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Keeping Braverman as Home Secretary is a lifestyle choice by Sunak – politicalbetting.com
Keeping Braverman as Home Secretary is a lifestyle choice by Sunak – politicalbetting.com
A wedge issue but for your own voters. https://t.co/BGE6JRGXVF
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When the police have been taking advise from race grifters and antisemites, who tell them nonsense like screaming about Jihadi was really a discussion of personal struggle, flags used by various Islamists groups are really just the printing of a call to prayer on a flag, etc
The thing about Braverman, I think she is a rubbish politician in the sense of if your goal is to win power (not actually effect positive change). There are ways of messaging, or getting outriders to message that you think they things, without running into this issue. Then we get several days about ohhh bad / inappropriate words were said, etc etc etc and distracts from the actual issue at hand.
I'd lay Braverman, as the hyped candidate, but I do fear they're crazy enough to do it. Might be value in backing her as a trading bet. Depending on the composition of the Tory rump after the next GE, there might be a concerted effort to block her at the MP level. Or maybe not - has anyone done an analysis on who is likely to be left in the CPP under X seats outcomes?
Did Braverman explicitly challenge collective cabinet decisions? I can’t see it
Isn't it like homelessness - more deserving of sympathy than of condemnation?
I am becoming more convinced by the day that she is going to be the next leader, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascelles_Principles
Questioning policing decisions after the event, from opposition, really isn't quite the same thing.
And apparently the Met now agree that they were less than ideal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-police-apologise-pay-compensation-women-held-vigil-2023-09-13/
I would hope she shows more restraint when in office; we will see.
https://conservativehome.com/2023/11/06/our-cabinet-league-table-cleverly-goes-top-for-the-first-time/
If she wants to personally direct operational policing, she should give herself those powers - and see how the electorate reacts to that.
The law currently states explicitly that operational decisions are for the police themselves, not politicians.
As it is, she's trying to direct the police via the media.
;-)
The Mail has a really good science and tech section - better than any other British newspaper (partly because they can afford it, as they are rich). Good editors, good journalists
They very often break science/tech stories before anyone else - including the USA - and they cover them with greater expertise and insight
It generally isn’t influenced in either way by the paper’s political stance
It’s also worth noting the growing influence of Daily Mail USA. They often get American stories before American media
I assume if this happens the powers that be should look at amending the 20 over rule.
As I’ve said many times before, Liz Truss would have been better. At least she had ideas, policies, and legislation she’d have brought forward in this session.
Sunak is worse than Brown, the PM who burned all the bridges to get the top job, but knew not what to do with it.
I've next to no sympathy with the protest this weekend, but I wouldn't ban it.
She’s probably loving it
I agree with those that say her aim is likely to get herself sacked at some point by Sunak. So she is detached from the electoral disaster of 2024. Then she can blame Sunak and Co for being too Woke
I'm struggling with "lifestyle choice."
Partly because, with the homeless, there are two, almost contradictory, ways of thinking about the phrase.
Are some people homeless because they have a lifestyle which causes them to make bad choices?
Undeniably.
Do some willingly choose homelessness as a lifestyle?
Hard to see why.
Dictionary definition
"a choice a person makes about how to live and behave, according to their attitudes, tastes, and values."
She is saying controversial things because her brand is that she is the only person in UK politics who is tough enough and honest enough to say them. It is all very Trumpian - dislike me all you like but I will at least say this stuff. Others won’t. They’re part of the Swamp/Blob.
This is going to cut through in a big way with the Tory membership, I fear, if she gets that far. And if she were to make it to LOTO, I don’t think anyone can afford to be complacent about her. I see a lot of complacency on here - she’s been a useless HS, nasty, mean spirited, incompetent, dangerous. All these things may be true, but they dont preclude someone from winning an election in the West, nowadays.
permitforbid (yikes!) politicians from having diverse opinions, but it does permit a Prime Minister to fire a Minister for any reason they see fit. That's what "invited me to form a Government" means. Apocryphally Clem Attlee fired a Minister with the phrase "not up to it".I've been waiting for replies for 45 minutes.
How do you define some? I mean it actually might be true for 1% of those who sleep rough. If those 28% think 'some' is a small minority then they should be lumped in with the 57% not the 6%. So the result is then:
85 : 6
Not
57 : 34
Presumably the answer is somewhere in between. Rubbish question of course.
Here are the total for 0 through 9 wickets at 20 overs DLS par
45 50 58 68 82 98 118 139 156 169
I think in this situation the game should either be no result or bowling team wins.
You could argue that's a bit unfair on the team that batted first but if the bowling side is ahead of the DLS par for 20 overs at say 10 overs then a No result is more than the team that batted first could realistically expect.
The Daily Mail Group makes about £1bn a year in revenue; the Guardian about £220m
The Guardian also makes a loss, the Mail a profit
Part of the problem for the Guardian is the the New York Times (which is hugely rich) has almost identical views and uses the same angles
The Daily Mail has found a niche not really exploited in the USA
She kept off asking me about stories - no science background but was trying to honestly understand.
The main problem was Big Reporters jumping in and editors rewriting stories seemingly at random.
Put Farage and Braverman up against each other in a leadership competition and he would win the drink down the pub vote hands down. And assuming the party goes full UKIP post election and he remains outside, he will be there reminding people there's always the real thing.
They did consider two options. Herd immunity - it would eventually work but with serious costs to the old gits and the very sick. Or a vaccine. One of the few things that Bojo got right - appoint a person familiar with the pharmaceutical industry and the civil service to bang their heads together - who happened to be female.
Sedwill's great idea was to rearrange the civil service to be more civil-servicy. No doubt so that he could sit back and preen over an increased head-count. Remember the First Division motto. Scientists - On tap, not on top,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/mothers-children-held-hostage-hamas-all-we-want-is-them-home
No 10 has now diisavowed Suella's attempts to whip up a riot in London via the Times. Suella said that the article had got the green light from No 10. So either they are fibbing or she is. Or, most likely, she didn't understand the question she was asked
This really isn't about a pathetically over promoted and 'intellectually challenged' Home Secretary any more. It is all about Mr Sunak. Is he so out of touch and/or so weak that he can't do what is so obviously necessary?
I don't know the whole story, but I suspect the only way to get him off the street permanently would be to get him sectioned and institutionalised in some way. I'm not sure that would actually be kinder.
This doesn't, of course, less us as a country off our obligations to help people into suitable accommodation, but it does show that there are some problems even large sums of money can't satisfactorily solve, and that no matter how good our system there will probably be some people who have a "lifestyle choice" in which they insist on living on the streets. Obviously the root issue is usually tangled up with mental health problems, and we should treat such people kindly, but we probably have to accept it's not a problem we can solve.
Heath; Braverman is saying stuff that no other senior politician says, but lots of non political people in working class areas are.
Opinion polls at the time overwhelmingly backed Powell, and the Tories surprisingly won the next election, despite his sacking
In one sense it could be a good tactic as it’s creating a wedge issue between the Tories and the twitterati/Centrist Dad .Labour
I might lay Lab at 1.36 for overall majority now. Or a little bet on Con Maj at 12 - provable losers but dividing people up on issues like this is - them anti protest/Labour outraged at them for being anti the protests/lefties attending the protests is their only chance
Braverman is a continuation of that - she's just doing it in the style of the the US MAGA GOP instead of in the typical UK manner.
There was one chap in Wiltshire who lived in tents/temp accommodation from choice. Used to odd job his way round Europe in winter and send postcards to the pub from everywhere.
The other 99.999% consist of the two homelessness problems.
I'm fond of "just rejoice at that news" too – Maggie Thatcher.
1) people like the chap you mention. Their problems are so severe that inhabiting a property doesn’t work for them. Their homelessness is a symptom of their condition, not a cause.
2) a much larger group of people living in horrible conditions, but with a roof. Of sorts. Waiting for decent, permanent accommodation.
The war continues but global attention is shifting. Probably good news for Netanyahu that it's happened so fast.
"Present but not involved" was another good one, the British 21st C answer to Clinton not inhaling.
The most idiotic accusation is that Braverman is “stupid” - it’s even been made on here
Look at her CV. Oxbridge, Sorbonne etc
She is not “stupid”. It is permissible to loathe her but claiming she is some kind of ignorant bigot like Corbyn is plainly wrong
It’s not that humans are uncaring, but things that we can link directly to ourselves hurt more…
“ was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough what
was happening to her--understood as well as I did how dreadful a destiny
it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a
slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe.”
So if you've got a habit, you have to stay on the street.
That's what I have been told happens locally.
[I'm not saying that was the issue here]
She gave legal opinions that were obviously wrong, which some might describe as stupid
If it was only as simple as getting them inside, it would have been done many years ago. And yet it goes on in, in all countries.
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Thanks GB News viewers! This will have been a very profitable experiment...
Agree that Braverman's CV is not that of a stupid person. But that means that she knows what she is doing and how much fire she is playing with. And yet she still does it.
(And I think there is a chunk of playing going on, rather than the Powellite thing of failing to get off the logic train before it went somewhere dark and dangerous.)
History is full of intelligent fools; one of the instincts of old-school Conservativism is not to trust such people.
Net result is that it's easier to hide a drug habit in sheltered accommodation than alcoholism.
How many PB'ers would last more than a day in a house that wouldn't let them drink?
Tory whips blackmailed MPs into opposing Johnson
Dorries quotes an unnamed MP saying the whips have a video of another MP “being given oral sex by someone who most certainly is not his wife”. This MP was loyal to Johnson “until suddenly he surprised everyone” and wasn’t. “The thing is, information like this doesn’t always remain in the whips’ office,” the MP said.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nadine-dorries-book-the-plot-claims-summary-key-points-mpbzh9v68