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The polling evidence against Johnson mounts – politicalbetting.com
The polling evidence against Johnson mounts – politicalbetting.com
New Saanta-ComRes polling issued this evening has more bad news for Johnson who is still the occupant at Number 10.
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https://twitter.com/GraemeDemianyk/status/1491849841525334020
Someone had to post it...
https://twitter.com/nickfaith82/status/1491850497086603270
Deciding what the hell to do about all the criminals in the Met is the trick here.
Get Chris Patten to chair the review.
https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV/status/1491850593404600320
She will get a higher paid job, a golden parachute and a golden hello. All on the taxpayer.
That's failure at her level in the world.
I'd be more afraid of Boris trying a power grab by moving various specialist units directly under the Home Office, or even Cabinet Office control.
However. Am I alone in being annoyed that for a second time, the head of counter terror has been deposed by a politician over whom I exert no democratic control?
Does she just not think about it?
Indeed , I really hope conservative mps act on return to the Commons, irrespective of the investigation and Sue Gray
Not that Dick was very good at counterterrorism. The one time she tried, her men shot somebody completely innocent.
No, think of the advantages
A chocolate teapot won't accidentally shoot Brazilian sparkies on the tube
A chocolate teapot won't try and frame Cabinet Ministers
A chocolate teapot won't be corrupt and stupid
etc etc
And you'd also have chocolate.
What's not to like?
"Constable Savage approves this message."
I suppose you could argue that a Rishi led government would spend less, but more effectively. Perhaps?
People don't resign because their position is untenable. They work to make it MORE untenable and blame the people presenting the evidence.
If you are in the Senior Management Team and they start firing people in The Senior Management Team for being shit - well you are up next. So it is vital that she be re-hired immediately for more money.
It's A Self Preservation Society.....
I'm sorry, but I have to give you 1/10 for that piece of work...
So I'm not quite sure why you think anyone else would 'spend less.'
https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/1491842837595492353
In light of that post, Jupiter isn't quite far enough.
Can we make it Alpha Centauri?
PC Dick gone.
The more pertinent question is who organised the coverup, including the - ahem - implausible but suspiciously consistent answers officers gave at the inquest.
How about we revise the offer to -
2) 50% to deliver the entire DfE to extra-solar escape velocity, with a bonus for every extra 0.01% of C achieved.
??
Hopefully by the time he finds that the 'charges' we have in mind to be dropped against him are literally made of dynamite it'll be too late for him to change his mind...
Russia is not seeking any exit and the only time they even hesitate is when credible deterrence is offered by NATO. So those who posted this morning that things were winding down seem to be rather mistaken. The regime in Moscow believes in the use of force as a legitimate act of state policy. The last time that was tried it ended very badly indeed. However the only way to stop this blackmail is to make sure that if Russia launches an attack on its neighbour then the cost is so severe that even Putin should fear the consequences.
If the Tories see heavy losses then Sunak's time may come
@MacaesBruno
Bizarre to see prominent Brits praise Lavrov - the ultimate bore - just because they hate Brexit
Who else wants a job? We've got the High Inquisition & Gardening staffed....
Britain needs the steel products they make and needs the steel production capacity and capabilities they offer. Letting the company go to the wall and the UK reliant on foreign imports is a strategic disaster.
Supposedly this is the kind of thing Brexit was going to stop. Allowing the UK government to legally provide the exact same state aid that half the EU states provide illegally. And yet as with cutting VAT on energy we campaigned for the right to do so but now choose not to.
This government really couldn't give a fuck could it?
If I were Patel, I would be furious tonight. But equally it is her own stupid fault for not taking the initiative to get rid of Dick when she had the initiative.
I agree it's a disaster, especially for Rotherham.
My expectation is that the biggest levelling up spending this parliament will be on buses. Because you can spend on them quickly. There's already quite a lot of bus spending in the pipeline.
Sad because my step-mother remembers, in her words, the poor boys in St Petersburg (yes, but that is how she thinks of the place) in the late 80s. The ones without arms or legs.
There will be many.
Dick was more likely to prop up Johnson. Her successor is more likely to want to make a point: distancing himself or herself from the whiff of corruption and cosying up.
I'm wondering if Priti Patel has done this deliberately to make Johnson more exposed. (Whitehall had to approve Khan's decision.)
If he was about to surge armies through the Fulda gap then OK its war. But through the Suwalki gap? No.
Doesn't anyone else watch "The Blacklist"??
https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1491853394306379777?s=21
At least someone of power in London has the courage to punish serial incompetence.
Simple question for Khan, when did you first hear of the Downing Street booze ups and how long did you sit on the knowledge?
I don’t like this sacking at all. Why now. Why this moment? It stinks.
For the first time it smells to me of political establishment cover up. It was right the police did not act when they knew partying was going on, someone very high up the chain made that correct call - now Dick is gone all we are going to get is sacrificed scape goats, not the truth. The police should not be made the scapegoat for making the right call at the time. Nor should Labour lawyers request yesterday have investigation blocked by the sacking of someone who would investigate replaced by someone who won’t.
If you think this post is bonkers and don’t like it at all, remember You read it here first.
Where have we heard that before?
I think this is more likely to expose Johnson, not less. We know that Priti Patel has been sounding out support.
Bus Back Better is worth a look on this. Interesting not least because Boris genuinely seems to have written the introduction in his name. It is written in pure Borisese.
The only problem with subsidising fares is that you need to keep spending. It's not capital spend. Though if by doing so you drive up passengers sufficiently it dies start to pay for itself.
Would you have preferred we’d sold out Ukraine for a press conference?
It was a difficult meeting that didn’t achieve anything. That was all it was ever going to be. But sometimes you need to go through the motions.
Read some Herman Kahn. A huge historical mistake is to assume that dictatorial opponents are individual actors, without enormous pressures from their barons.
Putin isn't sitting in a vast, marble lined room, by a huge fire. With a globe of the world, and a fine brandy.. he is not deciding the fate of the world like a personal chess game.
He is the pinnacle of a pyramid of ruthless and powerful men. Each of them (and Putin himself) have ideologies they cleave to. Alliance, requirements, hatreds. They have things they believe in, more than just money and power. Though those are very important.
Think of a medieval court.....
From Putin's point of view, it may be that a giant tank battle with NATO forces is the safe option for him personally. Another Great Patriotic War to rally the dying embers of his regime.
We may hope not. But it might be.
What is rational to us, may not even be the 13th best choice to him.
If they are not paying their taxes, then this was inevitable.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1491852177043861507
But war? Lets assume that Russia takes Kiev. Are we going to war with Russia knowing at best that we get sucked into a mess and at worse we all get nuked? So very few of the conventional WWIII scenarios find a resolution without nukes being fired.
Dunno about you but I'd prefer not to get nuked. So lets go after Russian money as we are threatening. Problem is that we can't just make vague threats as the idiot Truss did - we need to actually propose international sanctions.
Quite right. Margaret Thatcher, whom I've praised as a great PM, nevertheless allowed our manufacturing infrastructure to be run into the ground.
Her obsessive private sector economics and hatred of the State destroyed much of the industrial spine of this country.
@ShehabKhan
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NEW: I understand Sadiq Khan called Cressida Dick for a meeting this afternoon to tell her he no longer had confidence in her.
She declined the meeting invite and offered her resignation instead.
It also blurs, as you say, all the stuff about timelines and what really happened.. And the police* do love the idea that leaving a post shuts down any investigation into the holder.
*Civil Service as well.
'Sue Gray!' jokes one veteran observer of the force's leadership over the years.
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1491859945091964928
“Last week. I made clear to the
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
the scale of the change I believe is
urgently required to rebuild the
trust and confidence of Londoners
in the Met and to root out the
racism, sexism, homophobia,
bullying, discrimination and
misogyny that still exists.
“I am not satisfied with the
Commissioner’s response.
“On being informed of this, Dame
Cressida Dick has said she will be
standing aside. It’s clear that the
only way to start to deliver the
scale of the change required is to
have new leadership right at the
top of the Metropolitan Police."
"Met transitioning after Dick is removed"