keitha
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Post by keitha on Jun 30, 2024 9:30:42 GMT
interesting on the postal ballots front that Royal mail expect to deliver them all by Tuesday, the more interesting ( for me ) comment was "all the ballots are now in the postal system" ie they have only just been sent out, so disingenuous to lay all the blame on Royal mail when it looks like some Local Authorities have only just posted them.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jun 30, 2024 9:33:13 GMT
The only manifesto I like is this one. love it especially 17 and 24 ( he couldn't do any worse )
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 30, 2024 9:43:44 GMT
Interesting stats from Sky news regarding voting intention based on what your favourite tipple is.
Conservatives well ahead among the Sherry drinkers, but support falls off badly when you get to shandy. No figures availoable for champers.
this suffers from the normal election poll bias though: the number of people who will admit to pollsters as actually being shandy drinkers is much lower than the number who will in fact have a shandy at the next pub stop.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 30, 2024 9:46:20 GMT
The only manifesto I like is this one. love it especially 17 and 24 ( he couldn't do any worse )I guess his accompanying music and dance routine would be like this:
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Post by agent69 on Jun 30, 2024 11:51:18 GMT
The only manifesto I like is this one. love it especially 17 and 24 ( he couldn't do any worse ) I think all parties should adopt 22
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Post by adrianc on Jun 30, 2024 12:02:29 GMT
18 and 20 alone mean he'd have my vote.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 1, 2024 7:33:20 GMT
I see that Macron's decision to call a snap unnecessary election is going about as well as Sunak's decision to do the same while doing an impersonation of a drowned rat.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 1, 2024 9:13:37 GMT
I see that Macron's decision to call a snap unnecessary election is going about as well as Sunak's decision to do the same while doing an impersonation of a drowned rat. Must admit that I don't really understand this. Macron is safe from presidential challenge until 2017, but he can pull the rug out from beneath the feet of all of his party members who sit in the french parliment. I bet that makes him popular.
Meanwhile the french stock exchange appears to be reacting positively to the first round results, currently up 1.5%
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Post by adrianc on Jul 1, 2024 9:45:46 GMT
Meanwhile the french stock exchange appears to be reacting positively to the first round results, currently up 1.5% CAC40 index 8240 peak in mid-May, before the Euro elections started to look like they were heading to the far-right. 8040 the day before the election was called. 7472 on Friday. So, yeh, it's back up to 7571...
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Post by agent69 on Jul 1, 2024 11:42:01 GMT
Meanwhile the french stock exchange appears to be reacting positively to the first round results, currently up 1.5% CAC40 index 8240 peak in mid-May, before the Euro elections started to look like they were heading to the far-right. 8040 the day before the election was called. 7472 on Friday. So, yeh, it's back up to 7571... But it is a bit of a strange old set up in France:
- Macron is President and he is in charge of defence and foreign policy,
- Somebody from the far right will end up as Prime Minister and they are in charge of domestic policy
sounds like a recipe for disaster
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Post by adrianc on Jul 1, 2024 12:00:15 GMT
But it is a bit of a strange old set up in France: - Macron is President and he is in charge of defence and foreign policy,
- Somebody from the far right
will might end up as Prime Minister and they are in charge of domestic policy
sounds like a recipe for disaster It works for them. <gallic shrug, bof> Maybe they'll change it for the Sixième République? The US also manages to have different parties in charge of the legislative and executive branches, with utter standstill often following...
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Post by keitha on Jul 1, 2024 12:40:29 GMT
I see that Macron's decision to call a snap unnecessary election is going about as well as Sunak's decision to do the same while doing an impersonation of a drowned rat. Must admit that I don't really understand this. Macron is safe from presidential challenge until 2017, but he can pull the rug out from beneath the feet of all of his party members who sit in the french parliment. I bet that makes him popular.
Meanwhile the french stock exchange appears to be reacting positively to the first round results, currently up 1.5%
Macron can't stand again, so I don't think he cares about his party anymore. Is that because the stock markets want RN in charge, or because they this they will lose out in the second round
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Post by michaelc on Jul 1, 2024 13:04:23 GMT
"Only a third, and everybody else banding together - so not quite as bad as feared..."tradingeconomics.com/france/stock-marketCAC40 index 8240 peak in mid-May, before the Euro elections started to look like they were heading to the far-right. 8040 the day before the election was called. 7472 on Friday. So, yeh, it's back up to 7571... But it is a bit of a strange old set up in France:
- Macron is President and he is in charge of defence and foreign policy,
- Somebody from the far right will end up as Prime Minister and they are in charge of domestic policy
sounds like a recipe for disaster
Shame its not t'other way around.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 1, 2024 14:19:09 GMT
But it is a bit of a strange old set up in France:
- Macron is President and he is in charge of defence and foreign policy,
- Somebody from the far right will end up as Prime Minister and they are in charge of domestic policy
sounds like a recipe for disaster
Shame its not t'other way around. Yep, given MLP's known sympathies for Putin, it would certainly have ensured that Ukraine had got zero military aid from France, and Russia plenty of political support at the heart of Europe.
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Post by benaj on Jul 1, 2024 14:56:42 GMT
The only manifesto I like is this one. I love it as well, especially no 13 loud snacks to be banned from cinemas and theatres but no 17 would be a difficult one to attract any best talent working for the gov unless nurses pay get the same level ad ministers. It sounds wonderful for another planet. minsters’ pay to be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years
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