More schadenfreude for those Tories who simply can’t get enough of this feeling after 100 days of Keir Starmer’s premiership – Labour’s poll lead has vanished. The party is now neck and neck with the Conservatives. The Spectator’s Steerpike has more.
Happy 100 days of Labour being in power! To mark this auspicious occasion, the British electorate have decided to give Keir Starmer a present that he really did not want – the end of Labour’s lead in the polls after a whopping 934 days. Yes, that’s right: the Starmer army have led in every single survey since March 2022 when Boris Johnson was gripped by his partygate woes. The subsequent Liz Truss debacle saw Labour’s lead climb to 30 points, with Rishi Sunak regularly suffering 20 point deficits. Yet after less than four months in office, that trend has now been completely reversed. Guess governing is harder than it looks eh Keir…
Worth reading in full.
The Express also has the story:
Sir Keir Starmer has had a nightmare start to his new government with a bombshell new poll revealing Labour’s recent huge lead over the Conservative Party has totally collapsed.
Historically new governments that have swept to victory in a General Election are afforded somewhat of a honeymoon period before the going gets tough.
But a new poll has revealed that goodwill for Labour has already crashed – just 100 days after taking office – with results likely to leave Sir Keir red-faced.
Polling by the More in Common think tank has delivered a devastating assessment of Labour’s first 100 days in power, reports the Times.
According to the survey of more than 2,000 people, Labour’s poll lead has crashed as the party is now tied with the Tories on 27% each. Reform UK is on 21%.
Tomorrow’s ‘global investment summit’ was supposed to be the beginning of a ‘reset’, in which Sir Keir shows how serious he is about attracting foreign investment into the British economy. But that’s turned out to be another clusterf***, thanks to the impolitic remarks of Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, who described P&O as a “rogue employer”, prompting a row with P&O’s parent company, DP World, who then threatened to boycott the summit. Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary, did the rounds of Westminster television studios this morning, trying to smooth things over. Predictably, it did not go well. The Mail has more in a story headlined: ‘Another Day, Another Labour Meltdown.’
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The National Trust appears to be run by the BBC and some Americans with the odd accountant, management consultant and conservationist thrown in for diversity.
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom. The Trust’s land holdings account for almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km2; 970 sq mi).
Given the amount of acres of Britain over which they hold sway, one might have thought that the odd agricultural college graduate, some proper country folk with, say, practical experience of running a farm, might have come in handy?
When we lived in England in the mid-/late-2010s, we bought NT and English heritage family passes every year and thoroughly enjoyed many sites, including Woolsthorpe. We noticed many families enjoying a lovely day out in the park areas outside the grand homes, which cost just a few pounds for parking fees. What a shame. If I were living there now, would I boycott NT?
This may help you decide that:
https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/
I have not been to an NT property for many years. I always found them a bit soulless.
If you move the properties further and further away from their original roles and change the atmosphere to that of some kind of faintly disapproving school room, the visitor experience becomes increasingly enervating, in my view.
What’s with the the dyslexia? Is it a shield against being seen as stupid?
I thought the addition of Dyslectic people on the judging board was strange. I have had the privilege of having worked with some people who were dyslectic, brilliant mathematicians, but B useless at reading and writing. So how in all concepts of common sense are any of these people going to able to understand a single word of what may or probably not be presented?
Further more, new ideas come from thinking from outside of the box, not from within. That in itself excludes any new concept for entry. What a waste of time and money,
“Dyslexia” is very similar to Dianne’s get out of jail race card.
For the lefties who are a bit thick but who believe they belong in the higher reaches of the non-working world of academie a card such as Dyslexia is an essential passport to a life of comfort. Sometimes those amongst this group also like to bolster their places with the addition of an alphabet card.
When in danger of being found out just pull out your Dyslexia card and your troubles melt away. Any suggestions that the card holder might be talking out of his / her arse are easily refuted and if the inquisitor persists there is always ‘hate crime against a persecuted minority.’
A faultless modus operandi which might even lead to enoblement in the future.
Always have your persecuted minority card to hand.
So wrote Sir Isaac of his Principia. I wonder how any of the candidates for the NT prize would get on if they put that in their abstract.
I think we can guess!
Reported to the police for hate speech would be my guess.
Another day and another mad scheme, whilst the NT continue losing volunteers, members and visitors.
Surprisingly, NT membership in 22-23 was 5.73 million up from 5.71 million in 21-22, more than the population of Costa Rica as the NT proudly declares.
It stood at 5.6m in 18/19 so there must be plenty of woketards joining.
I suspect some have hoped against hope that it was beginning to come back from the grave.
I think that Newtonian optics is the most exclusionary brach of physics, dealing as it does with the properties of white light.
Thermopdynamis has a lot more going for it as it includes the concept of black body radiation.
Astrophysis/quantum theory caps it all with the all consuming black hole.
They say that Newton was the last alchemist… that presumably includes trans-mutation?
Ah yes, Newton – and his universal law of attraction F = Gm1m2/r2.
I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula. This pertains to divide and rule, so the stronger the force the more division and conflict.
Two strongly-held views are encouraged, e.g. woke and non-woke, of effective mass m1 and m2. They are deliberately put in close proximity, so r is small.
Then we are all F’d.
awesome comment
‘I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula.’
Coulomb has beaten you to it: : F=kq1q2/r2.