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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 49m

This should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Forsa have been one of only two pollsters who have repeatedly had the AfD in the lead while the other six major polling institutes all still tend to record leads for CDU/CSU or at best ties between them and the AfD/

Full data: www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

This makes one of my best friends, an otherwise impressively umimpressible Swede, intensely happy: his club Mjällby, who have never won any title nor ever qualified for European football before, are almost certain to be Swedish champions, leading the league by 11 points with just 4 games to go.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Corrections is that you find out how truly unreadable it is when you try to read it aloud to someone.

At least his writing has never been as dodgy as that again.

Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

Is the unhinged part that you said should be when you were bound to say shouldn't be?

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

Also a very sluggish ruin by union.

Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on the alternatives.

Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 1d

Week in week out, signs of an electorate crying out for electoral reform.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 3d

How do you get a Royal Correspondent to appreciate that this story is not about a bit of a Royal boo-boo but about sexual abuse?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 3d

Do these people only ever go back ten years or so to determine their claimed records?

Gerd Mueller scored his first 50 goals for Germany in just 41 games.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 3d

Which is not a record, as falsely claimed by the BBC. As Mueller did it in 41. Which was all I am saying.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of international goals scored by Gerd Müller - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 3d

Do these people only ever go back ten years or so to determine their claimed records?

Gerd Mueller scored his first 50 goals for Germany in just 41 games.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 4d

At some point respondents should start accepting that credibility is by now a very low bar in British politics.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 4d

How about the altogether cuddlier absolute monarchy route of Liechtenstein?

Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 4d

For all his faults, Gordon Brown has always been a rare exception among Prime Ministers of this country - smart and conscientious.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

I know.

It is ridiculous. But two of those minor parties on 17% still think of themselves as very big players. And won't stop doing so even when facing near wipe-out during the next election campaign.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

Unlikely after an election in which Reform could win 2/3 of seats.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. And in the same vein compensation to slaves and their ancestors has been also to the tune of what was deemed necessary.

Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

I am obviously not saying that that is how the figure was calculated. Just one way of looking at it.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

Multiplied by the average slave holder compensation, that would come to more than 1.5 trillion pounds.

Not sure whether slaves and their ancestors being compensated to the tune of ten times of what slave owners "deserved" should be seen as too much or too little.

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 6d

By my back of the envelop calculations the 18 trillion would mean paying about 10 times as much compensation per slave as Britain has paid to slave holders.

£20m paid to slaveholders, of which there were around 46,000

And Britain bought and sold around 3.5m slaves.

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 6d

Irish TDs ”remembers” Margaret Thatcher Spitting Image sketch as anecdote about Charlie Haughey is something

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 7d

Wouldn't want the bubble to burst without being in it.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 7d

This is a tragedy.
They could have just asked for volunteers to help.

Also, that would have given a good reason for quotation marks around the word destroyed in the headline.

www.thenational.scot/news/2552768...

7000 litres of beer 'destroyed' after Storm Amy cancels Scottish city's Oktoberfest

ORGANISERS behind Edinburgh's Oktoberfest said they were forced to destroy 7000 litres of “good” beer after Storm Amy cancelled the event ...

www.thenational.scot

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Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 7d

Schopenhauer: "Eine grobe Bratwurst besiegt jedes Argument."

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