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I quite like the 11/4 that he’ll hang on – after all Farage is on his side and the party doesn’t have an abundance of talent.
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They are going to be a mess whoever is leader in a few weeks. But Bolton is tarnishing what is left of the UKIP brand and his refusal to see that is deeply unimpressive.
Yet another leadership election would in itself be damaging to the UKIP brand. It would also bring some colourful characters to the fore once more and the wrong person winning would be the final nail in the purple coffin.
He doesn't have a strong track record before winning the leadership of any electoral or political success. So all he is known for is for this embarrassment.
Yes, there is a risk of UKIP finding an even worse new leader. But they won't recover with Bolton at the helm. The risk is one that UKIP has to take.
Other policies, such as spending more on defence and NHS and radically cutting immigration are equally well served in the higher reaches of Conservatives.
Only future now is as BNP or BNP lite. There is simply no other space on the political spectrum remaining for them.
Memos to Boris Johnson.
In a remarkable attempt to bolster the claim, quoted by one or two of Trump's team, that the Obama administration asked the UK Intelligence to spy on Donald Trump and the Trump Organisation, a letter has been released into the wilds of social media.
This note, apparently addressed to Boris Johnson by an official in GCHQ talks about the request to spy on Donald and requests an approval for this effort to be continued for 90 days.
Unfortunately it insists on mentioning some guy called Michael Steele, we assume they cant get Chris Steele's name right, he of the infamous dossier. Nor is his job title correct (which is a huge error), nor the organisation he worked for. Most of all, GCHQ routinely monitor key target comms out of the US, they don't write to the Foreign Secretary to get approval. Trump had come to the attention of Western intelligence including UK bodies years ago.
In short, it looks fake. Question is, who is producing this stuff and why? There is an obsession amongst Trump supporters about Steele's work but whilst large slices of its output are credible (some of it is anecdote not fact) , its nothing that Western intelligence didn't know.
... nickname Daffy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant
Not quite the whole story, though. Another poll has SPD at 20%. The most recent poll shows CDU/CSU falling even further than their disastrous Bundestag election vote (down to 31.5% with INSA).
The main "winners" so far are AfD up to 14% and Die Linke at 11%. The INSA poll has the extraordinary statistic of the combined CDU/CSU/SPD falling below 50% which is unprecedented. The next four parties all share 45% between them which is again remarkable.
What goes on in Misogyny Club, stays in Misogyny Club.
Have to say it's fascinating hearing some on here talking up the Sterling/US Dollar rate as though it's some magical totem and the return to near $1.40 to the £ a sign of "Brexit" being a success.
Looking at the rates against the Euro and currencies like the Australian Dollar tell a very different story - the immediate post-EU Referendum falls have remained and not been reversed so as always more than one side to any and every story.
Doesn't constitute a win.
And people wonder why these idiots blew the 2017 general election...
Or Terry Gilliam?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/23/snp-eradicates-union-flag-scottish-government-buildings-saltire/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/21/england-fgm-cases-recorded-2015-2016
Fortunately, while older white men froth about it on the internet, there are some organisations of liberal women actually doing something about it.
Time for the old and the next generation to ignore this wave of ridiculous bores - like Mary Whitehouse reincarnated.
(Apropos of nothing, the Good Lady Wifi said the funniest half hour of her life was sat watching Terry Gilliam and Russell Brand riffing off each other, when she introduced them to each other for the first time over lunch....)
My complaint is the cheapness of it all. £150 a night given the money spent? Students and the like employed to be sexually harassed?
Lack of informed consent there.
They could have got professionals very easily. Would have cost more though.
Entitled men will (in many, or most, cases) behave like entitled men.
So shell out for people who are used to dealing with it.
And compensate commensurately.
It doesn't work that way, it will never work that way.
https://www.wired.com/story/tencent-software-beats-go-champ-showing-chinas-ai-gains/
The rates may not differ much, but AIUI, there was no oppotunity for "extras". There is no reasonable money to be made, Therefore this is not hostessing.
As evidence, FT journalists were employed.
Why not professional hostesses?
Intervening during pregnancy to protect the next generation from this sort of practice strikes me as a reasonable place to start.
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/23/bookmakers-urged-to-rethink-closing-punters-accounts?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/event/28051208/market?marketId=1.139219161
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky
I was at a party that Deutsche organised over 20 years ago that also bussed in hostesses. Most people of my age was hideously embarassed by the whole thing (some of the bond traders quite enjoyed it) but the older guys were much more enthusiastic.
Even then the party ended up on the front page of the Sunday Times. It wasn’t acceptable then and it’s not acceptable now
Indeed, the key difference I can see is that Bolton (so far as I know) hasn't yet been accused of taking money from a fascist dictatorship to spread propaganda on their behalf.
Absolutely agree. Her Earthsea books were also excellent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160
"One of the biggest insurance companies in the world held a party for salesmen where they were rewarded with the services of prostitutes."
Jonathan Ashsworth, labour's health secretary, has accused Boris of 'weaponising the NHS'
It does make you think that labour are concerned that Boris demand for the EU savings to go into the NHS will be very popular
A new Thatcher for the 21stC is required.
Believing one has a monopoly on virtue is not an attractive attribute.
I've witnessed similar things at party conferences, both for young men and young women.
Or he's just a cock.
Would you rather no cabinet minister were calling for a large increase in health funding ?
If you only approve of policies advanced by politicians of unimpeachable virtue, you are going to have very little to support.