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Although she is a bungler, bungling has become normalised, if not institutionalised under May (see Johnson, Fox et al).
She will apologise, is all.
This has been going on for over a week now and this "drip, drip" of revelations is highly damaging to her.
This final revelation (that she has mislead the House) looks fatal.
shades of Henry Root
First came to fame presenting NZ’s version of University Challenge.
If I wasn't in the US right now, I'd take the 1/2.
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Superb.
Mr. Blue, reminds me of all the pro-mass migration coverage in the broadcast media, which had the net effect of not affecting the electorate a jot. It's interesting how some matters seem less prone to the influence of the media.
Hmm. Maybe I should consult ye olde psychology textbooks about this...
https://www.ft.com/content/0e99fc98-4872-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6
The issue with targets is that they tend to get pushed down, and down, and down. And suddenly a low level civil servant is evaluating whether Wilbur T Smith is an illegal immigrant or not, and she's thinking "I've got to find five people to deport this week, and it's Tuesday and I haven't found one yet."
I think there's a genuine case for not showing such photos or for showing them (you can argue it's excessively distressing, or that the people must see as much as possible and not be protected/coddled that way). But showing images of that nature which suit a particular agenda but not another is just one of the various ways in which trust in traditional media is being eroded.
25% of the public blame the civil servants
But he's (shamefully) not in the cabinet.
https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/789022270425600000
The EU and Ireland are using the border issue to try and force the UK on the issue of the Customs Union. It is understandable but we should not go along with it. We need to call their bluff.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/YouGov/status/989896987242876931
A lower number of Labour supporters do but then Labour supporters will include a higher proportion of public sector workers.
The difference in blaming the politicians comes down to partisanship - if it was a Labour or LibDem government having difficulties the views of party supporters would be different but similar.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43898969
I once met someone who didn't know if she lived in Essex or Kent - she said she lived near the Dartford Bridge.
Your thesis would possibly be better expressed as a consideration of the differential effect of print and broadcast media.
Lord Louis Mountbatten was said to be a big influence on the young Charles and the third child is often given a name a grandparent recommends.
Crackers
Not knowing which side of a big river you live on is a rather more obtuse.
He's ordered...
Hawaiian.
What is a father to do?
(Auto-complete was offering Middlesbrough - Uxbridge ain't that bad!)
But the South Koreans have gone down the opposite route. They have very high WTO tariffs but are willing to sign FTAs with absolutely everyone. (I think they are the country with the most FTAs as a % of world GDP having US, India, China and the EU.)
That is another of the idiotic claims by those who simply don't understand the way the EU works. As long as we are in the EU all customs duties are claimed by the EU as part of their 'own resources' minus a proportion which is retained by the countries to cover the costs of actually collecting the duties.
We get nothing from collecting customs duties and tariffs on behalf of the EU so there is no revenue gap.
Onto Windrush. Those people were illegal immigrants, despite living here essentially all their lives, because they were unable to prove their legality and Theresa May's policy made it deliberately difficult for them to do so.
To enjoy imports, you need hard currency.
How do you earn hard currency? Exports.
What helps increase exports? Better access to export markets through cuts in tariffs.
How do you incentivise cuts in tariffs? By offering to cut your own.
Unilateral tariff reductions take away the biggest carrot the government has for beneficial trade deals. It’s depressing how many Brexiteers wish to tie their hands in this way.
I repeat tariffs are simply a tax on our own consumers.
So anyone who came in before 1st January 1973 from the Caribbean or indeed any other Commonwealth country cannot be an illegal immigrant as per UK law.
The IA 1971 scandalously introduced the terms "New" and "Old" Commonwealth - meaning Black and White Commonwealth.
They should only be reduced in exchange for new opportunities created when trading partners also agree to reduce tariffs.
I can’t think of many countries that have unilaterally de-tariffed their way to fortune.
That matters because ultimately, there are no imports without exports. We’ve managed for a long time by selling off assets and accumulating foreign liabilities, but it can’t go on forever unless we’re prepared to manage the value of the pound in the same way the Italians used to manage the lira ie continuous devaluation.