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Being told that the diagnosis is dementia – politicalbetting.com
Being told that the diagnosis is dementia – politicalbetting.com
On Monday I had an appointment at the local NHS memory clinic to hear the results of a series of tests that had been carried out on me.
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Deep Sympathies - to you and yours
I do hope that you'll find it similarly compatible with a good and satisfying life. All the very best.
The polls will be back up to a 20 point lead.
Next steps:
• create separate colours and names for all the different Northern lines
• reduce Waterloo & City and Hammersmith & City to just one word (why do they alone have three words?)
• remove the word line on the Liz line branding (why is this the only line that does this?)
All the best.
I was with my father when he got his diagnosis, so I have some idea of the blow. I wish you and your family all the best.
But on these LO names:
I lived in London for five years, and I've no idea what 'Mildmay' refers to.
Suffragette is a mouthful and difficult to spell.
Weaver: again, I've no idea what this is supposed to refer to.
Lioness: I assume this is footie. In which case, I assume it goes past Wembley? Or Arsenal perhaps? Tottenham? West Ham?
Liberty: an utterly meaningless name that could match anything, anywhere. If you want something better, perhaps something like ''Runnymede" would be better, if any line passed nearby.
All in all, a terrible selection of names that are anything but geographic. Like, sadly, the 'Elizabeth line'.
Not that my opinion matters.
Another thought about the 'Suffragette line'; this will soon become dubbed the 'Suffering line'.
The Weaver Line obviously refers to Randy Weaver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weaver)
It seems clear to me that these names are actually chosen to appeal to the Fascist American Right.
I'm still hoping for the Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham, at which point that line should be renamed Bakerlew.
Liberty makes sense in Havering, which is the only borough the line serves. And coming up with names that are local and generic is blooming hard.
(Without looking up, where are Havering, Redbridge, Merton? And, outside London, Dacorum?)
And on topic, whatever needs to be said has been said, but take it as read again.
https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2024/02/the-28-billion-reversal-would-anything-change-under-labour-and-what-ofsted-rating-would-you-give-the-government-my-february-poll/
Much as expected - my summary would be "Tories are awful, Labour would be a bit better, things look unpromising either way". However, the original £28bn commitment AND the U-turn in the light of events both get a thumbs up from the electorate, suggesting an unusual degree of nuance - essentially that it's the right direction but fair to take account of the current financial situation.
All pre-Rochdalegate, though.
Needs must when we are skint, and can't come up with good names anyway.
This is one of those classic "3 minute vs 30 minute vs 3 hour" conversation policies Tony Blair used to talk about. Initially it sounds good but the longer you think about it, the more you think about how we probably can't afford it (even if you can make an argument against that) and so the more time that passes, the more people will be on board with scrapping it.
I think the bigger danger for Labour is the idea they don't have any policies at all but this is something I think will become fairly quickly resolved during an election campaign.
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After trialling extra bobbies on the beat and targeted interventions in ten hotspots across the country, local trials have shown a decline in antisocial behaviour, the Home Office says.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/every-police-force-to-get-1-million-cash-for-antisocial-behaviour/
Bobbies on the beat. Yobbos to cashpoints. Jumpers for goalposts. Nothing to do with the Home Office that cut 20,000 coppers, or the government.
Thoughts with you and the family.
Tom Harwood
@tomhfh
Stop lauding political violence and rename it the Suffragist line.
You've even illustrated this announcement with a suffragist - Millicent Fawcett. She was most certainly not a suffragette, and will be turning in her grave at the accusation.
Might Whitehall's time be better spent working on the problems that operate on a slightly larger scale?
Mike - so sad to hear your news. This site is one of the best things on the internet and I value your insights hugely. Best of luck with whatever the future holds.
Waterloo
Agincourt
Trafalgar
Mers El Kébir
Redcoat
Longshanks
“Keep buggering on” as someone once said.
The Black Prince etc - bone for the Wokists?
Also need a Cumberland line
Although this website is only part of your life and work, it is a great achievement. 'Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.'
Body line
Cheeky line
She was worried that it wasn't generating enough paperwork to keep her staff busy.
She actually said this. Out loud and everything.
In a way, funniest thing since Bill Clinton attacked flattening the US tax system on the grounds that it would put 100Ks of lawyers out of business.
Cumberland and Redcoat lines are a bit of a tautology in my book.
You included neither Crecy nor Poitiers.
A real diffident hero, who invented something that is still ubiquitous worldwide (except presumably Russia) 80 years later.
Can we have the Mandelson Line which has a sign for Heathrow and then takes you to Tilbury?
A couple of days ago a good friend (age 25) was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and a couple of months ago another friend heard she has MS. Seems like many people are having bad luck at the moment.
Perhaps he now has the relevant attributes to be President of the US?
https://nitter.cz/
I don’t give a fuck about windrush. Suffragettes is impossible to fucking say. Who the fuck is ‘mildmay’. What the fuck is a ‘weaver’. Liberty is just fucking cringe. And fucking lionesses is fucking cringe times intergalactic fucketty-cringe
Very best wishes to Mike, and as others have said many thanks for creating PB!
Told you Dave was awesome.
I can only hope Cameron’s intervention on the US package to Ukraine is successful - god knows we need it to be. Whilst I have many criticisms of him - and will have many more - this is a commendable move that I doubt any other FS would have pulled off.
https://twitter.com/StewartMcDonald/status/1758040739315855655