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Monday’s going to be a big day for Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Monday’s going to be a big day for Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Clearly this is a period of high danger for Johnson. With CON MP’s returning to Westminster they will be able to report on the reaction in their constituencies to what came out before the weekend. My guess is that a collective view will emerge.
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I don't see why your tv just becomes an internet capable device same as an ipad and you stick your entertainment apps on. Amazon Firestick already is this.
Déjà vu all over again. This repeats a statement in the header which was discussed a week or two ago. Livingston was not "discredited" when first defeated by BJ.
Dispensing with him must only be an absolute last resort and even then only if it is certain Sunak will replace him
Surely NOT too high a standard for the BBC? Surely NOT for those of us admirers and consumers!
For Americans of a certain age, it's an abbreviation that immediately summons to mind - freedom, integrity and the best of British.
> A free people with free institutions (warts and all) with high standards of reliability & responsibility.
> Broadcasting truth (or a reasonably facsimile) to the world, including men and women huddled in front of their radios, listening under threat of arrest or worse for the word in a bit of code ("berce mon coeur d'une langueur monotone") to go out into the night to strike another blow for freedom versus tyranny.
> And doing it in a classically British way; indeed, for us perhaps THE definition of what "British" is all about (beyond red coats, powdered wigs and warm beer that is).
Totally romantic crap. And very positive, appealing crap we are loath to abandon, even if we could.
One reason for the great success of British content on PBS most notably in the early days (1960-70s) "Masterpiece Theater" which BTW was probably my mother's favorite TV series of all time (next to "I Love Lucy"). And also for making Monty Python and Doctor Who huge hits with the next generation(s).
NOTE that for most Americans (even those who know better) "BBC" means anything British that's broadcast. Like saying generic use of coke (as in the beverage) or the way you say "hoover"
Brits have every right - and apparently many good(ish) grounds - for criticizing-abusing-denouncing the Beeb. But do NOT be shocked when it rolls like Malvern water off a mallard's back.
Robert Syms, the conservative mp for Poole is considering joining those who have submitted letters telling the Telegraph
'Like my colleague, Tim Loughton, I am considering whether or not I aught to put in a letter'
He added
'I have had e mails from what I would call Christian, decent, honest, honourable types of conservative voters who say they feel embarrassed about voting conservative with Boris Johnson'
Why aren't you embarrassed
@HYUFD
Good grief.
Its obvious more ignoring their own rules, but doesn't move the story on.
They real deal sealer is the Big Dog photoed absolutely shit faced at one of these parties.
As Max says if they are going streaming and you have to have their second grade telly lots of people aren't going to be happy with that. They paid £5k for a OLED or QLED telly and now you say I can't watch Sky unless I buy another telly and £100 a month. Tough sell.
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2022/01/why-johnson-has-a-duty-to-continue-as-prime-minister.html
Sunak is Hindu, as is Patel and Javid is Muslim and Truss does not seem to have any religion at all, at least in terms of active participation in it
> If she tries to, as Sarah Palin used to say (remember her?) "put lipstick on a pig", many Tory MPs are quite prepared to call the report a whitewash, or at very least less than fully persuasive. OR are in process of girding their loins to do so.
> On the other hand, if she documents and provides a convenient summary of Dumb and Dumber in Downing Street, then same MPs will be delighted or relieved but certainly willing and able to cite it as reason for parting ways with the PM.
More importantly, Nick P made very cogent points at end of previous thread, re: backlash versus too much piling on.
Certainly think MPs and other spokespeople for Labour and other opposition parties are advised to be very circumspect in their reactions and rhetoric: think before you speak - and speak as little as possible.
Let the Tories do the talking. Leave the chatter from peanut galleries to likes of the rest of us on PB & etc.
In the US they already offering triple play, ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ streaming package. So you get the sports, the kids content and growns up telly.
Flip Wilson Show - The Church Of What's Happening Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJati2W7uA
Genuine LOL.
I guess his only problem with the catholic church he joined in order to get married is that you only get to offload your sins at confession once a week whereas he would prefer an hourly option.
But no, even the z list celebs are actually technically celebs rather than utter social pariahs.
Was it the Bozzatron himself perchance?
I suppose it might come to that.
Just a matter of when not if.
I doubt he will be able to properly appear in public again in years without being boo-ed and chanted at.
I really don't think you see the anger out here in middle england.
(Actually, hasn't one of his lady friends nicknamed him Alexander the Great? Can't remember- and really don't want to try- if it was Carrie or the Fruity American Lady.)
It's a bit like with late-period Gordon Brown when people had decided he'd lost it and even moves that would have gone down well from a generic Labour politician came across as desperate flailing because most people had made their minds up that they disliked him - despite having thought him a strong leader less than a year earlier and a very good chancellor for much of the previous decade.
Correctly me if I'm wrong, but aren't they the heart and (dare I say?) soul of the Conservative base vote?
Personally am quite sure the lion's share of UK Conservatives, like US Republicans, are indeed decent, honest and honorable. Including Evanglicals, which I think are what the guy (mostly) meant by Christian.
Of course they often get misled & used by less-commendable types. As observed by Abraham Lincoln.
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'Vote Conservative to end the BBC' doesn't sound like an election-winning slogan, does it?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17344129/boris-johnson-royal-navy-migrant-channel-crossings/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17344129/boris-johnson-royal-navy-migrant-channel-crossings/
https://twitter.com/LucyMPowell/status/1482798166806249473?cxt=HHwWgoCy4fLE-pMpAAAA
Drowning man flails around in the water, yelling 'call in the army' as the waves go over his blonde head.
- N Bonaparte
Hitler: "Our generals are the scum of the German people! Not a shred of honour! They call themselves generals. "
How is the Navy going to stop migrants?
Please explain
When political parties concentrate on explaining the issues and their policies, educating the electorate, it makes for stronger elections stronger democracy. That has to be a political parties first priority, putting the country and our democracy first, before anything else.
So not this Prime Minister. Not this bullshit.
He is done. Never was a flush more busted.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/16/self-isolation-law-set-scrapped-favour-move-towards-learning/
Only the requirement to wear facemasks in shops or on public transport will stay
It's a desperate, desperate attempt to be seen by backbenchers to be doing something as this administration comes to an end.
Meanwhile, it has this:
However, a requirement to wear face masks on public transport, in shops and in other settings is likely to stay beyond January 26.
Looks like the masks are staying…
As for Boris Johnson, doubt his conversion to Catholicism is as politically OR personally significant as, say, that of James II.
Which is NOT same as saying that it's insincere, or may become so. Whatever happens, he's going though some heavy stuff right now. Whatever faith he's got, in something bigger than himself (which clearly ain't the Conservative Party) could well be a blessing for him as a person, if not a politico, now and beyond.
Maybe even both IF truly the age of miracles is not yet past.
But no doubt YOU are a handsome devil, sick and tired of having a freaking face rag cramping your style!
Personally have gone the entire time so far being pretty cautious, and have zero problem keeping it up for the duration. Realize the odds of coming down with some form, at least a mild case, at some point are somewhat high. But would like to postpone as long as possible! Certainly while the health care system is jammed, both by dealing with patients AND lack of staff due to their illness, or lack of child care or other knock-off effects.
Yesterday took my first (at home) COVID test. And failed . . . meaning a negative result!
Re your questions from the previous thread
"1. Yes. The external regulator is part of the legal blob too.
2. Don't be patronising with the "Believe me - I know" stuff. I have conducted a lot of big ass Commercial Court litigation.
3. Explain: how would it take more than a couple of hours, given access to the email accounts of all recipients of the invite (which is expressly mandated by the terms of ref), to establish what we want to know, which is: did BJ know the party was a party?"
Apologies - was travelling. So no time to respond.
I too have done lots of big ass Commercial Court litigation. But I am not being patronising when I say that you are missing the point. Investigations are NOT like Commercial Court litigation even though a lot of lawyers wrongly assume they are and that any litigation lawyer or lawyer can do them.
They can't. Some lawyers can become good investigators. But you need particular skills to do good investigations. Far fewer lawyers have these skills than they like to think.
Investigations and Commercial Court litigation are very different. Wanting shortened litigation as in civil courts tells you little about how a fact-finding investigation needs to be done.
You are also assuming a very narrow remit. You need to establish the following (IMO)
1. The relevant laws and guidelines at all the applicable times.
2. All internal instructions that were given, by whom and to whom, both written and verbal.
3. What proof there was of people having received them.
4. All the communications relating to social events - when sent, by whom, to who copied etc and all responses, both written and verbal.
Just getting all those emails and chats and any that were deleted and making sure you have a complete set takes more than a couple of hours.
5. Any other electronic or other records relating to the events.
6. Interviews of all those involved
and so on.
That is how I'd approach something like this if I wanted to do a complete and accurate fact-finding investigation with a view to determining whether people had broken internal rules and/or lied about what they had done ie as a basis for an internal disciplinary proceeding.
That takes more than a few hours.
It is not even clear that Ms Gray has the authority to obtain the necessary material to do any meaningful interviews.
If you want a quick and dirty take we have that already, as I've said.
But what we have already would not allow anyone to be disciplined. Or sacked. Not fairly anyway. Nor would it be sufficient to say that a criminal offence had potentially occurred.
If I wanted to collect evidence for possible use in criminal proceedings (and I've done plenty of these as well) then the requirements become even more onerous.
Whether it is sufficient to allow MPs or the public to make a political judgment is quite another matter but that is not dependant on a detailed fact-finding investigation.
-Put in place a set of pointless Plan B restrictions to be in place until Jan 26.
-Was talked out of a lockdown.
-Won't actually unroll all the Plan B restrictions on 26th Jan.
This is his fightback pitch?