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Durham police say Starmer’s “No case to answer” over Beergate – politicalbetting.com
Durham police say Starmer’s “No case to answer” over Beergate – politicalbetting.com
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Far more events at No 10 seemingly should have been fined.
The whole thing stinks, but its time to forget it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10994915/Covid-cases-soar-FIFTH-week-2-7MILLION-Britons-infected.html
"And then we made these rules which were designed to prevent people meeting and you'll never guess what but the Leader of the Opposition (NOTE TO NORTH AMERICAN READERS PLEASE SEE GLOSSARY) only went and had a beer and a curry well I never...."
etc, etc
I think he is a far better politician than many would give him credit for. As I have said before, he has single handedly destroyed Corbynism and the left from inside.
So
a) If Sunak becomes PM there is the obvious comparison
b) It can still be used on the doorstep to show Starmer's integrity
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486
The media / Tories / establishment have removed “their Boris”, who they voted for “knowing full well he made mistakes, like all of us”.
They do have a point.
ii. Didn't lie about it in parliament
iii. It was clearly Boris' fault inviting to the meeting.
iv. The fine was a bit harsh.
v. I doubt most of the public even know he got a fine (All the focus on Boris)
Many things might kill his leadership chances (Non Dom, immense wealth, tax raises whilst chancellor) but this isn't one of them.
However to go because he had the “wrong korma” according to James Delingpole’s son, makes no sense whatsoever.
He's been playing this game for many years.
I am told he is "delighted" today.
I like korma
Politics is the art of the possible.
Boris Johnson & Rishi Sunak just have Covid convictions.
Surprised Cosplay SAGE aren’t all over the news.
I hate Boris, and am glad to see him go.
I think it is right that he goes, chiefly for repeated lying to his colleagues, the House, and the country.
But those redwallers know he’s a liar.
And they don’t care; from their perspective it’s part of the game. What’s important to them is that he was on their side, somehow. And now he’s gone, taken down by the same old forces the redwallers were voting against.
https://www.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1545127543103258625
Snippets have been posted of people who were upset, many comments have been made and discussed in the past around how much personal appeal Boris has, particularly in the red wall, and whether someone else has any possibility of matching that genuine appeal.
I remember because I recall yelling at HYUFD about the point - not at the principle that people will be disappointed, but whether it is irreversible.
Banana republic stuff.
Keir only managed to kill it by literally threatening to resign.
I guess at end of day Starmer wasn’t actually in government inventing this at the time.
PS are you the resident Arsenal fan? Are you watching the game later on the app like my other half is? Is Partey back for tonight? Unless Arteta gets some defensive midfielders in who can protect that defence, they are going down aren’t they? 100 goal target achieved - 200 goals conceded 🙂
As others have suggested, they will respond by simply (returning to) not voting.
Does that mean the odds of Con Overall Majority should be shortening?
Was the curry a good choice?
(Back in the 1950's Nelson Rockefeller became known for eating ethnic foods. It didn't hurt him with the public though, as I recall, it did lead Bob Dylan to mock him.)
He just needs to be “himself”. Voters know when politicians aren’t being genuine.
Having said that, I’ve no idea what Keir’s interests are outside politics. Does he have any?
What's more deadly, speeding in a residential or school area where young children might step onto the road, or doing 80 on the motorway?
I’m trying to point out that from the frame of reference of those red-wallers, it kind of makes sense. As @turbotubbs put it, “They all lie; but he’s our liar”.
What of it?
Outbreak of highly contagious Ebola-like virus a ‘serious concern’
Ghana reports two cases of Marburg for the first time, a haemorrhagic fever with a death rate of up to 88 per cent
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/outbreak-highly-contagious-ebola-like-virus-serious-concern/
This is apparently our national dish.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-national-dish-of-england.html
Once in the referendum, and again in 2019. If they have voted at other times their vote would have been wasted as a UKIP vote isn't worth the paper the cross is on as UKIP got no seats.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/penny-mordaunt-is-wrong-to-repeat-the-trans-allies-mantra
delivering Brexit from total grid lock, politics, government, country was paralysed by Brexit grid lock before he was PM.
delivering First country out a Global Pandemic. Despite everything, at least they got the vaccine programme right.
ensuring UK is leading supporter of Ukraine in a major European Land War. Other countries just didn’t get how vital resisting Putin’s colonialism is to keep all Europe safe from it in future.
and now sorting out world cost of living crisis impacting here in the UK with economic reset and giving people back their own money to be able to help themselves and their families? Or would be if not removed by his parliamentary party.
And can we dispute that when it worked, he did actually have charm and appeal on voters, so was an electoral asset? Say in contrast with May who couldn’t convince voters to follow her, Boris picked up votes from across the voting spectrum and outside it for being Boris, this charismatic politician with unique and persuasive “can do” persona in order to sell the great change for better once we have Brexited and change for the better once levelling up completed.
I am convinced Boris is a hard act to follow as firstly I doubt any successor can match those vote winning qualities Boris had.
Driving at 85 on an empty motorway on a sunny day is some of the safest driving you can do.
By contrast, you can just be doing the speed limit in a built up area, but if the conditions are terrible that might be a very dangerous speed.
Context matters.
After today, Labour are locked in with one who doesn't.
Some of my optimism about all this is wearing a little thin.
Remember when David Cameron outright lied about how he'd stay and invoke Article 50 if we voted Leave and he immediately resigned instead? There were numerous defences here at the time of "well of course he lied, if he told the truth that would have been bad for the campaign".
Not only were people prepared to defend lies, they were prepared to defend politicians lying deliberately in order to swing votes.
'Chicken tikka masala is not only a popular dish in England but the whole of the United Kingdom'
I am an Arsenal fan, but I don't pay attention to pre-season. I hope Partey is back. He was really good at times last season and was missed at the end of the season.
It was also put my mind at rest regarding the 29 year old who's been arrested. I really hope the racists on Twitter don't turn out to be right.
However I find it somewhat odd that he and Rayner avoided a fine by police but both Johnson and Sunak were fined by police
So a surely a unit of transgender soldiers would be an effective military asset? Nothing like making the enemies heads explode.....