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The Daily Star sums it up perfectly – politicalbetting.com
The Daily Star sums it up perfectly – politicalbetting.com
Daily Star: Cabinet Ministers Desert Pinocchio -Curtains for Bozo. #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/txpsGWoMrt
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The Times@thetimes
"He has lost the confidence of his party and the country. Every day that he remains deepens the sense of chaos. For the good of the country, he should go" | 🗞 The Times view
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1544420114099052546
Replying to @thetimes
"What has brought Mr Johnson to this position is the same character flaws that have dogged his entire career: his persistent lying and flagrant disregard for the codes and conventions that necessarily underpin public life"
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/michael-gove-game-of-thrones-tory-leadership-brexit-boris-johnson-ally-threatens-theon-greyjoy-penectomy-a7113656.html
The majority of 2019 Conservative voters (54%) also want to see the PM go, the first time this has been higher than the number who want him to stay (33%)
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2022/07/05/b572b/1 https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1544423365712252928 https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1544425921435901952/photo/1
Nice.
Heaven help us
https://twitter.com/MarkMcvitie/status/1544422007214931972
https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1544421012309155843
He might change his mind. Its been known
Zahawi is a chemical engineer and founder of a polling company.
What are his actual qualifications for the job?
Other than the most important. Having Johnson's bollocks?
(Is that how it goes?)
Zahawi at C of E.
Heaven help us
Heatwave is going to be the big news next week.
The country needs a Chancellor of the Exchequer. If the markets opened tomorrow without a CoE then sterling would collapse and the markets would be in utter turmoil. If called, then its responsible for someone to serve.
If Boris goes quickly now, he's already there as Chancellor and is also already widely respected so he will not be toxic or damaged by taking on this role. If Boris doesn't go quickly, he can deliver his own resignation next scandal.
Safe to lay him for leader now.
What matters most is the plethora people who've stopped backing the Tories, all for their own varied reasons. Every "PB Tory" but you it seems, which really ought to set alarm bells going.
* which took as long to complete as the timeframe he was studying.
Apsana Begum (Poplar and Limehouse) has been triggered today. She lost in all ward branches except one (which was a tie. So still not a vote in favour).
Not you. It doesn't matter a jot what you think, since you'd vote for Adolf Hitler if he was carrying a blue rosette.
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1544422763942789126?s=20&t=Wz27L3uXAD7ZLT_aWgtgWQ
You are no PB Tory, you voted Labour in 2001 and for Farage, you are a Tory leaning swing voter at most.
The parts that look at the fact that we are all - at times - racist without realising it come into the last category.
Unconscious bias is something that all of us claim not to have. But I'm afraid there's a lot research that suggests it is very real. One study that took me aback involved sending fake job applications from students graduating law schools, with all information identical except the colour of the skin of the applicant in the photo. The white candidates were offered interviews at a rate much higher than the African American ones.
There is also plenty of evidence that white professors are more likely to call upon other white students over black ones to answer questions in lectures. And are more likely to accept excuses about "circumstances" to account for bad grades.
For what it's worth, I am sure that the same thing works the other way around too. That black professors see kindred spirits in black students and call on them more often.
But then we do also need to take a step back.
Unconscious bias is not just about race. In the UK, there have been studies where people are asked to judge the intelligence of a speaker. Race was not the most important factor - accent was. Even if the actual words were the same, the person with the Liverpudlian accent was considered less intelligent than the one with the soft Edinburgh burr.
And the level of unconscious bias we now see is far, far less than the explicit and conscious bias we've had in the past. In most of the developed world the equality of opportunity for a person of colour has never been greater. Socioeconomic inequality is - realistically - a bigger issue that unconscious bias or racism.
And intelligent Tory members think the same too. Pigheaded muppets like yourself that only give a shit about hardcore never kissed a socialist zealots like you are thankfully actually reasonably rare.
https://twitter.com/rafaelbehr/status/1544430464135561220
It surely references the movie “bedtime for Bonzo”. A movie - starring one Ron Reagan - which was released in… 1951
Only people over 80 will understand it. Yes that includes most PBers but still. Obscure or what
Telling potential Tory voters that their votes aren't needed or wanted anyway, and they're not "proper" Tories anyway, is thankfully as rare an attitude within rational Tory members as it is within rational Labour members - even if blue Corbynite zealots like you want hardcore loyalty to the One True Faith and that's it.
But saying that the people who study them are a "cancer" seems to be an overreaction.
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A lot of my contacts telling me Zahawi has messed up by grabbing the Treasury crown at a difficult time. I disagree. Massive hike in name recognition and the chance to win backbench favour with a tax cut. Being chancellor for 5 mins didn't do John Major any harm
And the conservatives party needs votes from @BartholomewRoberts, myself and many others to form a government no matter how much you try to trash us
The Labour system for screening terrible candidates was not as good, but not awful, if they had actually followed its intent.
He's moved from the fourth row to pole position just before the green light.
And shown he's crafty and ruthless.