Sir Keir Starmer’s ratings are under Water(gate) – politicalbetting.com
Sir Keir Starmer’s ratings are under Water(gate) – politicalbetting.com
The Americans are starting to notice what’s happening to Keir Starmer.Pointed out here on CNN that Starmer is now less popular in the UK than Nixon was with the American public at the height of Watergate. https://t.co/N9EOBdUfyk
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The same 18% voting Conservative?
https://x.com/Peston/status/2048859404791935051
He also said, when asked by Cathy Newman whether it was a problem that he had sacked so many of his top advisers and senior civil servants, “there are hundreds of thousands of civil servants.”
David Lammy confirms that there were “worries” about Peter Mandelson’s appointment at the time, telling me in an exclusive interview for @LBC that there was “a discussion within government” about it but “ultimately it was an appointment by Number 10” (though says he takes responsibility too).
Lammy also admits that there was “a pressure and a desire to have an ambassador in place” quickly but denies that this contradicts Keir Starmer telling Parliament last week that “no pressure existed whatsoever in relation to this case”.
Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout
Exclusive: Sources say chancellor is examining exceptional measures to protect household budgets
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/27/rachel-reeves-considering-rent-freeze-to-limit-iran-war-fallout
You can't lose the non-existent.
"...and so they've taken the nuclear codes away from you. Really that is pretty rum."
Fianna Fail are only on 19%, but the satisfaction rating for their leader is 35%. The satisfaction ratings for the leaders of all three of the largest parties are in the 30s.
Maybe there's something to be said for a preferential voting system encouraging politicians to build bridges across party divides.
- no insight
- no empathy
- not even a trace of humour
Yep, that's Keit all right.
https://edition.cnn.com/polling/approval/trump-polls
Charles: "You don't have to check with Mummy?"
(Rare picture of Chaz in a single-breasted suit.) Edit or is it just unbuttoned?
"My wife has told me to keep on blaming and sacking others."
He’s reached 47 MicroTrusses*
*The Truss is the SI unit for PM Looniness. Like the Farad, it’s uselessly large. Anything above 1 YoctoTruss is ravening insanity.
Going back to the last header, how long would Burnham's current relative popularity last if he became PM?
[Chris enters]
Sir Keith Starmer: Morning.
Nigel Lipman: Morning, Prime Minister.
Sir Keith Starmer: Sorry I'm late, there was a nest of leprechauns in the bread bin.”
...I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure...
https://x.com/gothburz/status/2048810382093922370
The goal. To make us wish for Truss to return.
Oliver Kamm
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This is a sure way of reducing the supply of private-sector rental accommodation and deterring landlords from repairing & refurbishing their properties
https://x.com/OliverKamm/status/2048863317679128913
Be careful what you wish for.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-determined-block-andy-burnham-election-zq0683kk6 (£££)
It seems like only yesterday there was an assumption of an agreed handover to the king of the north.
Everything else is bollocks.
Kevin Schofield
@KevinASchofield
Absolutely crackers
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🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering banning landlords from raising rent on private homes for a year due to the Iran War
[@guardian]
Which means the 'Oh Zack Polanski' sing-along will have to wait.
I let out my parent's house to cover care fees, they had about the same value of savings and I thought it would spread the risk. Even with no mortgage it's been a poor financial decision.
It's not clear whether they mean magasty as in majesty, or magasty as in pigsty.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15769543/Trump-Melania-greet-King-Charles-Queen-Camilla-White-House-security-worries-shadow-historic-meeting.html
At the bottom of our garden we back onto a small block of three maisonettes. One has been empty for literally the last ten years and now has ivy all over it.
Complete waste.
Every striking Birmingham bin worker 'to get £16,000 payout' but there's a catch
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/every-striking-birmingham-bin-worker-33847182
Sunday Times business says he thinks only the left hand side of inflation figure counts (so 2% rather than 2.3%) and his gut is that real inflation is 2.3% not whatever this week's figure is. 2% is the figure at which is target - so time to slash interest rates. And Don Locco wants this guy nominated.
Arrange your financial affairs as you see fit.
So I'll give the net figures there, together with Streeting, Burnham's and Miliband's also:
2024 Labour Starmer -13%, Rayner -6%, Streeting -16%, Burnham +31%, Miliband -5%
2024 Green Starmer -41%, Rayner -2%, Streeting -40%, Burnham +31%, Miliband -7%
2024 Lib Dem Starmer -26%, Rayner -23%, Streeting -9%, Burnham +25%, Miliband -16%
Clearly Burnham would initially at least transform Labour's polling amongst these three groups. But Rayner should also have a more limited positive effect because she's ahead of Starmer across all three groups. The same goes for Miliband. By contrast, it's not clear whether Streeting would overall attract these voters, because he's behind even Starmer amongst 2024 Labour voters which is by far the larger group of the three.
Incidentally, I'm quoting from the latest YouGov survey, asking whether people have positive or negative views/expectations of each as PM. You don't seem to be quoting from the same source.
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Internal_LabourLeadership_260422_w.pdf
BREAKING: The government will impose age or functionality restrictions on social media for children under 16, regardless of the outcome of its ongoing consultation, a move called "desperate" by Sky's @joncraig.
Still, he can probably try again once he gets his guy confirmed.
The lights are going out.
Will we see it again in our lifetimes?
The law does not give parties that option. The money must go back to the donor, not someone else regardless of how deserving you think that someone is. And I don't know why you think "I"" would have returned it to anyone. I am not the Conservative party, nor do I speak for them. I am simply pointing out the law.
Kevin Schofield
@KevinASchofield
Absolutely crackers
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🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering banning landlords from raising rent on private homes for a year due to the Iran War
[@guardian]
It is kind of irrelevant anyway. Once the new laws come in any tenants who don't want a rent increase can appeal at a cost of £47. Importantly the rent increase can't happen before the appeal is heard and doesn't get backdated to the intended increase date. If enough tenants appeal, and of course they will, the system will quickly backlog and £47 will be all the extra that those tenants have to pay for many months if not a couple of years until their rent appeal gets sorted.
Sadly, many tenants don't know their rights. I've had to guide several foreign students through disputing deposit deductions, almost invariably successfully.
Any morning when Russian oil refineries are on fire, is a good morning.
Today it’s Tuapse again, yes that’s the one they just put out after a week of destruction. There wasn’t much left of it after that, but it’s ablaze again.
https://x.com/bohuslavskakate/status/2048939991993028816
No longer...
Here’s House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calling for “Maximum warfare, all of the time” against his political opponents, and then doubling down yesterday after the events of the weekend.
https://x.com/nrcc/status/2048848755466653971
And here’s Jimmy KImmel, on late night TV last Thursday, saying “Mrs Trump, you have the glow of an expectant widow”.
https://x.com/libbyemmons/status/2048452196417655243
Announcing Talkie: a new, open-weight historical LLM! We trained and finetuned a 13B model on a newly-curated dataset of only pre-1930 data.
https://x.com/DavidDuvenaud/status/2048878066273861646
Not only a window into the past, but be really interesting from the whole AGI point of view can people prompt it / can it be further fine tuned to discover the leaps forward we have made in science over the past 100 years.
Looks like the Russians made a push somewhere - probably thinking bad weather would stop the drones from flying.
It didn't.
Perhaps a timed announcement to flood the zone.
https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/labour-senior-says-rent-caps-are-a-possibility-in-england
https://x.com/flightemergency/status/2048836599354474889
This does appear to be mostly a British problem, people are getting pissed up at airports or drinking their duty free on board.
Airlines have started to launch civil cases against disruptive passengers, the cost of a diversion will be several thousand pounds, and into the tens of thousands if they have to put up passengers overnight.
https://x.com/katerynalis/status/2048851475506323725
The Conservatives really need to get this into their heads. Our housing stock has increased significantly over the last 30 years - but the number being rented has grown faster. They are distinct problems.
“Own your own home - not someone else’s” needs to be Badenoch’s mantra if she wants 40% rather than 10%.
But Antalya airport is one of the most expensive ones on earth so I can imagine someone opening up the duty free rather than paying for a coffee at costa with a second mortgage.
Previous landlord says, ‘refused to pay rent increase.’
Tenant is declined.
Not difficult to see how that could work.