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Badenoch is entering Truss territory – politicalbetting.com
Badenoch is entering Truss territory – politicalbetting.com
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To be fair, while utterly failing at least she isn't damaging the economy by so doing.
Maybe it is.
Oops!!
What do they do now? Merge it with Reform and wait a few years to start another populist right party or keep with the Farage party?
Nonetheless, shadow cabinet colleagues say both Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, and Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, are eyeing Stride’s perch.
‘Neither is right for it,’ says a fellow frontbencher. ‘Angling for positions in the shadow cabinet right now is like applying for a promotion on the Titanic.’
Same with laying '29 or later for Badenoch replacement, was a 30% return.
Boris seemed to fail to use his huge majority and Starmer looks to be going the same way. Is it poor party management or the fault of the media.
How large a majority do you need to get anything done when the media fawns over a party with *checks notes* only 5 MPs.
Coincidentally Gove admits to being a duplicitous snake in today's Times.
What [Gove] regrets now, he says, is being “insufficiently clear” to Cameron that he would campaign for Leave.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/michael-gove-camerons-divorce-sarah-vine-depression-dvcpbqm8n
For the number of cabins, the ship has a myriad of restaurants and bars; plenty of ways to get drunk. You have probably explained why, although alcohol prices on the ship aren’t particularly cheap. They’ve just done the tannoy announcement for those going straight back on the ship, which would be two nights on board with basically lunchtime ashore. So perhaps Scandi booze cruising is a thing, indeed.
Didn't join myself, but my understanding is that duplicitous snakery is how one succeeds in that sort of place.
I didn’t know the Greens had 5 MPs 🤔
Green win just down the road from me last night, in Shooter’s Hill.
Green GAIN from Labour
Shooters Hill (Greenwich) council by-election result:
GRN: 34.8% (+19.7)
LAB: 30.2% (-29.2)
REF: 16.1% (+13.3)
CON: 11.5% (-2.4)
LDEM: 5.1% (-3.6)
+/- 2022
This and 2 other by-elections where the conservatives held their vote and Reform surged are examples of Reform taking votes directly from Labour.
Shooter’s Hill is an interesting political area. There’s a cliff edge between one side of the hill and other, between solid left wing inner suburbs and solid right wing outer suburbs, between deep remain and convinced leave, and between diverse inner London and WWC. This ward is on the cusp, but mainly the inner London bit.
The political border aligns almost perfectly with the border between Victorian/Edwardian and 1930s architecture.
This has been a long time coming.
Plus the general principle that we see ourselves as consumers who are always right. Even when our wishes are a contradictory mess. Starmer isn't the man to persuade us that we can't have something for nothing any more, but I'm not sure anyone else could. Particularly when someone is croaking from the sidelines that of course it's possible.
There is an remote alternative universe where he really did go all in on the North in the way he did London - HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail, trams, regional tax rates and energy pricing...
That's actually a bigger but slower issue for Labour. They feel very London.
In fact, if only Oxford were a myth.
This is worse than pineapple on pizza, strawberries in bread!!!!
UK and France discuss ‘one-in, one-out’ migrant returns
Plan being considered by Keir Starmer and President Macron would allow Britain to return illegal small boat arrivals to France
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/uk-and-france-discuss-one-in-one-out-migrant-returns-wjlgr66ms
The ferries used to have conference facilities, many years ago some former colleagues utterly embarrassed themselves at a "user group meeting".
The final result from last night was an LD hold in Rother on the south coast holding off a Reform charge who came through to second taking votes equally it seems off the LDs and Tories and with a 32 27 22 result typical of recent southern seat battles.....
Also Techne are back after 3 weeks with
Ref 28 (-3)
Lab 23 (=)
Con 18 (+1)
LD 16 (+1)
Green 8 (=)
SNP 3 (+1)
26 Jun (changes from 5 Jun)
The polling continues to suggest that it might still be an option for a party which actually decided to push for it.
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52410-nine-years-after-the-eu-referendum-where-does-public-opinion-stand-on-brexit
The return trippers only have to get off for half an hour, so for them it’s essentially a 43 hour boozing session
First, it would provide far more of a disincentive to attempt a Chanel crossing than did the ludicrous Rwanda idea (and at no cost).
Secondly, while making no net difference on its own to the immigration numbers, it would reduce the number of migrants being detained in enforced idleness, at our cost.
Looks like a good idea to me.
They were crushed in 2024 because of the hangover from the pandemic and mostly Liz Truss, and they have failed to recover because they have no serious plan for reducing immigration.
Hold a vote when you tell people their taxes go up yet again, their MPs will go back to blaming shit legislation on Brussels, their salaries dont rise and immigration is outside their control and the numbers will different on voting day,
The polls simply reflect remainers moaning about events 10 years ago while leave have moved on and left the field to them.
“ I would like to take this opportunity to formally apologise to M&S Food for a post I published yesterday mocking their new Strawberries and Cream sandwich. I have just purchased one from their branch in Rayleigh in Essex and it was the last one on the shelf hours before lunchtime - that was the first sign that I may have been a little harsh without at least trying it first.
It is strawberries and ‘creme’ to be precise and legal. The filling is a mixture of soft cheese and crème fraiche, and the bread is actually a sweet brioche. You get one half of a sandwich for £2.80, and I had to apologise to the elderly couple on the bench next to me after I bit into it because I said a rude word and had the sort of expression on my face that you would expect from someone getting their weasel greased. It’s good. It’s very, very good. It sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it does. It just works.
So once again, I am very, very sorry for giving the impression that it was a disastrous idea for a sandwich. This experience was definitely up there with my wedding day, the births of my kids, and Arsenal Women winning the Champions League last season. Please, for the love of god, just try one of these if you can and tell me I’m wrong.”
But isn't everything relative? There's a PM with a huge majority only 11 months into the premiership and he too seems to be sinking fast. So both the historically first teams are struggling on this political wicket.
Good morning, everybody.
With those sorts of scores the strength of local candidates and campaigns will make so much more of a difference.
Just think about it if Cameron hadn't called a referendum and was able to control the Eurosceptic none of the mess would have happened. I mean 5 Tory PMs in that time is not normal politics.
Brexit was the catalyst of all of this. Bizarrely it still is.
More alchemy perhaps.
When I open the Comments the latest comment is at the top of the list and the first comment is at the bottom so I have to scroll down, often a long way, to start reading. Is there a setting to reverse this?
Last nights local results support a slight falling back, they didn't take a couple of seats that they took the broad equivalent of in the county council elections in May.
They are doing amazingly well in sone 'red wall' and trad Labour areas but I'm not convinced they are doing quite enough to dominate in the SE, SW and maybe East - at below 30 nationally their vote becomes increasingly inefficient here the more it slips. From 25 down they struggle to push too far past say 125 seats..... hard to call but we are not much more than MoE tightening from a really messy result is what I'm saying I guess
ETA also, good joke. See, I got there in the end.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/
The most brutal thing in The Spectator article is this observation about Badenoch ‘Another senior Tory concluded: ‘She seems to be auditioning to be a Spectator columnist’ which is not something someone aspiring to be Prime Minister should ever audition for in my humble opinion.
Plus Pimms perhaps if you are feeling inclusive.
And yes with cream cheese in a sandwich.
So actually a vital foodstuff.
As a LotO it's one thing, but the criteria for judgement are apples and chalk.
I'm not sure it'll be quite that bad for the Conservatives.
The next bit is not for the squeamish.
For those unaware, the story goes that Basil II crushed the Bulgars and took 10,000 prisoners. He then separated them into groups of 100 and from each blinded one man in one eye and the other 99 in both eyes. The one-eyed men acted as shepherds for an army of blind men, who, upon their return, so horrified the Bulgar Tsar that he had a heart attack and died.
So they will stay with Lab.
And SKS will hope that before the next GE the Cons don't tack to the centre under someone sensible (I said sensible, for all those foreseeing a BoJo return) and Ref keeps heading out into the deep blue sea thereby creating a distinction between the two. One can only hope.