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Oh dear, I was actually turd.
LOL.
I stick to my assertion that David Davis is as useful as a marzipan dildo.
Looks as if earnings are catching up inflation
Has anyone asked Corbyn why he would trust the results from a country that only a few years ago engaged in massive FSB-led drug test cheating at the Sochi Winter Olympics?
Corbyn may well be the dumbest person to ever lead a UK political party, UKIP included.
(I don't think you or I are particularly his audience).
Basically, yes is still hugely undercooked because most of the punters on the market don’t like Brexit and assume it will collapse.
Still, I can’t wait to be treated to that six-course meal with the finest wines the world has to offer you promised me.
Please get a move on and book it.
I suspect it is a warning shot to the Government that further concessions on fishing to the EU will not be acceptable.
Interesting that JRM has denied this morning that he will be joining a fish throwing demonstration on the Thames outside the HOC tomorrow and says that he is concentrating on the post transition period, not the transistion itself.
Also IDS has just said the same so looks as if TM is not going to have much of an immediate problem
Salmon is the best, then sea bass, then cod, then seared tuna.
As a good Muslim boy when eating out in restaurants and hotels fish is the only option for me, which is great.
If you're unsure of salmon, buy this, it is on offer until Sunday.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/271519842
Hope it's still there; but I now live about 100 miles away.
He's channelling his inner Maggie by echoing her with his claim that he "can do business" with Putin.
Or.
He will do almost anything to avoid saying that Russia is responsible. The OPCW is the right body to test the samples. They are neutral, expert and respected. They are also in the country now to do their work. Why Corbyn won't accept their findings is a mystery. In asking that Russia be given a sample he is simply parroting one of Russia's lines.
I do seriously worry about having him in charge should such an incident happen again. Could he be trusted with the intelligence? Could he be trusted to authorise all necessary investigative and protective measures?
My guess/take if your interested is no harm in giving them a sample and seeing what they say, if they have a completely ridiculous story then they look more guilty, if they sort of take a who knows approach they either look more guilty or at worse the situation remains. In the very unlikely event it wasn't them maybe they can offer up a plausible defence.
If it was them, which I think it was then I can't see them having a very viable counter story (assuming what I have read is true) then at best for them they can bluff and it looks similar to how it does now. Anything less than that and they could make themselves look more guilty in an attempt to evade or lie.
I can understand the politics of not wanting to do it in terms of how it looks but unless we are under a timeframe constraint that this would break I can't see the harm. The one other point I have seen against giving them a sample is this could help them spin a story for others to follow, but quite frankly they are already denying responsibility and people are already making up stories. If anything not giving them a sample could be part of a conspiracy theory about it as giving them a sample and them creating their own narrative.
This doesn't make me more or less likely to vote Labour.
https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/975999718907170816
FHMs also have the advantage of tasty reasonably like fish.
That wouldn't make Corbyn's desire to give samples to the Russians sensible, but it would put the cat amongst the pigeons.
I say this as someone who thought he was an idiot before last year's general election, but tempered that view with they way he'd survived the various internal party plots against him. There comes a time to start thinking that he might be a clever man who just likes to look dumb to his opponents ...
Or p'haps not, and he's just dumb and lucky in his opponents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43469316
(Not sure I'd eat one in public, though.)
Of course beef dripping is the only fit choice for fish frying. Hopefully it will have a general resurgence at some stage.
I feel sorry for Gaddafi, he gave money to Sarkozy and a few years later Sarkozy bombed his country leading to Gaddafi's death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43453237
Incidentally, my son's school here in Cambridgeshire was one of the ones that got a bomb threat yesterday. What sort of sick idiot does that?
Ben Bradshaw wrote an article in the newspaper last week saying that Corbyn had long campaigned against chemical weapons, had been a supporter of the OPCW etc which is why he was in a great position to provide leadership. And yet when it comes to it he wants to bypass the OPCW. He gives the impression that he wants to do everything he can to help Russia defend itself. He gives the impression that he has made up his mind - that his opinion comes first and facts second. Hence the disingenuousness of his claim that he wants the investigation to happen first and then decisions to be made because his spokesman has already said that the intelligence services cannot be trusted so any facts they come out with can be ignored and the only alternative posited is to ask the possible defendant to mark their own homework.
It is very telling that the scepticism which Corbyn shows towards what the British government and the British intelligence services say is not extended to what the Russian government says. He is sceptical (maybe rightly) about the former but seems to believe the latter wholeheartedly. That is the problem with his approach. His scepticism is coloured by his political views. His default position is that the British authorities must be lying. When British citizens are being attacked and others may have inadvertently suffered, those in charge need to be able to trust the specialist services to investigate and take the necessary preventative actions. And, in their turn, those authorities need to trust those at the top of government to support them, to know that they have their back.
With Corbyn I don't think the trust is there - and that has very serious implications for the rest of us who depend on government and the specialist services for our safety and security.
Beth Rigby on Sky saying JRM is going to throw fish on the Thames tomorrow notwithstanding he said on an earlier radio programme that he would not and Boulton also referring to fish throwing tomorrow. Need to get their facts right
Fair enough. I think I agree with you. A good post.
'Gaddafi's son Saif 'to run for Libyan president' in 2018 elections '
https://tinyurl.com/yasj4o3v
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Sorry do you have a source for that?
As I mentioned above giving the Russians a sample and forcing them to come up with a story doesn't seem to be much of a loss.
People seem to be confusing giving the Russians a sample with thinking the Russians are definitely innocent and thinking the explanation they will give after they conduct their own investigation will be the undeniable truth.
I can understand this from a propaganda angle but other than thinking Corbyn is a bad guy and automatically a friend of Russia is there some actual proof of this for those of us less interested in propaganda and who don't think Corbyn is a bad guy?
Edit: To clarify proof beyond look at this picture of Corbyn with man x, Corbyn once worked with man y, man z who Corbyn works with once said this about Russia
Trump rants about FBI and CIA witch-hunts, and believes Putin's word without question. Corbyn doesn't trust UK security and intelligence services, but is bending over backwards to give the Russians what they want.
God help us if we make the same mistake as the Americans.
'But Mr Corbyn said people should wait for an independent assessment of the nerve agent from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons before they “shoot from the hip”.'
Everything seems very encouraging right now.
Betfair's exchange markets are all up too, but Ladbrokes is just the winner's, for now.
Less than 50% chance of that I think: http://rtais.wto.org/UI/PublicSearchByMemberResult.aspx?MemberCode=918&lang=1&redirect=1
EU - 39
USA - 13
Yet we were told the EU is terrible at concluding trade deals...
There is a stunning naivety about Corbyn and those who are straining every sinew not to accept that the primary duty of any British government, any British PM, no matter what their party, is to protect the safety of British citizens. Corbyn gives the impression that he really does not, in his bones, understand this. He thinks that if only he can be nice to the Russians and talk to them and share a nice cup of tea with them they will be nice to us and leave us alone. He seems to think that there can be no possible conflict between British and Russian interests. Well, it is easy to have a quiet life by appeasing a bully and many voters like that. So his current stance may not harm him and may well be popular.
Whether it is morally defensible or strategically wise is another matter. But that does not appear to bother Corbyn or his supporters. And some of his closest advisors are not just aiming for a quiet life. They seem to actively support Putin and what he does - people like Milne, for instance.
You said yesterday that you wanted Britain to have a foreign policy which stood up for the weak and oppressed. Siding with Russia - if that is what Corbyn's foreign policy would be - is not siding with the weak and oppressed. It is siding with a country which supports Assad, a man who uses chemical weapons on his own people, on children, a country which commits war crimes against the Chechens, which attacks an independent country, Ukraine, a country which supported the Serbs when they were attacking and committing genocide against Bosnian Muslims. It is siding with the bully and the oppressor not his victims. No amount of raising LGBT rights in a nice chat can wipe out that reality.
His view on giving a sample to Russia makes perfect sense with these premises.
Well done Labour moderates. Those of you still prepared to vote for the party (let alone be members) are all complicit in this.
I'm going to get a spreadsheet together of the form over the past couple of seasons in qualifying and race performance, before Saturday morning. One stat that stands out is that Lewis Hamilton scored points in every race last year.
Corbyn is absolutely right to point that out.
I don't think there's much to be gained from giving the Russians a sample. I don't think there's much to be lost from giving the Russians a sample either, it at least removes the weak defence that they weren't offered an opportunity to test it.
I wouldn't trust what they said unless there was other evidence to support it.
His only substantive comment was to say it's necessary to let Russia have one too. Which is either silly, or malign.
https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/976027436344397824?s=20
Edited extra bit: to clarify, they always either scored points or had a DNF/DNS.
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There is a stunning naivety about Corbyn and those who are straining every sinew not to accept that the primary duty of any British government, any British PM, no matter what their party, is to protect the safety of British citizens. Corbyn gives the impression that he really does not, in his bones, understand this. He thinks that if only he can be nice to the Russians and talk to them and share a nice cup of tea with them they will be nice to us and leave us alone. He seems to think that there can be no possible conflict between British and Russian interests. Well, it is easy to have a quiet life by appeasing a bully and many voters like that. So his current stance may not harm him and may well be popular.
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This seems to somewhat conflate with the reality of him proposing tougher sanctions, protecting British citizens does not equal being right wing.
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Whether it is morally defensible or strategically wise is another matter. But that does not appear to bother Corbyn or his supporters.
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And whether it is accurate does not seem to bother his opponents.
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You said yesterday that you wanted Britain to have a foreign policy which stood up for the weak and oppressed. Siding with Russia - if that is what Corbyn's foreign policy would be - is not siding with the weak and oppressed. It is siding with a country which supports Assad, a man who uses chemical weapons on his own people, on children, a country which commits war crimes against the Chechens, which attacks an independent country, Ukraine, a country which supported the Serbs when they were attacking and committing genocide against Bosnian Muslims. It is siding with the bully and the oppressor not his victims. No amount of raising LGBT rights in a nice chat can wipe out that reality.
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Yes but 'siding with Russia' is not what Corbyn's foreign policy would be... the tougher sanctions he proposed would seem a silly way to promote his side with Russia strategy. If anything the opposite move would be appropriate if he wanted to side with Russia.
He could even encourage MPs to give tennis lessons and have dinner with some of rich Russian friends who could donate to the party in exchange. After all given our pro Russia policy and Putin's habit of enriching his friends they'd be lining up...
Right?
Until that is eliminated as a possibility, sharing any data with Russia is not exactly sensible.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-russian-corbyn-photoshop/
People will be saying he has a Stalin admirer as a close aide next....
I think it's reasonable to defend the process of having a neutral investigator.
It would be interesting to know if a single death by this agent would be noticed by the authorities, or does it look like a 'normal' death (e.g. heart attack)?
Most commentary I've seen acknowledges that it's impossible to tease out what effects their work did or didn't have electorally.
The furore is about the abuse of personal data and possible breach of election law in several countries. Which ought to be rather easier to prove one way or another.
I'm going to have to take issue with that on the basis that Corbyn isn't almost as tall as the Kremlin... or that red....
There is an extent to which you have to take the governments actions on trust - at least for a while until more information comes out.
At worst he exhibits that trait of too many on the Left so admirably described by Albert Camus:
"Toute idee fausse finit dans le sang mais il s'agit toujours du sang des autres. C'est ce qui explique que certain de nos philosophes se sentent a l'aise pour dire n'importe quoi."
Or "Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed but in every case it is someone else's blood . That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything."
I am all in favour of using Britain's financial expertise to put real pressure on Putin and his oligarch cronies. I do not like the way we are allowing ourselves to be used by them to launder, hide and generally salt away their ill-gotten gains. I also think the Tories were utterly foolish to take money from some of those cronies. They should stop doing so.
Being sceptical of Corbyn does not make me a Tory supporter. Very far from it.
Given the OPCW will do their analysis in however long it takes them then the Russians going beyond that time and claiming they need more time will just make them look more guilty.
@Cyclefree
Fair enough, I think you can be unfairly sceptical at times but then you could accuse me of the exact opposite so I can't really complain!
Corbyn should be pushing harder on this and instead he seems to have backed off.
I didn't really want to get into this discussion - but I took exception to your idea he was bypassing the OPCW.
https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/975675921943416832