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edited July 2018 in General

imagepoliticalbetting.com » Blog Archive » If Trump bothers to read UK polls he won’t be pleased about how negatively he’s viewed in the UK

New YouGov polling on how Brits view Trump and Putin with party splits pic.twitter.com/Z9kQGlHrD2

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  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Even Tories, Leavers hate Trump.

    FIRST at being hated.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.
  • philiphphiliph Posts: 4,704
    grabcocque said:

    Even Tories, Leavers hate Trump.

    FIRST at being hated.

    The survey says Favourable / Unfavourable

    I think that is different from hate. I have no reason to hate him or respect him.
    I do have view on his suitability to do the job, and this would determine my view of him on a favourability scale.

    If the question is do I hate him, then the answer is no. I reserve hate for leaders who wreak havoc, death and destruction on millions. Mao or Hitler are the types that qualify for hatred for the actions they took inflicting such misery and large scale destruction of human life.
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,406
    30% favourable among Leave voters isn't a bad result for Trump.
    Probably makes him more popular than David Cameron among that group?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,812
    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,922
    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    I don't really agree with that attitude, but it is certainly true that an alliance dependent on the whim of a single individual is not one which can be relied on for security.

    Should Trump serve more than one term, then a purely European defence arrangement might be necessary, whatever we want.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    edited July 2018
    The only party whose voters view Trump favourably are UKIP voters so no surprise there.

    More generally polls from the likes of PISA show voters in almost every nation surveyed view Trump unfavourably so it is not just Britain, the only exceptions are Russia and Israel. Ironically it was of course the latter two nations which tended to be the only nations to view Obama unfavourably
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    https://twitter.com/MarcusFysh/status/1017365470796812288
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,367
    So Conservatives are slightly more favourable of Putin than Labourites.

    That doesn't fit the narrative.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    Other than China, Russia and the USA, the only other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are European, France and the UK, so we are not completely irrelevant in foreign policy and defence terms
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,133
    SandyRentool said:

    So Conservatives are slightly more favourable of Putin than Labourites.

    That doesn't fit the narrative.

    Unfortunately the poll didn't differentiate the Corbynites. :p
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,902
    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382
    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    There's no gratitude from leave voters is there? You think that they should at least recognise how much they were helped by the Russian president
  • philiphphiliph Posts: 4,704
    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    I've managed to find a less popular British politician than this lot.

    And no it isn't Blair. Step forward, Mark Reckless xD https://yougov.co.uk/opi/browse/Mark_Reckless
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,546
    edited July 2018
    grabcocque said:

    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
    Also he is richer than god, might as well get chance to enjoy all that money he has squirrelled away.
  • GreenHeronGreenHeron Posts: 148
    Trump is a vain, crude narcissist so it is not surprising that he is unpopular here.

    However he is also president of our biggest trading partner who is known to love the UK and is keen to negotiate a trade deal, but who is notoriously thin skinned and capricious.

    I wonder how many people who are willing to jeopardise a good trade deal in order to score cheap political points, are the same people who are imploring us to listen to Airbus about the perils of Brexit?
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    Nigelb said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    I don't really agree with that attitude, but it is certainly true that an alliance dependent on the whim of a single individual is not one which can be relied on for security.

    Should Trump serve more than one term, then a purely European defence arrangement might be necessary, whatever we want.
    Its not an attitude, its a reality. I think people are missing how much continuity there is between the policies of Obama and Trump on this. Obama was willing to be nice about it and Trump isn't but the fact is that the once formidable war machine that the US had in Europe has already been dismantled. Some of the infrastructure is left, particularly the parts that are useful for deploying force in the ME or Afghanistan, but the last main battle tanks left in 2013 on Obama's watch. The US no longer defends Europe in any conventional sense. We still have the nuclear umbrella of course.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    grabcocque said:

    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
    Also he is richer than god, might as well get chance to enjoy all that money he has squirrelled away.
    Question is what happens after Vlad retires to spend more time with his ill-gotten gains.

    United Russia implodes -> civil war?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    Tony Blair -53
    George Osborne -64
    Kim Jong Un -70
    Mark Reckless -70
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    The Dutch are also hostile due to the murder of ~200 Dutch citizens on Malaysian Flight 17. Yet another Russian action on which Corbyn prevaricated and obfuscated on who was the perpetrator.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    HYUFD said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    Other than China, Russia and the USA, the only other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are European, France and the UK, so we are not completely irrelevant in foreign policy and defence terms
    How relevant has the Security Council proved itself to be in recent times? But yes, there are some legacy issues from the old regime.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    edited July 2018
    Rupert Murdoch -78

    2,299th Public Figure of 2311 tracked
  • philiphphiliph Posts: 4,704
    grabcocque said:

    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
    Oi you! He is young, vital, youthful and vibrant. Also he isn't much older than me.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,546
    grabcocque said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    grabcocque said:

    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
    Also he is richer than god, might as well get chance to enjoy all that money he has squirrelled away.
    Question is what happens after Vlad retires to spend more time with his ill-gotten gains.

    United Russia implodes -> civil war?
    Am guessing Putin will join john cleese on st Nevis.
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,406
    Men more likely to support Putin than any of the political groupings.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    Queen Elizabeth II +56
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,331
    A great bunch of lads (& lasses).

    https://twitter.com/shiner1888/status/1017125639621668864

    Excellent juxtaposition of voice over & images.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    Pulpstar said:

    Tony Blair -53
    George Osborne -64
    Kim Jong Un -70
    Mark Reckless -70

    Bizarre. Did they only poll contributors to PB? How many of the general public have even heard of Mark Reckless? 1%?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    edited July 2018
    DavidL said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Tony Blair -53
    George Osborne -64
    Kim Jong Un -70
    Mark Reckless -70

    Bizarre. Did they only poll contributors to PB? How many of the general public have even heard of Mark Reckless? 1%?
    Volume
    94th percentile
    12383

    139th Public Figure of 2421 tracked. I'm trying to find who is first and last in this list. The Queen is the most popular bod found so far and Murdoch the least liked.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    Pulpstar said:

    Tony Blair -53
    George Osborne -64
    Kim Jong Un -70
    Mark Reckless -70

    Osborne less popular than Trump with British voters, paging TSE!
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    grabcocque said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    grabcocque said:

    philiph said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    williamglenn said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    The UK stands out as one of the countries where public opinion is most consistently hostile to Putin.
    Poisoning people in the streets will do that.
    So will continued occupation of the presidency.

    I wonder if he will he 'retire' at the end of this term, change the constitution to allow him to continue or take another sabbatical as PM with a friend as President?
    I think Putin has already said he will retire at the end of his current term. He's getting on a bit, wants to go and wrestle bears naked in Crimea while he still has the strength, no doubt.
    Also he is richer than god, might as well get chance to enjoy all that money he has squirrelled away.
    Question is what happens after Vlad retires to spend more time with his ill-gotten gains.

    United Russia implodes -> civil war?
    Am guessing Putin will join john cleese on st Nevis.
    Not sure even Putin deserves that.
  • OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Really?! They are independent, democratic states. If we can't stand together to defend them then we may as well just invite the Chinese in to start running the country (they'd probably do a better job than the Russians).

    If anything I would say that Russia is more aggressive and expansionist now than during many periods of the Cold War. We didn't make a stand on Crimea, Eastern Ukraine or Syria, which makes it all the more likely that we will have to do so in the Baltic States.
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Well, quite. And if it all kicks off in a couple of years time I would rather not be in a political union with plucky little Latvia and leave its defence to countries who are. So there's an upside to brexit for you.
  • JSpringJSpring Posts: 100
    Tonight's Question Time panel consists of Barry Gardiner, Claire Perry, Charles Moore, Gina Miller and Piers Morgan.

    A contender for the most unlikable Question Time panel of all-time, surely.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    To be that unpopular without having actually murdered anyone or be a paedo is quite the achievement.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    GreenHeron said:

    Trump is a vain, crude narcissist so it is not surprising that he is unpopular here.

    However he is also president of our biggest trading partner who is known to love the UK and is keen to negotiate a trade deal, but who is notoriously thin skinned and capricious.

    I wonder how many people who are willing to jeopardise a good trade deal in order to score cheap political points, are the same people who are imploring us to listen to Airbus about the perils of Brexit?

    If you think Donald Trump is going to offer Britain a good trade deal I have a bridge to sell you. The man is dismantling the current trading architecture to tenable the USA to impose one-sided arrangements. Britain will not be exempt.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,208
    OblitusSumMe said:

    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Really?! They are independent, democratic states. If we can't stand together to defend them then we may as well just invite the Chinese in to start running the country (they'd probably do a better job than the Russians).

    If anything I would say that Russia is more aggressive and expansionist now than during many periods of the Cold War. We didn't make a stand on Crimea, Eastern Ukraine or Syria, which makes it all the more likely that we will have to do so in the Baltic States.
    So how many British soldiers is Estonia worth?

    I agree that with the withdrawal of the American shield this is a real possibility and that a UK PM may well to have to answer that question. I am not sure I know the answer.
  • Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039
    MikeSmithson said:

    AlastairMeeks said:

    Noteworthy how niche the Leave.EU soft spot for Vladimir Putin is, even among Leavers.

    There's no gratitude from leave voters is there? You think that they should at least recognise how much they were helped by the Russian president
    And how much would you say that was, Mike? After all, I understand it's your "job to cut through the political spin to see what the data really says."
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Is Piers Morgan in the YouGov shame list?

    https://yougov.co.uk/opi/browse/Piers_Morgan

    Oh yes.
  • Beverley_CBeverley_C Posts: 6,256
    AlastairMeeks said:

    GreenHeron said:

    Trump is a vain, crude narcissist so it is not surprising that he is unpopular here.

    However he is also president of our biggest trading partner who is known to love the UK and is keen to negotiate a trade deal, but who is notoriously thin skinned and capricious.

    I wonder how many people who are willing to jeopardise a good trade deal in order to score cheap political points, are the same people who are imploring us to listen to Airbus about the perils of Brexit?

    If you think Donald Trump is going to offer Britain a good trade deal I have a bridge to sell you. The man is dismantling the current trading architecture to tenable the USA to impose one-sided arrangements. Britain will not be exempt.
    I disagree Alistair. Trump will offer us an excellent trade deal.

    (Excellent for him, not for us)
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,546
    Kim Jong may must be wishing she never invited him...

    https://order-order.com/2018/07/12/trump-mays-brexit-deal-not-people-voted/
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    edited July 2018
    Pulpstar said:

    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.

    Most popular Tory politician is I think Ruth Davidson and most popular Labour politician is Angela Rayner
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,546
    JSpring said:

    Tonight's Question Time panel consists of Barry Gardiner, Claire Perry, Charles Moore, Gina Miller and Piers Morgan.

    A contender for the most unlikable Question Time panel of all-time, surely.

    He just need to take QT out back and shoot it.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    JSpring said:

    Tonight's Question Time panel consists of Barry Gardiner, Claire Perry, Charles Moore, Gina Miller and Piers Morgan.

    A contender for the most unlikable Question Time panel of all-time, surely.

    Their Yougov ratings (And volume. Low volume = non entity)

    Piers Morgan -42; Volume 38076

    Barry Gardiner +10; Volume 1922
    Charles Moore -10; Volume 2536
    Claire Perry -44; Volume 2614
    GIna Miller Not tracked.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.

    Most popular Tory politician is I think Ruth Davidson and most popular Labour politician is Stella Creasy
    Frank Field with +22 is the highest I've found.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017377652045467649
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    Pulpstar said:

    HYUFD said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.

    Most popular Tory politician is I think Ruth Davidson and most popular Labour politician is Stella Creasy
    Frank Field with +22 is the highest I've found.
    OK, he just pips Rayner, Creasy and Burnham then who all have net positives in the late teens or early twenties
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,592
    edited July 2018
    Pulpstar said:

    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.

    Just ahead of Chuka Umunna who is on +2 and just behind Ruth Davidson on +5
  • OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    DavidL said:

    OblitusSumMe said:

    DavidL said:


    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.

    Really?! They are independent, democratic states. If we can't stand together to defend them then we may as well just invite the Chinese in to start running the country (they'd probably do a better job than the Russians).

    If anything I would say that Russia is more aggressive and expansionist now than during many periods of the Cold War. We didn't make a stand on Crimea, Eastern Ukraine or Syria, which makes it all the more likely that we will have to do so in the Baltic States.
    So how many British soldiers is Estonia worth?

    I agree that with the withdrawal of the American shield this is a real possibility and that a UK PM may well to have to answer that question. I am not sure I know the answer.
    If we aren't prepared to fight in Estonia we will end up having to decide whether to fight in Poland, or Finland, or Sweden. It will cost us more dead later, or, at best, we really do end up as a vassal state of a totalitarian regime.
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    edited July 2018
    DavidL said:

    OblitusSumMe said:

    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    *snip*

    *snip*
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Really?! They are independent, democratic states. If we can't stand together to defend them then we may as well just invite the Chinese in to start running the country (they'd probably do a better job than the Russians).

    If anything I would say that Russia is more aggressive and expansionist now than during many periods of the Cold War. We didn't make a stand on Crimea, Eastern Ukraine or Syria, which makes it all the more likely that we will have to do so in the Baltic States.
    So how many British soldiers is Estonia worth?

    I agree that with the withdrawal of the American shield this is a real possibility and that a UK PM may well to have to answer that question. I am not sure I know the answer.
    It's not about Estonia, it's about stopping Russian expansionism. You think the Baltic states would be the end of it? If unopposed it would embolden Putin to push further. Ukraine? Moldova? A chunk of Finland? Appeasement never ends well.

    EDIT: I see OSM beat me to the punch.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/724982/The_future_relationship_between_the_United_Kingdom_and_the_European_Union_WEB_VERSION.pdf
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.
  • david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,980
    Pulpstar said:

    Not all Tory ex politicians are disliked, Portillo is on +4.

    Portillo is not a politician any more (and hasn't been for well over a decade - apart from a brief comeback, which virtually no-one remembers, not for 20 years). These days, he's primarily a travel journalist.
  • david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,980
    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    The logic of which pushes Europe towards a strategic alliance with China.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,902
    DavidL said:

    So how many British soldiers is Estonia worth?

    I agree that with the withdrawal of the American shield this is a real possibility and that a UK PM may well to have to answer that question. I am not sure I know the answer.

    Other people have given you good answers, but I'll add another one: on at least two occasions Putin's Russia has directly attacked us with chemical weapons (Litvinenko and Sailsbury), and might well have interfered (successfully or not) in our democratic process.

    If you think that the dismantling of NATO would stop them from performing similar, or worse, acts, then you are being incredibly naive.

    Putin is a bully. If there is one thing he understands it is power, and a Europe without NATO is a heck of a lot less powerful.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    The budget response? Was it Matrix Churchill when Robin Cook alone was allowed early sight?

    You sometimes do have to wonder what the government is playing at.
  • CD13CD13 Posts: 6,367
    Good to see Frank Field so high. You can be authentic and sensible.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,133
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    What were the government thinking?
  • brendan16brendan16 Posts: 2,315
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    Perhaps they only just finished writing it? There is an Exec summary which is only 7 pages - much of the rest is aspirational ranging over multiple topics rather than going into huge detail
  • RecidivistRecidivist Posts: 4,679
    Ishmael_Z said:

    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    Whether Trump is serious or not about withdrawing from NATO is really not the point. The point is what used to be the adult in the room against whom the others could kick off and protest whilst remaining under their protection is now having tantrums itself.

    The US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Well, quite. And if it all kicks off in a couple of years time I would rather not be in a political union with plucky little Latvia and leave its defence to countries who are. So there's an upside to brexit for you.
    Excellent point. I wonder why it is so rarely made.
  • GideonWiseGideonWise Posts: 1,123
    Same tactics as for the cabinet meeting. May gave them 5 minutes to read it, then claimed to have consensus.
    Nah.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    I think poor Dominic Raab was handed a hospital pass by the incompetence of David Davis.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,258
    brendan16 said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    Perhaps they only just finished writing it? There is an Exec summary which is only 7 pages - much of the rest is aspirational ranging over multiple topics rather than going into huge detail
    Journalists had it at 9 am apparently.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    RobD said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    What were the government thinking?
    Listened to Leavers who said Brexit would be easy and done in an afternoon ?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,133
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    RobD said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    What were the government thinking?
    Listened to Leavers who said Brexit would be easy and done in an afternoon ?
    Titters.

    Am hopeful that May sounded out the EU on this one. Perhaps naively so.
  • GideonWiseGideonWise Posts: 1,123
    Free movement of skilled labour? That sounds oxymoronic.
  • david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,980
    OblitusSumMe said:

    DavidL said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    DavidL said:

    FPT
    he US faces a challenge to its global supremacy from China. Russia is not a threat. In fact, post Putin, it is a potential ally as they have at least as much to worry about so far as China is concerned as the US, arguably more.

    Europeans have an enormously inflated sense of their own importance based on historical power, the impact that they had in the 19th and 20th centuries and the perception of soft power that they still have. In fact they are increasingly irrelevant and it is not obvious why the US should spend any of its resources protecting them from not very serious threats.

    Which is fine. Being in the centre of history is rarely comfortable. Being a backwater will mean less Europeans dead, less money spent on arms and fewer reasons for the discontent of the world to have a go at us. Personally, I think we should take Trump at his word and begin the process of dismantling NATO. But then, I don't live in the Baltic States or Poland.

    The problem is that it would not take much for Russia's quest for power - and particularly to regain 'their' territory - to start infringing on US interests. NATO would give potential aggressors such as Russia pause for thought in territorial expansion.

    It is the sort of move that is 'easy' for the US to make in order to save a few quid (and after all, they're increasing their defence spending, not cutting), but may cost a heck of a lot more in a decade's time to correct.
    How much "interest" does the US have in the Baltic States? How much do we? Are we really willing to have UK personnel killed in battles to protect them? To risk a nuclear war? It's something we will need to give a lot more thought to if NATO is found to be past it's sell by date.
    Really?! They are independent, democratic states. If we can't stand together to defend them then we may as well just invite the Chinese in to start running the country (they'd probably do a better job than the Russians).

    If anything I would say that Russia is more aggressive and expansionist now than during many periods of the Cold War. We didn't make a stand on Crimea, Eastern Ukraine or Syria, which makes it all the more likely that we will have to do so in the Baltic States.
    The question then is where do you draw the line (literally).

    Leave aside that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia wanted to be in the EU, Nato and Eurozone - for good reason - and were accepted.

    If we accept that they're really in Moscow's sphere of influence, then where else do we accept it - and to what consequences? Ukraine? The Caucasus states? Poland? Bulgaria? East Germany? As Stalin observed at Potsdam on being congratulated on the Red Army having reached Berlin, "Tsar Alexander got to Paris".
  • AnorakAnorak Posts: 6,621
    100% off all topics:
    They've replaced the dragons on the Kew Gardens Pagoda, and they 3D printed them to reduce their weight. The pagoda was also used for testing the smoke dropped to cover the D-Day landings. So there you go.
    https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/07/12/the-dragons-have-returned-to-kews-great-pagoda/
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    brendan16 said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    Perhaps they only just finished writing it? There is an Exec summary which is only 7 pages - much of the rest is aspirational ranging over multiple topics rather than going into huge detail
    The new slogan appears to be principled and practical Brexit which appears five times if I've counted right. This usurps smooth and orderly which is there only twice. The white paper is then divided into Principled and Practical sections, so it is more than just a slogan -- barely.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,546
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    Wonder if we are going to see the resignations starting again.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    DecrepitJohnL said:

    brendan16 said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.

    Perhaps they only just finished writing it? There is an Exec summary which is only 7 pages - much of the rest is aspirational ranging over multiple topics rather than going into huge detail
    The new slogan appears to be principled and practical Brexit which appears five times if I've counted right. This usurps smooth and orderly which is there only twice. The white paper is then divided into Principled and Practical sections, so it is more than just a slogan -- barely.
    As always, what is asserted is the thing that is most questionable.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,133
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    Wonder if we are going to see the resignations starting again.
    Now we’re waiting for their counter-proposal
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    England are not picking this spinner.

    3 wickets in his first eleven balls.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    Is vassalage like vaseline ?
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    Pulpstar said:

    Is vassalage like vaseline ?

    Yes, but more expensive.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    Here's a handy photo of Le Goulet:

    https://twitter.com/ProRoyalFamily/status/998963164770422784
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    https://twitter.com/benjonescricket/status/1017385620719665154
  • Harris_TweedHarris_Tweed Posts: 1,337
    Pulpstar said:

    Is vassalage like vaseline ?

    I suspect JRM believes them both to be involved in similar physical interactions with the EU.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    I'm surprised Mogg has managed to read, digest and respond to the paper in 5 minutes to be perfectly honest. He must be a quick reader.
  • William_HWilliam_H Posts: 346
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    I like a good historical reference, but it seems silly to pick this one which only applied to John's continental possessions (so not England) rather than the 1213 submission by John to the Pope.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    World Cup news. Apparently there are some football matches at the weekend if we are not too busy counting strawberry punnets.

    As predicted, Luka Modric is now into 9/4 for Golden Ball (best player). If you are not already on, then even that price might represent some value in a two-horse race with Mbappe at 10/11. I believe voting is partway through the final but you should check that if you want to play late, in case one of them scores a hat-trick in the first ten minutes. The case for each player is that Mbappe is the best young player in the world, especially against Argentina. Luka Modric has single-handedly taken what is basically a Sunday league side from a country with a smaller population than Scotland into the World Cup final. As ever dyor because tbh I've not looked at anyone else.

    Golden boot (and some bookies bet on top scorer instead where dead-heat rules will be different) looks to be Harry Kane's which is why the best price out there is 1/16 with some bookies as short as 1/25. Lukaku is two goals behind. It might be worth a second look depending how the third-place playoff starts as this has been a high-scoring match in the past.



  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/1017388103886090240
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    https://twitter.com/JakubKrupa/status/1017387954040442880
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,902
    Pulpstar said:

    I'm surprised Mogg has managed to read, digest and respond to the paper in 5 minutes to be perfectly honest. He must be a quick reader.

    Or it was leaked. Or he's just decided what's in it before reading it.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,428
    edited July 2018
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    It does seem very odd to have a debate on a White Paper which runs to 104 pages, with MPs given only five minutes to read it.


    Anyone would think the government views their own MP's as the enemy? :D
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    William_H said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    I like a good historical reference, but it seems silly to pick this one which only applied to John's continental possessions (so not England) rather than the 1213 submission by John to the Pope.
    I'm not sure a Papist like Rees-Mogg will see that as a bad thing.

    After all he takes his whip from Rome.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,133
    Pulpstar said:

    Here's a handy photo of Le Goulet:

    https://twitter.com/ProRoyalFamily/status/998963164770422784

    I'm still fuming of Troyes, and now this second betrayal? :o:D
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,316
    Hooray.

    https://twitter.com/carlgardner/status/1017389934595006466
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Pulpstar said:

    Here's a handy photo of Le Goulet:

    https://twitter.com/ProRoyalFamily/status/998963164770422784

    It looks like the Money Supermarket Builders vs Strutters.
  • Harris_TweedHarris_Tweed Posts: 1,337
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    Wonder if we are going to see the resignations starting again.
    I've been wondering the same. Because:

    - there was that quote the other night that they had "another, and another" lining up to go if Chequers wasn't withdrawn. I think they probably meant more than a couple of unheard of vice-chairs, unless they were doing the old DD "all mouth and trousers" routine.
    - I can see why they took a 48 hour break while the football was dominating, and to use that to see if they could force any rollback in the full white paper.
    - ... but I suspect the answer is that they haven't.
    - I think Fox and Gove have been remarkably absent from the airwaves this week since the resignations. Notwithstanding Gove's loyalty on Sunday TV, the absence of a repeat this week probably suggests they're keeping their powder dry to see how the white paper flies.

    The only thing which may slow it all down is the fear reported by Guido that a move against May comes too soon to topple her, so they decide to keep the boat afloat till the autumn.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,617
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Hooray.

    https://twitter.com/carlgardner/status/1017389934595006466

    Even Putin and Erdogan believe in this court.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Hooray.

    https://twitter.com/carlgardner/status/1017389934595006466

    It is almost as if the ECHR is not the EU.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Harris_Tweed said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1017382871466733569

    Wonder if we are going to see the resignations starting again.
    I've been wondering the same. Because:

    - there was that quote the other night that they had "another, and another" lining up to go if Chequers wasn't withdrawn. I think they probably meant more than a couple of unheard of vice-chairs, unless they were doing the old DD "all mouth and trousers" routine.
    - I can see why they took a 48 hour break while the football was dominating, and to use that to see if they could force any rollback in the full white paper.
    - ... but I suspect the answer is that they haven't.
    - I think Fox and Gove have been remarkably absent from the airwaves this week since the resignations. Notwithstanding Gove's loyalty on Sunday TV, the absence of a repeat this week probably suggests they're keeping their powder dry to see how the white paper flies.

    The only thing which may slow it all down is the fear reported by Guido that a move against May comes too soon to topple her, so they decide to keep the boat afloat till the autumn.
    All they've done is advertise their weakness and lack of positive workable suggestions. They could not have marginalised themselves more effectively if they'd tried.

    It's Brexit in microcosm.
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