Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
And you think I couldn't do that?
it's rather I doubt Eagles could afford the hourly rate :-)
You're very naughty and I'm going to have to punish you.
Anyway, in 29 minutes I shall be taking my team for some Paddy's Day drinks, paid out of my Sandown Park winnings from last weekend.
All this gassing about when there is serious drinking to be done..... Honestly!
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
And you think I couldn't do that?
*Rushes off to bathe his wrists in cold water at the thought that you could*
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Mr. Rex, Camillus et al. seemed to quite enjoy it.
Dictators have had a bad name, but the original office was of tremendous benefit to the Roman Republic.
In Rome and Italy, by Livy, there's a bizarre juxtaposition between ruthless pragmatism, and the Romans fearing they'd offended the gods and appointing a dictator for the specific purpose of hammering in a nail to appease the divinities (the dictator, who was all-powerful, then immediately resigning).
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
In the later broadcasts from the Oval Office the body language seemed strained. Merkel started to talk to Trump but he didn't engage. The press conference at 5.20pm (UK time) tonight should be interesting
There are some obvious reasons why GO will have conflicts of interests.
But the argument he can't properly look after the interests of his constituents is daft. Who would you prefer fighting your corner---an anonymous backbench MP, or a high-profile ex-chancellor who is now a newspaper editor?
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Incidentally, I think the suggestion that the Standard under Osborne's no-doubt charismatic leadership will be hostile to Sadiq Khan is likely to prove very far from the mark. I'd expect rather the reverse, in fact.
But, but... what about the huuuuge differences between the two major parties at GE2015?!
Your Oval Office announcements about the devastation a labour govt would have caused to our portfolios?! ☺
That would have been Ed Miliband dancing to Nicola Sturgeon's tune. Sadiq Khan strikes me as much more sensible than Ed Miliband, and he's not dependent on the SNP or loony-left MPs. Definitely on the saner end of the Labour spectrum, and he's recently been saying some sensible things about protecting the City and London generally.
This idea that Osborne was deliberately humiliated by May is trite.
I hold no candle for May but Osborne had to leave the government, certainly in the short term.
Osborne threw 100% of his weight behind Remain. He was completely loyal to Cameron and sacrificed his career for the Remain cause. He deserves credit for that. He didn't vacillate or hedge his bets, he did all he could to help Remain win.
That inevitably led to him announcing things that put him at odds with the Tory back-benches (and many natural Tory supporters). The Emergency Budget farrago being a prime example. Osborne knew the emergency budget would never be delivered by him, but threw himself on his sword in a last-gasp bid to save the government. So if Remain was to fall, he knew he'd be going down with it.
So as the newly installed PM May could never have kept Osborne as Chancellor in a Brexit government, not given all that had gone on in the campaign. Foreign Secretary too - despite being a job Osborne coveted - became impossible under the new circumstances. So it was either a big demotion or the back-benches. And I think Osborne would've chosen the back-benches anyway.
I think it was inevitable that Osborne had to leave government with Cameron, rather than a straight humiliation. I also think May will reappoint him.
There are some obvious reasons why GO will have conflicts of interests.
But the argument he can't properly look after the interests of his constituents is daft. Who would you prefer fighting your corner---an anonymous backbench MP, or a high-profile ex-chancellor who is now a newspaper editor?
A newspaper editor in a different city, with the interests of a different city at heart. How strongly is George going to be in arguing for investment in the north now? If he had become editor of the MEN it might be a different story.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Come the revolution, my ambition is to be the first one against the wall.
After WWII the Nazi death list for occupied Britain was found - Communists, Trades Unionists, homosexuals and so forth. As Noel Coward remarked "To think, the people we'd have been seen dead with"
This is quite a substantive job. I don't think that there is any chance George would have taken it if he thought that there was any chance of him being offered a senior post by the government in the near future. Which is a pity. There is a dearth of talent in our politics generally, not just in the Labour Party, and it is too valuable to waste like this.
Indeed. But talent needs to come tempered with good judgement. Ozzy got the national view and doing what is right badly wrong. So he had to go. Bit like that Bank of England lady. Super clever but an idiot.
arrogant idiot at that , both of them, totally wrong that these effete elite tos**** get handed top jobs purely on their silver spooned upbringing
Check out five-pensions Eck's extra-parliamentary earnings. At least the Tories get rid of their losers.
its eeyore, get over it Monica , get a job , work hard and get your own pensions instead of fixating on others who have done it.
Professional Nat Eck is as happy as a pig at trough in Westminster and on the LBC, laughing up his sleeve at gullible mugs like you.
Like him I am busy working and paying my way Monica, not whining and whinging about others. Go earn a living rather than fixating on others.
Mr. Fenster, May could only reappoint Osborne if he quit his new editing job, and probably most/all of his other ones too.
Yep. I reckon it'll be a three year hiatus. Back after GE2020.
I don't think he can return till then. There was too much ill-feeling that needed to be fixed after the referendum campaign and the enforced absences of Osborne and Gove was key to it.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
Come the revolution, my ambition is to be the first one against the wall.
After WWII the Nazi death list for occupied Britain was found - Communists, Trades Unionists, homosexuals and so forth. As Noel Coward remarked "To think, the people we'd have been seen dead with"
Boy Scouts as well. They were regarded as a highly subversive group by the Nazis.
As a long-time London commuter I have lived through all of London's various newspaper wars as various rivals to the Standard came and went, and prices rose and fell according to the competition. I am struck by how long it took the ES to finally arrive at a price that reflected the value of the contents.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
I'm not keen on Dominatrices.
I learned the hard way that 'mower' is really bad choice as safe word.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
I'm not keen on Dominatrices.
I learned the hard way that 'mower' is really bad choice as safe word.
Incidentally, I think the suggestion that the Standard under Osborne's no-doubt charismatic leadership will be hostile to Sadiq Khan is likely to prove very far from the mark. I'd expect rather the reverse, in fact.
But, but... what about the huuuuge differences between the two major parties at GE2015?!
Your Oval Office announcements about the devastation a labour govt would have caused to our portfolios?! ☺
That would have been Ed Miliband dancing to Nicola Sturgeon's tune. Sadiq Khan strikes me as much more sensible than Ed Miliband, and he's not dependent on the SNP or loony-left MPs. Definitely on the saner end of the Labour spectrum, and he's recently been saying some sensible things about protecting the City and London generally.
A government spearheaded by George Osborne and Sadiq Khan would work for me.
Incidentally, I think the suggestion that the Standard under Osborne's no-doubt charismatic leadership will be hostile to Sadiq Khan is likely to prove very far from the mark. I'd expect rather the reverse, in fact.
But, but... what about the huuuuge differences between the two major parties at GE2015?!
Your Oval Office announcements about the devastation a labour govt would have caused to our portfolios?! ☺
That would have been Ed Miliband dancing to Nicola Sturgeon's tune. Sadiq Khan strikes me as much more sensible than Ed Miliband, and he's not dependent on the SNP or loony-left MPs. Definitely on the saner end of the Labour spectrum, and he's recently been saying some sensible things about protecting the City and London generally.
A government spearheaded by George Osborne and Sadiq Khan would work for me.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
I'm not keen on Dominatrices.
I learned the hard way that 'mower' is really bad choice as safe word.
Incidentally, I think the suggestion that the Standard under Osborne's no-doubt charismatic leadership will be hostile to Sadiq Khan is likely to prove very far from the mark. I'd expect rather the reverse, in fact.
But, but... what about the huuuuge differences between the two major parties at GE2015?!
Your Oval Office announcements about the devastation a labour govt would have caused to our portfolios?! ☺
That would have been Ed Miliband dancing to Nicola Sturgeon's tune. Sadiq Khan strikes me as much more sensible than Ed Miliband, and he's not dependent on the SNP or loony-left MPs. Definitely on the saner end of the Labour spectrum, and he's recently been saying some sensible things about protecting the City and London generally.
A government spearheaded by George Osborne and Sadiq Khan would work for me.
Bob, you need help
We all do. We could do worse than this dynamic duo.
Mr. Bojabob, I am somewhat surprised that you now consider Osborne to be half of a dynamic duo. I'd say I was flabbergasted, but the threshold for such things has been dramatically recalibrated.
Anyway, now that it's clear that the meritocracy we live in is one where a total lack of knowledge and experience is no bar to a job, I'm expecting to be appointed Editor of the Times this evening, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons on Monday and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday.
After all, I've written a few thread headers, had more than 10 operations and have an Economics degree. In truth, I'm over qualified.
God knows what I'll do with the rest of my free time, though.
Have you considered standing for Parliament?
A number of people have suggested it. As a joke, I imagine.
I am uncontrollable and know and speak my own mind plus I have more skeletons than cupboards to put them in. So the chances of me being chosen - even if I went for it - are about the same as the chances of me being picked for the UK Athletics team.
If TSE ever becomes Benevolent Dictator I shall be his Consigliere and tell him what to do.
I suspect he's thinking more of a dominatrix
I'm not keen on Dominatrices.
I learned the hard way that 'mower' is really bad choice as safe word.
Lol.
More! More!
Much safer to choose something like Louise
But if followed by Mensch, the choke hold gets tighter.
Osborne appears to want to be everything all at once, keep a hand in just incase the Party bring him back into the top team, a great leader of business and a publishing titan. I doubt his ability to manage the workload.....ok, I think he will half arse most of it whilst waiting for May to retire. Or be retired.
Mr. Urquhart, not a Brown fan, but I rather prefer his low key approach to post-political life [though he did disturb that to call for more Leveson tosh].
Mr. Urquhart, not a Brown fan, but I rather prefer his low key approach to post-political life [though he did disturb that to call for more Leveson tosh].
Not sure it is through choice...we all know he wanted that big IMF job.
Does anyone fancy starting one of those government e petitions to get Osborne kicked out of parliament?
The epetition to stop the Scots referendum is over 175,000 but the breakdown map is very interesting with the biggest support from the North East and Aberdeen where the SNP conference is being held
I think what most of us need to grasp is that a newspaper 'editor' doesn't actually edit the newspaper.
Mostly they do! I'd guess there's a well paid deputy editor at the Standard who's going to be the one actually making sure the paper goes out on time!
My idea of editing is to go through something with a red pen, making corrections and alterations. Good luck to Ozzy if he plans on doing that 5 mornings a week before the London Lunchtime Standard goes to press.
I think what most of us need to grasp is that a newspaper 'editor' doesn't actually edit the newspaper.
Mostly they do! I'd guess there's a well paid deputy editor at the Standard who's going to be the one actually making sure the paper goes out on time!
My idea of editing is to go through something with a red pen, making corrections and alterations. Good luck to Ozzy if he plans on doing that 5 mornings a week before the London Lunchtime Standard goes to press.
Does anyone fancy starting one of those government e petitions to get Osborne kicked out of parliament?
The epetition to stop the Scots referendum is over 175,000 but the breakdown map is very interesting with the biggest support from the North East and Aberdeen where the SNP conference is being held
I'd imagine the 42K+ from the rUK makes up the biggest single bloc of support.
Does anyone fancy starting one of those government e petitions to get Osborne kicked out of parliament?
The epetition to stop the Scots referendum is over 175,000 but the breakdown map is very interesting with the biggest support from the North East and Aberdeen where the SNP conference is being held
I'd imagine the 42K+ from the rUK makes up the biggest single bloc of support.
If 42K come from rUK then by my maths 133K come from Scotland itself
The interesting dynamic now is that the Tories don't need the support of London, politically speaking.
They can basically get a majority from provincial England and Wales............
They need London's tax revenues though.
Yes, but those will flow anyway until someone gets serious about a London independence party. For now it is basically a hostage capital.
London has no right to independence.
It is the ancient capital of England (and the UK) and belongs to the country, and neither can survive without each other.
California is more likely to secede from the US given it now has its own secessionist party than London is to leave the UK given there is no London secessionist movement
I see Theresa May is considering intervening in the energy market.
I thought that was destructive Marxism?
Compare Ed's energy price freeze with May's desire for greater competition.
Ed also wanted to break up the big energy companies to increase competition, but hey, why evaluate a policy on its merits when you can just look at who it's coming from...
I do think this is the reason Labour bucked the trend in London during GE 2015.
Yup. A generation of relatively well-off young people, earning £25-£35k, who will have to perpetually rent, many house-sharing.
That ratio is for singles, most people first buy as a couple unless they have parental support or a particularly well paid job, certainly beyond a 1 bed flat
I do think this is the reason Labour bucked the trend in London during GE 2015.
Yup. A generation of relatively well-off young people, earning £25-£35k, who will have to perpetually rent, many house-sharing.
At some point in their 30s, they will realise that they only earn enough to exist in London, rather than live. They will then move out to the provinces, eventually get on the housing ladder and silently (or not so silently) resent those in a better position.
This isn't a new phenomenon, but rising rents are making it more common.
Does anyone fancy starting one of those government e petitions to get Osborne kicked out of parliament?
The epetition to stop the Scots referendum is over 175,000 but the breakdown map is very interesting with the biggest support from the North East and Aberdeen where the SNP conference is being held
I'd imagine the 42K+ from the rUK makes up the biggest single bloc of support.
If 42K come from rUK then by my maths 133K come from Scotland itself
Oh sorry, my mistake, I'd assumed by 'the biggest support from the North East and Aberdeen' you meant the biggest support came the North East and Aberdeen.
At least one prominent German economist foresees significant pitfalls for his country if it handles EU change, including Brexit, badly.
The spectre of an increasingly divided Europe is drawn with Germany entering into a one-sided dependency relationship with club med (incl. France) once the UK departs.
The 'protectionist' instincts of Macron and the promotion of 'two-speed' Europe driven by Brussels and the Eurozone risks losing the Scandinavians and Eastern Europeans.
Meanwhile, the loss of the UK changes the size of the competing free trade/protectionist blocs which has repercussions for EU decision making under the Lisbon Treaty.
Mr. Chestnut, the points on QMV and shifting power are probably right, but also fairly obvious.
It's an intriguing counter-factual to think of what Cameron would've got had he been willing to campaign for Leave if he didn't get a good enough deal.
Can we assume that nobody still thinks that the support of Mr 'London through and through' for HS2 wasn't about benefiting London ?
*You* can assume nothing of the sort. HS2 will benefit more than just London. And Osborne's promotion of infrastructure in the north has been obvious to anyone with eyes.
However, it will be interesting to see if this changes now.
Mr. HYUFD, important to consider blame. If we get, or are perceived to get, a bad deal then the critical point is whether the electorate assign blame to an intransigent EU or an inept negotiation by the UK Government.
Nice try but that's clearly a completely different situation to taking on a full time job in the private sector while remaining an MP for a constituency hundreds of miles away from said full time job.
So you're saying The Treasury was based in Cheshire and not 1 Horse Guards Road, Westminster, London SW1A 2HQ when Osborne was Chancellor?
No. The chance of a Cabinet job goes with being an MP. Unless we bring the Cabinet in from the private sector (probably not a bad idea?) MP's from the governing party have to fill those positions.
Osborne taking a full time job in the private sector while remaining MP for Tatton is a completely different scenario...
The unwritten rule is cabinet members tend to be from safe seats. Marginals require MP to spend time with voters. Ed Miliband and Peter Mandleson probably don't even know where their constituencies are/were!
Three out of four placed horses ain't bad and after his noteworthy success yesterday, the above picks were certainly profitable for those, like me, who backed them place only on the Betfair exchange.
Thanks and well done!
Maybe we have another star punter in the making .... let's hope so.
I do think this is the reason Labour bucked the trend in London during GE 2015.
Yup. A generation of relatively well-off young people, earning £25-£35k, who will have to perpetually rent, many house-sharing.
At some point in their 30s, they will realise that they only earn enough to exist in London, rather than live. They will then move out to the provinces, eventually get on the housing ladder and silently (or not so silently) resent those in a better position.
This isn't a new phenomenon, but rising rents are making it more common.
Moving out to the suburbs and Home Counties from inner London is what people have always done to get a more affordable property
Just back from Gorton. The Lib Dems had the official opening of their HQ this morning. I hear the campaign will be based on Brexit, bins, and the bloody council! I would also have a little wager that potholes might figure - they are everwhere.
Mr. HYUFD, important to consider blame. If we get, or are perceived to get, a bad deal then the critical point is whether the electorate assign blame to an intransigent EU or an inept negotiation by the UK Government.
The key point from the poll is control of immigration is the main priority, voters also back May's view that no deal is better than a bad deal. However less than half believe ending all contributions to the EU is key so if May does compromise for a reasonable deal that is likely to be where it is done
Trump's proposal for NASA's budget seems reasonable: a sub-1% decrease. However there is one part that seems really odd. The DSCOVR satellite was launched in 2015, and observes Earth and the surrounding space from about a million miles away. The satellite's doing good work, yet it's budget is being cut so it will have to be mothballed.
The money it was costing NASA to operate? 1.2 million per year. That's million, not billion.
I'll also miss the Asteroid Redirect Mission, but I think I'm about the only person who'll miss that ...
Can we assume that nobody still thinks that the support of Mr 'London through and through' for HS2 wasn't about benefiting London ?
*You* can assume nothing of the sort. HS2 will benefit more than just London. And Osborne's promotion of infrastructure in the north has been obvious to anyone with eyes.
However, it will be interesting to see if this changes now.
As HS2 is being built from London northwards we can certainly assume it will benefit London first.
And there's more to promotion of infrastructure than endless photostunts in unnecessary hi-vis jackets and helmets.
Still, fair's fair, there's been more new roads opened in South Yorkshire in the last five years than Labour managed in government.
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Anyway, in 29 minutes I shall be taking my team for some Paddy's Day drinks, paid out of my Sandown Park winnings from last weekend.
All this gassing about when there is serious drinking to be done..... Honestly!
https://twitter.com/cnn/status/842763581884055554
Dictators have had a bad name, but the original office was of tremendous benefit to the Roman Republic.
In Rome and Italy, by Livy, there's a bizarre juxtaposition between ruthless pragmatism, and the Romans fearing they'd offended the gods and appointing a dictator for the specific purpose of hammering in a nail to appease the divinities (the dictator, who was all-powerful, then immediately resigning).
Sounds interesting ;-)
Filth
But the argument he can't properly look after the interests of his constituents is daft. Who would you prefer fighting your corner---an anonymous backbench MP, or a high-profile ex-chancellor who is now a newspaper editor?
(Still creating them......)
I hold no candle for May but Osborne had to leave the government, certainly in the short term.
Osborne threw 100% of his weight behind Remain. He was completely loyal to Cameron and sacrificed his career for the Remain cause. He deserves credit for that. He didn't vacillate or hedge his bets, he did all he could to help Remain win.
That inevitably led to him announcing things that put him at odds with the Tory back-benches (and many natural Tory supporters). The Emergency Budget farrago being a prime example. Osborne knew the emergency budget would never be delivered by him, but threw himself on his sword in a last-gasp bid to save the government. So if Remain was to fall, he knew he'd be going down with it.
So as the newly installed PM May could never have kept Osborne as Chancellor in a Brexit government, not given all that had gone on in the campaign. Foreign Secretary too - despite being a job Osborne coveted - became impossible under the new circumstances. So it was either a big demotion or the back-benches. And I think Osborne would've chosen the back-benches anyway.
I think it was inevitable that Osborne had to leave government with Cameron, rather than a straight humiliation. I also think May will reappoint him.
If he had become editor of the MEN it might be a different story.
I don't think he can return till then. There was too much ill-feeling that needed to be fixed after the referendum campaign and the enforced absences of Osborne and Gove was key to it.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-shouldnt-write-off-george-osborne-evening-standard-editor-if-youre-anti-brexit-1612256
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39301963
This is how the conservative party dies.
Heart of stone, etc.
Man dies charging iPhone while in the bath
I learned the hard way that 'mower' is really bad choice as safe word.
More! More!
Good piece by Campbell on Ozzy.
'An indifference to liberal democracy is starting to form in parts of Europe."
But it's Blair talking about 'populism'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4324838/Blair-returns-launch-institute.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK
I doubt his ability to manage the workload.....ok, I think he will half arse most of it whilst waiting for May to retire. Or be retired.
Mr. 86, no. But if the petition to create 100 foot tall robot of Margaret Thatcher weren't taken down, I would've been tempted to sign it.
Edited extra bit: I do think there are problems with Osborne having the various gigs he does, but petitions are generally overused.
I thought that was destructive Marxism?
Google's Allo App Can Reveal To Your Friends What You've Searched
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/03/17/1615231/googles-allo-app-can-reveal-to-your-friends-what-youve-searched
This isn't a new phenomenon, but rising rents are making it more common.
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/842801472953827338
At least one prominent German economist foresees significant pitfalls for his country if it handles EU change, including Brexit, badly.
The spectre of an increasingly divided Europe is drawn with Germany entering into a one-sided dependency relationship with club med (incl. France) once the UK departs.
The 'protectionist' instincts of Macron and the promotion of 'two-speed' Europe driven by Brussels and the Eurozone risks losing the Scandinavians and Eastern Europeans.
Meanwhile, the loss of the UK changes the size of the competing free trade/protectionist blocs which has repercussions for EU decision making under the Lisbon Treaty.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/just-44-think-theresa-may-will-get-a-good-deal-on-brexit-a3492401.html?amp
It's an intriguing counter-factual to think of what Cameron would've got had he been willing to campaign for Leave if he didn't get a good enough deal.
However, it will be interesting to see if this changes now.
I believe they offered guacamole especially for him.
2.10 Vosne Romanee - UNPLACED
3.30 Native River - PLACED
4.10 Wonderful Charm - PLACED
5.30 Dandridge - PLACED
Three out of four placed horses ain't bad and after his noteworthy success yesterday, the above picks were certainly profitable for those, like me, who backed them place only on the Betfair exchange.
Thanks and well done!
Maybe we have another star punter in the making .... let's hope so.
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I'm not at all annoyed with myself that I weighed up backing them, but decided against it due to my dodgy horse-racing record.
2. Mrs May probably on the back benches in 18 months
Trump's proposal for NASA's budget seems reasonable: a sub-1% decrease. However there is one part that seems really odd. The DSCOVR satellite was launched in 2015, and observes Earth and the surrounding space from about a million miles away. The satellite's doing good work, yet it's budget is being cut so it will have to be mothballed.
The money it was costing NASA to operate? 1.2 million per year. That's million, not billion.
I'll also miss the Asteroid Redirect Mission, but I think I'm about the only person who'll miss that ...
If you want to know the sort of picture DSCVR can take, then here's one of the far side of the moon in front of the Earth:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/epicearthmoonstill.png
Mr. HYUFD, indeed.
And there's more to promotion of infrastructure than endless photostunts in unnecessary hi-vis jackets and helmets.
Still, fair's fair, there's been more new roads opened in South Yorkshire in the last five years than Labour managed in government.