Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
Add in corrupt and the answer would be Daniel Kawczynski instead, so phrase the question precisely.
“We have a clear choice. Stick with Rishi Sunak, take the inevitable electoral consequences, and give the Left a blank cheque to change Britain as they see fit.
Or we can change leader, and give our country and party a fighting chance.”
1) we are in a recession 2) inflation has gone up 3) in April new brexit checks will come in boosting inflation and jeopardizing 46% of farmers accelerating the recession 4) 60.000 companies are in financial distress and many will cave accellerating a recession 5) key policy areas like child care and nhs waiting lists are failing 6) once spring comes boat will kick off big time 7) house prices are in free fall and due to inflation, interest rates will stay up 8) polls are widening, rather than narrowing 9) the many arms of the Parliamentary group are at war with themselves 10) Sunak's favourability is at Truss and Johnson level at their worst, while Starmers are not glowing but respectable
Here is my take away: things could very well suddenly unravel for the tories. MPs start taking jobs kicking off byelections, there may be defections left and right, there may be letters and leadership contests. It is not under any circumstances a given that Sunak can keep this show on the road till November. Events will take over. Slowly at first and then all of a sudden.
Sorry Cleitophon, that's rubbish. House prices are not in freefall:
A minor 2.1% correction in house prices after double-digit percentage rises in house prices is not even a proper correction, let alone freefall.
Try inflation adjusting those numbers my friend.
Yes and its still not freefall.
Over any reasonable view of time, house prices are massively, massively overvalued relative to wages. House prices are higher today than they were at the start of 2020, let alone 2010 or 2000.
But not on a supply and demand level, because our supply has been artificially capped relative to our rising population demands.
Look, through 2022 and 2023 we had double digit inflation. Even at stagnant house prices that means that your house lost 10% in value in real terms.. money is like a treadmill that goes ever faster or an elastic measuring tape that just keeps getting longer and longer. It is not an objective unit against which to assess value. And at 2.1% decline in housing and money still inflating at 4% ... that is still a 6% drop per annum. In the real world that is substantial. And it matters not that houses are subjectively over priced, because people are objectively tied into mortgages with those numbers on them. What it means is that people are unable to sell without losses to cover commitments and are for all intents and purposes mortgage serfs... unable.to move. Divorce coming though... you stay together or take the hit.
What kind of economically illiterate gibberish is this?
Houses are massively overpriced, the trivial fall in prices that has occurred don't even reverse the increase in prices since 2020 let alone before.
But what kind of crap is this talk about "real value" or being "tied" into a mortgage because of that? That's total and utter horseshit.
Negative equity might cause an issue for a trivially small amount of people, who'd have had to have bought in a narrow time window at a 100% mortgage, but real terms declines in costs simply makes everyone (apart from those looking to extract unearned wealth) better off, not worse off.
If you need to sell a home and move elsewhere and prices have been stable at a time of inflation then you can do so, since you're not in negative equity, and when you do so then house prices now are lower relative to your income so a new home is more affordable not less.
“We have a clear choice. Stick with Rishi Sunak, take the inevitable electoral consequences, and give the Left a blank cheque to change Britain as they see fit.
Or we can change leader, and give our country and party a fighting chance.”
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
We are impressed by your knowledge of such things, abovce all the Sun. But this is PB, you do understand? Here's a pat on the back and try not to do it again.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
“We have a clear choice. Stick with Rishi Sunak, take the inevitable electoral consequences, and give the Left a blank cheque to change Britain as they see fit.
Or we can change leader, and give our country and party a fighting chance.”
Sunak only got the job in the first place, as Truss, whose Cabinet Clarke was in, polled even worse than Sunak is now
The Trussites failed, but if people had stuck it out the party honestly might be doing that much worse.
Sunal has failed on his own terms to restore their chances, but I still think the very fact of going Boris-Truss-Sunak in such a quick span utterly tanked their reputation for competence, and shattered their internal cohesion.
That's why I'm skeptical even replacing him with someone who is much better would work at this point, because it'd be greeted with such exasperation and, let's be honest, would still not unite the party or its voter base.
Do better than they currently look set for? It's possible I guess, they are set for a shellacking of epic proportions, but who to choose?
So for now I'd regard all this as post-election positioning, particularly against candidates still in government.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
Also a party leader - a person pulling all the strings as leader of party with a majority, so power in the land and whose manifesto the voters voted to be implemented, doesn’t have to be Primeminister. Do they?
In fact being leader of party with government majority, but appointing different people to be Primeminister to take the unpopularity hit for you as you swap them out for fresh ones, is an untapped masterstroke of British politics. Truth is, it’s actually pretty politically dumb it’s not already business as usual doing this.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
Also a party leader - a person pulling all the strings as leader of party with a majority, so power in the land and whose manifesto the voters voted to be implemented, doesn’t have to be Primeminister. Do they?
In fact being leader of party with government majority, but appointing different people to be Primeminister to take the unpopularity hit for you as you swap them out for fresh ones, is an untapped masterstroke of British politics. Truth is, it’s actually pretty politically dumb it’s not already business as usual doing this.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
Remarkable how he quotes the British people as if he is in tune with them
Deluded, out of his depth, and frankly why the conservative party needs to go into opposition
The British people want no holds barred red blooded conservatism. That's why they support Keir Starmer by 20 points.
(Yes, there's probably some truth to the idea that some people show as supporting the opposition out of discontent at the lack of proper Tory principles or whatever, rather than simply stay at home, but to see such a big lead?)
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
Also a party leader - a person pulling all the strings as leader of party with a majority, so power in the land and whose manifesto the voters voted to be implemented, doesn’t have to be Primeminister. Do they?
In fact being leader of party with government majority, but appointing different people to be Primeminister to take the unpopularity hit for you as you swap them out for fresh ones, is an untapped masterstroke of British politics. Truth is, it’s actually pretty politically dumb it’s not already business as usual doing this.
Sounds a bit French to me.
And Japanese?
But is there anything in our constitution stopping it working, or just Britains party political lewdership politically illiterate to not already adopt a culture that absolutely will prolong party periods in power into multiple decades?
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
He's 39 and has been an MP for even less time than Sunak had upon becoming PM, without the years as a Cabinet Minister as experience (such as that is worth, which is not much).
I don't believe age and experience automatically lead to wisdom, but I think pitching for younger and younger PMs is a strategy which does not work when the PM is already the youngest we'd had in 200 years.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
He'd lose any conceivable by-election, I think.
I'll look up those Standing Orders.
I had a feeling it was mentioned in Lord Halifax's memoirs, where he discussed the objection to a PM from the Lords, but I can't find it and the index isn't sufficiently helpful. There was also the option of putting the peerage/s into abeyance (although not life peerages). I've definitely read it somewhere though.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Ronald McDonald and Mr Blobby could be on there for all I know. Does the latest fifty feature Gordon the Gopher?
My friends bought me a picture by former PB cartoonist Marf, that incorporated an Alan Turing £50 note. Unfortunately they did not realise these notes were the new standard issue, so paid over the odds to buy one from a shark on Ebay.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
He'd lose any conceivable by-election, I think.
I'll look up those Standing Orders.
I had a feeling it was mentioned in Lord Halifax's memoirs, where he discussed the objection to a PM from the Lords, but I can't find it and the index isn't sufficiently helpful. There was also the option of putting the peerage/s into abeyance (although not life peerages). I've definitely read it somewhere though.
Gordon Brown wants Lord Mandelson to make history by becoming the first cabinet minister from the House of Lords to answer questions the dispatch box in the Commons...
Some traditionalists are expected to resist the move to allow peers to take questions in the Commons, due to the fact that they are not elected and therefore have no right to appear in the Commons.
Brown's letter goes further than Bercow's current plans to change the rules by Christmas to allow Mandelson and Adonis to answer questions in the mini-Commons chamber attached to the medieval Westminster Hall.
The Speaker is said to be hoping that the parliamentary authorities, wary of bringing the Commons and the Lords closer together, will allow the two ministers to appear at the bar of the house when their departmental ministers in the Commons face the monthly business and transport questions from MPs...
However, Bercow would eventually like to see the two peers sitting alongside their ministerial colleagues on the Commons government frontbench to answer questions.
He signalled his support for the change during his campaign for the Commons speakership in the summer, and the move is strongly backed by Adonis and Mandelson. Adonis wrote to him to say: "I noted what you said about the possibility of secretaries of state in the Lords being subject to oral questions in the Commons. May I say that, should you and the house wish to establish a process for this to happen, I would be very willing to oblige."
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
He'd lose any conceivable by-election, I think.
I'll look up those Standing Orders.
I had a feeling it was mentioned in Lord Halifax's memoirs, where he discussed the objection to a PM from the Lords, but I can't find it and the index isn't sufficiently helpful. There was also the option of putting the peerage/s into abeyance (although not life peerages). I've definitely read it somewhere though.
The option to renounce peerages was introduced in the 1960s for Tony Benn, 20-odd years too late for Lord Halifax whose musings are therefore immaterial. David Cameron cannot renounce his peerage but can give up his voting rights and be elected to the House of Commons. He'd need to be in the Commons to become Tory leader again (unless the party changes its rules). ETA https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/peerages-can-they-be-removed/
"Accepting a peerage to an unelected house does not make it democratic it simply enshrines entitlement and privilege. To quote a phrase lording it over the rest of us."
Having a go at Ruth Davidson. Its amazing how perceptions can change.
Perceptions, principles - it's all just clay to be remoulded every new dawn. Much like a ferry timetable.
I thought ferry timetables were a blank page. A forever future?
Only in the western Isles. And even there they have, well, not really a time table, more of an aspiration.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
How often does it work in Australia? Albanese is coming up on 2 years, it must almost be time for him to be challenged or be ousted?
I'm sure it's right Rishi would win a challenge because of lack of clear alternatives, but we also know winning a challenge doesn't end discontent in leadership, and there is not much time to turn perceptions round after a year of at best treating water and at worst going backwards.
Who coming out now would make a big splash?
Only one person would make a difference.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
That's the only serious choice to maybe save 180-190 seats over a wipeout.
However, it can't really work with him not being a MP anymore - you can't do PMQs from the Lords nor offer a prospectus to the British people without putting yourself up for election.
It would be possible for a peer to take questions in the Commons; Standing Orders could be amended. It was looked into in 1940, to take one example. And Cameron (or any peer) can resign from the Lords and stand for election, so he could return to the Commons if he really wanted to (subject to the voters, of course!).
He'd lose any conceivable by-election, I think.
I'll look up those Standing Orders.
I had a feeling it was mentioned in Lord Halifax's memoirs, where he discussed the objection to a PM from the Lords, but I can't find it and the index isn't sufficiently helpful. There was also the option of putting the peerage/s into abeyance (although not life peerages). I've definitely read it somewhere though.
That’s the bit where Halifax and Churchill sit down together to decide which of them next PrImeminister, and the notes of everyone present is different. Most people beforehand thought it would be Halifax, and I think it’s in Churchills memoirs he thought Halifax used the “objection to PM from the Lords” because he was quivering like a leaf and realised he was not up to the job of leading the country in the war.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Ronald McDonald and Mr Blobby could be on there for all I know. Does the latest fifty feature Gordon the Gopher?
My friends bought me a picture by former PB cartoonist Marf, that incorporated an Alan Turing £50 note. Unfortunately they did not realise these notes were the new standard issue, so paid over the odds to buy one from a shark on Ebay.
Eh? Presumably they were buying the cartoon not the banknote? Don’t get it!
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Ronald McDonald and Mr Blobby could be on there for all I know. Does the latest fifty feature Gordon the Gopher?
My friends bought me a picture by former PB cartoonist Marf, that incorporated an Alan Turing £50 note. Unfortunately they did not realise these notes were the new standard issue, so paid over the odds to buy one from a shark on Ebay.
Eh? Presumably they were buying the cartoon not the banknote? Don’t get it!
They commissioned the cartoon, for which they bought the banknote.
All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
Ronald McDonald and Mr Blobby could be on there for all I know. Does the latest fifty feature Gordon the Gopher?
My friends bought me a picture by former PB cartoonist Marf, that incorporated an Alan Turing £50 note. Unfortunately they did not realise these notes were the new standard issue, so paid over the odds to buy one from a shark on Ebay.
Eh? Presumably they were buying the cartoon not the banknote? Don’t get it!
They commissioned the cartoon, for which they bought the banknote.
Still struggling. They paid Marf to draw a cartoon then bought an ordinary £50 note for more than £50?
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson.
You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
You do when you are married, you take your vows for life (and Boris at least had charisma for all his flaws in his personal life, unlike Clarke)
No, when you love each other you should be together for life, and marriage is an expression of that love.
However if for whatever reason you cease to love each other, then separation is the honourable thing to do.
I want to stay together with my life because I love her. I want her to stay with me because she loves me, not because of any vows.
If you didn't love her you wouldn't have married her in the first place.
Marriage should be entered in as a lifelong commitment, the problem is too many nowadays get divorced on the first row or expecting eternal perfection but the whole point of marriage is relationships have ups and downs but you make a lifelong commitment to the person forsaking all others
Anyway, how big a win is Trump getting in New Hampshire as a whole?
60:30 and 10 for the non runners etc. The race ends tomorrow.
Whilst anyone who wants a career in the party has to kiss the ring, it's still pathetic seeing the few who ran and occasionally even dared criticise Trump like DeSantis and (very shortly) Haley, leap so quickly into praise and support, even as Trump insulted them so egregiously. They could at least hold off a few weeks or something to salvage a little dignity.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson.
You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
You do when you are married, you take your vows for life (and Boris at least had charisma for all his flaws in his personal life, unlike Clarke)
No, when you love each other you should be together for life, and marriage is an expression of that love.
However if for whatever reason you cease to love each other, then separation is the honourable thing to do.
I want to stay together with my life because I love her. I want her to stay with me because she loves me, not because of any vows.
If you didn't love her you wouldn't have married her in the first place.
Marriage should be entered in as a lifelong commitment, the problem is too many nowadays get divorced on the first row or expecting eternal perfection but the whole point of marriage is relationships have ups and downs but you make a lifelong commitment to the person forsaking all others
God didn't marry the mother of His only begotten son!
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson.
You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
You do when you are married, you take your vows for life (and Boris at least had charisma for all his flaws in his personal life, unlike Clarke)
No, when you love each other you should be together for life, and marriage is an expression of that love.
However if for whatever reason you cease to love each other, then separation is the honourable thing to do.
I want to stay together with my life because I love her. I want her to stay with me because she loves me, not because of any vows.
If you didn't love her you wouldn't have married her in the first place.
Marriage should be entered in as a lifelong commitment, the problem is too many nowadays get divorced on the first row or expecting eternal perfection but the whole point of marriage is relationships have ups and downs but you make a lifelong commitment to the person forsaking all others
Point of order. My agreement with my wife was that I’d forsake all others except for Keira Knightley.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
It is an incredible video to watch now because pretty much every single prediction is wrong. Actually takes remarkable talent to be that wrong. Hannan was more wrong on everything than all the other Brexiteers put together, even Boris.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
He is the one who claimed today that his advice to a colleague to delete his snapchats to avoid FOI requests was a joke but the punchline is that he did indeed delete all his snapchats.
He is the one who claimed today that his advice to a colleague to delete his snapchats to avoid FOI requests was a joke but the punchline is that he did indeed delete all his snapchats.
Hang on, I accept I am way out of date here, but I though Snapchat was what kids used to share “one time only” photos? Is it now a messaging thing too?
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson.
You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
You do when you are married, you take your vows for life (and Boris at least had charisma for all his flaws in his personal life, unlike Clarke)
In our case 60 years in May, but if you genuinely believe marriage vows bind you for life then you are incredibly naive and does not reflect reality
If you aren't committed to keeping them, what is the point of making the vows in the first place?
People change. People evolve.
If you evolve in different directions, then eventually a parting of the ways is the right thing to do.
People shouldn't remain married unhappily after love has died, when they want completely different things now, just because of a mistake years ago. People should spend their lifetimes happy with someone they love, not unhappy with someone they hate.
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
He broke his marriage vow and left his wife and young child for a younger model he met at Westminster, now he doesn't need to be arrested for that but he shouldn't be applauded for it either
Calling for 'a new PM' is all very well but 'generic Tory' isn't an option. Indeed, 'generic Tory' is pretty much the incumbent. If you want a replacement, you really ought to say who that replacement should be.
This is from last month.
— plots to oust Sunak are bubbling away under the surface
— allies of Liz Truss have held talks about coordinating letters
— some of them want Simon Clarke to be the candidate to replace him
— Truss denies plotting. Clarke says he wants govt to succeed
If the answer is Simon Clarke then you're asking the wrong question. Unless the question is name a tall Tory who nobody approaching normal has ever heard of?
And who divorced his wife for a Westminster colleague
'The 6ft 7in Tory nicknamed Stilts stepped down as minister for regional growth and local government “for personal reasons”.
But the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is “head over heels in lust”.
His teary wife Hannah looked devastated outside their Teesside home yesterday.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson.
You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
You do when you are married, you take your vows for life (and Boris at least had charisma for all his flaws in his personal life, unlike Clarke)
No, when you love each other you should be together for life, and marriage is an expression of that love.
However if for whatever reason you cease to love each other, then separation is the honourable thing to do.
I want to stay together with my life because I love her. I want her to stay with me because she loves me, not because of any vows.
If you didn't love her you wouldn't have married her in the first place.
Marriage should be entered in as a lifelong commitment, the problem is too many nowadays get divorced on the first row or expecting eternal perfection but the whole point of marriage is relationships have ups and downs but you make a lifelong commitment to the person forsaking all others
Point of order. My agreement with my wife was that I’d forsake all others except for Keira Knightley.
Comments
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/23/replace-sunak-pm-face-decade-decline-starmer-simon-clarke/
Houses are massively overpriced, the trivial fall in prices that has occurred don't even reverse the increase in prices since 2020 let alone before.
But what kind of crap is this talk about "real value" or being "tied" into a mortgage because of that? That's total and utter horseshit.
Negative equity might cause an issue for a trivially small amount of people, who'd have had to have bought in a narrow time window at a 100% mortgage, but real terms declines in costs simply makes everyone (apart from those looking to extract unearned wealth) better off, not worse off.
If you need to sell a home and move elsewhere and prices have been stable at a time of inflation then you can do so, since you're not in negative equity, and when you do so then house prices now are lower relative to your income so a new home is more affordable not less.
Today was her moment.
Tomorrow is her moment.
For then, for now, for always.
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You don't choose who you love, love chooses you.
"Key members of Liz Truss's team have some thoughts they'd like to share about the qualities of a winning leader."
Sunal has failed on his own terms to restore their chances, but I still think the very fact of going Boris-Truss-Sunak in such a quick span utterly tanked their reputation for competence, and shattered their internal cohesion.
That's why I'm skeptical even replacing him with someone who is much better would work at this point, because it'd be greeted with such exasperation and, let's be honest, would still not unite the party or its voter base.
Do better than they currently look set for? It's possible I guess, they are set for a shellacking of epic proportions, but who to choose?
So for now I'd regard all this as post-election positioning, particularly against candidates still in government.
In fact being leader of party with government majority, but appointing different people to be Primeminister to take the unpopularity hit for you as you swap them out for fresh ones, is an untapped masterstroke of British politics. Truth is, it’s actually pretty politically dumb it’s not already business as usual doing this.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/23/replace-sunak-pm-face-decade-decline-starmer-simon-clarke/
Deluded, out of his depth, and frankly why the conservative party needs to go into opposition
Why don't you ask him if he's going to stay?
Why don't you ask him if he's going away?
Behind a paywall.
(Yes, there's probably some truth to the idea that some people show as supporting the opposition out of discontent at the lack of proper Tory principles or whatever, rather than simply stay at home, but to see such a big lead?)
But is there anything in our constitution stopping it working, or just Britains party political lewdership politically illiterate to not already adopt a culture that absolutely will prolong party periods in power into multiple decades?
PS Sorry - long day. Trying to manage an investigation in Asia.
But really who is he?
Another arrogant Oxford graduate.
"And you promise this won't make us look ridiculous?"
Allegedly.
It's highly suspect! Is Boris Johnson unleashing the Big Beasts to make 5ft 6in Rishi Sunak feel small?
A senior MP claimed Boris Johnson appoints tall MPs to annoy 5ft 6in Rishi Sunak
Mr Johnson appointed 6ft 5in Simon Clarke as Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Other recent Treasury appointees include Stephen Barclay and Jesse Norman
MP said the PM is deliberately playing on Mr Sunak's 'insecurity' over his height
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10053193/Is-Boris-Johnson-unleashing-Big-Beasts-make-5ft-6in-Rishi-Sunak-feel-small.html
Gordon Brown wants Lord Mandelson to make history by becoming the first cabinet minister from the House of Lords to answer questions the dispatch box in the Commons...
Some traditionalists are expected to resist the move to allow peers to take questions in the Commons, due to the fact that they are not elected and therefore have no right to appear in the Commons.
Brown's letter goes further than Bercow's current plans to change the rules by Christmas to allow Mandelson and Adonis to answer questions in the mini-Commons chamber attached to the medieval Westminster Hall.
The Speaker is said to be hoping that the parliamentary authorities, wary of bringing the Commons and the Lords closer together, will allow the two ministers to appear at the bar of the house when their departmental ministers in the Commons face the monthly business and transport questions from MPs...
However, Bercow would eventually like to see the two peers sitting alongside their ministerial colleagues on the Commons government frontbench to answer questions.
He signalled his support for the change during his campaign for the Commons speakership in the summer, and the move is strongly backed by Adonis and Mandelson. Adonis wrote to him to say: "I noted what you said about the possibility of secretaries of state in the Lords being subject to oral questions in the Commons. May I say that, should you and the house wish to establish a process for this to happen, I would be very willing to oblige."
ETA https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/peerages-can-they-be-removed/
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
She's now leading with 100% of votes counted.
See end of previous thread, for my thrilling account of Shocking Result of 1964 NH GOP POTUS primary!
However if for whatever reason you cease to love each other, then separation is the honourable thing to do.
I want to stay together with my life because I love her. I want her to stay with me because she loves me, not because of any vows.
You ought to be put in charge of the Royal Mint, Anab.
How long can they keep going though, the number of voters well down from the glory days.
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This is getting silly.
The Party and the country are sick and tired of MPs putting their own leadership ambitions ahead of the UK's best interests.
https://nitter.net/DavidDavisMP/status/1749899913054323181#m
But self evidently the Party are not sick and tired of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6ZWv0YUgQ
The Conservative party will suffer an electoral massacre if it doesn't deliver what the voters want.
Unfortunately what the voters want is for the Conservatives to suffer an electoral massacre.
What I want to know is how many magic lamps Starmer has and where he found them all.
https://x.com/samfr/status/1749904520203702619?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Marriage should be entered in as a lifelong commitment, the problem is too many nowadays get divorced on the first row or expecting eternal perfection but the whole point of marriage is relationships have ups and downs but you make a lifelong commitment to the person forsaking all others
So far though, Keira is playing it cool.
https://x.com/damocrat/status/1749897648608366792?s=20
It is an incredible video to watch now because pretty much every single prediction is wrong. Actually takes remarkable talent to be that wrong. Hannan was more wrong on everything than all the other Brexiteers put together, even Boris.
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/official-advised-humza-yousaf-on-how-to-avoid-wearing-mask-uk-covid-inquiry-hears/ar-BB1h8apF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=b43fa120c2b848d6a3525a92aff16b39&ei=8
He is the one who claimed today that his advice to a colleague to delete his snapchats to avoid FOI requests was a joke but the punchline is that he did indeed delete all his snapchats.
If you evolve in different directions, then eventually a parting of the ways is the right thing to do.
People shouldn't remain married unhappily after love has died, when they want completely different things now, just because of a mistake years ago. People should spend their lifetimes happy with someone they love, not unhappy with someone they hate.