Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
So far Reform's agenda in local government seems to extend no further than taking down the Ukrainian flag - perhaps unsurprising given Farage's past relationship with Russia Today. The comments from the independent Durham councillor at the end of the article seem quite perceptive. I would guess a Reform government would be quite a disappointment to its supporters. Complex problems are not easily fixed by simplistic solutions.
They are not taking down the Ukrainian flag. They are taking down all flags except the union flag, cross of st. George and county flags.
I’m not a Reform supporter and will never vote for Farage. But this sort of misrepresentation just pisses me when off. This board relies on accurate information / assessment for people to for their betting judgements.
Given per the article the only flag taken down so far has been the Ukrainian one, possibly you are misrepresenting them.
Evidence? You have one quote from Kent.
Moreover there have been complaints year in and year out about pride flags etc. so it may not have been seen in the last 3 weeks but that doesn’t mean it was the motivating factor
Evidence was the article you are complaining about.
Actually the story is a party that happily decries gesture politics in others trips up when indulging in performative flag banning themselves and they don't like it being pointed out.
The quote fron the article is:
one of Reform’s first acts was to take down the Ukrainian flag – hoisted to show solidarity with the war-besieged nation – and vowed not to fly rainbow-coloured flags in support of LGBTQ+ residents
Which demonstrates that it is not just about Ukraine but a broader campaign of nastiness. Which is exactly my point.
We're beating this to death but you claimed a factual statement was misrepresentation.
I’m even boring myself!
But the statement was So far Reform's agenda in local government seems to extend no further than taking down the Ukrainian flag
That’s simply not true. At the very minimum Reform’s agenda included banning Palestinian and Pride flags.
That seems like a minor error compared to many repeated here often (e.g. exaggerated costs of the Chagos deal, asylum seekers supposedly staying in 4* hotels).
Nope.
On Chagas - assuming they are accurate: I haven’t done the maths - it’s just discounted vs non discounted.
On 4* hotels I believe that you argue they no longer have the facilities that would win a 4* rating. But until they are reinspected they are a 4* hotel…
That attempted sophistry around 4* hotels is a much more aggressive attack on the truth than saying Reform UK are taking down Ukrainian flags. This board relies on accurate information / assessment for people to inform their betting judgements.
The 4* Hotels debate can be argued from both sides, and the other would think they're being lied to.
One side sees what was previously a 4* hotel being used to house illegal immigrants, and considers it a 4* hotel lost. The other ignores that it ever was a 4* hotel.
Put it this way, if the illegals were housed in Buckingham Palace, the Royal Family and all their staff having moved out and the name being changed to Asylum Village, it wouldn't be unreasonable to say "They're putting the boat people up in Buckingham Bleeding Palace" even though the boat people weren't being treated like royalty and it was no longer called Buckingham Palace
It’s definitely a 4* hotel that’s been lost. No-one has disagreed with that. It is not still a 4* hotel.
Reform UK are definitely pulling down Ukrainian flags. They are also pulling down other flags.
Your Buckingham Palace analogy is poor.
In what way is it poor? It is analogous to a 4* hotel that is no longer a 4* hotel now it is being used to house illegal immigrants.
The locals still refer to it as what it was previously. What is the difference?
It’s also quite likely that, after the migrants leave, the owners will use the profits from the arrangement to do a massive rework of the hotel, restoring it to being a 4* hotel.
...and then it will go bust after a few years because it won't get used...
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
About that black hole….
Yes but trade deals have fired up the economy !!!!!!!!!!!!
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
We will now require 140 points in every section and to be radioactive to claim 10% PIP
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
The key problem with this Labour government is they still haven't quite worked out who they're for yet.
They therefore risk annoying everyone at least a little, while pleasing very few.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
About that black hole….
Yes but trade deals have fired up the economy !!!!!!!!!!!!
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
A Chav's Charter to churn out yet more feral, delinquent kids. Marvellous.
I think now our fertility rate is well below replacement level of 2.1 even conservatives would scrap it or at least raise the cap from 2 to 3 children
Utterly despicable . Netanyahu rot in hell with your genocide cabinet.
For Netanyahu, dead doctors are a matter for rejoicing.
Along with Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, he ranks among humanity’s most despicable specimens.
There was a clip on social media a few weeks ago with a settler couple who, and I paraphrase slightly, said it is okay to kill Gazan babies/children because these kids would one day turn into potential murderers of Jews and Bibi knows that so that's why he's killing them and why it is God's will.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
Something admirable I have said about Starmer before. He makes a lot of mistakes, but he rarely makes the same mistake twice.
Unlike Kemi, who is falling into the same Pooh traps now as when she rose to prominence. Or Boris, whose talents and flaws have been set in stone since he a a teenager.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
The key problem with this Labour government is they still haven't quite worked out who they're for yet.
They therefore risk annoying everyone at least a little, while pleasing very few.
It’s a mess. There’s no direction and the Reform tribute act is turning off many voters .
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
A Chav's Charter to churn out yet more feral, delinquent kids. Marvellous.
Excessive numbers of children are not a problem, right now.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
We will now require 140 points in every section and to be radioactive to claim 10% PIP
Nah, if they are radioactive, they can get a job in one of these new small modular reactors. As an energy source, if nothing else.
Utterly despicable . Netanyahu rot in hell with your genocide cabinet.
For Netanyahu, dead doctors are a matter for rejoicing.
Along with Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, he ranks among humanity’s most despicable specimens.
There was a clip on social media a few weeks ago with a settler couple who, and I paraphrase slightly, said it is okay to kill Gazan babies/children because these kids would one day turn into potential murderers of Jews and Bibi knows that so that's why he's killing them and why it is God's will.
I saw that reported.
In terms they should understand, but don’t, when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
A 12-month plot is hardly worthy of the name – it's a wishlist not a plan. There is no real mechanism to oust Starmer but I expect him to retire early anyway.
Pleased for the Arsenal women. At the forefront of women's football for many decades, long before the other big teams got involved as they saw a business opportunity.
Utterly despicable . Netanyahu rot in hell with your genocide cabinet.
For Netanyahu, dead doctors are a matter for rejoicing.
Along with Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, he ranks among humanity’s most despicable specimens.
There was a clip on social media a few weeks ago with a settler couple who, and I paraphrase slightly, said it is okay to kill Gazan babies/children because these kids would one day turn into potential murderers of Jews and Bibi knows that so that's why he's killing them and why it is God's will.
I saw that reported.
In terms they should understand, but don’t, when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
I have a Jewish heritage historian friend and he observes it has hard to distinguish these days between what some Jews says about the Palestinians and what the Nazis said about the Jews.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
The key problem with this Labour government is they still haven't quite worked out who they're for yet.
They therefore risk annoying everyone at least a little, while pleasing very few.
It’s a mess. There’s no direction and the Reform tribute act is turning off many voters .
Nothing he says lasts the week, none of it is credible nor has any gravitas. He's cold, unlikeable and seedy. Like hugging the corpse of a seal. He surrounds himself and fills his cabinet with hateful people and Walter Mitty types and has a very waspish temper when challenged - his petulant Liz Szvile Roberts moment and some of his other PMQs responses show it clearly. Nobody believes a word of his 'everything i do, I do it for you' shtick
Pleased for the Arsenal women. At the forefront of women's football for many decades, long before the other big teams got involved as they saw a business opportunity.
I thought the club treated them shabbily this season by shunting off one of their fixtures to Meadow Park to make way for the men.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
We will now require 140 points in every section and to be radioactive to claim 10% PIP
Nah, if they are radioactive, they can get a job in one of these new small modular reactors. As an energy source, if nothing else.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
A Chav's Charter to churn out yet more feral, delinquent kids. Marvellous.
Excessive numbers of children are not a problem, right now.
Tell that to the people whose lives are blighted by the toerags.
Children who will be a drain on society throughout their lives benefit nobody.
Edit: Except their parents, who receive the cash handouts.
Pleased for the Arsenal women. At the forefront of women's football for many decades, long before the other big teams got involved as they saw a business opportunity.
I thought the club treated them shabbily this season by shunting off one of their fixtures to Meadow Park to make way for the men.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
We will now require 140 points in every section and to be radioactive to claim 10% PIP
Nah, if they are radioactive, they can get a job in one of these new small modular reactors. As an energy source, if nothing else.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Maybe Keir will realise eventually it's not the conveyer belt of chiefs of staff that's the problem.
That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
The key problem with this Labour government is they still haven't quite worked out who they're for yet.
They therefore risk annoying everyone at least a little, while pleasing very few.
It’s a mess. There’s no direction and the Reform tribute act is turning off many voters .
Nothing he says lasts the week, none of it is credible nor has any gravitas. He's cold, unlikeable and seedy. Like hugging the corpse of a seal. He surrounds himself and fills his cabinet with hateful people and Walter Mitty types and has a very waspish temper when challenged - his petulant Liz Szvile Roberts moment and some of his other PMQs responses show it clearly. Nobody believes a word of his 'everything i do, I do it for you' shtick
The Liz Saville moment was beautiful; On Wednesday May 14th he responded very haughtily to the suggestion that nothing he believes in lasts a week in Downing St, and on Tuesday May 20th he gave a fulsome apology for said reaction
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Yougov July 24
They do. And what it boils down to is that the public wants to use child poverty as a punishment for what they see as bad behaviours. I guess they don't express it that way, but that is what it is. I'm pretty sure Keir Starmer knows this, just as about everyone else interested in the topic across the political spectrum does. So what does he do? Does he ignore them, face them down, try to educate/reason or give in?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social There was an absolutely absurd claim that half a million people would be taking part in a 'Great British National Strike' this Saturday lunchtime, as part of a summer of 'strikes' to bring the country to a halt.
Don't go see the latest Mission: Impossible film, it will trigger you.
Apparently there's a Trafalgar Square tube station.
The Northern Line and Bakerloo Line parts of present Charing Cross station were originally opened as two separate stations but were combined when the Jubilee Line was opened.
The Bakerloo Line platforms were opened as ‘Trafalgar Square’ by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway.
He's now officially (according to me) the worst PM of my lifetime. By a country mile. Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
I don't think I will bother scrabbling around to find my £100 at 50/1 Jess Phillips to be next Lab leader betting slip.
But "Visceral personal hatred" on the doorstep for Sir Keir is unsurprising; he always was nothing but an unlikeable wet fish who was lucky enough to be the beneficiary of Tory chaos and the right splitting. I knew the public would never warm to him, but I thought that would stop him being elected rather than be hated as a PM, I thought he would be competent if he got the gig
So far Reform's agenda in local government seems to extend no further than taking down the Ukrainian flag - perhaps unsurprising given Farage's past relationship with Russia Today. The comments from the independent Durham councillor at the end of the article seem quite perceptive. I would guess a Reform government would be quite a disappointment to its supporters. Complex problems are not easily fixed by simplistic solutions.
They are not taking down the Ukrainian flag. They are taking down all flags except the union flag, cross of st. George and county flags.
I’m not a Reform supporter and will never vote for Farage. But this sort of misrepresentation just pisses me when off. This board relies on accurate information / assessment for people to for their betting judgements.
Given per the article the only flag taken down so far has been the Ukrainian one, possibly you are misrepresenting them.
Evidence? You have one quote from Kent.
Moreover there have been complaints year in and year out about pride flags etc. so it may not have been seen in the last 3 weeks but that doesn’t mean it was the motivating factor
Evidence was the article you are complaining about.
Actually the story is a party that happily decries gesture politics in others trips up when indulging in performative flag banning themselves and they don't like it being pointed out.
The quote fron the article is:
one of Reform’s first acts was to take down the Ukrainian flag – hoisted to show solidarity with the war-besieged nation – and vowed not to fly rainbow-coloured flags in support of LGBTQ+ residents
Which demonstrates that it is not just about Ukraine but a broader campaign of nastiness. Which is exactly my point.
We're beating this to death but you claimed a factual statement was misrepresentation.
I’m even boring myself!
But the statement was So far Reform's agenda in local government seems to extend no further than taking down the Ukrainian flag
That’s simply not true. At the very minimum Reform’s agenda included banning Palestinian and Pride flags.
That seems like a minor error compared to many repeated here often (e.g. exaggerated costs of the Chagos deal, asylum seekers supposedly staying in 4* hotels).
Nope.
On Chagas - assuming they are accurate: I haven’t done the maths - it’s just discounted vs non discounted.
On 4* hotels I believe that you argue they no longer have the facilities that would win a 4* rating. But until they are reinspected they are a 4* hotel…
That attempted sophistry around 4* hotels is a much more aggressive attack on the truth than saying Reform UK are taking down Ukrainian flags. This board relies on accurate information / assessment for people to inform their betting judgements.
The 4* Hotels debate can be argued from both sides, and the other would think they're being lied to.
One side sees what was previously a 4* hotel being used to house illegal immigrants, and considers it a 4* hotel lost. The other ignores that it ever was a 4* hotel.
Put it this way, if the illegals were housed in Buckingham Palace, the Royal Family and all their staff having moved out and the name being changed to Asylum Village, it wouldn't be unreasonable to say "They're putting the boat people up in Buckingham Bleeding Palace" even though the boat people weren't being treated like royalty and it was no longer called Buckingham Palace
It’s definitely a 4* hotel that’s been lost. No-one has disagreed with that. It is not still a 4* hotel.
Reform UK are definitely pulling down Ukrainian flags. They are also pulling down other flags.
Your Buckingham Palace analogy is poor.
In what way is it poor? It is analogous to a 4* hotel that is no longer a 4* hotel now it is being used to house illegal immigrants.
The locals still refer to it as what it was previously. What is the difference?
It’s also quite likely that, after the migrants leave, the owners will use the profits from the arrangement to do a massive rework of the hotel, restoring it to being a 4* hotel.
...and then it will go bust after a few years because it won't get used...
Why in particular? Most of these places were functioning hotels before conversion. Some run down a bit and heading towards a refit cycle, true.
100% occupancy (taking over the entire hotel) for years on end is a hotel owners dream. Huge savings in staff and no seasonal risks.
Pleased for the Arsenal women. At the forefront of women's football for many decades, long before the other big teams got involved as they saw a business opportunity.
I thought the club treated them shabbily this season by shunting off one of their fixtures to Meadow Park to make way for the men.
Lol, your lot don't even play in Liverpool.
They regularly play at Anfield.
Plus they have one of the best training grounds in the world.
Don't go see the latest Mission: Impossible film, it will trigger you.
Apparently there's a Trafalgar Square tube station.
The Northern Line and Bakerloo Line parts of present Charing Cross station were originally opened as two separate stations but were combined when the Jubilee Line was opened.
The Bakerloo Line platforms were opened as ‘Trafalgar Square’ by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway.
You are trainsplaining to the God Of Trains. Brave move, sir.
[Edit. I thought @Sunil_Prasannan had written it. Turns out @TheScreamingEagles had written it. For the joke to work I promote @TSE to the Demigod Of Trains for the moment. As the Anti-God Of Trains I have the authority to do that. All Hail Beeching.]
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social There was an absolutely absurd claim that half a million people would be taking part in a 'Great British National Strike' this Saturday lunchtime, as part of a summer of 'strikes' to bring the country to a halt.
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
I wish I could but it will require my friends to change their wedding date.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Yougov July 24
They do. And what it boils down to is that the public wants to use child poverty as a punishment for what they see as bad behaviours. I guess they don't express it that way, but that is what it is. I'm pretty sure Keir Starmer knows this, just as about everyone else interested in the topic across the political spectrum does. So what does he do? Does he ignore them, face them down, try to educate/reason or give in?
He has to find the money first, along with reversing WFP and finding the finance for the public sector wage and pension increases, though word is Reeves is only funding 2.8% of the public sector wage increases with the rest coming out of their budgets
Lets be honest, Starmer is simply not upto being PM and his ambition to be Attorney General should have been his destiny
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
I wish I could but it will require my friends to change their wedding date.
Don't go see the latest Mission: Impossible film, it will trigger you.
Apparently there's a Trafalgar Square tube station.
The Northern Line and Bakerloo Line parts of present Charing Cross station were originally opened as two separate stations but were combined when the Jubilee Line was opened.
The Bakerloo Line platforms were opened as ‘Trafalgar Square’ by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway.
You are trainsplaining to the God Of Trains. Brave move, sir.
[Edit. I thought @Sunil_Prasannan had written it. Turns out @TheScreamingEagles had written it. For the joke to work I promote @TSE to the Demigod Of Trains for the moment. As the Anti-God Of Trains I have the authority to do that. All Hail Beeching.]
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Article on this in this week's New Statesman which is guest edited by Gordon Brown.
Many EU countries tax online betting and gambling more highly than us apparently.
Edit: Most of this week's issue is about child poverty. Amazing coincidence.
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
I wish I could but it will require my friends to change their wedding date.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
...and the last episode of Dr Who ("The Reality War") is the next day. And the entire plot has leaked so I know what happens. Lawks, but you do pick them...
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Yougov July 24
They do. And what it boils down to is that the public wants to use child poverty as a punishment for what they see as bad behaviours. I guess they don't express it that way, but that is what it is. I'm pretty sure Keir Starmer knows this, just as about everyone else interested in the topic across the political spectrum does. So what does he do? Does he ignore them, face them down, try to educate/reason or give in?
He has to find the money first, along with reversing WFP and finding the finance for the public sector wage and pension increases, though word is Reeves is only funding 2.8% of the public sector wage increases with the rest coming out of their budgets
Lets be honest, Starmer is simply not upto being PM and his ambition to be Attorney General should have been his destiny
And the King and Queen of our hearts and Downing Street have just had little Poppy...
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Does that mean Morgan McSweeney has been given his P45 . He apparently wanted to keep the cap .
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Yougov July 24
I think it's largely symbolic. In 6+ years working for Citizens Advice I have hardly ever seen a client who has been affected by the cap. Some would argue that shows the cap works but we're talking about people who generally don't do that kind of calculation, so I doubt it works as a disincentive to have children.
OTOH the children of those capped families are adversely impacted through no fault of their own, so I'd scrap it for their sakes.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
He's now officially (according to me) the worst PM of my lifetime. By a country mile. Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
Who would you have as Prime Minister?
Seriously, he's not that bad - for me, Heath was the worst followed by Truss. The best? For me, first term Blair.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
Addiction schmiction. If people lose more money than they can afford gambling it is entirely their own fault. The cry baby "addict" excuse is a complete embarrassment
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Article on this in this week's New Statesman which is guest edited by Gordon Brown.
Many EU countries tax online betting and gambling more highly than us apparently.
Edit: Most of this week's issue is about child poverty. Amazing coincidence.
It seems a no brainer to raise some money from an online gambling tax . I’m surprised this hasn’t been done before .
He's now officially (according to me) the worst PM of my lifetime. By a country mile. Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
Who would you have as Prime Minister?
Seriously, he's not that bad - for me, Heath was the worst followed by Truss. The best? For me, first term Blair.
Utterly despicable . Netanyahu rot in hell with your genocide cabinet.
For Netanyahu, dead doctors are a matter for rejoicing.
Along with Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, he ranks among humanity’s most despicable specimens.
There was a clip on social media a few weeks ago with a settler couple who, and I paraphrase slightly, said it is okay to kill Gazan babies/children because these kids would one day turn into potential murderers of Jews and Bibi knows that so that's why he's killing them and why it is God's will.
I saw that reported.
In terms they should understand, but don’t, when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
I have a Jewish heritage historian friend and he observes it has hard to distinguish these days between what some Jews says about the Palestinians and what the Nazis said about the Jews.
The settlers’ arguments are identical to those made by Himmler, in his Posen speeches.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
I'd ban them from advertising at all. Put them in the same category as tobacco companies.
I agree, a few years ago a friend told me that his football crazy four year old asked him 'do you have to bet to watch football?' because of the gambling adverts on Sky Sports.
I felt very uncomfortable about Klopp doing ads for Bet Victor during his stint as Liverpool manager.
(That wasn't Klopp per se, Bet Victor were one of LIverpool's sponsors, so it was contractual, but I still had issues with it.)
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
He's now officially (according to me) the worst PM of my lifetime. By a country mile. Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
Who would you have as Prime Minister?
Seriously, he's not that bad - for me, Heath was the worst followed by Truss. The best? For me, first term Blair.
Of the current Labour party? Probably Hilary Benn Of parliament? Noone really appeals, maybe Huddlestone from the Tories, maybe one of the new LD lot (anyone but the Hobby Horse fool), Stephen Flynn seems alright to me but the SNP aren't forming a government From outside? Andy Street. Norman Lamb was a seriously good egg actually
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
As opposed to all the good addictions?
All addictions are bad but the UK has the most gambling of any European country .
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
I wish I could but it will require my friends to change their wedding date.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
As opposed to all the good addictions?
All addictions are bad but the UK has the most gambling of any European country .
It's complicated but too busy betting on horses right now!
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
I'd ban them from advertising at all. Put them in the same category as tobacco companies.
I agree, a few years ago a friend told me that his football crazy four year old asked him 'do you have to bet to watch football?' because of the gambling adverts on Sky Sports.
I felt very uncomfortable about Klopp doing ads for Bet Victor during his stint as Liverpool manager.
(That wasn't Klopp per se, Bet Victor were one of LIverpool's sponsors, so it was contractual, but I still had issues with it.)
Interesting, could Klopp have refused? Would LFC have sacked him if he did?
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
He's now officially (according to me) the worst PM of my lifetime. By a country mile. Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
Who would you have as Prime Minister?
Seriously, he's not that bad - for me, Heath was the worst followed by Truss. The best? For me, first term Blair.
Of the current Labour party? Probably Hilary Benn Of parliament? Noone really appeals, maybe Huddlestone from the Tories, maybe one of the new LD lot (anyone but the Hobby Horse fool), Stephen Flynn seems alright to me but the SNP aren't forming a government From outside? Andy Street. Norman Lamb was a seriously good egg actually
He is that bad though Stodge, he so is
Imagine after 14 years of Labour Government, the Conservatives had won a landslide last July. They'd have been faced with all the same problems Starmer and Reeves have faced starting with Southport.
Would a Badenoch-led Government be doing any better at this time?
No, the party was over last July and it's time to pay the bill and leave.
Ending Winter Fuel Allowance wasn't a mistake - the way it was done was.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
As opposed to all the good addictions?
All addictions are bad but the UK has the most gambling of any European country .
Having worked in the belly of the beast - an alt-bank specialising in the gambling sector - yeah.
They like to talk about “whales” - but many of the big spenders are really addicts destroying their lives. And their families.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Article on this in this week's New Statesman which is guest edited by Gordon Brown.
Many EU countries tax online betting and gambling more highly than us apparently.
Edit: Most of this week's issue is about child poverty. Amazing coincidence.
Apparently? The whole point about betting in this country is that you don't pay income tax on any winnings you make, whereas — for instance — in the US they do. I had a bad feeling it was only a matter of time before they tried to make punters pay more tax.
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
I'd ban them from advertising at all. Put them in the same category as tobacco companies.
I agree, a few years ago a friend told me that his football crazy four year old asked him 'do you have to bet to watch football?' because of the gambling adverts on Sky Sports.
I felt very uncomfortable about Klopp doing ads for Bet Victor during his stint as Liverpool manager.
(That wasn't Klopp per se, Bet Victor were one of LIverpool's sponsors, so it was contractual, but I still had issues with it.)
The problem with gambling adverts is they sell a lifestyle not a product. If the adverts were restricted to saying "We are X price Y to happen" I don't see the problem.
I did write about this while I was still in my thirties....
Ian Austin talking absolute bollocks laced with things we already know
There must be something going on behind the scenes
Starmer wins a landslide in July 24 and looks in trouble less than a year later
Who would have predicted that ?
I mean it's not even a secret Big G, she's launched. The interventions that keep popping up from grandees, the Welsh leader, etc etc. It's happening. It's just not acknowledged. Both the Starmer govt and the tories are in a blind panic. It's all starting to fall apart, everywhere
I have, inter alia, threads about AV, Scottish Independence, Cash, and why patriots want to rejoin the EU whilst traitors want us to keep us outside the EU planned.
I look forward to reading all of them, because we can be absolutely sure that nothing newsworthy will happen during your holiday.
Keep 4th and 5th of June clear as I am going to be incommunicado those days.
Can I ask you to reconsider? Those are the days my house move is meant to be starting.
I wish I could but it will require my friends to change their wedding date.
Ian Austin talking absolute bollocks laced with things we already know
There must be something going on behind the scenes
Starmer wins a landslide in July 24 and looks in trouble less than a year later
Who would have predicted that ?
I mean it's not even a secret Big G, she's launched. The interventions that keep popping up from grandees, the Welsh leader, etc etc. It's happening. It's just not acknowledged. Both the Starmer govt and the tories are in a blind panic. It's all starting to fall apart, everywhere
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
Ian Austin talking absolute bollocks laced with things we already know
There must be something going on behind the scenes
Starmer wins a landslide in July 24 and looks in trouble less than a year later
Who would have predicted that ?
I mean it's not even a secret Big G, she's launched. The interventions that keep popping up from grandees, the Welsh leader, etc etc. It's happening. It's just not acknowledged. Both the Starmer govt and the tories are in a blind panic. It's all starting to fall apart, everywhere
Has she though? Has it been confirmed the Rayner leak came from Ange herself and not a rival camp?
Observer reporting Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap. Starmer and Lammy also recently criticising Israel on Gaza. It feels like maybe they're having a reset? Oh and WFA changes also...
Where are they going to get the money from?
Some suggestion of an online gambling tax
Good . The UK is overrun with online gambling which is very corrosive for society . Gambling addiction is a terrible thing and destroys lives . Online betting companies should be banned from sponsoring football teams .
It will happen from the 26/27 season, something the Tories got right.
I'd ban them from advertising at all. Put them in the same category as tobacco companies.
I agree, a few years ago a friend told me that his football crazy four year old asked him 'do you have to bet to watch football?' because of the gambling adverts on Sky Sports.
I felt very uncomfortable about Klopp doing ads for Bet Victor during his stint as Liverpool manager.
(That wasn't Klopp per se, Bet Victor were one of LIverpool's sponsors, so it was contractual, but I still had issues with it.)
The problem with gambling adverts is they sell a lifestyle not a product. If the adverts were restricted to saying "We are X price Y to happen" I don't see the problem.
I did write about this while I was still in my thirties....
I always think it's a bit sad when an interesting blogsite suddenly ends with almost no warning, usually sometime around 2010 or 2015. Often it was because the writer was moving over to Twitter.
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That aside 'we've pissed a lot of people off, let's reverse course and hope some of them come back whilst pissing off the ones who weren't pissed off before' took the Tories several years. Keirs done it in 1. Giant
In truth the firing should be Starmer and Reeves
Along with Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi, he ranks among humanity’s most despicable specimens.
@JohnRentoul
Inside Labour plot to oust Keir Starmer as prime minister is given 12 months to turn things around | The Independent
https://x.com/JohnRentoul/status/1926338254669840412
They therefore risk annoying everyone at least a little, while pleasing very few.
Public-support-retaining-the-two-child-benefit-limit-as-starmer-gears-up-for-first-rebellion
Regardless of the merits of the policy, the Labour leadership will be reassured that their current pledge of keeping the two-child limit is supported by six in ten Britons (60%), with less than three in ten (28%) believing it should be abolished.
There is support for keeping the cap across almost all voting and social groups, including Labour voters, who back it by 50% to 38%. The only exception is among 18-24 year olds, only a third (32%) of whom think the cap should be kept, with nearly half (46%) opposing it. Older voters are far more likely to favour the policy, with 69% of over-65s wanting it to stay and only 21% believing it should be abolished.
Yougov July 24
That's what they said about Kemi on May 2nd and apparently the Sundays aren't good for her
Unlike Kemi, who is falling into the same Pooh traps now as when she rose to prominence. Or Boris, whose talents and flaws have been set in stone since he a a teenager.
In terms they should understand, but don’t, when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
Nobody believes a word of his 'everything i do, I do it for you' shtick
Children who will be a drain on society throughout their lives benefit nobody.
Edit: Except their parents, who receive the cash handouts.
Don't go see the latest Mission: Impossible film, it will trigger you.
Apparently there's a Trafalgar Square tube station.
@sundersays.bsky.social
There was an absolutely absurd claim that half a million people would be taking part in a 'Great British National Strike' this Saturday lunchtime, as part of a summer of 'strikes' to bring the country to a halt.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3lpwqximdvc22
The Bakerloo Line platforms were opened as ‘Trafalgar Square’ by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway.
Bibi saying he hates Starmer must have caused some anguish for them this week.
Worse than Brown, worse than Heath. Worse than Mary Elizabeth Truss by 2 country miles
But "Visceral personal hatred" on the doorstep for Sir Keir is unsurprising; he always was nothing but an unlikeable wet fish who was lucky enough to be the beneficiary of Tory chaos and the right splitting. I knew the public would never warm to him, but I thought that would stop him being elected rather than be hated as a PM, I thought he would be competent if he got the gig
100% occupancy (taking over the entire hotel) for years on end is a hotel owners dream. Huge savings in staff and no seasonal risks.
Plus they have one of the best training grounds in the world.
[Edit. I thought @Sunil_Prasannan had written it. Turns out @TheScreamingEagles had written it. For the joke to work I promote @TSE to the Demigod Of Trains for the moment. As the Anti-God Of Trains I have the authority to do that. All Hail Beeching.]
Lets be honest, Starmer is simply not upto being PM and his ambition to be Attorney General should have been his destiny
I use them a lot on a regular basis.
Many EU countries tax online betting and gambling more highly than us apparently.
Edit: Most of this week's issue is about child poverty. Amazing coincidence.
I have lived in sin with the bride to be.
OTOH the children of those capped families are adversely impacted through no fault of their own, so I'd scrap it for their sakes.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12856367/premier-league-clubs-agree-to-withdraw-gambling-sponsorships-on-front-of-shirts
Seriously, he's not that bad - for me, Heath was the worst followed by Truss. The best? For me, first term Blair.
Ian Austin talking absolute bollocks laced with things we already know
Joe Rogan
At 1:40 in this clip he says
"Tetanus is not dangerous"
Just to clarify
TETANUS IS F@*KING DANGEROUS
Yours sincerely
an Infectious Diseases specialist
https://x.com/DrNeilStone/status/1925879477080351043
Combining the thread with the baby news and the 12-month plot to oust Starmer...
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? Tories in secret plot to bring back Boris Johnson as leader as Kemi Badenoch tumbles in the polls
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/35107052/boris-johnson-tory-leader-plot/
I felt very uncomfortable about Klopp doing ads for Bet Victor during his stint as Liverpool manager.
(That wasn't Klopp per se, Bet Victor were one of LIverpool's sponsors, so it was contractual, but I still had issues with it.)
Of parliament? Noone really appeals, maybe Huddlestone from the Tories, maybe one of the new LD lot (anyone but the Hobby Horse fool), Stephen Flynn seems alright to me but the SNP aren't forming a government
From outside? Andy Street. Norman Lamb was a seriously good egg actually
He is that bad though Stodge, he so is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uckSV6keHOE
Starmer wins a landslide in July 24 and looks in trouble less than a year later
Who would have predicted that ?
Would a Badenoch-led Government be doing any better at this time?
No, the party was over last July and it's time to pay the bill and leave.
Ending Winter Fuel Allowance wasn't a mistake - the way it was done was.
They like to talk about “whales” - but many of the big spenders are really addicts destroying their lives. And their families.
I did write about this while I was still in my thirties....
https://aboutasfarasdelgados.blogspot.com/2014/08/luis-louis-ladbrokes-life.html
https://aboutasfarasdelgados.blogspot.com/2014/08/you-dont-have-to-be-hypocritical-coward.html
and warned of the dangers of FOBTs, trying to get UKIP to go for the jugular on bookie shadiness
https://aboutasfarasdelgados.blogspot.com/2024/12/policy-on-fobts.html
Both the Starmer govt and the tories are in a blind panic.
It's all starting to fall apart, everywhere
I am under pain of death if I make any taking up the aisle gags at this wedding.
Fortunately I am well known for not making any innuendoes.