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The Chancer of the Exchequer – politicalbetting.com
Rachel Reeves came under increasing pressure to explain her CV on Sunday after it emerged that she used a false claim to win her seat as an MP ?? https://t.co/BwpyK7cs4D
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Very happy to see President Trump 🇺🇸 together with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund PIF Governor H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan at #ufc309 last evening.
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We urgently need to invent a new festival between Halloween and Christmas to hold off the nutters a bit longer.
Rick Wilson (Bulwark podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUwEqL00BI
Surely anyone from down a pit could confidently take on a sandal wearer? 😏
This is thin gruel, she over egged the length of time and responsibilities working these organisations. That is not something I have ever done, but I have interviewed plenty of people who have. And loads of MPs have been caught doing this.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/18/carol-mark-thatcher-sell-auction-margaret-dormer-desk/ (£££)
Auction of Thatcher tat for any nouveau riche PBers who need to buy their own furniture.
https://www.sloanestreetauctions.com/auctions/
Or the International Day of Banks on 4 Dec for those who celebrate.
Plenty here will be partying on International Migrants Day on 18 Dec. There's quite a few expats among us, and plenty more who take a special interest in migration.
Ahem.
More pertinent is that if she was (a?) sensor economist at HBOS was she asleep when the banking crisis hit.
However, as time as gone on, I've gotten more and more sceptical of her answers. If she was working as an economist, even in the customer complaints department, then fine. But if she was working in a different role - like supervising staff, then it's another matter altogether. One is her telling the truth ("I was an economist at Halifax"), even if she may have allowed people to come to the wrong conclusions. The other is a lie.
If she lied, then she should not be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Like with Presidents and Prime Ministers, our public servants need to consistently demonstrate the highest standards of honesty. And if she has show to have not, then SKS needs to let her go.
Bit of a crap shoot employing them isn't it?
Certainly no problem for him being in charge of the nuclear button and maybe occasionally exaggerating the truth from time to time. Might be a problem for the UK bean counter though
There won't be many left, and the few who do survive the cull will be insufferable prigs.
It was the very last duplicate pairs match of the Cambridgeshire League, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Cambridge University First Team was miles ahead of everyone else. I was good friends with Tom Townsend (then the England Under 21 Bridge team captain), and he said "we're a man short, come along and play."
So I did. I played for Cambridge University First Bridge Team, and my partner was Tom Townsend.
It was a lot of fun, and I got to put it on my CV. If anyone asked, I told them the truth about what happened. But it was also - I suppose - enormously misleading, because I am a very average bridge player.
Then you come along and scoop up all the likes!
Dishonesty isn't great in anybody but if we are comparing her to contempraries, she's not even in the same ballpark.
• Potatoes: +73%
• Butter: +30%
• Inflation: +64%
• Mortgage rates: 28%
• Interest rates: 21%
https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1858544729979601069
Back from a few days living off-grid in rural Derbyshire.
Credibility is a word which is thrown around but, like hypocrisy, it's a word which carries greater weight in politics. IF you have or are perceived to have (just as important) credibility, that gets you a long way. Chancellors come in two flavours - technocratic or political. Technocratic chancellors like Lawson can get away with a lot as their actions aren't seen through the prism of political ambition but only as long as they retain their credibility in financial circles.
Political chancellors son't have to worry too much about financial credibility since everything they do is seen through the prism of political ambition - are they setting up policies more to ensure their advancement to No.10 than because they are fiscally the right thing to do?
Since almost every who went underground is over 60.
And many have emphysema and pneumonicosis.
That said, I've only really had three jobs, the last two jobs didn't involve a CV, I was hired by people I had previously worked with.
In my many post you won't see me calling for Tory resignations either.
I am very tolerant of old tweets and social media too.
A source has said at least three - and as many as five - people may be charged
https://x.com/SophyRidgeSky/status/1858578009038455296
I worked with computers being a good one.
Honestly I did, but it could mean a great deal less.