I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
Or King Charles II trying to overturn Cromwell’s republic?
It was with an acceptance of constitutional not absolute monarchy and that Parliament was now supreme not the Crown.
We may rejoin the single market in time but unlikely the full EU
That was later, after James VII and II tried it on again and got the chop, albeit allowed by mistake accidentally for some strange reason to escape rather than having the hassle of literally chopping him.
James II was mainly removed as he was trying to remove the primacy of the Protestant faith in England and Scotland and his attempt to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics by decree without Parliament. He was not trying to restore Divine Right on a broader basis in terms of his power to raise taxes and an army without Parliament's approval as his father had.
Indeed the strongest support for James II and VII came from Jacobite parts of Scotland and Ireland
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has sacked Health Minister Andrew Gwynne after racist and sexist messages were leaked to the Mail, including one where he wished a pensioner who didn’t vote Labour would die before the next election
"Badly misjudged comments" is the understatement of the year so far.
They think they are untouchable. He isn't the first and won't be the last. I wonder if he will face deselection?
Some of this stuff is from several years ago i.e. it wasn't a single recent dodgy tweet. Which is my general test of how I judge these things, no real history, a dodgy tweet or two, apology and you let it slide, consistent pattern of behaviour then there is an issue. He seems like he is a proper Jared O'Mara.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
I am going to trigger some of you and give a lot of you aneurysms on Monday with the thread I have planned.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
Or King Charles II trying to overturn Cromwell’s republic?
It was with an acceptance of constitutional not absolute monarchy and that Parliament was now supreme not the Crown.
We may rejoin the single market in time but unlikely the full EU
That was later, after James VII and II tried it on again and got the chop, albeit allowed by mistake accidentally for some strange reason to escape rather than having the hassle of literally chopping him.
James II was mainly removed as he was trying to remove the primacy of the Protestant faith in England and Scotland and his attempt to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics by decree without Parliament. He was not trying to restore Divine Right on a broader basis in terms of his power to raise taxes and an army without Parliament's approval as his father had.
Indeed the strongest support for James II and VII came from Jacobite parts of Scotland and Ireland
The acceptance of constitutional monarchy was, nevertheless, *what you specified*, and that is what happened when James VII and II got turfed out.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
Or King Charles II trying to overturn Cromwell’s republic?
It was with an acceptance of constitutional not absolute monarchy and that Parliament was now supreme not the Crown.
We may rejoin the single market in time but unlikely the full EU
That was later, after James VII and II tried it on again and got the chop, albeit allowed by mistake accidentally for some strange reason to escape rather than having the hassle of literally chopping him.
James II was mainly removed as he was trying to remove the primacy of the Protestant faith in England and Scotland and his attempt to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics by decree without Parliament. He was not trying to restore Divine Right on a broader basis in terms of his power to raise taxes and an army without Parliament's approval as his father had.
Indeed the strongest support for James II and VII came from Jacobite parts of Scotland and Ireland
The acceptance of constitutional monarchy was, nevertheless, *what you specified*, and that is what happened when James VII and II got turfed out.
Dinner now ready - have a nice time everyone.
Charles II had already accepted constitutional monarchy, 1688 just entrenched it in law via the Bill of Rights (while also after James II banning Roman Catholics from the throne too as entrenched by the 1701 Act of Settlement)
Seems @Leon was right all along. Aliens are already amongst us and it seems some of them are criminals.
The cost of holding 5hem at Guantanamo will be astronomical. Will make the Tories’ migrant hotels look cheap.
But as performative cruelty, priceless.
Trump runs his presidency like its a daily TV show. All that matters is the pictures, the optics, the drama, the continuatoon of the storyline and, of course, that he remains the leading man and the hero of every storyline.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
I’m reading up on the 17thC. Another century of climate related unrest.
They might have considered a seven years’ war thankfully brief.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
I am going to trigger some of you and give a lot of you aneurysms on Monday with the thread I have planned.
Seems @Leon was right all along. Aliens are already amongst us and it seems some of them are criminals.
The cost of holding 5hem at Guantanamo will be astronomical. Will make the Tories’ migrant hotels look cheap.
But as performative cruelty, priceless.
Trump runs his presidency like its a daily TV show. All that matters is the pictures, the optics, the drama, the continuatoon of the storyline and, of course, that he remains the leading man and the hero of every storyline.
And Musk runs DOGE like he’s playing a videogame. With US citizens mere NPCs.
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick · 42m Which other Labour MPs are, or were, on the WhatsApp group where Andrew Gwynne made his horrific remarks? We should be told.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
I am going to trigger some of you and give a lot of you aneurysms on Monday with the thread I have planned.
We need your re-join vote in spring of 2030 when the next EU Referendum will take place.
Live long and prosper ❤️
So kind and I am working on it as is my wonderful wife who is watching my every move as I am not permitted to lift much
I really do not know how I would vote in another referendum as there are so many unknowns
I am not committed either way
It won’t be a full fat rejoin vote, but a “support renegotiation bigly changing Boris deal” will sail through an affirmative Ref in spring 2030.
Fingers crossed for your quality of life until then. Your remain in vote 2016 might have put you in a small club of your age group! - voting us in bigly, supporting Lady Thatchers Conservatives as they helped shape the EU largely in Thatcherite UK principles - and then inexplicably voted to take us out, mistakenly blaming EU cooperation for the ravages of globalisation on UK throughout their lifetimes. 🤦♀️
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick · 42m Which other Labour MPs are, or were, on the WhatsApp group where Andrew Gwynne made his horrific remarks? We should be told.
Maybe that is for next weeks Mail of Sunday....media have learned now a) you drag it out to maximise clicks and b) to allow politicians to bury themselves.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
It's confirmation bias par excellence that they think that just because there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit that it must all be in one direction, and that of Rejoin.
How many ministers have now had to resign / been sacked?
Three, perhaps? Louise Haigh, Tulip Siddiq and now Andrew Gwynne. A dishonourable mention to Sue Gray as well?
I *think* the first to resign from Blair's first ministry was Ron Davies, in 1998. So Starmer's doing much worse.
Sounds about right, although Robin Cook (martial issues involving lying) and Gordon Brown (concealing knowledge of a bribe) should have gone in the first twelve months.
Blair had much more of the benefit of the doubt than Starmer had, because until Iraq punctured his bubble he was genuinely popular.
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick · 42m Which other Labour MPs are, or were, on the WhatsApp group where Andrew Gwynne made his horrific remarks? We should be told.
Maybe that is for next weeks Mail of Sunday....media have learned now a) you drag it out to maximise clicks and b) to allow politicians to bury themselves.
Even if it's a local party group there may be sundry officials and councillors that they can attempt to tar with the same brush, but time will tell.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
It's confirmation bias par excellence that they think that just because there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit that it must all be in one direction, and that of Rejoin.
Why do you believe the polling for Reform but not for Rejoin?
Of course it may well be that a significant percentage of the Con/Ref voters are actually for Rejoin, that would be the most obvious interpretation.
I can't remember the exact stats, but prior to stock market readjustment, it was something like 1/3 of Nvidia workforce are worth more than $20m and 75% are millionaires. Nvidia has ~30k employees. Has to be more than 50 who have the mega bucks, as staff retention is very high and they get large stock options every year.
I would have enjoyed the Wales result a lot more if England weren't about to be absolutely fuckwangled by France.
Still Wales put in the worst performance against a side from Rome since the Battle of Zama.
So I can now enjoy the Welsh result!!!
Hahahahahahhahahaha, Wales.
We live in the age of miracles.
Poor Wales. Have you no magnanimity?
They were, and are, epically poor.
This is just embarrassing.
It is a continuation of a poor run of form. Well, an atrocious run of form that's seemingly designed to make England feel better about some of their recent accidents.
Next up are Ireland, which doesn't offer much promise of corners being turned.
Taking TSE's lead, I can't remember who warned about Washington's likely opposition to these taxes because we are either attacking American companies or stealing America's tax revenue.
The Pentagon just announced that it would double the number of news organizations removed from physical offices to make room for MAGA propaganda media outlets.
OUT: The New York Times, Politico, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, The Hill, The War Zone
IN: Breitbart, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OAN, Newsmax, HuffPost, The Free Press, The Daily Caller
They’re establishing state-run media, just as totalitarian regimes do.
Er ... they are a totalitarian regime, quite well on in the process of making.
I would have enjoyed the Wales result a lot more if England weren't about to be absolutely fuckwangled by France.
Still Wales put in the worst performance against a side from Rome since the Battle of Zama.
So I can now enjoy the Welsh result!!!
Hahahahahahhahahaha, Wales.
We live in the age of miracles.
Poor Wales. Have you no magnanimity?
They were, and are, epically poor.
This is just embarrassing.
It is a continuation of a poor run of form. Well, an atrocious run of form that's seemingly designed to make England feel better about some of their recent accidents.
Next up are Ireland, which doesn't offer much promise of corners being turned.
Poor Wales.
I don't think there are enough stepmoms on Pornhub for TSE to gloat over what's likely to happen there...
(Carrington was her first? Nearly three years in.)
I'm not sure these comparisons are comparing like with like. Back in Thatcher's day, and to a lesser extent Blair's, there was none of that social media stuff to catch people out. Privacy was more valued. And the media was slightly more deferential.
Anyway, Gwynne clearly had to go, and it would appear that Starmer hasn't hesitated in dispatching him. So that's something.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
It's confirmation bias par excellence that they think that just because there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit that it must all be in one direction, and that of Rejoin.
🤦♀️ Havn’t you both seen enough polling on PB about the amount of Reform and Conservative voters who also think Brexit is shit?
GE polling and Brexit is shit polling likely two completely different things. But likely not as backing Boris Brexit likely big drag on General Election voting.
(Carrington was her first? Nearly three years in.)
I'm not sure these comparisons are comparing like with like. Back in Thatcher's day, and to a lesser extent Blair's, there was none of that social media stuff to catch people out. Privacy was more valued. And the media was more deferential.
Anyway, Gwynne clearly had to go, and it would appear that Starmer hasn't hesitated in dispatching him. So that's something.
On the flip side, a) society saw things like affairs as serious enough for resignation and b) legally it is now very tricky for the media to reveal things in people private life (the bar for what is deemed in the public interest is much higher now).
Finding a ‘scapegoat’ for the failings of a hospital that was not particularly bad by NHS standards would have been an insanely dangerous gamble for no reward. If fatal medical blunders had occurred, the safest course of action for the doctors would have been to shut up and get on with their job, which is what the NHS managers – who had no suspicions of anyone – wanted to do.
I can't remember the exact stats, but prior to stock market readjustment, it was something like 1/3 of Nvidia workforce are worth more than $20m and 75% are millionaires. Nvidia has ~30k employees. Has to be more than 50 who have the mega bucks, as staff retention is very high and they get large stock options every year.
I got £14,000 from share options in the dot com boom, and free weekly massages, and a free PC when we went bust (officially, not nicked).
(Carrington was her first? Nearly three years in.)
I'm not sure these comparisons are comparing like with like. Back in Thatcher's day, and to a lesser extent Blair's, there was none of that social media stuff to catch people out. Privacy was more valued. And the media was slightly more deferential.
Anyway, Gwynne clearly had to go, and it would appear that Starmer hasn't hesitated in dispatching him. So that's something.
Of the three who have gone, only Gwynne has gone due to social media issues. Haigh went because it turned out she had misled police a decade ago; and Siddiq because of allegations of corruption.
You could argue that social media publicised these issues; but social media was not the *cause* of the two resignations.
(Carrington was her first? Nearly three years in.)
I'm not sure these comparisons are comparing like with like. Back in Thatcher's day, and to a lesser extent Blair's, there was none of that social media stuff to catch people out. Privacy was more valued. And the media was more deferential.
Anyway, Gwynne clearly had to go, and it would appear that Starmer hasn't hesitated in dispatching him. So that's something.
On the flip side, a) society saw things like affairs as serious enough for resignation and b) legally it is now very tricky for the media to reveal things in people private life (the bar for what is deemed in the public interest is much higher now).
BBC saying it was a what's app group set up in 2019 and the mail is reporting another Labour mp was in the group
If forced to choose, the public would tend to prefer “Greater cooperation with the European Union and less with the United States” (43%) over “Greater cooperation with the United States and less with the European Union” (24%).
Finding a ‘scapegoat’ for the failings of a hospital that was not particularly bad by NHS standards would have been an insanely dangerous gamble for no reward. If fatal medical blunders had occurred, the safest course of action for the doctors would have been to shut up and get on with their job, which is what the NHS managers – who had no suspicions of anyone – wanted to do.
Interesting - I notice that he manages to sneer at the eminence of an actual medical expert, but...
"Christopher Snowdon is director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is also the co-host of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast."
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
It's confirmation bias par excellence that they think that just because there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit that it must all be in one direction, and that of Rejoin.
In general, people side with their own side, when given a binary choice.
We saw that with Trump. Hypothetically, large numbers of Republicans were willing to vote against him in the run-up to various events; such as losing a sexual assault conviction; or being convicted of a felony; or every other scandal.
Except, when push came to shove, their loyalty to their own side overrode every other consideration. Never-Trump Republicans proved to be almost as rare as unicorns.
So, if there is a referendum to rejoin, and if the Conservatives and Reform Parties were opposed, as near as makes little difference, both parties’ supporters would vote against.
Taking TSE's lead, I can't remember who warned about Washington's likely opposition to these taxes because we are either attacking American companies or stealing America's tax revenue.
That could be relatively inexpensive, depending on what we get in return.
The DSA raised maybe £700m across the board n 2024, but Musk has already trashed twitter in the UK by more than half afaics, so that will reduce the possible downside.
The other stuff mentioned in the article is Musk wanting regulation around online content to be rolled back. That one is more difficult, and I don't see how we can compromise. I'd expect that to go, if anything, the other way. The logical regulation is to insist on appropriate moderation, and simply to close twitter down if Musk will not follow the law.
If, as I noted, he has removed filtering of child abuse content, then that could be an open and shut case.
But I have seen nothing to indicate how much moral fibre this Government has in facing down Trump, and his cronies', interference in UK politics and society.
Trump's a bully who respects strength, so we need strong pushback. My feeling is that, as with the ICJ, it needs to be joint pushback internationally.
The government should impose a £5000 surcharge on every property in Woking, payable on sale.
We should try to avoid the moral hazard of endemic Tory negligence.
What's wrong with surcharging the responsivle councillors? Not that I necessarily think it's an entire solution, but it is needed to encourager les autres. More to the point, I'm puzzled that that doesn't seem to be part of the Woking discussion at the moment - maybe too early?
Didn’t Woking do everything right (from a process perspective). They had to ask permission from the Treasury to borrow that much. They then spent it is a really stupid way but not sure you can surcharge for stupidity
Blowing up £500m investment all over £12m...and who know what other investment it would draw in.
It had wanted to wrap up the deal by August to keep it on track with regard to other investments. The company is putting in $3.5bn (£2.8bn) in the US, and building a $1.5bn site to make next-generation cancer treatments in Singapore – where it has received “very substantial support”, Soriot said pointedly last week.
The cell-based technology to be introduced at Speke – which can make vaccines more effective and easier to produce than the current egg-based process – required clinical trials ahead of regulatory approval. The Financial Times reported it was eventually revised to £78m. But AstraZeneca wanted the government to honour Hunt’s £90m proposal and Soriot said on Thursday the firm had been willing to increase its investment to £500m to seal the deal.
It had wanted to wrap up the deal by August to keep it on track with regard to other investments. The company is putting in $3.5bn (£2.8bn) in the US, and building a $1.5bn site to make next-generation cancer treatments in Singapore – where it has received “very substantial support”, Soriot said pointedly last week.
The cell-based technology to be introduced at Speke – which can make vaccines more effective and easier to produce than the current egg-based process – required clinical trials ahead of regulatory approval. The Financial Times reported it was eventually revised to £78m. But AstraZeneca wanted the government to honour Hunt’s £90m proposal and Soriot said on Thursday the firm had been willing to increase its investment to £500m to seal the deal.
It had wanted to wrap up the deal by August to keep it on track with regard to other investments. The company is putting in $3.5bn (£2.8bn) in the US, and building a $1.5bn site to make next-generation cancer treatments in Singapore – where it has received “very substantial support”, Soriot said pointedly last week.
The cell-based technology to be introduced at Speke – which can make vaccines more effective and easier to produce than the current egg-based process – required clinical trials ahead of regulatory approval. The Financial Times reported it was eventually revised to £78m. But AstraZeneca wanted the government to honour Hunt’s £90m proposal and Soriot said on Thursday the firm had been willing to increase its investment to £500m to seal the deal.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
It's confirmation bias par excellence that they think that just because there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit that it must all be in one direction, and that of Rejoin.
Why do you believe the polling for Reform but not for Rejoin?
Of course it may well be that a significant percentage of the Con/Ref voters are actually for Rejoin, that would be the most obvious interpretation.
The issue with rejoin voting is what is the terms of the deal. If it’s just going back to pre 2016, I think rejoin wins. If it’s a much worse set up (Euro? No rebate etc) then I think it loses. The polling for reform is at least an honest if pointless question.
Finding a ‘scapegoat’ for the failings of a hospital that was not particularly bad by NHS standards would have been an insanely dangerous gamble for no reward. If fatal medical blunders had occurred, the safest course of action for the doctors would have been to shut up and get on with their job, which is what the NHS managers – who had no suspicions of anyone – wanted to do.
Interesting - I notice that he manages to sneer at the eminence of an actual medical expert, but...
"Christopher Snowdon is director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is also the co-host of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast."
But his point is a good one. If this is a miscarriage of justice, the journey to that point has been quite incredible.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
Taking TSE's lead, I can't remember who warned about Washington's likely opposition to these taxes because we are either attacking American companies or stealing America's tax revenue.
That could be relatively inexpensive, depending on what we get in return.
The DSA raised maybe £700m across the board n 2024, but Musk has already trashed twitter in the UK by more than half afaics, so that will reduce the possible downside.
The other stuff mentioned in the article is Musk wanting regulation around online content to be rolled back…
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
The government should impose a £5000 surcharge on every property in Woking, payable on sale.
We should try to avoid the moral hazard of endemic Tory negligence.
What's wrong with surcharging the responsivle councillors? Not that I necessarily think it's an entire solution, but it is needed to encourager les autres. More to the point, I'm puzzled that that doesn't seem to be part of the Woking discussion at the moment - maybe too early?
Didn’t Woking do everything right (from a process perspective). They had to ask permission from the Treasury to borrow that much. They then spent it is a really stupid way but not sure you can surcharge for stupidity
Ray Morgan and Leigh Clarke - those involved - are facing an FRC investigation.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Desperate stuff.
From Brexiteers who want the argument dead and buried ? Sure.
I wish it the argument was dead and buried for your sake really. It would be nice to see your actual personality, before you came to be this Gollum-like figure.
If forced to choose, the public would tend to prefer “Greater cooperation with the European Union and less with the United States” (43%) over “Greater cooperation with the United States and less with the European Union” (24%).
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
What you are neglecting is a lot of the poor people who don't figure into the top 10%, the ones struggling to pay for food, rent and bills....frankly we are at the point of let the world burn because you top 10% are fops and we will shiv you like a prison bitch
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Desperate stuff.
From Brexiteers who want the argument dead and buried ? Sure.
I wish it the argument was dead and buried for your sake really. It would be nice to see your actual personality, before you came to be this Gollum-like figure.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
What you are neglecting is a lot of the poor people who don't figure into the top 10%, the ones struggling to pay for food, rent and bills....frankly we are at the point of let the world burn because you top 10% are fops and we will shiv you like a prison bitch
This is fascinating stuff. Very early stage of development, and with very limited capabilities for now - but for some things, already beyond what we can do with conventional means.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
What you are neglecting is a lot of the poor people who don't figure into the top 10%, the ones struggling to pay for food, rent and bills....frankly we are at the point of let the world burn because you top 10% are fops and we will shiv you like a prison bitch
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
60/40 against? Really? A pretty ridiculous prediction..😏
Err, no. And, yes, I think it'd be clearly won by Stay Out and Rejoin would clock a low 40%.
You people simply have no idea how you come across.
Another 52/48 maybe and more decades of argument
Sorry but there hasn't been a majority for brexit in years. Brexiteers are old and dying off furthermore brexit is a freaking omni-failure.... sorry but that is a fact.
You think there’s a majority for the Euro, Schengen, restrictions on things like iPhones, freedom of movement, and whatever else they introduce in the next year or two?
The constant argument over brexit is tedious, not least because we have left the EU and returning to it is not remotely on the cards
The EU itself is not the EU we left, with considerable disagreements and political views within and goodness knows what shape it will be in by the time Trump has concluded his period in office
What is fair to discuss is how we improve relationships with the EU, which by the way Sunak started and Starmer continues and better trading terms including single market membership could be sensible, but rejoining is just not likely for many years to come
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available
That's the point.
You took the brilliant thing we had and replaced it with shit.
And you haven't worked out why people aren't thanking you for it...
If what we had before was actually brilliant, there wouldn't even have been demand for a referendum, let alone it winning.
Not at all. The Out campaigns won it by promising better times than the membership times, more money for public services, better everything, and kept pointing to what globalisation not EU had done to UK, to win.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available
That's the point.
You took the brilliant thing we had and replaced it with shit.
And you haven't worked out why people aren't thanking you for it...
If what we had before was actually brilliant, there wouldn't even have been demand for a referendum, let alone it winning.
Not at all. The Out campaigns won it by promising better times than the membership times, more money for public services, better everything, and kept pointing to what globalisation not EU had done to UK, to win.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
Mos t people are feeling worse off right now and Brexit gets part of the blame. In reality Brexit effects are dwarfed by the pandemic costs and the energy shock from Ukraine, but the man on the Clapham Uber doesn’t think that deeply about attribution.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available
That's the point.
You took the brilliant thing we had and replaced it with shit.
And you haven't worked out why people aren't thanking you for it...
If what we had before was actually brilliant, there wouldn't even have been demand for a referendum, let alone it winning.
Not at all. The Out campaigns won it by promising better times than the membership times, more money for public services, better everything, and kept pointing to what globalisation not EU had done to UK, to win.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
The Out campaign won because the In campaign didn't have a positive vision for what In meant.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
Probably because support for Reform isn't necessarily to do with Brexit these days. It's more to do with politicians continually making promises, such as on lowering migration figures, that they don't keep.
Like all those Brexit promises Farage made ?
Yes, the 2016 Farage Government was a real let down.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available
That's the point.
You took the brilliant thing we had and replaced it with shit.
And you haven't worked out why people aren't thanking you for it...
If what we had before was actually brilliant, there wouldn't even have been demand for a referendum, let alone it winning.
Not at all. The Out campaigns won it by promising better times than the membership times, more money for public services, better everything, and kept pointing to what globalisation not EU had done to UK, to win.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
Mos t people are feeling worse off right now and Brexit gets part of the blame. In reality Brexit effects are dwarfed by the pandemic costs and the energy shock from Ukraine, but the man on the Clapham Uber doesn’t think that deeply about attribution.
Indeed. And he won't unless it becomes a live issue, at which point all prior polling becomes shown to be entirely irrelevant once people think about what Rejoin would mean (emphatically not the same as previous membership)...
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
Salient enough for Her Majesty's opposition to put Brexit in their 1983 manifesto.
It was a blooming stupid manifesto, but that's not the point.
Yeah, and what happened as a result of that manifesto?
Not relevant. Not for the first time you have come out with a fact that just isn't.
Afraid you've missed the point. Anti-Europeanism being a fringe thing was one reason Foot crashed so hard, as people thought "you're thinking this is one of the most important things?"
Anyone can poll on anything at any time. Given how inaccurate polls on this topic were when it was a live issue, trying to prove anything with polls from when it wasn't is... heroic, shall we say?
“The poll also shows disastrous falls in Keir Starmer’s personal ratings since the general election. His rating for being “in touch with ordinary people” has fallen from +4% in June last year to -34%. His rating for “representing what ordinary people think” has plummeted from +1% to -39%.”
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available
That's the point.
You took the brilliant thing we had and replaced it with shit.
And you haven't worked out why people aren't thanking you for it...
If what we had before was actually brilliant, there wouldn't even have been demand for a referendum, let alone it winning.
Not at all. The Out campaigns won it by promising better times than the membership times, more money for public services, better everything, and kept pointing to what globalisation not EU had done to UK, to win.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
No, Rejoin is certainly on the cards, but not this Parliament. It will be an issue at future elections, though probably in steps, such as going the Customs Union and/or the Single Market.
Just because some people don't want to consider it doesnt mean it's a dead issue.
Trump is likely to be big help
Far too much politics going on in the EU nations to make it a viable option. I think that the EU will be unstable for decades to come.
More pertinently, with the Conservatives and Reform nudging close to 50%, it would be hard to win a vote to rejoin.
It’s plain that centre- right/eurosceptic voters are not just dying off, without replacement.
Times of some turmoil generally I guess.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
What you are neglecting is a lot of the poor people who don't figure into the top 10%, the ones struggling to pay for food, rent and bills....frankly we are at the point of let the world burn because you top 10% are fops and we will shiv you like a prison bitch
Urm....
Urm what you think the rich know how to survive?
The american health ceo,,,,thats a warning on how the poor are feeling
“The poll also shows disastrous falls in Keir Starmer’s personal ratings since the general election. His rating for being “in touch with ordinary people” has fallen from +4% in June last year to -34%. His rating for “representing what ordinary people think” has plummeted from +1% to -39%.”
It's interesting that the current Government is actually railing against EU restrictions, in their critique of the bat tunnels, no reservoirs being built since the 90s, etc. They don't mention where such regulations came from, but to be fair, neither do the Tories or Reform. Nice to see them so keen to use our Brexit freedoms.
But it’s still whinging about what we used to have. What we used to have is no longer available: we’ve taken it from you and you can never have it back...
You spent four decades whinging and moaning before you managed that. Rejoining, should it ever happen, won’t take nearly as long.
In the meantime, just get used to it.
Not true. Before Maastricht, anti-Europeanism was negligible.
That's simply not true.
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
Salient enough for Her Majesty's opposition to put Brexit in their 1983 manifesto.
It was a blooming stupid manifesto, but that's not the point.
Yeah, and what happened as a result of that manifesto?
Not relevant. Not for the first time you have come out with a fact that just isn't.
Afraid you've missed the point. Anti-Europeanism being a fringe thing was one reason Foot crashed so hard, as people thought "you're thinking this is one of the most important things?"
Anyone can poll on anything at any time. Given how inaccurate polls on this topic were when it was a live issue, trying to prove anything with polls from when it wasn't is... heroic, shall we say?
You are going off on a tangent. The original point had nothing to do with Foot. You said anti Europeanism was negligible pre Maastricht. Your words. Yet there were polls in the 40%. Hardly negligible. Now you are arguing those polls are worthless. Now I don't see how you can deduce that as polls are carried out using statistical methods, but even if they are, your evidence is just your opinion based upon nothing, absolutely nothing. I tend to rely on facts.
And if you think Foot lost just because of the EU you are deluded. The longest suicide note in history contained a lot more than EU membership. A lot.
I do agree however EU membership was much lower on the list of issues of the day then.
I am confounded how reform can do so well while brexit support is in such radical decline (rejoin and dropping red lines have huge support). I guess even farage has been critical of brexit lately 🤷♂️
45/37 in favour of rejoin in the latest poll
It is widely accepted across politics including by the Lib Dems rejoining is years away if at all
Because it isn’t “rejoining”. It’s joining. And those who know what that means know a ten point starting lead isn’t enough to win a referendum on it.
It'd be lost by over 60:40. This is like Queen Mary trying to overturn the Reformation.
Next.
Or King Charles II trying to overturn Cromwell’s republic?
It was with an acceptance of constitutional not absolute monarchy and that Parliament was now supreme not the Crown.
We may rejoin the single market in time but unlikely the full EU
That was later, after James VII and II tried it on again and got the chop, albeit allowed by mistake accidentally for some strange reason to escape rather than having the hassle of literally chopping him.
James II was mainly removed as he was trying to remove the primacy of the Protestant faith in England and Scotland and his attempt to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics by decree without Parliament. He was not trying to restore Divine Right on a broader basis in terms of his power to raise taxes and an army without Parliament's approval as his father had.
Indeed the strongest support for James II and VII came from Jacobite parts of Scotland and Ireland
The acceptance of constitutional monarchy was, nevertheless, *what you specified*, and that is what happened when James VII and II got turfed out.
Dinner now ready - have a nice time everyone.
Charles II had already accepted constitutional monarchy, 1688 just entrenched it in law via the Bill of Rights (while also after James II banning Roman Catholics from the throne too as entrenched by the 1701 Act of Settlement)
But Charles II didn't sign anything, and went back to RCism as far as he dared. Basically, as I said, kicked the can down the road.
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Indeed the strongest support for James II and VII came from Jacobite parts of Scotland and Ireland
Secretary Kristi Noem
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I was in Cuba tonight to see firsthand criminal aliens being unloaded off a flight at GITMO.
https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1888036896200400899
Seems @Leon was right all along. Aliens are already amongst us and it seems some of them are criminals.
I would predict that there will be difficult times in mainland Europe, but who knows how they may happen. I'd have never predicted the rise of the AfD for example. I think it likely that it's just a period of discontent rather than anything worse, but it may be that Brexit has allowed us to keep whatever it is at arms length. (This was actually one of the main reasons I voted leave, so I am completely talking my own book here)
I've recently been reading about the Seven Year's war and the American war of Independence. Chaos and order are not nearly so far apart as we'd like to imagine.
Will make the Tories’ migrant hotels look cheap.
But as performative cruelty, priceless.
Dinner now ready - have a nice time everyone.
Another century of climate related unrest.
They might have considered a seven years’ war thankfully brief.
Maybe the judges will stop them. Who knows?
With US citizens mere NPCs.
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Which other Labour MPs are, or were, on the WhatsApp group where Andrew Gwynne made his horrific remarks? We should be told.
Fingers crossed for your quality of life until then. Your remain in vote 2016 might have put you in a small club of your age group! - voting us in bigly, supporting Lady Thatchers Conservatives as they helped shape the EU largely in Thatcherite UK principles - and then inexplicably voted to take us out, mistakenly blaming EU cooperation for the ravages of globalisation on UK throughout their lifetimes. 🤦♀️
I *think* the first to resign from Blair's first ministry was Ron Davies, in 1998. So Starmer's doing much worse.
Poor Wales. Have you no magnanimity?
If you were in the first 50 employees of OpenAI and have 0.1% equity after dilution, you're worth $300M.
https://x.com/deedydas/status/1888273339636138213
Blair had much more of the benefit of the doubt than Starmer had, because until Iraq punctured his bubble he was genuinely popular.
This is just embarrassing.
Of course it may well be that a significant percentage of the Con/Ref voters are actually for Rejoin, that would be the most obvious interpretation.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/data-visualisation/ministerial-resignations-outside-reshuffles-prime-minister
(Carrington was her first? Nearly three years in.)
Next up are Ireland, which doesn't offer much promise of corners being turned.
Poor Wales.
Years of abusive behaviour from Welsh fans has led to this, I cannot tell you how many times they've told me where to stick the sweet chariot.
Britain and the US are set to hold talks on the digital services tax
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-cuts-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-trump-tariffs-deal-3524631
Taking TSE's lead, I can't remember who warned about Washington's likely opposition to these taxes because we are either attacking American companies or stealing America's tax revenue.
Anyway, Gwynne clearly had to go, and it would appear that Starmer hasn't hesitated in dispatching him. So that's something.
GE polling and Brexit is shit polling likely two completely different things. But likely not as backing Boris Brexit likely big drag on General Election voting.
All the same, poor Wales. About to drop behind Georgia in the rankings I believe.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/08/the-devils-advocates/
Finding a ‘scapegoat’ for the failings of a hospital that was not particularly bad by NHS standards would have been an insanely dangerous gamble for no reward. If fatal medical blunders had occurred, the safest course of action for the doctors would have been to shut up and get on with their job, which is what the NHS managers – who had no suspicions of anyone – wanted to do.
You could argue that social media publicised these issues; but social media was not the *cause* of the two resignations.
No doubt more to be revealed
But they will slow them down.
If forced to choose, the public would tend to prefer “Greater cooperation with the European Union and less with the United States” (43%) over “Greater cooperation with the United States and less with the European Union” (24%).
https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1888316895100543394
"Christopher Snowdon is director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is also the co-host of Last Orders, spiked’s nanny-state podcast."
https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1887823943186448631
We saw that with Trump. Hypothetically, large numbers of Republicans were willing to vote against him in the run-up to various events; such as losing a sexual assault conviction; or being convicted of a felony; or every other scandal.
Except, when push came to shove, their loyalty to their own side overrode every other consideration. Never-Trump Republicans proved to be almost as rare as unicorns.
So, if there is a referendum to rejoin, and if the Conservatives and Reform Parties were opposed, as near as makes little difference, both parties’ supporters would vote against.
The DSA raised maybe £700m across the board n 2024, but Musk has already trashed twitter in the UK by more than half afaics, so that will reduce the possible downside.
The other stuff mentioned in the article is Musk wanting regulation around online content to be rolled back. That one is more difficult, and I don't see how we can compromise. I'd expect that to go, if anything, the other way. The logical regulation is to insist on appropriate moderation, and simply to close twitter down if Musk will not follow the law.
If, as I noted, he has removed filtering of child abuse content, then that could be an open and shut case.
But I have seen nothing to indicate how much moral fibre this Government has in facing down Trump, and his cronies', interference in UK politics and society.
Trump's a bully who respects strength, so we need strong pushback. My feeling is that, as with the ICJ, it needs to be joint pushback internationally.
It had wanted to wrap up the deal by August to keep it on track with regard to other investments. The company is putting in $3.5bn (£2.8bn) in the US, and building a $1.5bn site to make next-generation cancer treatments in Singapore – where it has received “very substantial support”, Soriot said pointedly last week.
The cell-based technology to be introduced at Speke – which can make vaccines more effective and easier to produce than the current egg-based process – required clinical trials ahead of regulatory approval. The Financial Times reported it was eventually revised to £78m. But AstraZeneca wanted the government to honour Hunt’s £90m proposal and Soriot said on Thursday the firm had been willing to increase its investment to £500m to seal the deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/08/astrazeneca-whitehall-and-a-failed-450m-deal-for-the-next-generation-in-vaccines-what-went-wrong
Insane to crash such a deal over £12m.
The Science Minister’s background is in social charity work.
Before becoming an MP the Business Minister worked for the local council.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/07/watchdog-to-investigate-two-former-figures-at-bankrupt-woking-council
The highest polling against EU membership was in 1980, and it polled in the 40s quite often in the 1980s.
https://theconversation.com/polling-history-40-years-of-british-views-on-in-or-out-of-europe-61250
UK, Opinium poll:
LAB-S&D: 27% (-1)
REFORM~NI: 26% (-1)
CON~ECR: 22% (+1)
LDEM-RE: 11%
GREENS-G/EFA: 8%
SNP-G/EFA: 3%
PC-G/EFA: 1%
+/- vs. 22-24 January 2025
Though I note that a third correctly reject the premise of the question.
Very early stage of development, and with very limited capabilities for now - but for some things, already beyond what we can do with conventional means.
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-poetry-fan-who-taught-an-llm-to-read-and-write-dna-20250205/
It was a blooming stupid manifesto, but that's not the point.
Fake promises means fake win, the current Brexit polling is saying.
Because they couldn't.
Anyone can poll on anything at any time. Given how inaccurate polls on this topic were when it was a live issue, trying to prove anything with polls from when it wasn't is... heroic, shall we say?
“The poll also shows disastrous falls in Keir Starmer’s personal ratings since the general election. His rating for being “in touch with ordinary people” has fallen from +4% in June last year to -34%. His rating for “representing what ordinary people think” has plummeted from +1% to -39%.”
(Guardian)
LOL
Everybody loathes him. He’s a despicable liar and hypocrite. Also, I don’t think he can cope with the scrutiny. He will quit
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Britain’s former Ambassador to the U.S. Karen Pierce has become the U.K.’s special envoy to the Western Balkans.
Brilliant news! She will be a nightmare for Vucic’s dictatorship in the Balkans.
https://x.com/ivanastradner/status/1888314249237205334
It was of course set in South Africa and the nasty Englanders were the bad guys…
And if you think Foot lost just because of the EU you are deluded. The longest suicide note in history contained a lot more than EU membership. A lot.
I do agree however EU membership was much lower on the list of issues of the day then.