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Second comings. Why Boris Johnson remains a great lay – politicalbetting.com
Second comings. Why Boris Johnson remains a great lay – politicalbetting.com
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mind you, you can get 4.5% on deposit these days...
Big battles underway tonight for positions in Sunak’s Cabinet
V tough calls as the new PM balances loyalists and uniting warring Tory tribes
Here’s where we are after speaking to those involved today >>
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-24/sunak-expected-to-keep-hunt-tap-allies-for-his-new-uk-cabinet
There is little wiggle room on policy anyway, they will have to do a lot of things they don't want to do, so go with the most competent you can find. If they happen to be a crackpot, all the better to appease that wing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-24/china-markets-set-for-cautious-start-after-leadership-overhaul?fromMostRead=true&leadSource=uverify wall
Fake news.You've only just realised?
You subtract the clothes, add the bed, divide the legs, and pray that you don't multiply.
the nutters back in their box.
They've absolutely gutted the Chinese semi-conductor industry (last week) and have just filed charges against the PRC for espionage.
Provided he holds his seat of course
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/24/ukraine-war-heading-for-uncontrolled-escalation-says-russia
PM Rishi Sunak might face the biggest geopolitical crisis in many decades in his first week in office. Unenviable
Looks like Zelensky will therefore be relying on Biden for a firm response, which may be hope more than likelihood
'He called on [two ladies] one day,
soon after the publication of his immortal dictionary. The ladies paid
him due compliments on the occasion. Among other topics of praise,
they very much commended the omission of all naughty words.
`What! my dears! then you have been looking for them?' said the
moralist.'
@paulmasonnews
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I've made the long-list for the selection in Sheffield Central CLP. Solidarity and good luck to all the other candidates.
"border dispute" is a shameful phrase to use, pretending that there are faults on both sides - as opposed to the truth of Putin being a thug who wants to steal bits of other countries.
His views re the war I'd assume would be more financial based than "My grandparents were from India, so who gives a f*ck?"
Also, invasions are not border disputes.
He was perfectly within his rights to raise financial concerns as Chancellor because that was his job. If you can't pay for aid, you can't send it. When it was decided that aid would be sent, he found the money for it.
As Prime Minister he will have to take a wider view from the off.
I think as President and co-founder of the Start The War Coalition I'm the most hawkish person on this board.
A refugee who fled Somalia with his mother as a child is seeking the Labour nomination in a high-profile safe seat.
Abdi Suleiman, 32, who works in parliamentary affairs, wants to be the Labour candidate for Sheffield Central at the next general election.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/meet-abdi-suleiman-former-refugee-running-against-eddie-izzard-and-paul-mason-to-be-labour-mp_uk_635007a8e4b051268c4fed0d
“Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia and the International Institute for Strategic Affairs, commented on Twitter: “It’s Russia that is escalating: attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, apparent attacks on western connectivity infrastructure, and mining of Novaya Kakhovka dam. And playing with nuclear fire in Zaporizhzhiya [nuclear power plant] for months.
“So [it’s] hard to see these calls as anything other than Shoigu either doubling down on Putin’s bluffs, or preparing way for Russian nuclear use. Yes, nuclear (ie fission [rather than a dirty bomb]). A dirty bomb would breach nuclear taboo but not achieve significant effects.”
He added: “I worry there is too much motivated reasoning in dismissing possible Russian nuclear use. We don’t want it to happen, and/or we don’t see the point, therefore it won’t. But Russia faces logic of dwindling choices as it loses. Escalation of all kinds more likely.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/23/liz-truss-accuse-rishi-sunak-soft-russia-china/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-zelensky-true-friend-b2159216.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-truss-tell-g7-stick-by-ukraine-face-russian-attacks-2022-10-10/
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Working majority of 75.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/government-majority
However:
Insiders think the nomination will go to one of the local councillor candidates rather than the two big names.
@IsabelOakeshott
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Literally hundreds of people joined @reformparty_uk
today. Presumably they’re former Tory supporters who no longer feel that the Conservatives are conservative. Bye bye red wall……
He might not be as robust on Ukraine as Boris or Truss, we shall see, but I am very confident his skin colour won't be why.
And that the Tories have won elections without winning every seat they won in 2019 - so it is in fact possible for them to do ok without doing so.
You are a small brained prejudiced knobend.
On a serious point what do you do when someone threatens to use nuclear weapons to defend territory recognised by no-one but themselves as their own? The best option then might be to call for ceasefire and wait for the Russian economy to collapse.
I am sorry to hear he is still a foreigner.
It has proved a fine historical geography or geographical history of NO and its past and future complete with many illuminating maps and graphics.
https://ulpress.org/products/bienvilles-dilemma-a-historical-geography-of-new-orleans
GB News will run with this for days. No one else gives a toss.
Average height for a man is 5'9" or 5'10" (I can't find a definitive source more recent than 2010, when the ONS had it as the former).
So short, but not very short.
Why not just go and join RefUK - you know you want to
We know precious little of his opinions out with the economy.
Has there ever been a PM that was more of a blank canvas?
John Major talked about the dispossessed and the never possessed. The trouble is you now have a whole series of third rate backbenchers who've tasted high office and think they ought to be listened to.
If you'll forgive me some virtue signalling, I'd invite you to examine one word you included above, which is rather important, which was 'somewhat'.
Even if we accept the premise that heritage affects outlook somewhat, to what extent is that true in general, and to what extent is that true for him specifically?
Without seeing inside his head we cannot know for certain what lies behind his views and focuses, but besides an assertion that asian people don't care about Ukraine, do you have any evidence that is why Sunak cares less about it, if he even does? And do alternative explanations exist besides racial foreign policy?
Your explanation excludes other rationales, even though you suggested he'll be closer to Macron in policy. Macron, who is not British Asian, did you know?
If a white European leader can not 'care' as much about Ukraine as Boris and Truss, so can a non-white European leader. And if a white European leader can care as much about it as they did, so can a non-white leader.
Logically, therefore, they'd have had to have done summat worse than Vlad.
Goes against natural justice.
Not that I watched them.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1584648794498469888
I think Boris is done. Unlike the US, we do like our leaders to be under the age of 70.
There is no route back for Boris now.
Either Sunak wins in 2024, in which case the chance of a challenge much before the 2028/2029 election is pretty low. Boris will be well into his 60s by then and I think the charm would've long worn off.
Alternatively, Starmer wins and there is a route back. But I don't think Boris does 'Opposition'.... too much like hard work and again it could be 2028, 2029 or even into the 2030s before he makes a come back. Not going to happen.
Johnson, like Farage, is now yesterdays man.
Of course, events dear boy, events, but unlike Truss I can't see Sunak exploding between now and the GE.
But I am shorter than average for a British man.
According to OurWorldinData the average British man born in 1996, the latest they show, is 5ft 9/10. So he, and I, are noticably short.
No Hunt means no statement on time.
Means markets go haywire again, and we are off to a disastrous start which may not be recoverable.
"Discussions" or no.