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Tonight Michael Gove, who has led the ConHome readers’ vote to be next Tory leader for the last three will be putting the Leave side on Sky News.
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Boris yes, but Gove ?
FPT LOL! what can I say. avoid opiates!
I suspect he'll be George Osborne's campaign manager.
I'm much less confident. I've been avoiding the news but listening to lots of vox pops and the 'Leave' messaging-though dishonest-has been penetrating like the 'red hot poker' up Edward 11's backside.
Cameron's tactics are failing because his narrative is all wrong. He's talking about it as though it's just the financial settlement after a divorce which allows Leave to say 'it won't be too bad. Don't worry'.
He should be talking about the complete and utter carnage. The children. The blood on the carpet. The possibility of bankruptcy.
The first broadcast was as wrong headed as it could be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMiGXIK0tU
All the same, I think TSE's 'Kingmaker rather the King' point is a good one. The only thing is, in the event of a Leave result (which I think would require a Leaver as PM), who else is there? Boris has confirmed the widespread concerns about him, and in case has been divisive. Grayling? He's been very articulate and very measured in the campaign, always coming over well, but, still... So Gove has to be considered as a serious contender, in a Leave scenario.
Gove's a bit Marmite to be leader. Not like Osborne. Who unifies opinion against him.
Vote Leave, get Gove.
Agreed.
1. Cameron and Osborne will clearly have to go very quickly.
2. Boris seems an unlikely choice for a period that will require very delicate negotations.
3. I think Gove is genuine when he says he doesn't want it and suspect he won't even stand.
4. Who does that leave? David Davis and Liam Fox? I think not.
5. I guess an outsider like Priti or even Mogg can't be discounted given the bizarre times in which we live (if Jezza can become Lab leader ANYTHING is possible)
On a personal level, I think she's atrocious. A failure on migration, a threat to civil liberties. Her manner and appearance do seem reassuring and competent, but that's a case of competence being skin-deep.
She may do well simply because of who she isn't, rather than who she is.
@MikeK
"Actually the florin was the equal of a two shilling piece."
Of course it was. Which actually meant that the mathematical mental agility we all acquired was even greater because we would be thinking of base 10 not only in terms of pounds but also in terms of florins, two of those shillings which we also counted in base 20 (and calculating in base 10 and base 20 simultaneously).
And every child was taught from the age of about six to mentally calculate in three different bases and 99% of us could do it fluently and accurately. No wonder in my maths book collection (now alas consigned to history by the demands of space and Herself) I had a textbook aimed at 14 year olds in which calculus and other subjects now deemed fit only for A level pupils were detailed.
The old system seems rather nice. And not just pounds, shillings and pence, but florins, crowns, farthings, guineas. A system that worked for a thousand years or so (I don't know precisely when it came in but believe it was there in 12th century or thereabouts).
And instead we've got a soulless metric system. Humbug!
On florins: they were still being grandfathered in when I was at school. They were used as ten pence pieces, I think.
You know it makes sense...
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I'm kind of the same. My father was a gunsmith and firearms dealer and I am very au fait with small arms calibres, which are a bewildering mix of imperial and metric. The basic thing to remember is that 1 inch is 2.54 cm. So an imperial .30 calibre rifle round becomes a 7.62mm metric one.
We all know who we're talking about and it would be very nice for those who won't be able to watch not to have to wade through the mud flats
@CourtNewsUK: A drunk C of E vicar screamed 'I'm from the Vatican, you're f*cked' as he brawled with police after nightclub binge of Biblical proportions.
The paralytic pastor punched, kicked, bit and spat at a paramedic and pc who found him slumped in a doorway in his clerical clothing.
He then repeatedly claimed to have 'diplomatic immunity' from the Vatican Embassy in a cunning bid to avoid arrest.
Perhaps there was someone involved who might be able to spare a few quid and ease his conscience?
Hammond would be good as leader, with a bean counters attention to detail in negotiation.
Rees-Mogg has been a rare example of a Leaver Tory who has composed himself with dignity (Gove being one of the few others).
Paterson would keep the headbangers happy.
Gove has ruled himself out, Osborne has been daft and Johnson a clown. May is unpleasant and incompetent.
Not much to choose from really. I think a Remain win will destroy the Con party for a generation. I am looking forward to it.
I wouldn't discount him but I think his complete change to tack with render him unacceptable to LEAVE'ers (same with Javid and were he still in the Commons, William Hague)
Most historians believe that tennis originated in the monastic cloisters in northern France in the 12th century, but the ball was then struck with the palm of the hand hence the name jeu de paume ("game of the palm").[1] It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use, and the game began to be called "tennis."
This chap sounds a bit similar, although less formidable in combat.
Mr. Dugarbandier, they're surprisingly well-reviewed, you know.
Now wish me luck, I'm off to Old Trafford for the Roses t20 match, and I'm going to wear my 'Yorkshire' hoody.
That would be a Eucemenical matter.
But who knows. We live in volatile times.
She has also given herself enough leg room to be able to easily pivot to leave if that is the result.
https://twitter.com/severincarrell/status/738734142590988288
Everything more liberal has been Cameron's doing.
Luck? Body armour might be more useful....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-T_IfIBij4
1. Why did the British army adopt 0.303 as a calibre? It just seems so odd to go to three decimal places unless there was a good reason for it. The US Browning machine gun had a .300 calibre as did, I think, the Garand rifle but they came much later after the British decision to go for 0.303 (a decision it stuck with until the NATO standard arrived in the late fifties/early sixties).
2. In the later part of WW2 there emerged a class of weapons of the 76.2 calibre, and not just in one country. Why 76.2? OK ,it is ten times the rifle calibre bullet of 7.62, but that still doesn't answer why not 75 (of which there were also some) of even just a plain 76. Some armies in WW2 had 7.92 calibre rifles which is even more odd.
If you can provide any information I would be most grateful.
Cornish Pasty Industry Backs Staying In EU
The manufacturers' body wants to keep ties with Brussels because of the protection given to the popular delicacy under EU law
http://news.sky.com/story/1706485/cornish-pasty-industry-backs-staying-in-eu
Great news for Remain.
http://capx.co/corbyn-is-getting-worse-the-man-is-a-total-twit/
He is spot on with the not as nice as supposed to be, that temper shows through as soon as he is asked one hard-ish question....and as thick as shit, definitely.
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