Problem pretty well anywhere in the Home Counties I would think. Listened to an angry exchange with a motorist the other day in outr local station, who’d put his money in the machine, then couldn’t find a space. The booking office guy was polite but firm; nothing to do with him.
It would be useful to know what guidance football clubs give to their players about keeping out of trouble. It constantly amazes me that young fit rich men with a lot of free time in the public eye don't get into more trouble with the opposite sex than they do.
In the premier league they certainly do. They have 'life coaches', financial advisors, drug and alcohol councellors etc. and the young players have an experienced team mate as a mentor. It's also drummed into them that they are expected to be role models and appearances in newspapers are to be on the back pages only. Without that support I imagine far more would succumb to easy temptations as you say.
Well worth while. I have had some very interesting stories from someone on the inside. There are some horrific stories - players being given career-threatening beatings for their gambling debts. And not just the youngsters. Some big, well-established internationals have had massive gambling debts.
If there is a head-scratching eh?? in the transfer market, it often has the need to get a big signing on bonus to pay off a debt behind it....
Baroness Linklater retired (only aged 72). So that's the LDs down two Peers in two days - Shirley Williams officially retired yesterday.
Linklater took part in some key votes recently - voting in both the Govt defeat on the Trade Union Bill and in one of the Govt defeats on the Work & Pensions Bill.
Sunday is a great and fear-inducing betting opportunity - bet on spurs, england cricket to both lose & then to really show the curse when event days co-incide there's also england rugby to lose
Then Arsenal and Leicester to win... albeit that is a stretch even for a world weary spurs fan.
Raising the age of consent to 18 is like raising the legal breathing age from 0 to 2.
People have sex under 16 too. Question is where right line is to stop exploitation of young by the old.
Its less in lots of EU countries, or at least they have exception for significantly younger people if there are no aggravating factors, for example Germany:
The age of consent in Germany is 14, as long as a person over the age of 21 does not exploit a 14- to 15-year-old person's lack of capacity for sexual self-determination, in which case a conviction of an individual over the age of 21 requires a complaint from the younger individual; being over 21 and engaging in sexual relations with a minor of that age does not constitute an offense by itself. Otherwise the age of consent is 16, although provisions protecting minors against abuse apply until the age of 18 (under Section 182(1), it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with a person under 18 "by taking advantage of an exploitative situation"
You'll often find that a young teen might think it exciting and grown up at the time, but finds it messes with them down the line. At end of the day they are a child not used to how such things can scar them. One thing for teens to be experimenting with each other, but quite another when its an older person taking advantage of their naivety.
Also had friends at school who used legal age of consent as a reason to turn down pressure from their boyfriends when they werent ready.
Sounds like Stacey Flounders has found her self respect and left him all alone in the courtroom. Cheating on her when she was 8 months pregnant, really Adam !
Don't know how prevalent they were but in Newcastle we had The Pink, a newsheet with results on a Saturday PM with results distributed by hand round the pubs.
Mr. T/Mr. Sandpit, that may be the way things go. There'll never be zero interest in print news, but it might be the case that circulation drops below a sustainable level. Maybe we'll end up going German/American, and have big city focused print newspapers.
Yes, and I see @SeanT made a similar point. The various Metros, Standard and MEN seem still to be popular, the distribution costs are much smaller if they only have to travel 20 miles from the presses.
It always fascinated me when younger that one could for example watch a football match of an evening and go to bed at 10pm, then wake up in the morning to a report of the match, written, printed and delivered to the door, before the existence of the Internet.
I started my career on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and producing the pink'n on a Saturday evening was an amazing activity. This was late 60's without computers using traditional printing presses. We got it onto the streets by 5.30pm on a Saturday night 45 minutes after the matches ended. Things like the updated league tables had to be worked out, set and printed within a few minutes.
That's a great story Mike.
Amazing to see the change in technology from there to blogs and crowdsourcing live scores apps in one man's working lifetime.
My Grandfather, father and various uncles were all newspaper men; typesetters, printers and distribution. I looked at it briefly after I left uni in the middle of an Oil crash (so no work for geologists anywhere). Decided against it and worked a couple of years building roads and blowing things up for a living.
My father was a distribution rep for the FT. There were about 15 or so of them around the country. In 1993 when my Dad was 51, one of his colleagues went to the management at the FT and suggested they sack all the reps except him, hire in graduates to do the job at half the price and he would train them all up. The FT decided this was a great idea and sacked all the other reps including my old man. They legally had to pay them a weeks wages for every year they had worked but said if they didn't make a fuss they would pay them a month for every year. The union shop steward (they were all union men) said take it as the GPM Union wasn't interested in fighting for them.
Mr. Die, that's a fair point. The right age will vary wildly. Too high an age of consent, and it becomes ignored. Too low, and people may engage in things before they're ready.
[Of course, that's without considering asexual people, those who are highly religious and want to wait for marriage, and so on].
It would be useful to know what guidance football clubs give to their players about keeping out of trouble. It constantly amazes me that young fit rich men with a lot of free time in the public eye don't get into more trouble with the opposite sex than they do.
In the premier league they certainly do. They have 'life coaches', financial advisors, drug and alcohol councellors etc. and the young players have an experienced team mate as a mentor. It's also drummed into them that they are expected to be role models and appearances in newspapers are to be on the back pages only. Without that support I imagine far more would succumb to easy temptations as you say.
Well worth while. I have had some very interesting stories from someone on the inside. There are some horrific stories - players being given career-threatening beatings for their gambling debts. And not just the youngsters. Some big, well-established internationals have had massive gambling debts.
If there is a head-scratching eh?? in the transfer market, it often has the need to get a big signing on bonus to pay off a debt behind it....
Etherington at Stoke was a bit of an obvious one!!!
Raising the age of consent to 18 is like raising the legal breathing age from 0 to 2.
People have sex under 16 too. Question is where right line is to stop exploitation of young by the old.
Its less in lots of EU countries, or at least they have exception for significantly younger people if there are no aggravating factors, for example Germany:
The age of consent in Germany is 14, as long as a person over the age of 21 does not exploit a 14- to 15-year-old person's lack of capacity for sexual self-determination, in which case a conviction of an individual over the age of 21 requires a complaint from the younger individual; being over 21 and engaging in sexual relations with a minor of that age does not constitute an offense by itself. Otherwise the age of consent is 16, although provisions protecting minors against abuse apply until the age of 18 (under Section 182(1), it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with a person under 18 "by taking advantage of an exploitative situation"
See. That's a very sensible German law. They are less hung up about these matters than us.
In Japan, IIRC, the rule is that someone not at school cannot have sex with someone who is at school.
It would be useful to know what guidance football clubs give to their players about keeping out of trouble. It constantly amazes me that young fit rich men with a lot of free time in the public eye don't get into more trouble with the opposite sex than they do.
In the premier league they certainly do. They have 'life coaches', financial advisors, drug and alcohol councellors etc. and the young players have an experienced team mate as a mentor. It's also drummed into them that they are expected to be role models and appearances in newspapers are to be on the back pages only. Without that support I imagine far more would succumb to easy temptations as you say.
Well worth while. I have had some very interesting stories from someone on the inside. There are some horrific stories - players being given career-threatening beatings for their gambling debts. And not just the youngsters. Some big, well-established internationals have had massive gambling debts.
If there is a head-scratching eh?? in the transfer market, it often has the need to get a big signing on bonus to pay off a debt behind it....
Etherington at Stoke was a bit of an obvious one!!!
Mr. Tyndall, have you told that story before? I'm sure I've heard it somewhere.
Nope. Never told it whilst my Dad was alive. His health suffered very badly after he lost his job. He was one of those who felt that if you didn't have a career/trade and couldn't support your family then you were somehow a lesser man.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
Man: some of those tweets at the end are pretty disturbing
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think.
Weirdos on the extremes of a political grouping send nasty messages to reporters that are rude about their candidate.. this can't have come as that much of a shock to him after the CyberNats, the CyberKippers and the CyberCorbynites... its would be rather more honest, and completely understandable, to say he can't stand Trump, which is the real message that resonates from the article.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
That's the problem with those trying to stop Trump, he's not a conservative purist and neither are the voters, the messengers don't help either.
People who have little credibility are barfing things like "don't vote Trump, he's not right wing enough" to an audience that doesn't care, or finds the accusation silly when the same people attacked Trump for being too right wing in the past.
So far Trump has found the sweet spot of being conservative and moderate enough on the right issues with the GOP voters.
The word "cuckservative", by the way, is interesting. It blends political commentary with porn lingo, combining "cuckold" with "conservative". It essentially means a politician with a sexual fetish for non-whites. The extremes of Trumpism are a Freudian nightmare.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
Man: some of those tweets at the end are pretty disturbing
People who have little credibility are barfing things like "don't vote Trump, he's not right wing enough" to an audience that doesn't care, or finds the accusation silly when the same people attacked Trump for being too right wing in the past.
I thought the demographic that Trump catered to was largely the terminally pissed off, the "inchoate rage vote" so to speak, so it's not a huge surprise that they are incontinent on social media.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think.
Weirdos on the extremes of a political grouping send nasty messages to reporters that are rude about their candidate.. this can't have come as that much of a shock to him after the CyberNats, the CyberKippers and the CyberCorbynites... its would be rather more honest, and completely understandable, to say he can't stand Trump, which is the real message that resonates from the article.
As a Friday evening aside, I went to see Public Service Broadcasting at Rock City in Nottingham last night. Possibly one of the best concerts I have ever been to.
The use of old film and soundtrack immortalising great achievements of man over the last century combined with modern electronic music and some excellent guitar and horns is so amazingly uplifting and positive that you leave the concert feeling that we can do anything at all if we only set our minds to it. The timing in the piseces and the way in which the music is set to the events is just brilliant. No matter what your normal taste in music I would hugely recommend it.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
Man: some of those tweets at the end are pretty disturbing
Trying to do a political analysis using tweets is not the right idea, you can find tons of absurd and offensive things on facebook and twitter everyday. That's why I ignore the twitter fanatics.
But who, exactly, will be voting for him? That’s more complicated than you might think. Republican electorates are parodied as poor white trash. This is inaccurate. Take New Hampshire (admittedly an unusually secular state), where the average voter in the GOP primary was college educated, non-evangelical, well paid and over 45.
It’s interesting to note that while Trump won among all demographic groups, he also attracted a significant number of non-Republicans or first-time-voters into the primary.
They, frankly, matched that ugly cliché of Republicanism far better than normal Republicans do – they tended to be less-well paid and only high-school educated. But they also regard themselves as less “conservative” than you might expect. Trump won 32 per cent of those who described themselves as “moderate.” Donald Trump. Not a name you associate with moderation.
That's the problem with those trying to stop Trump, he's not a conservative purist and neither are the voters, the messengers don't help either.
People who have little credibility are barfing things like "don't vote Trump, he's not right wing enough" to an audience that doesn't care, or finds the accusation silly when the same people attacked Trump for being too right wing in the past.
So far Trump has found the sweet spot of being conservative and moderate enough on the right issues with the GOP voters.
Mr. Die, that's a fair point. The right age will vary wildly. Too high an age of consent, and it becomes ignored. Too low, and people may engage in things before they're ready.
[Of course, that's without considering asexual people, those who are highly religious and want to wait for marriage, and so on].
The question is not just about having sex but about having babies. It might be fine for two 14 year olds to have sex but cause all sorts of problems for two 15 year olds to become parents.
That will go down as well as the Guardian's attempted intervention in the US election not so long ago. If the PM thinks this will help Remain he's seriously close to losing the plot.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of a leadership challenge to the PM BEFORE the referendum? There must have been a few letters sent to the 1922 Chairman in the past fortnight.
American president tries to interfere in British referendum - what could possibly go wrong! If he comes off even the tiniest bit patronising, people are going to react against his message in droves.
That will go down as well as the Guardian's attempted intervention in the US election not so long ago. If the PM thinks this will help Remain he's seriously close to losing the plot.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of a leadership challenge to the PM BEFORE the referendum? There must have been a few letters sent to the 1922 Chairman in the past fortnight.
Don't be silly. Of course it is significant that the US think we should stay in (not that this is a surprise, of course). It will be part of a very broad message from many different sources that it's too risky to leave. As I have been saying for years, the Leave side shouldn't underestimate the difficulties of persuading people otherwise, against such a wide consensus. (I don't think the more sensible Leavers do underestimate this, to be fair).
That will go down as well as the Guardian's attempted intervention in the US election not so long ago. If the PM thinks this will help Remain he's seriously close to losing the plot.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of a leadership challenge to the PM BEFORE the referendum? There must have been a few letters sent to the 1922 Chairman in the past fortnight.
Not a chance for a leadership challenge. However the shift inside the conservative party base against Cameron and in favour of Brexit will put pressure on leadership hopefuls to tilt to Leave.
Afterall if Fox moved to the top of Tory members preference for next leader solely because he came out for Leave, means that if one wants to succeed Cameron one has to prove his euroskeptic credentials by backing Leave.
RUBIO RISING ...the real message to come out of Iowa is the rise of Marco Rubio ..in the next seven days before NH he is sure to get a blaze of endorsements from big donors like Sheldon Aldenson and big names like Romney and McCain ...it's not over yet but the writing is clearly on the wall for anyone paying attention
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT …
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT …
At current rate his London mayor predictions will be equally quotable.
RUBIO RISING ...the real message to come out of Iowa is the rise of Marco Rubio ..in the next seven days before NH he is sure to get a blaze of endorsements from big donors like Sheldon Aldenson and big names like Romney and McCain ...it's not over yet but the writing is clearly on the wall for anyone paying attention
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT …
Who wrote that crap?
I know that after Iowa Rubio was the favourite, but that was too stupid.
Mr. Royale, I know stakes vary a lot here, but I wouldn't say 'only' £250!
I think I bet less than half that (combined) on Alonso/Maldonado to lead lap 1 of the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix [sticks in the mind because Hamilton was disqualified from his pole, so they started 1-2 but had odds of 6/1 to lead lap 1 until the bookies realised].
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT …
Did you forget to switch to your Cromwell account ?
RUBIO RISING ...the real message to come out of Iowa is the rise of Marco Rubio ..in the next seven days before NH he is sure to get a blaze of endorsements from big donors like Sheldon Aldenson and big names like Romney and McCain ...it's not over yet but the writing is clearly on the wall for anyone paying attention
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT …
Who wrote that crap?
I know that after Iowa Rubio was the favourite, but that was too stupid.
Cromwell. I have been quoting him extensively recently.
I'm looking at Google Trends again, Cruz has gone way up in interest in S.Carolina since yesterday, however that rise in interest is due to Ted Cruz+Amy Linsday (up by more than 1000%).
Who is Amy Linsday? Why the porn actress Cruz had in one if his S.Carolina attack ads against Rubio, Cruz was forced to pull the add due to the obvious danger to his evangelical message, but not before everyone found out.
I'm looking at Google Trends again, Cruz has gone way up in interest in S.Carolina since yesterday, however that rise in interest is due to Ted Cruz+Amy Linsday (up by more than 1000%).
Who is Amy Linsday? Why the porn actress Cruz had in one if his S.Carolina attack ads against Rubio, Cruz was forced to pull the add due to the obvious danger to his evangelical message, but not before everyone found out.
I've just gone balls deep and credit carded The Donald.
Be careful, there is still a debate tomorrow night, and you know that debates can destroy a campaign (Rubio).
That debate destroyed Rubio as a serious politician. He cannot even be the vice presidential nominee now. It's over for him.
The GOP Establishment are going to have to get behind someone soon, or else they'll watch Trump and Cruz come through the middle of a split vote in the winner takes all states. If not Rubio, then who, Kasitch or Bush?
It's the grooming and checking age of consent stuff that kills him.
I slept with 20yrs olds when I was 15 going on 16 and looked/acted 18. They couldn't be held responsible for me deliberately misleading them. And I would be horrified if they were.
"I will last ten seconds though...because it will be too good...you felt very turned on."
Feel very slightly sorry for him. Clearly he's guilty, should go down, etc, but the girl was eager, keen, and flirtatious. His career is probably finished thanks to the weakness of the flesh. There are many men who've done the same and gotten away with it - and women, too
It doesn't stand comparison with the pedo scandals we've seen elsewhere.
If he were a naive 18 year old footballer then we might agree. But he's 28 and should know a lot better. Put yourself in the position of the father of the girl and say you still feel any sorrow for him?
I'm not defending him, just remarking that men are weak when it comes to sex. Weak and foolish - but not necessarily evil, in all cases.
He isnt the first successful young man to do something silly with a besotted young fan, and surely won't be the last. See numerous sportsmen and entertainers over the last decades. He's still old enough to know is wrong though, and he doesn't have the Doug Richard defence that she said she was old enough. Probably looking at a few years, aggravated by the 'grooming' charge to which he already admitted.
Half your age plus 7 - the golden rule which should never be broken.
That was Tolstoy's prescription for the ideal age difference in marriage, not a lowest boundary of permissibility.
It works for me - keeps you on the right side of "pervy".
I'm crossing the line in to pervy right now, then. I'm 52 and my GF is 28.
Guilty as charged, M'Lud.
What first attracted her to a millionaire thriller writer?
We have had the last eight years with a President that doesn't like this country very much, Cameron thinks its smart to go on the record insulting one of the front runners just so we can have the same relationship for the next eight.
I'm looking at Google Trends again, Cruz has gone way up in interest in S.Carolina since yesterday, however that rise in interest is due to Ted Cruz+Amy Linsday (up by more than 1000%).
Who is Amy Linsday? Why the porn actress Cruz had in one if his S.Carolina attack ads against Rubio, Cruz was forced to pull the add due to the obvious danger to his evangelical message, but not before everyone found out.
Mr. Royale, I know stakes vary a lot here, but I wouldn't say 'only' £250!
I think I bet less than half that (combined) on Alonso/Maldonado to lead lap 1 of the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix [sticks in the mind because Hamilton was disqualified from his pole, so they started 1-2 but had odds of 6/1 to lead lap 1 until the bookies realised].
I've covered myself on Cruz too.
Basically, I don't think Bush, Rubio or Kasich will do it. It'll be Trump or Cruz now, and probably Trump.
I reckon 15% chance of Bush/Rubio/Kasich, 55% chance of Trump and 30% chance of Cruz.
He argues that Labour seats becoming more marginal is bad news for Labour. The opposite is true. When you're in second place and fighting to win, you want every vote you get to be working hard. Piling up large majorities is an utterly pointless use of votes.
Of course, if you're worried about going backwards, this is a problem.
We have had the last eight years with a President that doesn't like this country very much, Cameron thinks its smart to go on the record insulting one of the front runners just so we can have the same relationship for the next eight.
I'm looking at Google Trends again, Cruz has gone way up in interest in S.Carolina since yesterday, however that rise in interest is due to Ted Cruz+Amy Linsday (up by more than 1000%).
Who is Amy Linsday? Why the porn actress Cruz had in one if his S.Carolina attack ads against Rubio, Cruz was forced to pull the add due to the obvious danger to his evangelical message, but not before everyone found out.
Given the millions of dollars involved in the campaigns, do they not employ people to do things like google the actors proposed to be in their ads - before they spend even more money filming them..?
A good lawyer would have also ensured a watertight contract with the actress that she was responsible for not declaring anything so spectacularly obvious that it would get Mr Cruz in trouble.
He argues that Labour seats becoming more marginal is bad news for Labour. The opposite is true. When you're in second place and fighting to win, you want every vote you get to be working hard. Piling up large majorities is an utterly pointless use of votes.
Of course, if you're worried about going backwards, this is a problem.
Shouldn't they be worried? You need to have a firebreak somewhere, just in case.
We have had the last eight years with a President that doesn't like this country very much, Cameron thinks its smart to go on the record insulting one of the front runners just so we can have the same relationship for the next eight.
Pointless values signalling from Tulip, and Cameron went too far too.
It's only a race to the bottom with these sort of "me too" competitions.
We have had the last eight years with a President that doesn't like this country very much, Cameron thinks its smart to go on the record insulting one of the front runners just so we can have the same relationship for the next eight.
Some of us remember how he shafted BP.
Payback...
So the current 800lb gorilla stole our packed lunch, he is just heading off and we start thumbing our noses at the new 800lb gorilla just arriving... the second gorilla might feel like our packed lunch as well now.
I've just gone balls deep and credit carded The Donald.
Be careful, there is still a debate tomorrow night, and you know that debates can destroy a campaign (Rubio).
That debate destroyed Rubio as a serious politician. He cannot even be the vice presidential nominee now. It's over for him.
Agreed. His appearance in front of supporters following that debate when he earnestly screamed, "That will never happen again!" was possibly even worse. He seems to treat politics as an exam that he can keep retaking until he passes.
Mr. Royale, I know stakes vary a lot here, but I wouldn't say 'only' £250!
I think I bet less than half that (combined) on Alonso/Maldonado to lead lap 1 of the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix [sticks in the mind because Hamilton was disqualified from his pole, so they started 1-2 but had odds of 6/1 to lead lap 1 until the bookies realised].
I've covered myself on Cruz too.
Basically, I don't think Bush, Rubio or Kasich will do it. It'll be Trump or Cruz now, and probably Trump.
I reckon 15% chance of Bush/Rubio/Kasich, 55% chance of Trump and 30% chance of Cruz.
I don't think there's anything like a 30% chance of Cruz. He's not even going to carry all the states Santorum did.
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If there is a head-scratching eh?? in the transfer market, it often has the need to get a big signing on bonus to pay off a debt behind it....
Then Arsenal and Leicester to win... albeit that is a stretch even for a world weary spurs fan.
Also had friends at school who used legal age of consent as a reason to turn down pressure from their boyfriends when they werent ready.
My father was a distribution rep for the FT. There were about 15 or so of them around the country. In 1993 when my Dad was 51, one of his colleagues went to the management at the FT and suggested they sack all the reps except him, hire in graduates to do the job at half the price and he would train them all up. The FT decided this was a great idea and sacked all the other reps including my old man. They legally had to pay them a weeks wages for every year they had worked but said if they didn't make a fuss they would pay them a month for every year. The union shop steward (they were all union men) said take it as the GPM Union wasn't interested in fighting for them.
Not a big fan of the FT since then.
[Of course, that's without considering asexual people, those who are highly religious and want to wait for marriage, and so on].
In Japan, IIRC, the rule is that someone not at school cannot have sex with someone who is at school.
Tough on the married teachers
Trump 36 +4
Cruz 19 (not 20) +1 (not +2)
Rubio 15 +4
Bush 11 -2 (not -3)
Kasich 9 +7 (not +6)
Carson 5 -4
http://opinionsavvy.com/2016/02/12/latest-poll-trump-gains-in-south-carolina/
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/27/asia/japan-schoolgirl-cafes-jk/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12154115/Donald-Trump-is-not-a-conservative.-Neither-are-those-racists-who-support-him.html
Sorry to hear about that happening to him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35555989
LD 582 ( 53.0% ) plus 13.1%
Con 315 ( 28.7% ) minus 6.4%
UKIP 115 ( 10.5% ) minus 4.9%
Lab 58 ( 5.3% ) minus 4.3%
Green 28 ( 2.5% ) plus 2.5%
Just seen this - well done the Greens!!
People who have little credibility are barfing things like "don't vote Trump, he's not right wing enough" to an audience that doesn't care, or finds the accusation silly when the same people attacked Trump for being too right wing in the past.
So far Trump has found the sweet spot of being conservative and moderate enough on the right issues with the GOP voters.
US president plans ‘big reach out’ in attempt to persuade British voters to stay in the EU, as fears grow in Washington that Cameron could lose
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/12/barack-obama-plans-eu-referendum-intervention
The use of old film and soundtrack immortalising great achievements of man over the last century combined with modern electronic music and some excellent guitar and horns is so amazingly uplifting and positive that you leave the concert feeling that we can do anything at all if we only set our minds to it. The timing in the piseces and the way in which the music is set to the events is just brilliant. No matter what your normal taste in music I would hugely recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfzEm3CWU
Trying to do a political analysis using tweets is not the right idea, you can find tons of absurd and offensive things on facebook and twitter everyday.
That's why I ignore the twitter fanatics.
People who have little credibility are barfing things like "don't vote Trump, he's not right wing enough" to an audience that doesn't care, or finds the accusation silly when the same people attacked Trump for being too right wing in the past.
So far Trump has found the sweet spot of being conservative and moderate enough on the right issues with the GOP voters.
Sorry, I seemed to be channeling the spirit of Cromwell there.
Has anyone thought about the possibility of a leadership challenge to the PM BEFORE the referendum? There must have been a few letters sent to the 1922 Chairman in the past fortnight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33647154
As for your second point: LOL!
Mr. Herdson, a good point I'd forgotten about
However the shift inside the conservative party base against Cameron and in favour of Brexit will put pressure on leadership hopefuls to tilt to Leave.
Afterall if Fox moved to the top of Tory members preference for next leader solely because he came out for Leave, means that if one wants to succeed Cameron one has to prove his euroskeptic credentials by backing Leave.
I know that after Iowa Rubio was the favourite, but that was too stupid.
I think I bet less than half that (combined) on Alonso/Maldonado to lead lap 1 of the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix [sticks in the mind because Hamilton was disqualified from his pole, so they started 1-2 but had odds of 6/1 to lead lap 1 until the bookies realised].
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#geo=US-SC&date=now+1-d&cmpt=q&q=/m/0cqt90,+/m/07j6ty,+/m/0dpr5f,+/m/02zzm_,+/m/019x9z
Who is Amy Linsday?
Why the porn actress Cruz had in one if his S.Carolina attack ads against Rubio, Cruz was forced to pull the add due to the obvious danger to his evangelical message, but not before everyone found out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3362449/Donald-Trump-divisive-stupid-wrong-shouldn-t-ban-Britain-says-David-Cameron.html
Might start looking like a bit of faux pas.
We have had the last eight years with a President that doesn't like this country very much, Cameron thinks its smart to go on the record insulting one of the front runners just so we can have the same relationship for the next eight.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512182/
Basically, I don't think Bush, Rubio or Kasich will do it. It'll be Trump or Cruz now, and probably Trump.
I reckon 15% chance of Bush/Rubio/Kasich, 55% chance of Trump and 30% chance of Cruz.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2015/10/why-are-boundary-changes-bad-labour
He argues that Labour seats becoming more marginal is bad news for Labour. The opposite is true. When you're in second place and fighting to win, you want every vote you get to be working hard. Piling up large majorities is an utterly pointless use of votes.
Of course, if you're worried about going backwards, this is a problem.
Payback...
A good lawyer would have also ensured a watertight contract with the actress that she was responsible for not declaring anything so spectacularly obvious that it would get Mr Cruz in trouble.
It's only a race to the bottom with these sort of "me too" competitions.
How does he 'plan' something that was asked in an interview question by the BBC?