Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Leaking like sieves. You'd have thought being reduced to the smallest cohort of Tory MPs ever might focus minds a bit. Whether they go towards the right centre or whatever they need to stop spouting off to journalists every 5 seconds.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
She is good at going, she was conspicuous by her absence in the campaign.
I guess she decided to let Sunak own his defeat and given she only won her seat with a 2,610 majority she very sensibly decided to spend all her time in her constituency.
Steve Baker talking to Spectator TV about managerial competence and the future of the Conservative Party, what Labour does well, and why Reform is going nowhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcrBV1JOd0Y
Fckn hell.
There’s Spectator TV now?
He sounds quite human. I'd always thought of him as one of the fruitcakes
I disagree with him on a lot of things by the sound of it, but he sounds like someone with thought through opinions that reflect his beliefs, with a hinterland - and I can respect that.
I think there's a but too much emphasis on "How to Win Friends and Influence People", though - and meeting it at the age of 40+ is a but late. As a convinced evangelical he's perhaps missed out on a lot of good and humane thinkers from within his own constituency, maybe starting with people such as Michael Schluter.
I'd love to have a pub lunch with him, talking about intellectual background.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
And of course the bit in bold absolutely rules out kemi being the leaker because that would be just too unspeakably subtle for words. I just don't see why anyone else would be arsed to leak it.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Steve Baker talking to Spectator TV about managerial competence and the future of the Conservative Party, what Labour does well, and why Reform is going nowhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcrBV1JOd0Y
Fckn hell.
There’s Spectator TV now?
It's been around for some time.
Steve Baker sounds quite realistic / thoughtful on the political aspects, but a touch egotistical. A cut above IDS-denial.
Is Wycombe one of the oldest constituency names in the country? This list of MPs on Wiki goes back to 1295.
Lincoln is considered the oldest, because there has been a recorded Lincoln constituency ever since 1265. There were probably others for that Parliament that have remained similar ever since for which we don't have definite records.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Probably there was an audience of about 6 for the Commons this afternoon when party leaders stood up in turn to do the traditional common ground, ain't our constitutional history great, isn't the mother of the house Diane Abbott a trail blazing role model especially for people of colour -(that was Sunak by the way), isn't Mr Speaker great etc.
By contrast Farage stood up for Reform newbies and denounced Speaker Bercow, and, to my mind, was a bit of an idiot in not joining in the traditional fun and games just for day 1. He has plenty of time to tell us about Bercow. I had forgotten he existed.
John Bercow is on the US version of breakout hit tv series The Traitors.
2) Braverman thinks this is how to make money on the US speaking circuit.
She is in the US right now, and the line from her speech was apparently "We governed as liberals and lost as liberals" which is clearly aimed at a US audience
Mmmmbap, bap bap mmmmbap as your favourite song goes.
On other euros matters I like that this semi is between the two big poncey Catholic empires and tomorrow is between the two austere Protestant trading empires. Bodes well for England.
Mmmmbap, bap bap mmmmbap as your favourite song goes.
On other euros matters I like that this semi is between the two big poncey Catholic empires and tomorrow is between the two austere Protestant trading empires. Bodes well for England.
I like Suella. She doesn't seem to have researched her US speech very well. I also think she needs a soundbite, or a simple issue to expound upon to explain in ways the public and the PCP can understand, how shite Sunak and all his works have been, and how the party needs to change direction if MPs fancy keeping their new jobs. I don't think that thing is Woke and LGBT, or Gaza protestors and AS - I think it's probably immigration and boats. It was salient then, and it still has salience now - it's Starmer's achilles heel as it was Sunak's. And Suella has a very good record there, for doing all she could to hold Sunak's feet to the fire on the issue.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
Leaking like sieves. You'd have thought being reduced to the smallest cohort of Tory MPs ever might focus minds a bit. Whether they go towards the right centre or whatever they need to stop spouting off to journalists every 5 seconds.
It is focusing their minds, just in multiple different directions at the moment.
Things are bound to get messier before they can get better, they haven't really decided what the big problems are yet so they obviously cannot agree on a solution.
As for spouting off to journalists, obviously that is good advice, but that's how the game is played now. If they don't do it a rival will, or the space will be taken up by ousider commentary on their election race from Starmer or Farage.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
So after Suella's self-immolation, Kemi-me-me is next to show why she's not the one.
It sounds like she gave Rishi an arse kicking to his face. And quite right, too.
And what was she doing about things prior to the calling of the election? The campaign was hardly the only problem. Is she setting out her stall as the continuity candidate, but done right this time?
Braverman's comments have clearly not gone down well with most Tories but they probably will go down better with Trump supporting Republicans who were her target audience in DC. Plus many Reform voters here will welcome them
An expert on Parkinson’s has visited the White House eight times since last August? A friend, a doctor in the early stages, says Biden’s symptons are uncannily like his. This is becoming grotesque. President Biden is one of the post-war greats - but he can’t operate 4 more years.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
It is quite funny how people are saying Farage won't be able to get much speaking time eg at PMQs.
How many UK people sat and watched the big events in the European Volkskammer Parliament?
Virtually none. People only knew about Farages speeches because he uploaded and distributed them.
There are a million and one half attended debates in Parliament where Farage will be able to speak as much as he likes and upload / distribute.
In big debates he wont get called that often, there are 30 MPs that will be called before him. In small debates he will be speaking to an empty chamber. It will not be like the EP at all. Meanwhile, he will not have quite the same MSM profile, because the Lib Dems can hurt the BBC et al, if they continue to try to ignore them. So podcasts and social media, but that is a very rapidly changing world, where today´s star is tomorrow´s has been.
Starmer will pay attention to the constitutional niceties, and the House of Commons, largely ignored by the Tories, will matter a lot more.
AI Summary: Iran has elected a reformist president, Massud Pesan, in a competitive election, marking the first reformist president in two decades. Pesan's victory was supported by major reformist groups and notable figures, including former reformist president Muhammad Katami and moderate former president Hassan Ruhani. Pesan's policy platform includes stopping the requirement for Iranian women to wear the hijab and improving relations with the West. However, many Iranians have lost faith in their leaders, with millions seeing elections as a moment for silent protest. Despite concerns, voter turnout in the runoff reached 49.8%, beating the first round's record low of 40%. Analysts remain skeptical about Pesan's ability to enact meaningful change within an establishment dominated by ultra-conservatives.
Is it fair to summarise the Iranian PM as a Constitutional PM, in the same way as we have a Constitutional Monarch?
No. The President of Iran is the head of government, analogous to our Prime Minister. The Supreme Leader of Iran is the head of state, analogous to our Monarch
Braverman's comments have clearly not gone down well with most Tories but they probably will go down better with Trump supporting Republicans who were her target audience in DC. Plus many Reform voters here will welcome them
Yes, but like Truss's CPAC interview, she could have acheived a great response from both audiences with better chosen words.
Suella`s gone a bit crazy recently. Writing in the Telegraph that the party had lost the day before the election. May have cost the party votes and possibly seats (as some margins were less than a 100 votes)
She was completely right and her diagnosis was exact
Trouble is she is personally quite Marmitey
Trump is quite Marmitey and heading for victory as things stand.
AI Summary: Iran has elected a reformist president, Massud Pesan, in a competitive election, marking the first reformist president in two decades. Pesan's victory was supported by major reformist groups and notable figures, including former reformist president Muhammad Katami and moderate former president Hassan Ruhani. Pesan's policy platform includes stopping the requirement for Iranian women to wear the hijab and improving relations with the West. However, many Iranians have lost faith in their leaders, with millions seeing elections as a moment for silent protest. Despite concerns, voter turnout in the runoff reached 49.8%, beating the first round's record low of 40%. Analysts remain skeptical about Pesan's ability to enact meaningful change within an establishment dominated by ultra-conservatives.
Is it fair to summarise the Iranian PM as a Constitutional PM, in the same way as we have a Constitutional Monarch?
No. The President of Iran is the head of government, analogous to our Prime Minister. The Supreme Leader of Iran is the head of state, analogous to our Monarch
The 'traditional' Rainbow flag is itself arguably quite anti-woke now. A colleague of my wife was rebuked for using the 'wrong flag' in internal comms a couple of weeks back, and it seems to be only used online by LGB-without-the-T types nowadays.
Kemi Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign amid concerns colleagues are failing to grasp enormity of defeat
* Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'
* Badenoch said that instead of telling Cabinet ministers first Sunak had opted to inform a small group of colleagues, including his PPS Craig Williams who subsequently admitted placing a bet on the election date. She described Williams as a 'buffoon'
* Badenoch said Sunak's decision to return early from D-Day commemorations was "disastrous" and had dominated the election campaign, adding that colleagues like Penny Mordaunt would still be MPs today if he had stayed longer in France.
* She said many Tories were clearly still traumatised. She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown
* She said Sunak should stay on to ensure an orderly transition to his successor
* She was said to be speaking for colleagues, particularly former ministers who had lost their seats. She spoke of the importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked.
"She said Suella Braverman, former home secretary, appears to be having a 'very public' nervous breakdown"
As do the Daily Telegraph's columnists!! "Britain faces utter catastrophe", "Britain is finished", "Only the rats will be left" etc etc.
After the last Parliament, the Tories should understand that the punters are sick of this divisive garbage. The relief at basic politeness and decency in the election campaign was quite strong. Theresa May delivering a leaflet was massively more popular than this absurd and aggressive drivel from Braverman.
She, and the whole of the Tory right simply don´t get it. THEY were the baddies, and have been turfed out bag and baggage not just because of a lack of basic competence, but also a lack of basic courtesy. It the Party cannot conduct itself in a far more adult way, they will be terminated with even more extreme prejudice next time.
The medium is the message. Sub Trumpian nonsense may get the dollars. It will not get the votes.
Would she want to go there? She can hardly try to take it over, considering it's literally owned by Farage.
I think a) they would want her, as high-profile defections from the Conservatives suits their narrative. Much like the Corbyn fanatics in 2017 were convinced it would only take one more push (or putsch, in Farage's case) to win, so too the hard right think they lost by being insufficiently right wing enough. See Rees Mogg's comments today about reform voters being part of the wider 'Conservative family'.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more defections to Reform if the Conservatives go with a moderate as leader. Suella might be the first of a few. Farage knows he's never going to take over the Tory party so his only option is to flip them and become the main right wing opposition in 2029. Every defection will help that narrative.
And b), Suella would want to join Reform as she knows she's not going to be Con leader either, and she'll get a great deal more airtime as Farage's (far) right hand man.
I'd want to see more evidence that Reform voters really do want woke wars about gay flags and are not primarily motivated by economic factors (and are still waiting for levelling up) delivered with a side helping of basic competence.
Suella Braverman has called it wrong, imo, and so have JRM and even Farage himself.
Reform UK voters consistently say that the most important issue for them is immigration, not the economy.
I like Suella. She doesn't seem to have researched her US speech very well. I also think she needs a soundbite, or a simple issue to expound upon to explain in ways the public and the PCP can understand, how shite Sunak and all his works have been, and how the party needs to change direction if MPs fancy keeping their new jobs. I don't think that thing is Woke and LGBT, or Gaza protestors and AS - I think it's probably immigration and boats. It was salient then, and it still has salience now - it's Starmer's achilles heel as it was Sunak's. And Suella has a very good record there, for doing all she could to hold Sunak's feet to the fire on the issue.
She’s a demagogue who’s otherwise without any real achievement. And likely to remain that way.
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick Interesting that Starmer has appointed several new MPs as ministers straight away: Georgia Gould, Alistair Carns, Kirsty McNeill, Sarah Sackman and Miatta Fahnbulleh. I've never known this before. Normally people have to wait a year or two.
She is the daughter of Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood...attended a local comprehensive secondary school, Camden School for Girls. She has spoken of growing up in a "tribal Labour household"; holidays were spent with Alastair Campbell and his wife Fiona Millar, Tessa Jowell, and the family of Tony Blair.
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Except for the bit about "importance of shadow cabinet discussions not being leaked" which was clearly said in jest.
ESPECIALLY as the chief beneficiary of the leak is . . . Kemi Badenoch? Surprise, surprise!
How many UK people sat and watched the big events in the European Volkskammer Parliament?
Virtually none. People only knew about Farages speeches because he uploaded and distributed them.
There are a million and one half attended debates in Parliament where Farage will be able to speak as much as he likes and upload / distribute.
1) Despite the lamentations of some on here Braverman is indeed as thick as the proverbial.
2) Braverman thinks this is how to make money on the US speaking circuit.
3) Both of the above.
I do hope that Starmer's poor genie at least got the weekend off.
I think there's a but too much emphasis on "How to Win Friends and Influence People", though - and meeting it at the age of 40+ is a but late. As a convinced evangelical he's perhaps missed out on a lot of good and humane thinkers from within his own constituency, maybe starting with people such as Michael Schluter.
I'd love to have a pub lunch with him, talking about intellectual background.
PS. Has the South African government filed a copyright complaint yet?
https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1024,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03/pride-month.jpg
2-1 France in normal time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001227
This is easily the worst international tourmament - for me - since the awful vuvuzela World Cup in South Africa
Damn shame, football seems to have gone backwards
On other euros matters I like that this semi is between the two big poncey Catholic empires and tomorrow is between the two austere Protestant trading empires. Bodes well for England.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy
France v Spain
England v Netherlands?
Next week might feel like 1652
The only team that might match this? England with Bellingham ON FORM
Things are bound to get messier before they can get better, they haven't really decided what the big problems are yet so they obviously cannot agree on a solution.
As for spouting off to journalists, obviously that is good advice, but that's how the game is played now. If they don't do it a rival will, or the space will be taken up by ousider commentary on their election race from Starmer or Farage.
🚨 Mark Francois is set to join me live 9-11pm @GBNEWS - it’s kicked off about the 1922 chair election…
Will Hutton
@williamnhutton
An expert on Parkinson’s has visited the White House eight times since last August? A friend, a doctor in the early stages, says Biden’s symptons are uncannily like his. This is becoming grotesque. President Biden is one of the post-war greats - but he can’t operate 4 more years.
Starmer will pay attention to the constitutional niceties, and the House of Commons, largely ignored by the Tories, will matter a lot more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Iran
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran
Their posts would perhaps be more analogous to Chairman and Chief Exec of a council.
Three best players in rhe world
Mbappe
Bellingham
Yamal
*gulps*
https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/09/lionel-messi-lamine-yamal-baby-photos-spain
But Spain look unstoppable.
She, and the whole of the Tory right simply don´t get it. THEY were the baddies, and have been turfed out bag and baggage not just because of a lack of basic competence, but also a lack of basic courtesy. It the Party cannot conduct itself in a far more adult way, they will be terminated with even more extreme prejudice next time.
The medium is the message. Sub Trumpian nonsense may get the dollars. It will not get the votes.
And likely to remain that way.
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick
Interesting that Starmer has appointed several new MPs as ministers straight away: Georgia Gould, Alistair Carns, Kirsty McNeill, Sarah Sackman and Miatta Fahnbulleh. I've never known this before. Normally people have to wait a year or two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Gould_(politician)
She is the daughter of Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood...attended a local comprehensive secondary school, Camden School for Girls. She has spoken of growing up in a "tribal Labour household"; holidays were spent with Alastair Campbell and his wife Fiona Millar, Tessa Jowell, and the family of Tony Blair.
She's certainly not the daughter of a tool maker.
Which merely goes to prove that there are some exceptions to the rule that people with PhDs are utterly brilliant in every way.