A Bridget too far? – politicalbetting.com
A Bridget too far? – politicalbetting.com
A lot of focus will be on Andy Burnham outpolling Sir Keir Starmer in a hypothetical leadership contest but this polling is moot given Andy Burnham isn’t an MP, it will be difficult for him to become an MP, and the polling was taken before his recent implosion.
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Survations data might be a good addition to the header
*At the rate Labour are losing people, this could be by Christmas 2025...
It would help fund therapy both with a doctor and of the retail therapy type.
EDIT: Didn't work. Curious how many other parents are hearing this all the time too, or if its just mine? Since my kids went back to school at the start of the month, all I seem to hear from them is "six seven".
https://merlinstrategy.com/recent-polling/
Ref 33
Lab 27
Con 12
Grn 12
LD 7
SNP 3
YourParty/A JC party 3
Indies 2
PC <1
Across the country, just four constituencies report feeling 'about the same' and 46 constituencies report feeling 'better off', 35 of which are in London."
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/nigel-farage-reform-uk-5HjdDbZ_2/
Gt. grandson has another two years before he starts school and everyone else, apart from Youngest Granddaughter, who I won't see until Christmas ,has left school.
Just as in the push for Arnhem, a Long Bailey bridge will not be available either.
Also Burnham wants to rejoin the EU
Now that is a big call
Will all those dismissing Burham change their minds ?
Burnham rejects digital ID cards in latest split with Starmer
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/29/andy-burnham-economy-rachel-reeves-labour-conference/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
Madness on stilts.
16 year olds will have the vote at the next election .
What an idiot.
Doesn't he realise that only countries can join the EU?
Corbyn's clearly past it, but David Icke could reemerge as the frontrunner to be next PM.
A bit satisfying to see one of my predictions coming good, though. Starmer won't move much closer to the EU than he already has. But his successor as Labour leader simply won't get the job from the party without showing a lot more Europhile ankle.
(And whilst I happen to think it's the right thing to do, it's too soon really. And a Burnham Premiership would be too high a price.)
He's pro PR and Europe. Anti ID cards.
He could have been a contender but by the end of day two hes the joke of conference.
Andy fucking Burnham. A silly little man
Yesterday he declared that he believed Britain should go back into the EU in his lifetime.
He has rejected digital ID cards in a split with Starmer.
Same as Nigel- if he really wanted to be PM, he needed to be an MP since 2019. Maybe we should be grateful to Bozza and Dom for something.
I remember way back in 1989 there was a chap on Kettering market selling Northamptonshire shoes, Grenson, Loake, John White and Churches to name a few. I got a pair of Grenson black Oxfords, and a pair of Loake Dunlop Welted golfer sole brown brogues (town and country- what more can you ask for?). They were a tenner each and there were easily removable plastic stickers covering the name on the insole, the name on the sole had been scratched out too, although the red G on the Grenson heel was present. I deduce they were either seconds or knock-offs. They lasted years.
I expect an about turn coming from @Mexicanpete and @Roger saying how great it is Burnham wants to re-join the EU after trashing him previously
“I do think there's a case for gambling firms to pay more”
“They should pay their fair share of taxes, and we'll make sure that that happens”
Via ITV
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1972700043011342506?s=19
Fair share being whatever she makes up
That audience she sucked up to and cultivated by shitting all over JK Rowling has turned on her and you just love to see it. A taste of what she has been doing to people who she disagreed with for the last decade.
I know what she meant to say, but "Greater Britain" was a bit of an unfortunate moniker for a Labour conference. That was the title of the most popular imperialist tract of the later nineteenth-centuty, albeit Charles Dilke was, fascinatingly, a genuine leftwinger and Radical at the same time, who even helped set up the Labour party itself, after his own withdrawal from front-rank politics.
On a separate note, good to see the I.D. card petition heading towards three million.
Hopefully it will be second only, or similar in figures, to the European petition.
There are plenty of people who are not obnoxious, but they're less noticeable.
Reform on the other hand plan to cut taxes for everyone and streamline services, making them better and more efficient for the end user by sacking personnel on an industrial scale, oh and sending foreign workers back to wherever their great, great, great grandfather came from.
Although I suppose the Conservative offering of cutting taxes and improving services should gain the greatest cut through.
You can easily see it the other way from the way you put it, and that Watson decided to have her own opinions, and was shouted down by Rowling and others. I find it hard to see how you can say what Watson said recently was anything other than polite and considerate, and that Rowling's response was plain nasty.
I cant think of anything shes actually done that gives me tummy flips though and the economy seems in more peril than July 24 so shes on the provisional forever naughty list
There are worse in cabinet *cough* Kendall and Phillipson *cough*
It is a theoretical problem, which might make it a political problem.
Made worse by the fact that views that are obnoxious to some people, e.g.: "Trans people should never be allowed into women's toilets!!!" are not obnoxious, and plain common sense, to others. Another example might be "Drowning migrant kids in the channel should be laughed at."
Seriously, why are people responding with laughing emojis, and worse, to stories of children drowning in the Channel?
British father dragged off Ryanair flight from hell along with his son and stag do friends faces five years in prison after forcing plane to divert to France by 'trying to open doors in mid-air'
Daily Mail
Latterly I found the way she expressed her views on trans rights unnecessarily aggressive, though I accept that she may have been responding to some pretty strong provocation. My reading of this week is that Emma Watson did not deserve the wrath of the billionaire author, and frankly Rowling has placed herself fairly firmly in the wrong.
Mind you I also feel that another load of retelling of HP to be maintained for another decade is a combination of flogging a dead horse and naked greed.
As I said, I've got a wife and two daughters who don't have the same megaphone that JKR does to stand up to the TRA bullies, I will always be thankful that she used her voice to protect women's spaces. She deserves an apology from Watson and Radcliffe and I do hope that they begin to see after this backlash against Watson exactly what it is they encouraged and helped create with their denouncements of JKR.
The mistake with the adaptations was to make the films. You couldn't do the story justice in that form. Making a TV series is simply correcting that mistake.
The US ordered first and has bought up the next couple of years of production.
All for itself.
Unguided 70mm rockets with the APKWS II guidance kit from British BAE Systems have become the main weapon of the US Air Force against drones after their successful use against Houthi UAVs.
This was stated by the commander of the US Air Forces Central Command, Lieutenant General Derek France.
As he noted, "dozens" of UAVs have already been shot down with their help, which would normally require significantly more expensive and complex air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles to destroy.
https://x.com/visionergeo/status/1972365042373763377
Well done MoD.
The worst was getting off at the wrong stop for Plzen, at some little deserted halt and goods yard, a similar wait with some, possibly Roma, kids trying to impress me that they had a big knife and a distinctly young sister who they were happy to offer for my use. I was just English and unfased about it, said no the sister is a bit too young and went ooh that's nice to the knife. They just let me pass.
The only half decent successor to Starmer.
Though I maintain that people have written Burnham off too easily. He's not much less likely to be leader than he was before the conference. It was unlikely before - it is still unlikely.
It turns acheap dumb rocket into a cheap smart weapon. It's also being supplied to Ukraine.
You also need to understand that the UK has unique requirements. Such as the rockets being required to fly sideways, or Bakelite dials on the launch console.
Plus simply buying a product that already exists and works isn't very fun, is it? No potential for Important People to demonstrate their Vital Importance.
And you should separate what Watson has said from what you see of the 'left': she is an individual, and should be treated as such,
And where did I say Watson and Radcliffe had been cancelled? I've said no such thing. If you are going to debate, at least debate honestly.
And what about the TERF bullies? Or are you so deluded as to think the bullies are only on one side?
I await an apology from you to the trans people who are affected by all this rubbish. No? Then who are you to demand an apology from others?