Starmer once again displays his lawyerly brilliance – politicalbetting.com
Starmer once again displays his lawyerly brilliance – politicalbetting.com
Firstly I thought if there were to be a by-election engineered to get Burnham back into parliament then Starmer has the power to ensure an all-women shortlist.
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If you’re the latter then I suspect you’re not getting the job.
Unless it is a police interview.
We were talking about both narcissists and cats at the end of the last thread.
“Every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be"
https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/2000594550599864781
If only he was the PM with a large majority, who might be in a position to actually do something about the regulatory and bureaucratic overload?
Automatic planning permission for reasonable density housing within walking distance of every train station in the land, regardless of whether it’s in the green belt, no environmental offsets for small developments any more, stopping councils from putting arbitrary restrictions on development, automatic permission for infill building on existing plots, etc etc.
No doubt the Greens are going to scream about it, but if we want to fix housing we have to build.
These were dropped in the last Parliament because women actually made up a small majority of Labour MPs. The balance shifted in the male direction in 2024 but I understand they are being considered rather than having been formally re-introduced - it isn't clear 46% is sufficiently short of parity to justify.
The sole Parliamentary by-election of this term (Runcorn) saw a female Labour candidate... but not an all-women shortlist. By-elections pre-2019 also frequently featured male Labour candidates.
There might be a route to block Burnham here. But I'd want more detail of what it is - it seems to me that this is assertion by the anti-Burnham faction, and the New Statesman has been a bit lax in fact-checking.
Now, you could loosen some of those constraints - but that in itself is a project that detracts from your main agenda. Further, rather like the filibuster in the US, a sensible politician realises majorities come and go, and reducing friction for yourself today does so for your opponent tomorrow.
No sign of the death of this Uni, yet.
Sydney Muslim leaders say they will refuse to perform funeral rites or receive the bodies of the Bondi shooters.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydney-muslims-refuse-funeral-rites-for-bondi-massacre-attackers/news-story/
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
Don’t expect any actual housing to be built, then.
It isn't unreasonable for them to have some friction - to follow a process, to do the analysis, to properly consider counterarguments in consultation.
No, I don't want politicians - even those I quite like - to pull the lever and instantly get the outcome they desire. Perhaps you do, but that just makes you a fool - it doesn't make me some kind of deep state obstructionist.
Not sure this counts as AI really, but robodogs being brought into whisky production (controlling excess evaporation from the casks in store).
...back in Newcastle.
Trespassers in the Durham area.
Thing is, if Burnham tries this it will be clear he's coming to trigger and win a leadership contest. The question then is do the parliamentary party want one (and him)? If they do then it's all over for Starmer and he won't be able to block Burnham. His power will already have dissipated. If they don't there'll be no need to block Burnham because Burnham himself will have sussed the situation and he won't bother. He'll stay as Mr Manchester.
TLDR: Burnham either comes back with everything in place to replace Starmer as party leader and PM, or he stays put. This 'all women shortlist' business is a bit of a red herring.
IMO he's a sell at anything in single digits.
Fairly irresponsible and rather overactive C**** with no understanding of why the vast majority dislike them so much.
Sorry…
I wasn’t aware of a majority disliking Bonnie Blue, or even knowing who she is.
Still your rant is a load off your mind. Can Bonnie say the same ?
Without proof it’s just anecdote 👍
But in any case, more building in an already overheated London will not help the regions recover their economic mojo or find somewhere to live. Anecdotally, there is also a shortage of builders although Labour's other policy to train more young people in the building trades might offset this.
That’s what is happening right now.
I'd be astonished if Burnham's future path is determined by the fact he's a chap.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pr1njl9vo
There's always someone worse off than you, but it's not this pair. Some dodgy probability calculations, though; possibly by a doctor.
It's just so wildly implausible that he can somehow propel himself to power in the Labour party by basically just saying 'I'm free'.
Why wouldn't Keir do this? It's the kind of procedural crap he loves.
"He shall never vanquish'd be, until great Burnham would to high Dunsinane Hill come against him"
(Stands back and awaits correction from the legion of PB statisticians.)
Also, Brent crude is below $60 for the first time since early 2021. If course the Russians have to sell at a discount, although so much of their oil is floating in tablets on the ocean that it looks like they are struggling to find buyers, even at a discount.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87l5nq93wno
Spoiler: it's not just the Russians.
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Bet Norfolk agrees too but I mustn't presume.
Or is that too much anarchism?
Now, suppose you are a buyer. You have a refinery. If you buy Russian crude and it is late because Ukraine got lucky one night, your refinery has to shut down. Even though Russia is selling for roubles on the dollar, it is better to pay the premium to Middle Eastern suppliers who can deliver on time.
And the second time is not independent of the first. YOu win big, you have plenty of spare cash to gamble again ...
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
https://x.com/PippaCrerar/status/2000992877443231788?s=20
Heartless fascist.
Narrator: Last week Osborne failed to secure the chairmanship of HSBC.
SKS would pay full price for a Dominos pizza
If the probability of winning was 1 in 1.9 million then the probability of winning the first time was 1 in 1.9million. If they are independent then the probability of winning the second time given that they won the first time was still 1 in 1.9million.
I have two questions
- Question 1 is whether they were independent: did they fiddle it?
- Question 2 is how many people played how many lotteries over the last 100 years. If millions of lotteries are played, then the odds of at least one lottery being won twice by the same person is lower than you think. See also low-probability card hands.
Now Barty will tell me where I went wrong. LOOK, I MIXED UP IRRATIONAL NUMBERS AND RECURRING DECIMALS, OK? COULD HAPPEN TO ANYBODY.(It's very embarrassing being corrected by economists. Especially when they are right)