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Boris Johnson has worse net ratings than Starmer, Badenoch, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
Boris Johnson has worse net ratings than Starmer, Badenoch, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
Latest political net favourability ratings (15-16 June 2025)Party leadersFarage: -31Starmer: -34Badenoch: -34Davey: -5 (41% DK)Denyer: -6 (76% DK)Ramsay: -8 (81% DK)Other high-profile politiciansRayner: -26Johnson: -35Corbyn: -38Reeves: -42yougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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His sycophants seem not to notice the general public had had quite enough of him when he went.
Rather like Margaret before him.
Soz Boz
Then, for example, Starmer is 0.45 and Jenrick is 0.38, so the latter scores worse.
He lingers like a bad smell.
"Iran faces near total internet shutdown
The previous sharp drop in traffic in Iran was found to be due to a cyber attack. Why the internet crashed in Iran this time is still unclear."
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1935345408126918790
Iraq did not have WMDs, Iran is seeking not just WMDs but nuclear weapons. Iran was breaching its obligations and had 60% enriched uranium which serves no civilian purposes AFAIK, it is for military purposes.
There is only one solution, and the late, great John McCain put it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris
An outstanding documentary
https://www.firecrestfilms.com/films/the-orkney-assassin-murder-in-the-isles
I am sure @HYUFD will be along to explain why you are wrong
For me Johnson is over and is not about to be resurrected in any form
Boomers. Time after time after time, their nest is redecorated with new feathers while everyone else pays.
Astonishing.
Due to Biden specifically requesting it, Starlink works in Iran, though.
This is Bibi keeping himself out of jail and a little bit of fun for Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-plunged-internet-blackout-deepening-conflict-rcna213544
Besides, how is the timing of a Johnson return / Badenoch ousting supposed to work? If he waits until she's no-confidenced or resigns, it's too late: he couldn't be an MP before the election was already underway (even if he had a friendly MP who'd resign for him and the Tories decided to hold the by-election before the leadership election, which would have to be doubtful). On the other hand, if he wants to come back first, and has the ability for force events, why isn't he already doing so?
(The round was 'visual clues to places in Trafford' - a car, a ring and a one ton weight for 'Carrington', a picture of a sailing boat for 'Sale', and so on; and this clue was a picture of Ed Davey and a picture of John Hulme. And I refuse to believe that anyone who could identify Ed Davey could not have then guessed 'Davyhulme'. There is nowhere else in Trafford starting 'Davey...' or 'Ed...'. Certainly ours was the only team who got the point on that one, and that question was pretty much a Cookie solo effort.)
The Tories are no better. Who or what is a Philp? Does it do mel strides?
Besides, Iraq *did* have WMD. We know that because they used them against the Kurds and Iran and we also know they were trying to develop nukes. What we didn't know in 2003 was whether they still had them because Saddam had done everything in his power to keep that question uncertain and provide no evidence either way.
BTW, I don't think this is remotely fun for Trump even now: he still doesn't like using force even if Netanyahu has convinced him that he needs to do it this time. It will get worse for Trump when the Regime doesn't fall like a pack of cards.
We conquered Iran during WWII.
At the moment, it does look like Trump is going to chicken out again, because the Iranians are defiant and show no signs of "unconditionally surrending" like he demanded.
He's now backtracking & wavering once again:
President Trump said Wednesday that the United States may join the Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. But he also said the U.S. may not.
“Nobody knows what I’m going to do,” he said during an event to install flag poles outside the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump/trump-says-nobody-knows-what-im-going-to-do-on-iran?smid=url-share
Was it militarily though? I've forgotten the details already (though I insist the book is very good) but I have half a memory that we basically bought our way to victory. Can't remember OTTOMH.
The Lut Desert has the highest ground surface temperatures on earth. 80C, according to the MODIS satellite.
You can probably leave that bit off the invasion plan.
@KianpourWorld
I was just told that Iranians have been informed the internet will be cut off from tonight. Unless they have Starlink, they won’t have connection.
https://x.com/KianpourWorld/status/1935000795323170989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Seemed strange at the time that invading a nuclear armed country would be a good idea. ipso facto we knew they didn't have nukes and exaggerated the arsenal as a pretext.
All the stuff about differently-sized infinities is one of the reasons I ended up in physics not maths.
Much as we dug out the Channel after 1066.
Minutes after saying he had not decided whether to strike Iran, President Donald Trump was asked whether he had given Iranians an ultimatum.
“Uh,” Trump said, pausing and pursing his lips. “You could say so. They know. They know what’s happening. Maybe you could call it the ultimate — the ultimate ultimatum, right?”
Asked what he meant by that, Trump replied, “Oh, I don’t want to say — look, I mean, give me a break.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/18/israel-iran-strikes-live-us-trump/#link-DAB6ZKOULJECXC4XQYOQGRXQSA
Anyway, I thought we'd established that entities not yet born weren't people? That's what the government tells me.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-plunged-internet-blackout-deepening-conflict-rcna213544
The Iranian government has (tried) to cut links to the outside world.
Plus Boris does appeal to a large number of people - not People Like US off of PB but the masses. You know, those people who you step over on your way out of the opera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against_Iran
So with Iraq, we had a country that was able to manufacture, weaponise, and deliver chemical weapons, along with a will to use them on multiple occasions and (to put it mildly) non-cooperation with the UN investigators.
Most of us don't think it merely 'likely.'
https://x.com/simoncgallagher/status/1935157920905187410
It ends with the summary: "Basically, the system operator got it very wrong in terms of voltage control."
It's also interesting that there were problems with the grid in the hours up to the outage.
I’m always wary of such things especially as some brain donor here has made a similar accusation of me.
However, William does seem to like a good troll. He reminds me a bit of contrarian or possibly Hyufd in that way, with the important difference that he doesn't seem to altogether believe what he says.
RIP
Iran has been caught with a dangerous amount of uranium that is being weaponised.
Iran did not get there overnight. They've been working on this for years. Those saying Iran needed to be dealt with during that time were right all along.
The can had been kicked but we are running out of road.
This has nothing to do with Bibi.
Spain’s disastrous national blackout was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found.
A government report into Europe’s biggest power cut found that Spain’s solar farms were generating so much power on April 28, a particularly sunny day, that prices became “negative” – meaning there were no profits to be made in operating them.
Plunging prices triggered a mass switch-off, which sent voltage and frequency fluctuations cascading across the national grids of both Spain and Portugal. Back-up systems meant to guard against such fluctuations were not in effect.
As nuclear weapons were being created and developed, they were being tested. If people were creating and developing cyber weapons, such as to take down a nations power grid, how would they know they hold one, without testing?
HYUFD is the latter, he is a true believer in what he says and nobody and no evidence will convince him otherwise.
William I suspect is the former. Hard to tell sometimes though.
He’s failed the PB purity test so is clearly open to being questioned.
Wincey was the original and best "weather girl"... Before those upstarts Ulrika and Lucy V came on the scene.
RIP.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd978x4pvjxo
If it does, that would also encourage them to switch off rapidly when the price drops close to zero - depending on exactly how it works.
I concur that it sounds like poor network management.
"It is many years since I retired from medical practice, but even in those days I had many illegal immigrants among my patients. They had claimed asylum, and most of them were indeed fleeing from personal situations, not usually of political persecution, that were deeply unpleasant. In my view they were all illegal immigrants rather than true asylum seekers because they had not claimed such asylum in the first safe country in which they had arrived. They preferred to go somewhere else; mere safety was therefore not their first consideration."
https://www.takimag.com/article/immigration-nation/
I actually have some sympathy with Starmer when having to try and deal with this kind of thing.
"Mr Speaker - one million pounds a day spivved up the wall, because they were so incompetent ..." .
https://x.com/tcnetwork/status/1935362461843992720