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If you thought Carney's victory was Trump's biggest 'triumph' since being elected, Mexico's leftist president Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of 85%.

And Australia, where Peter Dutton's been flailing about calling The Guardian and ABC "hate media". He's being trounced on personal ratings by Albanese and may do worse than before on the two party comparison.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:15 am I've been calling him Poliviere for years. It's Polievre. Apol.

Doesn't much matter now.

I've got a funny feeling we haven't heard the last of him, in the way that we haven't heard the last of Truss.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:15 am I've been calling him Poliviere for years. It's Polievre. Apol.

Ditto, only with 2 ‘l’s

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:53 pm I've got a funny feeling we haven't heard the last of him, in the way that we haven't heard the last of Truss.

If by that you mean he’ll go on to make an increasingly humiliating and stupid bunch of speeches and proclamations, make ever more desperate appearances at conferences in other countries where the hosts clearly have no idea who they are, and frequently act as the kiss of death whenever they endorse someone or something, then I am all for this

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 1:44 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:15 am I've been calling him Poliviere for years. It's Polievre. Apol.

Ditto, only with 2 ‘l’s

One "I.
Still can't see.

I've realized I'm still not getting his name right. In the meantime, a bit of levity.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 6:43 pm I've realized I'm still not getting his name right.

Don't be too hard on yourself unless he becomes the tie-breaker in your local pub quiz in ten years' time.

Carney takes a bit of ribbing for his school boy French. If you're planning to become Canadian PM after a tight election you should swot up.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 10:31 am Poilievre has indeed lost his seat. This, from a position of a whopping majority predicted just 3 months ago.

Amazing.

One big reason I'm seeing for losing his seat was that his constituency/riding was in the suburbs of Ottowa, and campaigning for a DOGE-like exercise on the Canadian federal government when your seat contains an awful lot of public-sector workers was perhaps not the smartest of ideas.

That rings very true. All the results in Ottawa that I've found were terrible for the Tories. Has a London post-Brexit look about it, where MPs who'd been confidently totting up the new professionals moving in suddenly realized that these professionals preferred Corbyn to May in Kipper mode.

Oh dear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e98w35qyjo

Canadian police say nine people have been killed in a mass shooting at a school and home in the remote rural community of Tumbler Ridge in the western British Columbia province.

Another 25 people were injured, and the suspect's body was also found at the scene.

“Oh dear”. Is that really the best you can muster in response to a violent murderous atrocity ?

What do you want? Screaming outrage?

Go fuck yourself, pal.

What do you want? Screaming outrage?

No but 'oh dear' is equally inappropriate.

What Ian said. It’s back on the block list for you, Mr. Boiler.

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:09 pm No but 'oh dear' is equally inappropriate.

The expression is one of my weariness.

Weary of seeing the gun-toting in the North American continent treating human life as something cheap, worthless and expendable.

Weary of the "thoughts and prayers" that follows - an empty gesture towards those whose lives have been torn apart by death.

I would suggest the reason this tragedy has made the UK news is because this school shooting is in Canada rather than the US of Whatever where such events are so routine they are no-longer newsworthy.
Listening to this news this morning the words "school shooting" washed over me until I literally did a double take ... wait a minute, did he say Canada?!!

Oboogie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 8:49 pm I would suggest the reason this tragedy has made the UK news is because this school shooting is in Canada rather than the US of Whatever where such events are so routine they are no-longer newsworthy.
Listening to this news this morning the words "school shooting" washed over me until I literally did a double take ... wait a minute, did he say Canada?!!

As I once saw elsewhere - it may even have been here - "If it wasn't for the shootings in schools I wouldn't have believed the USA had schools."