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Raab’s future hangs in the balance – politicalbetting.com
Raab’s future hangs in the balance – politicalbetting.com
Very wisely I would suggest the PM has decided to mull things over until tomorrow about what to do following the report into allegations of bullying by his deputy.
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Even then, it's difficult enough as Sunak doesn't really have a track record on these matters.
So, wait and see.
(mwah-hah-hah-hah...
But who knows - the report may say Raab is a bad man.
Raab, like the others, is there because the PM wants him. No more, no less.
If Rishi is hoping for a report or process to advise him what to do, I fear he will be disappointed, and he may be in the wrong job
Fish laid on a bed of parboiled sliced potatoes with anchovies, peppers, tomatoes, garlic and oregano with chicken stock and saffron.
Can't wait.
Like Boris Johnson, I suspect Sunak prefers to have a bully in his cabinet despite an official report.
The prime minister was sent a “very lengthy” report by Adam Tolley KC early yesterday morning but by the evening was still undecided over whether to keep Raab in his cabinet.
Raab, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, was also sent a copy of the report and is said to be “confident” he will be exonerated. He believes the report does not show that he breached the ministerial code and will not be offering his resignation, although he has not yet spoken to the prime minister.
Officials who have seen the report, however, believe that it is “terrible” and think Raab should be sacked. There are also concerns that keeping him in post will be damaging for relations with the civil service.
Retaining Raab would mean he continues working with officials he knows have made formal complaints about him. It would also be particularly difficult for Antonia Romeo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice, who is understood to have twice warned him about his behaviour after officials made complaints.
Senior civil servants have prepared briefing packs for new government ministers in the event that Raab is sacked today and there is a reshuffle.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-news-latest-bullying-rishi-sunak-investigation-w377wcnns
I’m in the Lufthansa lounge at LHR T2, which is weirdly representative of Germany. Quiet, efficient, dull, prosperous looking without being opulent, unexciting, nice-ish wine, awful food
How many letter As does the current Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have in his name?
The current Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (as of my knowledge cutoff date of September 2021) is Dominic Raab. There are two letter "a"s in his first name and one letter "a" in his last name, for a total of three letter "a"s in his full name.
It is clear that there is not enough evidence to uphold the accusation that Dominic Raab is a bully, and therefore I am taking no further action on this matter.
However, I have decided to sack Raab anyway because he is a complete disaster as Secretary of State for Justice.
I have a strange desire to smite them
People who don't, er, don't.
Endex.
Honest advice. Transforms every meal
But, yes, if you are patient, then ChatGPT can be fooled in long conversations by "slipping in" that France invaded Italy, etc.
And it will try and maintain internal consistency.
The nurse holds up a finger. "How many fingers do you see?" "Two!"
The nurse holds up two fingers. "How many now?" "Two!"
The nurse holds up five fingers. "How many?" "Two!"
"Gee, he's right. He does see everything twice."
There are many immune compromised people who have genuine reasons to try their damnedest to avoid infection. I don’t know if they used to use masks before covid or not though. I suspect masks are functioning as much psychologically as physiologically for many.
People who don't, er, don't.
Endex.
Thus getting to retain his Deputy Dog Raab(id) AND highlighting, publicizing, validating the Tory's War of Woke message.
Raab has denied all allegations of bullying and said he behaved “professionally at all times”, although he has also said he will resign if Tolley upholds the complaints. Friends say he is demanding and a hard taskmaster, but not a bully.
David Davis, who employed Raab as his chief of staff when he was shadow home secretary, has suggested his approach would naturally clash with the civil service’s increasingly “millennial” mindset.
“He takes his job very seriously, he works incredibly hard, he expects the same of others and he has a fairly no-nonsense style,” Davis said. “That’s liable to run slap-bang into a lot of millennial problems — lower expectations of work.
Whitehall these days falls down on the job all the time . . . It was made worse by Covid and work-from-home culture, and I can just imagine how Dominic would have run straight into that — and wouldn’t have given it any leeway at all.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-bullying-allegations-tolley-report-2023-vj3mvfbg6
"Moral entrepreneurs are people who take the lead in developing and labeling a particular behavior or belief and spreading the label through the society at large. These individuals also lead in the construction of what they refer to as a criminally deviant or socially unacceptable behavior. These individuals also are those who organize at the grassroots level, like Mrs. Lovejoy, to establish and enforce a set of rules against behavior that these individuals define as criminally deviant or socially unacceptable."
Covers both the right wing idiots who spout gibberish such as Harry Potter leads to satanism or video games encourage violent behaviour or abortion is a sin in all cases as much as the more traditional targets of the Woke tags on the left
I stand by my conclusion that they are nervous twats, terrified by three years of weirdness into truly abnormal behaviour
Twitter has finally started removing "legacy" blue ticks from verified accounts, with some of the world's best-known figures losing the verification sign.
The Pope, author JK Rowling, football star Cristiano Ronaldo, US rapper Jay-Z, and TV stars Ant and Dec have lost their blue ticks on the social networking site, along with the Labour and Conservative parties.
https://news.sky.com/story/twitter-the-pope-jk-rowling-and-ant-and-dec-among-hundreds-of-thousands-losing-their-blue-ticks-as-elon-musks-cull-begins-12862087
Wtf? Lots of zips and Liz truss jewellery
My guess? An editor for a racy German publishing company heading home after the london book fair. Couldn’t be bothered to change
Or an actual hooker
Family polished off the lot, and even my four-year old daughter asked for seconds.
And found himself intimately searched for his pains.
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/baked-sea-bass-with-roasted-red-peppers-tomatoes-anchovies-and-potatoes/
I thought all the cool people had migrated to Bluesky already.
Get rid
Christian, dost thou see them
on the holy ground,
how the troops of Midian
prowl and prowl around?
Christian, up and smite them,
counting gain but loss;
smite them by the merit
of the holy cross.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2023/04/20/just-stop-oil-snooker-protests-barry-hearn-legal-action/
Move him to Education.
He couldn't possibly make a worse shambles of it than it is already.
And if his behaviour led to several of the civil servants there resigning he would actually be performing a fairly major public service.
https://twitter.com/deanmthomson/status/1649130680075317254
Almost £100,000/month
(Also, anybody using any plastic in their footwear. And no, you can't use real leather either....)
Masks outside of proper clinical environments are also not really that good at doing what people think they are doing. Better to have good ventilation, but best of all to be vaccinated and generally in good health (if possible).
A lot of entitled blue tickers whining on Twitter right now. If they migrate en masse Musk has a problem
But where will they migrate to? Mastodon is a failure. Bluesky has 20,000 users. Twitter is really quite hard to replace
Though I confess to be interested in finding out how efficient are the German airport police.
That’s it. They just lucked out. Dorsey admits this. There was no genius involved at all
I have no love for Raab. I have no doubt he can be an objectionable See You Next Tuesday.
However, if as is stated he has made people cry because he has ripped the shit out of the quality of work they have produced for him, then good for him. He is at the top of Government. He has a right to expect the very highest quality briefing materials to be available to him. If somebody too junior is put in harms way, that is the fault of the Civil Service. Our top Ministers should not be getting work experience snowflakes briefing them. If he makes Malcolm Tucker look like Mary Poppins, then the Civil Service should expect that - and man up accordingly.
out but it is hard to describe this as “genius”