Game on!
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At the moment my family is glad to finally see the end of the canvassers and not to have a Reform MP. Hoping Burnham actually delivers.
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This is the type of thing you only tend to see in the UK
Monty Python’s cheeky Election Night Special vid goes here.
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If the US did UK-style ceremonies with media coverage to announce district results, I bet we’d have all sorts of interesting third-party and independent candidates running too.
Source: Newsweek, via MSN clickbait link
Thats 7 PMs in 10 years now.
And I don’t see the economic situation getting any better.
Brexit and the subsequent massive amount of non-EU immigration post-2020 has caused anger levels to rise and people on the ground to lose all trust in politicians. Thats also why you are seeing that rise in Reform votes.
All of this (economic damage and large scale immigration from non-EU) was predictable of course.
Burnham is a much more experienced polician vs Starmer, but he is up against an electorate that is pretty delusional about their place in the world.
If only someone had warned them that Brexit would destroy their economy…
Problem was that there was also a lot of people saying that it would save the economy. The fact that they were talking nonsense was lost on the average voter.
Sounds familiar to USA these days
And, as George Carlin put it, half the population is dumber than that average voter.
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What a piece of work. DUP in general is the main problem in NI. They still operate like they inhabit the 18th Century.
NYT has an article today looking at migrant farm labor in Britain. Pre-Brexit such labor came from eastern Europe, but now seasonal workers are being brought in from central Asia.
At a minimum, it’s an interesting article for me as a Yank, because while my armchair interest in politics had me very aware of the challenges of xenophobia vs agriculture in the US…I hadn’t really thought much about British agribusiness before.
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Whose brilliant idea was it to build nurseries and schools with no AC…
Only in the UK you see stuff like this.
The schools I worked in as a teacher were built in the
- 1950s
- Victorian age
- Victorian age
AC didn’t exist for the last two when they were built, though the last one had it installed in two rooms. The idea that schools needed AC in the UK when the one in the 1950s was built would have been considered unusual.
There are modern built schools, but PBI has created awful buildings where a lack of AC is a minor inconvenience over the school year. The cramped conditions, where you try to fit 30 students in a box room, are a more significant issue as they affect lessons all year round. Glad I only occasionally taught in such rooms, much preferred the spacious rooms of the older buildings.
In the UK, the Met Office said the record for the hottest June day had been broken for the third day running. Provisional figures showed a temperature of 37.3C in Santon Downham, Suffolk, on Friday, beating the previous record of 36.7C set on Thursday. “And temperatures are still rising,” the forecaster added.
I grew up in Memphis.
My junior and senior high schools both had an air-conditioned wing, but otherwise were mostly non-air conditioned when I was there. (That’s since been remedied.)
We never had a day off for hot weather, but in my sophomore year, a group of us boys were extremely peeved with the school dress code on a memorably hot week. No shorts allowed outside of PE or sports, but girls were allowed to wear skirts provided they were no more than 2 inches above the knee.
About a dozen of us cross-dressed for one particularly hot week. I think the principal would have liked to have suspend us, but they either didn’t want to punish their academic high-achievers, or they knew that several of the academic high-achievers had parents who were lawyers.
Next year, the school dress code had provisions on what shorts were allowed when the school announced it was hot enough for them to be appropriate.