Karim Palant
@karimpalant.bsky.social
Founder of the ‘Globalisation in one country’ movement. Economic policy and politics Ex Facebook Ex LinkedIn Ex Labour Adviser #efc… Posts are all my own views.
Luke Tryl and Seb Payne be like
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 5d agoNewsnight has just shown the Manchester (city) result and thought it was doing the full Manchester (Combined authority) result. The giveaway is Bev Craig got way over 50% of the vote and they did a second preference count. Total chaos. @luketryl.bsky.social asked to comment on just 92,000 votes
Newsnight has just shown the Manchester (city) result and thought it was doing the full Manchester (Combined authority) result. The giveaway is Bev Craig got way over 50% of the vote and they did a second preference count. Total chaos. @luketryl.bsky.social asked to comment on just 92,000 votes
reminds me of a discussion with a naive group of young social democrats from sister parties around Europe 25 years ago. ‘Turnout in the European elections is low. We need to get people to pay attention: we should give the EU powers to set member state tax and benefits levels that would sort it!’
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5d ago25% turnout for the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election. Nearly 3/4 of voters didn't show up for a contest, whose previous winner has just become prime minister. We shouldn't be blase about this: it raises big questions about the health of our democracy & the public appetite for the mayoral model.
Andy Burnham’s big speech on the Schleswig-Holstein question is going to be a banger
UEFA has announced they will boycott the World Cup. Italy has announced they’ll extend their boycott for another four years.
At 16 my mum with her English pen friend met a guy. He was an autograph collector. Bearing a weird resemblance to Paul McCartney (she did) and speaking passable English she used to pretend to be ‘Frankie’ McCartney his sister. This time it got out of control and he went away with her autograph.
Big Society, Champagne, Savings. Tory 2010 election slogan needs work.
Onegov, for the city streets Onegov for the hip-hop beats Onegov, oh, I do believe Onegov is all we need Louise Haigh to lead new ‘Office for the PM and Cabinet’ www.thetimes.com/article/708d...
Louise Haigh to lead new ‘Office for the PM and Cabinet’
First secretary of state, who resigned from Starmer’s administration over fraud conviction, will lead body driving delivery of Andy Burnham’s agenda
thetimes.com
Bridget and Jonny Reynolds have only gone into no10 because they heard Peter Reid was there.
‘They say I hate the party, and its traditions. I don't. I love this party. There's only one tradition I hated: ‘
Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 2w agoThis does make Andy Burnham the first Labour Prime Minister to not have a member of the Benn family in their Cabinet.
The Canadian and UK Prime Ministers both being Everton fans gives Tim Cahill a pivotal role in making CANZUK a reality
Ok - place your bets for lines from the Downing Street intro speech. I’m saying he uses ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’
‘54 Toni Turek Max Morlock (W. Germany) ‘78 Leopoldo Luque, Oscar Ortiz (Argentina) ‘82 Alessandro Altobelli (Italy) ‘98 Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane (France) ‘06 Gennaro Gattuso, Marco Materazzi (Italy) Daniele De Rossi (Italy) ‘18 Paul Pogba (France) ‘26 Pedro Porro, Mikel Merino (Spain)
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 2w agoPedro Porro would be only the 11th of this very specific type of World Cup winner …what is it?
The correct number is actually 12th. Folk have got **most** of the recent ones Gennaro Gattuso Paul Pogba Marco Matterazzi Zinedine Zidane (twice!)) Didier Deschamps But one recent (last 20 years) one missing. 2 in the 50. 2 in the 70s. 1 in the 80s.
Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 2w agoPedro Porro would be only the 11th of this very specific type of World Cup winner …what is it?
Pedro Porro would be only the 11th of this very specific type of World Cup winner …what is it?
Imagine if you managed to get a one goal lead against this Argentina side. You’d do anything not to lose it.
The Argentinians are sitting so deep I’m beginning to worry about their DNA
Mikel merino going all ‘hey look remember in the 80s they wore ridiculous shorts like this’ and then letting them down when the camera cut to him. We all saw it.
US Lefty academic Bluesky seems absolutely convinced that Shakira has some kind of genuine connection to the World Cup and loved the half time show.
World Cup moments…. Carlos Alberto v Italy (1970) … hand of god…. Tardelli ‘82… Gazza’s tears..zidane head but… a teenage Pele winning in 58… all great. All memorable. But the World Cup will now forever been Wayne Rooney’s. ‘It was crap’
Wayne Rooney absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible.
Them all going up to get Bronze medals and getting a big podium is quite funny
I don’t think it’s nothing that England have had their second best ever finish in the World Cup. It’s not much. But it’s not nothing. Also they did it in an extremely hilarious way