The witness has claimed it was entirely social all along as far as I am aware, so nothing new
Yes, and even if the witness is right that the bit he saw was entirely social, the question for plod is whether it was part of a wider work event, ie campaigning.
Many disastrous things are happening to the Tories. Not sure this is one
So Boris knew this guy had a character flaw, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Isn’t that the charitable, Christian thing to do?
Perhaps Mr Pincher was given a warning before he took up the job? “No groping, please”. Which would be entirely fair
Or are we going to ban anyone from having a job if they have “a reputation”?
Certainly having a Finance Minister who rather liked very young chaps in their sports kit didn't ultimately damage the SNP very much.
True - but a different context. This is all about Boris and is another nail in the coffin.
For the older among us, this is all too reminiscent of poor ole "Back to Basics" John Major and the neverending series of sleaze stories that helped terminate his government.
BJ will not be leading the Tories into the next GE. The hearts of the backbenchers are hardening.
As standards dwindle even further under BoJo, still no sign as to how they’ll get rid of him
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
First Yes lead in quite a while - a mighty 1%. Surprised that she should "tweet her delight" at that TBH.
Scots (Nats) cannae spin? Then how to explain the Highland Fling?!
Many disastrous things are happening to the Tories. Not sure this is one
So Boris knew this guy had a character flaw, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Isn’t that the charitable, Christian thing to do?
Perhaps Mr Pincher was given a warning before he took up the job? “No groping, please”. Which would be entirely fair
Or are we going to ban anyone from having a job if they have “a reputation”?
Certainly having a Finance Minister who rather liked very young chaps in their sports kit didn't ultimately damage the SNP very much.
True - but a different context. This is all about Boris and is another nail in the coffin.
For the older among us, this is all too reminiscent of poor ole "Back to Basics" John Major and the neverending series of sleaze stories that helped terminate his government.
BJ will not be leading the Tories into the next GE. The hearts of the backbenchers are hardening.
As standards dwindle even further under BoJo, still no sign as to how they’ll get rid of him
End days when a PB Tory uses the Graun as a source. But perhaps that is the point.
That route looks extremely circuitous and fraught with potential delay and derailment. I think it will come from within the Cabinet. A non-front runner who wants to be a front runner (the other front runners are not going to do it as they think they have too much to lose) could do it.
Patel, Raab, or (snigger) Gove could wield the knive with a spectacular resignation, and therefore catapult themselves into consideration.
Gove is the only one who I think might do it.
He has form wrt Johnson of course.
I thought Raab might do it, though perhaps Gove is a likelier candidate.
All recent evidence of strategic resignations is that they do not force a change of leadership. We've seen it fail under Blair, Brown and Corbyn for Labour, and Cameron and May for the blue team. There are two days of headlines and the leader appoints a replacement.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
Just tell 'em NOT to do what you DID do at their age. About as off-putting (for them) as possible?
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Scottish voters are split over whether an independence referendum should be held next year according to a new poll that suggests the country remains locked in a constitutional stalemate.
A Panelbase poll for The Sunday Times suggests that 44 per cent of voters oppose Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to stage a referendum in October 2023, with 43 per cent in favour. Ten per cent said they neither supported or opposed a referendum and 3 per cent said they did not know.
On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.
Many disastrous things are happening to the Tories. Not sure this is one
So Boris knew this guy had a character flaw, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Isn’t that the charitable, Christian thing to do?
Perhaps Mr Pincher was given a warning before he took up the job? “No groping, please”. Which would be entirely fair
Or are we going to ban anyone from having a job if they have “a reputation”?
Certainly having a Finance Minister who rather liked very young chaps in their sports kit didn't ultimately damage the SNP very much.
True - but a different context. This is all about Boris and is another nail in the coffin.
For the older among us, this is all too reminiscent of poor ole "Back to Basics" John Major and the neverending series of sleaze stories that helped terminate his government.
BJ will not be leading the Tories into the next GE. The hearts of the backbenchers are hardening.
As standards dwindle even further under BoJo, still no sign as to how they’ll get rid of him
End days when a PB Tory uses the Graun as a source. But perhaps that is the point.
That route looks extremely circuitous and fraught with potential delay and derailment. I think it will come from within the Cabinet. A non-front runner who wants to be a front runner (the other front runners are not going to do it as they think they have too much to lose) could do it.
Patel, Raab, or (snigger) Gove could wield the knive with a spectacular resignation, and therefore catapult themselves into consideration.
Gove is the only one who I think might do it.
He has form wrt Johnson of course.
I thought Raab might do it, though perhaps Gove is a likelier candidate.
All recent evidence of strategic resignations is that they do not force a change of leadership. We've seen it fail under Blair, Brown and Corbyn for Labour, and Cameron and May for the blue team. There are two days of headlines and the leader appoints a replacement.
That's true. We have more of a presidential style government these days, almost like America where the Cabinet members are essentially interchangeable and disposable. Mind you, even Nigel Lawson's resignation did not end Mrs Thatcher's Prime Ministership, and Sir Geoffrey Howe's was only the final straw.
Scottish voters are split over whether an independence referendum should be held next year according to a new poll that suggests the country remains locked in a constitutional stalemate.
A Panelbase poll for The Sunday Times suggests that 44 per cent of voters oppose Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to stage a referendum in October 2023, with 43 per cent in favour. Ten per cent said they neither supported or opposed a referendum and 3 per cent said they did not know.
On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
Scottish voters are split over whether an independence referendum should be held next year according to a new poll that suggests the country remains locked in a constitutional stalemate.
A Panelbase poll for The Sunday Times suggests that 44 per cent of voters oppose Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to stage a referendum in October 2023, with 43 per cent in favour. Ten per cent said they neither supported or opposed a referendum and 3 per cent said they did not know.
On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
As HYUFD will tell you that is 48% in favour 52% opposed.
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Is that sophisticated? Certainly sounds it!
Sounds it to me. I would fall for it.
LOL. Not sure I have heard that phrase since I was a kid. My gran used to say DIn-Dins either when she was talking to me and my sister (at the age of about 5) or to her pet cat and dog. I have never heard it used when addresing anyone who had reached double figures in age.
Tory sleaze combined with utter idiocy sounds about right.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
It doesn’t serve the SNP to talk about that though.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
Just tell 'em NOT to do what you DID do at their age. About as off-putting (for them) as possible?
Yeah one party when my parents were away for the week ended with my brother in hospital. I remember desperately trying to sober up when I saw the paramedics... and realising that I really couldn't. I had another party a few days later to clean the house from top to bottom - there really was a remarkable amount of vomit. Let's hope tonight is nothing like that. It should be fine, my daughter is very sensible.
Get as far away from St Mark’s Square as you can, head over to the Arsenale, or beyond. Seek out one of the two remaining local places for local people. Eat cicchetti (Venetian tapas)
Alternatively, brace yourself, summon the 2nd mortgage and go into one of the 5 star hotels, like the Gritti or the St Regis. The food will be good (as it should be) but omg the price. So, not cheapish, sorry
We had our first (very indifferent) meal in a tourist trap on the Grand Canal. Then, my wife came up with the brilliant idea of finding out from the waiter, where he went to eat, and it was a wonderful little restaurant, down a tiny alley.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
If you want to impress the guests, wander downstairs, and ask them if any of them have found your crack pipe.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Tearing chunks out of each other over constitutional issues is much more fun.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Is that sophisticated? Certainly sounds it!
Sounds it to me. I would fall for it.
LOL. Not sure I have heard that phrase since I was a kid. My gran used to say DIn-Dins either when she was talking to me and my sister (at the age of about 5) or to her pet cat and dog. I have never heard it used when addresing anyone who had reached double figures in age.
Tory sleaze combined with utter idiocy sounds about right.
Would yours truly have turned up IF invited to a dinner by Chris Pincher MP?
Heck yes! For the grub has got to be first-rate, and then some.
Would limit my alcohol intake (per usual for me) AND maintain a cordial but respectful distance from the host.
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
If you want to impress the guests, wander downstairs, and ask them if any of them have found your crack pipe.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Unsolicited advice is the best kind.
Sorry, is there a rule that says that Brits can’t comment on British issues?
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
First Yes lead in quite a while - a mighty 1%. Surprised that she should "tweet her delight" at that TBH.
Well, she’s taken a punt on it, so I’d imagine she wants to encourage the base as well
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
If you want to impress the guests, wander downstairs, and ask them if any of them have found your crack pipe.
That might have worked in the 80s and 90s but I hear Gen Z are very abstemious.
They are more likely to be impressed if display your family's pronouns on the front door.
Rather than put in the actual effort of improving the Scottish settlement, they hamstring the rest of the country with a set of fantasies that never confront the troubling but boring reality.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
What I cannot understand, is how - against a backdrop of allegations of "misconduct" ruining peoples careers and serious jail sentences for sexual assault - is how anyone could still possibly be going around groping people. Those who do, must be completely reckless and insane.
"Further sips . . . in the evening when work is done and pleasure crooks her forefinger." - Chris Pincher
And fate is behind the door holding a sock full of wet sand.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Get as far away from St Mark’s Square as you can, head over to the Arsenale, or beyond. Seek out one of the two remaining local places for local people. Eat cicchetti (Venetian tapas)
Alternatively, brace yourself, summon the 2nd mortgage and go into one of the 5 star hotels, like the Gritti or the St Regis. The food will be good (as it should be) but omg the price. So, not cheapish, sorry
Is it worth going in January or February?
November and January are the best time to be there
The melancholy drizzle on the empty canals. The high water flooding the hotels. The angry chefs denied their ingredients, shouting at the water taxi drivers
It’s the only time the city returns to its inhabitants. Kinda
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Lol Scotch expert opines. Is that like UK does, eff do you people smoke.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
You see the thing that let you down was that you became reasonable rather than sweary.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Unsolicited advice is the best kind.
Sorry, is there a rule that says that Brits can’t comment on British issues?
It's funny, you never hear a peep out of Divvie et al when Stuart Dickson goes off on about England all the time.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Lol Scotch expert opines. Is that like UK does, eff do you people smoke.
Do you think the SNP are doing a great job on the economy and public services? I don’t think you do.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Unsolicited advice is the best kind.
Sorry, is there a rule that says that Brits can’t comment on British issues?
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Yep. Its a little bit better for the SNP than I think next time will go but im not talking major differences, i don't think they will make 50 seats but theyll be above 40 certainly and probably above 45 which is more than i had thought
Rather than put in the actual effort of improving the Scottish settlement, they hamstring the rest of the country with a set of fantasies that never confront the troubling but boring reality.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Eldest daughter (16 in a couple of weeks) having her first proper teenage party tonight. I am skulking upstairs but sounds fairly tame so far. Going over the road later for the full Abigail's party experience. Hopefully Leon won't get wind of it.
Do they stand around sending messages to each other at two feet distance on incomprehensibly named social media as at all other times?
I'm told that at that age they like a background sound of late Beethoven string quartets as the evening gets lively.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
You see the thing that let you down was that you became reasonable rather than sweary.
Rather than put in the actual effort of improving the Scottish settlement, they hamstring the rest of the country with a set of fantasies that never confront the troubling but boring reality.
Pompous windbag
I think you should own up - the cover is slipping!
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Unsolicited advice is the best kind.
Sorry, is there a rule that says that Brits can’t comment on British issues?
None whatsoever. However there seems to be an unspoken one that they turn into whiny, little snowflakes when the pompous irrelevance of their pronouncements is pointed out.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Is that sophisticated? Certainly sounds it!
Sounds it to me. I would fall for it.
LOL. Not sure I have heard that phrase since I was a kid. My gran used to say DIn-Dins either when she was talking to me and my sister (at the age of about 5) or to her pet cat and dog. I have never heard it used when addresing anyone who had reached double figures in age.
Tory sleaze combined with utter idiocy sounds about right.
Would yours truly have turned up IF invited to a dinner by Chris Pincher MP?
Heck yes! For the grub has got to be first-rate, and then some.
Would limit my alcohol intake (per usual for me) AND maintain a cordial but respectful distance from the host.
Not sure I would. Yes the food would undoubtedly be excellent but more than half the joy of a dinner party is stimulating company and I am not convinced Pincher would have satisfied that particular need.
Get as far away from St Mark’s Square as you can, head over to the Arsenale, or beyond. Seek out one of the two remaining local places for local people. Eat cicchetti (Venetian tapas)
Alternatively, brace yourself, summon the 2nd mortgage and go into one of the 5 star hotels, like the Gritti or the St Regis. The food will be good (as it should be) but omg the price. So, not cheapish, sorry
Is it worth going in January or February?
November and January are the best time to be there
The melancholy drizzle on the empty canals. The high water flooding the hotels. The angry chefs denied their ingredients, shouting at the water taxi drivers
It’s the only time the city returns to its inhabitants. Kinda
I went in December. It was damp, foggy, and easy to get lost down dark impasses.
I checked out the Carpaccios in a freezing Gallerie d’Accademia, then hopped from bacaro to bacaro, trailed a red-mantled dwarf with a stiletto.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
The thing is you expect an experienced and sophisticated middle aged drunk to be able to accomodate any amount of Carlton Club house claret without losing control. you have to ask whether he mixes it with injudicious quantities of some stimulant like caffeine, to elevate himself into two-gropes-in-one-evening territory...
In the habit of inviting people for "din dins" apparently.
Is that sophisticated? Certainly sounds it!
Sounds it to me. I would fall for it.
LOL. Not sure I have heard that phrase since I was a kid. My gran used to say DIn-Dins either when she was talking to me and my sister (at the age of about 5) or to her pet cat and dog. I have never heard it used when addresing anyone who had reached double figures in age.
Tory sleaze combined with utter idiocy sounds about right.
Would yours truly have turned up IF invited to a dinner by Chris Pincher MP?
Heck yes! For the grub has got to be first-rate, and then some.
Would limit my alcohol intake (per usual for me) AND maintain a cordial but respectful distance from the host.
Not sure I would. Yes the food would undoubtedly be excellent but more than half the joy of a dinner party is stimulating company and I am not convinced Pincher would have satisfied that particular need.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Lol Scotch expert opines. Is that like UK does, eff do you people smoke.
Do you think the SNP are doing a great job on the economy and public services? I don’t think you do.
No I don't but being a colony run by the useless twats in London is the issue and snp will not survive in their current format after independence. London parties will be removed and we will see other real Scottish parties
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Yep. Its a little bit better for the SNP than I think next time will go but im not talking major differences, i don't think they will make 50 seats but theyll be above 40 certainly and probably above 45 which is more than i had thought
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Lol Scotch expert opines. Is that like UK does, eff do you people smoke.
Do you think the SNP are doing a great job on the economy and public services? I don’t think you do.
No I don't but being a colony run by the useless twats in London is the issue and snp will not survive in their current format after independence. London parties will be removed and we will see other real Scottish parties
Scotland is split down the middle, and things have barely moved (and maybe haven’t moved at all) since 2014.
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Unsolicited advice is the best kind.
Sorry, is there a rule that says that Brits can’t comment on British issues?
None whatsoever. However there seems to be an unspoken one that they turn into whiny, little snowflakes when the pompous irrelevance of their pronouncements is pointed out.
You’ve failed to persuade your own countrymen, and you’re defending an increasingly tired regime.
What have you gained from your several years promoting scotnattery?
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
You see the thing that let you down was that you became reasonable rather than sweary.
Rather than put in the actual effort of improving the Scottish settlement, they hamstring the rest of the country with a set of fantasies that never confront the troubling but boring reality.
Pompous windbag
I think you should own up - the cover is slipping!
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
57?
Well 59 if you want, I was being nice to the London parties and downplaying the size of their pathetic worshipping at every election
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Boris seems to have decided to turn his press dogs onto Charles, for some reason.
I posted a story a few weeks ago saying they don't like each other.
The PM knows King Charles III will refuse to give royal assent some of Boris Johnson's more extreme policies.
He's already slagged off the Rwanda policy.
I've always assumed that any refusal to grant Royal Assent would be swiftly followed by Parliament forcing the Monarch to abdicate. That's the Constitutional settlement we have now. I don't think much of Charles, but I think he knows what's required of the Monarch and I think he wants to be King.
On topic: is this really a problem for No.10? There have now been so many scandals that you wonder if the public has reached saturation point and fails to notice any new ones.
I reckon that an organised vice ring of Tory MPs could be found to have been running an operation hawking rent boys and cocaine from the House of Commons tea room (and splitting the profits 50:50 with the Russian Embassy,) and the Conservative Party still wouldn't drop any further in the polls.
Get as far away from St Mark’s Square as you can, head over to the Arsenale, or beyond. Seek out one of the two remaining local places for local people. Eat cicchetti (Venetian tapas)
Alternatively, brace yourself, summon the 2nd mortgage and go into one of the 5 star hotels, like the Gritti or the St Regis. The food will be good (as it should be) but omg the price. So, not cheapish, sorry
Is it worth going in January or February?
November and January are the best time to be there
The melancholy drizzle on the empty canals. The high water flooding the hotels. The angry chefs denied their ingredients, shouting at the water taxi drivers
It’s the only time the city returns to its inhabitants. Kinda
I went in December. It was damp, foggy, and easy to get lost down dark impasses.
I checked out the Carpaccios in a freezing Gallerie d’Accademia, then hopped from bacaro to bacaro, trailed a red-mantled dwarf with a stiletto.
It’s actually a sinister place.
At least the plague would have been in abeyance.
In the summer a few nights on Burano is recommended. There are some good restaurants and it's delightful to wander about in the evening after the grockles have disappeared back to Venice. During the day visit Torcello, Murano and Cimitero.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Yep. Its a little bit better for the SNP than I think next time will go but im not talking major differences, i don't think they will make 50 seats but theyll be above 40 certainly and probably above 45 which is more than i had thought
Depends whether she really means it Woolie
Yeah, true. However you know me, if the circumstances change or Nicola changes tack i'll revise my thoughts. As it is i dont see much shifting for the time being. SLab have nicked a bit of the old Ruth coalition and are 5 points or so ahead of little Dougie uturn, the SLDs are still farting about in single figures and unless Alba break out theres nothing to deflate that SNP 45% or thereabouts score.
On topic: is this really a problem for No.10? There have now been so many scandals that you wonder if the public has reached saturation point and fails to notice any new ones.
I reckon that an organised vice ring of Tory MPs could be found to have been running an operation hawking rent boys and cocaine from the House of Commons tea room (and splitting the profits 50:50 with the Russian Embassy,) and the Conservative Party still wouldn't drop any further in the polls.
Sleaze is always baked in, I remember a pollster telling me what sticks in the mind of the public is hypocrisy and behaviour that is likely to see you signing the nonce jotter.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
53 seats out of 650 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics.
Many disastrous things are happening to the Tories. Not sure this is one
So Boris knew this guy had a character flaw, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Isn’t that the charitable, Christian thing to do?
Perhaps Mr Pincher was given a warning before he took up the job? “No groping, please”. Which would be entirely fair
Or are we going to ban anyone from having a job if they have “a reputation”?
Certainly having a Finance Minister who rather liked very young chaps in their sports kit didn't ultimately damage the SNP very much.
True - but a different context. This is all about Boris and is another nail in the coffin.
For the older among us, this is all too reminiscent of poor ole "Back to Basics" John Major and the neverending series of sleaze stories that helped terminate his government.
BJ will not be leading the Tories into the next GE. The hearts of the backbenchers are hardening.
As standards dwindle even further under BoJo, still no sign as to how they’ll get rid of him
End days when a PB Tory uses the Graun as a source. But perhaps that is the point.
That route looks extremely circuitous and fraught with potential delay and derailment. I think it will come from within the Cabinet. A non-front runner who wants to be a front runner (the other front runners are not going to do it as they think they have too much to lose) could do it.
Patel, Raab, or (snigger) Gove could wield the knive with a spectacular resignation, and therefore catapult themselves into consideration.
Bell-the-Cat certainly comes to mind as a warning tale.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
57?
Well 59 if you want, I was being nice to the London parties and downplaying the size of their pathetic worshipping at every election
The issue with our 'London political parties' is that now whenever someone says that, I start thinking of cheese and wine or beer and curry.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
57?
Well 59 if you want, I was being nice to the London parties and downplaying the size of their pathetic worshipping at every election
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
First Yes lead in quite a while - a mighty 1%. Surprised that she should "tweet her delight" at that TBH.
Well, she’s taken a punt on it, so I’d imagine she wants to encourage the base as well
Remember 2014. Quite an increase in Yes over the time of the campaign.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Scottish westminster figures in the Scottish Times SNP 47 Lab 23 Con 19 LD 8 Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Leaves the London parties scrapping over the dregs as usual
Except there seem to be more “dregs” than nats.
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
6 seats out of 57 is only a majority in the minds of lunatics
57?
Well 59 if you want, I was being nice to the London parties and downplaying the size of their pathetic worshipping at every election
The issue with our 'London political parties' is that now whenever someone says that, I start thinking of cheese and wine or beer and curry.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Get as far away from St Mark’s Square as you can, head over to the Arsenale, or beyond. Seek out one of the two remaining local places for local people. Eat cicchetti (Venetian tapas)
Alternatively, brace yourself, summon the 2nd mortgage and go into one of the 5 star hotels, like the Gritti or the St Regis. The food will be good (as it should be) but omg the price. So, not cheapish, sorry
Is it worth going in January or February?
November and January are the best time to be there
The melancholy drizzle on the empty canals. The high water flooding the hotels. The angry chefs denied their ingredients, shouting at the water taxi drivers
It’s the only time the city returns to its inhabitants. Kinda
I went in December. It was damp, foggy, and easy to get lost down dark impasses.
I checked out the Carpaccios in a freezing Gallerie d’Accademia, then hopped from bacaro to bacaro, trailed a red-mantled dwarf with a stiletto.
It’s actually a sinister place.
It really is. That’s the genius of Don’t Look Now. Capturing that
Venice was a deeply dangerous city for centuries. There is a street called “street of the assassins” because so many enemies of the regime got taken out down there
It was also the whorehouse of the western world. That’s why Byron loved it. A mixture of Naples, Bangkok and pre-communist Havana, and all of it on that magnificent stage set
It is impossible to get a sense of this when it is swamped by clueless day tripper tourists gawping, but you can still get a vibe in the depths of autumn and winter
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
Boris seems to have decided to turn his press dogs onto Charles, for some reason.
I posted a story a few weeks ago saying they don't like each other.
The PM knows King Charles III will refuse to give royal assent some of Boris Johnson's more extreme policies.
He's already slagged off the Rwanda policy.
I've always assumed that any refusal to grant Royal Assent would be swiftly followed by Parliament forcing the Monarch to abdicate. That's the Constitutional settlement we have now. I don't think much of Charles, but I think he knows what's required of the Monarch and I think he wants to be King.
Slight problem. Mr J wants to be King, as we all know.
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
First Yes lead in quite a while - a mighty 1%. Surprised that she should "tweet her delight" at that TBH.
Well, she’s taken a punt on it, so I’d imagine she wants to encourage the base as well
Remember 2014. Quite an increase in Yes over the time of the campaign.
Not that I’d want to enrage HFUYD on here and summon the tanks..
Poll in @SundayTimesScot: “On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.”
..Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted her delight at the poll. But I can’t see how Scotland isn’t stuck in a cycle of despair if that continues. Even if a vote is held and won by yes, the division won’t end.
First Yes lead in quite a while - a mighty 1%. Surprised that she should "tweet her delight" at that TBH.
Well, she’s taken a punt on it, so I’d imagine she wants to encourage the base as well
Remember 2014. Quite an increase in Yes over the time of the campaign.
Yes and No.
A year before referendum Panelbase had Yes ahead.
The first poll after the Edinburgh Agreement Panelbase had it No 55%/Yes 45%
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Is that sophisticated? Certainly sounds it!
A Panelbase poll for The Sunday Times suggests that 44 per cent of voters oppose Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to stage a referendum in October 2023, with 43 per cent in favour. Ten per cent said they neither supported or opposed a referendum and 3 per cent said they did not know.
On the question of whether or not they support independence, 48 per cent said they were in favour while 47 per cent were opposed. Five per cent said they did not know.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c4551f8a-fa1c-11ec-b060-3c9acf7f2ee6?shareToken=2c5e3da0223c880133d77f4a003724fb
SNP 47
Lab 23
Con 19
LD 8
Slightly different Q to normal as it asks VI if the next GE were a proxy Indy referendum, but nonetheless figures in line with what youd expect , SNP a little better score wise than recently. On current boundaries 53 SNP 2 each the rest
Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his eco-village
Heir to the throne ignored aide’s advice against close ties with Tory peer
he Prince of Wales gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7 million bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals being investigated by the charity watchdog.
Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him.
His flagship charity also opened up Dumfries House, his 18th-century country estate in Scotland, for Brownlow’s 50th birthday — a black-tie event involving fireworks, bagpipes and a performance by a celebrity magician — and awarded the businessman’s company a £1.2 million construction contract....
...Charles became close with the peer, whose fortune has been estimated at £271 million by The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, after ignoring the advice of one of his most senior courtiers. The palace insider was concerned Brownlow, 58, was using Charles to burnish his reputation, felt he had “myriad conflicts of interest” and believed his judgment was “wayward”. They shared their views with the prince.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-charles-honoured-tycoon-lord-brownlow-who-bailed-out-his-eco-village-z2l9cx2mk
Yet it swallows up the entire conversation inside Scotland. The country would be a lot better off it was focused on how to build wealth and improve public services.
Tory sleaze combined with utter idiocy sounds about right.
Heck yes! For the grub has got to be first-rate, and then some.
Would limit my alcohol intake (per usual for me) AND maintain a cordial but respectful distance from the host.
They are more likely to be impressed if display your family's pronouns on the front door.
Rather than put in the actual effort of improving the Scottish settlement, they hamstring the rest of the country with a set of fantasies that never confront the troubling but boring reality.
The melancholy drizzle on the empty canals. The high water flooding the hotels. The angry chefs denied their ingredients, shouting at the water taxi drivers
It’s the only time the city returns to its inhabitants. Kinda
I believe Hilary Clinton got into trouble for similar notions.
Presumably the others are mostly Greens though.
So it's a 50/50 province.
I'm told that at that age they like a background sound of late Beethoven string quartets as the evening gets lively.
Why won’t parliament speak up on Charles?
The Commons ban on royal debate is not going to work much longer
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-wont-parliament-speak-up-on-charles-kdb8flhlp
*Prince Charles, not Boris Johnson.
However there seems to be an unspoken one that they turn into whiny, little snowflakes when the pompous irrelevance of their pronouncements is pointed out.
It was damp, foggy, and easy to get lost down dark impasses.
I checked out the Carpaccios in a freezing Gallerie d’Accademia, then hopped from bacaro to bacaro, trailed a red-mantled dwarf with a stiletto.
It’s actually a sinister place.
The PM knows King Charles III will refuse to give royal assent some of Boris Johnson's more extreme policies.
He's already slagged off the Rwanda policy.
What have you gained from your several years promoting scotnattery?
I reckon that an organised vice ring of Tory MPs could be found to have been running an operation hawking rent boys and cocaine from the House of Commons tea room (and splitting the profits 50:50 with the Russian Embassy,) and the Conservative Party still wouldn't drop any further in the polls.
In the summer a few nights on Burano is recommended. There are some good restaurants and it's delightful to wander about in the evening after the grockles have disappeared back to Venice. During the day visit Torcello, Murano and Cimitero.
He’s a bully, alongside his various other defects.
Venice was a deeply dangerous city for centuries. There is a street called “street of the assassins” because so many enemies of the regime got taken out down there
It was also the whorehouse of the western world. That’s why Byron loved it. A mixture of Naples, Bangkok and pre-communist Havana, and all of it on that magnificent stage set
It is impossible to get a sense of this when it is swamped by clueless day tripper tourists gawping, but you can still get a vibe in the depths of autumn and winter
A year before referendum Panelbase had Yes ahead.
The first poll after the Edinburgh Agreement Panelbase had it No 55%/Yes 45%