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How’s about that, then? – politicalbetting.com
How’s about that, then? – politicalbetting.com
In Aylesbury NORTH West, another 2 member ward, Reform have only stood 1 candidate…Someone's clearly made quite a costly omission of the word 'North' when filling out a form.
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@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
describes the Trump administration as "burning down the house to cook a steak."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llw4nbc5ns2u
The fix is in
There's a wag gonna dance home in Clacton
The fix is in
Can't wait to see how it upsets 'em
Too many times he was postally pipped
He's channeling Saville, the lackeys are gripped
He swapped out Thanet for the sand and the surf and the sin
'Cause the fix, the fix is in
Can I have a gentle wonder and leave myself open to correction of advice, please.
AToW goods, from Nike trainers to Landrovers, are imported into the USA free of any sort of import tax. Presumably a crate, carton or whatever arrives at the dock and may or may not be inspected to ensure it is what the documentation says it is.
Under the new arrangements somebody is going to have to ensure that each case etc has been valued and somewhere money has been guaranteed by someone?
How much extra time, and more importantly, manpower..... sorry personpower ..... is that going to require. And how far is that going to clog the system?
I've been thinking of the time I was checking exports of pharmaceuticals to Nigeria. At the time Nigeria was going through one of its bouts of financial problems and we had to ensure that the quality control documentation for each shipment was in the Bank in New York the same time as adequate monies were in the Bank.
If anything comes out about Farage, it'll be financial and/or in relation to Russia. But it won't be sexual, IMO.
Previously a £100 product cost $120 in America.
Previously a $100 product cost £83.33 in the UK.
After the changes a £100 product costs $132+$13.20 tariffs = $145.20 . . . a 21% increase in cost.
After the changes a $100 product costs £75.76 + £7.58 tariffs = £83.34 . . . no change, the penny change was due to rounding.
Better to channel Bob The Builder than Jimmy Savile, lol 😂
“Model and showgirl” is such a polite euphemism 😂
Edit: my mother once slept in the same bed as Christine Keeler
It now has one of the world’s highest tariffs - 99%. The US imported only $3.5M of its shellfish last yr. BUT the island imports ZERO from the US.
So, the idiotic White House formula (imports v exports) couldn’t cope. It spat out 99%.
https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3llvnng43s22t
More evidence that tariffs are decided by ChatGB and based on Internet domain.
I never heard of a whisper of any sexual shenanigans; financial yes, but not sexual.
@faisalislam
Big 🇺🇸 brand fallers…
Bestbuy 15%
Nike down 11%
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Apple down 9%
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AMEX 7%
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Lululemon 11%
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Dell 15%
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HP 15%
(For the record: About a year ago, I sent Tim Cook a letter, offering him a "Free Tibet" bumper sticker if he would promise to display it prominently. It should not surprise anyone that he did not accept my offer.)
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
https://x.com/erikmbaker/status/1907797498288054495
"London Luton Airport will see annual passenger numbers almost double to 32 million by 2043 after the government approved expansion plans.
It comes despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander rejects them over environmental concerns."
A Labour government, doing its best to piss me off on a daily basis.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."
https://x.com/awzurcher/status/1907801011189641469
https://youtu.be/9JCUX1mrO4g?si=8y9Yg70Df0-qa_oe
(From another PB).
An early St Pexit?
https://youtu.be/9JCUX1mrO4g?t=16
(Closest thing I have ever seen to a Preying Mantis in human form.)
That is some organised cock up! The story behind how it came to pass must be an interesting one - to us election anoraks, anyhow.
@KatieBoLillis
JUST IN: White House has fired at least 3 NSC staffers, 3 sources familiar with the move tell me @alaynatreene @kylieatwood & @kaitlancollins, after Trump met last night with Laura Loomer. The three we know of do not include principal deputy national security advisor Alex Wong.
https://x.com/KatieBoLillis/status/1907812111528456455
Breaking: The White House fired at least 3 National Security Council staffers on Wednesday. Follows a meeting Wednesday in which Laura Loomer urged Trump to get rid of several members of his NSC staff.
The 3 officials include Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence and a former top staffer for now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Senate Intelligence Committee; Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs who previously served as Waltz's legislative director in Congress, and David Feith, a senior director overseeing technology and national security who served in the State Department during Trump's first administration.
I'd better get my coat.
Put the airport out to sea, where the real estate is free. And it’s far away from me.
He has been complicit in all kinds of lawbreaking in the way he has destroyed swathes of the civil state.
The current DoJ would probably not prosecute him due to their corruption, but hat still leaves states ...
A thought occurs. In one of the countries of Barsoom, travel is by ground effect vehicles - flying a few feet off the ground. Since they never touch the ground, it’s is covered in grass.
Imagine a future where a motorway for ground effect vehicles is just a gap in a forest. No concrete. No light required - night vision projected on windscreens is doable tech today. The lanes etc would be virtual as well.
We need everything. Housing, industry, infrastructure etc of which masts are an element and would be enabled by good reform.
There's more needed in this country than the needs of a firm.
But I don't t think it can straightforwardly happen. St. P & M is legally just part of France like the Isle of Wight is part of the UK. It's not a sort of equivalent of the Channel Islands.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llwa2hww3u2d
Ref 227
Lab 180
Con 130
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14567201/Shock-poll-Nigel-Farage-prime-minister-Labour-Tories.html
Anyhow I was all geared up for another thrilling local parish election, but in my patch the number of candidates nominated has equalled the number of places. So my years 32 to 35 as a local councillor seem to be secure.
The Returning Officer showed us all, Lib, Lab & Con, the paperwork he had from the NF, whose Agent had apologised. IIRC, of the eight wards, the NF had candidates in all of them, but several didn't live in the District, several didn't have the required number of Assenters, and of those they did, again they didn't live in the District, let alone the ward they were supposed to be nominating for.
We never saw them again.
🚨 | Total Number of Candidates (/1,641) #LE2025:
➡️ RFM: 1,630 (99.3%)
🌳 CON: 1,594 (97.1%)
🌹 LAB: 1,540 (93.8%)
🔶 LDM: 1,396 (85.1%)
🌍 GRN: 1,182 (72.0%)
🧑🔧 TUSC: 97 (5.9%)
🏰 HER: 24 (1.5%)
🟡 MK: 18 (1.1%)
💷 UKIP: 13 (.8%)
🔴 SDP: 11 (.7%)
🙋 Inds: 461
🏘️ Local: 103
So commonly all the candidates for a party in a ward will have the same ten nominees - the days when it might matter who nominates you (because villagers would gather in the square or green and peruse the list of nominations, and might be swayed by a nomination from some local worthy) are long gone. Reform clearly have some unusual, more labour intensive, way of doing the job?
Once in my London patch the Tories made up their slate with some random guy they’d come across who wasn’t an established activist, who clearly went round collecting his own nominations as his ten names were different from his running mates. I was told later he’d asked his friends and family. My claim to fame in that election was that of that Tory’s ten nominees, six of them were voting for me (as they promised) and three of them put up LibDem posters in their window. I claim that as an electoral record as I doubt any opposing candidate has ever polled better among the nominating electors of their political opponent!
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-to-introduce-new-inflatable-warships-to-expand-fleet/
Stop the Boats!
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1907828751854928151
Sarah Longwell, The Bulwark podcast
In my post immediately following the Trump announcement I speculated that Elon Musk’s Dunning-Kruger kids might be responsible for those tariff numbers. That now looks like a distinct possibility.
Who makes policy this way? The key point is that Trump isn’t really trying to accomplish economic goals. This should all be seen as a dominance display, intended to shock and awe people and make them grovel, rather than policy in the normal sense.
Again, I’m not being snobbish here. When the fate of the world economy is on the line, the malignant stupidity of the policy process is arguably as important as the policies themselves. How can anyone, whether they’re businesspeople or foreign governments, trust anything coming out of an administration that behaves like this?
Next thing you’ll be telling me that Trump’s people are planning military actions over insecure channels and accidentally sharing those plans with journalists. Oh, wait.
I’d like to imagine that Trump will admit that he messed up, cancel the whole thing, and start over. But he won’t, because that would spoil the dominance display. Ignorant irresponsibility is part of the message.
https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1907759698171846783
Particularly like this.
https://x.com/virtaava/status/1907786031413281020
Well worth listening to
Could be worse
Hare Rama Hare Krishna
All political parties make these kind of booboos from time to time. As a new party, without the infrastructure of more established players, it is almost inevitable that Reform will make them more often.
As regards the slogan, mind, a positive spin would be that it demonstrates that Reform is being run by young people who've never even heard of Jimmy Saville.
Just look at Switzerland: big trade surplus, lots of manufacturing, lots of low value textiles in there.
(OK: one of those might not be true.)
Info page:
https://appgcw.org/resources/inquiries/active-travel-and-social-justice-report-2025/
Full report (20 page PDF)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uUoB6swNGNkrjbe86udYDqjHMtSmtENj/view
I like the cut of their jib, including this initiative mentioned which has been bubbling under in Manchester for about a year - an effort to get all 1400 (so far - we have far more than that in Notts) identified anti-wheelchair barriers in Manchester removed:
https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024-news/leigh-day-wins-award-for-championing-removal-of-barriers-on-public-pathways-across-greater-manchester/
Sigh...
The most obvious explanation is that Reform somehow thought that the ward in question was actually a three member one - except that then the signatures on the three forms would usually be collected together, so making one of the papers invalid.
Alternatively, they had a rogue candidate going around collecting his or her own signatures - but then how did he get his ‘approval to use the party name and logo’ form signed by the local party officer? Perhaps somehow these forms got submitted en masse and this officer signed them all without looking at them?
That the next door ward is one short suggests that the candidate was told he’d been selected and was left to collect his own nomination signatures (an inefficent way of doubling the workload), and misunderstood which ward s/he was supposed to be standing in. But you still need to get hold of the electoral register to properly complete the form, which indicates that the person notifying the candidate of his selection, the person handing out copies of the ward electoral registers, and the person authorising use of the party logo and name, were all different people, and not comparing notes with each other.
And also, no sensible party would send someone out blind to try and collect signatures. You’d usually have a list of local party members to call on. If both the rogue candidate and the other two were visiting party members seeking their signatures, they are lucky (or unlucky?) that they didn’t call on any of the same people.
https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1907842026374402105
It really is like some nutty sect.
Andrew Lilico
@andrew_lilico
I wonder what odds you could have got, in New Year's betting, on "In 2025, Trump imposes tariffs on a set of islands populated only by penguins"?
Sure, they are waiting until the alien spaceships are on close approach and then commit mass suicide, but they have some depth to their planning.
Best course of action is to accept Americas tariffs and play the long game in terms of retaliation and more generally in terms of moving beyond a world where the US is seen as a reliable economic and defence partner.
It’s embarrassing to discover that while I know that citizens of Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain have bilateral voting treaties with the UK, whereas the rest of the EU doesn’t, I clearly don’t know how many signatures it now takes to get nominated. I will go and hide myself away for a bit.
I presume that the advisors that must be there are saying it's all nuts and the devotees are putting pins into effigies of people they don't like.