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The Tories are becoming a byword for ungovernable – politicalbetting.com
The Tories are becoming a byword for ungovernable – politicalbetting.com
Tory anarchy breaks out as revolt looms on Brexit laws https://t.co/vbqfsis6bZ
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I stayed on in the abbey church at Mont-Saint-Michel, after seeing the sweeping nun, for the Mass service. I think it was the first time in my life that I’ve chosen to go to a church service aside from a couple of Christmas carol services (all the others were compulsory - at boarding school, or semi-compulsory - christenings/weddings/funerals)
I had a front row seat somehow, even though there were about two hundred French catholics in the church. Though I barely understood a word of the service, I found myself strangely moved
The outfits were pretty camp - the men were all in dresses (ok, robes - but with funky hoods), and the setting was visually glorious. The acoustics were superb, and the singing and chanting sounded heavenly
When all the catholics went up for Communion at the end, I got in line for a blessing. I don’t remember choosing to do so, it just seemed natural.. The monk who gave me the blessing so clearly had love in his eyes, smile, voice and heart
I was smiling for the rest of the day, even when I got charged 27€ for a 75cl bottle of cider at the restaurant I went to for lunch afterwards
The picture is the last I could take before the service started. Four more nuns and six more monks attended, more than half of the twenty seven permanent residents in the abbey
That's the only hope.
The Indian dances at night
And he that stands by the tower trembles
For the paltry weasel
Right on the money. The tories are goners and changing leader now isn't going to help. To paraphrase the Rockfish logo, 'Your next tory PM is still in the womb.'
Deliberate exaggeration but you get the drift. The tories are going to be out of power for a decade and probably a generation.
They fucked the country and (most) everyone knows it.
I think we're going to see 12 months of bitter tory in-fighting and recrimination. Come the campaign Boris will be dragged out in support and the Daily Express and Mail will wet themselves for a morning, but it will make naff all difference.
The die is cast.
The only way forward for the conservative party is to back Sunak and marginalise the Johnson disciples who to be fair are the usual suspects and a dimishing if noisy band
I fully expect a Starmer led government in 24 and indeed the conservative party needs to go into opposition and hopefully then accept the only way forward is as a one nation party
I do not detect any desire amongst the vast majority of conservatives mps to foist another PM on the country
On another subject our son has been on 3 RNLI shouts in just 15 hours as the lovely weather arrives and people unwittingly put themselves at risk on the sea. Indeed shouts across the country rocketed this weekend
No, I thought the real tear-jerker was You'll Never Walk Alone with the Golden Gate in Kiev. Wow.
If an upper class person said: "Not sure a state-school educated single-mother playing piano in a bingo hall has quite the same impact..." they would get yelled at.
No. You (as in y'all) need to silence the nutty right-wingers and anti-woke base appeal.
You need to move to the centre and try and wrestle middle England back.
But you won't. Not for at least two and probably three general elections. It is ever thus, on both Left and Right.
You're going to have a long time in the political wilderness to reflect on where you got it so wrong.
He goes to Poole today for a sea survival course which includes capsizing the inshore lifeboat and learning how to escape from the craft and right it
Indeed he hopes to qualify as a helm in his first command after just 2 years in the service
How's yours?
Johnson as PM, Truss at No 11, JRM as Foreign Secretary, Williamson at Education, Patel at the Home Office, Braverman the Business Secretary, Environment for Kemi - a Cabinet of all the talents.
What could possibly go wrong?
I went to both state and public school. I met good and bad people in both, and realised that people in both can suffer from very similar issues. Going to a private school is not a bad thing; nor is it a good thing IMO. But you appear to be based in this brain-dead class warfare zone that makes Labour utterly repellant.
(For the record, I've been against Johnson as PM since his MoL days, and argued with tories about this on here when he was seen as their New Hope; it was clear he would be a bad PM. I don't think I've voted Conservative since 2017, and have voted for all main English parties in elections. I'm likely to vote Labour at the next GE (or Lib Dem...), despite my lack of enthusiasm for Starmer.)
Hubris in anticipated or actual triumph always reminds me of Meleager. Or Julius Caesar.
The Commonwealth is a legacy arrangement and frankly an anachronism. Ireland of course is a special case.
I'm also not sold on votes for 16 year olds. If we say they're not of sufficient capacity to drive or marry why should they be deemed ready to vote?
One enfranchises more voters; the other disenfranchises voters. One expands democratic rights; the other restricts them.
I’m not convinced on votes for 16 year olds personally, given most are still completely financially dependent and not yet making decisions for others, but it’s a reasonable thing to look at. Why not 17 - same age as driving.
If they are taxpayers then they should have the vote.
We can debate whether to extend the franchise to 16/17 year olds and permanent residents of the UK. There's no right or wrong, unlike voter suppression, which is plain wrong.
Personally, I strongly favour votes for 16/17 year olds, which is the case in Scotland, highly successful and supported by almost everyone. I'm open on votes for permanent residents.
That's both EU and non-EU citizens.
Tourists pay VAT. And fuel tax. Should they have the vote?
Small children pay tax when buying things online. Should they?
It was ambiguous whether someone being old to drive *or* marry meant either or both. Indeed, unless you used the word "and", you were very much open to misinterpretation.
It looks stupid, because it is stupid.
It would be better to have a serious think about what is or isn't appropriate and at what age. And then stick to it.
My comment was a play on this famous slogan popularised by those traitorous colonials.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation
The proposal from Labour is to give all lawful permanent residents the vote.
There is nothing in Labour's proposal about the EU.
It was consumption taxes drove the American War of Independence, for example.
It’s like saying there’s no difference between 1. making speeding a criminal offence, or 2. increasing the speed limit to 80mph. You might not agree with 2, but it’s very clearly different,
But I’m ok with giving top rate taxpayers more than one vote as thanks for our hard work/compensation for stealing our personal allowance.
This would mean that the votes of all the @SeanTs would be up for grabs.
This is the case in Scotland. It's supported almost by everyone. Ruth Davidson was a big proponent.
In Hunt's place, which thank Christ I am not, I would favour the abolition of IHT (to get the rich olds all hard and wet,) plus a token but eye-catching penny off the basic rate. I'd then claim that Labour would hike taxes back up and wreck the glorious recovery.
Of course, a direct cash bribe to the elderly would also help. I wonder if the Tories might find an excuse to jack up the state pension next year in excess of what's mandated by the triple lock?
The proposal if confirmed is somewhat risky from Labour although I think if you pay taxes and reside here you should get that vote .
Suppose that's one way.
Good luck with that.
if he goes in May 2024 and loses, he'll go down as the footnote in history and be remembered like Lord Home (who? to most in the street). Hang on till October or November and he at least manages nearly two years.
Now, to you, I or him, that matters, though to the man on the street, fifty years from now, they'll still go 'Who?' when asked about Sunak.
Stupid people with a mistaken sense of entitlement assuming that the public are even more stupid than they are. If they are going to get eviscerated under that remainer stab-in-the-back Sunak, what would they have to lose?
Lib Dems will not be sucked into formal Labour pact, says Vince Cable
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/14/lib-dems-will-not-be-sucked-into-formal-labour-pact-says-vince-cable
Please wish her well.
Who would you suggest who would better. Answers on a postcard please.
There is nothing to stop people with indefinite right to remain applying for, and becoming, citizens.
Today
* Prices are still rising with double digits.
* Taxes are higher than they've ever been
*You cannot get a doctor's appointment.
*You cannot signup to a dentist.
*The hospitals are on strike
*The roads have potholes that would make the third world blush.
*The trains do not run.
*You cannot easily come and go, due to Brexit bureaucracy
*Somehow illegal trafficking allows millions to come here.
*The greenbelt is a building site,
*but people cannot afford a place of their own
*The water companies pollute our rivers at will,
* but cannot (here for 12 hours) get clean water in the taps.
Get that right and you deliver for the base. Instead you talk about culture wars, technical aspects of legislation and punish the victims of trafficking.
The Tories have screwed up massively and they cannot even see it yet, let alone fix it.