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Irrefutable proof that Liz Truss is in fact a Private Parody – politicalbetting.com
Irrefutable proof that Liz Truss is in fact a Private Parody – politicalbetting.com
Found it. Oh my Lord she rewrote it and put it in The Torygraph pic.twitter.com/PStdUwlayl
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Global thermonuclear war has been rescheduled.
If anything they were saying she wasn't anti state enough! Which politically she couldn't have been given how badly the redwall would have reacted to slashing spending and investment for the levelling up agenda
And, to be fair, come down again.
On the other hand you’ve lost your mojo - no earth shattering disasters.
One night I went to bed at midnight, and Nigel Farage had assured me we were remaining in the EU, and as the result looked remarkably close he was insisting on a return leg. When I got up at 6 am we had voted to leave the EU and Nigel had changed his mind about a second EU referendum.
And that was just in six hours.
1) “I fucked up”
2) it all went wrong because my somewhat flawed was overtaken by events,
3) it was 3 inch high Imperial Japanese soldiers hiding under my bed that did the dirty on my brilliant plan to save the world.
Saves me getting up to go to work I guess.
Government approval rating poll:
Do you think the Government (M-KD-L with SD support) is doing a good or bad job ?
Good job: 4 % (-2)
Neither: 25 % (-3)
Bad job: 51 % (+2)
Ipsos, 29/01/23
Never been near Oxford or Cambridge. Actually, I lie. I spent a night at a friends place in Cambridge in my first year of University. Aberystwyth, if you must know. Very Not Oxbridge. I went to a bizarre born again christian music festival in Oxford as a teenager, though. Perhaps I unconsciously absorbed neocolonialist vibes radiating out of the university? Who knows. Feel free to project onto me whatever you want with your unnecessarily aggressive post, though. Hell, that seems to be what social media is all about, these days.
I hope you're keeping score, cos nobody else is.
Mone corruption?
Sharp filth?
Oh look, a Truss squirrel…
A decade later, though, while still a teenager, I spent a weekend in Rwanda, which included visiting a school at Gikongoro and standing a foot away from the lime covered bodies of dead Tutsis and moderate Hutus. I saw with my own eyes the slit achiles tendons on the bottom of the childrens legs - done so to prevent their victims running away, while the perpetrators could have lunch and a few beers before getting back to their genocide.
I've also read a few books and spent some time at university engaging with the literature on various genocides. Grim stuff. In the mid-2000's there was a brief debate about a"responsibility to protect" principle - how and whether it should be enshrined in International law. My conclusion isn't that state sovereignty should be inviolable, but it should be largely respected as the best long term stategy for reducing aggregate human misery and death from violence. The tiny proportion of the world population killed through violent conflict since 1945 - relative to pretty much any point prior to that is, in my considered view, largely down to the respecting of borders and national sovereignty. Russia's justification for their war is a cynical perversion of the R2P principle. It's bullshit framing for domestic consumption.
Mearsheimer, in fairness to him, sees straight through Russia's humanitarian justifications. It's all about power politics in his worldview.
There is nothing that happened in the Donbass or Crimea between the 1990's and 2014/2022 that justified Russia violating Ukraine's sovereignty.
Discounted return train tickets will be scrapped with passengers having to buy single fares, under rail network reforms expected to be announced this week.
Mark Harper, the transport secretary, will outline the government’s vision for solving the long-running rail crisis with a “Fat Controller” public body placed in charge.
Passengers could be faced with a stealth increase in costs if discounted return tickets are scrapped and all fares offered at “single-leg pricing” for each stage of their journeys.
Paper tickets could be replaced by smartcards similar to the Oyster Card used across public transport in London and QR-style digital codes, according to a political briefing at the weekend...
...Commentators calculated that some trips could be a third more expensive if return tickets are scrapped. The trainline.com ticket service advised it is sometimes actually cheaper to buy single tickets for each leg than a return.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d8a4f734-a576-11ed-9311-522a2d54b6fd?shareToken=9d943e85ac3b0ebd652fdf28ca7190ca
Number of MP retweets or supportive tweets relating to @trussliz batshit story in @Telegraph so far = zero
https://twitter.com/nadbaddangerous/status/1621996700100345857?s=46&t=Eb9vL7qL03DvAQMvw4o_8w
They are a bugger if your phone dies, or if you only take the train from time to time.
British reports stating that Colombia has said XYZ about "the Chinese balloon" got the "Chinese" bit from the Pentagon, not from Colombia.
As for its being anything to do with spying, Colombia has said it was no threat to national security, which implies that in their opinion no spying was involved.
AFAIAA China hasn't said anything about it, and in particular they haven't said it was Chinese or expressed regret to Colombia for its entry into Colombian airspace.
It's probably over Brazil now.
Falklanders should keep their eyes on the skies.
You have opened a can of eels there Stuart.
Surströmming surely ...
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/pope-archbishop-of-canterbury-and-presbyterian-leader-denounce-anti-gay-laws-1428749.html
I'm all in favour of holding re-runs after both sides agree to respect the results. That would bring an end to the killing. Minor alterations to boundaries of one or more of the territories would be allowed if indicated and agreed. The voting should be supervised by a neutral heavyweight power on behalf of the UN. China would be the obvious choice.
But no. The regime in Kiev won't hear of it. They want their forces to be in military control of all the territories, and that's it. Screw what people living in those areas actually want. They're even putting out stuff about how residents of Bakhmut, which they seem to want to defend to the death of the last inhabitant, are a bunch of disloyal types (and we know what can happen to disloyal types during sieges) who are simply "waiting" for the city to fall to Russian forces. Perhaps these "waiting" people see the 2014 and 2022 referendums as legitimate and therefore view the Donetsk region as having legitimately claimed independence and then legitimately joined Russia. They live there. They're entitled to hold that view, yes? It matters whether they do or not. But hey no, impossible.
(For compari… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622343560879116289
🇺🇸 New 2024 US presidential
Trump 48%
Biden 45%
ABC/Wash Post today
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1622299938074886148?s=20&t=rixBV2mVQRZNvSEneB1_mg
“This Conservative Party looks like Ted Heath's Conservative Party,” he said. “It has stolen the policies of Labour the whole way along.
“The trouble is that we probably need a bit of Labour.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/05/will-take-labour-government-tories-realise-liz-truss-right-along/
Nor do I think it's at all likely that there would have been 50 ERG letters. Where are the 50 ERG letters against Sunak?
Hedge fund tycoons want a Labour government.
Liz was spot on.
Sunak is paying for them himself. I am not sure we should expect the PM to jump on a train (security implications?).
Ok it's not at all eco-friendly but the alternative is likely to be a limo + police escort. This is probably saving the country money.
Lib Dems need to step up and become the opposition next time around.
She was even stupider than I expected.
I mean here's me discussing the Raab story just yesterday.
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/02/04/why-did-sunak-reappoint-raab/
Here's me covering the Sharp and Mone stories.
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/01/22/i-cant-even/
https://twitter.com/audreysuffolk/status/1622308016027586560?s=61&t=kEJwEw97bDo7ckKvw3a2GA
Immensely honoured to be named among such select and expert company - my peers (in truth, KCs and others who are well above my pay grade). (Edited: I have written some articles for LegalFeminist.)
I was at a conference yesterday in Central London on Women and Education. A very interesting day. As I am a trustee of a school I was partly there for professional purposes. There was a small demo outside with some students and others shouting "c***s" at us and we waved politely back and some of us sat on the bench opposite eating sandwiches and having tea from our flasks, in the way that many sensible middle-aged women do. Security was pretty good. Sadly one woman did later get beaten up by a masked person and, hopefully, the police will find and arrest the attacker.
I must confess that I found myself signing up to the Labour Women's mailing list - as much to hear what they are up to - but also because the person I was talking to was very interesting and we had a good chat.
Today by contrast I went to a book launch in Grasmere - by a wonderful poet, Mark Ward, who contributed to this programme about the border in the Irish Sea - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012803?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile.
The light and late afternoon sky around Grasmere today was glorious. There is more than a hint of spring in the air.
The only party that could ever overtake the Tories as the main party of the right is RefUK, as Farage's party threatened to do briefly when May had failed to deliver Brexit in early 2019
Passengers also face having some services cut further with the TransPennine Express said to be considering reducing the number of carriages on trains from six to three.
GBR going ahead. Pointless
Just to say though that in my 37 years of working in financial services the few people (men of course) found with degrading pictures on their computers were all sacked. Maybe it was different on the trading floors.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1622353907216154630
Except in France: Macron has eclipsed both the républicains and the socialist party. So you could say a liberal centre party has taken over from the traditional right. But there is no mainstream left of centre party up against him. To quote Shipman, he truly squats like a toad.
To my mind, she (and Kwasi) combined a chunk of arrogance with a bit of bad luck.
The budget presented by Kwasi was designed to kick start growth, by reducing taxes, while continuing to leave the spending taps open. It would certainly have "stimulated" the economy. But it would have stimulated it at a time when inflation was already elevated thanks to both labour shortages coming out of Covid, and the impact of the Ukraine war on imported energy prices.
Investors, by and large, are not irrational. Individually they thought to themselves "this budget will add fiscal fuel to the UK's already elevated inflation rates, and I don't want to be left holding the gilts when rates inevitably rise."
Could this have been foreseen?
Yes, probably.
But it wasn't.
Australia and Japan are probably the only Western nations where the main Liberal party is also the main party of the centre right, though in Australia the Liberals are part of a coalition group with the conservative Nationals.
Maybe VVD too but they are more conservative-liberal too than liberal alone, same with Fine Gael in Ireland
Wut? Wa this related to the conference?!?
There were cases in teaching I worked on. One of them asked me why it was a big deal. My answer was, 'if you think it isn't, you're too thick to be a teacher.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/05/liz-truss-claim-not-warned-mini-budget-risks-economy-misleading?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I liked this analogy:
https://twitter.com/EconCharlesRead/status/1622268657014276097?t=9YyrF3wqYk6mNUig6q24sQ&s=19
My first job, I got to know all the support people. It was early days of the internet. So I asked if logs of usage were being kept. "It's alright. 'Cause you are a mate, we put you in the batch script we run to remove all logs of what we look at."
It took a bit of convincing to get them not to do that. I was quite certain that at some point they would get caught. And that anyone with no internet access history would be for the high jump....
Which, given I hadn't misused it, seemed a bad plan.