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Sunak is proving to be a very unlucky general – politicalbetting.com
Appeal panel found no evidence of report being leaked to press and concluded that Benton's arguments were "misconceived or erroneous." Benton is believed to be planning to stand as an independent in the by-election
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After all, there are about 100 seats where the Lib Dems came second last time - and by a strange coincidence all the Tory MPs there are behaving themselves as they ought. So no resignations there....
Just imagine what it would be like for Sunak if the Lib Dem bandwaggon got rolling again too.....
And for what it's worth, I think it will - just as soon as this round of local elections really gets going....
Cameron government knew Post Office ditched Horizon IT investigation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68146054
It's OK to offer to be corrupt, but not to actually *be* corrupt?
WTF?
Once Sunk, always Sunk.
Especially by anagram.
I think there were a couple of other instances where it was said the recalled MP would stand as an independent, but they then thought better of it (Fiona Onasanya, Peterborough, 2019, being one).
I definitely have digestive problems with carbs - which is probably why I’m so thin, and my daughter’s the same - but only some. I get reflux so powerful it’s as if my entire body turns into a fermentation vat making food beer, when I eat significant amounts of: bread (white or brown), rice, pastry, cake, porridge, cereal. But oddly not: pasta or noodles, Yorkshire puddings, pancakes or indeed scrambled or poached egg on toast. All of those contain egg.
Is there something in eggs that mitigates the effects of refined carbohydrates? Some sort of binding effect that slows down fermentation? Google suggests egg whites are good and yolks are bad but I don’t get the sense anyone’s actually looked at food combinations.
He made his allegations in the Times newspaper. If his narrative is faulty Kemi should sue.
Her allegations were made under the cover of Parliamentary privilege. I challenge the fragrant Kemi to repeat her rebuttal outside Parliament. Should she do so, we then have a decent idea that she is telling the truth.
I think that if I had set the building on fire, deliberately, there would have been less anger.
That seems a sensible position to take given recent history !
(I suspect that she did fire him for the right reasons - that he was not being as cooperative as he should have been with the enquiry. But I also suspect that payments were stalled ahead of the General Election, because this was not a subject that the government wanted to face scrutiny over.)
“Leicestershire visitor attraction to compete in public vote for major VisitEngland award
Field Sport UK, an award-winning, family-run, outdoor activity centre in North West Leicestershire, has been selected as a finalist in VisitEngland’s Tourism Superstar Awards 2024.”
It’s literally in the top ten short list for “best small outdoor activity centres” in England
Not even top 50. Top TEN
My worry is that if this continues northwest Leicestershire may actually encounter drought or even famine due to the overpressure of global tourism
“I am riding to the rescue with supply chain finance with my new friend Lex Greensill”
I need somewhere with a nice beach, southern England, child friendly. Was thinking of Dorset or Devon again, but want to go somewhere new.
Ok then. Which one of us is Kemi? Own up.
Why do you subscribe to this delicious temptation?
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*Rather like @Foxy claiming to be down with the hardcore grunters in Leicester when he actually lives in a pretty pork-pie producing village near Melton Mowbray.
..The documents show how the secret 2016 investigation - looking into Fujitsu's use of remote access from 1999 onwards - had come out of
What justification would there be to accept legal advice that the investigation be halted, other than not wanting to see its conclusions ?
...Deloitte returned in February 2016 to begin the trawl of all Horizon transactions since its launch 17 years earlier.
Ministers, including Mr Javid, were told this new work was under way to "address suggestions that branch accounts might have been remotely altered without complainants' knowledge".
But in June 2016, when sub-postmasters launched their legal action, the government was told through Post Office minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe that the investigation had been scrapped on "very strong advice" from the senior barrister representing them...
What possible innocent explanation is there for this sequence of events ?
..In April, the Post Office notified the government that the sub-postmasters had begun their group legal action against it. Baroness Neville-Rolfe and Mr Javid were sent a briefing, updating them on the investigation's progress and discussing how the legal action would affect it.
The briefing, sent before a meeting with Mr Parker, was heavily redacted when it was released under a Freedom of Information Act request. But it said Mr Parker was on track to complete the follow-up work by the end of May and would update Baroness Neville-Rolfe on its progress.
However, the documents seen by the BBC reveal that in June, Deloitte's three-month investigation was suddenly stopped just before it could be completed.
On 21 June 2016, Tim Parker told Baroness Neville-Rolfe he had taken the decision on the advice of an unnamed senior barrister for the Post Office.
He told her the detailed work being carried out by Deloitte was "complex, costly and time consuming" but that good progress had been made. "I had hoped that by now I would be in a position to draw my investigation to a close," Mr Parker wrote.
"However, given the High Court proceedings to which I refer above, Post Office Limited has received very strong advice from Leading Counsel that the work being undertaken under the aegis of my review should come to an immediate end… I have therefore instructed that the work being undertaken pursuant to my review should now be stopped."..
If Benton contests the recall petition (ie doesn't resign), and he will, and if the general election is earlier than 20 June, the by-election will either not be held at all or will be overtaken by the dissolution. Any delay in either the Commons voting to confirm the suspension or in calling the by-election pushes that out further. It's very easy to get it so that the good people of Blackpool don't get to vote if the general election is this side of the summer recess.
The question then is whether Labour would trigger one if the Tories don't. How long do they wait? Chances are it'll be at least mid-April before the recall petition concludes; maybe later. There's not long then before you'd be triggering an election in the middle of the holiday period. In Blackpool. Good luck with that. And if it's not been called by September, do you really want to prompt one when the new MP could only serve a handful of weeks, at most?
Plus, the convention that the sitting party calls the by-election is one that Labour might want to preserve for when it's in office and unpopular, which might not be all that long.
Personally, I'd have all by-elections set by formula. Something like close of nominations 4 weeks after the vacancy occurs, unless that means a campaign over Xmas / New Year, or in July / Aug, in which case it's begun straight afterwards; or if there are scheduled elections in the area within 3 months (but more than 25 working days hence), in which case it coincides with them.
I found one place that had good fish (and lobster!) but you couldn't book a table yet had to order the lobster a day in advance. Very Isle of Wight.
@IanB2 when he spots this will have a great list of food outlets.
My kids absolutely love it though: Amazon World, Dinosaur Isle, Robin Hood adventure park, Blackgang Chine and all the beaches, parks and railways etc.
It's really brilliant for under 12s. We go every year.
Only kidding.
"Stories of human impact from the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8jnsDKjtYg
Is there a difference with the bread whether you eat butter or margarine? (Your OK stuff is largely carb + fat as well as eggs).
I'd also have a look at the type of wheat flour in your pasta, and see how that compares to the one in your bread. What about bread with less refined flour (eg rye bread not say Canadian white flour?)
What happens with less refined cereals - the classics being Shredded Wheat and Bran Flakes?
I'm not suggesting this will fix anything, but it is good to experiment.
In my condition - Type I Diabetes - we tend to go for moderate carb diets (100-120g per day), as it reduces insulin consumption, and bg swings therefore hypos and hyper episodes.
But we also use Glycaemic Index as an indicator (measure of how quickly carbs feed through to blood sugar), and there are quite different numbers for refined vs less refined.
The wheat normally quoted with low GI (ie slowly absorbed causing a smoother blood glucose profile after a meal) is Durum Wheat. It is high in proteins and fibre, and is often in pasta, but can be used for bread.
I note that your 'no problem' foods contain relatively smaller amounts of flour vs the whole dish. Does it help to have just less bread etc, or flatbreads, or matzos? What happens if you have something with it that is vegetable - eg a wholemeal bread BLT sandwich vs 2 slices of bread + marg?
I'd encourage you to experiment by leaving things out one by one, and trying to discover what items in which quantities cause difficulties.
I'd recommend the various cookbooks in the "Carbs & Cals" series, or the App.
I find it hard to understand why parties get candidate selection so utterly wrong. I know you cannot look into a person's soul, but some of the people selected are... odd, to say the least.
https://youtu.be/yXDRr9wz57g?feature=shared
I am visiting the aforesaid sithole the weekend after next to attend 5 non league football games in 24 hrs but will be constantly be chanting Blackpools a sithole I want to go home I expect
Michael Gove failed to register hospitality he enjoyed with a Conservative donor whose company he had recommended for multimillion pound PPE contracts during the Covid pandemic, the Guardian can reveal.
While still minister for the Cabinet Office, in August 2021 Gove was entertained to VIP hospitality at a Queens Park Rangers (QPR) football match with David Meller, whose fashion products company had been awarded £164m PPE contracts following Gove’s referral in May 2020.
MPs’ code of conduct requires them to register all gifts, donations and hospitality above a £300 value, but Gove did not register the hospitality he received at the QPR match, which was organised by Meller’s son, Jonny. When asked by the Guardian about it, a spokesperson for Gove acknowledged that he had failed to do so and apologised, saying it had been an “oversight”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/michael-gove-failed-to-register-hospitality-from-donor-whose-firm-he-referred-for-ppe-contracts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I saw her down in Cornwall in late November and man, she was looking good on that diet. It’s not the yearning ex talking (my desires have finally moved on) she simply looked very very healthy. Glowing And slim and energetic
So I suspect there is something to this ketogenic stuff (also espoused by @BartholomewRoberts)
Meat tastes good for a reason?
..The revelations uncovered by the BBC also raise serious questions for the public inquiry by Sir Wyn Williams, as to whether it is adequately scrutinising what the government knew about the Post Office's internal investigations.
In UKGI's 2022 statement to the inquiry, there was no reference to Tim Parker's letter to Baroness Neville-Rolfe of 21 June 2016, notifying her he was calling off Deloitte's investigation.
In 2018, two years after completing his review, Sir Jonathan Swift, formerly First Treasury Counsel - the top civil lawyer at Her Majesty's Treasury - was appointed to be a High Court judge. He received a knighthood in the same year.
However, in the list of upcoming witnesses at the Williams inquiry, his name is absent...
Whilst pretending it's calling for a ceasfire
What a wanksain of an individual SKS is proving to be
Lawyers are beyond reproach and it would be a waste of time investigating him for wrongdoing/incompetence.
They are the richest country in the world yet they are also nearly the fattest and - despite incredible health spending - some of the most unhealthy with a life expectancy dipping below that of Vietnam
So, whatever you eat, if Americans love it, don’t eat it
I might actually write a bestselling book on this theme. The unamerican diet
SKS will not be able to campaign in any public areas at GE2024 though for fear of being shouted at.
Swift, Williams, or the unnamed "Leading Counsel" ?
A veritable cabal* of lawyers.
*That is the collective noun, I believe ?
"Meller has been a substantial donor to the Conservative party, his educational charity sponsored academies when Gove was education secretary, and he supported Gove for the party leadership in 2016, donating £3,250 to his unsuccessful campaign.
Meller Designs, part of Meller’s family business until it was sold in January 2021, was a wholesaler of own-label fashion accessories to retailers, which in 2019, the year before the pandemic, made a pre-tax profit of less than £200,000. The £164m government PPE contracts boosted its revenues by 1,400% in 2020 and its profit increased to £16m in 2020. Meller and his co-owner then shared dividends of £5m."
"It made me feel so unsafe."
A father has spoken out after his baby's birth certificate was returned "with the word Israel scribbled out".
The Home Office is launching an investigation into the incident.
What on earth is he doing accepting hospitality from a company he's recommending for as a minister of the crown.
Sorry, no this is worse than Benton. Benton never got to enjoy the fruits of his graft !
London risks ‘dying from its roots’ as growing numbers of families with children born in the city cannot afford to stay, headteacher warns"
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/london-school-closures-falling-pupil-places-councils-b1140247.html
It is a nifty title, though.
The SE Asian version could be the Diet Cong.
https://unherd.com/2024/02/hamburgers-will-decide-americas-future/
"One of the internet’s most popular content creators, John Jurasek — commonly nicknamed “Reviewbrah” — posted a cri de coeur on the topic several months ago, in which he described how the fast food he reviewed had skyrocketed in price and nosedived in quality over the last few years. After listing his own experiences and complaints, Jurasek opened up the floor to people to report their own experiences in the comments section. More than 10,000 comments later, the picture painted was overwhelmingly clear: the fast-food industry inside America seemed to be in a state of near-collapse.
In response, some might be tempted to ask: so what? Fast food is bad for your health; why would the unaffordability of a greasy pizza or a cardboard box of processed chicken nuggets even be a problem? These complaints are reasonable on one level, but they ignore the broader social, economic and political reality that this affordability crisis speaks to. The United States is possibly the only country in the world where the term “food desert” is in semi-regular use, denoting areas within the country where there is little or no access to supermarkets selling fresh vegetables and the like. In this nutritional frontier country, fast food is the only game in town. Though the extent and severity of this problem shouldn’t be overstated, it is an issue, and some Americans are, for various reasons, at least partly dependent on cheap fast food in the way that the citizens of ancient Rome were dependent on cura annonae: the provision of state-subsidised bread and grain."
This is a known problem. The home office went on a diversity drive. Et voila
She is not a carnivore, she is an omnivore, as are you, Bart, me and indeed all humans (including all vegans).
That is because these are biological terms, not expressions of dietary preference.
e.g. my cat is an obligate carnivore, she just (unwisely) chooses to lick breadcrumbs off my kitchen floor.
@lmharpin
Suspended Lib Dem councillor Pat Marsh has been arrested in connection with an investigation into antisemitic ‘tweets’ shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.
She remains in custody while enquiries continue.
3:52 pm · 20 Feb 2024"
https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1759969278361534553
https://edemocracy.northyorks.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=783
Ridiculously overpriced.
And there's more:-
But our concerns go wider than Palantir. The NHS has also signed a contract with the biotech firm IQVIA, to provide “Privacy Enhancing Technology” for the Federated Data Platform.
Around three-quarters of IQVIA’s contract is also completely redacted. This includes a section on the protection of personal data – precisely the issue IQVIA is being brought on board to address – so we’re challenging the NHS over this as well.
What makes this all the more concerning is the power imbalance between the NHS and IQVIA uncovered by the doctor and academic Ben Goldacre in 2020. According to Goldacre, IQVIA is free to collect and aggregate NHS hospital data and sell it to the pharmaceutical industry, but it can restrict NHS access to this collated data and its ability to share it with UK regulatory bodies.
https://goodlawproject.org/were-taking-legal-action-to-uncover-palantirs-blanked-out-contract/