2024 Election thread
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Bit of research suggests a problem. The Mail will be protected by fair comment, and it's hard to see how a UK court could conclude that it is the most appropriate forum for a case concerning something allegedly said in Kiev. A third difficulty is that the source isn't named, and Farage isn't named.
Also, the Mail is reporting that the BBC is reporting that an unnamed source said something not specifically about Nigel Farage.
From the Mail: "Although there has been no official reaction from Kyiv, a source from President Zelensky's office told the BBC: 'The virus of Putinism, unfortunately, infects people.'"
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Shook
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
I wonder if he took legal advice before saying that?
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Given he was apparently planning on skipping the UK election and helping Trump, whose supporters go round flying Russian flags, it's little surprise.
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self entitled gobby pricks gonna keep pricking.
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When you spend all Sunday out drinking in the sun and go home and tweet...
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classic trumpism, accuse others of doing what you do yourself
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Jk Rowling has endorsed the Communist Party
The Morning Star is siding with Farage.
The writers have thrown everything at this season.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Read somewhere, can't remember where, but if you add 3% to the Tories in their most favourable poll in any election you'd have done better than any other pollster, so that's a good rule of thumb.
Front page of the FT suggested Tories have lost *a third* of their voters since January.
It's been a hobby horse of mine - what made people think Sunak was not utterly shit? I still think he gets a softer ride than he ought to. He's beyond useless, he's actively destructive, to him, his party and his country.
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Is that another FT stat? Because I don't think the polls have moved quite that much.
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https://www.ft.com/content/77dfbecf-2035-4f81-a91a-f8a01e31f948
The Conservatives have lost up to a third of voters who planned to back the party just four months ago, according to an Ipsos poll for the Financial Times that points to high levels of volatility ahead of the UK election on July 4.
The survey, conducted on the same cohort of almost 16,000 voters at the end of January and at the start of June, found that 32 per cent of people who initially said they would vote Conservative had since changed their minds.
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I would say that he came over as fairly competent in the early days of the pandemic having just got put in the role of Chancellor and was an unknown to most people at that time. Since then it has become more and more clear that outside of opening the coffers for furlough etc. he is inept. I'm not sure he's getting a soft ride, hardly anyone had a say in him becoming PM and those that did had Hobson's choice with the candidates available - Braverman as PM would have been an even bigger disaster than Sunak and we'd had Truss previously that made any option an improvement. At the first chance for the country to give an opinion on him it looks like he's going to suffer one of the worst defeats in election history.
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I'm sure I've read in the past that (some) polls account for the "shy Tory" effect.
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This is so much better than I could have hoped
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Where's that Elmo with flames meme when you need it.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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On the internet, apparently.
Maybe I've taken you too literally...
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The logic articulated seemed to be "Perhaps it's Boris Johnson that is morally repugnant, not me", because Johnson once agreed with what he is saying.
It doesn't quite hold up to scrutiny, does it?
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He's a populist so "winning" the argument is all that is needed for the time being. As a populist, the substance of what he says is of minor importance.
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Well, it's a slogan...
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At this point is anyone who is voting for the Tories really voting anything but tactically, as "everyone else is worse"?
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It's consistent with his commentary style. Pity he's standing for them.
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Still, if we are lucky he will be at a loose end and available to the BBC by the time the olympic rowing regatta starts.
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I was reading a piece on him... I'd forgotten about his brain injury, and though it changed him drastically, he probably wouldn't blame being a Tory Party candidate on having brain damage (even if it would be plausible).
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I'm not sure the kind of personality that led him to have so much success is necessarily that helpful in politics.
The ability to push your body beyond where anyone else can, and the drive to do that over and over in pursuit of victory, is admirable in a sportsman, but beyond that....
at 2mins 30:
(meanwhile Pinset, freak among freaks, is fresh enough to beat them all and then help the others out).
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I'm not sure it changed him fundamentally in a way that the likes of us would observe. It was more his interpersonal relationships, as I recall. He's certainly always been abrasive and to the point.
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It's fairly common for erg tests. I've seen people puke or faint, even at shit uni level. We used to have an erg test bucket.
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Meh, don't want to get into a brag off: I've coxed some teams at some decent levels - I suspect that's more because they're not fit enough / hung over rather than what is going on in that video.
These top rowers are something else - they have a proper self-destruct button us mere mortals don't. Something wrong in the head, probably. Helpful in that situation. Less so in politics.
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What's interesting about that video is the size differences.
Pincent is a huge person. I walked past him on his way to final exams in 1992, and he's large in every dimension even for a rower. His suit didn't fit.
Both he and Regrave are much larger men than Cracknall. It's actually surprising they could all row effectively in the same boat.
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