Getting squeezed like a Chippendale’s arse at a hen party – politicalbetting.com
Getting squeezed like a Chippendale’s arse at a hen party – politicalbetting.com
.@MichaelLangeNYC is always a must read bc he has a track record of accuracy. Michael has @ZohranKMamdani breaking 50% & winning by a comfortable margin https://t.co/dYnbhaUpVT
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There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3m4t2yq72bw2q
I think there's a word missing there somewhere.
It's my first day back at work in a fortnight, it's been hectic, I've not had my lunch, and I have to get to Anfield in rush hour.
The main reason being after winning on Caerphilly the balance on my account was not divisible by 5. I’m quite attached to that criteria.
You can at least find cheer in the knowledge that his dabbling with ketamine means his urethra is burning with a constant dribble of piss.
Betfair seem to have pulled the market on Mamdani's vote percentage?
One has to feel sorry for him to see the President and a lot of high profile Republicans push the failed Democrat scumbag former mayor opponent.
see https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2009/0219_09_0311.html
- The belief must be genuinely held.
- It must be a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available.
- It must be a belief as to a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour.
- It must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance.
- It must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, be not incompatible with human dignity and not conflict with the fundamental rights of others.
The issue in his case was the use of ant-terrorism law to demand the Tommy Lots of Names unlock his phone.If the policeman had stopped Tommy Lots of names for being in possession of someone's else's expensive car or for the large amount of cash that was in his possession, that would have been different. Those matters are still being taken forward - especially the cash issue.
What the court was ruling, here, was that the policeman had no right to demand Tommy Lots of Names should unlock his phone just because the policeman felt that Tommy Lots Of Names was a wrong 'un. And that Tommy Lots of Names committed no crime by not unlocking his phone on demand.
https://x.com/werries_/status/1985706576297009662?s=61
The Madami, or whatever Melon Usk calls him ?
‘ I didn't come into politics to raise taxes on working people. Labour will not put up your income tax, national insurance or VAT.
The Conservatives are the party of high tax.’
https://x.com/rachelreevesmp/status/1798093675471200748?s=61
Perhaps Town Gas is less consistent in mix?
TV football commentator Lucy Ward has told a jury social media posts from Joey Barton left her "intimidated" and "physically scared".
Former Manchester City player Mr Barton is alleged to have "crossed the line between free speech and a crime" with messages on X about Ms Ward, fellow football pundit Eni Aluko and broadcaster Jeremy Vine.
Mr Barton, 43, who has 2.7m followers on the platform, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of 12 counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety which he denies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0exrgl217jo
It must be quite a number for each, by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Mrfut-FSw
The president appears to be saying he will NOT abide by the court order to release SNAP benefits even though the WH said they would partially release them
https://x.com/samstein/status/1985741301560602995
Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.
It’s Election Day. So why doesn’t Kentucky have any this year?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/election/article312728913.html
..Between 2026 and 2036, the state’s election schedule includes gubernatorial and other statewide officer races in odd-numbered years: 2027, 2031 and 2035, for example. Federal races, including for president and Congressional races, occur in even years. State House and Senate races, as well as local officials, follow a similar pattern. There’s another off-year in 2029. So what’s up with the weird election schedule? As explained by Adams, who is tasked with overseeing the state’s elections, it comes down to a unique quirk. “In 1992, Kentuckians voted to amend our state constitution to give themselves, and election officials, a year off from elections once every four years,” Adams told the Herald-Leader in an emailed statement, referring to ballot measure No. 2, put before voters in the general election that year...
It was obvious that tax increases were required back in 2024 - so I'm not going to give her any sympathy...
Even then she's been beyond useless...
I don’t follow Mr Barton but, AIUI, he was critical of Eluko and the other lady as pundits and compared them to a Gloucester builder and his wife.
Unpleasant but not criminal I’d have thought.
The CO in Hong Kong's gas must come from the manufacturing process.
AIUI proposal in UK was to dilute natural gas (negligible CO) with hydrogen (no CO) resulting in domestic gas with negligible CO - update blend with 20% Hydrogen by volume.
The point is the UK used to use domestic gas with ~ 20% Hydrogen, this was more dangerous than natural gas but because it also contained CO, and Hong Kong currently has domestic gas with a Hydrogen content ~ 49%
So safety concerns about blending 20 % Hydrogen with Natural Gas are overblown and could reduce CO2 emissions from domestic use by 6-7% with no modification to domestic appliances.
(OK, I made that up.)
That’ll be fun - getting politicians to take on that risk.
Safety studies have shown that the increased risk associated with leakage of hydrogen is compensated by the elimination of the CO poisoning risk.
https://x.com/mollylroberts/status/1985732428762132840
...The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”..
..We’re back to the sandwich video. The paper, the defense points out, is still on. “You don’t see there’s mustard on it?” “You can’t tell there’s ketchup on it?” Mayonnaise? Lettuce? Tomato? “In fact, that sandwich hasn’t exploded at all?” Witness says the sandwich “looks bent and out of shape.”..
..Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…
Despite being " no angel" as I think the common description is I don't recall him being considered a terrorist or potential terrorist by the state at any point.
Perhaps the officers who stopped him have access to intelligence that he is. Or it might be a misuse of police powers. One or the other I suppose !
It's fairly clear that the police officer was trying to go for a quick, cheap win here. Without following the actual law.
It may well be that producing Hydrogen to blend into natural gas is not an efficient way of achieving that CO2 reduction, but it may be more politically achievable than mandating a change to heat pumps.
Mr “Robinson” has a long record, but that doesn’t mean that him driving a nice car is reason by itself to stop him.
It's also a highly explosive one.
Not a chartered member of IGEM.
It requires no adjustment by the public, no incentive scheme to get people to buy heat pumps, and if required insulate their houses & replace their radiators, when they don't want to, so it doesn't happen.
It would be like unleaded petrol, a bit of grumbling, but it's done.
https://x.com/cezthesocialist/status/1985717388361547918?s=61
That maintains the manifesto commitment to not raise tax on working people but it does raise about £8-10bn per two points. If they were to phase NI down to 0% by 2029 that raises £30-35bn per year which I think will appeal to them since landlords and old people aren't going to vote Labour anyway. It will give them a solid pre-election warchest to pump up public spending, benefits and other payroll voters to buy back enough votes to avoid a wipeout.
It will be presented as tax neutral for working people and therefore not technically break the manifesto pledge just as they said the NI rise didn't. I'm not sure that the public will buy it but it keeps the plates spinning for the government and avoids a very costly tax rise like VAT or raising tax on business which will cause a slowdown in the economy. Indeed raising income tax will probably cause a drop in inflation allowing interest rates and bond yields to drop faster.
So Reeves won't do it.
This bizarre outcome arises because a part of the formula for computing the Scottish budget is a deduction for the forgone UK tax revenue for the part that makes up the Scottish budget. If IT is increased the deduction for foregone revenue also increases.
£1bn is a lot in the context of the Scottish budget. Unless some offsetting provision is made I don't see how this could be brought into effect.
I see YouGov continues on its merry way in terms of polling. Labour back up three suggesting last week's 17% was an outlier and the Greens, Conservatives and LDs in a statistical tie for third place.
On the YouGov numbers (via Baxter which is increasingly meaningless), Reform would scrape a tiny majority but at the moment Farage benefits from a divided opposition in extremis. Whether that remains the case is uncertain - I suspect the Budget won't be the political event many on here suspect - indeed @MaxPB may be extremely prescient about the contents.
I do think fuel duty will rise as will remote gaming duty though I suspect horse racing has done enough to keep general betting duty unchanged. The bookmakers are complaining even changing the duty on the slot machines will klead to shop closures, job losses and the like but, as someone famously said in an entirely different context, they would say that, wouldn't they?
A really sensible plan would be to not raise the tax burden, and to still do what Max said anyway, but use the rebalancing of taxation to cut other taxes so it remains revenue neutral.
‘Dr’ Naomi Wolf is shitposting against Mamdani in amongst her relentless batshittery about chemtrails and vaccination deaths. Cuomo surely a shoo-in now.
While they're at it (changing tax bands) I hope they scrap the personal allowance cliff edge at £100k and bring down the new 47% tax band to start at £100k.
Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’
https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/
But if we get to 2028 with 25% income tax and 3% NI that isn't a bad position for working people...