In Wales Reform are as loved as an English rugby union fan – politicalbetting.com
In Wales Reform are as loved as an English rugby union fan – politicalbetting.com
Reform UK are the party Welsh people are most likely to not want to see as part of the next Welsh governmentWould like to see in govtPC: 35%Ref: 23%Grn: 23%Lab: 15%Con: 13%LD: 11%Would not like to see in govtRef: 49%Con: 39%Lab: 37%Grn: 28%PC: 22%LD: 18%yougov.com/en-gb/articl…
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It was almost a thing once wasn't it?
Best to steer clear of Reform.
Win for Britain as Trump removes whisky tariffs
King had personally lobbied Trump for this, including back in Windsor.
Its a truly terrible time in our politics. I am 64 and I cannot remember a time like it. As a child we had Wilson, one of the youngest Oxford dons, a genuinely brilliant man. Healey, Roy Mason, even Foot, these were men of genuine talent, skills and passion. Thatcher's government was incredible by today's standards. Howe, Whitelaw, Carrington, Lawson, Pym, even Heseltine, a government of genuine talent. Blair and Brown, not my taste, especially the latter but gifted, Blair especially. The Coalition, Cameron, Osborne, Clegg. Serious people doing a serious job to the best of their ability.
No one is going to agree with everyone on that list and what they did, hell, I don't. But we had leadership and a sense of purpose. Now, in every party, we seem to have people whose primary goal is to be PM. Just for their own egos. With no idea what they want this country to be, how to improve the lives of those that live here, no clear plan at all. It's tragic.
The suspect in the Golders Green terror attack has been named as Essa Suleiman, a Somali-born British man who was jailed for stabbing a police officer and his dog.
Suleiman, 45, who arrived in the UK as a child, was arrested on Wednesday after two Jewish men were stabbed in an alleged anti-Semitic terror attack.
Both victims were recovering in hospital as Suleiman continued to be questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.
In 2008, Suleiman was jailed indefinitely following a violent altercation in Swindon in which he stabbed Pc Neil Sampson.
The officer had been responding to reports of a knife incident at a property in the Wiltshire town when he was attacked by Suleiman, who was 27 at the time.
Pc Sampson required five months off work after he was repeatedly stabbed in the head, face and leg with what was believed to be a bread knife. His dog, Anya, was also knifed in the chest, Swindon Crown Court heard.
The judge at his trial handed Suleiman an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence and recommended he only be released when he was no longer considered a risk to the public.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/exclusive-golders-green-suspect-was-jailed-for-stabbing-policeman-and-dog/ar-AA2266O4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=69f3a294e8f648f09f1dbb05815f9a48&ei=30
Fxck him and fxck his cesspit administration,
And the electorate is so volatile that the 2024 result bears little to no relation to current support.
As for Reform, they've put up candidates in every ward, but few people know who they actually are. They've almost all refused to engage with local media, returning "no response received" statements in the local newpaper and news websites analysis of each ward, and the leaflets coming through our doors are national Nigel Farage mailshots with nothing about our local patch or who the candidate is, whatsoever.
Inside Croydon reports on how Keir Starmer's niece is standing for election to Croydon Council, in a ward she ought to win
But without the score subtitles...Strange.
As the Tory councillor said at tonight's meeting, the first Reform councillor elected on the island actually lived in the Midlands, and used his girlfriend's father's holiday home address to stand as a candidate in the by-election, which he won, and after a few months of not attending any meetings, promptly resigned. Only for a new Reform candidate to win again. The second Reform councillor elected was a woman who, somehow, managed to persuade the council's legal officers not to disclose the properties she owned on the island within her declaration of interests; when these were eventually revealed, after a sustained councillor and local campaign, it turned out she was a slum landlord awash with complaints from her tenants, and Farage threw her out of Reform. Then, somehow, her Reform membership was restored but she didn't team up with the first Reform councillor to form a group. Now, despite still being a Reform member, she's re-standing in her ward facing an official Reform opponent.
* With thanks to Whispering Ted Lowe.
Confused? You will be.
I think this mostly down to the complete neutering of local government over the years. It is just statuary duties and silly stunts.
The irony is that our Conservative councillor attribued all this political dysfunction to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, perhaps forgetting that it was his party that thrust that upon us and that, for the duration of that campaign, his family business had been bedecked with red leave campaign posters and flags, since when I've not shopped there since.
Though quite why the representatives of the mainstream are so poor, I really can't explain.
How far has our politics sunk?
But in practice it's almost impossible to prove that someone isn't a possible threat to the public, particularly when they have a track record sufficient to see them convicted and imprisoned. So, instead of the sentence encouraging the prisoners to redeem themselves, you had increasing numbers in indefinite detention with no hope of ever being released.
We'll find out more about this individual's history in time, and maybe he was safe when he was released, but for whatever reason that didn't last. How do you predict whether someone might be violent a decade or so in the future?
We also have the Workers Party which turns out to be Galloway's latest mob. Their second placed candidate says (and I quote) "Conscription is coming in Scotland. There will be conscription riots. In Scottish schools we need to be teaching Scottish history. We will stand again against the conscription of our people for a UK war." No, me neither.
Says here that he was referred to Prevent in 2020... given his previous crime, I doubt he should have been free to roam the streets yesterday
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/golders-green-terror-attack-london-suspect-essa-suleiman-b2968175.html
More tonight at 7pm.
https://x.com/channel4news/status/2049908435882291324?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I know that Wales counts on Friday, but does any one know when Scotland counts?
(I know the wags amongst you will say they've never counted...)
It doesn't get any better than that.
I'm planning to conduct a D'Hondt count by combining the votes across the two Bingley wards to see how the six council seats would have been shared out under a superior system to First Three Past the Post.
And whatever the problems with the NHS, it's hard to imagine that an alternative model will do a better job of serving people who can't possibly pay their way or articulately lobby for better treatment or form a sufficient voting bloc that politicians cower at their power.
Go on, you know you want to.
Is this true and if so is Bridget Phillipson totally fucking insane?
‘‘nothing to see here’
What are people's thoughts about that?
https://www.nasuwt.org.uk/article-listing/academy-plan-fragmentation-divert-money.html
I cannot imagine that they would have written in quite these terms of somebody was not at least flying a kite and they were trying to force a denial.
I very much hope either they are wrong or this action forestalls it. Whatever the rights and wrongs of academies academy chains - well, autocorrect made them ‘scammed chains’ and I wouldn’t say it was wrong.
Although if it’s Irish citizens voting as expats it may be OK.
Rhun ap Iorwerth has stated he will run a minority government if necessary and certainly he is not going to have a formal coalition with labour
Come on Wu.
It’s like watching a young Alex Higgins with even less caution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxplq92rx1o
'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs
https://educationuncovered.co.uk/news/all-schools-in-england-to-become-academies-dfe-appears-to-confirm
So it does have an air of making a bit of a territorial claim about it. A bit of Irish unity by stealth, perhaps?
But then it's a very normal thing for emigrant citizens of many countries to vote in elections. Though many Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will never have been resident in the Republic. So they're not really emigrants as such.
Edit: my wife has suggested it might encourage unionists in NI to adopt Irish citizenship in order to vote for a more Unionist-friendly President - it might have helped Heather Humphreys in the last election if they did. I know some unionist politicians have an Irish passport for the ease of travelling in the EU.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-white-paper-the-key-schools-policies/
3. Standalone trusts ‘challenged’ to defragment system
The government wants all schools to join or form trusts. Councils and local area partnerships will also be given the power to launch their own chains.
To help manage potential conflicts of interest, restrictions on local authority involvement in the day-to-day running of their trusts will be introduced.
Pointing to the number of single-academy trusts in deficit, the document posed a “challenge to our best standalone schools” to partner with others and make the system less fragmented.
"Wants" isn't the same as "forced to", and has been department policy for a while, hasn't it- possibly back to the days of NiMo? Free-standing state schools only works if you ignore the capacity for management in the system and oversight in the government.
It may have been policy for a while - heck, it was policy under the last lot - but it’s still a bloody fool idea.
I was hoping that one positive of the silliness of most of Labour’s ideas about education was that at least we would get rid of academy chains.
https://x.com/memorialdevice/status/2049897322130063834?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
What an utter pile of cliche ridden drivel. More divorced from reality than Donald Trump.
Just to take the most obvious, to recruit more teachers they’re expanding Teach First? Seriously? The training programme with by far the worst retention rate and the worst quality outcomes of all?
Where do we as a nation find these utter twats?
Still. A constant flow of callow idealists who last three or four years before the inevitable breakdown is easier than dealing with gnarly veterans who have the confidence to circumvent or outright ignore the torrents of BS out of the DfE.
Damn sight cheaper, too.
Now the fact that the treatment seems to be keeping the cancer at bay is good. But this is the first time I've been told the disease is in my lungs, as well as breast, spine, pelvis & ribs. The oncologist's correspondence has never mentioned it. It's news to me. So what else has been kept from me? Or is it just one clinic not talking to the other?
Also the scans from the hospital are not shared with the GP if they are more than 3 months old. Why not? On Tuesday I get to hear the result of the hip X-ray to see what's causing the pain making it hard for me to walk. I am bracing myself for more unexpected/bad/what the fuck does this mean now news.
Meanwhile the nice lady registrar did tell me how important it was to avoid infection. Which I know. I did point out that I survived the Covid years without catching it & have not in fact had a cold, sore throat or flu in years. A fat lot of good that has done me.
I am finding this all hard to process. The weather is gorgeous - like last year - so it feels unreal that something bad is happening to me. The debates on here seem pointless. There are no elections where I live. As for Wales I feel about it much as Sir Thomas More did in his comment to Richie Rich in A Man For All Seasons.
As for what is happening to Jews in this country, it is beyond depressing. Too many on here seem unable to condemn what is being done to our fellow citizens here without a lot of whtaboutery. There is a lot of bad faith commentary which suggests that many still feel that Jews have to justify why they should not be attacked or made to feel unsafe. They don't. That this should need saying is evidence to me of a latent sort of unconscious anti-semitism which somehow does not see Jews as fully belonging. It is repellent. Starmer's speech was pretty good but far too late. Real effective action now needs to follow. The advice of the anti-terrorism tsar, Jonathan Hall KC, should be listened to -
This is, IMO, true. And has been true from the start. If you organise a march in favour of those carrying out a massacre while they are still doing it (the first pro-Palestine March was organised on the afternoon of 7 October) you are not a good faith actor in any sense.
FWIW the Golders Green attack was being discussed by two people in the waiting room & they were pretty angry at the criticisms being made of the police as they were trying to disarm the attacker.
At any event, I am taking a break for a bit. It's all too much.
Maybe a regiment by the standards of the modern Russian army.
She is however huge from Outlander. All 8 series of it.