Although I don’t doubt the fiscal jeopardy faced by the incoming French government, I note that the stock market rout predicted by various Telegraphy types, as well as Andrew Neill, simply hasn’t happened.
It seems reasonably likely that Macron will pick someone from the Socialists or the Greens as PM. The idea that the election has delivered “ungovernability” doesn’t seem to hold much weight.
Not just the stock market. The wide scale riots predicted by the usual suspects on here don't seem to have happened either.
Given the French deployed 30,000 police, I don't think it was just PB who thought that there might be a spot of trouble...and that was under the presumption the RN would win.
Yes, you were one of them last night. You're our very own virtual Neighbourhood Watch champion though, always managing to find a random tweet from dodgy sources showing disorder and mayhem.
Huh, I made a single post making a joke about the French always rioting. It wasn't exactly wall to wall tweets showing disorder. I think you are confusing me with somebody else.
Although I don’t doubt the fiscal jeopardy faced by the incoming French government, I note that the stock market rout predicted by various Telegraphy types, as well as Andrew Neill, simply hasn’t happened.
It seems reasonably likely that Macron will pick someone from the Socialists or the Greens as PM. The idea that the election has delivered “ungovernability” doesn’t seem to hold much weight.
Macron has cleverly asked his current PM, the centrist Attal to stay on in the role for now. Given neither the leftist New Popular Front nor RN have a majority neither have the votes to replace him as Ensemble and Les Republicains combined have more votes than either the left block or RN. NPF also cannot agree on a PM candidate at the moment anyway
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Why would we expect any shift in personnel when Sunak will be gone shortly? Isn't this just window dressing until the Tories have their big punch up over leadership and then selection of what is left will tell us something.
Because Sunak *could* have used the opportunity to further promote his acolytes into key roles for better visibility.
Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Why would we expect any shift in personnel when Sunak will be gone shortly? Isn't this just window dressing until the Tories have their big punch up over leadership and then selection of what is left will tell us something.
Because Sunak *could* have used the opportunity to further promote his acolytes into key roles for better visibility.
Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
Jenrick is my tip for leader. Just pipping Badenoch in a campaign with members.
Sufficiently established in parliamentary party. Called the Sunak horror show correctly.
Coutinho gets nowhere as far as I can see.
Don't see Cleverly running, wonder if Barclay might not either.
Next but one leader is probably more likely to become PM, realistically.
It's pretty slim pickings. At least Cleverly made an effort in the campaign nationally.
The others were invisible, or like the unfortunate Penny no longer eligible.
I think Jenrick probably hits Starmer harder on crime, immigration and growth of the state.
All of which are likely to be the weak links of this govt.
Badenoch would, I expect, make some loud noises in speeches and on twitter. Can't see it cutting through with voters.....
A white male probably appeals more to Reform voters too.
Though worth remembering that many Reform voters knew that their vote would most likely put Starmer in Number 10. They wanted to kick the Tories too.
Not sure how any Conservative can attack Starmer on crime when their defunding of the court system led to massive numbers on remand, prison overcrowding and huge delays in getting cases to trial, effectively decriminalising sex offences.
You must be new to politics, or new to shameless hypocrisy. Of course the Conservatives will attack Starmer on crime.
Looking at the example given, Mark Matlock, I can't help but now see an AI version of Elon Musk made younger and a bit chubbier...
I do hope someone is going to investigate this properly. If true, this is a crime, worthy of a prison sentence.
I'm not sure you can imprison an AI-generated non-person. Anyway, the story appears not to be true - he's real.
made up by enemies of reform . The fact that many on here seemed to think its true is depressing
Not entirely 'made up' - but people being silly jumping to conclusions. When looking into some constituency betting I was thinking of going for a Reform candidate and genuinely couldn't find any online presence, nor even any generic quotes to local newspapers. Seems that was perhaps more common - a kind of ultra-paper candidate agreeing to run on the understanding they wouldn't have to do a thing. So appear oddly ghostly. Perhaps signed up to stand as a candidate but really couldn't in this election and were parcelled out nowhere near where they live to fill spots.
In this case, I think Private Eye found the chap and turned out he'd used an AI image of 'himself' on his website.
So some people have put the two things together and leapt on the idea that the strongly paper candidates are somehow made up rather than probably a Reform supporter sitting in their living room 200 miles away, but on the ballot to boost the party.
yes but making up candidates is lllegal and the other is not - people should be careful of believing crap just becasue it is knocking reform
I thought it was amusing if true, and less damaging than some of the undoubtedly true stuff about genuine flesh and blood Reform candidates.
Which brings me back yet again to Mark's puzzling silence. You would have expected it to be impossible to restrain him from rebutting the slur on his estimable party.
if you don't live on social media and are a genuine paper candidate then it's entirely possible the entire furore has passed him by
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Why would we expect any shift in personnel when Sunak will be gone shortly? Isn't this just window dressing until the Tories have their big punch up over leadership and then selection of what is left will tell us something.
Because Sunak *could* have used the opportunity to further promote his acolytes into key roles for better visibility.
Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
Sunak has "acolytes"? I don't think we will every see the terms 'Sunakism' or 'Sunakite' in widespread political use.
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Two thoughts.
First, as a senior Conservative with a pulse and a seat, Coutinho's odds ought to be better than 50/1. But not necessarily much better; it's hard to see the Conservatives going for Sunak in a blouse.
Besides, Conservative Leader is very probably a duff job this time round, with four years of effort followed by a defeat and a resignation. Not for certain, but probably. MPs who want to be PM might make the calculation that this is one to sit out. Coutinho is Sunak's protégé after all, which is literally "one who is protected".
Yeah, some bellend just accidentally deleted the Suella thread.
I was distraught by the Dave news.
Going to spend more time in his shepherds hut....lets hope he doesn't decide to write another book!
TBH, I presumed that would always be the deal of him coming back. Although, I expect that he was under the impression it might be until the end of the year.
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Shocking how inept and inert the Tories were.
Sunak could have used his first 72 hours to do identically, down to the smallest detail, what starmer has done in the last 72 hours. What a waste.
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Two thoughts.
First, as a senior Conservative with a pulse and a seat, Coutinho's odds ought to be better than 50/1. But not necessarily much better; it's hard to see the Conservatives going for Sunak in a blouse.
Besides, Conservative Leader is very probably a duff job this time round, with four years of effort followed by a defeat and a resignation. Not for certain, but probably. MPs who want to be PM might make the calculation that this is one to sit out. Coutinho is Sunak's protégé after all, which is literally "one who is protected".
Might raise your profile and get you to the Lords and a future Foreign Sec though once your party returns to power. Ask Lord Hague who did the night shift for the Tories as Opposition Leader from 1997-2001.
Ed Miliband did the same for Labour after it lost power in 2010 and is now back at his old job as Energy Secretary
If you think about it, the Lord Cameron is deserving of sympathy. He must have been promised a decent run in the role. Instead he gets dragged home from a tickertape parade in Tirana because the daft dwarf has gone mad and called a mental election he will get demolished in.
Although I don’t doubt the fiscal jeopardy faced by the incoming French government, I note that the stock market rout predicted by various Telegraphy types, as well as Andrew Neill, simply hasn’t happened.
It seems reasonably likely that Macron will pick someone from the Socialists or the Greens as PM. The idea that the election has delivered “ungovernability” doesn’t seem to hold much weight.
Not just the stock market. The wide scale riots predicted by the usual suspects on here don't seem to have happened either.
Given the French deployed 30,000 police, I don't think it was just PB who thought that there might be a spot of trouble...and that was under the presumption the RN would win.
Yes, you were one of them last night. You're our very own virtual Neighbourhood Watch champion though, always managing to find a random tweet from dodgy sources showing disorder and mayhem.
Huh, I made a single post making a joke about the French always rioting. It wasn't exactly wall to wall tweets showing disorder. I think you are confusing me with somebody else.
Erm this was you, last night:
Riots are now also breaking out in Paris as the far-left celebrates their victory in the parliamentary election
The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.
Although I don’t doubt the fiscal jeopardy faced by the incoming French government, I note that the stock market rout predicted by various Telegraphy types, as well as Andrew Neill, simply hasn’t happened.
It seems reasonably likely that Macron will pick someone from the Socialists or the Greens as PM. The idea that the election has delivered “ungovernability” doesn’t seem to hold much weight.
Not just the stock market. The wide scale riots predicted by the usual suspects on here don't seem to have happened either.
Given the French deployed 30,000 police, I don't think it was just PB who thought that there might be a spot of trouble...and that was under the presumption the RN would win.
Yes, you were one of them last night. You're our very own virtual Neighbourhood Watch champion though, always managing to find a random tweet from dodgy sources showing disorder and mayhem.
Huh, I made a single post making a joke about the French always rioting. It wasn't exactly wall to wall tweets showing disorder. I think you are confusing me with somebody else.
Erm this was you, last night:
Riots are now also breaking out in Paris as the far-left celebrates their victory in the parliamentary election
Riot when you lose, riot when you win, riot when its a day that ends in y.
As I said. Dodgy tweet source included.
Yes that is was I said. I made a single post, with a jokey comment. The French do have a tad of a reputation for liking a good riot for any reason, among the left, right and the centre.
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Shocking how inept and inert the Tories were.
The trick (in politics as in life) is to keep the process and paperwork clean, because then you can do pretty much what you like. Starmer and Gray are likely to get that in a way that Johnson and Cummings or Truss, Kwateng and the voices in their heads didn't.
But yes. Government is power and Opposition is impotence, and giving up some of what you want to achieve most of what you want is always worth it.
"Of all the smallish towns I have stayed in along France’s Rhône Valley, Tournon-sur-Rhône is my least favourite. It’s a loud town with an old expressway, Route Nationale 86, running through it.
Yet even in Tournon, on a boring Wednesday afternoon, there was an active social scene, a communal sense of needing to be, if not directly with other people, then at least near them. At one local café, friends, colleagues, couples, families came and went. Those who arrived alone, mostly older regulars, came to sit, watch the world and chat with waiters and fellow patrons. They were alone in name only. Each had their place, as I later found out when I realised I’d taken the corner seat of one regular. I offered to switch, but they declined with a smile, muttering something I hoped translated as “I may be set in my ways, but I’m not THAT set”.
I stayed at that café for three hours, and though I was alone I never felt lonely. I didn’t order much, but I never felt rushed. The French understand the value of sitting for a long time around others, while seemingly doing nothing."
Friend of mine, Chris Arnade. We are meeting in Cambodia/Vietnam this autumn
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Shocking how inept and inert the Tories were.
Sunak could have used his first 72 hours to do identically, down to the smallest detail, what starmer has done in the last 72 hours. What a waste.
Sunak never really had a mandate though as he only got the job after Loopy Lizzie was turfed out of Downing St and at the time of his appointment his only focus was to calm things down after *that* budget.
Becoming PM after a 174 seat election landslide is a different scenario to becoming PM by default after both of your predecessors have ****** up.
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Why would we expect any shift in personnel when Sunak will be gone shortly? Isn't this just window dressing until the Tories have their big punch up over leadership and then selection of what is left will tell us something.
Because Sunak *could* have used the opportunity to further promote his acolytes into key roles for better visibility.
Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
Sunak has "acolytes"? I don't think we will every see the terms 'Sunakism' or 'Sunakite' in widespread political use.
People smugglers getting the football banning order treatment. I always presumed that the different ends of the chain didn't need to travel themselves?
Notable that Hunt is staying on as Shadow Chancellor. So much for Clare Coutinho.
Why would we expect any shift in personnel when Sunak will be gone shortly? Isn't this just window dressing until the Tories have their big punch up over leadership and then selection of what is left will tell us something.
Because Sunak *could* have used the opportunity to further promote his acolytes into key roles for better visibility.
Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
Sunak has "acolytes"? I don't think we will every see the terms 'Sunakism' or 'Sunakite' in widespread political use.
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Shocking how inept and inert the Tories were.
Unfortunately, not enough Tory seats to fill our housing needs.
Looking at the example given, Mark Matlock, I can't help but now see an AI version of Elon Musk made younger and a bit chubbier...
This is what is known as a conspiracy theory.
It’s one of the peculiarities of English economic geography that Tunbridge Wells is fancy but East Grinstead is a bit of a dump.
Yet they are both historic, Wealden towns. Admittedly Tunbridge had royal imprimatur at one stage but that doesn’t quite seem sufficient reason…
Nominative determinism? East Grinstead just sounds like a dump. Must be Viking. See also Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Skegness, Ratby, Goole. And East... places are always worse than west, north or south. Meanwhile 'Tunbridge' sounds ever so posh - and there is nowhere grim with 'Wells' in its name.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Dates to pre-Roman times (the word Oppède is Celtic-Roman for fort) yet for centuries it was basically abandoned. Then in the Second World War the author Saint Exupery (yes, him) and a bunch of artists all rescued it
It has a brilliantly grumpy cafe owner
You can go and irritate Hugh Grant just down the road in Eygalieres
Stopped off there for an excellent coffee and brandy whilst cycling nearby; jazz band in attendance.
Mediocre looking street brocante there; spotted a gem. I was busy trying to work out how best I could ship a for sure £5k (retail) antique bookcase and thought I had better check the price first. It was 15 thousand euros!!!!!!
It's an interesting case of how the demand of a few rich people can turn a sleepy village into a classy well served little town.
Any other cultural recommendations, for Provence? I have seen quite a lot of this region, so I need some new gems...
My favourite place round there is Arles but I like busy towns. Also I think the Photographic festival is on at the moment so it's particularly lively. Les Beaux has a brilliant Cinema Lumiere which is the best anywhere which is always worth a visit.
Dates to pre-Roman times (the word Oppède is Celtic-Roman for fort) yet for centuries it was basically abandoned. Then in the Second World War the author Saint Exupery (yes, him) and a bunch of artists all rescued it
It has a brilliantly grumpy cafe owner
You can go and irritate Hugh Grant just down the road in Eygalieres
Stopped off there for an excellent coffee and brandy whilst cycling nearby; jazz band in attendance.
Mediocre looking street brocante there; spotted a gem. I was busy trying to work out how best I could ship a for sure £5k (retail) antique bookcase and thought I had better check the price first. It was 15 thousand euros!!!!!!
It's an interesting case of how the demand of a few rich people can turn a sleepy village into a classy well served little town.
Any other cultural recommendations, for Provence? I have seen quite a lot of this region, so I need some new gems...
At the risk a busman’s holiday, what about a Côtes du Rhône cafe crawl? With 17(?) named ACs to get round, that should occupy you for, oh, 12 hours.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
I did. That was my point, that in the past both parties have had these visions of x new garden cities, instead this is a change of direction.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
Castlemilk (at least the original scheme) waves hello.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Good.
We don’t want new cities plunked in the middle of the countryside. We want new suburbs, attached to already successful urban agglomerations.
This should not at all be controversial. It’s kind of how development works around the world.
People smugglers getting the football banning order treatment. I always presumed that the different ends of the chain didn't need to travel themselves?
Quite. Both ineffective and morally dubious
"Like terrorism police, officers could get warrants to search suspected people smugglers’ premises and seize items before an offence was committed and apply to courts for early access to financial information on suspects."
That will keep the precogs busy.
My Nunulab honeymoon was great while it lasted. They can't help themselves, they think frighteningly illiberal things are great when they are Labour illiberal things. For starters I would like to see them unwind the disgustingly populist indefinite sentences they brought in last time.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
Castlemilk (at least the original scheme) waves hello.
Origin of one of the greatest of the many, many bands to come out of Glasgow in the 80s
In Washington, spare a thought for Karine Jean-Pierre who is having to go into bat for Biden at the press briefing right now. The media smell blood. This isn’t going away.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
What point is he trying to make there? Garden cities have been around for decades, and most are much smaller than Milton Keynes. Letchworth Garden City has a population of 33,000, for instance, and was started over a century ago. Welwyn Garden City is just over 100 years old and has about 50,000. I wonder what 'local facilities' he thinks they are missing?
My own new town has about 12-13k people; and will likely be around 50k by 2050 when all the planned and rumoured extensions are built. But that expansion will *not* be properly planned as they add a thousand houses here, a few thousand more there, with little thought as to how they will all work together,
The original plan for my town, from the mid-1990s, was IMO broadly successful. Just extending it without a central plan for facilities and other resources is ludicrous. But that is what happens.
A planned large settlement will generally be better than piecemeal developments of the same size.
I see Andrew Tate earned £21m from his online endeavors, but has paid exactly no income tax in either Romania or the UK.
Whoops.
You can say one thing about Tate, he isn't as rich as he says, but this grift has been incredibly profitable. As far as I understand, all this activity is about funnelling you to a membership to what is basically a set of discord chat servers, which others are employed to "teach" different training programmes.
Jenrick is my tip for leader. Just pipping Badenoch in a campaign with members.
Sufficiently established in parliamentary party. Called the Sunak horror show correctly.
Coutinho gets nowhere as far as I can see.
Don't see Cleverly running, wonder if Barclay might not either.
Next but one leader is probably more likely to become PM, realistically.
Badenoch is the darling of the membership. She will win a Corbyn style landslide if they put her up in the final two.
Disagree.
Straws in wind in our whatsapp chat suggests Jenrick gets it.
Members are less likely to have seen Badenoch on Twitter and more likely to have seen Jenrick on Sunday telly.
Yikes. I am very red on Jenrick.
Me too.
I always do badly on Con leadership contests (though made a profit on Truss) mostly because I cannot believe that even Conservative members are that daft.
Counter anecdote - I've stayed a Con member* to try to vote in someone I like, and that will almost certainly be Kemi. I think we need a Computer Scientist PM.
But if either Kenrick or Braverman made the final two I would vote for the opponent 100%. If both of them do I will try to get a physical membership card (they no longer issue them routinely) on the basis that it might be valuable in the future as from the last parliament they had MPs...
*I may or may not be a member of other political parties under similar reasoning
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.
oh, wait...
Well to be fair to Nads, Cameron quitting the shadow Cabinet neither supports or goes against her theory.
He would have to become an MP if he wished to lead the Tories again so him quitting the shadow cabinet would be the first step towards him quitting the Lords and getting a seat in Parliament.
Not that any of that is going to happen but still...
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.
oh, wait...
I do feel Dorries got more shit than she deserved when in the Cabinet - which is not to say she deserved none - but she really did not take getting her peerage denied well, and seeing conspiracies like that demostrated it.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
Castlemilk (at least the original scheme) waves hello.
Origin of one of the greatest of the many, many bands to come out of Glasgow in the 80s
No wonder, they must have been desperate to come out of it.
“Burnley has England's cheapest housing stock. It's less than an hour's commute from Manchester, but there's 1 fast train/hour and I don't know re reliability. Name me a policy that would work faster than doubling frequency and shaving 10 mins off the time”
Main headline on BBC News website: LORD CAMERON RESIGNS
Poor TSE. 🌹
I suffering flashbacks/PTSD to the 24th of June 2016 when Dave announced his resignation as PM.
Before the news broke publicly one of Dave's staffers rang me to let me know that was going to resign in the next hour or two, I rang OGH, and OGH wanted to know if I was okay, he said I didn't sound right.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Good.
We don’t want new cities plunked in the middle of the countryside. We want new suburbs, attached to already successful urban agglomerations.
This should not at all be controversial. It’s kind of how development works around the world.
And we even have a couple of examples of how to make it work in the UK. Find the nice bits of your existing town, copy, update the standards (but not the look), add transit, and paste.
Coutinho is too close to Sunak to win the members vote, Braverman and Patel lack support from Tory MPs as the header makes clear. Jenrick and Badenoch have more but probably not enough to make the last 2.
At the moment Cleverly v Tugendhat is my prediction of the 2 the remaining Tory MPs will put to the members if Cleverly stands, if not then Barclay would take his place. Cleverly or Barclay then winning the members vote
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.
oh, wait...
I do feel Dorries got more shit than she deserved when in the Cabinet - which is not to say she deserved none - but she really did not take getting her peerage denied well, and seeing conspiracies like that demostrated it.
She’s a nut job and a lightweight, and Boris put her in Cabinet precisely BECAUSE she was a nut job and a lightweight.
Thus was British governance utterly debauched and hollowed out.
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
Read on - what they’re actually suggesting is extensions to existing urban areas. Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
And what is on the edge of existing urban areas? Countryside.
I see Andrew Tate earned £21m from his online endeavors, but has paid exactly no income tax in either Romania or the UK.
Whoops.
Tax is for little people.
Honestly, all you need is a good tax adviser with some decent tax minimisation strategies.
It’s really nowhere near as simple as that. Unless he’s been very very careful with number of days spent in each country, he’s probably going to be Al-Caponed.
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.
oh, wait...
I do feel Dorries got more shit than she deserved when in the Cabinet - which is not to say she deserved none - but she really did not take getting her peerage denied well, and seeing conspiracies like that demostrated it.
She’s a nut job and a lightweight, and Boris put her in Cabinet precisely BECAUSE she was a nut job and a lightweight.
Thus was British governance utterly debauched and hollowed out.
My favourite thing about Dorries being in the Cabinet is she was trusted to run a department a whole year before Jacob Rees-Mogg was, who only got to be Leader of the House under Boris (and was in fact demoted to a junior ministerial non-job).
Indeed, that paragon of judgement Liz Truss was the first PM to think JRM should actually run a department.
Coutinho is too close to Sunak to win the members vote, Braverman and Patel lack support from Tory MPs as the header makes clear. Jenrick and Badenoch have more but probably not enough to make the last 2.
At the moment Cleverly v Tugendhat is my prediction of the 2 the remaining Tory MPs will put to the members if Cleverly stands, if not then Barclay would take his place. Cleverly or Barclay then winning the members vote
I agree Cleverly or Barclay are value.
Cleverly is probably better.
They both come across as complete non-entities to me, especially Barclay?
I see Andrew Tate earned £21m from his online endeavors, but has paid exactly no income tax in either Romania or the UK.
Whoops.
Tax is for little people.
Honestly, all you need is a good tax adviser with some decent tax minimisation strategies.
It’s really nowhere near as simple as that. Unless he’s been very very careful with number of days spent in each country, he’s probably going to be Al-Caponed.
From the reports, it doesn't seem it is even as sophisticated as that. Rather just lots and lots of bank accounts in the name of other people, then ignore any demands. No Jimmy Carr or Richard Branson-esque schemes being employed.
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Labour promise a very active 100 days, and as it stands we won’t get a new Tory leader and therefore new shadows until 2/3 of that is over.
I was distraught by the Dave news.
“The Conservative party watching on, slack jawed, as it realises you are in fact allowed to use the machinery of government to do things you want and don't have to care if your opponents scream about it.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.”
Shocking how inept and inert the Tories were.
First, as a senior Conservative with a pulse and a seat, Coutinho's odds ought to be better than 50/1. But not necessarily much better; it's hard to see the Conservatives going for Sunak in a blouse.
Besides, Conservative Leader is very probably a duff job this time round, with four years of effort followed by a defeat and a resignation. Not for certain, but probably. MPs who want to be PM might make the calculation that this is one to sit out. Coutinho is Sunak's protégé after all, which is literally "one who is protected".
Conclusion: You have to be a Dick to chair the Conservatives.
TBH, I presumed that would always be the deal of him coming back. Although, I expect that he was under the impression it might be until the end of the year.
Ed Miliband did the same for Labour after it lost power in 2010 and is now back at his old job as Energy Secretary
Riots are now also breaking out in Paris as the far-left celebrates their victory in the parliamentary election
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1810062906840744284
Riot when you lose, riot when you win, riot when its a day that ends in y.
As I said. Dodgy tweet source included.
Now park a few newbuild estates in Tory seats to drive that point home.
https://x.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1810281718953251241
Also visegrad24 isn't a dodgy source.
But yes. Government is power and Opposition is impotence, and giving up some of what you want to achieve most of what you want is always worth it.
RN 142 sièges
Becoming PM after a 174 seat election landslide is a different scenario to becoming PM by default after both of your predecessors have ****** up.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/08/people-smugglers-hit-travel-bans-kings-speech/
People smugglers getting the football banning order treatment. I always presumed that the different ends of the chain didn't need to travel themselves?
Performative cruelty didn't do too well on Thursday.
Darn those pesky voters...
https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/felix-zwayer-england-holland-referee-semi-final-euro-2024-7clfddjz5
UEFA is corrupt at hell.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/08/labour-housing-plans-green-belt-land-new-towns-david-rudlin
Poor state of Thames Water a ‘critical risk’ to UK, Starmer and Reeves told
Exclusive: Whitehall warns firm’s deteriorating infrastructure and £15.6bn debt pose urgent problem
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/08/starmer-reeves-briefed-critical-risk-thames-water-whitehall-debt-infrastructure
“It is no longer possible to build a garden city from scratch,” he said. “We just don’t have the ambition to build another Milton Keynes, so we end up proposing free-standing ‘garden cities’ that are small and unable to support local facilities.”
As both parties in the past have always rallied calls for a new generation of garden cities as the solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/08/biden-msnbc-interview-open-letter-democrats
https://www.carrieres-lumieres.com/en
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/voter-id-rule-may-have-stopped-400000-taking-part-in-uk-election-poll-suggests
Done well, that could be a very good thing. Done badly….
This is not a good thing.
Poor TSE. 🌹
I’m calling it now.
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.
oh, wait...
We don’t want new cities plunked in the middle of the countryside. We want new suburbs, attached to already successful urban agglomerations.
This should not at all be controversial. It’s kind of how development works around the world.
Whoops.
"Like terrorism police, officers could get warrants to search suspected people smugglers’ premises and seize items before an offence was committed and apply to courts for early access to financial information on suspects."
That will keep the precogs busy.
My Nunulab honeymoon was great while it lasted. They can't help themselves, they think frighteningly illiberal things are great when they are Labour illiberal things. For starters I would like to see them unwind the disgustingly populist indefinite sentences they brought in last time.
What exactly was the positive here?
It's what happens when you have a completely unaccountable body through which hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue flows.
Honestly, all you need is a good tax adviser with some decent tax minimisation strategies.
My own new town has about 12-13k people; and will likely be around 50k by 2050 when all the planned and rumoured extensions are built. But that expansion will *not* be properly planned as they add a thousand houses here, a few thousand more there, with little thought as to how they will all work together,
The original plan for my town, from the mid-1990s, was IMO broadly successful. Just extending it without a central plan for facilities and other resources is ludicrous. But that is what happens.
A planned large settlement will generally be better than piecemeal developments of the same size.
But if either Kenrick or Braverman made the final two I would vote for the opponent 100%. If both of them do I will try to get a physical membership card (they no longer issue them routinely) on the basis that it might be valuable in the future as from the last parliament they had MPs...
*I may or may not be a member of other political parties under similar reasoning
He would have to become an MP if he wished to lead the Tories again so him quitting the shadow cabinet would be the first step towards him quitting the Lords and getting a seat in Parliament.
Not that any of that is going to happen but still...
If Labour can address these, they deserve everyone’s support.
https://x.com/john_stepek/status/1810258911523491848?s=46&t=L9g_woCIqbo1MTuBFCK0xg
“Burnley has England's cheapest housing stock. It's less than an hour's commute from Manchester, but there's 1 fast train/hour and I don't know re reliability. Name me a policy that would work faster than doubling frequency and shaving 10 mins off the time”
Before the news broke publicly one of Dave's staffers rang me to let me know that was going to resign in the next hour or two, I rang OGH, and OGH wanted to know if I was okay, he said I didn't sound right.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Cleverly is probably better.
"Come and have a go if you're think you're hard enou....... oh."
Thus was British governance utterly debauched and hollowed out.
I will be opposing this bollocks all the way.
Indeed, that paragon of judgement Liz Truss was the first PM to think JRM should actually run a department.