Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
Corbyn demonstrates that. Nobody thinks he's other than an idiot. He's used the democratic process (albeit massively manipulated) to become the Labour leader. He's then raised a barrage of no content to convince the masses.
Of course it's not actually him. Quite who it is should worry us all.
The alternatives to democracy tend to produce worse outcomes.
China (after admittedly decades of appalling government) appears to have come up with an efficient non-democratic system. The key seems to be forcing the leadership to change every 10 years.
By our standards, China's governance is still pretty grim. People are still subject to the whim of the local party boss. Granted, it's much better than it used to be.
The alternatives to democracy are repression from above, coupled with the occasional revolution from below. Violence and corruption being basic tools of the trade.
No thanks.
This is the key point.
Democracy doesn't guarantee good governance - most certainly not! But it means getting rid of bad leaders without the need for violent revolution.
Even if you hate the results, you've gotta role with the punch. Because the alternatives are far worse.
The only thing I can think of that might (genuinely) undermine Western democracy is if mainstream political parties (in a number of countries) continue to conspire with each other to shut out elected parties that seek to get large-scale mass immigration under control.
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
No, they think they have influence. Big difference. Huge.
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
You and Osborne, the man who could have been PM and lost it with spite and schoolboy antics.
Ruth is the only credible leader on that list and she is not leaving Scotland
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
No, they think they have influence. Big difference. Huge.
There was a reason Theresa May begged David Cameron to give his public support to the DUP deal to reassure Tory MPs.
He still has huge influence on a large segment of the PCP.
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
Brought in as a last, desperate throw of the dice, by a failing Martinez. Thrown into a team bereft of confidence, and unsurprisingly was not an instant hit. Denied a locker, sent out on loan, move to Palace fell through. Did he sulk or go on strike? No he played for the under-23's and sat with the fans at the United game. What a top man! Give him his own dressing room, and a couple of servants. Redemption is possible for us all! COYB! Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
No, they think they have influence. Big difference. Huge.
There was a reason Theresa May begged David Cameron to give his public support to the DUP deal to reassure Tory MPs.
He still has huge influence on a large segment of the PCP.
I would agree with you on that but at least he has behaved well since leaving goverment instead of childish and vindictive Osborne. Is Osborne going to the conference by the way
Corbyn demonstrates that. Nobody thinks he's other than an idiot. He's used the democratic process (albeit massively manipulated) to become the Labour leader. He's then raised a barrage of no content to convince the masses.
Of course it's not actually him. Quite who it is should worry us all.
The alternatives to democracy tend to produce worse outcomes.
China (after admittedly decades of appalling government) appears to have come up with an efficient non-democratic system. The key seems to be forcing the leadership to change every 10 years.
By our standards, China's governance is still pretty grim. People are still subject to the whim of the local party boss. Granted, it's much better than it used to be.
The alternatives to democracy are repression from above, coupled with the occasional revolution from below. Violence and corruption being basic tools of the trade.
No thanks.
This is the key point.
Democracy doesn't guarantee good governance - most certainly not! But it means getting rid of bad leaders without the need for violent revolution.
Even if you hate the results, you've gotta role with the punch. Because the alternatives are far worse.
The only thing I can think of that might (genuinely) undermine Western democracy is if mainstream political parties (in a number of countries) continue to conspire with each other to shut out elected parties that seek to get large-scale mass immigration under control.
Example?
Sweden, for one.
The lesson from 1930s Germany is that trying to accommodate an extreme right-wing party leads swiftly to the fall of democracy.
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
Brought in as a last, desperate throw of the dice, by a failing Martinez. Thrown into a team bereft of confidence, and unsurprisingly was not an instant hit. Denied a locker, sent out on loan, move to Palace fell through. Did he sulk or go on strike? No he played for the under-23's and sat with the fans at the United game. What a top man! Give him his own dressing room, and a couple of servants. Redemption is possible for us all! COYB! Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
Yes, all of that! Truth is we're only probably a point behind par, if that, given who we've played, but goal difference is crap and so is goal scoring. If we get two wins from the next two, or even four points, I'll feel a bit better, but I have my doubts - the balance is wrong. Still we've bought a good goalie. Might need him.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
Don't forget Islam's extensive and varied "Eastern Front" - against India (Kashmir), China (Xinjiang), Burma (Arakan), Thailand (Pattani), Philippines (Mindanao), and Indonesia (eg. Sulawesi).
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
Brought in as a last, desperate throw of the dice, by a failing Martinez. Thrown into a team bereft of confidence, and unsurprisingly was not an instant hit. Denied a locker, sent out on loan, move to Palace fell through. Did he sulk or go on strike? No he played for the under-23's and sat with the fans at the United game. What a top man! Give him his own dressing room, and a couple of servants. Redemption is possible for us all! COYB! Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
Yes, all of that! Truth is we're only probably a point behind par, if that, given who we've played, but goal difference is crap and so is goal scoring. If we get two wins from the next two, or even four points, I'll feel a bit better, but I have my doubts - the balance is wrong. Still we've bought a good goalie. Might need him.
Can't argue with any of that. Am relying on the fact that Koeman teams tend to start slowly and finish strongly. But we are such glass half-empty fans. Look at the stick Lukaku got. Poor first touch, lazy, doesn't pass, gives the ball away....just plays every game, never injured, gets kicked all over the park, never gets booked, plays one up front feeds off scraps, and bangs in 25 goals. Oh and Pickford could be the next Big Nev...No.1 for 15 years. Made a big save today at 1-0. We could have fallen apart then.
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
Brought in as a last, desperate throw of the dice, by a failing Martinez. Thrown into a team bereft of confidence, and unsurprisingly was not an instant hit. Denied a locker, sent out on loan, move to Palace fell through. Did he sulk or go on strike? No he played for the under-23's and sat with the fans at the United game. What a top man! Give him his own dressing room, and a couple of servants. Redemption is possible for us all! COYB! Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
Yes, all of that! Truth is we're only probably a point behind par, if that, given who we've played, but goal difference is crap and so is goal scoring. If we get two wins from the next two, or even four points, I'll feel a bit better, but I have my doubts - the balance is wrong. Still we've bought a good goalie. Might need him.
Can't argue with any of that. Am relying on the fact that Koeman teams tend to start slowly and finish strongly. But we are such glass half-empty fans. Look at the stick Lukaku got. Poor first touch, lazy, doesn't pass, gives the ball away....just plays every game, never injured, gets kicked all over the park, never gets booked, plays one up front feeds off scraps, and bangs in 25 goals. Oh and Pickford could be the next Big Nev...No.1 for 15 years. Made a big save today at 1-0. We could have fallen apart then.
Quite. My grandad was being glass half empty about your moniker in about 1929/30 so he told me at length in his old age!
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
The dynamic of the Tory Leadership will change now the time table of Brexit has changed. It wasn't worth a coup as she was going after Brexit and who else wants the job of delivering Brexit anyway ? Hang tight till Spring 2019. But now Brexit is taking till Spring 2021. Until the timetable slips further. So letting May carry the can and go for her own volition now involves a significantly longer wait. Anything could happen. And if she makes it till Spring 2021 she might decide she wants to fight 2022 anyway to redeem her historical standing. That's before what impact letting her stay has on Tory ratings is factored in. So if letting her finish Brexit is now too long a task and she has to go why wait till Spring 2019 ? Why wait another day. If a new leader must absorb the cost of delivering Brexit then why not let them shape Brexit ?
May's leadership had reached equilibrium. She was finished but with a departure date settled that made logical sense and suited most folk even those who wanted her gone. But the slipping of the Brexit timetable yesterday by two years means that equilibrium has gone. We'll get fresh disturbance until we get a new equilibrium. She goes, her authority recovers somehow or a fresh date is agreed.
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
The dynamic of the Tory Leadership will change now the time table of Brexit has changed. It wasn't worth a coup as she was going after Brexit and who else wants the job of delivering Brexit anyway ? Hang tight till Spring 2019. But now Brexit is taking till Spring 2021. Until the timetable slips further. So letting May carry the can and go for her own volition now involves a significantly longer wait. Anything could happen. And if she makes it till Spring 2021 she might decide she wants to fight 2022 anyway to redeem her historical standing. That's before what impact letting her stay has on Tory ratings is factored in. So if letting her finish Brexit is now too long a task and she has to go why wait till Spring 2019 ? Why wait another day. If a new leader must absorb the cost of delivering Brexit then why not let them shape Brexit ?
May's leadership had reached equilibrium. She was finished but with a departure date settled that made logical sense and suited most folk even those who wanted her gone. But the slipping of the Brexit timetable yesterday by two years means that equilibrium has gone. We'll get fresh disturbance until we get a new equilibrium. She goes, her authority recovers somehow or a fresh date is agreed.
I have no doubt that TM will be in post until post Brexit, even 2021, but she will not fight the next election
Everton lack a centre forward till the January window? Vince Cable might be right? Ed Balls has really got gangnam style? Donald Trump is a North Korean agent? The new tenner still has animal fat? Len Goodman is irreplaceable? The AV thread was actually popular and provoked well informed civil debate? England have no opener for Aussie conditions to partner Cook?
#1 Wrong! Oumar Niasse...superstar hiding in plain sight
And as a fellow Blue thank God say I. You note my first scary thought that came to mind? Priorities!
Brought in as a last, desperate throw of the dice, by a failing Martinez. Thrown into a team bereft of confidence, and unsurprisingly was not an instant hit. Denied a locker, sent out on loan, move to Palace fell through. Did he sulk or go on strike? No he played for the under-23's and sat with the fans at the United game. What a top man! Give him his own dressing room, and a couple of servants. Redemption is possible for us all! COYB! Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
Yes, all of that! Truth is we're only probably a point behind par, if that, given who we've played, but goal difference is crap and so is goal scoring. If we get two wins from the next two, or even four points, I'll feel a bit better, but I have my doubts - the balance is wrong. Still we've bought a good goalie. Might need him.
Can't argue with any of that. Am relying on the fact that Koeman teams tend to start slowly and finish strongly. But we are such glass half-empty fans. Look at the stick Lukaku got. Poor first touch, lazy, doesn't pass, gives the ball away....just plays every game, never injured, gets kicked all over the park, never gets booked, plays one up front feeds off scraps, and bangs in 25 goals. Oh and Pickford could be the next Big Nev...No.1 for 15 years. Made a big save today at 1-0. We could have fallen apart then.
Quite. My grandad was being glass half empty about your moniker in about 1929/30 so he told me at length in his old age!
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
Massively sweeping statement and massively wrong imo. Where's the evidence?
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
Boris will sway from side to side depending on his mood
I don't think so. That demand list is highly calculated. I am not quite sure what Boris' gameplan is, except I think he wants to move quickly and that he sees time being against his prospects of being PM. So he is constantly pushing the boundaries. But it sort of looks like he doesn't want to be sacked. Johnson is very disloyal at the moment but doesn't quite go to the brink.
Corbyn demonstrates that. Nobody thinks he's other than an idiot. He's used the democratic process (albeit massively manipulated) to become the Labour leader. He's then raised a barrage of no content to convince the masses.
Of course it's not actually him. Quite who it is should worry us all.
The alternatives to democracy tend to produce worse outcomes.
China (after admittedly decades of appalling government) appears to have come up with an efficient non-democratic system. The key seems to be forcing the leadership to change every 10 years.
By our standards, China's governance is still pretty grim. People are still subject to the whim of the local party boss. Granted, it's much better than it used to be.
The alternatives to democracy are repression from above, coupled with the occasional revolution from below. Violence and corruption being basic tools of the trade.
No thanks.
This is the key point.
Democracy doesn't guarantee good governance - most certainly not! But it means getting rid of bad leaders without the need for violent revolution.
Even if you hate the results, you've gotta role with the punch. Because the alternatives are far worse.
The only thing I can think of that might (genuinely) undermine Western democracy is if mainstream political parties (in a number of countries) continue to conspire with each other to shut out elected parties that seek to get large-scale mass immigration under control.
Example?
Sweden, for one.
The lesson from 1930s Germany is that trying to accommodate an extreme right-wing party leads swiftly to the fall of democracy.
God, you really aren't listening, are you?
Where do you think we'll end up if voters wishes to put a stop to mass immigration are consistently ignored?
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
Massively sweeping statement and massively wrong imo. Where's the evidence?
Differing attitudes towards the criminal justice system are the obvious example.
But they have prestige and influence, the only two to have won a majority for the Tories in 25 years, Feldman was a fabulous party chairman, Ruth Davidson is a bona fide election winner, and Osborne, greatest political strategist of our time, helped take the Tory party from 198 MPs to 331 MPs in the process.
You and Osborne, the man who could have been PM and lost it with spite and schoolboy antics.
Ruth is the only credible leader on that list and she is not leaving Scotland
Osborne really fucked up. Petulant twat. He could have taken his resignation with grace, worked the backbenches, shown some adaptability to Brexit, and he'd now be favourite for Tory leader, and PM, in 2022.
Instead he went off in a huff and became the editor of a silly free-sheet, venting his spleen and thereby ruining his political career.
Sad.
Osborne can't help himself.
And he'd have given us a BINO that'd make Hammond look like Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
It's an intriguing thought. Presumably if true the pay-back for BoJo would be TMay's support for him as annointed successor when she finally steps down.
One of many flies in the ointment for this idea is that you think he'd be a bit cuatious about promises of support from fellow cabinet members given recent history. (Then again it is Boris, so who knows?)
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
Are you feeling ok this evening?
Surely, he's working on Juncker's behalf to bring the Brexit delusion to a head as soon as possible, so he can gain the Tory crown, before gloriously taking us into the Euro and forming up British troops at the centre of the new EU army?
" Free to *sign* Trade Deals " The EU are never going to let us do that during a Status Quo transition when the Status Quo says we can't do our own deals. Nor should they lets us undercut them like that. The " transition " is about giving us time to do those deals as the A50 period isn't long enough and as an aside the pressure will mount for the transition to be longer than 2 years.
So Boris is using the classic tactic of asking for at least one thing he knows May literally can't deliver.
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
Interesting theory. Could be.
That Hammond was prepared to support him as leader after the election suggests he is not as much of a head banger as he projects...
Those "demands" are designed to be as unhelpful as possible to Theresa May while not quite contradicting her positions.
I'm starting to think it's a deliberate double act. This way he gets to appear to be the champion of the hard Brexiteers, heading off any challenge from the Rees-Mogg wing before it happens, but in reality he's fully on board with May.
Interesting theory. Could be.
That Hammond was prepared to support him as leader after the election suggests he is not as much of a head banger as he projects...
He isn't. He is only interested in becoming Prime Minister. Johnson doesn't have a moral fibre in his body, which makes him a little fascinating in a way. Nevertheless Johnson has thrown his lot in with the headbangers and he is nothing if not smart as far as his own prospects are concerned.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
Massively sweeping statement and massively wrong imo. Where's the evidence?
Differing attitudes towards the criminal justice system are the obvious example.
Those align to wealth, education and social grouping much more than ethnicity... Plenty of white people in deprived areas lack respect for the criminal justice system.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
News tonight full of Corbyn accusing the Tories of being 'the party of the rich', Wes Streeting praising Khan for banning Uber and Labour moderates signing a letter demanding Corbyn commit to permanent membership of the single market and customs union rather than replicating the government's transition period.
I don't see any of that winning over many of the 42% who voted Tory last time so I think Opinium is in the right ball park
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
Agreed, integration is key but that is clearly easier for 2nd and subsequent generation immigrants (we are all after all nth generation immigrants!).
Interesting that there are ex-pat British enclaves in France and Spain who seem to find it very hard to integrate into their chosen destination's societies (or acquire the local language).
The sharp up tick in non white Britons in the last census was driven by a sharp uptick in mixed race births driven in turn by a sharp uptick in inter racial relationships. The paradox is the changing demographic is a symptom of I. In percentage terms post wind rush integration was linear but inter marriage will be exponential. We'll see but I suspect the effect by the next census will be stark and of course irreversible.
As an aside and at risk of being Uber to SeanT's Black Cab driver I was an an exhibition opening this afternoon. There was a black guy there with a frankly fantastic arse. It really distracted me from the Skeletal exhibits. He was with a white girl. Here in deepest leaverstan even seeing a non white face 6 or 7 years ago was sufficiently unusual to be noticeable. Now it's unusual but you don't really think about it. A mixed race couple is though and I guess they were part of the large out of own contingent who were there for the big launch. But of course almost anywhere else in the UK a mixed race couple would be like remarking on the presence of pigeons.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
You're confusing what you read in the DM with the real world
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
You're confusing what you read in the DM with the real world
You need to get beyond just shouting "Daily Mail" whenever you encounter an argument you don't want to engage with.
The sharp up tick in non white Britons in the last census was driven by a sharp uptick in mixed race births driven in turn by a sharp uptick in inter racial relationships. The paradox is the changing demographic is a symptom of I. In percentage terms post wind rush integration was linear but inter marriage will be exponential. We'll see but I suspect the effect by the next census will be stark and of course irreversible.
As an aside and at risk of being Uber to SeanT's Black Cab driver I was an an exhibition opening this afternoon. There was a black guy there with a frankly fantastic arse. It really distracted me from the Skeletal exhibits. He was with a white girl. Here in deepest leaverstan even seeing a non white face 6 or 7 years ago was sufficiently unusual to be noticeable. Now it's unusual but you don't really think about it. A mixed race couple is though and I guess they were part of the large out of own contingent who were there for the big launch. But of course almost anywhere else in the UK a mixed race couple would be like remarking on the presence of pigeons.
A great post!
No doubt the ancient Britons worried about the influx of Angles and Saxons many years ago. But who gives a shit now that the vast majority of us are a mixture of both?
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
Racism is bonkers of itself of course. We are all human and go back 20000 years and even those who are white were probably brown as we emerged from Africa and hadn't yet adapted to weak sunshine in Europe.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
You're confusing what you read in the DM with the real world
You need to get beyond just shouting "Daily Mail" whenever you encounter an argument you don't want to engage with.
Haha! I will bear that in mind. What's your evidence to support the argument?
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
Race has to be defused as entirely meaningless, to national identity and to everything else, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and unifying everyone in one overarching British culture.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
The sharp up tick in non white Britons in the last census was driven by a sharp uptick in mixed race births driven in turn by a sharp uptick in inter racial relationships. The paradox is the changing demographic is a symptom of I. In percentage terms post wind rush integration was linear but inter marriage will be exponential. We'll see but I suspect the effect by the next census will be stark and of course irreversible.
As an aside and at risk of being Uber to SeanT's Black Cab driver I was an an exhibition opening this afternoon. There was a black guy there with a frankly fantastic arse. It really distracted me from the Skeletal exhibits. He was with a white girl. Here in deepest leaverstan even seeing a non white face 6 or 7 years ago was sufficiently unusual to be noticeable. Now it's unusual but you don't really think about it. A mixed race couple is though and I guess they were part of the large out of own contingent who were there for the big launch. But of course almost anywhere else in the UK a mixed race couple would be like remarking on the presence of pigeons.
A great post!
No doubt the ancient Britons worried about the influx of Angles and Saxons many years ago. But who gives a shit now that the vast majority of us are a mixture of both?
Further Johnsonian weirdness where he is concocting a story (in the Sun and the Mail - so obviously spun) where he saved the country from a five year transition arrangement being imposed by Philip Hammond.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
I see problems with the attitudes of both the Right and the Left on that at present.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
Clearly you have a problem with reading: positive discrimination can (and does) easily masquerade under diversity targets when visible progress needs to be made.
I agree it is quite unlikely UBER will quit London, it's in the interests of both sides to compromise. UBER has huge public support - 600,000 signing a petition in one day - but plenty of global PR problems, they need to be seen as reasonable. TfL (chaired by Khan) will also want to compromise, because if UBER DID leave, Khan would shed many thousands of voters, possibly fatally.
My interest is why Khan went this far. I think it was simply an unforced error. I reckon he thought it would seem popular and lefty and he wanted to court the unions, for a future leadership bid, he hadn't reckoned on this massive backlash.
Overall my takeway is: don't over-estimate Khan. He will not save Labour from Corbyn. He is clumsy, effete and uncharismatic, he's got a dodgy backstory, and he's not very good at basic politics.
This is striking, if true:
Fred Jones, Uber's UK head of cities, said the mayor and TfL had "caved to pressure from a small number of individuals and groups that want to protect the status quo and reduce consumer choice and competition from London". He said the company had operated in London for five-and-a-half years, during which it was audited by TfL. "The last time they audited us to check we were playing by the rules, they found that there were zero errors in our processes. "This was one of the strange things around the TfL notice yesterday is they are the ones who do all of the checks and license the drivers." He said when a driver signed up to the app, Uber made sure they had all the correct paperwork from TfL and that Uber did not carry out background checks itself.
Khan has potentially ratnered himself here. I know nothing about Uber (for instance: are all Uber cars marked Uber, or is it up to the driver?) but if 600,000 Londoners care enough to sign a petition, how on earth did he not see this coming? It's like a tory grandee not knowing the price of a pint of milk.
The other question which needs to be asked and hasn't is: how do Uber rank as against London minicabs generally for assault and misconduct cases? I would have thought that all minicab drivers would have Uberised themselves, so the fact of Uberisation of itself should make no difference.
A question that no one seems asking is how Uber got so many people to sign a petition, so quickly? I've seen a few, that got a lot of names, but it did take a couple of days.
They sent out an email.
Really? Did they have permission, or is it in the small small print of the app? Or, and it is possible, when whoever opened the email or click open the sms, that it automatically assumed the person signed the petition? This sounds as if Uber had everything in place before the excitement happened.
Really? Did they have permission, or is it in the small small print of the app? Or, and it is possible, when whoever opened the email or click open the sms, that it automatically assumed the person signed the petition? This sounds as if Uber had everything in place before the excitement happened.
I think the main effect will be a profitable boost in publicity for Uber. It probably won't harm Khan.
It is an unavoidable if uncomfortable fact that a LOT of the women active on the hard right, far right, alt.right, neo-Fascist right, white rights right, nativist right, etc etc, are seriousy bloody sexy.
From Marion Le Pen on.
Jesus, I'd probably fuck Milo after a couple of bottles of gin and I am 100% hetero.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
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Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
You're confusing what you read in the DM with the real world
You need to get beyond just shouting "Daily Mail" whenever you encounter an argument you don't want to engage with.
Haha! I will bear that in mind. What's your evidence to support the argument?
There's no evidence I could supply to you that you'd accept. You're not open to the argument.
Your only interest is to find an angle through which you can dismiss it, and thus keep your mind closed but your prejudices reinforced.
The problem is the attitude of Muslims, ISLAM is what fucks up multiculti, with a side order of Roma thievery, and black Gangsta culture. But the main problem is islam, because it is inherently supremacist, and by definition cannot integrate.
I predict a western race war with Islam within 30 years, unless that religion miraculously enlightens.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
Clearly you have a problem with reading: positive discrimination can (and does) easily masquerade under diversity targets when visible progress needs to be made.
If it did, the company practising it would be breaking the law and should be taken to court.
I work for a large national company, we have diversity targets, some we meet, most we're a bit off, some a long way short of. We can and do take positive action (e.g. to ensure we don't exclude candidates through unconscious bias). But positive discrimination is not allowed; it's as illegal as for example turning a candidate dwon on the basis of their gender or ethnicity. The targets are just that, targets not compulsory levels that have to be met. (Hence getting closer to the targets will take a long time.)
Really? Did they have permission, or is it in the small small print of the app? Or, and it is possible, when whoever opened the email or click open the sms, that it automatically assumed the person signed the petition? This sounds as if Uber had everything in place before the excitement happened.
I think the main effect will be a profitable boost in publicity for Uber. It probably won't harm Khan.
Probably, but it could just as easily turn into a Ratner/O'Leary moment for Uber. Especially if their business plans are put under the microscope of public scrutiny.
Really? Did they have permission, or is it in the small small print of the app? Or, and it is possible, when whoever opened the email or click open the sms, that it automatically assumed the person signed the petition? This sounds as if Uber had everything in place before the excitement happened.
I think the main effect will be a profitable boost in publicity for Uber. It probably won't harm Khan.
Reports tonight Khan received £30,000 from black cabs for his mayoral campaign.
Look at London schoolkids, today. In fact, look at schoolkids across the country, in our inner cities, major towns, and then look ahead to demographic trends overall.
The UK is on course to have its population consist of 30-40% visibly ethnic minorities, and a very clear majority in London, by 2050.
Now, that isn't (and shouldn't be) a problem, but we're not going to make a success of that with 1960s-1970s style attitudes to race relations with its language of victims and oppressors, unless we want our lives ruled by quotas, paranoia, suspicion, and a ghettoisation of Britain.
The rest of us: white, brown, black, tartan, African, Brazilian, Alaskan, Japanese, Cornish, Canadian, Chinese, Aussie, will learn to rub along just fine. London is living proof of that.
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
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Indeed so, but not whilst hand-wringing white liberals are teaching young ethnic minority children that Britain's past is nothing but to be ashamed of, whilst encouraging them to embrace a heritage wholly based on their own (perceived) ethnic roots.
You're confusing what you read in the DM with the real world
You need to get beyond just shouting "Daily Mail" whenever you encounter an argument you don't want to engage with.
Haha! I will bear that in mind. What's your evidence to support the argument?
There's no evidence I could supply to you that you'd accept. You're not open to the argument.
Your only interest is to find an angle through which you can dismiss it, and thus keep your mind closed but your prejudices reinforced.
My prejudice that positive discrimination is illegal and thus not widely practiced?
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
Clearly you have a problem with reading: positive discrimination can (and does) easily masquerade under diversity targets when visible progress needs to be made.
If it did, the company practising it would be breaking the law and should be taken to court.
I work for a large national company, we have diversity targets, some we meet, most we're a bit off, some a long way short of. We can and do take positive action (e.g. to ensure we don't exclude candidates through unconscious bias). But positive discrimination is not allowed; it's as illegal as for example turning a candidate dwon on the basis of their gender or ethnicity. The targets are just that, targets not compulsory levels that have to be met. (Hence getting closer to the targets will take a long time.)
You are I believe a labour supporter, how are all woman short lists not a case of positive discrimination? Sorry you can't have this job you are the wrong gender seems a fair case for it to be honest.
The Uber petition was started by Uber it's self and they are ramping it on all their channels. The supporting statement is also entirely biased as you'd expect. Even if I agreed with it I *never* sign Change.org petitions as they spam you with emails asking you to " look " at other petitions for months after you sign one. I'd be interested to know what % of the 600K signatures are from Greater London.
The Uber petition was started by Uber it's self and they are ramping it on all their channels. The supporting statement is also entirely biased as you'd expect. Even if I agreed with it I *never* sign Change.org petitions as they spam you with emails asking you to " look " at other petitions for months after you sign one. I'd be interested to know what % of the 600K signatures are from Greater London.
Change.org petitions for scores of causes and indeed my wife actively signs them on many issues.
However as with all emails you can unsubscibe at any time.
Also why shouldn't the Company fight for it's interests
Genuine question about the whole uber thing. One of the points people have made is that they dont crb check their drivers. Accepting for the moment that this is true do we have any evidence that crb checking of drivers has reduced crime per capita of taxi drivers?
I'm not sure. However good relations may be at a personal level, there does seem to be political antagonism between most White people and most people from ethnic minorities.
That won't end until we get past "diversity" quotas, and nonsense like positive discrimination.
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
IIRC Positive discrimination has been, and remains, unlawful in this country. That doesn't stop the DM mythologising about it of course.
I'm afraid it's a fact of modern life.
Any examples? (Or did you mean the DM mythologising part? )
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
Clearly you have a problem with reading: positive discrimination can (and does) easily masquerade under diversity targets when visible progress needs to be made.
If it did, the company practising it would be breaking the law and should be taken to court.
I work for a large national company, we have diversity targets, some we meet, most we're a bit off, some a long way short of. We can and do take positive action (e.g. to ensure we don't exclude candidates through unconscious bias). But positive discrimination is not allowed; it's as illegal as for example turning a candidate dwon on the basis of their gender or ethnicity. The targets are just that, targets not compulsory levels that have to be met. (Hence getting closer to the targets will take a long time.)
You are I believe a labour supporter, how are all woman short lists not a case of positive discrimination? Sorry you can't have this job you are the wrong gender seems a fair case for it to be honest.
It's a good example Pagan, which I confess I hadn't considered. I wouldn't condone all women shortlists but they are not illegal because they were explicitly allowed for in the 2010 Equality Act.
So @Casino_Royale, I concede there is an instance of positive discrimination. (Obviously, it's not one that affects many people though)
And on that lamentable defeat I am going to hit the sack!
Really? Did they have permission, or is it in the small small print of the app? Or, and it is possible, when whoever opened the email or click open the sms, that it automatically assumed the person signed the petition? This sounds as if Uber had everything in place before the excitement happened.
I think the main effect will be a profitable boost in publicity for Uber. It probably won't harm Khan.
Reports tonight Khan received £30,000 from black cabs for his mayoral campaign.
Conflict of interest
I expect black cab drivers are one of the strongest UKIP and Tory voting blocks in London. So I doubt it made much difference.
Genuine question about the whole uber thing. One of the points people have made is that they dont crb check their drivers. Accepting for the moment that this is true do we have any evidence that crb checking of drivers has reduced crime per capita of taxi drivers?
No idea on your actual question but it's not CRB anymore, it's DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) now. According to Uber London's website, all their drivers have to apply for an Enhanced DBS.
They masquerade as diversity targets. Most firms (including my own) have them.
Diversity targets and positive discrimination are completely diffrent things. Can you not see the difference?!
Clearly you have a problem with reading: positive discrimination can (and does) easily masquerade under diversity targets when visible progress needs to be made.
If it did, the company practising it would be breaking the law and should be taken to court.
I work for a large national company, we have diversity targets, some we meet, most we're a bit off, some a long way short of. We can and do take positive action (e.g. to ensure we don't exclude candidates through unconscious bias). But positive discrimination is not allowed; it's as illegal as for example turning a candidate dwon on the basis of their gender or ethnicity. The targets are just that, targets not compulsory levels that have to be met. (Hence getting closer to the targets will take a long time.)
You are I believe a labour supporter, how are all woman short lists not a case of positive discrimination? Sorry you can't have this job you are the wrong gender seems a fair case for it to be honest.
It's a good example Pagan, which I confess I hadn't considered. I wouldn't condone all women shortlists but they are not illegal because they were explicitly allowed for in the 2010 Equality Act.
So @Casino_Royale, I concede there is an instance of positive discrimination. (Obviously, it's not one that affects many people though)
And on that lamentable defeat I am going to hit the sack!
Because something isn't illegal does not make it any less wrong, conversely because something is legal does not make it right.
If you really don't believe diversity quota's aren't positive discrimination in all but name you are either naive or stupid. Corporations will certainly be internally using them to filter applicants for the desired attributes. Seen it myself where I have been told yes you can apply for that internal vacancy but don't bother it will be going to someone with these diversity boxes ticked
Genuine question about the whole uber thing. One of the points people have made is that they dont crb check their drivers. Accepting for the moment that this is true do we have any evidence that crb checking of drivers has reduced crime per capita of taxi drivers?
No idea on your actual question but it's not CRB anymore, it's DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) now. According to Uber London's website, all their drivers have to apply for an Enhanced DBS.
I don't keep up with it to be honest whatever its called its the same thing, I know it has caused a lot of harm. Just would like to think it has done some good to offset that as well
The Uber petition was started by Uber it's self and they are ramping it on all their channels. The supporting statement is also entirely biased as you'd expect. Even if I agreed with it I *never* sign Change.org petitions as they spam you with emails asking you to " look " at other petitions for months after you sign one. I'd be interested to know what % of the 600K signatures are from Greater London.
Change.org petitions for scores of causes and indeed my wife actively signs them on many issues.
However as with all emails you can unsubscibe at any time.
Also why shouldn't the Company fight for it's interests
Uber can do what they want. Though public opinion should have no bearing on a quasi judicial decision so the petition its self should be ignored in that regard.
The Uber petition was started by Uber it's self and they are ramping it on all their channels. The supporting statement is also entirely biased as you'd expect. Even if I agreed with it I *never* sign Change.org petitions as they spam you with emails asking you to " look " at other petitions for months after you sign one. I'd be interested to know what % of the 600K signatures are from Greater London.
Change.org petitions for scores of causes and indeed my wife actively signs them on many issues.
However as with all emails you can unsubscibe at any time.
Also why shouldn't the Company fight for it's interests
Uber can do what they want. Though public opinion should have no bearing on a quasi judicial decision so the petition its self should be ignored in that regard.
" Free to *sign* Trade Deals " The EU are never going to let us do that during a Status Quo transition when the Status Quo says we can't do our own deals. Nor should they lets us undercut them like that. The " transition " is about giving us time to do those deals as the A50 period isn't long enough and as an aside the pressure will mount for the transition to be longer than 2 years.
So Boris is using the classic tactic of asking for at least one thing he knows May literally can't deliver.
This is not correct. There is actually no legal barrier to the UK negotiating trade deals now as long as they do not come into effect until after Brexit - trade is an EU competency and thus reserved but trade after the UK leaves obviously is not, so not covered by these rules.
The UK have been holding off while they negotiate with the EU. However if the price of any transition is that we can negotiate deals to come into effect after the transition, the UK must refuse.
In FPTP UK as opposed to MMS New Zealand? Not so much and Corbyn of course increased his voteshare by almost exactly the same as Ardern did but both still came second
Genuine question about the whole uber thing. One of the points people have made is that they dont crb check their drivers. Accepting for the moment that this is true do we have any evidence that crb checking of drivers has reduced crime per capita of taxi drivers?
No idea on your actual question but it's not CRB anymore, it's DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) now. According to Uber London's website, all their drivers have to apply for an Enhanced DBS.
I don't keep up with it to be honest whatever its called its the same thing, I know it has caused a lot of harm. Just would like to think it has done some good to offset that as well
CRB required disclosure of convictions. DBS has a lower threshold. Think of it as what is needed for criminal conviction or civil. Agree it is technical. Like not guilty and not proven in Scottish Law maybe? Edit: And spent convictions and cautions which have a automatic expiry.
Rebel Tory MPs have the numbers to trigger a leadership contest.
So the Florence speech has definitely unified the party and ended in the feuding.
I think is depends on May's reaction to the inevitable EU rejection of her offer. I think in May's mind, and in the mind of most Tory MPs, she has moved closer to the EU position so it is now incumbent on the EU to show some movement towards a compromise. I doubt that they will do any such thing. At that stage, the crunch that has been coming the whole time will arrive. There is simply nothing more that the UK can realistically offer at this stage without engaging in abject surrender. If May walks away she might survive, but if she tries to make another series of concessions to placate Hammond and the civil service, she is toast.
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Ruth is the only credible leader on that list and she is not leaving Scotland
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/911160675241689088
He still has huge influence on a large segment of the PCP.
COYB!
Although knowing Evertonians we'll be on his back when he doesn't get a hat-trick against Burnley.
DD is a tit.
Nothing to worry about it, it'll be fine, I hope.
Good politics maybe but looks like he is trying to get out of their promise to students to scrap them altogether
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/911699483150503936
Oh and Pickford could be the next Big Nev...No.1 for 15 years. Made a big save today at 1-0. We could have fallen apart then.
May's leadership had reached equilibrium. She was finished but with a departure date settled that made logical sense and suited most folk even those who wanted her gone. But the slipping of the Brexit timetable yesterday by two years means that equilibrium has gone. We'll get fresh disturbance until we get a new equilibrium. She goes, her authority recovers somehow or a fresh date is agreed.
Where do you think we'll end up if voters wishes to put a stop to mass immigration are consistently ignored?
Trever Phillips is an excellent example of someone who gets it.
And he'd have given us a BINO that'd make Hammond look like Jacob Rees-Mogg.
One of many flies in the ointment for this idea is that you think he'd be a bit cuatious about promises of support from fellow cabinet members given recent history. (Then again it is Boris, so who knows?)
Surely, he's working on Juncker's behalf to bring the Brexit delusion to a head as soon as possible, so he can gain the Tory crown, before gloriously taking us into the Euro and forming up British troops at the centre of the new EU army?
So Boris is using the classic tactic of asking for at least one thing he knows May literally can't deliver.
One would hope that given time newcomers would integrate totally in a similar way to impoverished Jewish tailors in the East End in the 1890's who now have descendants who are dentists in Finchley.
I don't see any of that winning over many of the 42% who voted Tory last time so I think Opinium is in the right ball park
Interesting that there are ex-pat British enclaves in France and Spain who seem to find it very hard to integrate into their chosen destination's societies (or acquire the local language).
As an aside and at risk of being Uber to SeanT's Black Cab driver I was an an exhibition opening this afternoon. There was a black guy there with a frankly fantastic arse. It really distracted me from the Skeletal exhibits. He was with a white girl. Here in deepest leaverstan even seeing a non white face 6 or 7 years ago was sufficiently unusual to be noticeable. Now it's unusual but you don't really think about it. A mixed race couple is though and I guess they were part of the large out of own contingent who were there for the big launch. But of course almost anywhere else in the UK a mixed race couple would be like remarking on the presence of pigeons.
No doubt the ancient Britons worried about the influx of Angles and Saxons many years ago. But who gives a shit now that the vast majority of us are a mixture of both?
Your only interest is to find an angle through which you can dismiss it, and thus keep your mind closed but your prejudices reinforced.
I work for a large national company, we have diversity targets, some we meet, most we're a bit off, some a long way short of. We can and do take positive action (e.g. to ensure we don't exclude candidates through unconscious bias). But positive discrimination is not allowed; it's as illegal as for example turning a candidate dwon on the basis of their gender or ethnicity. The targets are just that, targets not compulsory levels that have to be met. (Hence getting closer to the targets will take a long time.)
Conflict of interest
However as with all emails you can unsubscibe at any time.
Also why shouldn't the Company fight for it's interests
So @Casino_Royale, I concede there is an instance of positive discrimination. (Obviously, it's not one that affects many people though)
And on that lamentable defeat I am going to hit the sack!
The UK have been holding off while they negotiate with the EU. However if the price of any transition is that we can negotiate deals to come into effect after the transition, the UK must refuse.
Edit: And spent convictions and cautions which have a automatic expiry.