Only 37% of 2024 Tories think Badenoch would make the best PM – politicalbetting.com
Farage (narrowly) takes lead over Starmer on our preferred PM question too for first time. Though none of the above beats them both and Badenoch. Starmer is still the preferred choice (of them + none) by 55% of Labour 2024 voters however.
OTOH, Kemi (and Farage) have much less bad approval ratings than Starmer. That suggests to me that Labour have a lot further to sink, relative to the Conservatives and Reform.
OTOH, Kemi (and Farage) have much less bad approval ratings than Starmer. That suggests to me that Labour have a lot further to sink, relative to the Conservatives and Reform.
Ditto
And, as you noted, disapproval of government is a leading indicator. Expect Labour to sink further
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
So the government has 'announced' an Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
I’m not convinced. It’s even easier for Labour to tie the previous government’s record to Hunt.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
I'm not sure he'd be doing better right now, but someone like him would be well-placed to capitalise on the future Reform vs Tory duopoly when it's clear that Labour are out of the running for the next election.
We could feed all of Reeves' speeches and comments into an LLM and then the Peston LLM can interview the Reeves LLM and everyone can have a half day holiday!
Dramatisation of the infamous 1989 interview between journalist Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which triggered the downfall of the Iron Lady. With Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter.
Technically, you can downstream the programme now but best wait till 9.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
Would he? Jeremy Hunt twice stood for the leadership. He has no base of support. In 2022, Hunt was eliminated in the first round. Kemi survived to the fourth.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
He might gain a few more LDs than Kemi but would probably leak more to Reform than Kemi is too
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
He might gain a few more LDs than Kemi but would probably leak more to Reform than Kemi is too
Leaking more to Reform will be good for the Tories in the long run because they will ultimately be able to monopolise the Blairite vote.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
Would he? Jeremy Hunt twice stood for the leadership. He has no base of support. In 2022, Hunt was eliminated in the first round. Kemi survived to the fourth.
We could feed all of Reeves' speeches and comments into an LLM and then the Peston LLM can interview the Reeves LLM and everyone can have a half day holiday!
Here is Rachel Riley on Countdown earlier in the week describing how they have done something similar for Holocaust remembrance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByoXJidOs3Q
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
He might gain a few more LDs than Kemi but would probably leak more to Reform than Kemi is too
Leaking more to Reform will be good for the Tories in the long run because they will ultimately be able to monopolise the Blairite vote.
Only if they win more LDs and centrist Labour voters than they leak to Reform
So the government has 'announced' an Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
You can make planning regulations the most growth friendly possible and put in every kind of incentive to build but if you don't have enough builders on the ground laying the bricks and putting down the concrete, nothing much is going to happen. And we have nowhere near enough builders and an absolute aversion to immigration.
So the government has 'announced' an Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
You can make planning regulations the most growth friendly possible and put in every kind of incentive to build but if you don't have enough builders on the ground laying the bricks and putting down the concrete, nothing much is going to happen. And we have nowhere near enough builders and an absolute aversion to immigration.
It's a chicken and egg situation, isn't it? Lack of construction (not just 'building'...) starts leads to fewer people in the relevant occupations, and fewer people training up into them. Which is then an excuse not to start many projects.
I have my doubts that Kemi has what it takes to win a GE.
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
Jeremy Hunt would be doing better.
Would he? Jeremy Hunt twice stood for the leadership. He has no base of support. In 2022, Hunt was eliminated in the first round. Kemi survived to the fourth.
He'd possibly lose his seat next time out.
They said that last time but thanks to his excellent campaigning he held onto the seat.
I suspect most of the branches closing have a Lloyd’s or Halifax nearby and you will be able to do your banking in the other branch.
Up to December Halifax customers were not able to bank in Lloyd’s and viceversa but that’s recently been resolved
Perhaps, but the age of physical banking is slowly dying. I have a client who doesn't do 'digital'. They take cheques and cash. They have no card machine. Until five years ago, the local bank was still in our town (Crosby), but then closed. So all banking was via the post office. That's now closed and the only options are Waterloo (about a five-ten minute drive) or Liverpool City Centre.
I expect the problem will only get worse and worse for my client. [1]
[1] Yes, yes; they need to move into the 20th Century, let alone the 21st and get a bank card reader setup; but they won't.
I suspect most of the branches closing have a Lloyd’s or Halifax nearby and you will be able to do your banking in the other branch.
Up to December Halifax customers were not able to bank in Lloyd’s and viceversa but that’s recently been resolved
I think we’ll end up with roving banking hubs outside the big cities in the near future.
We had one*. ****ing useless. Limited facilities, queueing in the rain, no privacy, one hour a week ...
*RBS, not HBOS, to be fair.
Had the post office not screwed things up the best approach would be to have the post office running hubs and doing day to day banking with the expert from xyz bank there 1 day a week with a different bank every day.
Hence you Lloyd’s staff member provides advice in Bishop on Monday, Stanhope Tuesday, Peterlee Wednesday….
So the government has 'announced' an Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
You can make planning regulations the most growth friendly possible and put in every kind of incentive to build but if you don't have enough builders on the ground laying the bricks and putting down the concrete, nothing much is going to happen. And we have nowhere near enough builders and an absolute aversion to immigration.
But when there is sufficient demand (for builders, widgets or whatever), supply adjusts as the price increases. More people will find it attractive to train or retrain as builders or bricklayers or whatever. The only question is how long it takes, and as most building jobs are at best semi-skilled, unlike training new doctors, say, it shouldn't take a huge length of time. Probably less time than the average planning process.
Given my day job, I can confidently say that 99% of all cash transactions are something to do with dodging taxes, drugs, and/or wider criminality.
If you use cash you are on the side of the criminals and tax dodgers as well as making the lives harder for legitimate businesses.
Every week I go to the cash point and take out a fixed amount of cash. It helps me budget during the week. I also get the slip that tells me how much money I have and enter that in a spreadsheet. I have been doing that for more decades than I like to think.
Just go the whole hog and fucking move into Beamish.
I think the cashpoints in the 1820s still used CRTs, and only worked if the rubber band was wound up.
Nah, they were getting really excited about the new steam engines with mechanical processing. Mr Babbage and all that.
That was all TechBroHype. Government invested a fortune and got nothing. The mechanical computing market collapsed for decades.
Clement and then Whitworth made fortunes of delivering bit for machines that were never built. They used the money to build their own businesses at government expense.
The financial enquiry still hasn’t reported - the specific enquiry into the usefulness of the project showed it was a waste of time.
Isn't that being more than a little unfair on Joey Whitworth?
Clement, in particular, optimised his return from the Difference Machine contracts. Rather well.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
Not always great as a measure of centrality, though. Up until 18, my mean score was 1 (two different postcodes). Both were (and still are) within 250m of the edge of the town and farmland, but over a mile from the centre. In fact, I could have lived in an outlying village 8 miles from the centre and still been in the same postcode.
Conversely, the nearest I've ever lived to the centre of a city (ten minutes' walk) was a 26.
That article in the Mail proves they are a bunch of woke snowflakes, they say
He used the sordid term, which refers to three-way sex, about his BBC colleague Janette Manrara. It’s about as crude and offensive a suggestion as you can make.
I can think of at least 100 more crude and offensive suggestions than that.
So the government has 'announced' an Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
You can make planning regulations the most growth friendly possible and put in every kind of incentive to build but if you don't have enough builders on the ground laying the bricks and putting down the concrete, nothing much is going to happen. And we have nowhere near enough builders and an absolute aversion to immigration.
It's a chicken and egg situation, isn't it? Lack of construction (not just 'building'...) starts leads to fewer people in the relevant occupations, and fewer people training up into them. Which is then an excuse not to start many projects.
JFDI and train people up.
There will be plenty of potential bricklaying, joinery and electrical engineering apprentices when the universities have closed down.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
For me 90/5/2/2
So a mean score of 24.5
90?! The only 90 I know is Manchester Airport. Which presumably wasn't your address.
Hm. A bit of research also allows Worksop, Solihull and somewhere in Glasgow as possibilities
Possibly related: Years ago, I was intrigued by parallel poll findings. In the US, almost all Republicans thought that the United States was a good nation with some faults, while about half of Democrats thought it was a bad nation with some redeeming qualities.
There was a similar poll in the UK that showed that Conservatives mostly thought the United Kingdom was a good country, while about half of Labour supporters did not.
Those findings explained much, I thought, about the politics in both nations.
Have you seen any similar poll findings for the UK recently?
Could a change in those attitudes help explain why so many leaders have trouble getting positive ratings in the UK?
(For the record: I think the US is still mostly a good nation, but less so in recent decades with the decline in family strength.)
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
The postcode I grew up in was a 0, so I win by default.
OTOH, Kemi (and Farage) have much less bad approval ratings than Starmer. That suggests to me that Labour have a lot further to sink, relative to the Conservatives and Reform.
Labour have a huge public sector client vote to draw upon.
OTOH, Kemi (and Farage) have much less bad approval ratings than Starmer. That suggests to me that Labour have a lot further to sink, relative to the Conservatives and Reform.
Labour have a huge public sector client vote to draw upon.
Only if they're able to deliver for them. I would expect fewer of them to be motivated to turn out to vote next time.
If you go back to the second world war, public support for the death penalty has been pretty consistently above 50%, with dips below whenever there are obvious miscarriages of justice. Imagine if we'd hanged the Guilford Four, for example.
(Narrator: the "1" code in the postcode suffix/inward code indicates the post sorting office for the area and is not necessarily the centre of town)
Not necessarily - but I can't think of many counterexamples. Certainly in all of the postal districts I know of '1' is pretty much the centre of town. It's where the main post office is.
As Eagles notes, Manchester is a bit different because Manchester and Salford always shared postcodes - before postcodes were made nationwide, you had Manchester 1 (where the post office was), and then they alternated: Manchester 2, Salford 3, Manchester 4, Salford 5... Uniformity petered out after a bit and in any case there have been reorders since, and everything's been given an 'M'.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
The postcode I grew up in was a 0, so I win by default.
But what is your average now? Unless you have been very careful I'm betting it will be some way above 1.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
For me 90/5/2/2
So a mean score of 24.5
90?! The only 90 I know is Manchester Airport. Which presumably wasn't your address.
Hm. A bit of research also allows Worksop, Solihull and somewhere in Glasgow as possibilities
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
For me 90/5/2/2
So a mean score of 24.5
90?! The only 90 I know is Manchester Airport. Which presumably wasn't your address.
Hm. A bit of research also allows Worksop, Solihull and somewhere in Glasgow as possibilities
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
The postcode I grew up in was a 0, so I win by default.
But what is your average now? Unless you have been very careful I'm betting it will be some way above 1.
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
Not always great as a measure of centrality, though. Up until 18, my mean score was 1 (two different postcodes). Both were (and still are) within 250m of the edge of the town and farmland, but over a mile from the centre. In fact, I could have lived in an outlying village 8 miles from the centre and still been in the same postcode.
Conversely, the nearest I've ever lived to the centre of a city (ten minutes' walk) was a 26.
Along with 2, 4, 4, 3, 7, 7, I have 12, 7, 17 and 55. There may be others.
N7 is next door to Nottingham Castle, in the middle of the city.
If you go back to the second world war, public support for the death penalty has been pretty consistently above 50%, with dips below whenever there are obvious miscarriages of justice. Imagine if we'd hanged the Guilford Four, for example.
Just imagine if we'd hanged the people who commited these murders:
OTOH, Kemi (and Farage) have much less bad approval ratings than Starmer. That suggests to me that Labour have a lot further to sink, relative to the Conservatives and Reform.
Labour have a huge public sector client vote to draw upon.
It's not as reliable as the Tory/Reform retiree client vote.
If you go back to the second world war, public support for the death penalty has been pretty consistently above 50%, with dips below whenever there are obvious miscarriages of justice. Imagine if we'd hanged the Guilford Four, for example.
Just imagine if we'd hanged the people who commited these murders:
More than 750 killings since 2010 carried out by criminals on probation
Minority Report style, you mean? I doubt many of those were originally banged up for what would be capital offences. Unless you're going to hang everyone convicted of any crime?
What’s happened to me. I used to do drugs and be bad
Now I have become the sort of person that buys artisanal handwoven throws
It’s from Kachin. $105
I was going to say how rubbish it is, but it's actually not a bad effort for the 8-year-old who probably made it.
Being soaked in the tears of the 8 year old slave who made it counters any Woke entirely.
It wasn’t a slave. Kachin Burma has a long noble tradition of hand woven cotton
“Kachin textiles are not merely aesthetic but play an essential role in social and ceremonial life. Traditionally, they are worn during weddings, festivals (Manau celebrations), and rites of passage. Men wear intricately woven longyis (sarongs), while women wear htameins (skirts) paired with elaborately embroidered jackets and headdresses. Warriors and leaders historically wore finely woven garments as symbols of status
Kachin textiles are renowned and highly prized by collectors for their bold geometric patterns, intricate embroidery, and bright contrasting colors. Common motifs include:
Zigzags & diamonds: Representing mountains and rivers, key features of Kachin landscapes.
Animal symbols: Elephants, deer, birds, and mythical creatures, often linked to animist beliefs.
Tribal patterns: Each Kachin sub-group (such as the Jinghpaw, Rawang, or Lisu) has distinct designs that indicate regional or clan identity.”
$105! Bargain. I utterly adore it
Is that your hotel room. I would be seriously concerned if you made your bed up every day like that in NW1.
HW1 is a bit suburban, n'est-ce pas?
I spent several years living in EC2.
EC2 is sweet
It’s my proud boast that I have lived in nearly all the “1s”
W1. SW1, EC1, N1, WC1, E1 and now NW1
Only one missing is SE1. But I’ll cope
A pedant notes: there are postcodes outside London too.
But that is quite remarkable. The average first number in my postcode is 13 1/8. If it's weighted by the length of time I've spent there it's 16.7. And that's someone who's lived somewhere fairly urban all his life (though my 1 "1" was DL1, so my least metropolitan address).
You must have a remarkably low average postcode score.
Actually this is true
The only other places I have lived in the UK are Hereford - HR4 - and Truro - TR1 - TR1!!
So, that’s 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1
Mean postcode score of 1 1/3. Remarkable. My guess is that there will be no-one in the country with 9 (or more) different UK adresses with a lower score.
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
For me 90/5/2/2
So a mean score of 24.5
90?! The only 90 I know is Manchester Airport. Which presumably wasn't your address.
Hm. A bit of research also allows Worksop, Solihull and somewhere in Glasgow as possibilities
I am 90 (Solihull), 6, 2, 6, 3, 29, 8, 13
I was in OX1 for a bit. I hate my current postcode as I'm just outside by native and far superior CT and at the top numerical end of the very naff TN.
In London I was SE11, N19, N1 and SE10 so nothing to write home about there either. I am postcode declasse.
If you go back to the second world war, public support for the death penalty has been pretty consistently above 50%, with dips below whenever there are obvious miscarriages of justice. Imagine if we'd hanged the Guilford Four, for example.
Just imagine if we'd hanged the people who commited these murders:
More than 750 killings since 2010 carried out by criminals on probation
Minority Report style, you mean? I doubt many of those were originally banged up for what would be capital offences. Unless you're going to hang everyone convicted of any crime?
Why bother with a conviction: if the police said he did it, that's good enough for me.
Gen Z are today's youth and more opposed, millennials are now approaching middle age
'Generation Z, who are aged between 18 and 26, are the most conflicted over the return of the death penalty, with 45 per cent in favour, 42 per cent against and 14 per cent unsure.
Most of the baby boomer generation — aged 60-74 — are in favour by a margin of 58 to 34 per cent, while 50 per cent of the over-75s are supportive and 37 per cent against.'
Also a review from Rory the Tory on the impact of Trump freezing everything worldwide via Executive Order. This is one of his subject areas.
An example is that USA Aid (all of whose programmes have now been frozen in mid-contract) funds the Jordanian education system via the ministry, which has will now stop in its tracks.
One thesis is that this behaviour will liquidate the USA's soft power worldwide for a generation, which has been a key influencer for them - since after 80 years of being a trustworthy ally, they are demonstrating that they have potential to be unpredictable backstabbers out of the blue at zero notice.
Comments
https://x.com/peston/status/1884609503829909879
Up to December Halifax customers were not able to bank in Lloyd’s and viceversa but that’s recently been resolved
And, as you noted, disapproval of government is a leading indicator. Expect Labour to sink further
But politics is very fragmented at the moment; and I think it’s just as likely that people really won’t want to endorse Starmer for a second term, and/or that Farage comes unstuck in the next four years. So it’s just so very difficult to say right now.
There is a time for the Tories to panic. I don’t think it’s quite yet. I’m not sure I see anyone else doing better.
I wonder how this differs from all the other times this has been talked about over the last twenty years?
I also note, from (1): "an upgrade on the A428 between Milton Keynes and Cambridge". Which, unless I am very much mistaken, I passed the roadworks for as I drove to the pool at lunch. The upgrade is well under way, started by the last government.
This is different from the Oxford-Cambridge expressway (2), cancelled four years ago. If you want to link the two cities, something needs to be done by the mudtracks between Zebedeeland and the muddy spires of Oxford. We're going to have nice dual carriageway all the way from Cambridge to MK, and crummy roads the rest of the way.
On the other hand, it's good to see the new Fens Reservoir is going to be built (3) to provide water for all the new homes and businesses. This is actually a big issue locally.
JFDI.
(1): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw49q9zgepo
(2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford–Cambridge_Expressway
(3): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2e8gkj2yro
Dramatisation of the infamous 1989 interview between journalist Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which triggered the downfall of the Iron Lady. With Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter.
Technically, you can downstream the programme now but best wait till 9.
As per his narrow lead on the best PM poll though Farage would be the big winner with Reform winning 107 MPs and overtaking the LDs on 72 for third.
Labour on 246 MPs would lose its majority but likely stay in power, just
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=N&CON=24&LAB=25&LIB=13&Reform=25&Green=7&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=&SCOTLAB=&SCOTLIB=&SCOTReform=&SCOTGreen=&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2024
For contrast, can any pb-ers give us an unsually high score?
I love this kind of shit.
So a mean score of 24.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByoXJidOs3Q
JFDI and train people up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUMu0s-Y3UE (4mins)
I consider that a shellacking.
He blames the fraught time in Politics and Brexit deadlock.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/lord-mandelson-i-was-wrong-to-call-trump-a-danger-to-the-world/ar-AA1y39re?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=9bbd76b8c58c459a8c93bf099ebaf401&ei=15
*RBS, not HBOS, to be fair.
I appreciate I'm a bit thick, but that question appeared hugely longwinded and not particularly focused. More like an essay question.
I have a client who doesn't do 'digital'. They take cheques and cash. They have no card machine.
Until five years ago, the local bank was still in our town (Crosby), but then closed. So all banking was via the post office. That's now closed and the only options are Waterloo (about a five-ten minute drive) or Liverpool City Centre.
I expect the problem will only get worse and worse for my client. [1]
[1] Yes, yes; they need to move into the 20th Century, let alone the 21st and get a bank card reader setup; but they won't.
Hence you Lloyd’s staff member provides advice in Bishop on Monday, Stanhope Tuesday, Peterlee Wednesday….
Thank God for the free market.
Whitworth wasn’t far behind.
Conversely, the nearest I've ever lived to the centre of a city (ten minutes' walk) was a 26.
He used the sordid term, which refers to three-way sex, about his BBC colleague Janette Manrara. It’s about as crude and offensive a suggestion as you can make.
I can think of at least 100 more crude and offensive suggestions than that.
The only 90 I know is Manchester Airport. Which presumably wasn't your address.
Hm. A bit of research also allows Worksop, Solihull and somewhere in Glasgow as possibilities
There was a similar poll in the UK that showed that Conservatives mostly thought the United Kingdom was a good country, while about half of Labour supporters did not.
Those findings explained much, I thought, about the politics in both nations.
Have you seen any similar poll findings for the UK recently?
Could a change in those attitudes help explain why so many leaders have trouble getting positive ratings in the UK?
(For the record: I think the US is still mostly a good nation, but less so in recent decades with the decline in family strength.)
https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1884600760899367105
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/majority-britons-support-death-penalty-poll-scw7glncg
But he's our toad.
He'd be great on the economy.
As Eagles notes, Manchester is a bit different because Manchester and Salford always shared postcodes - before postcodes were made nationwide, you had Manchester 1 (where the post office was), and then they alternated: Manchester 2, Salford 3, Manchester 4, Salford 5... Uniformity petered out after a bit and in any case there have been reorders since, and everything's been given an 'M'.
His core competence was starting bank runs based on a limited understanding of how finance works.
On London postcodes, I've lived in: SW1, W2, E1, W1, NW1, NW3 and now WC2.
The funny bit is that my WC2 is about 200 meters from Cambridge Circus, so by any measure is the closest to the centre of London.
An infamous allegation.
Pesto has a vast, *negative* understanding of how finance works.
(apols if list is wrong but I did it from memory)
[Edit: I missed out Darling and Zahawi]
I'm not doing well am I?!
Edit: ha, no it isn’t, I too lived there and had it wrong all that time!
1981-1996 apparently, although definitions vary.
AKA the non-house-owning avocado-on-toast brigade.
N7 is next door to Nottingham Castle, in the middle of the city.
"Of all the toads I have ever possessed, he is not one of them"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/25/one-murder-a-week-committed-by-offenders-probation-service/
More than 750 killings since 2010 carried out by criminals on probation
In London I was SE11, N19, N1 and SE10 so nothing to write home about there either. I am postcode declasse.
'Generation Z, who are aged between 18 and 26, are the most conflicted over the return of the death penalty, with 45 per cent in favour, 42 per cent against and 14 per cent unsure.
Most of the baby boomer generation — aged 60-74 — are in favour by a margin of 58 to 34 per cent, while 50 per cent of the over-75s are supportive and 37 per cent against.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0fdoOxkN4o
Also a review from Rory the Tory on the impact of Trump freezing everything worldwide via Executive Order. This is one of his subject areas.
An example is that USA Aid (all of whose programmes have now been frozen in mid-contract) funds the Jordanian education system via the ministry, which has will now stop in its tracks.
One thesis is that this behaviour will liquidate the USA's soft power worldwide for a generation, which has been a key influencer for them - since after 80 years of being a trustworthy ally, they are demonstrating that they have potential to be unpredictable backstabbers out of the blue at zero notice.
"Fool me once ..". Deep link to this:
https://youtu.be/U0fdoOxkN4o?t=1071