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2022- the year when British politics reached “Peak Madness” – politicalbetting.com
2022- the year when British politics reached “Peak Madness” – politicalbetting.com
What was my favourite political story of the year? pic.twitter.com/kZ8jhBWvTT
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He says it like it's a bad thing.
🔥 The former PM has warned that criminal gangs could exploit new rules aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-may-criticises-rishi-sunak-water-down-modern-slavery-laws_uk_63a9931de4b0d6f0b9eea349
To be honest, the Lords Appellant in ~1388 may have been a testier time. But it was quite short shrift given the Truss.
The sun was actually warm on my face. Nice
I will need to remove myself from this forum as I can see myself getting sad. Good luck.
Nonsense. That was just the initial twitches. The onset.
Good luck.
They are now 20% behind Labour
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1606624770266734592?s=20&t=IJkvs03KHHr8UUKEOwTl6Q
One story about GW that I will always remember:
The weather was famously atrocious when Washington & etc. crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day 1776 which is 246 years ago.
Less well known, is that conditions were as bad - in some ways worse - on "dry" land, which was actually piled with snow and sheathed in ice. The later being a particular impediment to horse, foot and guns scrambling to make their strategic objectives before the Hessians awoke from their holiday revels.
At one point, a half-frozen soldier saw General Washington gallop up, to a point where the road into town was a sheet of ice. The general's horse started slipping, and the soldier could see the animal was starting to panic.
Until Washington - a large man on a large horse - steadied the animal, holding tight by his arms, his legs, his whole body and entire will power, as it appeared to the bystander.
Whole thing happened in the twinkling of an eye, though it seemed like eternity at the time. Then Washington rode on, urging his men to follow him. To the Battle of Trenton and into history.
George Washington was one American who the British could beat like a gong. But could NOT defeat.
As sidebar, worth noting that Washington's victory that Boxing Day (as you Mothers of the Mother Country quaintly say) was a Continental effort. At one key point during the Battle, a future POTUS, James Monroe, then young sprig of Virginia gentry, found himself in a fierce firefight, shoulder to shoulder with hard-bitten New England fisherman from Marblehead, Mass, who were the boys who got Washington, Monroe and the rest Across the Delaware in the first place.
Sadly for the nation the opposition don’t look to have many answers either.
https://twitter.com/soleio/status/1607106379357249536
🔮 https://twitter.com/soleio/status/1607106379357249536/photo/1
It seems that he was unable to drink without problems.
Take a screenshot and post that
Save them as landscape
Happy Christmas from Leith.
Can anyone explain the synergy (look closely at the signs) ?
Also have a squeeze toy that depicts Margaret Thatcher in her Prime, herself cosplaying Winston Churchill, sporting a polka-dot bow tie AND smoking a stogie.
We know, however, politics doesn't work like that and within a fortnight of that vote, aided by the Chris Pincher scandal, he was gone.
What else could or should have happened? Was it not the case his position had, by early July, become untenable?
That probably made sense where there were only forty or so independent countries in the world, dominated by a few very large powers, but makes little sense in a world of two hundred of them where only one and a half have the ability to project power a long way.
It would be better if there were a way of overriding a permanent member's veto, but it's not easy to see how it could be done, and even if there were a simple solution, it would need to get past the aforesaid veto...
Harry Kane taunted with 'you let your country down' chants from Brentford fans
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/12/26/harry-kane-taunted-let-country-chants-brentford-fans/
So yes, Brexit was a 'win' for him. But as long as we are arguing amongst ourselves, often over trivialities, he also wins. I would not be in the least bit surprised if he had 'donated' to both sides in any particular argument, trying to foment dissent. That is a lot more immediate, and easier, than a large geopolitical change such as Brexit.
(*) Instead allowing his chums to steal everything not nailed down.
The key will be if maxh is right, and it won't achieve the aim it seeks, but will just make the initial bill worse at its intended aims.
(Someone did.)
In India, after falling from the second floor of a hotel, the United Russia MP Pavel Antov, who was previously on the Forbes list, died, reported the Indian edition NDTV and the Russian website Mediazona
https://mobile.twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1607443111621304320
Despite Russia's reversion to a kind of conquest not seen (amongst the 'senior' members) for some time, it's hard to see the interest in the other permanent members to such a move as this. But it keeps diplomatic pressure up, which is presumably the main aim. Conflicts are easily forgotten about after all.
I’ll get my coat. It’s the one with custom window unbolting tool in the right pocket
It was interesting to see the reaction this got.
The man was the most violent homophone I’ve met in real life. I genuinely think he would physically attack anyone he thought was actually gay. He was petrified of being “made to prove” he was gay, and was an utter head case.
Edit: the other immigration lawyers took the view this was just playing the game. I commented that it was interesting how the adversarial process had corrupted them.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3787737-west-point-to-remove-robert-e-lee-portrait-bust/
...The Lee portrait will be removed from the military academy’s library and placed in storage at West Point’s museum. Separately, a portrait of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who led union troops against Lee in the civil war, will be moved from the library to Grant Hall.
A stone bust of Lee at Reconciliation Plaza will also be removed and placed in storage, while an accompanying bust of Grant will be moved to the front of Grant Hall...
Grant is, in any event, a far better role model for military officers, given his deep understanding of the importance of logistics, and prioritisation of strategy over tactics.
I mean, was he expecting to go for a live performance in court? On the understanding either he was buggered or his case would be?
Ruff ?
With a decoration of neckties around the plinth….
So we made a thorough fare for freedom and her train
60 miles in latitude, 300 to the main
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marchin' through Georgia
By contrast the removal of Boris has if anything led to a negative poll bounce
process stuff.
What struck me was the impression that he was perfectly suited to join the kind of scumbags who left shit on Lenny Henry’s doorstep. Only the suntan would have held him back. In everything else, he was perfectly suited to be a member of the BNP.
The UN is not but is supposed to represent all nations and the UN Security Council too is supposed to hold all major powers.
Of the permanent members, the US, China, France, the UK and Russia still make up about 50% of global gdp. All of them have nuclear weapons and the US and China have the 2 largest and most powerful militaries in the world.
For the sake of offering a body for world peace and diplomacy it should stay largely as is (plus for global economic decision making alongside the G20)
Brace?
Malmesbury has the correct solution to all this. Employ illegals - they can dob you in for £25k cash and the right to remain, employer gets £100k fine, directors personally liable. Dodgy employment gone by the Monday afternoon the week the legislation comes into force.
I love this idea - what could be warmer and more generous than giving immigrants large piles of cash?
I sense some of the kudos of the Commonwealth may have passed with HMQ and the accession of old sausage fingers.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1607455031816495105
I fear he's going to be disappointed.
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Hans_de_Flores
France will go to war with Germany and Poland and Northern Ireland will join the Republic of Ireland.
He then says there will be another US civil war with California seceding and Texas joining Mexico while Elon Musk will be President of the rump GOP states.
Finally the WTO and IMF will collapse and we will return to the Gold Standard
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/5/22/zimbabwe-applies-to-rejoin-commonwealth
BTW, Brunei isn't exactly a beacon of democracy!
In 2016, Russian operatives were able to inspire two opposing demonstrations in Texas, using Facebook.
source: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/
So here's hoping next year in the UK, and the world, will have less madness.
India and Brazil would be more relevant (albeit less palatable) than Germany and Japan
However the problem is Pakistan would oppose India's permanent UN Security Council membership and if you had Brazil Mexico would want a place too.
Neither Germany or Japan have especially powerful militaries now either nor nuclear weapons. They are already in the G7 and G20 anyway which better reflect their economic strength
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/23/japan-unveils-record-defence-budget-amid-regional-security-fears
welfare, regardless of where we stand
politically. So keep on fighting and you will always have an ear here.
I hope he can find calmness somewhere