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Toby Young resigns as May's universities adviser over 'ill-judged' sexist tweets https://t.co/sZbBp9VB3i pic.twitter.com/oFcKOcvje9
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Appointing and then de-appointing Tony either side of another botch-up; cunning worthy of Baldrick....
reshuffle into sharp focus.You can if you've never grown up. Although in that case, you're probably better off not having a responsible role.
It's another utterly avoidable mistake by this government. Yet Labour still looks worse ....
May allegedly wanted to sack him. She wanted Hunt instead. Hunt refused. OK
May could still have sacked Clark, and promoted a backbencher
Damien wasn't a wanker. He was a liar, which was why he had to go. Toby's case is quite different. It was his lack of lying about wanking over poor people wot got him into trouble.
"Writing about class in a 1988 book called The Oxford Myth, Young recounted how the arrival of “stains” – as working-class students were known – had changed the university."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/toby-young-free-school-pioneer-described-working-class-grammar-school-boys-at-oxford-as-universally-10517380.html
What the petition said:
"Young also once referred to state school undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge as "stains".
https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-sack-toby-young-from-university-watchdog-post
A reporting of the terminology of the time - 1988 or so? - turned into a personally concocted insult by people wanting to damage Young. Technically true - maybe, but doctored to tickle the outrage muscle.
Unfortunately twitter-led smear campaigns seem to work in the current media landscape.
Mr. P, why the confusion? The scenario you outline is perfectly explained by May having poor judgement.
On-topic: perhaps he and Grayling could form a club.
If saying caustic things about the working class is a bar to high office then I’m so glad I never went into politics.
A pity.
As Berlusconi and Trump proved even if the liberal left think you are the most repulsive sexist show off and despise you if you are charismatic you can still win if you win over enough of the lower middle and white working class
Mr. Eagles, hasn't harmed Chuka Umunna.
If she becomes Chancellor before the next election then Esther McVey will be using John McDonnell’s bollocks for garters.
https://twitter.com/lsebrexitvote/status/950634634743861248?ref_src=twcamp^share|twsrc^m5|twgr^email|twcon^7046|twterm^1
The Govt decided in early 2017 that it wasn't possible.
Your willingness to give the benefit of the doubt is exemplary.
Trevor Bayliss will not renew his contract as England cricket head coach when it expires in September next year.
We could repurpose the Half Your Age Plus 7 rule for this.
You'd think that any government would have a shortlist of backbenchers who they'd like to promote when an opportunity arose, but perhaps she doesn't. I don't dislike May, who I think is fundamentally a decent woman doing her best, but at a purely managerial level she doesn't seem entirely up to the job.
Contra the loyalists' chorus for the last week, it appears Toby also managed to annoy a decent amount of the wrong people. Good to see that cronyism and nepotism has its limits.
It's common for reshuffles to have people who either won't move or will but only to job X etc. This isn't a weird thing that couldn't've been predicted.
It's one of the aspects of Brexit that has puzzled me. The Single Market is a club, with clear rules - among which are the four freedoms. HMG has decided that freedom of movement must end. That renders us ineligible. I think there has been deliberate conflation of 'access to' and 'membership of' by some politicians.
I can understand someone not wanting to become the story, but Toby Young’s resignation only means the TwitterMob now think they “won”, and will only be worse the next time someone they don’t like gets appointed to a minor non-exec role on a quango.
As expected, Cabinet reshuffle low-key and mostly forced on the PM by illness, crapness and lies from the three who stood down. Great to see social care move under Hunt, hopefully an early sign of some joined-up thinking - the lack of which is treating people badly and costing a lot of money in beds being blocked. Also a great opportunity for Esther McVey after Justine turned down a promotion and threatened to derail the PM’s plans.
Of course everyone who wasn’t promoted, the media and Opposition are saying it was a shambles etc. Mandy Rice-Davies applies.
The prime minister of the “just about managing” can no longer manage herself
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/theresa-may-shuffled-out
Eleven random county players could have done better than the side that played, and they chose to handicap themselves by dropping Stokes.
And what an excellent summary of the current position. When will the cultists wake up, and see who Corbyn really is?
Ok it was in the diddy Scottish legal system but still.
They are asking tough questions.
Airing debate about controversial topics.
Bring their laser like caustic wit to a subject
Etc.
We could repurpose the Half Your Age Plus 7 rule for this.
The issue here is that people publish on Twitter the things you would say with your mates down the pub. And as it’s clear most people (including supposedly intelligent people) don’t understand social media this story is going to continue for years.
Separately
https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/950648437338464256?ref_src=twcamp^share|twsrc^m5|twgr^email|twcon^7046|twterm^0
It is a useful moron/troll detector.
As to the summation of events, @DavidL put it so well on the previous thread I will reproduce his comment for the benefit of late arrivals to
the den of iniquityPB.http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22000001/tea-sympathy-suffice-england-face-another-drubbing
…the trouble is much higher up the pyramid than that. The problem is the ECB chief executive, Tom Harrison, trying to kid us that English cricket is in good health, and Andrew Strauss who has achieved little in his time as director of England cricket other than settling a couple of old scores: getting rid of Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen. If teams are judged by their success in global events - as Strauss has always said - it is worth remembering they did worse in the 2017 Champions Trophy than the 2013 Champions Trophy.
Blaming Stokes or Bayliss or Root for this loss will solve nothing. It's more fundamental change - and an acknowledgement of their problems - that England require…
One of the mad sub-plots from a day of general uselessness.
#PrayForToby
#JeSuisToby
Anything that undermines or circumvents the four freedoms will end up in front of the ECJ very quickly indeed. And they certainly won't be interested in smokescreens.
She has her knockers.
Given this government's track record, May could fall into a rose bed and come out smelling like ordure.
"Keep out the blacks and shoot the reds, nothing in this game for just two in a bed."
was considered on the Toby Young side of unfortunate ....
Perhaps her time away from Parliament chairing the British Transport Police has given her a new perspective. Perhaps not.
News is breaking of more reshuffle difficulties as it has emerged that Cabinet tea lady, Mrs Nora Buggins refused a move to 11 Downing Street. Mrs May offered Mrs Biggins a sideways move to make room for Justin Greening to hand round the custard creams at Cabinet.
This difficulty follows on from the Budget spat when Chancellor Hammond proposed to reduce the size of Nora's urn(ings) by 10%. Nora responded by threatening to cut off Hammond's ginger nuts. Unsurprisingly the Chancellor caved and his ginger nuts remain intact.
Borrow £50bn a year, use a misleading name to hand it out in cash to 60% of households at an average of £4k per household per year - but that all the journalists don’t understand because they all either live in London and earn too much to claim it, or don’t understand why a household earning considerably more than the median wage should be able to claim benefits at all.
A policy almost completely designed so that when the Tories came back into power and had to deal with the deficit, they’d be called heartless bastards (and a lot worse in the case of Ms McVey) for trying to undo the almighty mess this policy created.
No surprise that the hapless May has given her the elephant trap of DWP – a trap she has previously fallen into.
A stupid concept, but simple to understand. What should have happened was that instead of subsidising Tesco, government should have incentivised Tesco to pay appropriate wages. They want to pay less Corporation Tax, fine as long as you pay a living wage.
Capitalism is simple. You want to sell your products you need punters with enough cash in their pockets who can afford to buy them. Low wages + high costs = less cash too spend = lower economic output. You can only substitute this lack of disposable income with cheap loans for so long