Alas poor Jenrick, I knew him – politicalbetting.com
Alas poor Jenrick, I knew him – politicalbetting.com
? Latest Opinium @spectator poll ?The public backs Kemi Badenoch’s decision to sack Robert Jenrick.? 59% say it was the right decision ?Just 11% say it was wrongSupport for the decision is high amongst both Conservative and Reform voters. pic.twitter.com/wEdqxzQxBd
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A lot of countries really resent the UK having four international teams, which impacts things like IFAB.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43183023
And the remarkable thing about most sports is that you can trace their founding / commercialisation to the UK.
And it's equally clear that we'll end up binning it, after wasting another few hundred million on palliative efforts.
I guess he did take the piss quite a lot.
https://bsky.app/profile/shadow.hedgie.social/post/3mcrz2zm5hk2t
I hate to be the one telling the Tartan Army that they’re being abolished and merged with England.
I think rivers of blood might be the most optimistic scenario there.
However, the man is a deranged sociopath, so it can’t be ruled out 100%. His administration is stuffed full of fascists, gangsters, and crooks, so we can’t rely on them to hold him back, and the same goes for the “GOP”.
The key problem is Ukraine.
So long as it is thought that the U.S. is an indispensable aid to Ukrainian defence, Europe (and the UK) have limited choices. They can’t break with the U.S. entirely.
The best bet is to appeal to the American public itself somehow. As I say, a Greenlandic conquest is not at all popular. And the midterms get closer one day at a time.
(See: pidgeons.)
https://x.com/KKriegeBlog/status/2013278921811181931
Not sure it’s a great look.
What is FOIA?
Compare with China, who have criticized Trump outright as his revisionist ambitions.
Yes it will make them look duplicitous, but there’s a risk that happens by defecting anyway. The greater risk is it highlights Badenoch’s weakness at keeping the party together rather than projecting her strength.
Whereas we let the Scots have a parish council.
Hardly a demonstration of strength from Kemi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2B-d8uNmqY
Nobody is going to fire any shots.
That is why I worry he is mad enough to try it. Shock and awe, media headlines, attention, sycophants telling him how masterful he is.
Of course it would in one stroke destroy the common security apparatus of the west and send US-European relations into a tailspin, embolden Russia, probably result in the loss of Ukraine, and make us all poorer as we suddenly have to pivot. Does Trump care about that, above being the man who increased the geographic footprint of the USA? I would like to believe he does, but evidence is very weak on that.
Perhaps unkind to @viewcode. I see what he(?) means.
Europe is not without tools to resist Donald Trump’s drive for Greenland. It could nobble American tech companies, review banking licences or sell Treasuries; the EU’s “anti-coercion instrument” could be invoked, allowing a range of other retaliations. But calibrating the response to such a mercurial and yet still-mighty president involves painful choices—and getting dozens of countries to agree makes it harder still.
If dishonourable members tell her that they are definitely 100% faithful and wouldn't dream of defecting, and then subsequently defect, what sanction is the leader of the Conservative Party going to apply? The defectors will look like snivelling ratbags, but that will be the case anyway.
Two lessons from the education sector (among others):
1 Performative strength is often a sign of weakness.
2 If you need to threaten someone, it has to be a threat you can enact.
If SCOTUS says that Trump's tariffs aren't constitutional, and President Peachface ignores them, what happens next?
Obviously, a decent chap wouldn't dream of doing that, but...
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
But what happens if they say no? How far are they willing to push back? What dangers does that unleash?
Those that can afford to do so should buy them to help support the UK economy whilst we extricate ourselves from the USA .
We have to be firm and hope the American electorate realise he's jumped the shark.
Not everyone is as mad as him.
In the end where the peaceful separation of powers breaks down entirely, which it might, it will be resolved by constitutional change either de facto or de jure, threats or force or any combination thereof.
The very top level of the USA armed forces, who look a tough bunch to me, may of course at some point consider the significance of their oath to uphold the constitution.
A bond strike would be deadlier than 007...
We need a complete political reform. Voters should be able to use the existing recall system to force by-elections on MPs who change parties mid-parliament. Let's #ChangePoliticsForGood
https://x.com/reformparty_uk/status/1190735840621858816?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
The public support for the ICE cop who blew the mom away, even after they have viewed compelling evidence that it was unlawful, is around 50% on polls I have seen.
And if he is planning on cheating in November it won't matter what his level of support is at. Starmer would give his right arm for Trump approval levels.
Tony Blair is playing a key role behind the scenes along with Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sources say. There is potential for the terms of the charter to be adapted following feedback on the initial draft, some of the people say.
https://nitter.poast.org/alexwickham/status/2013273920518971397#m
Quinnipiac University Poll: 53% of registered voters said the shooting was not justified, while 35% said it was justified.
CNN/SSRS Poll: 56% of U.S. adults labeled the use of force as "inappropriate," compared to 26% who called it "appropriate".
Yahoo News/YouGov Poll: 53% stated the agent was not justified in shooting Good, while 28% believed it was justified.
Trump has already claimed it’s a national emergency. I’m just pointing out there is an off ramp.
But a) I think his floor is 40-45%, since nothing will put off GOP voters long term (though support dips below on specific issues), and b) he probaboly won't take the chance.
A new American President might then dissolve it.
We gave 99 year leases on British (imperial) bases as part of the "destroyers for bases" deal in 1940, and the US handed most back in the 50s and 60s anyway.
Sometimes it works, but it's risky to open up to charges of hypocrisy.
Trump's 55% disapprove, 42% approve rating is not that great either
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
Off topic, but more important than any subject discussed recently: Judging by this Wkipedia article, PEPFAR is damaged, but may be recovering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief
Given globalization, which is not going away, however much some may wish so, it is in our interest to control infectious diseases wherever they begin.
Unfortunately, a sensible person has to be skeptical about Wikipedia in recent years, and Lancet for longer.
(For some time I have been fascinated by the ignorance about PEPFAR in Western populations -- and the unwilingness to give it signficant coverage by most news organizations -- definitely including the BBC.)
What would be funniest would be if Labour are the ones dropping whilst both Reform and Tories increase, one from those Jenrickian Tories, and the other from grateful centrists deciding Kemi cannot be the culture warrior she was portrayed as initially after all.
His ex-wife will first compose, and then sing, the new national anthem.
https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2013281600725799182?s=61
https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/01/19/focus-of-guardia-civils-investigation-into-adamuz-train-tragedy-beginning-to-look-at-poor-maintenance/
It looks uncomfortably similar to the accident in Poland a couple of months ago. That one wasn’t an accident.
We really are living in dark times . I absolutely loathe those fxckwits that inflicted Trump on the world again.
After seeing everything he did over 8 years they wanted more . I hope they all rot in hell .
"The US can do more for Greenlanders' security and prosperity than Denmark can, retired army general Jack D, Ripper tells Fox News.
He also says a potential US acquisition of Greenland is "in Nato's interest", as the US "can do more" for regional security than Denmark can.
Ripper, who served as vice chief of staff for the US Army from 1999 to 2003, says a plan needs to be formed to the benefit of all mankind.
"It is essential that the USA acquires Greenland in order to protect the purity of our precious bodily fluids" he says."
Retired 3-star US General Ben Hodges has said that all retired US Generals and Admirals of 4-star rank need to speak out and clearly say - in a way that serving officers cannot do publicly - that an invasion of Greenland would be illegal according to domestic US law, and that any serving member of the US military should refuse to follow such an order.
He says that laying this out clearly and unanimously in public beforehand would make it much easier for serving officers to tell Trump privately that it was not an option, and that they would not follow an order to invade Greenland.
As far as I'm aware the retired officers have not spoken out.
Whenever you hear a lot about misgivings or outrage or whatever, yet it is vague and off the record apart from the handful of outspoken people, then those misgivings don't mean jack shit.
I think the Republican Congress would be more likely to pass legislation depending to Trump the Executive authority to impose tariffs at will, than to impeach him for exceeding his current lack of authority.