"Security clearance lawyer Bradley Moss posted: “If you’re a clearance holder, stay away from the DOGE site. These ignorant virgins are going to find themselves prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act before all is said and done.” "
Heather Cox Richardson email
They won't care because they know they will be pardoned by Trump before he leaves office.
The pardoning of those convicted of Jan 6th offences gave a clear signal that it's OK to break the law provided it is done in the interests of Donald Trump. Musk will do whatever he pleases knowing that he is practically immune from legal prosecution.
The ability of Presidents to pardon people convicted of criminal acts is one of the most ludicrous aspects of the US political system. In the wrong hands it simply encourages criminality without consequences which is what I believe we are going to see over the next 4 years
Among Biden's many failings was pardoning Hunter.
Trump will do what suits Trump.
But the Dems have lost any claim to the moral high ground.
I haven't though. I remain at altitude and eagle eyed, therefore able to spot False Equivalence in the world below.
Will DOGE axe the IRS workers investigating tech bro squillionaires and New York property developers?
Musk has just fathered another child you know. Shes pretty hot too. To the victor the spoils the losers lose their cushy public sector job and work at maccyds.
If memory serves, Musk prefers to impregnate his baby mammas via artificial insemination, and he has used this technique for all his children (except for the first one which died). He is rather strange.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
"Security clearance lawyer Bradley Moss posted: “If you’re a clearance holder, stay away from the DOGE site. These ignorant virgins are going to find themselves prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act before all is said and done.” "
Heather Cox Richardson email
They won't care because they know they will be pardoned by Trump before he leaves office.
The pardoning of those convicted of Jan 6th offences gave a clear signal that it's OK to break the law provided it is done in the interests of Donald Trump. Musk will do whatever he pleases knowing that he is practically immune from legal prosecution.
The ability of Presidents to pardon people convicted of criminal acts is one of the most ludicrous aspects of the US political system. In the wrong hands it simply encourages criminality without consequences which is what I believe we are going to see over the next 4 years
Among Biden's many failings was pardoning Hunter.
Trump will do what suits Trump.
But the Dems have lost any claim to the moral high ground.
I haven't though. I remain at altitude and eagle eyed, therefore able to spot False Equivalence in the world below.
False equivalence.
A phrase trotted out when faced with an inconvenient fact.
And the Hunter Biden pardon is both a fact and inconvenient.
Good reply to rory stewart this. You have spent your entire adult life as a delusional arrogant condescending arsehead. Wrong on every major political decision this millenium. You think you're right because you only speak to similarly vacuous knownothings who applaud you as leader of their tribe of obnoxious arsebreaths. 11:29 AM · Feb 15, 2025 · 19.9K Views
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
Will DOGE axe the IRS workers investigating tech bro squillionaires and New York property developers?
Musk has just fathered another child you know. Shes pretty hot too. To the victor the spoils the losers lose their cushy public sector job and work at maccyds.
If memory serves, Musk prefers to impregnate his baby mammas via artificial insemination, and he has used this technique for all his children (except for the first one which died). He is rather strange.
So he's a hopeless fucker?
Takes one to know one.
So you are able to identify him but the rest of us must just guess?
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
Will DOGE axe the IRS workers investigating tech bro squillionaires and New York property developers?
Musk has just fathered another child you know. Shes pretty hot too. To the victor the spoils the losers lose their cushy public sector job and work at maccyds.
If memory serves, Musk prefers to impregnate his baby mammas via artificial insemination, and he has used this technique for all his children (except for the first one which died). He is rather strange.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
Hows your dei hire Kemi doing.
Better than Tommy
I like her educated english accent. Of course not all the uk sees her as such sadly.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
And the Muskovite young shits who are doing the job have neither the skill nor the experience. They may think they do, and the people who cheer them on are too clueless to know otherwise; but they do not.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
It's a bit difficult to know how else Reeves could have responded, if she was never told anything about the complaint at the time and the bank decided not to take any action about the complaint. The claim about what the "initial stage" of the investigation found - that Reeves "appeared" to have broken the rules - seems to come from a single unidentified source. Isn't it a bit strange that this source, supposedly with "direct knowledge of the probe", couldn't tell the BBC anything about its final outcome, or even whether any conclusion was reached?
It is strange that this anonymous hit job is being pushed by the BBC. I'd expect it of the Mail or Telegraph.
There must be someone fairly senior in the BBC who is pushing this story. They should be named as well as the anonymous source.
If I were Reeves, I would treat it with total disdain.
Going after reporters for reporting things you don’t like?
Have you considered a job at the Trump Whitehouse?
I'm not a Reeves supporter and dislike many of her policies.
But this stinks.
I don't think the leaker is a rival in the Labour Party. It's too much of a coincidence as they would also have to have worked with Reeves in HBOS 15 years ago.
It is more likely that it is a hard core Tory who did work alongside Reeves and has come out with this story, anonymously and unsubstantiated, in order to harm Labour.
Others on here have then made up narratives to support their preferred story of "a thief in cabinet".
The odd thing is that the BBC has lowered its standards by running with this.
I suspect, but don't know, that the BBC reporters concerned think that they are Bob Woodwards. Pathetic.
I see the BBC is on the defensive on this. "However, the BBC has not reported that the case reached a formal conclusion, or that there was disciplinary action."
Not sure it stinks any more than any other politics. Dobbing in Johnson for his parties during lockdown?
The only important questions are, were the allegations true and, if they were, were they serious enough to make the targets position untenable?
In the case of Johnson this seems to be a clear yes to both questions.
In the case of Reeves, I have seen it posted on here and reported in the Times, without apparent challenge, that the whistleblower's claims were found to be substantially true, even if it didn't get to disciplinary action because she left.
So the only question that really then matters is whether they were serious enough to merit removing Reeves from her current position.
I don't know the answer to that one. It is more politics and public mood than a fact based decision.
But to claim it 'stinks' seems to be excusing any sort of bad behaviour no matter how severe simply on the grounds that you don't like whistleblowers.
We don't know that there was bad behaviour.
All we really know is that there is someone with a grudge against Reeves and/or the Labour Party and has made an unsubstantiated claim about events 15 years ago, and this has been taken up by the BBC.
The BBC has spoken to 20 people and seen the report from the preliminary investigation.
It’s not an “unsubstantiated claim”
It wasn't the report from the preliminary investigation. It was the whistle blower's original complaint that the BBC saw.
What did these 20 people say? "Sorry. I don't remember anything about this". Could be anything.
It’s absolutely astonishing the BBC is reporting on this. This looks like a witch-hunt.
The HR Business Partner for her division is on record to say there was nothing going on, FFS.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
No of conversations with people i have now who say they want a dictatorship is incredible.
Well if most of your conversations are with EDL members not that surprising!
Hows your dei hire Kemi doing.
Better than Tommy
I like her educated english accent. Of course not all the uk sees her as such sadly.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
And the Muskovite young shits who are doing the job have neither the skill nor the experience. They may think they do, and the people who cheer them on are too clueless to know otherwise; but they do not.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
Amazing facts:
As late as 2020 the US government was still paying a pension to the daughter of a US Civil War Veteran;
John Tyler still has one living grandson (the next presidents with living grandchildren are Taft and Franklin D. Roosevelt).
It's a bit difficult to know how else Reeves could have responded, if she was never told anything about the complaint at the time and the bank decided not to take any action about the complaint. The claim about what the "initial stage" of the investigation found - that Reeves "appeared" to have broken the rules - seems to come from a single unidentified source. Isn't it a bit strange that this source, supposedly with "direct knowledge of the probe", couldn't tell the BBC anything about its final outcome, or even whether any conclusion was reached?
It is strange that this anonymous hit job is being pushed by the BBC. I'd expect it of the Mail or Telegraph.
There must be someone fairly senior in the BBC who is pushing this story. They should be named as well as the anonymous source.
If I were Reeves, I would treat it with total disdain.
Going after reporters for reporting things you don’t like?
Have you considered a job at the Trump Whitehouse?
I'm not a Reeves supporter and dislike many of her policies.
But this stinks.
I don't think the leaker is a rival in the Labour Party. It's too much of a coincidence as they would also have to have worked with Reeves in HBOS 15 years ago.
It is more likely that it is a hard core Tory who did work alongside Reeves and has come out with this story, anonymously and unsubstantiated, in order to harm Labour.
Others on here have then made up narratives to support their preferred story of "a thief in cabinet".
The odd thing is that the BBC has lowered its standards by running with this.
I suspect, but don't know, that the BBC reporters concerned think that they are Bob Woodwards. Pathetic.
I see the BBC is on the defensive on this. "However, the BBC has not reported that the case reached a formal conclusion, or that there was disciplinary action."
Not sure it stinks any more than any other politics. Dobbing in Johnson for his parties during lockdown?
The only important questions are, were the allegations true and, if they were, were they serious enough to make the targets position untenable?
In the case of Johnson this seems to be a clear yes to both questions.
In the case of Reeves, I have seen it posted on here and reported in the Times, without apparent challenge, that the whistleblower's claims were found to be substantially true, even if it didn't get to disciplinary action because she left.
So the only question that really then matters is whether they were serious enough to merit removing Reeves from her current position.
I don't know the answer to that one. It is more politics and public mood than a fact based decision.
But to claim it 'stinks' seems to be excusing any sort of bad behaviour no matter how severe simply on the grounds that you don't like whistleblowers.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
And the Muskovite young shits who are doing the job have neither the skill nor the experience. They may think they do, and the people who cheer them on are too clueless to know otherwise; but they do not.
There goes your paranoia again.
I'm not quite sure how you make that conclusion from my factual statement...
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
And the Muskovite young shits who are doing the job have neither the skill nor the experience. They may think they do, and the people who cheer them on are too clueless to know otherwise; but they do not.
There goes your paranoia again.
I'm not quite sure how you make that conclusion from my factual statement...
He did say 'it takes one to know one' and then described a number of people as 'morons.'
It's a bit difficult to know how else Reeves could have responded, if she was never told anything about the complaint at the time and the bank decided not to take any action about the complaint. The claim about what the "initial stage" of the investigation found - that Reeves "appeared" to have broken the rules - seems to come from a single unidentified source. Isn't it a bit strange that this source, supposedly with "direct knowledge of the probe", couldn't tell the BBC anything about its final outcome, or even whether any conclusion was reached?
It is strange that this anonymous hit job is being pushed by the BBC. I'd expect it of the Mail or Telegraph.
There must be someone fairly senior in the BBC who is pushing this story. They should be named as well as the anonymous source.
If I were Reeves, I would treat it with total disdain.
Going after reporters for reporting things you don’t like?
Have you considered a job at the Trump Whitehouse?
I'm not a Reeves supporter and dislike many of her policies.
But this stinks.
I don't think the leaker is a rival in the Labour Party. It's too much of a coincidence as they would also have to have worked with Reeves in HBOS 15 years ago.
It is more likely that it is a hard core Tory who did work alongside Reeves and has come out with this story, anonymously and unsubstantiated, in order to harm Labour.
Others on here have then made up narratives to support their preferred story of "a thief in cabinet".
The odd thing is that the BBC has lowered its standards by running with this.
I suspect, but don't know, that the BBC reporters concerned think that they are Bob Woodwards. Pathetic.
I see the BBC is on the defensive on this. "However, the BBC has not reported that the case reached a formal conclusion, or that there was disciplinary action."
Not sure it stinks any more than any other politics. Dobbing in Johnson for his parties during lockdown?
The only important questions are, were the allegations true and, if they were, were they serious enough to make the targets position untenable?
In the case of Johnson this seems to be a clear yes to both questions.
In the case of Reeves, I have seen it posted on here and reported in the Times, without apparent challenge, that the whistleblower's claims were found to be substantially true, even if it didn't get to disciplinary action because she left.
So the only question that really then matters is whether they were serious enough to merit removing Reeves from her current position.
I don't know the answer to that one. It is more politics and public mood than a fact based decision.
But to claim it 'stinks' seems to be excusing any sort of bad behaviour no matter how severe simply on the grounds that you don't like whistleblowers.
Or who they are blowing the whistle on.
Mr cryptic arrives. Thinks it makes him sound intelligent. Hes just a blagger really wink wink.
It's a bit difficult to know how else Reeves could have responded, if she was never told anything about the complaint at the time and the bank decided not to take any action about the complaint. The claim about what the "initial stage" of the investigation found - that Reeves "appeared" to have broken the rules - seems to come from a single unidentified source. Isn't it a bit strange that this source, supposedly with "direct knowledge of the probe", couldn't tell the BBC anything about its final outcome, or even whether any conclusion was reached?
It is strange that this anonymous hit job is being pushed by the BBC. I'd expect it of the Mail or Telegraph.
There must be someone fairly senior in the BBC who is pushing this story. They should be named as well as the anonymous source.
If I were Reeves, I would treat it with total disdain.
As a voter, why shouldn't I treat her with total disdain?
That's indeed your right. But would it represent any change from how you treated her at the last election ?
Now I'd have better reason...
(To be fair, I waited to see how she performed in office before treating her with the now deserved total disdain. The dodgy CV makes little difference when set beside her actual job performance.)
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
For example I was wrong about our new friend. He's lasted more than 10 more minutes. He seems to be more your friend than mine!
Well, Leon gets banned and then returns over and over again, so who knows?
But Saturday morning trolls get banned for posting ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro-Putin nonsense, whereas Leon posts ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro... hold on...
Olaf Scholz has accused VP Vance of unacceptable interference in the German elections.
I wonder if his intervention will have an effect similar to Barack "back of the queue" Obama had in our Referendum?
I can imagine many Germans would love to give Donald Trump the one-fingered salute.... Musk's salute being somewhat out of fashion there now as it can get you six months inside.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
For example I was wrong about our new friend. He's lasted more than 10 more minutes. He seems to be more your friend than mine!
Well, Leon gets banned and then returns over and over again, so who knows?
But Saturday morning trolls get banned for posting ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro-Putin nonsense, whereas Leon posts ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro... hold on...
No, I just humiliate you. Again and again and again
Olaf Scholz has accused VP Vance of unacceptable interference in the German elections.
I wonder if his intervention will have an effect similar to Barack "back of the queue" Obama had in our Referendum?
I can imagine many Germans would love to give Donald Trump the one-fingered salute.... Musk's salute being somewhat out of fashion there now as it can get you six months inside.
Olaf Scholz has accused VP Vance of unacceptable interference in the German elections.
I wonder if his intervention will have an effect similar to Barack "back of the queue" Obama had in our Referendum?
I can imagine many Germans would love to give Donald Trump the one-fingered salute.... Musk's salute being somewhat out of fashion there now as it can get you six months inside.
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
For example I was wrong about our new friend. He's lasted more than 10 more minutes. He seems to be more your friend than mine!
Well, Leon gets banned and then returns over and over again, so who knows?
But Saturday morning trolls get banned for posting ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro-Putin nonsense, whereas Leon posts ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro... hold on...
But do you know that he's wrong about Tommy Robinson? Because if he is right, this sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. It is also counter-productive for the Woke UK State, as it makes him more of a martyr
We only have Robinson's word for it. It's worth reading the Community Notes on his tweet.
I agree it will make him more of a martyr for some. But how many? I'm guessing 10-25% of Reform supporters? So 3-7% of voters? Politically I think Robinson as a martyr is good for the Tories as it damages Reform. I think Farage will continue to distance himself and his party from Robinson to continue to appeal to more moderate voters, which he needs.
But what do I know! I'm continually confounded.
For example I was wrong about our new friend. He's lasted more than 10 more minutes. He seems to be more your friend than mine!
Well, Leon gets banned and then returns over and over again, so who knows?
But Saturday morning trolls get banned for posting ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro-Putin nonsense, whereas Leon posts ludicrous, incendiary, insulting, pro... hold on...
No, I just humiliate you. Again and again and again
I can see why you want me banned. Again
Right about the ukraine war when all pb was in favour of continuing the pointless conflict.
Will DOGE axe the IRS workers investigating tech bro squillionaires and New York property developers?
Musk has just fathered another child you know. Shes pretty hot too. To the victor the spoils the losers lose their cushy public sector job and work at maccyds.
If memory serves, Musk prefers to impregnate his baby mammas via artificial insemination, and he has used this technique for all his children (except for the first one which died). He is rather strange.
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
PB really would be better off without your alcoholic-induced drivel.
It would be better off without you but i dont get personal
Ummmmm...that's not the most unselfaware comment I've ever seen, but that's only because I heard Amanda Spielman say the reason she kept being criticised was that people weren't open to accepting legitimate criticism.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
How many of these are there alleged to be?
The sort of error that could be done easily by one of Musk's script kiddies in a hurry would be reading the partner date for a young widow still alive in old age.
Extreme eg Helen Viola Jackson the last USA Civil War widow died in 2020, when her husband had been born in 1843. There will be parallel cases in all sorts of circumstances. 1843 to 2020 is 177 years.
Chagos Deal - big development to report. Any day I expect this EXACT sentence from Trump: “it’s a very bad deal, it’s very bad, but we are sorting it out. Mauritius will get a deal, but we will sort it out first, and everyone will love it after we do that.”
What has just happened? FT reported in January Starmer Government will wait for Trump’s approval before signing. Modi met Trump for working visit this week BBC reported “both sides comfortable continuing Biden-era collaborations, in tech and defence”. India courted by the West as partner in countering China, experts say Trump's second presidency will continue this, not lecture India on human rights as last administration did.
India is HUGE fan of UKs Chagos surrender. Chagos was negotiated with Mauritius by both Conservative and Labour government with Biden administration and Modi’s government “inputting”. Yesterday, after meeting Modi - Trump placed his own negotiator overtly in the middle of the ongoing negotiating room. This makes me inform you for sure, at some point Trump will instruct Starmer to sign it. In fact i am convinced Trumps order is not just sign it, UK must frontload millions in payments to Mauritius for Trump and Modi’s newly elected friend Navin Ramgoolam to play with.
Surely Trumps intervention in negotiations will not just be front load millions for Ramgoolam, but all those security fears fettled away too? Key item in the deal to watch for, restrictions on fishing rights around Garcia. Otherwise how will we really know it not just rebranding same deal they said was bad?
Aside from Chinese spy equipment in simple junks, defining reason UK must NOT sign this deal is a legal precedent created that will be used by other states, backed in gaming the system by gang of UK belligerents who sponsored Mauritius, (Russia, India, etc), to make predatory claims on British territory everywhere, where it’s difficult now to argue precedent applies to Chagos, not Cyprus nor Falklands. But UK colonialism on retreat not so much a Chagos deal breaker for our Indian and America friends, for them it’s actually incentive to ratify! They are anti UK colonial power except, brazen hypocrisy, rare instances like Chagos UK retaining something benefits them! A tricky, unacknowledgeable war Britain fights alone last 100 years.
A key item to watch for - giving in on Trump and Modi’s bullying for upfront millions for Ramgoolam government - will prove just how hapless Labour are standing up for Britain. Even £90M a year is far too much.*
*caveat is how much US chips in, in the round, that’s never overtly acknowledged.
The sovereign bases in Cyprus are very similar to the Chagos situation, but they occurred before the UN declaration that is the basis of the ruling that this was illegal, whereas Chagos was later. That makes the Cyprus case much weaker.
The Falklands is a different case. The Chagos case has no direct relevance.
Are you under estimating how gaming the system is a professional industry? that how standing up for bits of British colonialism is UK versus rest of the world with no allies, not even UKs own Attorney General? That for Putin merely sponsoring these type of attacks on us, victory for Moscow isn’t we lose Cyprus base, that’s merely cherry on cake, but the money, time, effort, resources, and distraction it costs us defending ourselves? and Chagos deal is a starting gun for yet more such mayhem to commence?
Right off to the gym now so long. And if rcs wants to ban me tell me i really admire the way he blagged his way into goldman sachs with a 2 2 in philosophy. Kudos.
Vance's earlier European speech - in Paris - has somewhat gone under the radar
And yet it is in some ways even better than his brilliant Munich speech. He is absolutely lucid, candid, forthright, eloquent. You can tell he is a good writer. Compare his crisp, clever, subtly passionate delivery with the windbagging torrent of verbless ordure we get from British politicos
He is genuinely good at this. Unless the American economy goes tits up and over (quite possible with Trump at the helm) then he will be very hard to beat for the Dems and he is the obvious candidate for the GOP. He's right here in front of them
Hes great isnt he. And look at the faces in the audience.
Yes, they are ashen. Like a bunch of posh kids used to sodomising the school badger, suddenly caught by an actual adult with morals
To be fair, sodomising the school badger was not against the rules, in fact it was our main sport in Short Half. Indeed, I was Captain of badger buggery in my final year. Good times.
Judging by your posts a job at mcdonalds would be too good for you.
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
PB really would be better off without your alcoholic drivel.
I’m just about to have my first drink, actually
Cheers, mon vieux
Quim for me, if there’s some going. It’s been soooooo long. 🥺
And I started drinking hours before you on my day off.
Hey - watching this Arsenal team trying to create an opening is like watching a St Bernard try to tighten a screw using a Maggot, they are so mid table on this performance Arsenal won’t even make top 4. 😆
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
PB really would be better off without your alcoholic drivel.
I’m just about to have my first drink, actually
Cheers, mon vieux
Quim for me, if there’s some going. It’s been soooooo long. 🥺
And I started drinking hours before you on my day off.
Hey - watching this Arsenal team trying to create an opening is like watching a St Bernard try to tighten a screw using a Maggot, they are so mid table on this performance Arsenal won’t even make top 4. 😆
Gin After Gym, Except Before Quim
… is actually a rule invented by my then wife, the 21 year old Corbynite beauty (now a 29 year old raging Farageiste!)
She noticed that after the gym I got a surge of testosterone, and she didn’t want me wasting it on the Hendricks, she wanted it for herself, to be pleasured thereby. However, if she was not in the mood for sex (rare, but it happened) then I was allowed to go straight to the bottle, after my workout
GIN AFTER GYM, EXCEPT BEFORE QUIM
She was very wise for one so young
As I am skipping the stews tonight, I am having a G&T in Invite, on soi 8, feel free to join
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
Its easy to believe that there is both a lot of fraud and a lot of admin errors.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
Amazing facts:
As late as 2020 the US government was still paying a pension to the daughter of a US Civil War Veteran;
John Tyler still has one living grandson (the next presidents with living grandchildren are Taft and Franklin D. Roosevelt).
“My husband’s first wife’s first husband knew Oliver Cromwell—and liked him well.”
The setting for the article was 1999 but the remark was made in 1923 by a 91 year old who had been born in 1832. At the age of 16 she had married an 80 year old man named Henry. Sixty four years earlier, in 1784, the young Henry had, for obscure reasons, married an 82 year old woman. Her first marriage had been in 1720 and was to an 80 year old who had served Cromwell before his death in 1658!
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
The best feeling isnt it.
This love-in between you two is very odd. I always assumed the Kremlin made their approaches in a clandestine fashion.
Particularly since gay sex is a crime in Russia, so they have to keep it very private.
No, sex between consenting same sex couples is legal in Russia but promotion of homosexuality is illegal and same sex couples do not have the legal protections opposite sex couples do
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
The employer has to give notice if they make the work redundant, the worker has to give notice if they want to leave their employer.
That's my point. After 25 years, my boss got 1 days notice.
And how much payoff ?
If US government employees can be got rid off so easily then why are they offering nine months pay for anyone who wants to resign ?
Difference between career US Civil Service - virtually impossible to fire - and contractors, who have varying terms of service. Some contractors can be terminated with no notice.
Those 150 year old social security claimants are apparently real people - the age was reportedly a COBOL error, as the tech kids were unfamiliar with the ole code.
How many of these are there alleged to be?
The sort of error that could be done easily by one of Musk's script kiddies in a hurry would be reading the partner date for a young widow still alive in old age.
Extreme eg Helen Viola Jackson the last USA Civil War widow died in 2020, when her husband had been born in 1843. There will be parallel cases in all sorts of circumstances. 1843 to 2020 is 177 years.
It's simpler than that. If there is no known date of birth COBOL defaults to 1875. The point is to flag it to someone who knows what they are looking at.
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
What proportion of whiteness is required in a baby's ancestry for them to be classed as white? Or do you have to use a colour chart?
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
What proportion of whiteness is required in a baby's ancestry for them to be classed as white? Or do you have to use a colour chart?
Probably self identification, as used by the Home Office and the rest of HMG
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
I checked the figures on the ONS website, for births where ethnicity is recorded. The number of white babies in 2022 was 412,000 out of 585,000, or 70.7%.
The employer has to give notice if they make the work redundant, the worker has to give notice if they want to leave their employer.
That's my point. After 25 years, my boss got 1 days notice.
And how much payoff ?
If US government employees can be got rid off so easily then why are they offering nine months pay for anyone who wants to resign ?
I think that is just bait and switch by DOGE. I wouldn't expect anyone to actually receive it.
They've had 3% of the workforce sign up, allegedly, to an agreement which has no flexibility on their side, and the offer which can be withdrawn at will.
And the agreement is illegal under several US laws (eg "Administrative Leave" is capped at 9 days per annum, not "6 months").
But that's just the same as perhaps 99% or more of what Musk has done - illegal.
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
PB really would be better off without your alcoholic drivel.
I’m just about to have my first drink, actually
Cheers, mon vieux
Hey - watching this Arsenal team trying to create an opening is like watching a St Bernard try to tighten a screw using a Maggot, they are so mid table on this performance Arsenal won’t even make top 4. 😆
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
Olaf Scholz has accused VP Vance of unacceptable interference in the German elections.
I wonder if his intervention will have an effect similar to Barack "back of the queue" Obama had in our Referendum?
I can imagine many Germans would love to give Donald Trump the one-fingered salute.... Musk's salute being somewhat out of fashion there now as it can get you six months inside.
Vance told them that they should legalise it, same way his admin legalised gunmen storming the legislature to annul a democratic vote.
It's a bit difficult to know how else Reeves could have responded, if she was never told anything about the complaint at the time and the bank decided not to take any action about the complaint. The claim about what the "initial stage" of the investigation found - that Reeves "appeared" to have broken the rules - seems to come from a single unidentified source. Isn't it a bit strange that this source, supposedly with "direct knowledge of the probe", couldn't tell the BBC anything about its final outcome, or even whether any conclusion was reached?
It is strange that this anonymous hit job is being pushed by the BBC. I'd expect it of the Mail or Telegraph.
There must be someone fairly senior in the BBC who is pushing this story. They should be named as well as the anonymous source.
If I were Reeves, I would treat it with total disdain.
Going after reporters for reporting things you don’t like?
Have you considered a job at the Trump Whitehouse?
I'm not a Reeves supporter and dislike many of her policies.
But this stinks.
I don't think the leaker is a rival in the Labour Party. It's too much of a coincidence as they would also have to have worked with Reeves in HBOS 15 years ago.
It is more likely that it is a hard core Tory who did work alongside Reeves and has come out with this story, anonymously and unsubstantiated, in order to harm Labour.
Others on here have then made up narratives to support their preferred story of "a thief in cabinet".
The odd thing is that the BBC has lowered its standards by running with this.
I suspect, but don't know, that the BBC reporters concerned think that they are Bob Woodwards. Pathetic.
I see the BBC is on the defensive on this. "However, the BBC has not reported that the case reached a formal conclusion, or that there was disciplinary action."
Not sure it stinks any more than any other politics. Dobbing in Johnson for his parties during lockdown?
The only important questions are, were the allegations true and, if they were, were they serious enough to make the targets position untenable?
In the case of Johnson this seems to be a clear yes to both questions.
In the case of Reeves, I have seen it posted on here and reported in the Times, without apparent challenge, that the whistleblower's claims were found to be substantially true, even if it didn't get to disciplinary action because she left.
So the only question that really then matters is whether they were serious enough to merit removing Reeves from her current position.
I don't know the answer to that one. It is more politics and public mood than a fact based decision.
But to claim it 'stinks' seems to be excusing any sort of bad behaviour no matter how severe simply on the grounds that you don't like whistleblowers.
Or who they are blowing the whistle on.
I was holding off that accusation as I believe Barnesian is a long suffering Lib Dem and I am taking his opening comment about not liking Reeves at face value.
I don't think this is party bias just a rather blindly positive view of politicians as a whole.
It's easier for me as I think they are all inherently scumbags.
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
White british births are now only 56% of total. No wonder the tpries are in trouble jeez. Bunch of m.r.ns
Wonder where this statistic is from? Because of the various changes (at least 10) to the Immigration Acts in the past 30 years, it would be difficult to look at a baby and decide if it is British or not. You would have to know the precise status of the parents and whether they were British automatically, or were working towards Citizenship or has ILR. All I can assume is that when asked the question, an answer is given which may or may not be legally sound.
Anyway good to see there are more 'British' births as the UK will be needing them. All you need is love, or in Musk's case a test tube.
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
I checked the figures on the ONS website, for births where ethnicity is recorded. The number of white babies in 2022 was 412,000 out of 585,000, or 70.7%.
So maybe white BRITISH is the discrepancy? Or is the original claim bollocks?
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
I checked the figures on the ONS website, for births where ethnicity is recorded. The number of white babies in 2022 was 412,000 out of 585,000, or 70.7%.
So maybe white BRITISH is the discrepancy? Or is the original claim bollocks?
A huge number of white people have European or Irish ancestry. Since 2000, the categories of ethnic groups have also expanded enormously.
There’s also a growing number of mixed-race children, too.
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
What proportion of whiteness is required in a baby's ancestry for them to be classed as white? Or do you have to use a colour chart?
Probably self identification, as used by the Home Office and the rest of HMG
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
White british births are now only 56% of total. No wonder the tpries are in trouble jeez. Bunch of m.r.ns
Wonder where this statistic is from? Because of the various changes (at least 10) to the Immigration Acts in the past 30 years, it would be difficult to look at a baby and decide if it is British or not. You would have to know the precise status of the parents and whether they were British automatically, or were working towards Citizenship or has ILR. All I can assume is that when asked the question, an answer is given which may or may not be legally sound.
Anyway good to see there are more 'British' births as the UK will be needing them. All you need is love, or in Musk's case a test tube.
What is this I keep hearing about Musk and IVF? Is he sex phobic??
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
White british births are now only 56% of total. No wonder the tpries are in trouble jeez. Bunch of m.r.ns
Wonder where this statistic is from? Because of the various changes (at least 10) to the Immigration Acts in the past 30 years, it would be difficult to look at a baby and decide if it is British or not. You would have to know the precise status of the parents and whether they were British automatically, or were working towards Citizenship or has ILR. All I can assume is that when asked the question, an answer is given which may or may not be legally sound.
Anyway good to see there are more 'British' births as the UK will be needing them. All you need is love, or in Musk's case a test tube.
What is this I keep hearing about Musk and IVF? Is he sex phobic??
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
I checked the figures on the ONS website, for births where ethnicity is recorded. The number of white babies in 2022 was 412,000 out of 585,000, or 70.7%.
So maybe white BRITISH is the discrepancy? Or is the original claim bollocks?
A huge number of white people have European or Irish ancestry. Since 2000, the categories of ethnic groups have also expanded enormously.
There’s also a growing number of mixed-race children, too.
I just checked. I think the stat is legit. It is a catastrophe in the making, and very very sad
It’s one reason I travel so much, to be brutally honest. I can’t bear to see what is happening to my country. it’s like leaving a friend with some terminal cancer, better to have the memory of what was, than see what is
And before everyone has conniptions, I favour immigration. You need it to keep genetic variety and cultural dynamism. in moderation it is a really GOOD thing. But we are far beyond “moderation” now
White british births will likely be a minority by 2030. And apparently now Tommy Robinson is being mistreated in jail.
Unlikely given over 80% of the population is still white
Er, if you project the numbers then it is extremely likely that white British births will be the minority by 2030, if they are only 56% now. That’s just math
What proportion of whiteness is required in a baby's ancestry for them to be classed as white? Or do you have to use a colour chart?
Probably self identification, as used by the Home Office and the rest of HMG
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A phrase trotted out when faced with an inconvenient fact.
And the Hunter Biden pardon is both a fact and inconvenient.
You have spent your entire adult life as a delusional arrogant condescending arsehead. Wrong on every major political decision this millenium. You think you're right because you only speak to similarly vacuous knownothings who applaud you as leader of their tribe of obnoxious arsebreaths.
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https://x.com/BurnsideWasTosh/status/1890725082127093804
Is she Foreign Secretary now? I just can't keep up.
Being able to sort one from the other is where the skilled experience is required.
By definition, that is a logical impossibility. It's as nonsensical a paradox as Putin maintaining an erection with a woman.
This looks like a witch-hunt.
The HR Business Partner for her division is on record to say there was nothing going on, FFS.
As late as 2020 the US government was still paying a pension to the daughter of a US Civil War Veteran;
John Tyler still has one living grandson (the next presidents with living grandchildren are Taft and Franklin D. Roosevelt).
Maybe that's a line of enquiry?
(To be fair, I waited to see how she performed in office before treating her with the now deserved total disdain. The dodgy CV makes little difference when set beside her actual job performance.)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890611074371666223
I can imagine many Germans would love to give Donald Trump the one-fingered salute.... Musk's salute being somewhat out of fashion there now as it can get you six months inside.
I can see why you want me banned. Again
I’ve just been to the gym, and the rules are the rules
“Gin after gym, except before quim”
To the gin!
Asking for a friend.
Cheers, mon vieux
The sort of error that could be done easily by one of Musk's script kiddies in a hurry would be reading the partner date for a young widow still alive in old age.
Extreme eg Helen Viola Jackson the last USA Civil War widow died in 2020, when her husband had been born in 1843. There will be parallel cases in all sorts of circumstances. 1843 to 2020 is 177 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_survived_into_the_21st_century
that how standing up for bits of British colonialism is UK versus rest of the world with no allies, not even UKs own Attorney General?
That for Putin merely sponsoring these type of attacks on us, victory for Moscow isn’t we lose Cyprus base, that’s merely cherry on cake, but the money, time, effort, resources, and distraction it costs us defending ourselves?
and Chagos deal is a starting gun for yet more such mayhem to commence?
On Monday you will be back to sending photos of Russian beauties to foolish western men.
LOL!
The Quintessence of Tragic
Trump and his handlers are malignant children with flamethrowers. They know nothing and hate everything.
Co-president Elon Musk's DOGE Dummies accidentally fired the people in charge of America's nuclear weapons, and had to walk the terminations back.
https://x.com/mattsheffield/status/1890634454231650776
Bye.
If US government employees can be got rid off so easily then why are they offering nine months pay for anyone who wants to resign ?
And I started drinking hours before you on my day off.
Hey - watching this Arsenal team trying to create an opening is like watching a St Bernard try to tighten a screw using a Maggot, they are so mid table on this performance Arsenal won’t even make top 4. 😆
Here's the US program: https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service
There are some stats at the site, including countries of origin.
(If there have been any great scandals in the program, I have missed them.)
For what it is worth, native Americans are disproportionately likely to join our armed services.
The CCN headline for the nuclear inspectors is "fired"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html
… is actually a rule invented by my then wife, the 21 year old Corbynite beauty (now a 29 year old raging Farageiste!)
She noticed that after the gym I got a surge of testosterone, and she didn’t want me wasting it on the Hendricks, she wanted it for herself, to be pleasured thereby. However, if she was not in the mood for sex (rare, but it happened) then I was allowed to go straight to the bottle, after my workout
GIN AFTER GYM, EXCEPT BEFORE QUIM
She was very wise for one so young
As I am skipping the stews tonight, I am having a G&T in Invite, on soi 8, feel free to join
The setting for the article was 1999 but the remark was made in 1923 by a 91 year old who had been born in 1832. At the age of 16 she had married an 80 year old man named Henry. Sixty four years earlier, in 1784, the young Henry had, for obscure reasons, married an 82 year old woman. Her first marriage had been in 1720 and was to an 80 year old who had served Cromwell before his death in 1658!
https://www.charlesholloway.co.uk/2010/09/a-theory-of-relativity/
https://bsky.app/profile/pbump.com/post/3li5daxur322v
Or perhaps in the real world they were put on notice of risk of redundancy and then informed that they were no longer at risk.
All this, including the media reports, taking only a few hours.
Doubtless an odd way to be conducting affairs but the exaggerated and emotive reporting only adds to the confusion.
Probably self identification, as used by the Home Office and the rest of HMG
Pick whatever word for that makes you happy
And the agreement is illegal under several US laws (eg "Administrative Leave" is capped at 9 days per annum, not "6 months").
But that's just the same as perhaps 99% or more of what Musk has done - illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT848djz4jA
https://x.com/unitreerobotics/status/1890377207169548775?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg
We are far beyond @Benpointer’s request for a robot that can “stack my dishwasher”
BRACE
all NNSA employees whose access to the agency’s network and internal IT systems was shut off would be turned back on, one source told CNN.
I don't think this is party bias just a rather blindly positive view of politicians as a whole.
It's easier for me as I think they are all inherently scumbags.
The resulting court cases would cost more.
And the loss of goodwill among the rest of the government workforce would cost far, far more.
Anyway good to see there are more 'British' births as the UK will be needing them. All you need is love, or in Musk's case a test tube.
There’s also a growing number of mixed-race children, too.
Filling the media with emotive froth meanwhile plays into Trump's hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_test_(South_Africa)
I just checked. I think the stat is legit. It is a catastrophe in the making, and very very sad
It’s one reason I travel so much, to be brutally honest. I can’t bear to see what is happening to my country. it’s like leaving a friend with some terminal cancer, better to have the memory of what was, than see what is
And before everyone has conniptions, I favour immigration. You need it to keep genetic variety and cultural dynamism. in moderation it is a really GOOD thing. But we are far beyond “moderation” now
Think the actor John C Reilly or similar.
I would have failed the pencil test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAthiROTGM