I'm sure there's a metaphor to be made out about Andrea Leadsom's CV and the Leave campaign.
Your team lost. Get over it.
I am over it. I'm making sure the party and country are led by someone decent and honourable, that clearly isn't Mrs Leadsom
I don't think allowing someone to read too much into your job title is 'dishonourable'.
I believe tomorrow they're publishing the report in the Iraq war. Some actions there may qualify.
Chief Investment Officer is a very specific position.
Ask @rcs1000 what he would think of a potential employee at his form who claimed to be CIO when they weren't
Is that a role required by regulation (FSA?) to be filled by a named and accountable person? If so, and she's lied about it, she's probably toast.
From the article:
"But her job at Perpetual/Invesco Perpetual, 1999-2009, is particularly worthy of closer inspection. I was a fellow employee throughout her time there. Last week, at my prompting, she corrected her CV with Wikipedia and Who’sWho, changing her title from the obviously incorrect Chief Investment Officer to the titles of Senior Investment Officer and Head of Corporate Governance."
I'm starting to think that the Tory membership will go for Loathsome - too many of them will have been indoctrinated by this 'Must be a Leaver' / 'A Remainer will represent betrayal' thought control. Many too will look with envious eyes at UKIP's brand of frivolous political purity and will want to mimic, believing that the Kippers have more fun and can get away with stuff. I fear all this will happen.
Theresa pretty much has this sown up but if there's one thing that will do her in it's the quite obvious (and increasingly nasty) "Get Leadsom" campaign that is presumably being unleashed by Mrs May's team... Will the "establishment" over-play their hand AGAIN like they did in the referendum campaign?
God, I hope they don't organise the death of one of their supporters again.
I'm starting to think that the Tory membership will go for Loathsome - too many of them will have been indoctrinated by this 'Must be a Leaver' / 'A Remainer will represent betrayal' thought control. Many too will look with envious eyes at UKIP's brand of frivolous political purity and will want to mimic, believing that the Kippers have more fun and can get away with stuff. I fear all this will happen.
Theresa pretty much has this sown up but if there's one thing that will do her in it's the quite obvious (and increasingly nasty) "Get Leadsom" campaign that is presumably being unleashed by Mrs May's team
My gods - political rivals are trying to undermine each other? This is unprecedented and terrible behaviour!
I'm sure there's a metaphor to be made out about Andrea Leadsom's CV and the Leave campaign.
Your team lost. Get over it.
I am over it. I'm making sure the party and country are led by someone decent and honourable, that clearly isn't Mrs Leadsom
I don't think allowing someone to read too much into your job title is 'dishonourable'.
I believe tomorrow they're publishing the report in the Iraq war. Some actions there may qualify.
Chief Investment Officer is a very specific position.
Ask @rcs1000 what he would think of a potential employee at his form who claimed to be CIO when they weren't
Is that a role required by regulation (FSA?) to be filled by a named and accountable person? If so, and she's lied about it, she's probably toast.
From the article:
"But her job at Perpetual/Invesco Perpetual, 1999-2009, is particularly worthy of closer inspection. I was a fellow employee throughout her time there. Last week, at my prompting, she corrected her CV with Wikipedia and Who’sWho, changing her title from the obviously incorrect Chief Investment Officer to the titles of Senior Investment Officer and Head of Corporate Governance."
Thanks - if they were both eliminated that would save the coronation issue!
Although in practice the chances of two candidates tying twice in a row are about zero.
Sorry. I read that as "two candidate lying twice in a row...." Of course, both Leadsome and Gove were part of the infamous Johnson-Farage team, so perhaps my mistake was understandable.
What happens if Trump wins the national vote share but loses the electoral college? Civil war?
Hey, they have their dumb system and we have our dumb system, and neither is secret, what complaints can people have if that happens? Not saying it wouldn't lead to outrage, but they've presumably kept that system despite that possibility for a reason, and because most accept it.
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
A few weeks ago Assange said he had several thousand which hadn't been released to date by thr FBI, suggesting that she had held back things from the enquiry (she submitted the emails on paper!). It also begs the question of how Wikileaks got a copy of her mailbox in the first place - was it an employee of Clinton, or a foreign government?
What happens if Trump wins the national vote share but loses the electoral college? Civil war?
Hey, they have their dumb system and we have our dumb system, and neither is secret, what complaints can people have if that happens? Not saying it wouldn't lead to outrage, but they've presumably kept that system despite that possibility for a reason, and because most accept it.
I know no system is perfect but have you seen Trump's core supporters, they make ukippers look sane. At least most extreme liberals are against liberal gun laws.........
He was never serious about the "renegotiation". While he was pretending to "negotiate" with the EU, He and Osborne, and Mandelson and Cooper and Jack Straw's son were busy having cosy meetings setting everything up to keep us "IN"
Thus the "renegotiation" was a complete and utter farce and Cameron was being entirely disingenuous... As we all knew.
The political class took the public for fools and the public struck back. They were hoisted by their own blatant cynicism.
Worryingly it doesn't look like they've even begun to comprehend the lesson the GBP have dished out to them...
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
"If Leadsom wins, we must have an election Unlike May and Gove, a junior minister who wasn’t part of Cameron’s top team would lack legitimacy as prime minister"
I sent my CV in to a professional CV firm the other day, curious to see what they'd do to it. They changed "Served on the Northern Ireland Select Committee during the period of the peace process" to "Transformed the economy and political system of Northern Ireland".
If that's how people write CVs, Carney can claim to have prevented the mooted collapse of Western civilisation and World War 3.
... I was responsible for ruining the entire economy and political system of Northern Ireland ,,,
"If Leadsom wins, we must have an election Unlike May and Gove, a junior minister who wasn’t part of Cameron’s top team would lack legitimacy as prime minister"
Miller on stage... "two sets of rules, but the American people with be the ultimate decider on whether Clinton gets away with it. Remember, Clinton put your very LIFE at risk..."
Just a few hours now until Blair's date with Chilcot...
Blair led to Corbyn as LotO. He has a lot to answer for.
Many of the things that have happened in recent years can be traced back to Blair and the complete destruction of trust his cynical war unleashed.
Would brexit have happened if Blair didn't underestimate E.U migration. I think it would have, it wasn't that there was no planning it was that people were against the surge in migration all together, oddly Labour never got that.
An interesting piece by Danny Finkelstein in The Times today, arguing that a Leadsom win in the Tory leadership contest should necessitate the calling of a General Election.
Just a few hours now until Blair's date with Chilcot...
Blair led to Corbyn as LotO. He has a lot to answer for.
Many of the things that have happened in recent years can be traced back to Blair and the complete destruction of trust his cynical war unleashed.
Would brexit have happened if Blair didn't underestimate E.U migration. I think it would have, it wasn't that there was no planning it was that people were against the surge in migration all together, oddly Labour never got that.
He could have kept migration controls for 7 years after the major EU expansion but didn't. If that decision hadn't been made we wouldn't have the same cumulative volume of net migration and the perception of it as an issue would be very different.
Interesting tweet from The Sun's political editor.
The more I think about it, Stephen Crabb is the ideal candidate for working class Tories like myself that really warmed to David Cameron's One Nation Toryism
@tnewtondunn: Final thought on @scrabbmp: a thoroughly decent man who fought the right One Nation campaign and goes with dignity. He will be PM one day.
This 'thoroughly decent man' was one of the 'flippers' caught out in the 2009 Expenses scandal. So much for his Christian principles!
She is scarcely in touch with her own reality - let alone the reality of this situation.
No-one knows anything about Leadsom. And when they do, they shy away from her.
My comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek.
I am just sensitive on the subject of Leadsom - who represents too much of what I find distasteful about the Christian Right.
She is a car-crash waiting to happen. At least with Corbyn, Labour knew what they were getting (even if they didn't appreciate the consequences of that choice)
Is Mark Carney himself, with his voice of doom, causing the £ to drop further than it otherwise would, in order to justify his prophesy of disaster at a Brexit?
"Investor confidence was undermined by the Bank of England's warning that there was evidence that some of the risks it identified related to Brexit were already emerging." (BBC)
Is Mark Carney himself, with his voice of doom, causing the £ to drop further than it otherwise would, in order to justify his prophesy of disaster at a Brexit?
"Investor confidence was undermined by the Bank of England's warning that there was evidence that some of the risks it identified related to Brexit were already emerging." (BBC)
You guys are responsible for this slow motion car crash. Don't try to pass the blame.
If you want to make Britain the 6th largest economy in the world, vote Brexit. That should have been your honest slogan.
Is Mark Carney himself, with his voice of doom, causing the £ to drop further than it otherwise would, in order to justify his prophesy of disaster at a Brexit?
"Investor confidence was undermined by the Bank of England's warning that there was evidence that some of the risks it identified related to Brexit were already emerging." (BBC)
You guys are responsible for this slow motion car crash. Don't try to pass the blame.
If you want to make Britain the 6th largest economy in the world, vote Brexit. That should have been your honest slogan.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
Surely all this is priced in. Leadsom is politically inexperienced: she has not been an MP very long, and has only been a junior minister. Everyone knows that and the rest is just fluff.
She also branded Britain “such a miserable place so much of the time” in a web rant from August 12, 2006, after children were told off for skateboarding in Reading.
“Its (sic) situations like this that remind you why this country is such a miserable place so much of the time,” she fumed.
“Innocent and harmless fun is thwarted by the rules put in place to prevent the bad behaviour of a minority.”
She can't survive a comment like that... So long Andrea. We hardly knew you.
She also branded Britain “such a miserable place so much of the time” in a web rant from August 12, 2006, after children were told off for skateboarding in Reading.
“Its (sic) situations like this that remind you why this country is such a miserable place so much of the time,” she fumed.
“Innocent and harmless fun is thwarted by the rules put in place to prevent the bad behaviour of a minority.”
She can't survive a comment like that... So long Andrea. We hardly knew you.
Miserable might be the wrong word, but the overall sentiment is spot on. Death to the nanny state!
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
Surely all this is priced in. Leadsom is politically inexperienced: she has not been an MP very long, and has only been a junior minister. Everyone knows that and the rest is just fluff.
But she's a True BeLEAVEr and that counts a lot among the paranoid and her UKIP backers.
She also branded Britain “such a miserable place so much of the time” in a web rant from August 12, 2006, after children were told off for skateboarding in Reading.
“Its (sic) situations like this that remind you why this country is such a miserable place so much of the time,” she fumed.
“Innocent and harmless fun is thwarted by the rules put in place to prevent the bad behaviour of a minority.”
She can't survive a comment like that... So long Andrea. We hardly knew you.
Errr but she's quite right on both the skateboarding and the generalisation.
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
Yeah but Major was useless. You either have it or you don't.
How's your belief that we shouldn't underestimate Cameron coming along?
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
Yeah but Major was useless.
So useless he won the General Election in 1992?
Of course the Tories in Parliament then became useless because of Leadsomite in Chief and unqualified success IDS.....
She also branded Britain “such a miserable place so much of the time” in a web rant from August 12, 2006, after children were told off for skateboarding in Reading.
“Its (sic) situations like this that remind you why this country is such a miserable place so much of the time,” she fumed.
“Innocent and harmless fun is thwarted by the rules put in place to prevent the bad behaviour of a minority.”
She can't survive a comment like that... So long Andrea. We hardly knew you.
Errr but she's quite right on both the skateboarding and the generalisation.
Well quite... If this is what the Mirror is running as an attack piece it tells you something. From what I've seen so far Leadsom will win if she gets to face the party members. She's arguably the only one left in the race still capable of coming across as a normal human being.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Wasn't the same true of John Major's banking career?
Major had been in Parliament 21 years, CoE and Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Minister before he became PM - much more important (and of course who he wasn't) than his previous employment. Leadsom's pitch is in large part based on her - it would appear exaggerated- City career.
Yeah but Major was useless.
So useless he won the General Election in 1992?
Of course the Tories in Parliament then became useless because of Leadsomite in Chief and unqualified success IDS.....
Well, IDS did quite well at the ballot box. His problem was he was bloody useless in the House of Commons and got pasted at PMQs every week. Oh, and Betsygate. The popular narrative that Michael Howard saved the party does not really stand up to examination.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Leadsom could be the next Edith Cresson or the next Margaret Thatcher or anywhere in between. I suspect we will get chance to find out the answer.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Cameron became LOTO after a mere four years as an MP -- none in government.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Leadsom could be the next Edith Cresson or the next Margaret Thatcher or anywhere in between. I suspect we will get chance to find out the answer.
Right in the middle of BREXIT is the time to be making the experiment?
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Leadsom could be the next Edith Cresson or the next Margaret Thatcher or anywhere in between. I suspect we will get chance to find out the answer.
Right in the middle of BREXIT is the time to be making the experiment?
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Cameron became LOTO after a mere four years as an MP -- none in government.
And before that as a SPAD, helping prep PMQs and write the manifesto - vastly more experienced than Leadsom - and that was for LOTO not PM.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Cameron became LOTO after a mere four years as an MP -- none in government.
And before that as a SPAD, helping prep PMQs and write the manifesto - vastly more experienced than Leadsom - and that was for LOTO not PM.
Think yourself lucky that Louise Mensch decided to follow her heart. If she'd still been an MP, she could have been the one propelled by the Brexit campaign to the threshold of Number 10.
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
A few weeks ago Assange said he had several thousand which hadn't been released to date by thr FBI, suggesting that she had held back things from the enquiry (she submitted the emails on paper!). It also begs the question of how Wikileaks got a copy of her mailbox in the first place - was it an employee of Clinton, or a foreign government?
Or random hackers. Neither her setup nor the official State Department's one seems to have been very secure.
She has described her 25 years in financial services and running ‘enormous teams’ as evidence of her suitability for the roles.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
I guess this is where she needs her tax returns to show she was paid squillions during the period in question. Whether any of this makes her a better or worse candidate to succeed David Cameron (who was a SpAd with a spell in PR) is unclear.
Cameron was up for LOTO - not PM.
And in the 2010 general election Cameron became Prime Minister, despite having only a short spell in PR outside of politics. I'm not really sure where you are going with this because everyone knows Theresa May is Home Secretary and Andrea Leadom is only a junior minister. It is already factored in, even by those 66 MPs who voted for her.
Leadsom's CV is coming under scrutiny and there is less to it than meets the eye. Cameron was also vastly more experienced politically than Leadsom when he became LOTO, let alone PM.
Cameron became LOTO after a mere four years as an MP -- none in government.
And before that as a SPAD, helping prep PMQs and write the manifesto - vastly more experienced than Leadsom - and that was for LOTO not PM.
Think yourself lucky that Louise Mensch decided to follow her heart. If she'd still been an MP, she could have been the one propelled by the Brexit campaign to the threshold of Number 10.
That's a sobering thought!
What is it about BREXIT that attracts vacuous blondes?
"If Leadsom wins, we must have an election Unlike May and Gove, a junior minister who wasn’t part of Cameron’s top team would lack legitimacy as prime minister"
The stronger argument is that she doesn't appear to agree with chunks of it. Although now deficit reduction has been abandoned in favour of chase-the-business tax cutting, arguably that applies to all of them. In practice surely it will depend on the state of Labour? Chilcot must be handling their leadership crisis on the side.
I still think Leadsom won't publish all those tax returns. She'll wait to see if her support builds on Thursday, then pull out.
"Morgan Wright, a noted cybersecurity specialist, told Fox News today that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has claimed he has some of Hillary Clinton’s compromised e-mails and will release them."
A few weeks ago Assange said he had several thousand which hadn't been released to date by thr FBI, suggesting that she had held back things from the enquiry (she submitted the emails on paper!). It also begs the question of how Wikileaks got a copy of her mailbox in the first place - was it an employee of Clinton, or a foreign government?
Are these new emails or the ones wikileaks published the other day -- which it turned out had already been released by the US government?
The view on conhome seemed to be that people dropping out doesn't necessarily accelerate the process and they have decided to allow more time for campaigning and vote again next Tuesday. It surprised me - it was only in the comments section so may only be one person's opinion, but no-one there challenged it as wrong.
Since the member ballot dates have already been published, it may be right, however.
The view on conhome seemed to be that people dropping out doesn't necessarily accelerate the process and they have decided to allow more time for campaigning and vote again next Tuesday. It surprised me - it was only in the comments section so may only be one person's opinion, but no-one there challenged it as wrong.
Since the member ballot dates have already been published, it may be right, however.
UKIPhome is Leadsomite central and will wish for anything that improves her chances - though I'm not sure increasing scrutiny is going to do that....
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"But her job at Perpetual/Invesco Perpetual, 1999-2009, is particularly worthy of closer inspection. I was a fellow employee throughout her time there. Last week, at my prompting, she corrected her CV with Wikipedia and Who’sWho, changing her title from the obviously incorrect Chief Investment Officer to the titles of Senior Investment Officer and Head of Corporate Governance."
http://reaction.life/was-andrea-leadsom-really-such-a-city-hotshot/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PSI34knls
Edit to add: although I'd use that as excuse to dump all my poor stock picks on the poor sod.
But I'm not sure the FSA cares what is on wiki so long as she doesn't lie on a filing with them.
Who's Who is another matter altogether.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437489/hillary-clinton-extremely-reckless-behavior-should-deny-her-security-clearance
Might not be over after all.
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/750426848715309057
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/how-remain-failed-inside-story-doomed-campaign
He was never serious about the "renegotiation". While he was pretending to "negotiate" with the EU, He and Osborne, and Mandelson and Cooper and Jack Straw's son were busy having cosy meetings setting everything up to keep us "IN"
Thus the "renegotiation" was a complete and utter farce and Cameron was being entirely disingenuous... As we all knew.
The political class took the public for fools and the public struck back. They were hoisted by their own blatant cynicism.
Worryingly it doesn't look like they've even begun to comprehend the lesson the GBP have dished out to them...
Which foreign intelligence service would have an interest in getting Trump elected?
"If Leadsom wins, we must have an election
Unlike May and Gove, a junior minister who wasn’t part of Cameron’s top team would lack legitimacy as prime minister"
http://linkis.com/www.thetimes.co.uk/a/MD6LO
"two sets of rules, but the American people with be the ultimate decider on whether Clinton gets away with it. Remember, Clinton put your very LIFE at risk..."
http://news.sky.com/story/1722101/iraq-inquiry-chilcot-hints-at-report-criticism
Just a few hours now until Blair's date with Chilcot...
I think it would have, it wasn't that there was no planning it was that people were against the surge in migration all together, oddly Labour never got that.
Brexiters brought us to this. Recession by Q1 2017. You guys just fucked it up.
No-one knows anything about Leadsom. And when they do, they shy away from her.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/politics/market/1.101193124
She is a car-crash waiting to happen. At least with Corbyn, Labour knew what they were getting (even if they didn't appreciate the consequences of that choice)
A Leadsom leadership would be scary.
still puzzles me why they have infrastructure like mobile networks. Is there a good reason to keep it all switched on?
"Investor confidence was undermined by the Bank of England's warning that there was evidence that some of the risks it identified related to Brexit were already emerging." (BBC)
If you want to make Britain the 6th largest economy in the world, vote Brexit. That should have been your honest slogan.
"Investors have been buying into commercial property funds to try to benefit from the 40% rise in commercial property prices since the 2009 crisis. "
I have this awful feeling that if it's May vs Gove, Gove will win.
Prominent supporter Bernard Jenkin has cited her senior position at ‘a large investment firm where she was responsible for managing hundreds of people and billions of pounds’.
But the Times said that during ten years at the investment fund Invesco Perpetual, from 1999 to 2009, she did not have any role in managing funds or advising clients.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3676271/Does-Angela-Leadsom-s-CV-stack-Leadership-contender-s-backers-accused-making-claims-City-career-not-stand-up.html
“Its (sic) situations like this that remind you why this country is such a miserable place so much of the time,” she fumed.
“Innocent and harmless fun is thwarted by the rules put in place to prevent the bad behaviour of a minority.”
She can't survive a comment like that... So long Andrea. We hardly knew you.
How's your belief that we shouldn't underestimate Cameron coming along?
Currently ABC are projecting Coalition 74, Lab 71, Others 5, but say 75/76 to 69/70 is now possible.
Of course the Tories in Parliament then became useless because of Leadsomite in Chief and unqualified success IDS.....
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/may-s-supporters-accused-of-rigging-vote-to-favour-gove-63bkvfwtt
What is it about BREXIT that attracts vacuous blondes?
I still think Leadsom won't publish all those tax returns. She'll wait to see if her support builds on Thursday, then pull out.
Since the member ballot dates have already been published, it may be right, however.