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Will Johnson ever be able to shake off partygate? – politicalbetting.com
Will Johnson ever be able to shake off partygate? – politicalbetting.com
In the next Conservative leader betting Boris Johnson has now slipped back from the favourite slot following the latest moves in relation to what has become known as partygate.
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A new bill introduced in the Florida legislature would require “bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.”
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1631415919749615616
South Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow women to be executed if they have an abortion. The bill is also vague enough to potentially include miscarriages.
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1631661957735669761
However, the committee said that its work over the past ten months had been slowed because the government had tried to withhold evidence. In August, when Johnson was still prime minister, the government supplied “documents which were so heavily redacted as to render them devoid of any evidential value”, the committee said. Eventually in November, when Sunak was prime minister, “unredacted disclosure . . . was finally provided”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mps-could-punish-boris-johnson-with-suspension-smkpswshq
F1: very nicely setup ahead of third practice and first qualifying of the year (starts at 3pm).
One downside is that, from what I've heard (didn't watch practice live) Stroll really shouldn't be in the car and his wrist pain is causing him problems.
Mr. Eagles, "Nadine Dorries will lose her shit if Boris Johnson gets suspended. "
How dreadful.
Only way to be sure.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/03/west-ham-used-club-money-to-donate-conservative-party-2022
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams they fade and die.
Truss
That DeSantis bill is rather.... tyrannical.
"You haff been blogging about ze leader. Your name vill also go on ze list!"
https://mobile.twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1631640387688312837
Important to remember what Boris Johnson said about Sue Gray's report at the time. How "profoundly grateful" he was, how "humbled", how fully he "accepted responsibility", "looked in the mirror" and "learned lessons".
Democratic AGs slam DeSantis for seeking info on college students receiving gender-affirming care
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3883632-democratic-ags-slam-desantis-for-seeking-info-on-college-students-receiving-gender-affirming-care/
The man’s mental development stopped at age 15. He is a delinquent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64827246
Not only did he do his old wanting to be a celeb by going on reality but he handed over huge amounts of sensitive info to a wildcard journo.
I hope he hasn’t blown all his jungle money as I don’t think he’s going to be the catch he thought he would be when it comes to future paid roles and gigs.
https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/132/643/1200/6382847
Subsidising the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from the UK’S Eat-Out-to-Help-Out Scheme*
Thiemo Fetzer
The Economic Journal, Volume 132, Issue 643, April 2022, Pages 1200–1217, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab074
Abstract
This paper documents that a large-scale government subsidy aimed at encouraging people to eat out in restaurants in the wake of the first 2020 COVID-19 wave in the United Kingdom has had a significant causal impact on new cases, accelerating the subsequent second COVID-19 wave. The scheme subsidised 50% off the cost of food and non-alcoholic drinks for an unlimited number of visits in participating restaurants on Mondays–Wednesdays from 3–31 August 2020. Areas with higher take-up saw both a notable increase in new COVID-19 infection clusters within a week of the scheme starting and a deceleration in infections within two weeks of the program ending. Similarly, areas that exhibited notable rainfall during the prime lunch and dinner hours on the days the scheme was active record lower infection incidence—a pattern that is also measurable in mobility data—and non-detectable on days during which the discount was not available or for rainfall outside the core lunch and dinner hours.
‘So, ladies and gentlemen, you’ve all heard the correct ways to do things. To demonstrate what happens when you don’t follow basic procedures here is Matt Hancock who will tell you his methods. At the end we will show you a montage of newspaper reports demonstrating the results of these methods.’
Boris lied. We all know he did. There is nothing left to prove. He was driven out of office by his lies. Enough.
Plus he won’t have to pay NI.
https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1631679420195917825?s=20
I suppose that could apply to Sunak but I’m thinking particularly of Case and Acland-Hood.
Prince Andrew demands mansion 'fit for a king' and disgraced royal wants 'top role'
Duke of York is refusing to leave the palatial 30-bedroom Windsor home after King Charles informed him of planned budget cuts to the royal finances….
… Andrew, 63, has even offered to run some of the most prestigious estates in the Royal Family’s portfolio, including the late Queen’s beloved Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire.
Sources have revealed how the Duke pleaded with the King for a “top role”, believing the responsibility and prestige with running the properties would offer him a way back into the fold.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/prince-andrew-demands-mansion-fit-29369297.amp
I do have a problem with consultants demanding to be paid 3 times their salary for shifts by taxpayers and junior doctors demanding over 4 times the national payrise also paid for by taxpayers!
https://www.ft.com/content/40a0f9c1-3be1-4973-a473-3893a1675d28 (£££)
Bloody Gordon Brown, screwing up City regulators.
Three observations:
Why do we allow senior politicians to use Whatsapp in this way? What is the point of security clearance anymore?
Might Hancock be guilty of breaking Official Secrets Act by giving all his Whatsapp to Oakeshott?
It seems dozens of civil servants and advisers directly knew the PM was lying to parliament, not one spoke publicly. Do they not have a legal/moral duty to whistleblow here?
That's not to say we shouldn't examine what happened, but in some instances judging with hindsight decisions made in a live situation the likes of which had not been seen for a century will be rather unfair.
Prince Andrew demands mansion 'fit for a king' and disgraced royal wants 'top role'
Duke of York is refusing to leave the palatial 30-bedroom Windsor home after King Charles informed him of planned budget cuts to the royal finances….
… Andrew, 63, has even offered to run some of the most prestigious estates in the Royal Family’s portfolio, including the late Queen’s beloved Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire.
Sources have revealed how the Duke pleaded with the King for a “top role”, believing the responsibility and prestige with running the properties would offer him a way back into the fold.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/prince-andrew-demands-mansion-fit-29369297.am
Why don’t you believe in free markets?
Real Tories believe in free markets, lefties like you want the government to control wages.
The NHS is an arm of the state paid for by taxpayers. If NHS doctors and consultants really want to work in the free market they can move to Harley Street and go private. Only if healthcare was solely funded by patients with private health insurance not taxpayers would it be a genuine free market
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The move is the latest in a growing trend by Trump and others on the far right of US politics to embrace the January 6 attack on the Capitol as a political cause and portray many of those who carried it out as protesters being persecuted by the state.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/donald-trump-song-charity-single-january-6-prisoners
The "song" in question: Justice for All · Donald J. Trump · J6 Prison Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhXDz_ZTMfQ
So trying to prevent moneygrubbing retired Doctors from extracting up to £3000 a day from the NHS is "hate"?
Pull the other one, @TSE.
The stringency and duration of the UK lockdown at the beginning of 2021 was unusually serve compared with nearby countries. Check https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stringency-index for January 2021. We started relaxing sooner but from a very tight set of restrictions. In part that was because of the strategy of trying to run Covid hot.
The Telegraph might actually cause Sunak inadvertent trouble here. They want to laud him as the man who opposed lockdowns. (Eat out scheme, bringing the Gt Barrington people to brief Downing St). But they risk implicating him in the Great Covid Screwup.
Personally, I have been asking for Time Off In Lieu rather than pay, partly for tax reasons, and in part it doesn't get management off the hook.
Milk them.
I hope they would not slope shoulders on this one, but ...
Demand is high, supply is low, so the price…why do I have to explain this? I thought you Conservatives were the economically literate party?
If we'd had an evidence-based approach to the situation we would have focused on encouraging people to meet others outside, in the summer weather, preferably as part of some sort of exercise-based activity. Instead parkrun was still shut down, and people were being subsidised to eat inside at restaurants. It was completely moronic.
Completely fair enough if others disagree with that judgment, I'll probably be in the minority, especially with hindsight and clear data about infections and very little on mental health, but I fail to see how this can be anywhere near the top 10 mistakes we already know the govt have made in handling the pandemic.
Boris' flippancy regarding the pandemic shows the truth of the situation. The whatsapp messages also show this. The whole covid response was political and they knew only a small section of the population were at risk. Rather than partygate there needs to be an investigation into where Sage and the Cabinet Office were taking there orders from in pushing for draconian lockdowns even when the evidence all said otherwise.
Matt Hancock OMG what? I’d never be so stupid.
Rishi Sunak Phew.
Matt Hancock No, I gave them to Isabel Oakeshott.
Rishi Sunak Oh dear.
Gavin Williamson For God’s sake, Matt. What did you think was going to happen? People don’t change!
Dominic Cummings Bit rich from you.
Boris Johnson Bit rich from you.
Rishi Sunak Bit rich from you.
Matt Hancock Guys, relax. We have a deal about the messages. They’re safe.
Dominic Cummings Is it a protective ring?
Boris Johnson We’re screwed.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-week-matt-hancocks-whatsapp-dx3dvgm98
WhatsApp: proof not even the most powerful encryption can survive being Hancocked.
Welcome to PB, Mr. 1889. The Sage line is interesting, as they seemed all in favour of lockdowns in general. One of the things Boris Johnson got right, late on, was pushing back against this when a sort of pre-emptive lockdown (at a time when people were vaccinated and the lethality of the disease had declined significantly) was sought by Sage.
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/results/historicalchart/
The restaurant industry. Not so much.
It is a bit galling, when London is full of jobs where people are paid huge salaries and bonuses which, let's face it, aren't easy to justify. Unfortunately, since at least Blair and probably Thatcher, the UK's business model has been to be a base for high finance in the hope that their taxes can subsidise the rest of us. For a while now, that hasn't looked like a stable solution.
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Noticed this on the Spectator front page.
"Sean Thomas
How to see Bangkok without the crowds
There's never been a better time to visit the Thai capital"
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-see-bangkok-without-the-crowds/
More Judith Chalmers than Sean Flynn.”
Judith Chalmers, you say?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-we-forgot-about-pol-pot/
Fauci said recently that natural immunity provides better protection than the vaccinations.
Most people were not at risk and so infection in the community provides a barrier to halt the spread. There never was any justification for the lockdowns or the vaccine passports.
Most PCR test positives were false positives, and deliberately so.
Of course staff might be more amenable to work if the basic salary wasn't a real terms pay cut of 8%, but that is where the whole thing started.
pay for themselves, even if it is taxpayers struggling with cost of living who have to pay for them!
The bans on outdoor sport were clearly bad imo.
I wonder what the day will bring.
Well he was right about something.
The Conservatives should look for ways of fixing the problem instead of searching for scapegoats like doctors, nurses, civil servants, remainers, lawyers, the EU, immigrants, the last Labour Govt etc etc
I thought Tories were in favour of a high skill, high wage economy, with domestic workers protected.