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The first sexual harassment allegations against individuals MPs were made last Sunday. Now this. pic.twitter.com/MSFCK3Iwta
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The problem with "I'm sorry" is that it is taken as a full admission of guilt for anything vaguely related to the original complaint.
Even if someone is genuinely sorry, they cannot take the risk.
Now if "I'm sorry, I won't do it again" was followed by "You're forgiven" then we might see it being used a bit more.
PS Thanks Cyclefree
(Oh - not quite all: thanks, too).
https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/927533092721569793
Chapeau.
Probably not grounds for resigning.
https://youtu.be/Nd-9op64t2M
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/927539466092367879
Who would have thought that Corbyn's Labour Party would be more closely aligned with the interests of the CBI than the Tories?
Extraordinary.
Edit If producing satisfactory outcome rewarded with entirely coincidentally results in peerage for author
A story that will run and run over coming years...
I have been repeatedly assured that we can have our cake and eat it too....
:facepalm:
https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/927542772281815041
I could have added many more e.g. Conclusions - Usually written before the inquiry has heard any evidence and the only parts of the report which are read by anyone other than the author.
The culture has changed
What might have been acceptable 10, 15 years ago
Parliament now needs to look at itself
conduct needs to be improved.
I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces
I have reflected on my position
"Up to .... thousand people might be affected" = "This is pure guesswork on my part."
What might have been acceptable 10, 15 years ago. "My lawyer drafted this."
Parliament now needs to look at itself. "Will this go away if we set up an inquiry?"
Conduct needs to be improved. "We must make sure not to get caught again."
I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces. "By the time anyone works out what this means this unfortunate affair will have been forgotten."
I have reflected on my position. "My wife has been shouting at me all weekend."
@ProfChalmers: But that legislation did not come into force until early 2009, and could not apply here.
@ProfChalmers: (The legislation had been passed before the office raid, so the term was legally meaningful even then - but it wasn't yet in force.)
If May had any gumption she would sack Priti and BoZo today, but she won't.
"We have not been consulted" = "we have not been agreed with"
https://mobile.twitter.com/GuardianHeather/status/927540756402884608?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN9JRVOXkAEudog?format=jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/41883462
Enemies = rivals in the same party
On our side = in our faction
A loony = not in our faction
State of the UK Govt right now:
Foreign Sec gaffe may cost UK citizen extra 5 years in Iran jail
Minister under fire for meeting w Netanyahu brokered by lobbyist without telling FCO
Deputy PM under investigation for extreme porn
Defence Sec quit amid sex misconduct claims
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/927553311871520768
Carrington's now 98 and has been in the Lords since 1945, i.e. a longer career than the queen. So maybe behaving honourably is good for your health and career.
You missed out the phrase 'this must never happen again'?
Meaning: 'this must never happen again in my term of office, at least not before I resign/retire and draw my gold-plated, index-linked, final salary pension'.
Blame Boris for the Israel mix up. Say they are making a mess of Brexit, and challenge for the leadership.
Ms Patel admits that the failure to differentiate between business and holiday interests was sub-optimal.
https://twitter.com/aishagani/status/927543017426374657
slowing economy
Brexit off the rails
NI assembly tottering
Universal credit
Creaking NHS
Falling living standards
I would like to humbly request the addition of a comma to the penultimate sentence to clarify would might otherwise be considered an unorthodox proclivity.
It's either a deliberate act or incompetence. If deliberate, she has no place in government. If incompetence, she should be nowhere near government.
Unfortunately for her it took place in 2005 under her labour government
A prominent Labour politician and a fierce critic of tax avoidance has been accused of hypocrisy after receiving shares in a family company from a foundation based in a tax haven.
https://www.ft.com/content/4d9e16b4-ee3d-11e4-98f9-00144feab7de
Trade agreements, that prevent us (for example) being able to mandate how food is labelled, or from having our own standards for food sold in our country, are just one example of this.
And this is why pretty much all treaties contain binding dispute resolution mechanisms. Don't honour our treaty agreements to the ITU: there's a binding mechanism to force us to change.
We need to be realistic about this. The US uses ISDS tribunals, which tend to meet in secret and contain a majority of US judges, as their dispute resolution mechanism. And this is one of the reasons why they have so few free trade agreements. (Plus they've tended to write in a requirement that other countries keep their IP laws in lockstep with the US.)
For these reasons, I would be very surprised if we entered into an FTA with the US any time soon. Our priority must be in replicating the EU's existing agreements with the US, that cover mutual recognition of standards and double taxation. On the tax side, without these agreements being replicated, there either has to be (a) an increase in UK executive power to allow HMRC to ignore existing laws regarding third parties, or (b) real issues for firms that do business in both the US and the UK.
Well spotted. Perhaps "porn and cat videos" is a form of "extreme" porn? Not so much kinky sex as kitty sex.....
Yes, my coat is nearby.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/41888988
(And this makes it a third time...)
I do believe the police officers involved in investigating illegal and child abuse porn must have a switch that enables them to detach themselves from what they are looking at.
Not a job most would want to do
2015 - 2.2%
2016 - 1.8%
2017 - 1.6%
2018 - 1.0%
2017 & 2018 are OECD forecasts
Have team twat released they have overreached?
Edited extra bit: no markets beyond winner up yet, but intrigued Betfair has Verstappen shorter than Vettel (Ladbrokes has the German 4.33, the Dutchman 4.5).
He ruled it was not criminal and no further action was taken.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4849266/mp-sex-scandal-damian-green-porn-computer-referred-to-cps/
If this is all the case, there must be a whole paper trail...If Green's denial turns out not to be 100% truthful, could that not be a tad problematic.
https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/927551446186450944