I must admit, when I woke at 2am and thought "you know what, I'll just quickly check PB", I didn't expect I'd be tracking the departure of the PM... a PM who only arrived a few weeks ago.
The Tories may well change their rules in future so that the membership doesn't get a vote. It can lead to absolute chaos when a majority of MPs don't support the leader.
Of course, when Labour elected a leader who didn't have the support of the MPs they let it drag out for years before they could get rid of him. Tories got it done in 6 weeks.
Leadership contenders Sunak Mordant Braverman Chisti Ghost of Thatcher
Who else?
Hunt
What's your view?
Looking at the Con blogs one shouldn't underestimate how disliked Sunak is in Tory circles. I suspect Hunt even more so. If Wallace doesn't want to stand my reading is that Mordaunt is the one.
Breaking - sex abuse enquiry recommends making failure to report suspicions a criminal offence
How does that work then? Strikes me that it would be very bad law.
No detail yet - the report was only released at midday
At a random guess - NFA’ing a reported abuse for “administrative”, “cultural sensitivity” etc reasons becomes a crime.
Indeed, including "boss told me to bin it cos boss is a chum/reported perp is a councillor/etc."
What I'm not clear about is how you deal with record keeping if the boss will just destroy the evidence. Keep a copy off site to CYA? But that willbe a breach of corporate and statute law on personal data.
At a random guess it would go like this -
Victim - I reported it. Here is a copy of my official report of the crime. Official - all the paperwork has vanished….
Imagine you are on the jury.
And before you say it, there are a number of financial things where if you can’t prove that you did your due diligence, you are done…
Breaking - sex abuse enquiry recommends making failure to report suspicions a criminal offence
And then nobody sane is going to want to work with children.
Not workable in practice.
How do you define 'suspicions?' It is your legal duty at this moment to report any concerns anyway. And if you have suspicions but can't prove them and keep quiet, how does anyone ever prove you had them? So why bother criminalising an offence you can't prove?
This tells me the person in charge of the enquiry is a complete fool.
Which, given it's a government enquiry, is probably par for the course.
It’s the classic reaction to reactions to reactions….
We have a culture of coverup and ignoring for a certain class of sexual crime. To move the bovine mass of the permanent governmental machine requires a huge kick.
Consider the action/reaction to the ending (effectively) of the idea of treason, the refusal in certain quarters to allow extradition of ludicrously terroristic figures (Londonistan) through to the Home Sec deleting citizenship at whim.
Re. the potential cable-cutting. It can be argued that one of the first acts Britain committed during World War One won the war (eventually). Within the first few weeks of the war, we cut all but one of Germany's marine cables (and we had access to that one).
This severely hampered German international communications throughout the war, and aided our signals intelligence. Then in 1917 it allowed the infamous Zimmerman Telegram to be intercepted, which helped bring the US into the war.
Cutting cables nowadays would not have the same effect; but it may prove absolutely awful for trade.
Good for Elon Musk though...
What state is OneWeb in at the moment?
Early operational testing - service has gaps until the last satellites are launched.
Interestingly, the missing satellites (stuck in Russia) will be launched by SpaceX. Yes, they are being launched by their direct competitor. Given the way the launch business usually works, finding a ride would have taken multiple years. Only SpaceX has the capability to do large launches at a couple of months notice.
Reasons for the SpaceX being helpful include
- having a competitor is actually good for them. Accusations of monopoly. - Launching a direct rivals service protects them against charges of being anti-competitive.. using the SpaceX price advantage only for Starlink could be viewed that way. This contract makes SpaceX legally fireproof on such charges. - The space industry have a history of helping rivals out. You never know when it is your turn - As a result of launch contract various mutual lawsuits have gone away.
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Hunt as compromise I see.
Like The Queue, it's now part of The Great Island Story - Great British History.
Crazy times...
:-(
Of course, when Labour elected a leader who didn't have the support of the MPs they let it drag out for years before they could get rid of him. Tories got it done in 6 weeks.
Sunak
Mordant
Braverman
Chisti
Ghost of Thatcher
Who else?
Looking at the Con blogs one shouldn't underestimate how disliked Sunak is in Tory circles. I suspect Hunt even more so. If Wallace doesn't want to stand my reading is that Mordaunt is the one.
Boris?
Victim - I reported it. Here is a copy of my official report of the crime.
Official - all the paperwork has vanished….
Imagine you are on the jury.
And before you say it, there are a number of financial things where if you can’t prove that you did your due diligence, you are done…
We have a culture of coverup and ignoring for a certain class of sexual crime. To move the bovine mass of the permanent governmental machine requires a huge kick.
Consider the action/reaction to the ending (effectively) of the idea of treason, the refusal in certain quarters to allow extradition of ludicrously terroristic figures (Londonistan) through to the Home Sec deleting citizenship at whim.
Interestingly, the missing satellites (stuck in Russia) will be launched by SpaceX. Yes, they are being launched by their direct competitor. Given the way the launch business usually works, finding a ride would have taken multiple years. Only SpaceX has the capability to do large launches at a couple of months notice.
Reasons for the SpaceX being helpful include
- having a competitor is actually good for them. Accusations of monopoly.
- Launching a direct rivals service protects them against charges of being anti-competitive.. using the SpaceX price advantage only for Starlink could be viewed that way. This contract makes SpaceX legally fireproof on such charges.
- The space industry have a history of helping rivals out. You never know when it is your turn
- As a result of launch contract various mutual lawsuits have gone away.