How we see Starmer, Corbyn, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
How we see Starmer, Corbyn, and Farage – politicalbetting.com
How do Britons see Jeremy Corbyn?Intelligent: 54% (net +24)Principled: 47% (+11)Hardworking: 46% (+13)Represents change: 39% (-7)Trustworthy: 32% (-23)Understands people like them: 30% (-30)Represent the UK well on world stage: 23% (-42)yougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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First by the proverbial gnats knacker
Starmer represents the UK well?
Corbyn is principled?
As a country, we are fooked....
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TtShYZihagg
It has reached a top speed of 375 MPH. Service speed expected to be 311 MPH. Fastest conventional train on a test has reached 357 MPH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFCOdrlAb8
Jacob Rees-Mogg is sceptical of opinion polls, except the ones he agrees with, in this 11-minute video.
And last night, we think I dislocated my shoulder. it was only out for a second, then popped back in again. I'd love to say I did it weightlifting during a PT session, or during a swim, but in reality I did it changing the bedding.
It's sore this morning, but I have full mobility. I'm going to go for a gently bike ride this morning to see if I can ride, and I'll see how the swim goes on Sunday...
From The Rest is Politics Q&A, a conversation about Palantir (ie Thiel) and their growing work with the German Health sector. Interesting commentary on the UK status, and how it working into the German system - Land by Land. Several minutes.
And commentary about the uniqueness of the NHS comprehensive medical history in one system. I'm not sure - are there other systems with whole population records going back so far?
https://youtu.be/z2EYn_jZTf4?t=1612
Truly woeful, for our supposed next PM. Go for him, Kemi.
"Doctors have been told they can force-feed an anorexic woman following a legal ruling.
In 2023, a court said 25-year-old Patricia, whose name has been changed for legal reasons, could not be forced to use a feeding tube."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrz2vl719o
She's not suicidal; weighs just 19kg, and has been suffering from anorexia for 15 years.
Kemi Badenoch gets a student expelled - I haven’t stopped laughing since I read this 🤣 “She has an incredible ability to become more unlikable and less relatable every single time she opens her mouth”
https://x.com/sholamos1/status/1953481073339326728?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
In other news, a remnant of another abandoned British transport innovation (related to Maglev) looks like it is going to be scrapped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracked_Hovercraft
(My dad's company apparently dig the foundations for the first Maglev test track in the world, at Derby RTC.)
Like the people coming over in little boats to cheat the asylum system.
I think I know where most Brits are on this.
https://www.iatp.org/news/iceland-parliament-sells-rights-to-genetic-code
But multiple searches can winnow one name out of 10, Anderson said, adding that no encryption scheme can mask identities when so much personal information is stored in one place.
https://x.com/rupertlowe10/status/1953692234517201349?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Is this the sort of smart real world businessman that PBers are always bemoaning the lack of in parliament?
Look, for example, at current politics around Elon-Musk-chainsaw style cuts, and the impact austerity has had, for example, on the quality of our public realm.
Short-sighted Govt is driven by a politics demanding short-term decisions.
Whatever the name, it is always going to be your party.
Join us at yourparty.uk
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1953375341105295816?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
I was idly thinking the other day that Reform was a pretty good choice, promising shiny new change while essentially representing an urge to return to the way things used to be.
https://x.com/jamesmelville/status/1953484933500178665
‘Britain needs Reform’, ‘Education needs Reform’, ‘The immigration system needs Reform’ etc, it could be that there’s a lot of subliminal pushing of RefUK by their rivals
Fanatical and dogmatic people aren't intelligent or secure; in fact, that's usually why they are fanatical and dogmatic: they can't deal with, process, or adapt to conflicting facts and information but cleave to it as an identity.
Jez fans I know think he's a genius. That his ideas have never been tried here in our memory helps with that.
Same thing.
CORBYN
Not intelligent
Very principled
Not hardworking
A lot of change
Not at all trustworthy
Doesn't understand plm
F-ing awful on world stage
STARMER
Intelligent (but not as much as he thinks he is)
Not very principled
Hardworking
Not much change
Not very trustworthy (career comes first)
Doesn't understand plm
Not very good on world stage
FARAGE
Fairly intelligent
Fairly principled
Not very hardworking
A lot of change
Not very trustworthy
Fair amount understands plm
Pass - possibly fairly well/not well at all
Hope you recover enough to be ok, but don't try it if things are bad.
Bedding can be dangerous. I sprained my thumb moving a quilt once. [I've also had more back problems from dusting than exercising...]
See, for instance:
https://x.com/TimHannan/status/1953413310147121254
Counter example: both Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are highly intelligent, but fanatical and dogmatic, and embrace irrational positions.
The first time taught me what happens to the bowels when one takes codeine with no laxative at the same time.
This is not true. Meta AI on WhatsApp can only read what you choose to share with it (it does not have access to all your chats or contacts). Meta AI is not ‘on’ until you choose to use it by messaging it directly or invoking it in an existing chat.
Your personal messages on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning only you and the people you chat with can read or share them.
Using Meta AI is completely optional on WhatsApp, and you can learn more here:
faq.whatsapp.com/10025441041269…
https://x.com/whatsapp/status/1953572523561644256?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
I've no idea if Corbyn is 'intelligent' or not. He doesn't come across in any way as an intellectual, but neither does he come across as dumb.
As for 'fanatical and dogmatic': it's a good job there's no-one like that around here...
The target group for Kemi is non-racist culture warriors who prefer the prospective PM to be utterly devoid of any charm, grace or wit.
I've had 2, first was out for several hours and had to have morphine before they could relocate it. Second was a few minutes and it relocated itself. Weeks of physio vs a bit sore.
Hope you haven't done much soft tissue damage.
I quite like that DnD/PF2 have separate stats for Intelligence and Wisdom on that basis.
Perhaps they're both chancers, who got lucky with their timing.
(Cues @Leon...)
(Or, the intelligence to solve a specific problem is less useful than the intelligence to work out which problems are and aren't worth solving.)
(Or, life is too messy to fit in a single number, whether IQ or bet worth.)
"The market narrative that the worst is over and that stability will come will surely become a collectors’ item for historians and students of the capitalist psyche. Nothing is ever stable with Trump."
"He has killed Pax Americana stone dead, destroyed Nato credibility, carpet-bombed the West and smashed the rules-based order to smithereens on every level. Yet asset markets remain insouciantly priced for perfection.
What can possibly go wrong?"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/08/now-brace-for-the-full-fallout-of-trumps-global-shake-down
And my favourite factoid of the day so far:
"Property owners in south-west Florida are slashing prices at the fastest rate since the subprime bust in 2007-2008."
You voted for this shite. Eat your lunch Florida!!
I had a similar problem with my other shoulder whilst on a hike a couple of decades ago. I was climbing a high deer fence in Scotland; I reached the top, threw my rucksack over, and the movement dislocated my shoulder. I was left hanging from the fence in agony, with my pack on the other side. Fortunately, it relocated itself quickly.
Oh, and when I went to hospital, the doctor was called Dr Lazarus...
https://youtu.be/kFEK0Sbq4o8?si=HjgSrpM0NojlAsj9
Given the Kemi Tories still lead Corbyn's new party in all hypothetical polls she should also have been included if Corbyn is
Tara Palmieri is afaics credible, having worked for Politico etc and done much reporting around Epstein for years including with Virginia Giuffre. I don't know much about Tim Elliott.
Following interviews, including with Maxwell's chauffeur, her thesis is that Maxwell was herself abused / exploited by Epstein, but consciously made a Faustian bargain to be his operative, abusing girls, in return for her lifestyle. To me that is credible as a factor, which does not reduce her responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuV4UVO7pmI
If Maxwell wasn’t the daughter of Bob then she would probably be given a bit more understanding and sympathy as being an abused “victim” and if Giuffre hadn’t allegedly been used by Prince Andrew then maybe people would have had have less sympathy for her as she was useful for attacking him/the royals etc.
It will be the rest of us.
Trouble is, meta ethics is essentially pretentious bullshit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1mpe9x80xvt?post=asset:677b590c-6076-46e4-b34f-80fe43bdf072#post
Starmer had heavier responsibilities as Director of Public Prosecutions, and encouraging a fractious party into government, he has been astute enough to hold Labour together whilst the Tories committed political suicide for most of the last five years. I wonder how far voters wanted change versus dull stability in 2024.
Several Ministers have resigned over the last year, is Starmer's judgement poor, or was there insufficient scrutiny of the appointees.
Fabricant is mini Boris but neither are MPs now
I am not convinced that is true
Because if you cut $1trn of Federal public spending and deport several million people, it’s quite likely that the economy will shrink as a result.
- His tariff policy increases US domestic inflation, suppresses US demand and should lead to surplus inventories and deflation elsewhere. As the UK isn’t a big exporter this should be net positive
- His deficit spending should weaken the dollar which will make US oil and gas exports more competitive and put downward pressure on commodity prices, allowing us to cut interest rates further
- The big danger to us economically is from business and IP drift to the US thanks to their now relatively low corporate taxes and large skilled labour force. A bit of volatility over there should make businesses think twice before upping sticks.
We need Britain to go on a consumer and investment binge based on cheap dumped products, so this isn’t all bad.
Although he can't be a mushroom I suppose as he's no sort of fun guy.
It’s WhatsApp without Suckerberg and better security.
The code is open source - you can even setup your own server, compile your own versions of the apps and have a complete system you control. Which is what several organisations have done.
If the government ever gets serious out stamping out use of third party systems for comms, a roll-our-own version of Signal, hosted on physical kit in a rack at GCHQ - we could do worse. And it would cost very little
In the end it was fine and only a bit uncomfortable for the run so if everything is back in place I wouldn't worry too much.
Edit: F**k - I see you have to swim also (soz should have spotted the triathlon bit). That could be tricky. 2x good luck.
(I've never had to go as far as tramadol, fortunately.)
Constipation was what my mum said caused her most problems when she was in her last month in hospital. She was on heavy doses of painkillers, and no one could do anything other than give laxatives, and it took days and days to loosen things up.
These days if I have a short spell in hospital - which last happened about 2-3 years ago step one is to get laxatives onto the ward prescription in case a need arises. It can take 24 hours to get through the system without making a fuss - eg at a weekend, and nurses are limited in what they can give without a prescription. And I don't want to take up any unnecessary Dr time.
Corbyn, as you say, is yesterdays obsessive angry outsider now repackaged as the allotment guy with big ideas and he has an army of nut job fellow travellers waiting to pounce
Like many ex-Cons a year after a Lab victory I can't say I've listened to very much of what she has had to say or how she has said it.
Far too early for that; I couldn't give a stuff and am for the moment (and prob right up until GE minus six months) enjoying the mad fringe activities on both sides.
Was he just being reckless in the setup he had and how he used it?
Given Hegseth, it would not surprise me if he used a specially compromised version that the 17 year old with the smile in McDonalds had told him was especially secure.
'Yes, we have no avocados'
Not a bad idea in principle, but Labour couldn't let go of the various mores, niceties and lawyering that is strangling every other bit of work to try and deal with the situation.
Strong results for Reform in yesterday's local council by elections but August contests on often very low turnout can produce exaggerated results if a motivated minority gets out and votes.
I'm struck not by the differences between Corbyn and Farage but by the similarities. We often talk about the "horseshoe" aspect of politics and those who throw around terms like "left" and "right" do so more as a perjorative than from a sense of any real political analysis (e.g: "lefties").
In policy terms there are differences but both are offering equally ridiculous yet equally superficially attractive prospectuses and in a time of disillusion and frustration they are getting much more of a hearing than if times were good when they would be relegated to the far margins (or the same margin if you prefer).
That's the thing about Government and governing - it's not easy and simply waving around ideas isn't the same as a coherent programme. Too often, the pressure is on Government to be seen to be doing something but it ends up being the wrong thing and especially when it has consequences elsewhere.
Someone once offered the virtues of masterly inactivity - it's not the worst approach on occasion.
Government is or should be about getting the basics right which for me is or are the administration of law and the provision of public services - the old adage you know you're doing a good job when people don't think you're doing anything at all applies but it doesn't have electoral benefit.