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Size isn’t important, it’s what you do with it that counts – politicalbetting.com
Size isn’t important, it’s what you do with it that counts – politicalbetting.com
In lots of ways this sums up strength and challenge for Corbyn’s new Party – there is clearly a motivated group who have been waiting for a party like this and will give it energy. But the risk is confusing that highly engaged activist base who’ll come to rallies with mass appeal https://t.co/jS6IQ515BV
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Disappointing, I thought we were going to be talking about that South Park episode.
Joe Root, take a bow for overtaking Punter, next up Sachin.
As with the populist right, the key principle is that nothing is ever their fault.
This is most pleasing. Slap it about and get to 520, bowl India out for 198. Series won. Doddle
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Blimey, BBC Four, what have we done to deserve this? Next Wednesday 30 July, the late evening schedule is devoted to THREADS and THE WAR GAME, two of the most horrifying and bleakly depressing films ever made. There will be documentaries, too. Get the snacks in!
https://x.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1948710590886695251
Half of them (not a stretch, since they are overwhelmingly still alive, and have voted), and it would be very interesting indeed.
After all. He's been proved thoroughly wrong by the stellar success of all the policies and leaders tried since.
Hasn't he?
I'm not volunteering for the first wave - over 50 years in Labour counts for a good deal and we'll need to see the early direction of the new party. But it deserves serious consideration on its merits, and electoral projections ("What if the Labour vote broke exactly evenly?" etc.) aren't too relevant at this stage, as a great many votes are highly fluid.
Also of interest is the fact the poll figures show the only age groups Reform do not lead the Kemi Tories other than over 75s is 18 to 24s
"This is Bazball mark II. 432 runs from 101 overs so over 4 runs an over. Traditionally on days when a side has batted like this the last session can see an acceleration as the bowlers and fielders are tired. I would not be surprised to see 6 an over after tea and another 150 -180 runs added by the close."
If it ends up being only 550 and 10 overs left, no cigar…
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5420102-trump-on-maxwell-pardon/
https://news.sky.com/story/riverdance-star-michael-flatley-to-make-bid-for-irish-presidency-court-hears-13401658
Just incredible.
Are you putting your trust in a man who lost two general elections and got the Labour Party censured by the ECHR as racist?
Putting a far right Government into Downing Street by default on the back of the comfortable Corbyn's ideology buys not one nurse's salary or even a free school meal.
Dream on.
IOW, it's already being planned.
ESPECIALLY WEATHER AT OLD TRAFFORD DURING A TEST
It will have an impact in inner cities and university towns but marginal seats not so much and even less with tactical voting
Clearly a small sample, and likely unweighted in any way, but compared with the polling in the header, it suggest that many of the targets for Corbyn's party are Green already. I don't think they'll get the momentum needed to push much above where the Green's are now.
For me, the more likely big question is whether they're the Greens who refused to vote Labour in the last election, or if they'll vote tactically to keep out Reform/Tories.
🟡 SNP – 29% (-1)
➡️ REF – 22% (+15)
🔴 LAB – 19% (-16)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
🔵 CON – 10% (-3)
🟢 GRN – 7% (+3)
Via
@YouGov
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@ScotVoting
, 13-19 Jun (+/- vs GE24)
https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1948706156353819074
PAUSE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Green + Conservative ahead of LibDem.
Sorry, what is this game where we randomly add two parties' vote share together?
The Corbana party will win minimal seats in its own right. But it will probably nab enough votes to flip quite a few seats from Lab to Ref/Con.
Splitters, as the saying goes.
SLab otoh..
🚨 NEW | SNP lead by 7pts in Scotland
🟡 SNP – 29% (-1)
➡️ REF – 22% (+15)
🔴 LAB – 19% (-16)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
🔵 CON – 10% (-3)
🟢 GRN – 7% (+3)
Via @YouGov / @ScotVoting, 13-19 Jun (+/- vs GE24)
IIRC they don’t weight to past vote recall, more to demographics.
Anyone got the tables?
1) Will Jezza's party sign up to MMT (modern monetary theory) economics
2) Where will it stand in relation to honouring government debt
3) What would be its plan for balancing the (current account) books. A better answer tham making Sultana the CoE is required.
This is a model-breaker
That is definitely my experience, but of course one always wonders if this is self-selection
I do not know whether he really lacks an inner life, as he often indicates, but we don't trust people who appear not to have one.
Personally, I don't loath him. I don't think he is doing a good job, but is that big Labour supporters feel let down that with things like trying to introduce cuts to disabled people?
1. Loathing
2. Disappointment now verging on contempt
3. Anger (Israel, Trump arse-licking etc)
The best he gets is
4. Sighing ambivalence - "he's not great but doing his best"
Not sure I know any that are now honestly positive. This is reflected in the polls
Sunshine? Summeriness? The banter? Everyone is drunk? The shadows lengthen and all that? Is it the bittersweet melancholy that is an ingredient in all true happiness?
And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host.
As the run stealers flicker to and fro,
To and fro
O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago, long ago
The one thing reform will not do is defend Holyrood against Westminster.
He was really weird about ever telling anybody what the injury actually was, just that he had surgery. I have always suspected it might be something that can't ever be fully fixed.