Restore set to hand Andy Burnham victory in Makerfield new poll shows – politicalbetting.com
Restore set to hand Andy Burnham victory in Makerfield new poll shows – politicalbetting.com
As I’ve thought for a while Restore could hand victory to Andy Bunrham, I think there may be value in backing Reform here however there are a similar number of Green & Lib Dem voters for Burnham to squeeze.
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If it's just a protest vote, Restore is an equally good option...
(I could probably name a maximum of about 15-20 individuals who have been Chairmen of a football club, and he'd have been one of them.)
I don't think he was particularly well-liked at the time, but compared to the state of the club now...
It hadn't crossed their minds some voters were just being polite, I wonder if Restore are making the same mistake.
Down in the Isle of Dogs, a fortnight ago, I knew Peter Golds would get re-elected, because there was real enthusiasm on the doorstep, and people talking about his record as a councillor.
Breakfast clubs just don’t cut it.
I can remember one of the staff addressed the lady I was spending my break with as 'Mrs Eagles' and I said 'Oh she's not my wife' I could feel the moral outrage that we were about to sin in their hotel.
1. From Taz: “Is your wine going to be commercially available?”
Yes, in about a year. I’m drinking the still wine now (it’s pretty decent) but the commercial stuff will be English Sparkling.
2. Vineyard bbq photo because it’s been a shit 2 weeks with major losses due to late frost, but now things are starting to recover
In a way, it's a shame that there's so much Andy Baggage associated with this by-election. Personally, I'd really like to see what happens when the realistic local choice boils down to Labour vs. Reform.
Elon Musk thinks I am the target audience for remigration talk.
It would be so funny if he loses.
When I first came to Vilnius 10 years ago, when you walked into a pub, you would be greeted in Russian. That doesn't happen any more, and the colonial past has now been largely erased.
Rayner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0BzhZ6Twg
Tuesday May 5, La Porge to Biganos - 23.2 miles
I didn’t plan the day well; I set off with just a small bottle of water for refreshment, and didn’t get to an open shop and bar until I reached Andernos-Les-Bains. I thirstily downed a large IPA at the first bar I saw
I haven’t mentioned IPA yet. Almost every bar I went to had an IPA, mostly local and pretty decent. And they call it eye-pee-ay like us, not ee-pay-ah like I’d expect a French person to. Ale has arrived in France
I also stocked up with beer and water for the rest of the day’s walk. By booking time, Biganos looked in range. I reserved a little cabin with a kitchen and decided to cook for myself again
On the way into Biganos I stopped in a supermarket and bought smoked trout, shallots, a bunch of sorrel, crème fraiche, pasta, butter and a bottle of white
I need to grow sorrel; that sauce was delicious. I made far too much, but ate all of it. My gut was visibly distended
Or indeed like Gloucestershire’s batting.
This is also the second T20 match in successive evenings I’ve watched being played in a half empty ground. This is not great for cricket.
Like I say, not great for cricket.
The ECB ought really to be answerable to county members or at least county boards because at the moment it seems they answer to nobody at all.
And it shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzbMRN2Ahx8
The thing to worry about is not that under-16s might hack their way round a ban, but that implementing a ban will need adults to verify their ages, and there will also be limits on VPNs to stop under-16s using them to bypass the social media ban.
Lowe believes Farage was willing to put him in jail
The private-school past of Green MSP who ‘grew up starving’
Q Manivannan attended an expensive school and university in India before campaigning to be voice for the ‘working class and marginalised’ at Holyrood
A newly elected Scottish Green politician who claimed to be from a disadvantaged background in India in fact had a privileged upbringing, including attending an exclusive private school, it can be revealed.
Q Manivannan became a Holyrood MSP this month despite being on a student visa, meaning the politician may be forced to leave the country before the term ends.
Before being elected, Manivannan, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them, told party members that as a “queer Tamil immigrant” they would be a voice for the “working class and marginalised”.
On the campaign trail, Manivannan claimed a disadvantaged, “lower caste” background, implying that they were among the most marginalised groups in Indian society, and said at times that they were “hungry because I was starved”.
Shortly before being elected MSP for Edinburgh & Lothians East, Manivannan also claimed “[I had] saved and worked and lied and begged” to get a PhD, from the University of St Andrews, while loved ones back home faced the “full force of digital, infrastructural, carceral, and affective violence in India”.
However, an investigation by The Sunday Times has found that Manivannan comes from an upper middle-class household in Chennai, one of India’s wealthiest, most cosmopolitan cities. Although the Scottish Greens want to ban private schooling, Manivannan attended both private high school and university, and went on to run a subsidiary of an Indian business that coaches the children of the super-rich to access the world’s elite institutions.
Manivannan claimed to have been descended from “courtesans, dancers, musicians, hunters, and prostitutes”, but the MSP’s family has in fact held professional, high-status roles for at least two generations.
The politician’s father, Manivannan Dasarathi, a tennis champion in his youth, has degrees in chemical engineering and business administration. His public profile says he has “43 years [of] industrial experience in government and private sectors in senior management positions”, including running his own advisory firm since 2004.
Manivannan’s paternal grandmother ran a medical clinic, the MSP revealed in a blog. Manivannan’s mother, Rajachitra Manivannan, has a successful career in academia and the family’s maternal grandmother was a trailblazing gynaecologist who built a hospital in the town of Tirupattur, according to an online interview with Q Manivannan’s sister. It is understood that their parents are now retired.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/q-manivannan-greens-india-private-school-visa-j7j0357v9
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2058121589808390440
#justkiddin'
I made good progress, even though hindered by my phone map app trying to guide me through privately owned parts of the forest. I had to walk quite a long way, about two miles more than expected, right next to a fast, but thankfully not too busy, road
I played a lot of loud music and marched on. I booked into a hotel called Rest In Born in Parentis-en-Born. It was another quite dated, but still nice hotel
The owner was a lovely guy who I had a beer with, and a coffee in the morning, with a good conversation about his business, my walk, and where I should eat
He highly recommended the restaurant that I’d picked out. According to TripAdvisor it had had a Michelin star; I wasn’t worried whether it still did
I had delicious smoked sturgeon with lightly baked asparagus, raw mushrooms and a savoury ice cream to start. I couldn’t work out what was in the ice cream but it all worked superbly together
The main was slow cooked, shredded duck breast, in a sumptuous sauce, wrapped in baby cabbage leaves, with foie gras on top
I could have walked further today, I had good walking weather, enough water, beer and nuts, and plenty of energy. But I wanted to sleep in Bias
I found an apartment at a farmhouse and arrived at about four. I met the hosts, Richard and Gwenola, and was shown around their smallholding
Then Richard gave me a beer, and we had a good chat. Then Gwenola brought me eggs, and Richard gave me directions to the shop, where I bought bread, crème fraiche, cheese and sliced saucisson sec
I made a French toast pizza. I baked the bread a little to dry it so that it would soak up the egg and crème fraiche mix better. Then I fried it briefly in butter
I then topped it with more crème fraiche, cheese and the saucisson, and put it in the oven to bake. I went outside and Richard was there having a smelly smoke
He invited me to join him, and I thought it would be rude not to. We then, by his direction, had a rather political discussion. He was quite a lefty. He’d definitely never vote Le Pen
He knew about the small boats crossing the channel, but couldn’t believe that we put all of the arrivals in hotels. He told me that their police would beat them up, and even as a lefty thought that that was more sensible than hotels
Cameron 331 seats
Miliband 232 seats
Basically as well as being a vehicle for Lowe’s vendetta against Farage they are a party of Tommy Robinson lovers and white nationalists as you say
And yes, not only have the French discovered IPA but their version is generally more palatable and less over-hopped than the American style examples we tend to get here.
Question: To what extent is the Restore voting figure a result of name confusion between Reform and Restore? And will this be a factor in the polling booth?
And what supremacy! The intellectual brilliance of their fine people is a sight to behold
∙ And of course
But we are slowly achieving the Labour version of Brexit that I voted for.
Kate Ferguson
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EXCL: Andy Burnham rents out a £480,000 London flat which he bought partly using taxpayers’ cash – leaving him quids in.
His second home has doubled in value since he bought it 20 years ago, according to market experts.
Full story:
https://x.com/kateferguson4/status/2058265016457973812
Aside from being very useful info for future campaigning and elections, it is also a safeguard against fraud, since knowing who voted and who didn’t can be compared with canvass returns of people reported as having died, moved away etc, to see if there are any irregularities.
Any councillor with a copy of the marked register will be familiar with the smile you can’t avoid when someone phones or emails with casework and assures that they voted for you (not that it should matter, for doing casework) and you can see from your data that they didn’t vote at all.
He also said he would delay any formal Labour leadership challenge until after Andy Burnham fought the Makerfield by-election.
The Ilford North MP said he would be accused of "trying to pull a fast one" if he were to trigger a contest before Mr Burnham had the chance to re-enter Parliament.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/wes-streeting-reveals-when-he-will-trigger-his-labour-leadership-bid/ar-AA23PFiz?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=b7d2fce9adff4605a59c9225f6c543dd&ei=5