Boris to lead Reform UK? – politicalbetting.com
Comments
-
One thing about this poll. It should prompt Sir Simon Clarke to get his CV into GB News asap.2
-
Not very close, from memory.Luckyguy1983 said:
I keep forgetting she wrote The Birds. Never read it, wonder how close to it the film is.ohnotnow said:
The 'smoking a fag' thing has reminded me of a rather delightful old BBC documentary with Daphne Du Maurier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk8gjom1W0.Theuniondivvie said:
I have a great admiration for Lasker-Walfisch. She was on a repeat of a programme about Holocaust survivors in the UK a couple of nights ago, an unflinching, unsentimental old bird. Her sitting on a piece of the Berlin Holocaust monument smoking a fag shortly before or after addressing the Bundestag recounting how she used to hate Germans but had managed to move on from that was the best possible response to the Nazis.DecrepiterJohnL said:Holocaust survivors criticise plans for new Westminster memorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68085242
Although it should be remembered much of the Jewish Establishment is on board with the proposals, criticisms include:-
She hit the table in frustration as she told the MPs the idea of a learning centre was almost an insult: "What are we learning now that we haven't learned in 80 years? We shouldn't kill each other? Good idea".
She also feared the memorial would overshadow the nearby Buxton slavery memorial.
Martin Stern - who was arrested by the Nazis aged five - said the proposed site for the learning centre was "far too big for the little park and far too small for the purpose.".
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech, who had family members killed in the Holocaust, objected to the memorial being built so close to a children's playground and a cafe.
"How can one have a cafe - selling coke and crisps - by a memorial of people who starved to death. I can not think of anything more tin-eared."
Mr Stern also suggested the site "intended to counteract antisemitism will in fact increase it.
"People will say 'look at the Jews - they push themselves to the front'."
His concerns were echoed by another survivor - Joanna Millan - who worried about the amount of money being spent on the project.
She feared people would ask: "Why is all this money being spent on Jews - what about our hospitals?"
Several of the witnesses proposed the Imperial War Museum, less than a mile from Parliament, as an alternative site big enough to accommodate a learning centre.
Ciggy, glass of gin, stout tweeds and a rather 'well, f**k it all, dahling' attitude.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.1 -
@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:
0 -
Important to get in soon, there will be lots looking for work!ThomasNashe said:One thing about this poll. It should prompt Sir Simon Clarke to get his CV into GB News asap.
3 -
They say all joy is but fleeting.Foxy said:
It was only briefly, it was easy to miss it...Clutch_Brompton said:I've been out most of the day. Is Liz Truss PM again yet?
0 -
Will Dry is quite clearly a Tory Wet.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:
2 -
Wetting his pants at least.DougSeal said:
Will Dry is quite clearly a Tory Wet.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:0 -
Really! Hitchcock's last film I think - and as with The Birds, Tippi Hedren as the lead. Not his best ever, but I still like it a lot.JosiasJessop said:
Not very close, from memory.Luckyguy1983 said:
I keep forgetting she wrote The Birds. Never read it, wonder how close to it the film is.ohnotnow said:
The 'smoking a fag' thing has reminded me of a rather delightful old BBC documentary with Daphne Du Maurier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk8gjom1W0.Theuniondivvie said:
I have a great admiration for Lasker-Walfisch. She was on a repeat of a programme about Holocaust survivors in the UK a couple of nights ago, an unflinching, unsentimental old bird. Her sitting on a piece of the Berlin Holocaust monument smoking a fag shortly before or after addressing the Bundestag recounting how she used to hate Germans but had managed to move on from that was the best possible response to the Nazis.DecrepiterJohnL said:Holocaust survivors criticise plans for new Westminster memorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68085242
Although it should be remembered much of the Jewish Establishment is on board with the proposals, criticisms include:-
She hit the table in frustration as she told the MPs the idea of a learning centre was almost an insult: "What are we learning now that we haven't learned in 80 years? We shouldn't kill each other? Good idea".
She also feared the memorial would overshadow the nearby Buxton slavery memorial.
Martin Stern - who was arrested by the Nazis aged five - said the proposed site for the learning centre was "far too big for the little park and far too small for the purpose.".
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech, who had family members killed in the Holocaust, objected to the memorial being built so close to a children's playground and a cafe.
"How can one have a cafe - selling coke and crisps - by a memorial of people who starved to death. I can not think of anything more tin-eared."
Mr Stern also suggested the site "intended to counteract antisemitism will in fact increase it.
"People will say 'look at the Jews - they push themselves to the front'."
His concerns were echoed by another survivor - Joanna Millan - who worried about the amount of money being spent on the project.
She feared people would ask: "Why is all this money being spent on Jews - what about our hospitals?"
Several of the witnesses proposed the Imperial War Museum, less than a mile from Parliament, as an alternative site big enough to accommodate a learning centre.
Ciggy, glass of gin, stout tweeds and a rather 'well, f**k it all, dahling' attitude.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.0 -
Jolly good. Another day, another Tory rattle thrown out of the pram. There really isn’t much grit to the Tories these days, it all falls apart once the power ebbs away. Nothing to bond them apart from power.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:0 -
Compare some of the rhetorical choices in Greg Abbott's assertion of a sovereign right to self defense and the Texas secession ordinance from 1861.
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1750261415787512171
0 -
Without having read any of the comments and only answering the opening post, isn't another problem Richard Tice?
I can't see him willing to stand aside for Johnson.
Whilst he's no Farage, he has enough recognition amongst some to not want to give up too easily.0 -
Sussed it. You are Thomas Thorne!Anabobazina said:
They say all joy is but fleeting.Foxy said:
It was only briefly, it was easy to miss it...Clutch_Brompton said:I've been out most of the day. Is Liz Truss PM again yet?
0 -
...
Wasn't Frenzy the last?ThomasNashe said:
Really! Hitchcock's last film I think - and as with The Birds, Tippi Hedren as the lead. Not his best ever, but I still like it a lot.JosiasJessop said:
Not very close, from memory.Luckyguy1983 said:
I keep forgetting she wrote The Birds. Never read it, wonder how close to it the film is.ohnotnow said:
The 'smoking a fag' thing has reminded me of a rather delightful old BBC documentary with Daphne Du Maurier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk8gjom1W0.Theuniondivvie said:
I have a great admiration for Lasker-Walfisch. She was on a repeat of a programme about Holocaust survivors in the UK a couple of nights ago, an unflinching, unsentimental old bird. Her sitting on a piece of the Berlin Holocaust monument smoking a fag shortly before or after addressing the Bundestag recounting how she used to hate Germans but had managed to move on from that was the best possible response to the Nazis.DecrepiterJohnL said:Holocaust survivors criticise plans for new Westminster memorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68085242
Although it should be remembered much of the Jewish Establishment is on board with the proposals, criticisms include:-
She hit the table in frustration as she told the MPs the idea of a learning centre was almost an insult: "What are we learning now that we haven't learned in 80 years? We shouldn't kill each other? Good idea".
She also feared the memorial would overshadow the nearby Buxton slavery memorial.
Martin Stern - who was arrested by the Nazis aged five - said the proposed site for the learning centre was "far too big for the little park and far too small for the purpose.".
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech, who had family members killed in the Holocaust, objected to the memorial being built so close to a children's playground and a cafe.
"How can one have a cafe - selling coke and crisps - by a memorial of people who starved to death. I can not think of anything more tin-eared."
Mr Stern also suggested the site "intended to counteract antisemitism will in fact increase it.
"People will say 'look at the Jews - they push themselves to the front'."
His concerns were echoed by another survivor - Joanna Millan - who worried about the amount of money being spent on the project.
She feared people would ask: "Why is all this money being spent on Jews - what about our hospitals?"
Several of the witnesses proposed the Imperial War Museum, less than a mile from Parliament, as an alternative site big enough to accommodate a learning centre.
Ciggy, glass of gin, stout tweeds and a rather 'well, f**k it all, dahling' attitude.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.0 -
Family Plot.Mexicanpete said:...
Wasn't Frenzy the last?ThomasNashe said:
Really! Hitchcock's last film I think - and as with The Birds, Tippi Hedren as the lead. Not his best ever, but I still like it a lot.JosiasJessop said:
Not very close, from memory.Luckyguy1983 said:
I keep forgetting she wrote The Birds. Never read it, wonder how close to it the film is.ohnotnow said:
The 'smoking a fag' thing has reminded me of a rather delightful old BBC documentary with Daphne Du Maurier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk8gjom1W0.Theuniondivvie said:
I have a great admiration for Lasker-Walfisch. She was on a repeat of a programme about Holocaust survivors in the UK a couple of nights ago, an unflinching, unsentimental old bird. Her sitting on a piece of the Berlin Holocaust monument smoking a fag shortly before or after addressing the Bundestag recounting how she used to hate Germans but had managed to move on from that was the best possible response to the Nazis.DecrepiterJohnL said:Holocaust survivors criticise plans for new Westminster memorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68085242
Although it should be remembered much of the Jewish Establishment is on board with the proposals, criticisms include:-
She hit the table in frustration as she told the MPs the idea of a learning centre was almost an insult: "What are we learning now that we haven't learned in 80 years? We shouldn't kill each other? Good idea".
She also feared the memorial would overshadow the nearby Buxton slavery memorial.
Martin Stern - who was arrested by the Nazis aged five - said the proposed site for the learning centre was "far too big for the little park and far too small for the purpose.".
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech, who had family members killed in the Holocaust, objected to the memorial being built so close to a children's playground and a cafe.
"How can one have a cafe - selling coke and crisps - by a memorial of people who starved to death. I can not think of anything more tin-eared."
Mr Stern also suggested the site "intended to counteract antisemitism will in fact increase it.
"People will say 'look at the Jews - they push themselves to the front'."
His concerns were echoed by another survivor - Joanna Millan - who worried about the amount of money being spent on the project.
She feared people would ask: "Why is all this money being spent on Jews - what about our hospitals?"
Several of the witnesses proposed the Imperial War Museum, less than a mile from Parliament, as an alternative site big enough to accommodate a learning centre.
Ciggy, glass of gin, stout tweeds and a rather 'well, f**k it all, dahling' attitude.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.1 -
Presume Will Dry’s partner is called Al Wash?Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:1 -
Trump’s White House Pharmacy Handed Out Drugs Like Candy: Report
A Department of Defense report found an obscene lack of control over the handling of controlled medications while Trump was in office
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-house-pharmacy-prescription-drugs-1234953535/
0 -
Britain proposes acquiring German Tauruses as replacements for its Storm Shadows, aiming to supply Ukraine with more Storm Shadows. Chancellor Scholz's office is reviewing this strategic exchange, with potential support from Berlin, per Handelsblatt.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1750269755955540093
0 -
Sounds pretty dry to me.DougSeal said:
Will Dry is quite clearly a Tory Wet.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:0 -
@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston1 -
Farage basically owns the party as a company, so if he wants Tice gone, he's gone. Whether or not he'd want Boris stealing his thunder and grand comeback is I suppose a separate question.TheValiant said:Without having read any of the comments and only answering the opening post, isn't another problem Richard Tice?
I can't see him willing to stand aside for Johnson.
Whilst he's no Farage, he has enough recognition amongst some to not want to give up too easily.0 -
Tippi Hedren is still alive too.ThomasNashe said:
Really! Hitchcock's last film I think - and as with The Birds, Tippi Hedren as the lead. Not his best ever, but I still like it a lot.JosiasJessop said:
Not very close, from memory.Luckyguy1983 said:
I keep forgetting she wrote The Birds. Never read it, wonder how close to it the film is.ohnotnow said:
The 'smoking a fag' thing has reminded me of a rather delightful old BBC documentary with Daphne Du Maurier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk8gjom1W0.Theuniondivvie said:
I have a great admiration for Lasker-Walfisch. She was on a repeat of a programme about Holocaust survivors in the UK a couple of nights ago, an unflinching, unsentimental old bird. Her sitting on a piece of the Berlin Holocaust monument smoking a fag shortly before or after addressing the Bundestag recounting how she used to hate Germans but had managed to move on from that was the best possible response to the Nazis.DecrepiterJohnL said:Holocaust survivors criticise plans for new Westminster memorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68085242
Although it should be remembered much of the Jewish Establishment is on board with the proposals, criticisms include:-
She hit the table in frustration as she told the MPs the idea of a learning centre was almost an insult: "What are we learning now that we haven't learned in 80 years? We shouldn't kill each other? Good idea".
She also feared the memorial would overshadow the nearby Buxton slavery memorial.
Martin Stern - who was arrested by the Nazis aged five - said the proposed site for the learning centre was "far too big for the little park and far too small for the purpose.".
Crossbench peer Baroness Deech, who had family members killed in the Holocaust, objected to the memorial being built so close to a children's playground and a cafe.
"How can one have a cafe - selling coke and crisps - by a memorial of people who starved to death. I can not think of anything more tin-eared."
Mr Stern also suggested the site "intended to counteract antisemitism will in fact increase it.
"People will say 'look at the Jews - they push themselves to the front'."
His concerns were echoed by another survivor - Joanna Millan - who worried about the amount of money being spent on the project.
She feared people would ask: "Why is all this money being spent on Jews - what about our hospitals?"
Several of the witnesses proposed the Imperial War Museum, less than a mile from Parliament, as an alternative site big enough to accommodate a learning centre.
Ciggy, glass of gin, stout tweeds and a rather 'well, f**k it all, dahling' attitude.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.1 -
Sunak fans, please explain.Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston0 -
34 point lead in the marginals. It is over lol0
-
No, he wants Farage back in harness - he knows that's what is going to put a rocket under Refuk.TheValiant said:Without having read any of the comments and only answering the opening post, isn't another problem Richard Tice?
I can't see him willing to stand aside for Johnson.
Whilst he's no Farage, he has enough recognition amongst some to not want to give up too easily.0 -
Lab on 498 seats, and REFUK on one...Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=22&LAB=46&LIB=11&Reform=12&Green=6&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=16&SCOTLAB=33.1&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=1.5&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=36.9&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019nbbase
0 -
I very much enjoyed @NickPalmer’s header. One slightly less plausible detail though:The seat where you live, Didcot and Wantage, is the only Oxfordshire seat where RefUK has yet to select – a coincidence, or a contingency plan?
At District Council level (the most recent elections), Didcot & Wantage has the grand total of 1 onanistic Conservative, a miserly threesome of Labour councillors, and a veritable orgy of 79 gazillion LibDems and Greens.
It is not exactly Reform territory. And I believe NPXMP is CLP chair so knows this quite well, but a fun bit of mischief nonetheless.1 -
Quite amusing to see he's now working with the Tory Party's nutty right, given he started out as a 2nd Referendumer. Go where you think the cash is I suppose.Jonathan said:
Jolly good. Another day, another Tory rattle thrown out of the pram. There really isn’t much grit to the Tories these days, it all falls apart once the power ebbs away. Nothing to bond them apart from power.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:0 -
This Libdem councillor sums things up nicely I think:Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:
Richard
@richardgomer
They've had 12 years to do something, and all they've achieved is a death spiral. We're all poorer, nothing works, and they're nasty to boot. Now they're desperately trying to save their own pathetic skins. Bring on a decade of Labour, it has to be better than more of this shit.
https://twitter.com/richardgomer3 -
I have not read the book Marnie - and should do so - however, I think the Hitchcock Marnie film is not terrible. It is not great; but it arguably casts a fascinating light on what we know about the Hitchcock and Tippy Hedren relationship/obsession; and Hitchcock’s own biography.
Not very close, from memory.
One of my favourite books, in fact, perhaps my favourite, is "Marnie", by Winston Graham (more famous for the excellent Poldark books). I love everything about the book, including the eponymous antiheroine. Who in some ways is a nasty piece of work (her husband gets injured in a riding accident, and she is more concerned for her horse). Yet Graham wrote her character in such a way that her actions make sense, and they make her a sympathetic character, even as you dislike what she does.
Hitchcock made it into a film starring Sean Connery in the 1960s, and it was... well, it was terrible.
I am a Hitchcock fan so I try not to judge him too harshly. I love the films and so try to divorce the behaviour from the output. But, if you view that film as a bit of inner life of the man it doesn’t paint a flattering picture. Admittedly in Birds he got to give Tippy hell with the Seagulls when filming - but I often wonder if the message in Marnie was beyond the pale.1 -
I thought Nick was in Surrey? Godalming?El_Capitano said:I very much enjoyed @NickPalmer’s header. One slightly less plausible detail though:
The seat where you live, Didcot and Wantage, is the only Oxfordshire seat where RefUK has yet to select – a coincidence, or a contingency plan?
At District Council level (the most recent elections), Didcot & Wantage has the grand total of 1 onanistic Conservative, a miserly threesome of Labour councillors, and a veritable orgy of 79 gazillion LibDems and Greens.
It is not exactly Reform territory. And I believe NPXMP is CLP chair so knows this quite well, but a fun bit of mischief nonetheless.0 -
What will be amusing is the contortions the Sun has to go through in order to back Labour by the time the Election is held.1
-
So, Texas. Confederate State declares the Federal Government - and US Supreme Court - have no authority to override state laws and decisions.
Fun fun fun! Gilead begins!0 -
Do you think they honestly will?biggles said:What will be amusing is the contortions the Sun has to go through in order to back Labour by the time the Election is held.
0 -
Till Daddy takes the T-Bird awayRochdalePioneers said:So, Texas. Confederate State declares the Federal Government - and US Supreme Court - have no authority to override state laws and decisions.
Fun fun fun! Gilead begins!
1 -
...
0 -
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
2 -
….0
-
Posted yesterday, the Tory slogan is going to berottenborough said:The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
Britain is Broken; Don't let Labour fix it...4 -
That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I read it.Nigelb said:Compare some of the rhetorical choices in Greg Abbott's assertion of a sovereign right to self defense and the Texas secession ordinance from 1861.
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/17502614157875121711 -
This is the bit the remaining Tories and their rampers refuse to face - "Nothing is working anymore". This latest poll just means they carry on and on and on, later and later into the year getting more angry and desperate. Why aren't people coming back to them? Can't they see how good things are?rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.1 -
"Back to square one" sounds so appealing.rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.2 -
I know lots of people who had access to Facebook before it was open to non-university students.ydoethur said:
The point is, he'd graduated by the time these messages were sent. So he would have needed access to his uni account to set up an account.williamglenn said:
I don't think he'd need to have access to the old email address. As long as there was continuity with the original account then they'd still be there under his current login.Phil said:
Yes & Facebook keeps messages back to the dawn of time unless you delete them. The only wrinkle here is that FB only opened up to UK universities in October 2005 so the dates are tight, but could work. Owen would have to have kept access to his university email address in order to be on Facebook, or gained access some other way but that’s not impossible - I have a vague recollection that Oxford would forward your university email to a new address for a while after graduating, which would have been sufficient.rcs1000 said:
Those look like Facebook messages rather than iMessage / SMS to meTheScreamingEagles said:
The iPhone was launched in 2007 and iMessages wasn't launched until 2011.tlg86 said:
I was wondering about that earlier - but seeing as though I didn't get a smart phone until Jan 2016, I assumed that I was just a long way behind the curve.TheScreamingEagles said:
Those look iMessages which didn't exist in 2005.Benpointer said:Simon Clarke kept some nice friends at uni:
@OwenJones84
Simon Clarke was in the year below me at university, and his crew were the first Tories I'd then met.
And all I'm saying is it had quite the lasting impact on my politics!
His best friend was
@CllrCarlJackson
, who sent me these messages after we graduated.
https://x.com/OwenJones84/status/1750147189932782025?s=20
I am intrigued by what messaging platform was used.0 -
Is that a Sheffield Rally going on behind you?AverageNinja said:34 point lead in the marginals. It is over lol
2 -
FPT: nico679 said:
"These articles try and justify why some voters have supported Trump . The cry of the dispossessed. When sadly Trump just forments anger and division . The only party that tries to improve life for the majority are the Dems . The GOP with their policies take from the poor to give to the rich and yet a whole lot of people continue to vote against their own interests ."
I am not suprised to see that someone in the UK doesn't know about the EITC, and earlier efforts:
"Proposed by Russell Long and signed into law by President Gerald Ford as part of the Tax Reduction Act of 1975, the EITC provides an income tax credit to certain individuals.[10] Upon enactment, the EITC gave a tax credit to individuals who had at least one dependent, maintained a household, and had earned income of less than $8,000 during the year.[10] The tax credit was $400 for individuals with earned income of less than $4,000. The tax credit was an amount less than $400 for individuals whose income was between $4,000 and $7,999 during the year.[10]
The initial EITC was expanded by tax legislation on a number of occasions, including the widely publicized Tax Reform Act of 1986, and it was further expanded in 1990, 1993, 2001, and 2009, regardless of whether the act in general raised taxes (1990, 1993), lowered taxes (2001), or eliminated other deductions and credits (1986).[11] In 1993, President Clinton tripled the EITC.[12] Today, the EITC is one of the largest anti-poverty tools in the United States.[13] Also, the EITC is mainly used to "promote and support work."[12] Most income measures, including the poverty rate, do not account for the credit."
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit#Welfare_benefits
Nor am I surprised that the writer does not know about the efforts of Republican presidents to improve public education by, for example, the No Child Left Behind Act. And the efforts by Republican governors in individual states, notably George W. Bush in Texas and Jeb Bush in Florida. These have had the most impact on families which can not afford public schools.
0 -
Electoral Calculus is hopeless. Labour is really not going to win Bicester & Woodstock or Didcot & Wantage.Foxy said:
Lab on 498 seats, and REFUK on one...Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=22&LAB=46&LIB=11&Reform=12&Green=6&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=16&SCOTLAB=33.1&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=1.5&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=36.9&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019nbbase0 -
Tories might want to go early. Limit the damage. Accelerate the fresh start.0
-
Politics is volatile. Labour lost its northern and Scottish strongholds. Why are the Tories immune?0 -
Things can only get better?Foxy said:
"Back to square one" sounds so appealing.rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.0 -
If his successor is Will Swallow, I'm going home.Scott_xP said:@MrHarryCole
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨
@TheSun
can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
He has issued a statement:0 -
"Things can't possibly get worseChris said:
Things can only get better?Foxy said:
"Back to square one" sounds so appealing.rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
Can't possibly get worse
Now I've dumped you."
The slightly more downbeat follow up.0 -
The results, they say, are a landslide win for the unnamed Mr Right. Which proves, according to the former Rishi Sunak ally Sir Simon Clarke, that “if we switch to a better leader … we will recover strongly in 2024”. This is a bit like saying that if I were to switch to being a theoretical physicist I would stand a better chance of understanding quantum gravity. It’s not wrong, but to whom is this role-playing game actually useful?
Look, I was never an advocate for Sunak as prime minister. He has his talents but as a politician he displays all the appeal of a Mormon maths teacher trying to fake his way through a pub crawl. His videos are toe-curling, his political instincts non-existent.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spare-us-this-charge-of-the-tory-clown-brigade-pm26vcxbg
0 -
Nothing ?rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
Clearly the internet and whatever you use to get on it is working or you wouldn't have been able to post that comment.
My home is working fine and so were the workplace, supermarket, health club and pub I went to today.
As were the car and roads I used to travel between them.
So what is broken ?
Presumably the public sector - although the parts I occasionally come into contact with - bin collection, library, doctors seem okay as well.
Sure there are problems in places - I see the news reports - and things could always be better but aren't we in danger of ignoring how fortunate we are ?
BTW 'rebooting Britain' would upset a lot of vested interests among those affected.
There's no money left so change would have to come from increased efficiency and higher productivity - things which tend to create opposition.0 -
A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".2 -
-
Thoughts and prayers for those who had Lake in their VP nominee book.
BREAKING: @AZGOP Chairman Jeff Dewit has resigned as a result of being recorded in a private conversation with Kari Lake.
He claims Lake's people told him to resign now or face a more damaging recording.
https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1750236594517553574
0 -
Or increased taxes. Which is actually the answer.another_richard said:
Nothing ?rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
Clearly the internet and whatever you use to get on it is working or you wouldn't have been able to post that comment.
My home is working fine and so were the workplace, supermarket, health club and pub I went to today.
As were the car and roads I used to travel between them.
So what is broken ?
Presumably the public sector - although the parts I occasionally come into contact with - bin collection, library, doctors seem okay as well.
Sure there are problems in places - I see the news reports - and things could always be better but aren't we in danger of ignoring how fortunate we are ?
BTW 'rebooting Britain' would upset a lot of vested interests among those affected.
There's no money left so change would have to come from increased efficiency and higher productivity - things which tend to create opposition.0 -
The person who decides is Rishi, and he has shown no instinct to go early.Jonathan said:Tories might want to go early. Limit the damage. Accelerate the fresh start.
Honestly I’m not sure how they’re going to survive through an election campaign at this rate.
It really is the most amazing implosion of a governing party I’ve seen. Utterly clueless.
2 -
An oddity of this abominable subject is that when it comes to executions the argument is constantly made that there is no humane and reliable way of doing it, but when it comes to assisted dying this matter in not raised by its supporters.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".
I oppose executions and support assisted dying but I am reasonably sure that more or less identical mechanics can apply to how it works.1 -
@Telegraph
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak offers to sacrifice Brexit freedoms to re-establish government in Northern Ireland0 -
Tristan Hunt on BBC News (as V&A person).
He could have been a few months away from being a senior member of a Lab Cabinet if he had stuck around as an MP.
0 -
Legitimately, it has to be a GE in May surely? This cannot be sustained.0
-
That would have required more work and constituency service than he was comfortable with.rottenborough said:Tristan Hunt on BBC News (as V&A person).
He could have been a few months away from being a senior member of a Lab Cabinet if he had stuck around as an MP.2 -
Chuka has to be the stupidest.rottenborough said:Tristan Hunt on BBC News (as V&A person).
He could have been a few months away from being a senior member of a Lab Cabinet if he had stuck around as an MP.1 -
Labour are coming into office soon anyway - might as well try to get all parts of the UK governing again, it's bloody embarrassing.Scott_xP said:@Telegraph
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak offers to sacrifice Brexit freedoms to re-establish government in Northern Ireland0 -
Not sure acknowledging there's probably a worse recording out there will help - it surely will come out now regardless.Nigelb said:Thoughts and prayers for those who had Lake in their VP nominee book.
BREAKING: @AZGOP Chairman Jeff Dewit has resigned as a result of being recorded in a private conversation with Kari Lake.
He claims Lake's people told him to resign now or face a more damaging recording.
https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/17502365945175535740 -
Some freedoms? - some sacrifice.Scott_xP said:@Telegraph
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak offers to sacrifice Brexit freedoms to re-establish government in Northern Ireland
Bring it on.2 -
Increasing taxes - which always creates further problems and opposition - only provides a very temporary answer.Benpointer said:
Or increased taxes. Which is actually the answer.another_richard said:
Nothing ?rottenborough said:
Jennifer Williams
@JenWilliams_FT
·
13h
Outside of the pandemic I don’t think I’ve known my news feed be this bleak. Story after story of something structural breaking - often things that have long been known about - or the human cost of it. So many things to report that it’s hard to know where to start
===
The Lab manifesto slogan has to be something about "rebuilding Britain'/rebooting britain or similar surely?
Nothing is working anymore.
Clearly the internet and whatever you use to get on it is working or you wouldn't have been able to post that comment.
My home is working fine and so were the workplace, supermarket, health club and pub I went to today.
As were the car and roads I used to travel between them.
So what is broken ?
Presumably the public sector - although the parts I occasionally come into contact with - bin collection, library, doctors seem okay as well.
Sure there are problems in places - I see the news reports - and things could always be better but aren't we in danger of ignoring how fortunate we are ?
BTW 'rebooting Britain' would upset a lot of vested interests among those affected.
There's no money left so change would have to come from increased efficiency and higher productivity - things which tend to create opposition.
The only long term answer is increased effectiveness through higher productivity and better efficiency.
Or alternatively technological advances which lead to the initial problem disappearing.0 -
Well, certain Tories are going to love this. Get out the betrayal-o-meter.Scott_xP said:@Telegraph
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak offers to sacrifice Brexit freedoms to re-establish government in Northern Ireland0 -
The YouGov MRP most marginal seats were an interesting in how a more realistic Labour landslide might look and where would be important in that.El_Capitano said:
Electoral Calculus is hopeless. Labour is really not going to win Bicester & Woodstock or Didcot & Wantage.Foxy said:
Lab on 498 seats, and REFUK on one...Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=22&LAB=46&LIB=11&Reform=12&Green=6&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=16&SCOTLAB=33.1&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=1.5&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=36.9&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019nbbase
The 8 constituencies in which Labour and Conservative finished on the same percentage vote were:
Aylesbury
Banbury
Bracknell
Great Yarmouth
Isle of Wight East
Kettering
North Northumberland
Ribble Valley1 -
Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.1 -
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young person who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".4 -
The only real reason for Sunak to go early is him anticipating a more effective challenge in the summer, after the May Locals.numbertwelve said:
The person who decides is Rishi, and he has shown no instinct to go early.Jonathan said:Tories might want to go early. Limit the damage. Accelerate the fresh start.
Honestly I’m not sure how they’re going to survive through an election campaign at this rate.
It really is the most amazing implosion of a governing party I’ve seen. Utterly clueless.0 -
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".3 -
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.0 -
I think that this ignores the far more deadly threat of Dihydrogen Monoxide. *Every* person who has ever died - tons of it in their body.Foxy said:
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".3 -
The problems of dihydrogen monoxide are similarly ignored, despite its role in thousands of deaths.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young person who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".2 -
I’m not sure the feds would have the stomach for a rerun of the Civil War though.RochdalePioneers said:So, Texas. Confederate State declares the Federal Government - and US Supreme Court - have no authority to override state laws and decisions.
Fun fun fun! Gilead begins!
But Texas… losing that would be worse for a US President than losing Scotland would be for a Brit1 -
That certainly was plan A. Declare a "Tax Cut" in November and rush it through. Spend the late winter ramping how things are getting better, then a Big Giveaway Budget early March and use the momentum to launch your election campaign.AverageNinja said:Legitimately, it has to be a GE in May surely? This cannot be sustained.
Supposedly chunks of Whitehall still thinks it is 2nd May. But I would be astonished now. Remember that the easiest decision is indecision. Can't decide? Don't!
6 weeks of further chaos, a Budget being attacked before it is read out and then is attacked on all sides as the Finance Bill goes through parliament. So we get indecision and no election is called. 2nd May is Brutal and the endless infighting intensifies.
None of the dates that could follow look appealing and one by one they slip. The trailed mid November date means Sunak calling the election at Conference. You can see the problem with that. So he doesn't.
Can the government be sustained? Yes - it will not lose a confidence vote. Will it actually govern? No. And the longer this goes on the worse it gets, which makes it less likely he will call an early election.
So we go on. Until legally it expires. Insane yes, but none of the other options are sane either...1 -
How many tons?Malmesbury said:
I think that this ignores the far more deadly threat of Dihydrogen Monoxide. *Every* person who has ever died - tons of it in their body.Foxy said:
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".0 -
I still think, whenever it is, the GE date will be determined on an 'every man for himself' not a 'good for the party' (and certainly not the country) basis.AverageNinja said:Legitimately, it has to be a GE in May surely? This cannot be sustained.
Bad polls or no, Sunak may.prefer to take his chances directly with a GE if he risks having to face the shame and damage of party leadership eliminator vote instead.
Some Tory MPs who aren't resigned to seeing their majorities vaporised, but know they'll lose on current trajectory, will try to roll the dice and oust Sunak just because something, something might do better and save their own seat. No ideology, allegiance or favoured candidate on manoeuvres required.
How it plays out, I'm not entirely sure, but it won't be pretty.0 -
Literally tons.Benpointer said:
How many tons?Malmesbury said:
I think that this ignores the far more deadly threat of Dihydrogen Monoxide. *Every* person who has ever died - tons of it in their body.Foxy said:
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".2 -
As of today's poll he could add 20 points and still lose.MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.7 -
Can’t believe this bloke started up an anti Brexit group with Femi, then Sunak gave him a job!
What does it say about Rishi Sunak though that he actually hired this guy 🤦🏻♂️
https://x.com/timmyvoe240886/status/1750283911941308891?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q0 -
Fortunately for Labour, I don't see Starmer doing a "well all right" thing at a pre-election victory shindig.Mexicanpete said:
Is that a Sheffield Rally going on behind you?AverageNinja said:34 point lead in the marginals. It is over lol
The opposite problem of looking slightly frightened of winning seems more likely.0 -
Now, stop.asking practical questions about implementation. It's not fair when we all know that they have no intention of actually DOING anything.rottenborough said:
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.0 -
Rwandarottenborough said:
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.6 -
Too many Conservative MPs want to argue among themselves instead of governing.RochdalePioneers said:
That certainly was plan A. Declare a "Tax Cut" in November and rush it through. Spend the late winter ramping how things are getting better, then a Big Giveaway Budget early March and use the momentum to launch your election campaign.AverageNinja said:Legitimately, it has to be a GE in May surely? This cannot be sustained.
Supposedly chunks of Whitehall still thinks it is 2nd May. But I would be astonished now. Remember that the easiest decision is indecision. Can't decide? Don't!
6 weeks of further chaos, a Budget being attacked before it is read out and then is attacked on all sides as the Finance Bill goes through parliament. So we get indecision and no election is called. 2nd May is Brutal and the endless infighting intensifies.
None of the dates that could follow look appealing and one by one they slip. The trailed mid November date means Sunak calling the election at Conference. You can see the problem with that. So he doesn't.
Can the government be sustained? Yes - it will not lose a confidence vote. Will it actually govern? No. And the longer this goes on the worse it gets, which makes it less likely he will call an early election.
So we go on. Until legally it expires. Insane yes, but none of the other options are sane either...
So a non-governing government for the rest of the year suits them well.2 -
In the right place of course. It theoretically exists I suppose.rottenborough said:
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.
In any case the government has severe credibility problems - they might have some great ideas, but who is going to believe even those ideas will happen? And even then would then reward the government for those ideas?0 -
About 0.06 tonnes at a guess.Benpointer said:
How many tons?Malmesbury said:
I think that this ignores the far more deadly threat of Dihydrogen Monoxide. *Every* person who has ever died - tons of it in their body.Foxy said:
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".0 -
Interesting report on what Labour might actually seek from the 5 year TCA review, the commentary on how plausible it might be:Scott_xP said:@Telegraph
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak offers to sacrifice Brexit freedoms to re-establish government in Northern Ireland
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/reviewing-the-trade-and-cooperation-agreement/
Summary: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/will-the-2026-tca-review-reshape-uk-eu-relations/0 -
In his back garden and they will fall be Rishi sizeFoxy said:
I think you are 80% correct.rcs1000 said:
I find your flippancy disturbing: nitrogen is an absolute killer. Every young people who dies suddenly, do you know what they have in common? nitrogen in their lungs. And yet no-one is willing to talk about it.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".0 -
What's weird about Bicester & Woodstock going Labour (or LD)?El_Capitano said:
Electoral Calculus is hopeless. Labour is really not going to win Bicester & Woodstock or Didcot & Wantage.Foxy said:
Lab on 498 seats, and REFUK on one...Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=22&LAB=46&LIB=11&Reform=12&Green=6&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=16&SCOTLAB=33.1&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=1.5&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=36.9&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019nbbase
Add up the votes in the May 2023 locals and it's clear that, even 8 months ago, the Tories had been utterly routed throughout this constituency - and it was only Labour obduracy that was letting the Tories survive as a minority ruling party in Cherwell district (where the Bicester bit is)
The question worth asking in B&W is whether Labour grab it at the next GE or the LibDems do. And it's how voters in the area are currently voting that matters - not what they did in 2019 when keeping Corbyn's hands off our nuclear codes that mattered.0 -
I take it you’re being sarcastic ! It’s yet more desperate and transparent attempts by the spineless gimp. At least Bozo gave us a few laughs . Sunak looks like a pathetic whiny child throwing a tantrum .MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.0 -
There is a potential difference: the small matter of cooperation - both by the subject and by the other persons involved. Happily I'm not an expert, but one thing for sure, executioners didn't need a MD in the old days, just a week's training in some prison somewhere, at least in the UK.algarkirk said:
An oddity of this abominable subject is that when it comes to executions the argument is constantly made that there is no humane and reliable way of doing it, but when it comes to assisted dying this matter in not raised by its supporters.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".
I oppose executions and support assisted dying but I am reasonably sure that more or less identical mechanics can apply to how it works.0 -
I don’t think he is planning to build anything, just have a policy of British Homes for British Workersrottenborough said:
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.
Only British citizens can be at the front of the queues
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/24/tory-social-housing-plan-aims-to-prioritise-british-homes-for-british-workers
0 -
Say what you like about the CHUKs, but they did actually stand by the fact they couldn't abide Corbyn and try to do something about it - and may have even played a role in the fact Labour is where it is now. Given Labour's poll ratings began their decline as they came on the scene and began a move in general towards Labour people saying what they thought about their leader in a more concrete way.AverageNinja said:
Chuka has to be the stupidest.rottenborough said:Tristan Hunt on BBC News (as V&A person).
He could have been a few months away from being a senior member of a Lab Cabinet if he had stuck around as an MP.
Which is more than can be said for those who slunk off anonymously into more cushy jobs.0 -
I did a Google search on British homes for British workers… the top hit was from a website called “unexplained mysteries”…Pro_Rata said:
Rwandarottenborough said:
Where is he planning to build them?MoonRabbit said:Bye bye Labour Majority. 👋🏻.
Sunak’s British Homes for British Workers policy is about to add 20 points to Tory’s in the opinion polls.
Tories are serious about winning this general election after all. I’m beginning to think Isaac Levido is very good at his job.
1 -
That's the advantage of gas chambers, electric chair, hangman's noose etc. No medical input required. Anyone can do it.Carnyx said:
There is a potential difference: the small matter of cooperation - both by the subject and by the other persons involved. Happily I'm not an expert, but one thing for sure, executioners didn't need a MD in the old days, just a week's training in some prison somewhere, at least in the UK.algarkirk said:
An oddity of this abominable subject is that when it comes to executions the argument is constantly made that there is no humane and reliable way of doing it, but when it comes to assisted dying this matter in not raised by its supporters.Chris said:A new high of scientific illiteracy from the BBC in its report of the forthcoming execution of a man in the USA in which "toxic [sic] nitrogen will be pumped [sic] into his body through a mask".
A couple of days ago the BBC gave credence to a scare story about the possibility of notrogen "leaking from the mask and killing others in the room".
I oppose executions and support assisted dying but I am reasonably sure that more or less identical mechanics can apply to how it works.0 -
If anything like the current polling comes to pass then there will be many surprising seats that flip. Why not this one amongst them?Flanner said:
What's weird about Bicester & Woodstock going Labour (or LD)?El_Capitano said:
Electoral Calculus is hopeless. Labour is really not going to win Bicester & Woodstock or Didcot & Wantage.Foxy said:
Lab on 498 seats, and REFUK on one...Scott_xP said:@itvpeston
🚨NEW
Labour has a 34 point lead over the Conservatives in 150 key target seats, per exclusive @thefabians analysis
This is 10 points higher than the national average 👀
GB
🌹LAB 46%
🌳CON 22%
TARGET SEATS
🌹LAB 52%
🌳CON 18%
💻LIVE 9PM
@itvpeston
📺10.45PM
@ITV
#Peston
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=22&LAB=46&LIB=11&Reform=12&Green=6&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=16&SCOTLAB=33.1&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=1.5&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=36.9&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019nbbase
Add up the votes in the May 2023 locals and it's clear that, even 8 months ago, the Tories had been utterly routed throughout this constituency - and it was only Labour obduracy that was letting the Tories survive as a minority ruling party in Cherwell district (where the Bicester bit is)
The question worth asking in B&W is whether Labour grab it at the next GE or the LibDems do. And it's how voters in the area are currently voting that matters - not what they did in 2019 when keeping Corbyn's hands off our nuclear codes that mattered.0
