Sleazy does it – politicalbetting.com
Sleazy does it – politicalbetting.com
62% of Britons see the Labour government as at least as sleazy and disreputable as the previous Conservative governmentMore sleazy: 32%About as sleazy: 30%Less sleazy: 24%yougov.com/en-gb/daily-…
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Mobile network operators, such as EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree), have reportedly warned the government that, in a worst-case scenario, the current energy crisis and rising costs may force some of them to ration access to their network or slow mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds in order to reduce energy usage.
The option is said to be part of emergency plans that have been pieced together by the operators after the Government excluded them from the new British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS), which pledged to help cut energy bills by up to 25% for over 10,000 businesses (manufacturers) from April 2027.
However, mobile operators argue that their networks are a highly energy intensive critical service, consuming just under 1 Terawatt-hour of electricity annually (roughly enough to power 370,000 homes). This is a problem because the cost of their electricity usage has risen by 70% in recent years and the conflict in the Middle East is expected to make things much worse.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/04/mobile-and-broadband-providers-may-ration-uk-network-use-to-cut-energy-costs.html
The write up in The Times.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/phone-signal-rationing-proposed-iran-war-d2jmcc30h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEM40UYKeU&list=RDZAEM40UYKeU&start_radio=1
Though divides on party lines, Conservative and Reform voters think that, Labour and LD and Green voters are still more likely to think the last Tory government more sleazy than this Labour government
Benpointer's idosyncratic list of greatest English men and women, in no particular order:
William Shakespeare
Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
Charles Darwin
George Stephenson
Mary Anning
Michael Faraday
Horatio Nelson
Jane Austen
Elizabeth I
Winston Churchill
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
(*Probably)
If that f*cks up my Google search algo results, I'll be seeking revenge.
Happy St George’s Day.
Be proud.
Fly the flag 🏴🏴🏴
https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/2047214979120545923?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
https://www.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2025/04/19/i-visited-illicitencounters-com-so-you-dont-have-to/
C17th - Spain
C18th - France
C19th - Britain
C20th - USA
C21st - China ...or maybe not:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ep28drllo
A song about heroin.
Most patron saints appear to come from outside lands.
Why this particular Greek or Roman (as you like) chap gets mentioned as special in this way is beyond me.
23rd April is also Shakespeare's date of death, and especially for Cumbrians, the date of death in 1850 of Wordsworth.
(Wordsworth, born 1770, lived into the life of Thomas Hardy, who in turn missed living into the the life of Desmond Morris, who died last week, by a mere 13 days. History has long arms.)
Agatha Chrisite - the only person to sell more books is God.
St George was likely to off his tits on drugs when he thought he killed a dragon.
The Times - Keir Starmer could face sleaze inquiry over Mandelson scandal drip, drip, drip.
The Cabinet are not quite in open revolt it seems, but it's getting there. How bad a drubbing in the locals would it take for the grumble to become a roar?
Nearly half of all searches resulted in no further action.
https://x.com/channel4news/status/2046923850009444817?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Hence the King could choose their own colours and symbol and followers would adopt it to show their loyalty, independent of their national or ethnic origin. The world consisted of multicultural monarchies, and the concept of Patron Saint is both a throwback and a modern innovation.
Sir Keir needs to go. I’m of the view that Labour can get this show back on the road but not with this Prime Minister.
He simply must go. Anyone would be better.
The Cabinet are not quite in open revolt it seems, but it's getting there. How bad a drubbing in the locals would it take for the grumble to become a roar?
I think it’s priced in already . It’s going to be a disaster we’re just waiting to see when actual moves are made against the PM .
Someone call the Daily Mail, quick!
Take Mohammad's night journey to heaven on a Buraq as a similar piece of allegory.
The world doesn't actually need oil, gas, fertiliser, food etc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0mjev4kn9jt?post=asset:24417ac3-19e7-4b3c-8ae6-87f9e619f03e#post
This is outrageous. Landlords are illegally advertising for “Muslim only” tenants across London and the south-east, The Telegraph has found.
The property listings feature phrases such as “only for Muslims”, “for 2 Muslim boys or 2 Muslim girls” and “Muslims preferred”.
This is illegal, is unBritish, and should be shut down immediately.
Can you imagine the total uproar in Westminster & the BBC if landlords were advertising for “whites only” or “Christians only”?!
https://x.com/goodwinmj/status/2046866650855518701?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
A top envoy to President Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, setting up high-stakes US sports diplomacy involving a spurned ally and a sworn enemy.
US special envoy Paolo Zampolli suggested the swap to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Trump, as leader of the country co-hosting the tournament. He argued that Italy’s four World Cup titles justify awarding it the slot, according to people familiar with the matter.
The plan was an effort to repair ties between Trump and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after the two fell out amid the US president’s attacks against Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war, the people said.
But Iran issued a statement on Wednesday saying it is prepared for the tournament and plans to participate.
https://www.ft.com/content/1ff3a3fd-8d46-4eb4-9b15-0b9183925c6f
The longer this goes on the more damage to Trump and a further rapprochement from the rest of the world towards China .
https://spectator.com/article/its-worse-than-during-the-worst-of-boris-how-the-civil-service-turned-against-starmer/
I must thank @Battlebus for being the only contributor who responded to my post on the Christian People's Alliance manifesto for Newham.
It's an interesting set of ideas which seems to rely on the Council working alongside "Christian" charities and rather forgets the work done by Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other religious groups.
The idea of funding accommodation and meals for rough sleepers will tick the charitable box but if Newham offered it and no one else did, we'd have every rough sleeper in London heading our way.
The most interesting proposal was the one aimed at business - replacing business rates with a turnover tax levied at 5% starting at £125,000. Many moons ago, betting tax paid by the punter was replaced with a gross profits tax paid by the bookie and all punters got tax free betting - one of Nigel Lawson's ideas I believe.
How would a turnover tax work the CPA's view it would stop multi-national organisations paying little or no Corporation Tax sounds superficially attractive but I have my doubts based on "if it were that simple, why has it not been tried?".
I did wonder when I first read the proposal if this was a second attempt at the "pasty tax" but related to other baked or half-baked products?
Another Westminster veteran says: ‘I hope this will finally kill the absurd “Keir Starmer is a decent man” narrative. He’s a shitweasel whose sole political talent is blaming others for his own failings.’
China would be very wise to learn lessons - and leave Taiwan the hell alone.
lthough if they were so minded, they can see how effective a blockade of Taiwan might be. (Assuming Taiwan hasn't yet acquired 100,000 Ukrainian Sea Baby drones...)
But I read that he spent a bit of his childhood in St Andrews which probably ensured his transformation to an Englishman.
I think it is a problem for a country to have competing groups for supremacy, and having so many of a new group that doesn’t really accept the traditional laws or customs of the land is a recipe for disaster. I don’t have an issue with anyone personally on the basis of their religion or colour, I get on with most people and am interested in different cultures, I just think that on a nationwide level it makes for a lot of unnecessary aggravation to have introduced Islam en masse to what was/is a Christian country
Taxing turnover rather than profit means businesses can be hit even when they’re making very little, or even losing money. That would hammer supermarkets, wholesalers and a lot of high-street retail far more than it would hurt firms with fat margins. Corporation tax, for all its faults, is at least a tax on profits rather than gross sales. (GOV.UK)
You also get the problem of repeated taxation through the supply chain, which distorts pricing and business structure. There’s a reason most tax systems don’t just slap a flat levy on revenue and call it job done. (OECD)
If the real complaint is multinationals shifting profits, the answer is tighter rules and enforcement, not replacing one imperfect tax with a much dafter one. Lovely slogan, rotten policy.
We need to bring back English exceptionalism, we need to make St Edmund our patron saint again.
And it won't be Burnham who replaces him.
62% of Britons see the Labour government as at least as sleazy and disreputable as the previous Conservative government
More sleazy: 32%
About as sleazy: 30%
Less sleazy: 24%
That is pretty damning poll findings for Keir Starmer's Labour Government considering they have been in power for less than two years when compared to the Conservative party who were in Office for fourteen years before they lost the last GE.
Worked for Adolf. Triumph of the Will and all that.
his ashes were scattered at the summit of Cross Craigs overlooking Loch Rannoch in Perthshire, Scotland.
Quite when and why he went over to the dark side is unclear. The usual combination of ambition and arrogance I suppose.