John Smith was exceptionally quick with a witty retort, Tony Banks, often hilarious, Churchill also. Skinner became famous for his often hilarious quips; once leading to a departing Black Rod saying "I'll miss you Dennis". Wilson very funny and self depreciating sometimes.Angela RAYNER has a filthy sense of humour IRL.Berlusconi was exceptionally charming and able to mock himself with great wit. I learnt this by watching him tell a joke about himself. He had the audience in the palm of his hand. He was classes above Trump and Skinner for this.Naturally funny politicians with proper comic timing and the ability to go beyond one joke into an impromptu riff (and I agree Johnson annoyingly did have that):Gag writing, like plumbing, is something that really ought to be left to the professionals. There's still a talent to deliver someone else's material well, but to come up with good new jokes means seeing the world in a peculiar way that isn't that compatible with much else.Having a sense of humour - getting jokes, laughing naturally, being at ease in the comic moment, capable of self deprecation - is quite common. Especially in the British. Actually BEING FUNNY - making people crack up - is vastly rarerI think Cameron could do a decent cutting line, like his 'not like we're brothers' jibe to Miliband, but it's a kind of top boy bullying humour perhaps. Truss I don't know but she has a cheeky grin.Starmer seems to be funnier in private than public, which is unhelpful for him. Truss I think had quite a decent sense of humour. May showed herself to have decent comic timing after the Queen’s death. Neither Cameron nor Clegg nor Brown had the humour gene. Blair had his moments. Major had it. Thatcher didn’t.Truss is just insaneIt wasn't that Boris necessarily did comedy routines, but one knew he had a sense of humour. An early speech referencing Huskisson's violent death due to Stevenson's rocket (back in the halcyon days) was funny because Boris accidentally made himself laugh. I don't think Truss is renowned for her sense of humour, though she seems quite a sport. Sunak doesn’t have a detectable sense of humour. Nor does Starmer.Not really. What does it even mean?“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh‘Funny’ is such a subjective thing.Boris was an untrustworthy lying shit (and I wasn't even married to him) but he was a funny untrustworthy lying shit. Worth a lot in my book.After all, our Greatest Ever Prime Minister® wasn't renowned for getting to the end of a coherent sentence, ever.He was trying to say "bro" and he thought, I sound ridiculous, so he then tried to say "brother" and he did.What an orator Sir Keir is.What's a tech blo blobber? #PMQs
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/1790705176707293422?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
SKS Fans please translate!
Does this mean he is not our next PM? Probably not.
But he Had Charisma and Delivered Brexit, so that's fine.
I always found his heavily signalled overworked or underworked zingers followed by an expectation that everyone would be amused & charmed distinctly unfunny, so that’s a no redeeming qualities from me.
disasters “.
You don’t find that funny?
I suppose I might conjure up a grim rictus at the irony of BJ having a bit of a laff about disasters.
Still, speaking of rictus smiles and exPMs, just had Gordy Broon on C4 going on about how terrible & damaging child poverty was in the UK. Thank goodness we listened to him in 2014, think how much worse it could have been.
Starmer seems like he's hiding a sense of humour somewhere
Sunak won't share
I’d say Boris is the only PM with the gift that I can recall. And he proves that being funny can get you very far in life (into a lot of beds; and into great jobs) but it doesn’t mean you will be good at those jobs - not at all
Indeed it’s so rare I’m not sure I can think of another significant British politician with the gift. Certainly not Cameron or brown or Blair or Truss or TMay.
Maybe George Osborne?
(The inexplicable thing about Rishi isn't so much the poor delivery as the terrible material. That ought to be fixable by getting some competent writers in.)
- Trump. Sad.
- Apparently Stalin
- Berlusconi
- Dennis Skinner
- Idi Amin
And a few who have their moments but fall short of being full natural comedians, including Farage, Farron, Charles Kennedy, Salmond.
No idea about Stalin and Amin. Stalin could definitely do the kindly uncle. As for a speechmaker he was like a BBC newsreader - here is the news. Nowhere near the skill level of Hitler or even Lenin.
Clement Freud was a politician wasn't he?I never heard that about Stalin. Funny?? But maybe. He was definitely capable of dark humourNaturally funny politicians with proper comic timing and the ability to go beyond one joke into an impromptu riff (and I agree Johnson annoyingly did have that):Gag writing, like plumbing, is something that really ought to be left to the professionals. There's still a talent to deliver someone else's material well, but to come up with good new jokes means seeing the world in a peculiar way that isn't that compatible with much else.Having a sense of humour - getting jokes, laughing naturally, being at ease in the comic moment, capable of self deprecation - is quite common. Especially in the British. Actually BEING FUNNY - making people crack up - is vastly rarerI think Cameron could do a decent cutting line, like his 'not like we're brothers' jibe to Miliband, but it's a kind of top boy bullying humour perhaps. Truss I don't know but she has a cheeky grin.Starmer seems to be funnier in private than public, which is unhelpful for him. Truss I think had quite a decent sense of humour. May showed herself to have decent comic timing after the Queen’s death. Neither Cameron nor Clegg nor Brown had the humour gene. Blair had his moments. Major had it. Thatcher didn’t.Truss is just insaneIt wasn't that Boris necessarily did comedy routines, but one knew he had a sense of humour. An early speech referencing Huskisson's violent death due to Stevenson's rocket (back in the halcyon days) was funny because Boris accidentally made himself laugh. I don't think Truss is renowned for her sense of humour, though she seems quite a sport. Sunak doesn’t have a detectable sense of humour. Nor does Starmer.Not really. What does it even mean?“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh‘Funny’ is such a subjective thing.Boris was an untrustworthy lying shit (and I wasn't even married to him) but he was a funny untrustworthy lying shit. Worth a lot in my book.After all, our Greatest Ever Prime Minister® wasn't renowned for getting to the end of a coherent sentence, ever.He was trying to say "bro" and he thought, I sound ridiculous, so he then tried to say "brother" and he did.What an orator Sir Keir is.What's a tech blo blobber? #PMQs
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/1790705176707293422?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
SKS Fans please translate!
Does this mean he is not our next PM? Probably not.
But he Had Charisma and Delivered Brexit, so that's fine.
I always found his heavily signalled overworked or underworked zingers followed by an expectation that everyone would be amused & charmed distinctly unfunny, so that’s a no redeeming qualities from me.
disasters “.
You don’t find that funny?
I suppose I might conjure up a grim rictus at the irony of BJ having a bit of a laff about disasters.
Still, speaking of rictus smiles and exPMs, just had Gordy Broon on C4 going on about how terrible & damaging child poverty was in the UK. Thank goodness we listened to him in 2014, think how much worse it could have been.
Starmer seems like he's hiding a sense of humour somewhere
Sunak won't share
I’d say Boris is the only PM with the gift that I can recall. And he proves that being funny can get you very far in life (into a lot of beds; and into great jobs) but it doesn’t mean you will be good at those jobs - not at all
Indeed it’s so rare I’m not sure I can think of another significant British politician with the gift. Certainly not Cameron or brown or Blair or Truss or TMay.
Maybe George Osborne?
(The inexplicable thing about Rishi isn't so much the poor delivery as the terrible material. That ought to be fixable by getting some competent writers in.)
- Trump. Sad.
- Apparently Stalin
- Berlusconi
- Dennis Skinner
- Idi Amin
And a few who have their moments but fall short of being full natural comedians, including Farage, Farron, Charles Kennedy, Salmond.
I’m trying to think of funny monarchs. Perhaps Charles II - the merrie monarch for a reason. Elizabeth II had a gift for dry irony and litotes. God I miss Her Maj - the world has not been right since she passed
On politicians and humor: Abraham LIncoln used it to great effect. For example, when an office seeker came in to complain about not getting a federal job, and said he had made Lincoln president, Lincoln pointed to the papers on his desk and said: "And look what a pretty mess you got me into."The best jokes in modern American politics came from Mitt Romney.
So, of course, did Reagan. (I assume all of you know about his famous line in a debate with Mondale.)
And so did -- this will suprise some -- Bob Dole. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Political-Wit-Laughing-Almost/dp/0767906675
But mostly in private meetings with other senators, from what I saw of his career.
Brandreth can be witty too. After he got voted out, he said "I always knew I had complete contempt for my constituents, but what I didn't know until they voted me out was that the feeling was entirely mutual." Got to admit, that's funny.Well, he was a Liberal MP. Is that the same thing?Clement Freud was a politician wasn't he?I never heard that about Stalin. Funny?? But maybe. He was definitely capable of dark humourNaturally funny politicians with proper comic timing and the ability to go beyond one joke into an impromptu riff (and I agree Johnson annoyingly did have that):Gag writing, like plumbing, is something that really ought to be left to the professionals. There's still a talent to deliver someone else's material well, but to come up with good new jokes means seeing the world in a peculiar way that isn't that compatible with much else.Having a sense of humour - getting jokes, laughing naturally, being at ease in the comic moment, capable of self deprecation - is quite common. Especially in the British. Actually BEING FUNNY - making people crack up - is vastly rarerI think Cameron could do a decent cutting line, like his 'not like we're brothers' jibe to Miliband, but it's a kind of top boy bullying humour perhaps. Truss I don't know but she has a cheeky grin.Starmer seems to be funnier in private than public, which is unhelpful for him. Truss I think had quite a decent sense of humour. May showed herself to have decent comic timing after the Queen’s death. Neither Cameron nor Clegg nor Brown had the humour gene. Blair had his moments. Major had it. Thatcher didn’t.Truss is just insaneIt wasn't that Boris necessarily did comedy routines, but one knew he had a sense of humour. An early speech referencing Huskisson's violent death due to Stevenson's rocket (back in the halcyon days) was funny because Boris accidentally made himself laugh. I don't think Truss is renowned for her sense of humour, though she seems quite a sport. Sunak doesn’t have a detectable sense of humour. Nor does Starmer.Not really. What does it even mean?“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh‘Funny’ is such a subjective thing.Boris was an untrustworthy lying shit (and I wasn't even married to him) but he was a funny untrustworthy lying shit. Worth a lot in my book.After all, our Greatest Ever Prime Minister® wasn't renowned for getting to the end of a coherent sentence, ever.He was trying to say "bro" and he thought, I sound ridiculous, so he then tried to say "brother" and he did.What an orator Sir Keir is.What's a tech blo blobber? #PMQs
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/1790705176707293422?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
SKS Fans please translate!
Does this mean he is not our next PM? Probably not.
But he Had Charisma and Delivered Brexit, so that's fine.
I always found his heavily signalled overworked or underworked zingers followed by an expectation that everyone would be amused & charmed distinctly unfunny, so that’s a no redeeming qualities from me.
disasters “.
You don’t find that funny?
I suppose I might conjure up a grim rictus at the irony of BJ having a bit of a laff about disasters.
Still, speaking of rictus smiles and exPMs, just had Gordy Broon on C4 going on about how terrible & damaging child poverty was in the UK. Thank goodness we listened to him in 2014, think how much worse it could have been.
Starmer seems like he's hiding a sense of humour somewhere
Sunak won't share
I’d say Boris is the only PM with the gift that I can recall. And he proves that being funny can get you very far in life (into a lot of beds; and into great jobs) but it doesn’t mean you will be good at those jobs - not at all
Indeed it’s so rare I’m not sure I can think of another significant British politician with the gift. Certainly not Cameron or brown or Blair or Truss or TMay.
Maybe George Osborne?
(The inexplicable thing about Rishi isn't so much the poor delivery as the terrible material. That ought to be fixable by getting some competent writers in.)
- Trump. Sad.
- Apparently Stalin
- Berlusconi
- Dennis Skinner
- Idi Amin
And a few who have their moments but fall short of being full natural comedians, including Farage, Farron, Charles Kennedy, Salmond.
I’m trying to think of funny monarchs. Perhaps Charles II - the merrie monarch for a reason. Elizabeth II had a gift for dry irony and litotes. God I miss Her Maj - the world has not been right since she passed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17DL1YJ730
Similarly, Gyles Brandreth was a Conservative MP and Whip. Clearly, logically he was a politician, but somehow he also wasn't.
And, elegantly, was in the pay of Big Waffle;
https://youtu.be/2DnwJJJZaYU?t=4m31s
I can think of only one: Zac Goldsmith. And that was more pity and disdain than actual hatred."Despised" is a pretty strong reaction to be honest. The man's only a politician. You could argue he doesn't deserve your contempt.People always say that because it's a way of conveying they have met a famous person in private. And if they said He's really boring in private that would invite the question why they are spending time with him.Starmer seems to be funnier in private than public, which is unhelpful for him. Truss I think had quite a decent sense of humour. May showed herself to have decent comic timing after the Queen’s death. Neither Cameron nor Clegg nor Brown had the humour gene. Blair had his moments. Major had it. Thatcher didn’t.Truss is just insaneIt wasn't that Boris necessarily did comedy routines, but one knew he had a sense of humour. An early speech referencing Huskisson's violent death due to Stevenson's rocket (back in the halcyon days) was funny because Boris accidentally made himself laugh. I don't think Truss is renowned for her sense of humour, though she seems quite a sport. Sunak doesn’t have a detectable sense of humour. Nor does Starmer.Not really. What does it even mean?“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh‘Funny’ is such a subjective thing.Boris was an untrustworthy lying shit (and I wasn't even married to him) but he was a funny untrustworthy lying shit. Worth a lot in my book.After all, our Greatest Ever Prime Minister® wasn't renowned for getting to the end of a coherent sentence, ever.He was trying to say "bro" and he thought, I sound ridiculous, so he then tried to say "brother" and he did.What an orator Sir Keir is.What's a tech blo blobber? #PMQs
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/1790705176707293422?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
SKS Fans please translate!
Does this mean he is not our next PM? Probably not.
But he Had Charisma and Delivered Brexit, so that's fine.
I always found his heavily signalled overworked or underworked zingers followed by an expectation that everyone would be amused & charmed distinctly unfunny, so that’s a no redeeming qualities from me.
disasters “.
You don’t find that funny?
I suppose I might conjure up a grim rictus at the irony of BJ having a bit of a laff about disasters.
Still, speaking of rictus smiles and exPMs, just had Gordy Broon on C4 going on about how terrible & damaging child poverty was in the UK. Thank goodness we listened to him in 2014, think how much worse it could have been.
Starmer seems like he's hiding a sense of humour somewhere
Sunak won't share
I have.despised him ever since he held a press conference to say he was charging Huhne. Completely unacceptable, entirely against the spirit of the contempt of court rules if not the letter, designed purely to raise his own profike
In all honesty, I can't think of a British politician I've ever despised or hated. There's plenty I haven't agreed with but that's as far as it's ever gone.
Let's say rather I find it more difficult to laugh at them.Does that render his jokes unfunny?And a paedophile.Clement Freud was a politician wasn't he?I never heard that about Stalin. Funny?? But maybe. He was definitely capable of dark humourNaturally funny politicians with proper comic timing and the ability to go beyond one joke into an impromptu riff (and I agree Johnson annoyingly did have that):Gag writing, like plumbing, is something that really ought to be left to the professionals. There's still a talent to deliver someone else's material well, but to come up with good new jokes means seeing the world in a peculiar way that isn't that compatible with much else.Having a sense of humour - getting jokes, laughing naturally, being at ease in the comic moment, capable of self deprecation - is quite common. Especially in the British. Actually BEING FUNNY - making people crack up - is vastly rarerI think Cameron could do a decent cutting line, like his 'not like we're brothers' jibe to Miliband, but it's a kind of top boy bullying humour perhaps. Truss I don't know but she has a cheeky grin.Starmer seems to be funnier in private than public, which is unhelpful for him. Truss I think had quite a decent sense of humour. May showed herself to have decent comic timing after the Queen’s death. Neither Cameron nor Clegg nor Brown had the humour gene. Blair had his moments. Major had it. Thatcher didn’t.Truss is just insaneIt wasn't that Boris necessarily did comedy routines, but one knew he had a sense of humour. An early speech referencing Huskisson's violent death due to Stevenson's rocket (back in the halcyon days) was funny because Boris accidentally made himself laugh. I don't think Truss is renowned for her sense of humour, though she seems quite a sport. Sunak doesn’t have a detectable sense of humour. Nor does Starmer.Not really. What does it even mean?“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh‘Funny’ is such a subjective thing.Boris was an untrustworthy lying shit (and I wasn't even married to him) but he was a funny untrustworthy lying shit. Worth a lot in my book.After all, our Greatest Ever Prime Minister® wasn't renowned for getting to the end of a coherent sentence, ever.He was trying to say "bro" and he thought, I sound ridiculous, so he then tried to say "brother" and he did.What an orator Sir Keir is.What's a tech blo blobber? #PMQs
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/1790705176707293422?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
SKS Fans please translate!
Does this mean he is not our next PM? Probably not.
But he Had Charisma and Delivered Brexit, so that's fine.
I always found his heavily signalled overworked or underworked zingers followed by an expectation that everyone would be amused & charmed distinctly unfunny, so that’s a no redeeming qualities from me.
disasters “.
You don’t find that funny?
I suppose I might conjure up a grim rictus at the irony of BJ having a bit of a laff about disasters.
Still, speaking of rictus smiles and exPMs, just had Gordy Broon on C4 going on about how terrible & damaging child poverty was in the UK. Thank goodness we listened to him in 2014, think how much worse it could have been.
Starmer seems like he's hiding a sense of humour somewhere
Sunak won't share
I’d say Boris is the only PM with the gift that I can recall. And he proves that being funny can get you very far in life (into a lot of beds; and into great jobs) but it doesn’t mean you will be good at those jobs - not at all
Indeed it’s so rare I’m not sure I can think of another significant British politician with the gift. Certainly not Cameron or brown or Blair or Truss or TMay.
Maybe George Osborne?
(The inexplicable thing about Rishi isn't so much the poor delivery as the terrible material. That ought to be fixable by getting some competent writers in.)
- Trump. Sad.
- Apparently Stalin
- Berlusconi
- Dennis Skinner
- Idi Amin
And a few who have their moments but fall short of being full natural comedians, including Farage, Farron, Charles Kennedy, Salmond.
I’m trying to think of funny monarchs. Perhaps Charles II - the merrie monarch for a reason. Elizabeth II had a gift for dry irony and litotes. God I miss Her Maj - the world has not been right since she passed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17DL1YJ730
And when Kenneth Williams said, "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy" he knew we would all remember it.Apparently most headline "writers" of YouTube vids believe that "infamous" = "famous".The joys of the english language.I very much dislike words like "associated", because they can mean "really closely involved with", or "knows someone who is a member".And a reply to the tweet:Apparently an anti-violence campaigner.Apparently the man detained for shooting Fico is 71 years old.The alleged name and identity is being fairly widely shared on social media
I think we can start to rule out the possibility of professional assassins.
https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1790790908381905294?s=46
"Wow. Looks like Slovak PM Robert Fico's reported assailant, writer Juraj Cintula, was associated with pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci (SB). Their leader was even trained by Russian ex-Spetsnaz soldiers."
https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1790789652078526939
I like how something being outstanding could be good or bad, based on context.
Thus when FDR said that December 7, 1941 was "a date which will live in infamy" he apparently meant that we'd all be hearing about it for a long long long time.
And Froneri is a rebranding of Richmond ice cream co of Leeming Bar. Grand old Yorkshire name. 'appen.It is ironic that you’re struggling to spell Häagen-Dazs as the name was, of course, entirely made up to sound vaguely Scandinavian and doesn’t obey any actual Scandinavian orthography.Haazgen-Dazs is owned by Froneri, which is British, no?And now it's Hagen Dazs and Ben & Jerry's - a US takeover (though the latter is now owned by Anglo-Dutch Uniliver).Very interesting. And each age is different. 'Next' for example did not exist in my formative years, nor McDonalds. The rivals to M & S were BHS, Littlewoods, but all regarded as very much second and also rans. Huntley and Palmer would have been a rival to the great McVitie. Heinz had no rival in the baked bean and tomato ketchup stakes. Birds Eye and Findus occupied pole positions in frozen stuff.I was a crunchy nut eater for much of my youth. Can’t remember when I last ate a bowl of Kelloggs.They are both items where the difference in price between Kelloggs version and super cheap supermarket version is eye watering.No one in their right mind would prefer Rice Krispies to Corn Flakes.Hard to know how you would prompt this without hitting the leading question problem. "What would your vote be if Farage became leader of Reform" is a very good way of a. putting Reform top of mind, b. implying that received wisdom is he'd do a better job for them.The last 2 polls by JLPartners on Wikepedia had Lab on 41 and 42, and Reform on 13% in both, so not sure where the shift figures in the header come from.They conducted a standard VI poll at the same time. Then added the Farage leading Reform question as a supllementary.
There would seem to be a few percent Con to Reform shift, but possibly just MOE.
The changes are with that poll.
Many probably thought Farage was head of Reform anyway. It's like asking "would you prefer Rice Krispies or Cornflakes?" then "what about if the Cornflakes were fortified with vitamins and iron?" I bet you'd get a few people changing their choice simply because they were being prompted.
Just unnatural.
They (or their Lidl proxy) are both essential for making chocolatey nest thingeys with mini eggs on top suitable for Easter and after.
Agree. Cornflakes only the rest of the year.
Kelloggs is one of those companies I think of as default brands. When you dominate a category so much, particularly if you’re consumed by children in their formative years, that you’re almost establishment. Default. Normal.
Usually there is an “alternative” that plays the part of the yang to the default’s ying. Itself a default, establishment alternative. But somehow a bit non-U. But sometimes the dominance is such that there is no real established alternative.
Here are some default/alt staples of my youth:
Cereal: Kelloggs / Weetabix
Chocolate: Cadburys / Rowntree
Media: BBC / ITV
Cars: Ford / Vauxhall
Shoes: Clarks / Startrite
Biscuits: McVities / none
Chocolate biscuits: Pengiun / wagon wheels
Burgers: McDonalds / Wimpy (now BK)
Squash: Robinson’s / none
Campsites: Eurocamp / Keycamp
Supermarkets: Sainsbury’s / Tesco (I suspect for others that might be different)
Newsagents: WHSmith / John Menzies
Soft drinks: Coke / Pepsi
Instant coffee: Nescafé / Maxwell House
Portuguese beer: Superbock / Sagres
Mid range clothes shop: M&S / Next
Tesco was downmarket. Sainsbury's were moving from staffed counters to self service.
Ice Cream: Walls. Alt: Lyons Maid.
I buy Co-op West Country salted caramel - unbeatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froneri
Edit to add:
Froneri owns Hangen-Dazs outside the US, while General Mills owns it in the US.
It is ironic that you’re struggling to spell Häagen-Dazs as the name was, of course, entirely made up to sound vaguely Scandinavian and doesn’t obey any actual Scandinavian orthography.Haazgen-Dazs is owned by Froneri, which is British, no?And now it's Hagen Dazs and Ben & Jerry's - a US takeover (though the latter is now owned by Anglo-Dutch Uniliver).Very interesting. And each age is different. 'Next' for example did not exist in my formative years, nor McDonalds. The rivals to M & S were BHS, Littlewoods, but all regarded as very much second and also rans. Huntley and Palmer would have been a rival to the great McVitie. Heinz had no rival in the baked bean and tomato ketchup stakes. Birds Eye and Findus occupied pole positions in frozen stuff.I was a crunchy nut eater for much of my youth. Can’t remember when I last ate a bowl of Kelloggs.They are both items where the difference in price between Kelloggs version and super cheap supermarket version is eye watering.No one in their right mind would prefer Rice Krispies to Corn Flakes.Hard to know how you would prompt this without hitting the leading question problem. "What would your vote be if Farage became leader of Reform" is a very good way of a. putting Reform top of mind, b. implying that received wisdom is he'd do a better job for them.The last 2 polls by JLPartners on Wikepedia had Lab on 41 and 42, and Reform on 13% in both, so not sure where the shift figures in the header come from.They conducted a standard VI poll at the same time. Then added the Farage leading Reform question as a supllementary.
There would seem to be a few percent Con to Reform shift, but possibly just MOE.
The changes are with that poll.
Many probably thought Farage was head of Reform anyway. It's like asking "would you prefer Rice Krispies or Cornflakes?" then "what about if the Cornflakes were fortified with vitamins and iron?" I bet you'd get a few people changing their choice simply because they were being prompted.
Just unnatural.
They (or their Lidl proxy) are both essential for making chocolatey nest thingeys with mini eggs on top suitable for Easter and after.
Agree. Cornflakes only the rest of the year.
Kelloggs is one of those companies I think of as default brands. When you dominate a category so much, particularly if you’re consumed by children in their formative years, that you’re almost establishment. Default. Normal.
Usually there is an “alternative” that plays the part of the yang to the default’s ying. Itself a default, establishment alternative. But somehow a bit non-U. But sometimes the dominance is such that there is no real established alternative.
Here are some default/alt staples of my youth:
Cereal: Kelloggs / Weetabix
Chocolate: Cadburys / Rowntree
Media: BBC / ITV
Cars: Ford / Vauxhall
Shoes: Clarks / Startrite
Biscuits: McVities / none
Chocolate biscuits: Pengiun / wagon wheels
Burgers: McDonalds / Wimpy (now BK)
Squash: Robinson’s / none
Campsites: Eurocamp / Keycamp
Supermarkets: Sainsbury’s / Tesco (I suspect for others that might be different)
Newsagents: WHSmith / John Menzies
Soft drinks: Coke / Pepsi
Instant coffee: Nescafé / Maxwell House
Portuguese beer: Superbock / Sagres
Mid range clothes shop: M&S / Next
Tesco was downmarket. Sainsbury's were moving from staffed counters to self service.
Ice Cream: Walls. Alt: Lyons Maid.
I buy Co-op West Country salted caramel - unbeatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froneri
Edit to add:
Froneri owns Hangen-Dazs outside the US, while General Mills owns it in the US.
Nonesense.What is a lanyard and why are they important?The ribbon like thingy which one wears around the collar* to bear a security pass at work.
Apparently seen as a crucial issue by HMG.
*Edit: neck, really, but in practice outside the collar. They became a thing about 25-30 years ago in big organizations.