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Of course, his core base would regardless and most of the GOP as it currently stands (minus the outflow of the country club GOP from the Reagan and Bush era to the Democrats, see Dick Cheney and Bush families). And in 90% of the country I think people have already decided too. It’s in the hands of a handful of Electoral College swing states now.

You can see his supporters eyes glazing over in the background. Far from the first time even this month let alone before that he’s totally lost threads of his really speeches. Apparently he ‘weaves’ in and out of threads. Nothing to do with senility. One thing he did weave in was some hate, this time against disabled people https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-wisconsin-rally-speech-harris-mentally-impaired-b2620652.html The most rambling speech this month was in Savannah, Georgia, last month, that state being one of the swing ones in the Electoral College. If Biden had made that speech….https://newrepublic.com/post/186315/donald-trump-struggles-focused-rambling-speech I’ve heard of blackouts but not brownouts. And it sounds like the Venezuelans have taken over an apartment building in Colorado and are set to take over the whole country, It’s almost as if he’s repeating the craziest conspiracy theories really incoherently.

It depends what the 32% reduction is in. It may well not be in consumables as people tend to assume but rather building materials and supplies which when you factor in supply chain delays from the pandemic 😷 additionally has had a devastating impact on both large building projects and domestic ones eg renovation. It’s impacted us twice over - we had to withdraw from buying a new property as the regional firm couldn’t get it built and we’d have lost our own buyer and then on the doer-upper on a larger plot we bought instead the cost of materials went through the roof (pun partially intended). Also, on the imports we do receive, more is coming from outside the EU than before which means more miles travelled because of needless duties which is environmentally worse. On both imports and exports, the uncertainty is not helping smaller businesses doing reasonably well who’d like to expand either.

Know what you’re saying but we’d been so badly outplayed at that point that it would have felt hollow to have escaped! We still owe them one for Bairstow at Lords but save it for the next Ashes series if we actually go down there and make an effort to run them close for the first time since Strauss’s team. Good effort from 0-2 down but the batting needs Root - or someone who can score a lower risk run a ball rate regularly - in it still to get a balance with the batters who can get it over the ropes regularly.

Shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, frictionless trade was as much an outright lie as the £350m a week for the NHS, oven ready deals and having control of borders. All driven by the party of free trade and enterprise (and if anyone still believes that, they’ll think they’ve also won the Nigerian lottery from what’s in their junk mail).

The other three candidates are making hay out of Kemi’s astonishing blooper https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24vzd52p4o

That’s his resume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_Bell TBF, you could say the same about most politicians since the mid-00s, bar Sunak and Starmer of the current crop and May from the previous. If and when Burnham and Street come into the HoC it’ll help.

I can’t believe she’s said that, I don’t think she’s a plant but is just genuinely batshit mental. Ageing population, main two parties looking to reduce migration, maintaining a western public services model - yeah, great idea Kemi 😂😂😂 It’s going to be Jenryck isn’t it? And his corruption record is a gift for the other parties.

This is ridiculous, need to get to 20 overs a side for a result and there’s a drinks break at 17 overs. At the end of September in Bristol. Potts now wasting time changing boots when he should have done that during the needless drinks break.

Liam Dawson is an excellent cricketer, would be in any best ever Hampshire XI for me. Not surprised John Turner not had a bowl for England, was out of sorts in domestic white ball stuff. Very talented prospect but needs some 1-1 coaching from Jimmy Anderson and with Glenn McGrath at the MRF Academy.

That’s the sum of it, and I’ll go further, it’s far more effective.

There’s absolutely a point in changing if the stupid slow passing around the back continues and we challenge Derby’s low points total, that’s no good for next season. Look at Derby’s trajectory since. At least go down a bit more competitive, and better chance of bouncing back and the PSR issues get easier without Rasmus’s transfer disasters around our necks.

Whatever your political views, have a watch of this. No disrespect to Starmer or Rayner, but along with Wes Streeting, Darren Jones and Andy Burnham, this is where the talent in the Labour Party is

Don’t know about that, but the previous government’s dickhead move to try and appeal to Reform UK/ex-BNP voters by restricting overseas student visas just cost £15bn in guaranteed tax revenue according to an article by the FT posted by former Conservative minister Jo Johnson, who along with Rachel is the one in the family whom the brains were dished out to. Which would have made this budget a darn sight easier. How’s the kebab tasting now?

Last night watching the England ODI I enjoyed Hokum Stomp by Deya in Cheltenham. They are best known for their pale ales and IPAs such as Steady Rolling Man which has won loads of awards but this was a stout. Stronger at 5.6% but very tasty, coffee, bright red berries and dark chocolate finish. Tonight it’s a beer I bought at the Malvern Autumn Show today, by Copper Beech called Common Ground, a New England style pale ale. Hazy as unfiltered, strongly tropical fruity nose, I can detect mango, mellow grapefruit, pine lingering with a spicy finish. The Show had quite a few local ciders and perries on offer (Worcestershire is famous for its pears and nearby Herefordshire for apples and ciders).

On Talk TV. Circa 300 viewers where the risk of being challenged is very low. Tim Shipman won’t have been one of those other journalists.

Quite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Oakeshott Richard Tice’s partner https://dorseteye.com/for-those-who-care-about-morality-and-the-law-lets-look-closely-at-richard-tice-and-isabel-oakeshott/ and employee of Lord Ashcroft and his non dom money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft Worth reminding people of the gotcha the Ashcroft clan thought they had on Rayner

I think the clothing was the gotcha, and quite a substantial one at that. There seems to be the creation of lots of smoke around Jenny Chapman but Tim Shipman could warn Oakeshott off that. The idea she’d ever stop on behalf of the party and non doms who pay her wages is risible - ask Matt Hancock.

If that turns out to be the case then time for a re-think. Pity previous governments didn’t do this when deciding on the poll tax and privatising water, utilities and railway when the advice was that it would not create the efficiencies their ideologies drove them to believe.

I think we probably both agree and disagree with this one. I agree that the analogy seems odd in respect of Ukraine and USSR/Russia but Ukraine was subjugated as the Soviet bread basket during the Cold War and at in different points in that region’s history. It’s quite clunky as a comparison, and it jars slightly, but it’s not without some truth as well. Lammy won’t be at the top table of Foreign Secs - Cook, Hague, Hurd - but I can’t accept that he could ever be a bigger embarrassment than Raab or worst of all, Boris. If you want the inside track on how much of a 🤡 Boris was in that role, read Alan Duncan’s book who had to share the FCO with him 🤦‍♂️ That Twitter poster is also saying NATO should back off and let 🇺🇦 go back to 2014. That’s never going to happen with Putin or Russia, it’ll be a negotiated settlement next year with Russia getting Donbas (which they’ve smashed to pieces) and Crimea. But with Ukraine in NATO as deterrent. Russia can’t/wont pay reparations so there has to be a price and a deterrent.

Could have been mock exams perhaps then? The clothing stuff with him and Rayner pisses me right off, and not appropriate rules met or not, but the stuff about the donor flat is the tabloids trying a bit too hard now.

The away end is terrible at Goodison, although the three tier main stand from 1971 still impresses even today. At least you were in the lower tier, the upper tier was really tired out when I last went.

They’ve both got quite thick fingers. Charles ought to get his looked at though, could be a blood circulation issue.

They’ve fully deserved all of the criticism for the clothing gifts, not acceptable, but the stuff today about Starmer staying at the donor’s flat during the campaign for a short spell is now getting childish now. That’s quite reasonable that his kids have a decent revision environment without dozens of paps outside.

Eastenders fanatic from the 1990s?