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Nicola Sturgeon in custody after being arrested in connection with SNP investigation, police say https://t.co/v2JNHreQU0
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I mean, let's ignore everything else we know about Boris and the Tory party for a moment. The Rees-Moggian position is that the party is in a dreadful mess right now, and going in the wrong direction, right? They need someone to help them win and to put them in the right direction.
Why would you select a person who is quitting Parliament, unnecessarily to boot, as being the person who you want as leader? Wouldn't you want someone strong enough to stand and fight?
Holy Cow... This is nuclear!
Given the absolute shitstorm going on in both the SNP and Conservatives, does this make a Labour majority way more likely now?
As with any arrest things might go nowhere, but who says the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have no sense of drama?
What counts is evidence which can be expertly examined and re-examined and reported on according to peer reviewed science standards. Adjectives and hearsay don't count. That which is merely unexplained visual phenomena doesn't count either. We can't explain lots of things - consciousness, the origin of the universe, the reason why the law of gravity is how it is and not different, why we see yellow as yellow and not green, how life began and so on - but we don't attribute it to aliens.
As and when there is a real story it isn't going to be confined to websites no-one has heard of. There is a fortune out there for real scientists and accurate journalists, and they will get it if they can.
The rest is noise.
But only two face further action…
Presumably this was digested before the Johnson "business" started:
https://options2040.co.uk/the-options-ahead-what-people-in-election-battlegrounds-think/
Russia appears to have moved to take direct control of Wagner, after months of infighting between defence officials and the private military group.
Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Saturday "volunteer formations" will be asked to sign contracts directly with the ministry of defence.
The vaguely worded statement is widely believed to target the group.
But in a furious statement on Sunday, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces would boycott the contracts.e
But at the very least where illegality is not discovered a lot of poor behaviour can be, which can be devasting in its own right. That's something Boris and his cohorts also always forget, by acting as though criminal sanction is the only thing that matters.
Even if net immigration dropped to zero today our pre-existing shortage of houses will still exist. Just as if inflation dropped to zero today, then prices would remain higher than they were in the past.
So.....
And I swear I can hear the sound of Alex Salmond laughing from over here in Washington DC
Superb
Well, if it was Nicola arrested or a nuclear attack I suppose we got off quite lightly.
Police: What's a LD?
SNP: hold my Tennents.
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1667889595537666054?s=20
So even if they aren't charged, he can use this to lord it over them.
This is why the focus in the U.S is shifting to new Congressional hearings, and possible changes in the law to make further whistleblowing on this topic more easy.
Politically, they need to find ways of inoculating themselves from the various possible events over the next 12-18 months.
* Neither the public nor private sector is interested in investing in the upskilling of British workers when cheaper alternatives can be imported (this is particularly the case in the NHS, where there's an extreme level of desperation to fill vacancies yesterday)
* There is, in any case, a shortage of British-born workers because the proportion of retirees and chronically sick people amongst the population is going up and up and up
* Immigration isn't a priority for the electorate - a minority of voters may still get very worked up over the boat people, but next to no-one gives a fuck about the students, the health and care workers, the IT professionals and anyone else from abroad who has been invited to study or to do a job
Besides which, Labour's base is predominantly urban. If it can pull together enough constituencies from the cities, from suburban seats full of younger people who have been priced out of London, from poorer areas where masses of new houses are unlikely to be built anyway, plus from Scotland and Wales, then frankly it could tarmac the whole of Surrey if it wanted and there would be nothing that the Nimby vote in the South could do about it.
Never trust a teetotaller.
Cannot imagine some junior officer decided to do this on their own.
But he was never arrested was he, just interviewed?
The discussion should (but won't) wait until the something real comes along next. When it does the world will take real notice. Follow this one at the speed of The Economist.
Also, Murrell was a super competent Chief Executive in not at all a conflicted position being married to the Leader, until the very end when he decided to be incompetent for the first time by authorising lying about the party's membership numbers, and forgot to tell people about major purchases.
It’s grift, pure and simple, and it’s conning people who want to believe.
Mislaid a campervan?
And don’t give me the sub judice shite.
When I have some time in a a bit, I will try and have a nose about to put everything that's most important, in a list.
At one point I was the only person on PB voicing that opinion, to the derision of all others. Indeed I was about to give up, until @Gardenwalker - bless him - said “you know, you might be on to something”
Think that was late 2020?
I tried. Couldn’t manage it. LOL
If this was Boris Johnson you'd be pleasuring yourself so furiously you'd barely have time to post your euphoria on here.
Can't even go to Asda without it all kicking off.
Whatever prayers and votive offerings SKS sent this week, well, I'd like some of that.
Maybe the Almighty joined the Labour Party on Friday afternoon?
But that's speculation - Police clearly aren't going to confirm position.
"Nicola has consistently said she will cooperate with the investigation if asked".
What might have happened is unclear and what amounts to a crime in this area seems even unclearer. So there's suspicion but detailed allegations are rare.
What does seem clear at the very least is that Murrell and Sturgeon were not doing a good job overseeing the party finances and no one else in the party seems to have had any ability to have real input to them, whatever their position.