Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
This polling doesn’t bring any good news for Kemi Badenoch, if the leadership election was run today Jenrick would win.
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Pllllllaid not happy:
Plaid Cymru called it a "complete waste of money" and "an insult to our language" while the Conservatives said parents should be able to choose the language in which their children are taught.
because
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending children to private schools in north Wales because "state schools teach some or all lessons in the Welsh language".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy852jq7v25o
I do expect if it is a disaster in May, Bademoch will resign and if Jenrick wins I also can see some form of agreement for the next GE
I do not expect a majority conservative government at the next GE, nor do I expect a majority labour one
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/06/tax-authorities-nigel-farage-hmrc-reform-uk-george-cottrell
As for a pact with Reform, I'd sooner become French than be part of an electoral pact with Reform.
I'm a fan of the ridiculous, though.
If placed on a 3-5 year posting to part of Wales where *all the teaching* in the schools are in Welsh, it makes no sense to dump in children who speak no Welsh.
https://x.com/NatashaC/status/1975187152074870892
Labour worked against Jeremy Corbyn. It is not hard to imagine CCHQ working against Kemi. It is screw-up after screw-up, from axing GSTK to blaming Labour for Tory laws, to this. It surely can't all be incompetence.
They know fuck all about politics it seems.
Two tier Keir justice!
It's basically guide on spotting how to spot the red flags and how not fall foul of AML regulations.
I watched the NFL game from London yesterday. I thought having both anthems at the beginning was slightly incongruous until I remembered Americans now need to learn how to sing God Save the King again
Not wiped out was the option.
The website of RAF Valley on Anglesey tells its workforce, "if you live and serve in north Wales, where state schools teach some or all lessons in the Welsh language, you may choose to send your children to an English-language independent school.
https://x.com/belfieldward/status/1975192565206110358?s=61
That is completely different from learning the local language as a second language.
I suggest you ask a teacher what they think of that.
Certainly it didn't for my daughter when she moved to North Wales for her GCSEs.
What an absolute bunch of wazzocks.
So now you know.
I can understand people thinking it would be a bit daft to have a child learn Welsh for only a year or two, but it wouldn't disrupt their education in other subjects.
The source of the name isn't clear and may be a corruption of Welsh or even Gaelic. Unlikely to actually mean Valley, because it isn't one.
My children in a Catholic state school in Barry had some lessons taught in Welsh, specifically Welsh language lessons, which wouldn't lend themselves to being taught in English.
Isn't a poll of this nature going to be subject to a rather large MOE ?
https://x.com/theparkheadf/status/1974948444226884091?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
"The Winner Takes it All " ?
`'...One of us is crying, one of us is lying
In her lonely bed
Staring at the ceiling
Wishing she was somewhere else instead.." ?
Maybe they have forgotten it all:
Justine Greening (to the Observer):
“I was at an event recently and two Conservative party members in their 70s came to ask me whether they should renew their membership or join Reform. They said ‘We go to meetings and we’re the youngest people there.’ I think the party is reaching a tipping point.”
Scores on the doors:
43 primaries - 41 Welsh, 1 bilingual, 1 English
5 secondaries - 4 bilingual, 1 English
That looks a potential problem to me, even if the English schools have high admission numbers. I can see Valley's point here.
I’d figured out rephrasing the gibberish and saying it back.
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53116-half-of-tory-members-say-kemi-badenoch-should-not-lead-party-into-next-election?utm_source=website_article&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=53116
https://x.com/bohuslavskakate/status/1975231425466229019
EDIT: Oh, hi, @ydoethur!
(feels unbearably smug)
If Kemi went Tory MPs would instead likely crown Cleverly as leader. They will have noted yesterday's Telegraph poll too which had Jenrick performing worse head to head against Farage than Badenoch and Cleverly. Jenrick is a possible option to succeed Farage as leader of the populist right at the general election after next but not to lead the Tories to take on Farage at the next general election
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-conservatives-must-never-have-any-part-in-farages-populist-extremism?utm_campaign=498597_TheObserverDaily_251006&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&UID=&dm_i=7EQK,AOPX,2YAUT8,1DSPY,1
https://www.ft.com/content/6cc87bd9-cb2f-4f82-99c5-c38748986a2e
"A credible estimate suggests that A.I. capital expenditures may reach 2 percent of the gross domestic product in 2025, up from most likely less than 0.1 percent in 2022."
It was going to be my factoid of the day.
Michael Heseltine is still alive?
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1975235578829713803
Unless I was prepared to send them to school ate least ten or so miles away. Which, having been to a secondary school fifteen miles from home, and experienced the consequent isolation, I wasn't.
In which case Reform would soon gobble up the Tories anyway most likely unless we went to PR
Conservative party will go in to the next election with a pledge to protect the triple lock (which would keep it in place until at least 2034), a spokesman says.
State pension is exempted from the £47bn in spending cuts set out by Mel Stride in his conference speech just now.
https://x.com/HugoGye/status/1975138781679452472
Nvidia went up cos OpenAI ordered loads of cards. OpenAI went up cos they got another round of funding, from Nvidia...
In recent weeks, stung by criticism that she was aloof from her MPs, Badenoch has begun inviting in small groups for lunch. Well, platters of shop-bought sandwiches.
When I pointed out to one invitee that Badenoch famously declared last year that she hated sandwiches (in line with just 1% of the British public), they replied "oh no, the MPs had sandwiches, Kemi had something hot brought in".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0rnj6504yo
What saves her is, terrible nurse that she is, the alternative is worse.
First, the lightbulb party has to want to change, and it doesn't. Not towards centrism, anyway.
Second, there needs to be a big One Nationer, and I'm not convinced there is.
Fun fact: it was where Lemmy from Motorhead went to school - describing being the only English child among 700 Welsh as being 'not much fun but interesting from an anthropological point of view'.
I know three Anglesonians. Two Welsh speakers (though living in my suburb of South Manchester, opportunities for Welsh speaking are limited - particularly as they don't know each other), and one whi managed to get through a childhood on Anglesey picking up no Welsh whatsoever.
But the problem is that OpenAI have committed to spending a trillion on chips & data centres for data centres that don't exist, requiring power that will take even longer to create and spending investors money that also doesn't seem to exist.
Which wouldn't be so funny if I could see a product that people were actually buying in quantities to justify the investment (and they really won't).
Meanwhile tomorrow I know I've got 3 AI generated solutions that are actually based on broken fundamentals - which means I'm going to waste hours explaining the flaws at a simple enough level that management will understand...
I'm not though, so I can smugly point and laugh. Although not too loudly, as I usually vote LibDem.
Boris said many things. I suppose it's possible that some of them were true.