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Picture: Depending on your view the (in)famous Daily Mail front page the day after Theresa May called a snap election.
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RIP.
Coincidence?
https://twitter.com/blairmcdougall/status/1004495682315735041?s=21
"On Monday, Business Insider revealed that internal Tesla documents show that up to 40 percent of the Gigafactory's output has to be scrapped or reworked."
I've no idea what the industry standard is, but that must hurt.
1. Abstain on a vote for the UK to stay in the EEA, so ensuring that it is not passed.
2. Table your own motion about creating a hybrid, undefined single market that you know no Tory will back & so will fall.
Bingo!!
3. ?????
4. Profit
But that Peter Stringfellow looked pretty healthy last time I saw him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/trump-is-choosing-eastern-europe/562130/
“Rhetorically, the Trump administration supports Brexit. In practice, it has pursued a predatory policy in response to Brexit, designed to exploit the government’s need for new trading arrangements. Essentially, the Trump administration is using Britain’s need to join the World Trade Organization as an individual state to force it to accept painful concessions in a number of trade and services sectors, exploiting the fact that it has less leverage outside the EU. Meanwhile, in bilateral trade talks, the Trump administration is pushing Britain to accept the U.S. regulatory framework, or at least opt out of the EU single market and customs union. This will benefit U.S. economic interests in the short term, but make it much tougher for London to reach an agreement with the rest of the EU.
The Trump administration, then, is treating Britain as an easy mark, not as a vital strategic ally.”
(Sarcasm mode off)
I expect Paul Dacre will have already sanctioned the choice.
How poor Dacre's front pages cheeleading Weak and Wobbly look now.
The main qualification of the editor is to maintain a certain intellectual and moral flexibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
'Rules based organisations' in Trump's case presumably include the criminal justice system ?
Thereby creating the ultimate dream ticket.
Secondly onto this quote, I feel it isn't true to the same extent it is with the Labour party, I wouldn't suggest that the Tories are mindless (also Labour voters and everyone else have their influences as well) and just do what the papers tell them but I do feel that the newspapers have a large influence over the age groups that heavily vote Tory.
There could be less kowtowing say (if people feel they are currently) but I would assume it would still need to be something of a relationship.
Thirdly, the things that worry me most about Brexit usually revolve around America, I'm not usually a fan of their politics or politicians at the best of times.
I'm awaiting a news organisation to announce the death of a 'celebrity' that they had just invented, and watch all the other media organisations pick it up ...
As it happens, I think Dacre was a journalist of exceptional talent and more often than his detractors would like to admit there was writing in his paper of a quality unfound anywhere else.
And he died in bed...
A malign force, but undoubtedly very, very clever
https://www.racefans.net/2018/06/06/why-mclaren-is-failing-to-attain-f1-perfection/
The switch meant leasing customer Renault engines at the going rate, namely £18m plus a re-engineering programme; Honda also demanded a severance package, said to be £20m annually through to end-2020. Add in the loss of Honda’s commercial package (estimated at £60m per season) and Alonso’s earnings (£30m), and the financial swing borders on half a billion dollars over three years.
This reckons without the debilitating loss of sponsors and reduction in McLaren’s F1’s revenues since 2014 – potentially worth another quarter of a billion dollars – which Honda allegedly indemnified McLaren against while the contract was in force…
Always a bit sleazy, but good at his job it seems. Much like Dacre.
So far, Brexit has made us poorer, led to the most chaotic government in living memory, and made us weaker - in Europe, with key allies, and around the world.
Incredibly hard to think of a precedent. Suez perhaps most appropriate - a geopolitical shock causiing a run on sterling, capitulation to the US, and recourse to IMF funding. But in the longer term, the lesson from Suez was that U.K. could not ignore...Europe. What will Brexit’s lesson be?
So all the existing deals that countries entered into willingly with the US must have been losses for the USA.
Compare and contrast with the way Red Bull has treated Renault. RB have been utterly sh*tty.
I'd also be surprised by those figures (which they admit are worst-case).
And BTW, twenty years ago or more I was pointing out the dip in form McLaren gets when they start diversifying, especially into road cars. Its good to see the media catch up.
That said, they are streets ahead of the Tories in social media.
It will choose someone who doesn’t offend its readership base, not the opposite.
F1: Ladbrokes has 1.25 special on Hartley being replaced this season. It does look very likely. Not great odds, though. But... tempting.
I only read the Daily Mail when I get my hair cut, but I can see why it's been relatively successful. There's a lot of stories, mostly superficial, but plenty to pass the time.
I compare it to the Guardian which also pushes it's political agenda into every story it can. They both claim as facts what they want to be true and mangle science. They're also strident in their own way. Typical tabloids, in fact. The Guardian has its air of arrogance and the Mail its self-righteousness.
The Mail has a better set of puzzles, so it wins out for that alone. Whereas the Mail has an astrologer, the Guardian has an opinion column, but the latter sets the agenda for the BBC, so that makes it more serious.
When I were a lad and delivered papers, the Mirror and Express were the big titles, the Mail was a poor also-ran, and the Guardian was only delivered to the funny bloke in the posh house. Times have changed but Dacre must have had something.
Grieg is already there in the organisation though, and trusted with the editorship of the MoS. He is amongst the most likely replacements and will strike a different tone if he does.
all these we want to strut the world types haven't got their heads round Europe as whole is destined to be a back water the future is in Africa and Asia and they will push their own values and tell westerners to piss off.
in 1950 Europeans were about 20% of world population by 2050 they'll be about 5% and falling
The UK’s interests are in a liberal, multi-lateral world order. Our retreat weakens that, and at a time when liberal values are in retreat around the world.
https://youtu.be/5eBT6OSr1TI
the touchy feely liberal values died circa 2008 when the people pushing them fked up the worlds economy and when voters tired of spin and being lied to
today no-one is pushing your values they are all only trying to salvage what they can.
https://twitter.com/ExpressOGrady/status/1004625323579801601
Just watch that idiot quit just to make me look like a prat after I said don't take the 10/1 on him as next out of the cabinet.
Lovely. You have such ambitions for our country ...
https://mobile.twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/1004455607926231040
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5813317/Four-new-RAF-stealth-fighters-refuel-Atlantic-120million-jump-jets-fly-Britain.html
Also, a horrible slimeball that paved the way for the mainstreaming of divey, exploitative sex clubs around our main streets..... his legacy is a terrible one for British cities
by 2100 600 million Europeans let alone 70 million brits are not going to tell 4.4 billion Africans how to live their lives.
The population of Nigeria is forecast to be bigger then the whole of Europe
China will have more influence that the West as while we were hand wringing about the past, they quietly bought the place up.
China plus Africa doesn't sound like soft Western values to me
He created a lot of jobs and money for the economy.
Handed me £300 in Heavenly Money and told me to go enjoy myself.
Have some respect..
Is there a market anywhere?
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1004457013231935490
But none of this necessitates forfeiting the institutions, the values, and the influence we spent the years since 45 building up.
For Africa to catch up they need to deal with not just failing governments, crippling corruption but also the AIDS pandemic etc
I can't think of one.