this is: people aren't on variable rates anymore and continually whacking up interest rates, and rates alone, to kill inflation basically through engineering a housing market collapse and a recession seems remarkably crude to me.
Script, direction, cinematography, sound, music, lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor/actress, everything..
It looks like a painting, reads like Shakespeare, sounds like Bellowhead crossed with Sigur Ros.
The only.problem is going to be finding family-friendly clips for primetime TV in the awards.
The consequences were a house price crash and 15% rates by 1992 (and an effective devaluation as we crashed out of the ERM).
I'm not suggesting that's going to happen and we're a long way from that. We aren't used to interest rates being used as a part of monetary policy - indeed, we're not really used to a monetary policy at all.
I'm looking at the debt interest repayments however and the impact of higher rates on those which in turn mean we either have to cut spending further or raise taxes.
He greeted their findings with another of his toddler tantrums, screaming about “the final knife-thrust” and “a dreadful day for MPs and for democracy”. To the contrary, this has been one of the brighter moments in the recent history of our democracy. In politics, the media and many other parts of the public square, we are in the midst of a titanic struggle. On the one side are bad actors who seek to advance themselves and their causes by peddling misinformation, mendacity and fakery. Resisting them are those who prize facts, veracity and rules. It was critical that the defenders of integrity in public life prevailed over the forces of darkness.
In future, prime ministers and ministers tempted to lie their way out of trouble will dwell upon the fate of Mr Johnson and think again. At least we must very much hope so.
The committee has served the country well. Now it is over to MPs as a body to assert that the truth matters and the rules underpinning our democracy must be respected.
Some Tories do grasp the magnitude of what is at stake here. Some also feel a prick of shame about the devil’s bargain their party struck when it gave the job of prime minister to someone so utterly unfit for the job. Then there’s a whole lot of other Conservative MPs who are torn between fear of blowback from Johnson-sympathetic Tory activists in their constituencies if they ratify the report and brickbats from opponents and disapproval from voters if they don’t disown him.
Allies of the Tory leader say that he has only contempt for Mr Johnson and hopes that the other man is now history, but he doesn’t want to “poke the beast”. Mr Sunak is deluding himself if he thinks there is any peace to be had.
Number 10 needs to organise a search party to find a spine for the prime minister.
But I'm not seeing any other alternatives being suggested except to keep on raising interest rates until something breaks.
This is a very slow strategy to a lingering death. It could take years to pay off, and the political fallout could be immense.
I don't think it's very intelligent - it strikes me as using crude 30-year old tools and rhetoric to combat a 21st Century economic problem.
Other than that, there are too many uncertainties. Will Sturgeon, Murrell and Beattie be charged? If so, when will it reach court? Will Yousaf survive? Will the Greens suffer from the incompetence of their ministers? Will disillusioned independence supporters stay with the SNP, vote for another party, or stay at home? Will Alba put up candidates, and if so, how many votes will they get? Will SNP supporters vote Labour to help ensure the Tories are defeated?
What is needed is a series of comprehensive opinion polls asking these questions. Will anyone commission them?
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🔵 A Conservative KC in the running to be the party’s nominee for London mayor has revealed he is a “passionate Remainer”
https://twitter.com/TelePolitics/status/1670168778624122880
Stalking Gavin Williamson. Really?
BBC News - Man denies impersonating police officer and stalking MP Sir Gavin Williamson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65939820
Heard this dude on PM a couple of months back. Only a few minutes of interview to base an opinion on, but I warmed to him:
BBC News - Festus Akinbusoye becomes Tory MP candidate for Dorries' seat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65925717
We could be entering another period like the 1970s, where voters continually switch parties in a frustrated search for economic answers.
Of course, the people advocating such pain want it to be inflicted upon other people rather than upon themselves.
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.byte $57, $48, $4F, $41, $52, $52, $52, $52, $52, $20
Tragically, I can still remember that `moveq.w 0,d0` was quicker than `clr.w d0`. I remember being well chuffed with my 'clear screen jumptable' code in about 1988.
And that the base address of the C64 SID chip was 54272. Important stuff that the current snowflake generation seems woefully unaware of...