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What Price Shoes? – politicalbetting.com
What Price Shoes? – politicalbetting.com
The Biblical parable of the mustard seed teaches us that even the tiniest beginnings can grow into something very large. An example from history of this is a man who didn’t want to buy new footwear. It led to his downfall and death, an inter-empire war, and played a significant role in the rapid early rise of Islam.
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NEW: A Conservative MP, Christopher Chope, objected to the government's motion to finally approve the standards committee's findings on Owen Paterson. It means govt has to reschedule, probably with a debate. Sleaze agony prolonged
https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1460369895149948933
The far more elementary and damaging error is failing to tell Paterson to suck it up. An example of Boris' loyalty it may be but it has brought the house down around his (unshorn) locks. Just about every front page now can be traced back to his decision to whip the Paterson vote.
A better parable is the for want of a nail. Shoes do come in to it as well, obvs.
The Tories under Boris are also still roughly level with Starmer Labour, not well behind as May was by Spring 2019.
ReformUK is also merely a minor blip in most polls, not well into double figures as the Brexit Party was polling before May was deposed
Pretty soon they’re on their uppers.
Now what is it, I wonder...
Esther McVey
Derek Thomas
Vote was 300-229 so well over 100 MPs absent.
Shagger likes faffing about. With as many lovely ladies as he can afford to pay off
I'm afraid that one passed me by during my schooling. It doesn't have a catchy name, like those WW2 Battles that sound less important than they were, like Operation Market Garden.
But I am a sucker for historical analogies.
Very good. Carry on.
But in any case I think from his party perspective the point was it keeps it in the news, which is terrible for them. Was that his motivation because he thinks they deserve to be kicked? Past history suggests not, but we'll see if that was his intent.
"This week I have been mostly lying to the electorate."
This was the one I was thinking of
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/upskirting-bill-law-blocked-criminal-offence-christopher-chope-tory-mp-a8400686.html?amp
We just never get around to lighting it.
Following the biblical theme it seems like Russel Brand is continuing his quest to become a mystic with a leaning towards anti vaxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJBVMsF5AyA
Absolutely pathetic from the hopeless Boris.
Utterly crap policy decision.
We've been over this. Several times. It was a lovely dream but it was never going to happen
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.[Matthew 13:31–32]
Congratulations to Gareth Southgate and his
@England
squad on sealing qualification for next year’s World Cup with tonight's win over San Marino
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1460373997267435533?s=20
The personification of sleaze!
I note that the Dutch didn’t airily say “Amsterdam to London direct was a nice dream but was never going to happen”, they JFDI.
Nor is there any great reason why Northerners would want to go to London in half the time they do now, agreed
THE BAD GUYS ARE WINNING
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
You could imagine that the argument made to Johnson during the infamous Telegraph dinner was that he had to pay the small price of saving Owen Paterson in order to keep his loyal army of Brexiteer backbenchers, who had won him so many recent political battles that had made him Emperor Prime Minister, happy, loyal and not at all rebellious. Perhaps Johnson saw the minor matter of kicking Paterson's suspension into the long grass of a Parliamentary committee as equivalent to the small price of buying his army new shoes.
And, if we think about it, Johnson could be forgiven for thinking this was the accurate appraisal of the facts. The Brexiteer backbenchers were his Praetorian Guard, and they had many reasons to be unhappy - months of Covid restrictions still rankles, tax rises, COP26 - to have one of their number dragged over the coals could have been the frayed footwear that sent them over the edge.
Given all the previous offences to standards of probity and good governance committed by B Johnson it was a massive surprise that this was one that has - at least temporarily - broken the inaccountability shield that normally shrouds the Prime Minister.
As Morris Dancer's example demonstrates, predicting where this might end up is impossible. The mob is fickle.
Have to admit, I think 2 hours to get to Manchester is fine as it is, although I know people say the real benefit of HS2 is increased capacity. I do think though the optics of this are bad for BJ though.
Were the Brexiteer awkward squad really in such uproar they needed mollifying in such a way which would cause obvious problems? They had not caused him any major difficulty. Surely not all the Brexiteers were lined up in outrage about Paterson such that protecting him would mollify them?
As explanations go, and given his history, I'm more inclined to think Boris saw personal advantage in doing it and that he could manage the fallout, rather than he was doing Paterson, or Paterson's mates, a favour to keep them on board.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/15/beto-orourke-texas-governor-campaign-522336
Pleasant dreams.
What a shit show. They can't even get their leaks to the press right.
Either that or the policy has actually changed in the past 12 hours. Which would be even more shambolic.
No other explanation makes any sense.
But I like driving. Normally I don’t drive it alone, and I do my stint first and then sit in the back with my cams on. I don’t know if this helps? But looking at the comment we are commenting on, it’s quite a closed view about people but all people would be different, some prefer train, some not have reasons to travel so often. And I came before graduation.
I don’t want to be rude, but why is H Y F U D an ass?
Or is he an Okapi?
Sighs.
By the way, did you consider doing a zoom for the birthday party?
If that's accurate, it's brilliant news. More chance for Labour to benefit from a bit of blue-on-blue action as some Tory MPs try to defend the indefensible.
"In rapidly aging Japan, more diapers are used by older, incontinent people than by babies. "
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/world/asia/adult-diapers-japan.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-5&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=313790201&impression_id=9f04c39c-466a-11ec-abdd-21a7590591bc&index=5&pgtype=Article&pool=pool/91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1&region=footer&req_id=19636385&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=1_bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-5