Donald J Trump I am not trying to get "top level security clearance" for my children. This was a typically false news story.
CNN just appears to be one big smear campaign to me, they've forgotten that they're supposed to report the bloody news, not try and make it.
Their analysis on the night was something else though. Phenominally good, also the New York Times Website was excellent.
CNN credited CBS who quoted "sources" as saying The Trump team has asked the White House to explore the possibility of getting his children the top secret security clearances which is all vague enough to be false or true but with plausible deniability. In unrelated news, CBS interviewed the Trump children.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
@cgwOMT: Have said this repeatedly- unpicking relationship with EU will take 10 years & that's assuming Repeal Bill passes w/o significant amendment twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
Leaving might take years, triggering article 50 though?
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
@cgwOMT: Have said this repeatedly- unpicking relationship with EU will take 10 years & that's assuming Repeal Bill passes w/o significant amendment twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
If it takes ten years then something must be fundamentally borken with the process.
"Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly ordered the removal of all lobbyists from president-elect Donald Trump's transition team, The Wall Street Journal wrote on Tuesday night.
The decision was one of Pence's first since formally taking over the team's lead role. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was abruptly dismissed from the post last week.
A shrewd move by Pence in these fibril times, especially with a hostile media attempting to set the news agenda, rather than just report it.
I gather Christie had given the nod to several dozen lobby types, stupidity on a stick IMO.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
No surprise they didn't bring it up before, they didn't think any of it through.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
@cgwOMT: Have said this repeatedly- unpicking relationship with EU will take 10 years & that's assuming Repeal Bill passes w/o significant amendment twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
If it takes ten years then something must be fundamentally borken with the process.
Its unpicking the relationship with the EU in a way that doesn't do huge amounts of hard in the process. Leaving would be easy if we were prepared to take the damage.
The UK Government obviously won't accept the premise that it's a choice between less damaging or more damaging, because that raises the question of why are we Brexiting to be worse off in immediate practical terms.
That's why the ostensibly sensible Leavers are so touchy.
In their heart they want to start. In their guts they know it's nuts.
In the head rather than the heart, I think. It's hard to get excited about damage limitation and choosing the least worst option, particularly when you were arguing against getting yourself into this situation in the first place.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
@cgwOMT: Have said this repeatedly- unpicking relationship with EU will take 10 years & that's assuming Repeal Bill passes w/o significant amendment twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
There is a difference between triggering Article 50 and subsequently revising the EU legislation which we will initially adopt.
Mr. 43, unless you believed leaving the EU would entail short term pain for long term gain.
The idea all Leave voters thought we'd sail away on a golden sea of boundless prosperity is not true. I compared it, pre-vote, to having a dislocated shoulder put back in. Bloody hurts, but is better than the alternative.
I only just saw McDonnells remarks coming onboard with Brexit saying it's a huge opportunity. Quite significant, it shows labour won't oppose or frustrate the process, not in big numbers, so why are the Tories dragging their kitten heels?
Big opportunity for the Lib Dems as Labour vacate anti brexit ground. Their trick to look credible is to argue explicitly for an EEA model with full FoM rather than all this second vote crap. Seems more feasible/realistic. Embrace the difference with the other two, Iraq War style
Bedfordshire Police has had a massive custard pie in the face this morning with its new Islamphobia campaign.
The logo they used apparently included the one-finger raised gesture ISIS use. Lots of pix of this gesture were sent to them and now they've deleted the whole thing.
Apart from the PC idiocy of thought policing about a religion - one would expect them to spot such a gesture on such a touchy subject.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
I think she is flying a flag - hypothesis to test. She didn't sound confident about it. The law wouldn't have been tested if the Government had put Article 50 in front of Parliament in the first place. Which would have been the right thing for them to have done, as well as being in their interests.
Incidentally, Lady Hale's comment about triggering Article 50 requiring years of legislation is dubious. Nobody even hinted at that pre-vote or after the result, until now.
@cgwOMT: Have said this repeatedly- unpicking relationship with EU will take 10 years & that's assuming Repeal Bill passes w/o significant amendment twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
If it takes ten years then something must be fundamentally borken with the process.
Its unpicking the relationship with the EU in a way that doesn't do huge amounts of hard in the process. Leaving would be easy if we were prepared to take the damage.
If it takes ten years to unpick, then that's ten years of uncertainty and damage to the economy. I can't believe it would ten years; and if it's right, it's just another piece of evidence supporting Quick Exit.
Otherwise the long-term uncertainty will kill inwards investment. Let investors know where they stand, and let's make the UK as attractive as possible to them. We may lose some advantages from whatever deal we get or don't get; we need to offset these using the extra powers that leaving the EU has given us (according to leavers).
After Wolf's obvious WTF ten minutes - he manned up and carried on. The analyst was superb.
Alternativly you could have watched on David "Will the Democrats win California" Dimbleby BBC if you fancy losing your shirt !
I managed about 5mins of BBC coverage - Vine dancing about, and just the whole tone made me turn over to CNN. At least I can filter out their bias and know they know what's going on. I'd have preferred to watch Andrew Neil - but the rest of it was too stupid to endure.
Mr. 43, unless you believed leaving the EU would entail short term pain for long term gain.
The idea all Leave voters thought we'd sail away on a golden sea of boundless prosperity is not true. I compared it, pre-vote, to having a dislocated shoulder put back in. Bloody hurts, but is better than the alternative.
Perfectly legitimate argument to make. Is the Government making it and do people accept it?
Extra bit and more importantly: Are they addressing negotiations in a realistic way so the "dislocation" is as mild as it can be? Answer: No.
I only just saw McDonnells remarks coming onboard with Brexit saying it's a huge opportunity. Quite significant, it shows labour won't oppose or frustrate the process, not in big numbers, so why are the Tories dragging their kitten heels?
I'm not so sure. Labour's mostly been out of the news over the last month or so, whilst the government's few problems have been front-page news. There will be some Labour supporters drifting back because Labour's internal problems have quietened down.
That's not a situation I expect to last, though.
Maybe it's because Corbyn's not been on the TV for the last month. Miliband only got 30.6% at the GE.
A friend has dinner last night with a former NY Governor who knows Trump well. Talked about the wall.
Said that Trump has no intention of building it. He dealt with him many times in NY - standard MO was to open with an outrageous ask to rock you back on your heels & frame the discussion.
The wall is just that - he wants Mexico to respond with a proposal.
A friend has dinner last night with a former NY Governor who knows Trump well. Talked about the wall.
Said that Trump has no intention of building it. He dealt with him many times in NY - standard MO was to open with an outrageous ask to rock you back on your heels & frame the discussion.
The wall is just that - he wants Mexico to respond with a proposal.
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It may be a chap on Twitter did so, but people on Twitter say a lot of things.
Edited extra bit: NB I'm speaking specifically of triggering Article 50.
Pence was dead right to bin them.
The idea all Leave voters thought we'd sail away on a golden sea of boundless prosperity is not true. I compared it, pre-vote, to having a dislocated shoulder put back in. Bloody hurts, but is better than the alternative.
NEW THREAD
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/l07.pdf
Blimey indeed.
Big opportunity for the Lib Dems as Labour vacate anti brexit ground. Their trick to look credible is to argue explicitly for an EEA model with full FoM rather than all this second vote crap. Seems more feasible/realistic. Embrace the difference with the other two, Iraq War style
Pictures please.
Otherwise the long-term uncertainty will kill inwards investment. Let investors know where they stand, and let's make the UK as attractive as possible to them. We may lose some advantages from whatever deal we get or don't get; we need to offset these using the extra powers that leaving the EU has given us (according to leavers).
Extra bit and more importantly: Are they addressing negotiations in a realistic way so the "dislocation" is as mild as it can be? Answer: No.
Discuss. Do not write on both sides of the paper at the same time.
https://twitter.com/davieclegg/status/798858220227817472
Said that Trump has no intention of building it. He dealt with him many times in NY - standard MO was to open with an outrageous ask to rock you back on your heels & frame the discussion.
The wall is just that - he wants Mexico to respond with a proposal.