Not sure I follow...Timeline is early 2014 woman tries to sell story to press, he ends it, they don't run story...then for the next year it is banded about other newspapers, none run it.
Why is her tweet from July 2014 problemic with that timeline?
Because the question is: why is it news now, as opposed to last week or two years ago? The more likely culprits are either Labour or the Tories trying to move on from tax wars, but really I've not had time to do any kremlinology on the story.
You could say the same about phone hacking. People in the know knew for years before it was all splashed in the Guardian. I was certainly aware that to some extent and why many switched to Crackberry's and I am a nobody.
One thing that "hacked off" are very keen to tell us today is that Wittingdale has been dragging his feet over this part of Leveson agreement that has yet to be brought into law. Just by chance some media organisations reported on this rather recently.
Not sure I follow...Timeline is early 2014 woman tries to sell story to press, he ends it, they don't run story...then for the next year it is banded about other newspapers, none run it.
Why is her tweet from July 2014 problemic with that timeline?
Because the question is: why is it news now, as opposed to last week or two years ago? The more likely culprits are either Labour or the Tories trying to move on from tax wars, but really I've not had time to do any kremlinology on the story.
Surely the kremlinology of this is that a Leaver can be replaced with a Remainer in control of press regulation.
Not sure I follow...Timeline is early 2014 woman tries to sell story to press, he ends it, they don't run story...then for the next year it is banded about other newspapers, none run it.
Why is her tweet from July 2014 problemic with that timeline?
Because the question is: why is it news now, as opposed to last week or two years ago? The more likely culprits are either Labour or the Tories trying to move on from tax wars, but really I've not had time to do any kremlinology on the story.
You could say the same about phone hacking. People in the know knew for years before it was all splashed in the Guardian. I was certainly aware that to some extent and why many switched to Crackberry's and I am a nobody.
One thing that "hacked off" are very keen to tell us today is that Wittingdale has been dragging his feet over this part of Leveson agreement that has yet to be brought into law. Just by chance some media organisations reported on this rather recently.
The papers are out before Newsnight. I'd be inclined to suspect one or other political parties.
re Nick Robinson's Europe: Them or us The French don't come out of it well. .. and they call England "La perfide Albion" ! Nor does Heath for that matter.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
Not sure I follow...Timeline is early 2014 woman tries to sell story to press, he ends it, they don't run story...then for the next year it is banded about other newspapers, none run it.
Why is her tweet from July 2014 problemic with that timeline?
Because the question is: why is it news now, as opposed to last week or two years ago? The more likely culprits are either Labour or the Tories trying to move on from tax wars, but really I've not had time to do any kremlinology on the story.
You could say the same about phone hacking. People in the know knew for years before it was all splashed in the Guardian. I was certainly aware that to some extent and why many switched to Crackberry's and I am a nobody.
One thing that "hacked off" are very keen to tell us today is that Wittingdale has been dragging his feet over this part of Leveson agreement that has yet to be brought into law. Just by chance some media organisations reported on this rather recently.
The papers are out before Newsnight. I'd be inclined to suspect one or other political parties.
Again I don't follow...the dam broke on this story because of ByLine piece which Private Eye confirmed they were running it this week (they confirmed this before Newsnight). I am presuming then that Wittingdale realised that it wasn't going to be on some obscure part of the net but in print with Private Eye that he had to say something and Newsnight ran with it.
I think Guido's podgy digits are pointing to how did it get to ByLine. I have no idea how true it is....my point was it is a small world who knows who.
re Nick Robinson's Europe: Them or us The French don't come out of it well. .. and they call England "La perfide Albion" ! Nor does Heath for that matter.
De Gaulle comes out as a complete shit.
He never got over the fact les grenouilles were invaded by the Germans, and we weren't and they needed our help to be liberated.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
re Nick Robinson's Europe: Them or us The French don't come out of it well. .. and they call England "La perfide Albion" ! Nor does Heath for that matter.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
Of course that didn’t stop social media being weighed down by a million hysterical posts to the contrary, but as political social media is about as representative of Britain as Disneyland Paris is of France, they had no effect whatsoever. Also again.
This sort of thing enrages the #CameronResign mob because they simply can’t understand it. Just like they couldn’t understand how millions of postings of that picture of a young Cameron with fellow Bullingdon Club members at Oxford didn’t hurt him, just like constant wails that he went to Eton didn’t hurt him, just like breathless Twitter posts of him shooting or hunting didn’t hurt him.
re Nick Robinson's Europe: Them or us The French don't come out of it well. .. and they call England "La perfide Albion" ! Nor does Heath for that matter.
De Gaulle comes out as a complete shit.
He never got over the fact les grenouilles were invaded by the Germans, and we weren't and they needed our help to be liberated.
Insular and maritime!
Though the EU has changed quite noticeably for the better since 1973, in part due to our influence. Mrs Thatcher deserves the thanks of the nation for signing us up to the single market.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
But the lesson of the Miliband years is that public mistrust of rich Tories doesn’t automatically rehabilitate confidence in Labour. And the lesson of the past week is that the prime minister is more vulnerable on incompetence than on income tax.
Not sure I follow...Timeline is early 2014 woman tries to sell story to press, he ends it, they don't run story...then for the next year it is banded about other newspapers, none run it.
Why is her tweet from July 2014 problemic with that timeline?
Because the question is: why is it news now, as opposed to last week or two years ago? The more likely culprits are either Labour or the Tories trying to move on from tax wars, but really I've not had time to do any kremlinology on the story.
Surely the kremlinology of this is that a Leaver can be replaced with a Remainer in control of press regulation.
By the time they get their feet under the desk, find out where the toilets are, and read enough about their new job to make a difference, the terms Remainer and Leaver will be irrelevant, we will have remained or left, atleast for the time being
re Nick Robinson's Europe: Them or us The French don't come out of it well. .. and they call England "La perfide Albion" ! Nor does Heath for that matter.
Supermac's reputation wasn't exactly enhanced. He seems to have gone with barely a murmur from opposing strongly the EEC to stop (West) Germany's economic dominance, to more or less becoming a supplicant at De Gaulle's feet. In fact there appears to have been a whole lot of blowing hot and cold on all sides.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
Of course that didn’t stop social media being weighed down by a million hysterical posts to the contrary, but as political social media is about as representative of Britain as Disneyland Paris is of France, they had no effect whatsoever. Also again.
This sort of thing enrages the #CameronResign mob because they simply can’t understand it. Just like they couldn’t understand how millions of postings of that picture of a young Cameron with fellow Bullingdon Club members at Oxford didn’t hurt him, just like constant wails that he went to Eton didn’t hurt him, just like breathless Twitter posts of him shooting or hunting didn’t hurt him.
David Cameron may be out of touch but it won’t help Labour
Voters prefer competence to compassion, so the opposition won’t gain ground by focusing on his wealth and privilege. Labour needs to prove its fitness to govern
Of course that didn’t stop social media being weighed down by a million hysterical posts to the contrary, but as political social media is about as representative of Britain as Disneyland Paris is of France, they had no effect whatsoever. Also again.
This sort of thing enrages the #CameronResign mob because they simply can’t understand it. Just like they couldn’t understand how millions of postings of that picture of a young Cameron with fellow Bullingdon Club members at Oxford didn’t hurt him, just like constant wails that he went to Eton didn’t hurt him, just like breathless Twitter posts of him shooting or hunting didn’t hurt him.
Required reading for all Labour MPs still unsure about mounting the coup this summer IMHO.
Over the years, any trust I had in them was chipped away. The reports from sensible people inside the organisation were increasingly despairing. You'd hear stories from fellow journalists in the pub of bullying and intimidation – of key figures in the campaign phoning up their editor to demand journalists publish apologies on their personal Twitter accounts for imagined offences. It all felt like people going a bit mad with power. And it helped vindicate the argument made by opponents of press regulation that no-one can be trusted with the responsibility.
That article makes a very good point....wittingdale's views were exactly the same 3-4 years ago as they are now, so why would the press be worried. It isn't as if he anti something, got into government & found he was the pro & that he had some connection to a load of lobby types.
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
Zac Goldsmith today launched his strongest attack yet on Sadiq Khan, accusing his London mayoral election rival of “giving platform, oxygen and cover” to extremists.
The Tory candidate said his Labour opponent had shown “appalling judgment” by speaking at events that included people with “repellent” views.
He accused Mr Khan of “hiding behind Britain’s Muslims” by branding as an “Islamophobe” anyone who spotlighted his record.
It is the first time Mr Goldsmith has directly challenged his rival in such ferocious language.
Mr Khan hit back by calling his comments “horribly desperate stuff from a Tory campaign that is clearly losing”.
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
Is that a bit like Jahadi Jez giving the PERCEPTION he is in bed with terrorists? He better resign then.
That article makes a very good point....wittingdale's views were exactly the same 3-4 years ago as they are now, so why would the press be worried. It isn't as if he anti something, got into government & found he was the pro & that he had some connection to a load of lobby types.
Perhaps the press thought that damaging an ally who was dragging his feet over Leverson was not in their own interest.
However I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason for the tabloids to spike the story that is entirely consistent with their previous form on such issues. I'm sure of it ..
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
The attack line by Corbyn (which he has used before) about the resources going into to fighting tax avoidance and evasion at HMRC is an odd angle to go on. It just gives Cameron a hook for telling everyone that this government has done more than Labour ever did.
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 16h16 hours ago Zack Goldsmith is a genuinely nice guy. But there's no avoiding it. His campaign has descended into base, Islamophobic dog-whistling.
Zac Goldsmith today launched his strongest attack yet on Sadiq Khan, accusing his London mayoral election rival of “giving platform, oxygen and cover” to extremists.
The Tory candidate said his Labour opponent had shown “appalling judgment” by speaking at events that included people with “repellent” views.
He accused Mr Khan of “hiding behind Britain’s Muslims” by branding as an “Islamophobe” anyone who spotlighted his record.
It is the first time Mr Goldsmith has directly challenged his rival in such ferocious language.
Mr Khan hit back by calling his comments “horribly desperate stuff from a Tory campaign that is clearly losing”.
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 16h16 hours ago Zack Goldsmith is a genuinely nice guy. But there's no avoiding it. His campaign has descended into base, Islamophobic dog-whistling.
Even lefty Kevin Maguire is annoyed that Whittingdale is under pressure.
Attempting to set an impossibly high bar for the conduct of our politicians in any and all aspects of their lives including ones not relevant to their jobs is not realistic and will rule out all kinds of people. We will end up with nothing but vanilla dullards who aren't very good.
Is there a JonTransBack btw?
Very good
No
I am Jon C but I left for a few months after the 2010 election and couldn't remember my log in...as has happened on oooh about 97% of things online I have ever signed up to
The report about JonC has gone chiral (reaches for coat).
@faisalislam: Another first from Corbyn: zero crowdsourced questions at this #PMQs
Oh...
The "internet machine" probably got buried under the mess as they turned his office upside down looking for that tax return among the massive collection of past editions of the Morning Star...
Even lefty Kevin Maguire is annoyed that Whittingdale is under pressure.
Attempting to set an impossibly high bar for the conduct of our politicians in any and all aspects of their lives including ones not relevant to their jobs is not realistic and will rule out all kinds of people. We will end up with nothing but vanilla dullards who aren't very good.
Is there a JonTransBack btw?
Very good
No
I am Jon C but I left for a few months after the 2010 election and couldn't remember my log in...as has happened on oooh about 97% of things online I have ever signed up to
The report about JonC has gone chiral (reaches for coat).
This is getting a bit obscure even for pb :-)
I might have to wheel out my joke about a Catholic priest who used to be an organic chemist...
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
2014 is two years ago: that's not a dead cat; it's a red herring. Look at today's PMQs: does it look like Labour wants to distract attention from tax stories? Corbyn led on tax.
@faisalislam: Another first from Corbyn: zero crowdsourced questions at this #PMQs
Oh...
The "internet machine" probably got buried under the mess as they turned his office upside down looking for that tax return among the massive collection of past editions of the Morning Star...
LOL. Or, no voter has actually written in about Cameron's Dad's tax affairs because they don't give a monkeys.
Well, I think we can safely say the Labour Dirty Tricks Dept is well and truly up and running. Nothing to do with Damian McBride or Tom Watson I'm sure. It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION. I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
2014 is two years ago: that's not a dead cat; it's a red herring.
It fits the chronology
Between August 2013 and February 2014, I had a relationship with someone who I first met through Match.com,” he said in a statement. “She was a similar age and lived close to me. At no time did she give me any indication of of her real occupation and I only discovered this when I was made aware that someone was trying to sell a story about me to tabloid newspapers.
She raises some good points, I think, even if the solutions are less obvious.
Some reasonable points, but technically illiterate as ever. Twitter is running at 500 million tweets per day, the vast vast majority of the originating outside our jurisdiction, and indeed from jurisdictions with iron-clad free speech laws where saying pretty much anything is legal. How is Twitter supposed to review that volume of data, and supposing it found a tweet originating from the USA which might be considered offensive or abusive who precisely is it supposed to do about it without violating the American posters First Amendment rights and ending up in court over there.
This is especially the case considering some like The Guardian editors apparently see comments like "you are talking nonsense" as abusive, see yesterday's discussion, and even that would be dangerously forthright for the average student union discussion.
If Corbyn had any political nous, he would challenge Cameron in Parliament to back Goldsmith's racist nonsense about Khan "giving cover to extremists".
Either Cameron would say yes, in which case his reputation as a non-racist "moderniser" and "nice guy" would be damaged.
Or he would say no or decline to answer, in which case Khan would be able to throw "even your party leader doesn't agree with you" whenever Goldsmith trotted out that line.
Carswell: If the voters decide to vote to Leave the EU, will he remain in office and implement their wishes
Cameron: Yes
I'd be surprised if Dave's position is politically tenable should we vote to leave, having invested so much capital into the "remain" campaign.
Agreed, although he might well stay on for a while to stabilise things while everyone figures out what on earth to do next.
As I have said before in the circumstances of leave David Cameron needs to become a figurehead and a new unifying cabinet with Gove and Boris in leading positions created
If Corbyn had any political nous, he would challenge Cameron in Parliament to back Goldsmith's racist nonsense about Khan "backing extremists".
Either Cameron would say yes, in which case his reputation as a "moderniser" and "nice guy" would be damaged.
Or he would say no, in which case Khan would be able to throw "even your party leader doesn't agree with you" whenever Goldsmith trotted out that line.
I am not sure that Corbyn would be wise to go anywhere near the subject. It will just generate the terrorist sympathiser line.
If Corbyn had any political nous, he would challenge Cameron in Parliament to back Goldsmith's racist nonsense about Khan "backing extremists".
Either Cameron would say yes, in which case his reputation as a "moderniser" and "nice guy" would be damaged.
Or he would say no, in which case Khan would be able to throw "even your party leader doesn't agree with you" whenever Goldsmith trotted out that line.
I am not sure that Corbyn would be wise to go anywhere near the subject. It will just generate the terrorist sympathiser line.
I'm not sure Cameron would feel comfortable publicly associating himself with a line of "Khan's dangerous because he's Muslim".
This is Dave's diary on June 24th if we vote to leave
9am he invokes article 50.
9.01am he resigns as PM
Your forgot the bit in the middle, where he announces to the people "The Leave campaign have told you that there is no economic risk, that we don't need to be subject to EU freedom of movement, that new trade deals with the EU and dozens of other countries can be concluded very quickly, and that we'll be able to impose tariffs on imports we don't like. I look forward to seeing how well they do with that lot."
This is Dave's diary on June 24th if we vote to leave
9am he invokes article 50.
9.01am he resigns as PM
Your forgot the bit in the middle, where he announces to the people "The Leave campaign have told you that there is no economic risk, that we don't need to be subject to EU freedom of movement, that new trade deals with the EU and dozens of other countries can be concluded very quickly, and that we'll be able to impose tariffs on imports we don't like. I look forward to seeing how well they do with that lot."
Note the language Douglas used "implement their wishes". I expect he was expecting the "yes" answer, in the event of a "leave" vote I expect he might well reference the PMs response.
My bulls##t detector has just gone off....they will very conveniently reveal to congress / Apple that there is such and such an exploit...but I bet you that isn't what they used and / or have others already available to them.
This is Dave's diary on June 24th if we vote to leave
9am he invokes article 50.
9.01am he resigns as PM
Your forgot the bit in the middle, where he announces to the people "The Leave campaign have told you that there is no economic risk, that we don't need to be subject to EU freedom of movement, that new trade deals with the EU and dozens of other countries can be concluded very quickly, and that we'll be able to impose tariffs on imports we don't like. I look forward to seeing how well they do with that lot."
No,no,no.
at 9.02am he says
"Thank Christ for that, now someone else can do that damn job and I can tell everyone what I really think. I really can't stand the EU, but of course in my job, you can't say such things or the Foreign Office will start buying umbrellas from the Bulgarians, and with the single market they don't even have to pay any tariffs on them! Do you think that clusterfuck about my taxes was an accident, but I did hope that Mr Corbyn would make a slightly better fist of it, but he couldn't even get that right. Still the right result was obtained in the end, and Richard, sorry about that, but you know, 'circumstances'"
If they are only trying to figure out what to do on 24th in the event of a Leave vote, they should all be sacked. Immediately.
Their job is to have contingency plans and implement them; wibble isn't the basis for paying a six figure salary
Contigency plans for the immediate fall-out, of course, and I'm sure they have (indeed Mark Carney said so). But it is ludicrous to suggest that government should have plans for the impossible; it's hardly Cameron's responsibility to resolve the humongous contradiction at the heart of the Leave case. Only someone on the Leave side can break the bad news to voters; if Cameron tried to do that, all the Leavers would be screaming 'Betrayal!'.
That article makes a very good point....wittingdale's views were exactly the same 3-4 years ago as they are now, so why would the press be worried. It isn't as if he anti something, got into government & found he was the pro & that he had some connection to a load of lobby types.
Perhaps the press thought that damaging an ally who was dragging his feet over Leverson was not in their own interest.
However I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason for the tabloids to spike the story that is entirely consistent with their previous form on such issues. I'm sure of it ..
Yes this. There is a difference between choosing not to damage an ally, and blackmailing someone into changing political policy. Hacked Off have misunderstood as usual.
If Corbyn had any political nous, he would challenge Cameron in Parliament to back Goldsmith's racist nonsense about Khan "backing extremists".
Either Cameron would say yes, in which case his reputation as a "moderniser" and "nice guy" would be damaged.
Or he would say no, in which case Khan would be able to throw "even your party leader doesn't agree with you" whenever Goldsmith trotted out that line.
I am not sure that Corbyn would be wise to go anywhere near the subject. It will just generate the terrorist sympathiser line.
I'm not sure Cameron would feel comfortable publicly associating himself with a line of "Khan's dangerous because he's Muslim".
That wouldn't be the line though would it? It might be Labour's attempted portrayal of the line but I'm sure the public could distinguish the difference.
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One thing that "hacked off" are very keen to tell us today is that Wittingdale has been dragging his feet over this part of Leveson agreement that has yet to be brought into law. Just by chance some media organisations reported on this rather recently.
The French don't come out of it well.
.. and they call England "La perfide Albion" !
Nor does Heath for that matter.
Watson's basically the class snitch taking pleasure in telling tales; nobody likes a snitch.
I think Guido's podgy digits are pointing to how did it get to ByLine. I have no idea how true it is....my point was it is a small world who knows who.
He never got over the fact les grenouilles were invaded by the Germans, and we weren't and they needed our help to be liberated.
Insular and maritime!
http://capx.co/class-war-the-battle-only-david-cameron-will-win/
I particularly liked
https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/720197600402612224
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3537456/Tory-MP-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-raises-5-000-Brexit-campaign-auctioning-tea-NANNY.html
What can you say...thats the Mogster...
Required reading for all Labour MPs still unsure about mounting the coup this summer IMHO.
Or cords, ropes or straps. Some restraint with this story is strongly recommended.
Great chart showing different degrees and a breakdown of wages 10 years after graduation.
Guess where ‘Creative arts’ comes in the league table
Should be fun.
Should be fun
'It was late, it was inaccurate, it was chaotic and it was uncosted'
Touche ..
It seems now that anyone can set the dogs running on a story by using the words, "well he/she may not have done anything wrong, but it's the PERCEPTION.
I don't know where this is going but nobody in their right mind would want to go into politics.
The Tory candidate said his Labour opponent had shown “appalling judgment” by speaking at events that included people with “repellent” views.
He accused Mr Khan of “hiding behind Britain’s Muslims” by branding as an “Islamophobe” anyone who spotlighted his record.
It is the first time Mr Goldsmith has directly challenged his rival in such ferocious language.
Mr Khan hit back by calling his comments “horribly desperate stuff from a Tory campaign that is clearly losing”.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/zac-goldsmith-accuses-rival-sadiq-khan-of-giving-platform-to-extremists-a3224246.html
However I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason for the tabloids to spike the story that is entirely consistent with their previous form on such issues. I'm sure of it ..
https://twitter.com/RealNatalieRowe/status/487389545701601280?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Zack Goldsmith is a genuinely nice guy. But there's no avoiding it. His campaign has descended into base, Islamophobic dog-whistling.
@faisalislam: Another first from Corbyn: zero crowdsourced questions at this #PMQs
Oh...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/13/britain-needs-better-laws-stop-online-abuse-maria-miller-internet
She raises some good points, I think, even if the solutions are less obvious.
Poor Douglas Carswell gets slammed by Dave.
Carswell: If the voters decide to vote to Leave the EU, will he remain in office and implement their wishes
Cameron: Yes
I might have to wheel out my joke about a Catholic priest who used to be an organic chemist...
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/720168722627956736
Between August 2013 and February 2014, I had a relationship with someone who I first met through Match.com,” he said in a statement. “She was a similar age and lived close to me. At no time did she give me any indication of of her real occupation and I only discovered this when I was made aware that someone was trying to sell a story about me to tabloid newspapers.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/13/mp-john-whittingdale-had-relationship-with-sex-worker
This is especially the case considering some like The Guardian editors apparently see comments like "you are talking nonsense" as abusive, see yesterday's discussion, and even that would be dangerously forthright for the average student union discussion.
A post-Brexit Britain would be led by Cameron. That's one extremely major strand of uncertainty removed.
Either Cameron would say yes, in which case his reputation as a non-racist "moderniser" and "nice guy" would be damaged.
Or he would say no or decline to answer, in which case Khan would be able to throw "even your party leader doesn't agree with you" whenever Goldsmith trotted out that line.
9am he invokes article 50.
9.01am he resigns as PM
Their job is to have contingency plans and implement them; wibble isn't the basis for paying a six figure salary
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/13/fbi-reportedly-paid-professional-hackers-gain-access-san-bernardino-iphone
My bulls##t detector has just gone off....they will very conveniently reveal to congress / Apple that there is such and such an exploit...but I bet you that isn't what they used and / or have others already available to them.
You see Dave lovers, he's going nowhere, vote Leave with your conscience clear.
Douglas is far cleverer than Cameron and Dave knows it. He called Reckless "fat arse", he never dared abuse Douglas.
at 9.02am he says
"Thank Christ for that, now someone else can do that damn job and I can tell everyone what I really think. I really can't stand the EU, but of course in my job, you can't say such things or the Foreign Office will start buying umbrellas from the Bulgarians, and with the single market they don't even have to pay any tariffs on them! Do you think that clusterfuck about my taxes was an accident, but I did hope that Mr Corbyn would make a slightly better fist of it, but he couldn't even get that right. Still the right result was obtained in the end, and Richard, sorry about that, but you know, 'circumstances'"