Sen. Tillis knocks Republicans who want to kill immigration deal to help Trump politically, saying "we have to have people in our party" who won't bow to that. "I didn't come here to have the president as a boss, or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy." https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1750608864641163549
It's impressive, if depressing, how one of the positive things about US politics - not being slavishly loyal to a single leader - has been entirely eliminated.
Back on topic, no wonder the Tories tried to keep the elderly alive during Covid, at the expense of the prosperity and mental health of younger people. Imagine the effect on Tory votes if oldies had been allowed to die to protect the rest of the population, and there were 50% fewer over 65s. Or would under 65s have been more grateful and more inclined to vote Tory?
Interesting that my 84 year old wife and I (80 in February) have had 7 covid vaccines and yet we have had covid 3 times, twice really nasty
I predict that, despite many comments on PB, you will be advising us after the GE, that you voted Conservative.
Back on topic, no wonder the Tories tried to keep the elderly alive during Covid, at the expense of the prosperity and mental health of younger people. Imagine the effect on Tory votes if oldies had been allowed to die to protect the rest of the population, and there were 50% fewer over 65s. Or would under 65s have been more grateful and more inclined to vote Tory?
Interesting that my 84 year old wife and I (80 in February) have had 7 covid vaccines and yet we have had covid 3 times, twice really nasty
Sadly the COVID vaccine and indeed infection does not provide lasting protection against infection. Boosters help somewhat, but as is obvious plenty of people are getting COVID. What has changed is the consequences of that. Estimates of 5 to 10 % of people having COVID recently yet no crisis in the NHS (no more than normal at any rate) and mercifully few deaths.
Sen. Tillis knocks Republicans who want to kill immigration deal to help Trump politically, saying "we have to have people in our party" who won't bow to that. "I didn't come here to have the president as a boss, or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy." https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1750608864641163549
He needs to follow the UK and base his campaign on stopping small boats crossing the Rio Grande.
@Geri_E_L_Scott New: Rishi Sunak's allies are pressing to increase the threshold for triggering a confidence vote in the prime minister to half of all Tory MPs.
Harriett Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, made the suggestion in the Tory MPs Whatsapp group, in a move being interpreted as "rolling the pitch".
In a message to colleagues seen by The Times, Baldwin was replying to Maria Caulfield, the women's health minister, who had said the "constant melodrama" in the Conservative Party was coming up on the doorstep. Baldwin said: "One practical thing we could do as a parliamentary party is ask the 22 exec to change our rules so that it takes 50% of backbenchers to challenge a sitting PM, rather than 15% of the parliamentary party."
Currently 53 MPs would need to submit letters of no confidence to trigger a leadership bid.
She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".
She told The Times: “Call me old-fashioned but I like to adhere to the privacy and discretion of the 1922 Committee as a forum for backbench colleagues to raise discussion points about topical matters.”
Sally-Ann Hart, the MP for Hasting and Rye who is an executive member of the 1922 committee, told Baldwin she would take the idea up.
But one MP on the right, who is disillusioned with Sunak, said: "It just shows the panic in No 10 if they're rolling the pitch like this, I think they're just very nervous.
It's a low bar at present, but as the final comment notes it's a bad look to be focusing on.
50% does seem too high though - If you are going to permit a challenge, recognising it as a necessary process, then it's not fair or realistic to expect coup plotters to have complete the coup before getting a vote.
The CPS reached the conclusion that “There was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for murder” in the case of Valdo Colocane Does this mean they think the jury would find him Not Guilty if he had been tried for murder? What would have happened to him in that scenario?
"He believed his mind was being controlled by external influences and that his family was in danger if he didn't obey the voices in his head."
Chief crown prosecutor for the east midlands Janine McKinney speaking about killer Valdo Calocane.
If there had been a trial the jury would have convicted him of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. Which he pleaded to. The psychiatric evidence was unanimous that his responsibility was at least diminished, so there would have been no lawful basis for a murder conviction.
He would also have been convicted of attempted murder. The special case of diminished responsibility only applies to murder for historical rather than logical reasons.
The convictions recognise real and actual culpability, but diminished. The same can apply when, for example, a wife kills an abusive and violent husband when it is not in self defence.
Given that, whether it was murder or manslaughter, he is very unlikely to ever be freed, wouldn’t it be better to convict him of murder?
I say this because the bereaved families are furious at it being manslaughter, they feel let down, and a murder verdict doesn’t seem like it would make any practical difference to the guilty man anyway
The families have been let down, terribly, but not by the manslaughter charge, which as other have noted is likely the right one given the killer's psychotic state. Mental health services and the police have questions to answer about their engagement with the man in the months leading up to the crime, but I expect that at least some of the answer is that they were being asked to do more than their resources allowed.
They are very unhappy with the CPS that he wasn’t tried for murder "True justice has not been served today".
Mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber, says the families were "horrified" that Calocane's manslaughter plea was accepted.
Families will always feel like that. If he had been tried for murder, they'd have been disappointed when he was found not guilty. If by some chance he had been found guilty of murder, he'd have got life and spent a week or so in prison before being moved to Broadmoor.
Grace's father said something along the lines of placing their faith in the courts and judiciary, so he was possibly more accepting of the way things turned out, or was putting on a stiff upper lip.
So long as he's going away for good, that is what matters.
I'm not sure. This is not the first case where opportunities were missed. Colocane was already in the system but fell through the cracks, like Zara Aleena's killer; as did the 2-year-old Bronson Battersby who starved to death last week, as when terrorists like Salman Abedi who bombed the Ariana Grande concert were known to Special Branch or MI5. Our public services are failing and people are dying.
That’s what happens when too many people prioritise tax cuts over funding our services, in this case social services and security services, sufficiently.
Its cute that you think tax cuts have been prioritised when this sorry excuse for a Government has put taxes up to the highest in decades.
And have squandered mote money than any government since the CABAL.
@DavidMDrucker NEWS: Republican National Committee reviewing a draft resolution that if approved would declare TRUMP the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee even as @NikkiHaley wages a vigorous campaign against the frontrunner.
It is going to be absolutely hilarious if SCOTUS disqualify him.
He can become President of the True American States: Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, et al.
American Patriots (n) - People who wish America's enemies had won the Civil War and World War Two.
The fashion for conflating the South with the Nazis is one of the reasons why the US is becoming so volatile and ceasing to function as a united polity.
It implies that the US of Reagan and Clinton had monuments to the equivalents of Hitler and Göring.
Not the South, the Confederate traitors.
President Ford speaking in 1975:
I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history. It is significant that it is signed at this place.
Lee's dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia. He, thus, forfeited his rights to U.S. citizenship.
Once the war was over, he firmly felt the wounds of the North and South must be bound up. He sought to show by example that the citizens of the South must dedicate their efforts to rebuilding that region of the country as a strong and vital part of the American Union.
As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as the symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. The course he chose after the war became a symbol to all those who had marched with him in the bitter years towards Appomattox.
General Lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.
The CPS reached the conclusion that “There was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for murder” in the case of Valdo Colocane Does this mean they think the jury would find him Not Guilty if he had been tried for murder? What would have happened to him in that scenario?
"He believed his mind was being controlled by external influences and that his family was in danger if he didn't obey the voices in his head."
Chief crown prosecutor for the east midlands Janine McKinney speaking about killer Valdo Calocane.
If there had been a trial the jury would have convicted him of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. Which he pleaded to. The psychiatric evidence was unanimous that his responsibility was at least diminished, so there would have been no lawful basis for a murder conviction.
He would also have been convicted of attempted murder. The special case of diminished responsibility only applies to murder for historical rather than logical reasons.
The convictions recognise real and actual culpability, but diminished. The same can apply when, for example, a wife kills an abusive and violent husband when it is not in self defence.
Given that, whether it was murder or manslaughter, he is very unlikely to ever be freed, wouldn’t it be better to convict him of murder?
I say this because the bereaved families are furious at it being manslaughter, they feel let down, and a murder verdict doesn’t seem like it would make any practical difference to the guilty man anyway
The families have been let down, terribly, but not by the manslaughter charge, which as other have noted is likely the right one given the killer's psychotic state. Mental health services and the police have questions to answer about their engagement with the man in the months leading up to the crime, but I expect that at least some of the answer is that they were being asked to do more than their resources allowed.
They are very unhappy with the CPS that he wasn’t tried for murder "True justice has not been served today".
Mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber, says the families were "horrified" that Calocane's manslaughter plea was accepted.
Families will always feel like that. If he had been tried for murder, they'd have been disappointed when he was found not guilty. If by some chance he had been found guilty of murder, he'd have got life and spent a week or so in prison before being moved to Broadmoor.
Grace's father said something along the lines of placing their faith in the courts and judiciary, so he was possibly more accepting of the way things turned out, or was putting on a stiff upper lip.
So long as he's going away for good, that is what matters.
The defence lawyer is asking for it not to be life. I suppose he would do
Without wanting to diminish the death of Ian Coates, those two kids (possibly in love?) were enjoying the happiest days of their lives, walking home at 4am in the middle of summer after a night out, not a care in the world. Then it turned into a horror movie. One of the most heartbreaking cases I’ve known.
Not in love, just good friends. I know the mother of the young lady's boyfriend at the time. She missed a planned meeting on the day the story broke as she was down there to be with him.
@Geri_E_L_Scott New: Rishi Sunak's allies are pressing to increase the threshold for triggering a confidence vote in the prime minister to half of all Tory MPs.
Harriett Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, made the suggestion in the Tory MPs Whatsapp group, in a move being interpreted as "rolling the pitch".
In a message to colleagues seen by The Times, Baldwin was replying to Maria Caulfield, the women's health minister, who had said the "constant melodrama" in the Conservative Party was coming up on the doorstep. Baldwin said: "One practical thing we could do as a parliamentary party is ask the 22 exec to change our rules so that it takes 50% of backbenchers to challenge a sitting PM, rather than 15% of the parliamentary party."
Currently 53 MPs would need to submit letters of no confidence to trigger a leadership bid.
She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".
She told The Times: “Call me old-fashioned but I like to adhere to the privacy and discretion of the 1922 Committee as a forum for backbench colleagues to raise discussion points about topical matters.”
Sally-Ann Hart, the MP for Hasting and Rye who is an executive member of the 1922 committee, told Baldwin she would take the idea up.
But one MP on the right, who is disillusioned with Sunak, said: "It just shows the panic in No 10 if they're rolling the pitch like this, I think they're just very nervous.
So it would be 53 MPs now and about 53 MPs after the election as well......
@Geri_E_L_Scott New: Rishi Sunak's allies are pressing to increase the threshold for triggering a confidence vote in the prime minister to half of all Tory MPs.
Harriett Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, made the suggestion in the Tory MPs Whatsapp group, in a move being interpreted as "rolling the pitch".
In a message to colleagues seen by The Times, Baldwin was replying to Maria Caulfield, the women's health minister, who had said the "constant melodrama" in the Conservative Party was coming up on the doorstep. Baldwin said: "One practical thing we could do as a parliamentary party is ask the 22 exec to change our rules so that it takes 50% of backbenchers to challenge a sitting PM, rather than 15% of the parliamentary party."
Currently 53 MPs would need to submit letters of no confidence to trigger a leadership bid.
She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".
She told The Times: “Call me old-fashioned but I like to adhere to the privacy and discretion of the 1922 Committee as a forum for backbench colleagues to raise discussion points about topical matters.”
Sally-Ann Hart, the MP for Hasting and Rye who is an executive member of the 1922 committee, told Baldwin she would take the idea up.
But one MP on the right, who is disillusioned with Sunak, said: "It just shows the panic in No 10 if they're rolling the pitch like this, I think they're just very nervous.
‘She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".‘
Fair enough if they apply it to Prime Ministers who have been voted for by the public… can it be backdated a couple of years?
Wages of Woke appear to be coming at expense of CUP?
Also note that there is virtually no gender gap for Conservatives, compared with mild one for Labour (leaning female) and strong one for Reform (lurching male).
Almost as many 18 to 24 year olds would vote SNP as Conservative. Across the whole UK.
@Geri_E_L_Scott New: Rishi Sunak's allies are pressing to increase the threshold for triggering a confidence vote in the prime minister to half of all Tory MPs.
Harriett Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, made the suggestion in the Tory MPs Whatsapp group, in a move being interpreted as "rolling the pitch".
In a message to colleagues seen by The Times, Baldwin was replying to Maria Caulfield, the women's health minister, who had said the "constant melodrama" in the Conservative Party was coming up on the doorstep. Baldwin said: "One practical thing we could do as a parliamentary party is ask the 22 exec to change our rules so that it takes 50% of backbenchers to challenge a sitting PM, rather than 15% of the parliamentary party."
Currently 53 MPs would need to submit letters of no confidence to trigger a leadership bid.
She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".
She told The Times: “Call me old-fashioned but I like to adhere to the privacy and discretion of the 1922 Committee as a forum for backbench colleagues to raise discussion points about topical matters.”
Sally-Ann Hart, the MP for Hasting and Rye who is an executive member of the 1922 committee, told Baldwin she would take the idea up.
But one MP on the right, who is disillusioned with Sunak, said: "It just shows the panic in No 10 if they're rolling the pitch like this, I think they're just very nervous.
@SwissWatchGuy If you are unsure of how completely insane Trump's political operation is, and how royally screwed the GOP is going into the general election, this should give you an idea:
On January 22nd, Trump attorney Alina Habba told Judge Lewis Kaplan she needed to delay Trump's defamation trial because her parents had Covid and she herself was sick.
On January 23rd, Trump staffer Dylan Quattrucci took a photo with Alina Habba at Trump's NH primary victory party and posted that photo to social media.
Quattrucci inadvertently shared with the world that Habba had lied to a Judge to delay court proceedings. (I would image that Habba committed some kind of crime there).
For doing that, Quattrucci was immediately kicked out of Trump's victory event. Of course he filmed his expulsion and posted it to social media.
There was no way Quattrucci could have known taking a photo with Habba, who is more of a MAGA influencer than a lawyer, would have resulted in his immediate excommunication from Trump world.
For reference, Dylan Quattrucci was was filmed at the US capitol on J6 saying this to police officers:
“If you are a police officer and you are going to abide by unconstitutional bullshit, I want you to do me a favor right now and go hang yourself, because you’re a piece of shit."
@Geri_E_L_Scott New: Rishi Sunak's allies are pressing to increase the threshold for triggering a confidence vote in the prime minister to half of all Tory MPs.
Harriett Baldwin, the chair of the Treasury Select Committee, made the suggestion in the Tory MPs Whatsapp group, in a move being interpreted as "rolling the pitch".
In a message to colleagues seen by The Times, Baldwin was replying to Maria Caulfield, the women's health minister, who had said the "constant melodrama" in the Conservative Party was coming up on the doorstep. Baldwin said: "One practical thing we could do as a parliamentary party is ask the 22 exec to change our rules so that it takes 50% of backbenchers to challenge a sitting PM, rather than 15% of the parliamentary party."
Currently 53 MPs would need to submit letters of no confidence to trigger a leadership bid.
She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".
She told The Times: “Call me old-fashioned but I like to adhere to the privacy and discretion of the 1922 Committee as a forum for backbench colleagues to raise discussion points about topical matters.”
Sally-Ann Hart, the MP for Hasting and Rye who is an executive member of the 1922 committee, told Baldwin she would take the idea up.
But one MP on the right, who is disillusioned with Sunak, said: "It just shows the panic in No 10 if they're rolling the pitch like this, I think they're just very nervous.
‘She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".‘
Fair enough if they apply it to Prime Ministers who have been voted for by the public… can it be backdated a couple of years?
Johnson won his VONC in June 2022, so wasn't evicted by that. He resigned a month later, after cabinet resignations.
I wonder if in reality the 2019 vote was a bit of an aberration and really turned on a hybrid of “Get Brexit Done” and Johnson v Corbyn. If so, all of those guns of been spiked. We are out of the EU; there is little risk that Labour will take us back into the EU; and, the two politicians that reached the parts other politicians don’t have left the stage (in positive and negative ways - in 2019 a Conservative voting acquaintance claims to have spoilt his ballot as he couldn’t abide either of them).
So does where the 2019 voters are today help work out how 2024 (or god forbid 2025 will work out)? I am sceptical.
But if 2019 isn’t helpful then what is? 2017 was crazy - the Conservative manifesto and campaign performance sums up the dangers of hubris (albeit they did start some interesting inroads into the red wall - despite the shambles).
So how about 2015? From my perspective 2015 was a tactical masterpiece - I didn’t think anyone but the Tories would win at the time, but the manner of the win was brutal. They destroyed their coalition partner down south - by hugging them in public and shafting them on the doorstep. They entwined the opposition with SNP in such a way that really halted Labour progress in the English swing seats in the midlands. The Labour leader and campaign were hardly diamonds too.
But if it’s 2015, can the current Conservative Party master such a strategy? I don’t think so. The Liberal Democrat’s have fewer MPs now (thanks to 2015) and the SNPs aren’t the bogeyman to a certain type of English voter.
So, if there is little the current administration can take from the last three elections - where should they draw their tactics, and will they be successful? Back to basics and 1992?
@SwissWatchGuy If you are unsure of how completely insane Trump's political operation is, and how royally screwed the GOP is going into the general election, this should give you an idea:
On January 22nd, Trump attorney Alina Habba told Judge Lewis Kaplan she needed to delay Trump's defamation trial because her parents had Covid and she herself was sick.
On January 23rd, Trump staffer Dylan Quattrucci took a photo with Alina Habba at Trump's NH primary victory party and posted that photo to social media.
Quattrucci inadvertently shared with the world that Habba had lied to a Judge to delay court proceedings. (I would image that Habba committed some kind of crime there).
For doing that, Quattrucci was immediately kicked out of Trump's victory event. Of course he filmed his expulsion and posted it to social media.
There was no way Quattrucci could have known taking a photo with Habba, who is more of a MAGA influencer than a lawyer, would have resulted in his immediate excommunication from Trump world.
For reference, Dylan Quattrucci was was filmed at the US capitol on J6 saying this to police officers:
“If you are a police officer and you are going to abide by unconstitutional bullshit, I want you to do me a favor right now and go hang yourself, because you’re a piece of shit."
Great people.
It's just deranged idiocy all around.
That Trump testimony in its entirety (remember the facts determined at the first trial, and the verdict cannot be questioned)...
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1750597398785855605 ...Habba: Only one question? Judge Kaplan: You can ask the 2d question. Habba: "Why did you make the statements"- Judge Kaplan: No. Habba: I have a right to ask about intent. Judge Kaplan: I will decide what he has a right to do here. That's my job, not yours Habba: I can ask it that way-- Judge Kaplan: It will not be an open ended question. If you ask it, there is likely to be an objection and I am likely to sustain it. Habba: That's it. Judge Kaplan: OK. Habba: What about 2d question? Judge Kaplan: It keeps changing Habba: As long as we have the deposition in, I think I'll be fine. Judge Kaplan: Well, I hope you will. [Jury entering!] Judge Kaplan: I hope lunch was better than the cafeteria usually is. Ms. Habba you may call your witness. Habba: Defense calls President Donald Trump... Trump: Donald John Trump. Habba: You viewed your deposition? Trump: I stand by it 100%, yes. Trump: She said something I considered a false accusation -- Roberta Kaplan: Objection! Judge Kaplan: Sustained. Habba: I have no further questions. Judge Kaplan: Cross examination. Roberta Kaplan: There was a trial here, correct? Roberta Kaplan: Mr. Trump, is this the 1st trial between you and Ms. Carroll you've attended? Trump: Yes. Roberta Kaplan: No further questions. Habba: Did you have counsel at the previous trial & follow their advice? Trump: Yes. Roberta Kaplan: Objection Sustained Habba: No further questions. Judge Kaplan: Jurors, you may go until tomorrow morning, closing arguments. [Jury leaves]..
The CPS reached the conclusion that “There was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for murder” in the case of Valdo Colocane Does this mean they think the jury would find him Not Guilty if he had been tried for murder? What would have happened to him in that scenario?
"He believed his mind was being controlled by external influences and that his family was in danger if he didn't obey the voices in his head."
Chief crown prosecutor for the east midlands Janine McKinney speaking about killer Valdo Calocane.
If there had been a trial the jury would have convicted him of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. Which he pleaded to. The psychiatric evidence was unanimous that his responsibility was at least diminished, so there would have been no lawful basis for a murder conviction.
He would also have been convicted of attempted murder. The special case of diminished responsibility only applies to murder for historical rather than logical reasons.
The convictions recognise real and actual culpability, but diminished. The same can apply when, for example, a wife kills an abusive and violent husband when it is not in self defence.
Given that, whether it was murder or manslaughter, he is very unlikely to ever be freed, wouldn’t it be better to convict him of murder?
I say this because the bereaved families are furious at it being manslaughter, they feel let down, and a murder verdict doesn’t seem like it would make any practical difference to the guilty man anyway
The families have been let down, terribly, but not by the manslaughter charge, which as other have noted is likely the right one given the killer's psychotic state. Mental health services and the police have questions to answer about their engagement with the man in the months leading up to the crime, but I expect that at least some of the answer is that they were being asked to do more than their resources allowed.
They are very unhappy with the CPS that he wasn’t tried for murder "True justice has not been served today".
Mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber, says the families were "horrified" that Calocane's manslaughter plea was accepted.
Families will always feel like that. If he had been tried for murder, they'd have been disappointed when he was found not guilty. If by some chance he had been found guilty of murder, he'd have got life and spent a week or so in prison before being moved to Broadmoor.
Grace's father said something along the lines of placing their faith in the courts and judiciary, so he was possibly more accepting of the way things turned out, or was putting on a stiff upper lip.
So long as he's going away for good, that is what matters.
I'm not sure. This is not the first case where opportunities were missed. Colocane was already in the system but fell through the cracks, like Zara Aleena's killer; as did the 2-year-old Bronson Battersby who starved to death last week, as when terrorists like Salman Abedi who bombed the Ariana Grande concert were known to Special Branch or MI5. Our public services are failing and people are dying.
I am not sure that opportunities were missed. That needs to be decided by the reviews.
Yes, the killer did have a track record with both police and local mental health services, including being sectioned 4 Times and picked up by the police for an assault on a flat mate etc. There doesn't seem to have been anything though that would have put him in custody though.
I fully understand that the families want someone to blame, but there may well not be anything in his medical or police history to suggest this level of violence.
He isn't guilty in law but will be in a secure mental hospital most likely for life.
The CPS reached the conclusion that “There was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for murder” in the case of Valdo Colocane Does this mean they think the jury would find him Not Guilty if he had been tried for murder? What would have happened to him in that scenario?
"He believed his mind was being controlled by external influences and that his family was in danger if he didn't obey the voices in his head."
Chief crown prosecutor for the east midlands Janine McKinney speaking about killer Valdo Calocane.
If there had been a trial the jury would have convicted him of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. Which he pleaded to. The psychiatric evidence was unanimous that his responsibility was at least diminished, so there would have been no lawful basis for a murder conviction.
He would also have been convicted of attempted murder. The special case of diminished responsibility only applies to murder for historical rather than logical reasons.
The convictions recognise real and actual culpability, but diminished. The same can apply when, for example, a wife kills an abusive and violent husband when it is not in self defence.
Given that, whether it was murder or manslaughter, he is very unlikely to ever be freed, wouldn’t it be better to convict him of murder?
I say this because the bereaved families are furious at it being manslaughter, they feel let down, and a murder verdict doesn’t seem like it would make any practical difference to the guilty man anyway
The families have been let down, terribly, but not by the manslaughter charge, which as other have noted is likely the right one given the killer's psychotic state. Mental health services and the police have questions to answer about their engagement with the man in the months leading up to the crime, but I expect that at least some of the answer is that they were being asked to do more than their resources allowed.
They are very unhappy with the CPS that he wasn’t tried for murder "True justice has not been served today".
Mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber, says the families were "horrified" that Calocane's manslaughter plea was accepted.
Families will always feel like that. If he had been tried for murder, they'd have been disappointed when he was found not guilty. If by some chance he had been found guilty of murder, he'd have got life and spent a week or so in prison before being moved to Broadmoor.
Grace's father said something along the lines of placing their faith in the courts and judiciary, so he was possibly more accepting of the way things turned out, or was putting on a stiff upper lip.
So long as he's going away for good, that is what matters.
I'm not sure. This is not the first case where opportunities were missed. Colocane was already in the system but fell through the cracks, like Zara Aleena's killer; as did the 2-year-old Bronson Battersby who starved to death last week, as when terrorists like Salman Abedi who bombed the Ariana Grande concert were known to Special Branch or MI5. Our public services are failing and people are dying.
I am not sure that opportunities were missed. That needs to be decided by the reviews.
Yes, the killer did have a track record with both police and local mental health services, including being sectioned 4 Times and picked up by the police for an assault on a flat mate etc. There doesn't seem to have been anything though that would have put him in custody though.
I fully understand that the families want someone to blame, but there may well not be anything in his medical or police history to suggest this level of violence.
He isnt guilty in law but will be in a secure mental hospital most likely for life.
He is guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility in law, even if not of murder
@DavidMDrucker NEWS: Republican National Committee reviewing a draft resolution that if approved would declare TRUMP the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee even as @NikkiHaley wages a vigorous campaign against the frontrunner.
It is going to be absolutely hilarious if SCOTUS disqualify him.
He can become President of the True American States: Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, et al.
American Patriots (n) - People who wish America's enemies had won the Civil War and World War Two.
The fashion for conflating the South with the Nazis is one of the reasons why the US is becoming so volatile and ceasing to function as a united polity.
It implies that the US of Reagan and Clinton had monuments to the equivalents of Hitler and Göring.
Not the South, the Confederate traitors.
President Ford speaking in 1975:
I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history. It is significant that it is signed at this place.
Lee's dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia. He, thus, forfeited his rights to U.S. citizenship.
Once the war was over, he firmly felt the wounds of the North and South must be bound up. He sought to show by example that the citizens of the South must dedicate their efforts to rebuilding that region of the country as a strong and vital part of the American Union.
As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as the symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. The course he chose after the war became a symbol to all those who had marched with him in the bitter years towards Appomattox.
General Lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.
The lost cause bullshit was still strong back then. That the war was about states' rights was still being taught in school. "Lies My Teacher Told Me" was still two decades away.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Thank you to Isam for un-flagging 3 out of his 4 malicious troll-flags. A bit disappointed he couldn't bring himself to unflag the first one despite it being a curt but genuine response to his post.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Literally anyone would be better than Sunak. His premiership has been like watching a disastrous train wreck unfold in slow motion, unable to do anything about it.
It was blindingly obvious he was an entitled useless talent-vacuum, the people who ramped him are idiots without the common sense they were born with.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
For a change of leader to be worth while, 3 things need to happen:
1) Rishi needs to go quietly or for there to be a clean coup. The worst thing is there is a VOC, which fails and Rishi limps on wounded 2) There needs to be a quick coronation with the party rallying around one person. Hard to see who can unite all the squabbling factions 3) The public need to be willing to give new leader a fair chance. I just can't see any potential new leader being able to turn this around. if anything, the nation becomes a laughing stock with yet another PM and the public wouldn't like that.
In my view any coup risks making things worse. What the Tories need to do is create a ceasefire between the different factions and find a way to unite. Maybe bring Boris back in some form (Lord Johnson?) or maybe Cummings, if he would come back. Otherwise they have to suck it up, try and save 200-250 seats and rebuild in opposition.
Thank you to Isam for un-flagging 3 out of his 4 malicious troll-flags. A bit disappointed he couldn't bring himself to unflag the first one despite it being a curt but genuine response to his post.
I only did the first two and I unflagged one of them. Stop banging on about it
@DavidMDrucker NEWS: Republican National Committee reviewing a draft resolution that if approved would declare TRUMP the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee even as @NikkiHaley wages a vigorous campaign against the frontrunner.
It is going to be absolutely hilarious if SCOTUS disqualify him.
He can become President of the True American States: Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, et al.
American Patriots (n) - People who wish America's enemies had won the Civil War and World War Two.
The fashion for conflating the South with the Nazis is one of the reasons why the US is becoming so volatile and ceasing to function as a united polity.
It implies that the US of Reagan and Clinton had monuments to the equivalents of Hitler and Göring.
It did. It's a shame they took so long to realise it.
@DavidMDrucker NEWS: Republican National Committee reviewing a draft resolution that if approved would declare TRUMP the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee even as @NikkiHaley wages a vigorous campaign against the frontrunner.
It is going to be absolutely hilarious if SCOTUS disqualify him.
He can become President of the True American States: Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, et al.
American Patriots (n) - People who wish America's enemies had won the Civil War and World War Two.
The fashion for conflating the South with the Nazis is one of the reasons why the US is becoming so volatile and ceasing to function as a united polity.
It implies that the US of Reagan and Clinton had monuments to the equivalents of Hitler and Göring.
Yes, and? The comparison seems kind of reasonable, as both the antebellum South and Nazi Germany were built on the idea of racial superiority, brutal exploitation and violence, were intent on exporting their philosophy to neighbouring territories, had a hideously self-pitying victim complex, and ultimately could only be defeated by gruelling all-out war.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Literally anyone would be better than Sunak. His premiership has been like watching a disastrous train wreck unfold in slow motion, unable to do anything about it.
It was blindingly obvious he was an entitled useless talent-vacuum, the people who ramped him are idiots without the common sense they were born with.
Well, if I'd had my way it would have been lovely Penny4Leader but Con made their bed and now they'll have to lie in it!
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
I thought all these Brexit trade deals were going to be a brie-ze.
The best option open to Sunak is to call the GE. Better to lead the party to an honourable defeat ( and who know outperform expectations), than go for an early Truss defenestration.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Absolutely no reason for a Tory in a rock solid safe seat to want to be leader/PM now. Badenoch and Braverman should sit tight. Their best chance is after the GE.
Mordaunt might take it. She’s got a decent chance of losing her seat anyway, might not be a terrible gig to get for say 6 months. If she got a half decent loss out of it she might even get a couple of years of LOTO on the CV.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Literally anyone would be better than Sunak. His premiership has been like watching a disastrous train wreck unfold in slow motion, unable to do anything about it.
It was blindingly obvious he was an entitled useless talent-vacuum, the people who ramped him are idiots without the common sense they were born with.
Well, if I'd had my way it would have been lovely Penny4Leader but Con made their bed and now they'll have to lie in it!
Perhaps they'll choose more wisely next time...
I was a big Penny fan. She always fluffs the big occasions though. The first leadership election where she went through it looking like a crumpled sack of tears. The second where she disappeared - she could have done some sort of deal with Bojo (and for letting SUNK in she got Leader of the House again), then the third opportunity, her speech at the Conference, and we all know how that went. I am weary of her having any more chances, she doesn't seal the deal.
Maybe - but surely to god the Conservative Party can’t have another leadership change? At least let Prime Minister Sunak drag it out to an election hammering. For a while the politics of Belgium has looked like a model of stability and good sense compared to the UK. Whatever happened to FPTP and strong government?
. I am weary of her having any more chances, she doesn't seal the deal.
I thought you said literally anybody would be better than Sunak?
She would be better than him once actually in place - what I mean is I don't see a route for it to happen that doesn't involve her doing her Tim Henman at Wimbledon impression.
Absolutely no reason for a Tory in a rock solid safe seat to want to be leader/PM now. Badenoch and Braverman should sit tight. Their best chance is after the GE.
Mordaunt might take it. She’s got a decent chance of losing her seat anyway, might not be a terrible gig to get for say 6 months. If she got a half decent loss out of it she might even get a couple of years of LOTO on the CV.
The whole thing is ludicrous though.
I think, aside from all being Women, all three were South London (Southwark/Lambeth mainly) Tories. Badenoch even took a run at Brixton. A decisive shift from the Notting Hill set!
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
That is a disgrace.
That it's no longer competitive, or that it ever was?
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Literally anyone would be better than Sunak. His premiership has been like watching a disastrous train wreck unfold in slow motion, unable to do anything about it.
It was blindingly obvious he was an entitled useless talent-vacuum, the people who ramped him are idiots without the common sense they were born with.
Well, if I'd had my way it would have been lovely Penny4Leader but Con made their bed and now they'll have to lie in it!
Perhaps they'll choose more wisely next time...
I was a big Penny fan. She always fluffs the big occasions though. The first leadership election where she went through it looking like a crumpled sack of tears. The second where she disappeared - she could have done some sort of deal with Bojo (and for letting SUNK in she got Leader of the House again), then the third opportunity, her speech at the Conference, and we all know how that went. I am weary of her having any more chances, she doesn't seal the deal.
She didn’t fluff carrying the sword! That’s one big occasion she got right.
Of course, you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
That is a disgrace.
That it's no longer competitive, or that it ever was?
I assume the post is a reference to one of the former PM Truss’ memes. Pity Liz Truss she probably spawned more memes than days in number 10,
Probably should have been written “THAT. IS. A. DIS GRACE”
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
That is a disgrace.
That it's no longer competitive, or that it ever was?
I assume the post is a reference to one of the former PM Truss’ memes. Pity Liz Truss she probably spawned more memes than days in number 10,
Probably should have been written “THAT. IS. A. DIS GRACE”
Maybe - but surely to god the Conservative Party can’t have another leadership change? At least let Prime Minister Sunak drag it out to an election hammering. For a while the politics of Belgium has looked like a model of stability and good sense compared to the UK. Whatever happened to FPTP and strong government?
@DavidMDrucker NEWS: Republican National Committee reviewing a draft resolution that if approved would declare TRUMP the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee even as @NikkiHaley wages a vigorous campaign against the frontrunner.
It is going to be absolutely hilarious if SCOTUS disqualify him.
He can become President of the True American States: Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, et al.
American Patriots (n) - People who wish America's enemies had won the Civil War and World War Two.
The fashion for conflating the South with the Nazis is one of the reasons why the US is becoming so volatile and ceasing to function as a united polity.
It implies that the US of Reagan and Clinton had monuments to the equivalents of Hitler and Göring.
Not the South, the Confederate traitors.
President Ford speaking in 1975:
I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history. It is significant that it is signed at this place.
Lee's dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia. He, thus, forfeited his rights to U.S. citizenship.
Once the war was over, he firmly felt the wounds of the North and South must be bound up. He sought to show by example that the citizens of the South must dedicate their efforts to rebuilding that region of the country as a strong and vital part of the American Union.
As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as the symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. The course he chose after the war became a symbol to all those who had marched with him in the bitter years towards Appomattox.
General Lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.
The lost cause bullshit was still strong back then. That the war was about states' rights was still being taught in school. "Lies My Teacher Told Me" was still two decades away.
Gerald Ford's paen to Robert E. Lee was delivered at a time when the President was trying to shore up his support in the South versus Ronald Reagan, at time when the California governor was picking up where Barry Goldwater had left off, as tribune for right-wing conservatism.
Note that Goldwater > Wallace/Nixon > Reagan progression was common, indeed typical in Dixieland among White voters 1964 to 1980. And it was this sector of the electorate Jerry was trying to sweet talk about Marse Robert.
Gosh. I see we've gone back full circle to Penny Mordaunt. No, no, no. The Tories are done till I'm retired. Whichever figurehead "leads" dysfunctional, amoral, self-harming anarchy as we get poorer isn't really relevant.
Let's discuss it when it actually has been delivered.
Britain has suspended negotiations for a multibillion pound trade deal with Canada in an acrimonious row over cheese.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
Canada’s answer to Liz Truss must be delighted at that tariff policy.
Canada's support for their dairy industry is legendary, but must have decreased in recent years. When I were a lad, UK supermarkets were full of Canadian cheddar, alongside British and Irish; no more.
That is a disgrace.
That it's no longer competitive, or that it ever was?
I assume the post is a reference to one of the former PM Truss’ memes. Pity Liz Truss she probably spawned more memes than days in number 10,
Probably should have been written “THAT. IS. A. DIS GRACE”
As far as I know, cheese is not a pork export!
Stop talking Britain down. It's all cheese! Or pork! ... Or... beef? Or... waterchestnuts? One or many of these things! Markets! Growth! :: faint untimely grimace and smile ::
.. continue until killed Queen in curtsy handshake covert ops.
Gosh. I see we've gone back full circle to Penny Mordaunt. No, no, no. The Tories are done till I'm retired. Whatever figurehead "leads* dysfunctional, amoral, self-harming anarchy as we get poorer.
The inability of the tory party to run the country, given a large majority, is a black mark.
Thank you to Isam for un-flagging 3 out of his 4 malicious troll-flags. A bit disappointed he couldn't bring himself to unflag the first one despite it being a curt but genuine response to his post.
I only did the first two and I unflagged one of them. Stop banging on about it
Easy for you to say. I am very rhin skinned so I must concede it has really, really pissed me off. So a massive win for Isam.
What are the odds on Haley going on a POTUS run as 3rd party candidate I wonder
It wouldn’t do her any good. (Maybe it helps Biden a bit?) If she doesn’t want to support Trump, she can just say she isn’t voting for him but is working hard to get X elected to the Senate and Y to the House etc. Bide her time until the GOP see sense on Trump… but as I think that will take >80 years, maybe that won’t do her any good either.
How long did it take the Dems to get over the (first*) Civil War?
* Well, really, the first civil war was the War of Independence as many Americans were loyal to the Crown. So, The Civil War is really the 2nd.
What are the odds on Haley going on a POTUS run as 3rd party candidate I wonder
It wouldn’t do her any good. (Maybe it helps Biden a bit?) If she doesn’t want to support Trump, she can just say she isn’t voting for him but is working hard to get X elected to the Senate and Y to the House etc. Bide her time until the GOP see sense on Trump… but as I think that will take >80 years, maybe that won’t do her any good either.
Haley has no political future for at least 4 to 8 years anyway, she has and wont have an elected position, she wont be in a cabinet and I suspect theres money out there for someone credible to help stop Trump. Its pure spoiler but shes one of the few with profile to be credible. There may be others but they arent visible right now.
At least he's learnt how to turn the Caps Lock off. But he's still to learn that only sentences begin with a capital letter, except for names/proper nouns. Which doesn't apply to 'Rapidly Begin', to give just one of many examples.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
Raising the threshold required to oust the leader seems sensible, especially when the party is in government.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Bad Enoch? She has been pisspoor as a minister - utterly invisible.
Can someone - anyone?!? - explain the appeal of this rank nonentity?
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
What are the odds on Haley going on a POTUS run as 3rd party candidate I wonder
It wouldn’t do her any good. (Maybe it helps Biden a bit?) If she doesn’t want to support Trump, she can just say she isn’t voting for him but is working hard to get X elected to the Senate and Y to the House etc. Bide her time until the GOP see sense on Trump… but as I think that will take >80 years, maybe that won’t do her any good either.
Haley has no political future for at least 4 to 8 years anyway, she has and wont have an elected position, she wont be in a cabinet and I suspect theres money out there for someone credible to help stop Trump. Its pure spoiler but shes one of the few with profile to be credible. There may be others but they arent visible right now.
If she wants Biden to beat Trump, she could just endorse Biden. What does a quixotic independent run achieve? Would that do more to harm Trump, or just take anti-Trump Republican votes away from Biden and thus help Trump?
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
In the last 50 years I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
Wow, that’s amazing. If you raise inflation to double digits and then it falls , should you take credit? Not really.
It’s a bit like someone coming round to your house, being sick, cleaning part of the mess and asking for praise.
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
Wow, that’s amazing. If you raise inflation to double digits and then it falls , should you take credit? Not really.
It’s a bit like someone coming round to your house, being sick, cleaning part of the mess and asking for praise.
Also, controlling inflation is largely the job of the independent Bank of England, so who even did the cleaning up of the sick?
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
In the last 50 years I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
Taken as one, over their various iterations, the first government in recorded history that's made children poorer than their parents while giving them fewer rights.
And Sunak is a part of that like the rest of these appalling people that have ruined Britain since 2010. Britain's Brezhnev's - the party of stagnation and decline. They really do deserve the electoral kicking of a lifetime later this year.
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
Wow, that’s amazing. If you raise inflation to double digits and then it falls , should you take credit? Not really.
It’s a bit like someone coming round to your house, being sick, cleaning part of the mess and asking for praise.
This government should be re-elected because it is growing the economy? 🫣
Sunak comes across as more competent than Major. 😶
Here's that amazing video of Argentinian president Javier Milei seemingly giving his Davos speech in English, thanks to artificial intelligence, even though in reality he only gave it in Spanish.
Here's that amazing video of Argentinian president Javier Milei seemingly giving his Davos speech in English, thanks to artificial intelligence, even though in reality he only gave it in Spanish.
The CPS reached the conclusion that “There was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction for murder” in the case of Valdo Colocane Does this mean they think the jury would find him Not Guilty if he had been tried for murder? What would have happened to him in that scenario?
"He believed his mind was being controlled by external influences and that his family was in danger if he didn't obey the voices in his head."
Chief crown prosecutor for the east midlands Janine McKinney speaking about killer Valdo Calocane.
If there had been a trial the jury would have convicted him of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. Which he pleaded to. The psychiatric evidence was unanimous that his responsibility was at least diminished, so there would have been no lawful basis for a murder conviction.
He would also have been convicted of attempted murder. The special case of diminished responsibility only applies to murder for historical rather than logical reasons.
The convictions recognise real and actual culpability, but diminished. The same can apply when, for example, a wife kills an abusive and violent husband when it is not in self defence.
Given that, whether it was murder or manslaughter, he is very unlikely to ever be freed, wouldn’t it be better to convict him of murder?
I say this because the bereaved families are furious at it being manslaughter, they feel let down, and a murder verdict doesn’t seem like it would make any practical difference to the guilty man anyway
The families have been let down, terribly, but not by the manslaughter charge, which as other have noted is likely the right one given the killer's psychotic state. Mental health services and the police have questions to answer about their engagement with the man in the months leading up to the crime, but I expect that at least some of the answer is that they were being asked to do more than their resources allowed.
They are very unhappy with the CPS that he wasn’t tried for murder "True justice has not been served today".
Mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber, says the families were "horrified" that Calocane's manslaughter plea was accepted.
Families will always feel like that. If he had been tried for murder, they'd have been disappointed when he was found not guilty. If by some chance he had been found guilty of murder, he'd have got life and spent a week or so in prison before being moved to Broadmoor.
Grace's father said something along the lines of placing their faith in the courts and judiciary, so he was possibly more accepting of the way things turned out, or was putting on a stiff upper lip.
So long as he's going away for good, that is what matters.
I'm not sure. This is not the first case where opportunities were missed. Colocane was already in the system but fell through the cracks, like Zara Aleena's killer; as did the 2-year-old Bronson Battersby who starved to death last week, as when terrorists like Salman Abedi who bombed the Ariana Grande concert were known to Special Branch or MI5. Our public services are failing and people are dying.
That’s what happens when too many people prioritise tax cuts over funding our services, in this case social services and security services, sufficiently.
Its cute that you think tax cuts have been prioritised when this sorry excuse for a Government has put taxes up to the highest in decades.
No contradiction there. Taxes have gone up enormously for ordinary people, but cut for the super-wealthy.
What are the odds on Haley going on a POTUS run as 3rd party candidate I wonder
It wouldn’t do her any good. (Maybe it helps Biden a bit?) If she doesn’t want to support Trump, she can just say she isn’t voting for him but is working hard to get X elected to the Senate and Y to the House etc. Bide her time until the GOP see sense on Trump… but as I think that will take >80 years, maybe that won’t do her any good either.
Haley has no political future for at least 4 to 8 years anyway, she has and wont have an elected position, she wont be in a cabinet and I suspect theres money out there for someone credible to help stop Trump. Its pure spoiler but shes one of the few with profile to be credible. There may be others but they arent visible right now.
If she wants Biden to beat Trump, she could just endorse Biden. What does a quixotic independent run achieve? Would that do more to harm Trump, or just take anti-Trump Republican votes away from Biden and thus help Trump?
The same reason you have no hopers in every presidential race, to be available for an audience who favours them to vote.
The fundamental problem with the UK is the Conservative Party
One reason why a Labour government again might be good is to show what a ridiculous statement that is
Where would you put this government on the rung of all governments?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
This government has cut inflation and the economy is growing.
In the last 50 years I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
Taken as one, over their various iterations, the first government in recorded history that's made children poorer than their parents while giving them fewer rights.
And Sunak is a part of that like the rest of these appalling people that have ruined Britain since 2010. Britain's Brezhnev's - the party of stagnation and decline. They really do deserve the electoral kicking of a lifetime later this year.
... except that the party that will give them the kicking has no convincing plans to address the stagnation with the possible exception of housebuilding and in fact may well make it worse. Stagnation didn't start in 2010.
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50% does seem too high though - If you are going to permit a challenge, recognising it as a necessary process, then it's not fair or realistic to expect coup plotters to have complete the coup before getting a vote.
I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history. It is significant that it is signed at this place.
Lee's dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia. He, thus, forfeited his rights to U.S. citizenship.
Once the war was over, he firmly felt the wounds of the North and South must be bound up. He sought to show by example that the citizens of the South must dedicate their efforts to rebuilding that region of the country as a strong and vital part of the American Union.
As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as the symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. The course he chose after the war became a symbol to all those who had marched with him in the bitter years towards Appomattox.
General Lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/750473.htm
‘She said this would only apply if the leader was prime minister, not in opposition, and it "could help reassure a public who want to know who they're voting for as PM".‘
Fair enough if they apply it to Prime Ministers who have been voted for by the public… can it be backdated a couple of years?
Might be closer to 53 than I assumed?
If you are unsure of how completely insane Trump's political operation is, and how royally screwed the GOP is going into the general election, this should give you an idea:
On January 22nd, Trump attorney Alina Habba told Judge Lewis Kaplan she needed to delay Trump's defamation trial because her parents had Covid and she herself was sick.
On January 23rd, Trump staffer Dylan Quattrucci took a photo with Alina Habba at Trump's NH primary victory party and posted that photo to social media.
Quattrucci inadvertently shared with the world that Habba had lied to a Judge to delay court proceedings. (I would image that Habba committed some kind of crime there).
For doing that, Quattrucci was immediately kicked out of Trump's victory event. Of course he filmed his expulsion and posted it to social media.
There was no way Quattrucci could have known taking a photo with Habba, who is more of a MAGA influencer than a lawyer, would have resulted in his immediate excommunication from Trump world.
For reference, Dylan Quattrucci was was filmed at the US capitol on J6 saying this to police officers:
“If you are a police officer and you are going to abide by unconstitutional bullshit, I want you to do me a favor right now and go hang yourself, because you’re a piece of shit."
Great people.
It's just deranged idiocy all around.
🗞️ Plan to change 1922 rules to require massive 174 letters to oust Sunak — as PM faces another hell week
🗞️ Truss stepped in to kill Clarke putsch
🗞️ Olly Robbins return?
🗞️ And I reveal plotters bid to install Kemi in May - with election on 12 Dec
I wonder if in reality the 2019 vote was a bit of an aberration and really turned on a hybrid of “Get Brexit Done” and Johnson v Corbyn. If so, all of those guns of been spiked. We are out of the EU; there is little risk that Labour will take us back into the EU; and, the two politicians that reached the parts other politicians don’t have left the stage (in positive and negative ways - in 2019 a Conservative voting acquaintance claims to have spoilt his ballot as he couldn’t abide either of them).
So does where the 2019 voters are today help work out how 2024 (or god forbid 2025 will work out)? I am sceptical.
But if 2019 isn’t helpful then what is? 2017 was crazy - the Conservative manifesto and campaign performance sums up the dangers of hubris (albeit they did start some interesting inroads into the red wall - despite the shambles).
So how about 2015? From my perspective 2015 was a tactical masterpiece - I didn’t think anyone but the Tories would win at the time, but the manner of the win was brutal. They destroyed their coalition partner down south - by hugging them in public and shafting them on the doorstep. They entwined the opposition with SNP in such a way that really halted Labour progress in the English swing seats in the midlands. The Labour leader and campaign were hardly diamonds too.
But if it’s 2015, can the current Conservative Party master such a strategy? I don’t think so. The Liberal Democrat’s have fewer MPs now (thanks to 2015) and the SNPs aren’t the bogeyman to a certain type of English voter.
So, if there is little the current administration can take from the last three elections - where should they draw their tactics, and will they be successful? Back to basics and 1992?
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1750597398785855605
...Habba: Only one question?
Judge Kaplan: You can ask the 2d question.
Habba: "Why did you make the statements"-
Judge Kaplan: No.
Habba: I have a right to ask about intent.
Judge Kaplan: I will decide what he has a right to do here. That's my job, not yours
Habba: I can ask it that way--
Judge Kaplan: It will not be an open ended question. If you ask it, there is likely to be an objection and I am likely to sustain it.
Habba: That's it.
Judge Kaplan: OK.
Habba: What about 2d question?
Judge Kaplan: It keeps changing
Habba: As long as we have the deposition in, I think I'll be fine.
Judge Kaplan: Well, I hope you will.
[Jury entering!]
Judge Kaplan: I hope lunch was better than the cafeteria usually is. Ms. Habba you may call your witness.
Habba: Defense calls President Donald Trump...
Trump: Donald John Trump.
Habba: You viewed your deposition?
Trump: I stand by it 100%, yes.
Trump: She said something I considered a false accusation --
Roberta Kaplan: Objection!
Judge Kaplan: Sustained.
Habba: I have no further questions.
Judge Kaplan: Cross examination.
Roberta Kaplan: There was a trial here, correct?
Roberta Kaplan: Mr. Trump, is this the 1st trial between you and Ms. Carroll you've attended?
Trump: Yes.
Roberta Kaplan: No further questions.
Habba: Did you have counsel at the previous trial & follow their advice?
Trump: Yes.
Roberta Kaplan: Objection
Sustained
Habba: No further questions.
Judge Kaplan: Jurors, you may go until tomorrow morning, closing arguments.
[Jury leaves]..
That film still gives me the creeps !
Yes, the killer did have a track record with both police and local mental health services, including being sectioned 4 Times and picked up by the police for an assault on a flat mate etc. There doesn't seem to have been anything though that would have put him in custody though.
I fully understand that the families want someone to blame, but there may well not be anything in his medical or police history to suggest this level of violence.
He isn't guilty in law but will be in a secure mental hospital most likely for life.
That the war was about states' rights was still being taught in school.
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" was still two decades away.
Liz to the rescue (yeah right 😂 )
Olly who?
Why on earth would Kemi want to ruin her reputation by taking on this rabble before the election? Much better to wait until after the drubbing and then become LOTO.
The only way I can see Rishi being axed before the election is if they can somehow find a way to get Boris back into Parliament.
Kemi Badenoch, the trade secretary, told her Canadian counterpart that she could see no point in the talks continuing after Ottawa imposed a 245 per cent tariff on British stilton, cheddar and other cheese imports at the start of the month.
@DavidGauke
So we haven’t got a Canada-style free trade agreement with Canada?
It was blindingly obvious he was an entitled useless talent-vacuum, the people who ramped him are idiots without the common sense they were born with.
Will we get away again in just five or so months time??
Already things building abroad...
Extreme Temperatures Around The World
@extremetemps
Extreme heat wave in North Africa , records pulverized in MOROCCO and ALGERIA:
Agadir ap 32.2 temp above summer average !
ALGERIA
28.4 Oran
27.8 Sidi Bel Abbes
1) Rishi needs to go quietly or for there to be a clean coup. The worst thing is there is a VOC, which fails and Rishi limps on wounded
2) There needs to be a quick coronation with the party rallying around one person. Hard to see who can unite all the squabbling factions
3) The public need to be willing to give new leader a fair chance. I just can't see any potential new leader being able to turn this around. if anything, the nation becomes a laughing stock with yet another PM and the public wouldn't like that.
In my view any coup risks making things worse. What the Tories need to do is create a ceasefire between the different factions and find a way to unite. Maybe bring Boris back in some form (Lord Johnson?) or maybe Cummings, if he would come back. Otherwise they have to suck it up, try and save 200-250 seats and rebuild in opposition.
Oh, when we walk, it always feels so nice
And when we talk, who needs Richard Tice?
Kemi, Kemi, can we be led by you?
Perhaps they'll choose more wisely next time...
Mordaunt might take it. She’s got a decent chance of losing her seat anyway, might not be a terrible gig to get for say 6 months. If she got a half decent loss out of it she might even get a couple of years of LOTO on the CV.
The whole thing is ludicrous though.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/25/emirates-backed-stake-vodafone-security-risk-uae-uk-government
So... what about UAE plan to buy the Telegraph?
Of course, you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Probably should have been written “THAT. IS. A. DIS GRACE”
PORK MARKETS!
Note that Goldwater > Wallace/Nixon > Reagan progression was common, indeed typical in Dixieland among White voters 1964 to 1980. And it was this sector of the electorate Jerry was trying to sweet talk about Marse Robert.
I see we've gone back full circle to Penny Mordaunt.
No, no, no.
The Tories are done till I'm retired.
Whichever figurehead "leads" dysfunctional, amoral, self-harming anarchy as we get poorer isn't really relevant.
.. continue until killed Queen in curtsy handshake covert ops.
How long did it take the Dems to get over the (first*) Civil War?
* Well, really, the first civil war was the War of Independence as many Americans were loyal to the Crown. So, The Civil War is really the 2nd.
What a different country we were 40 years ago. A lot thinner too.
But he's still to learn that only sentences begin with a capital letter, except for names/proper nouns.
Which doesn't apply to 'Rapidly Begin', to give just one of many examples.
No way is he only doing one last (second) term and then retiring to golf.
He will tear the whole damn edifice down before he leaves the oval office again.
Indeed, and here is my prediction - he will build a NEW WHITE HOUSE. Ten times bigger. Far more gold and bling.
It will be MASSIVE. And actually fit for a PRESIDENT.
You read it here first folks.
Can someone - anyone?!? - explain the appeal of this rank nonentity?
Is this it? Is this the crapest British government of all time?
Ten years ago the Conservatives dined out at election time on a strong reputation of fiscal conservatism they had built and held over the course of a hundred years. And now that reputation just a pile of smouldering rubble. And no one else did this to them. They did it to themselves.
The reason why it is the worst government of all time, is because it’s the most confused.com Conservative Party of all time.
PB contributors who are real Conservatives hate this mess of a government more than anyone else. By going right wing populist, the Tory Psrty deprived Conservatives in the UK of a Conservative Party. Simples.
Bet is void if he dies in office.
In the last 50 years I would rate the 1974-1979 and 2005-2010 Labour governments and the 1970-1974 Heath government as worse than this one.
Sunak also comes across as more competent than Major pre 1997, even if less effective a campaigner.
It’s a bit like someone coming round to your house, being sick, cleaning part of the mess and asking for praise.
And Sunak is a part of that like the rest of these appalling people that have ruined Britain since 2010. Britain's Brezhnev's - the party of stagnation and decline. They really do deserve the electoral kicking of a lifetime later this year.
Sunak comes across as more competent than Major. 😶
What am I missing?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/25/eu-plan-medicine-stockpile-uk-record-shortages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJoEPRQMBuY
(Thanks to a writer at the Spectator called Sean Thomas for bringing this to attention).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ai-just-changed-the-world-again/