My recollection with IDS is that the polls were within an inch of the Tories slipping behind the Lib Dems into third place, so the runes were easier to read and the Quiet Man had to go. It's not completely obvious that Theresa will poll worse than any replacement.
Sone polls actually had the Tories under IDS ahead of Blair's Labour, there was no poll I recall with Kennedy's LDs ahead of IDS' Tories
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
My recollection with IDS is that the polls were within an inch of the Tories slipping behind the Lib Dems into third place, so the runes were easier to read and the Quiet Man had to go. It's not completely obvious that Theresa will poll worse than any replacement.
Sone polls actually had the Tories under IDS ahead of Blair's Labour, there was no poll I recall with Kennedy's LDs ahead of IDS' Tories
2 down maybe more to come it is could become an Agatha Christie novel
Looks as if Boris has blown his chances with his newspaper column and involvement with vote leave
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
Nobody cares about the intricacies off the Vote Leave campaign either beyond diehard Remainers who want yet another excuse to try and reverse the result
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
That poll was from the beginning of June, before the Chequers implosion.
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
Oh, I agree. Just seems some on the far left love to use a bit of Hitler/Nazi comparison with Israel, as if it makes their point more powerful. I wouldn't be altogether surprised if some such numbskulls had made it on to the NEC.
My recollection with IDS is that the polls were within an inch of the Tories slipping behind the Lib Dems into third place, so the runes were easier to read and the Quiet Man had to go. It's not completely obvious that Theresa will poll worse than any replacement.
Sone polls actually had the Tories under IDS ahead of Blair's Labour, there was no poll I recall with Kennedy's LDs ahead of IDS' Tories
2 down maybe more to come it is could become an Agatha Christie novel
Looks as if Boris has blown his chances with his newspaper column and involvement with vote leave
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
Nobody cares about the intricacies off the Vote Leave campaign either beyond diehard Remainers who want yet another excuse to try and reverse the result
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
That poll was from the beginning of June, before the Chequers implosion.
Nope was updated over the weekend post Chequers and his resignation and Boris jumped from 16% to 21% with the public post Chequers with Davidson second on 8%, Hunt third on 6% and Javid 4th on 5%. Boris is also up to 24% with Tories well ahead of second placed Davidson on 11% with Hunt on 7% and Javid on 4%
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
Holding a democracy to a higher standard than a dictatorship is fair enough, but holding one democracy to a higher standard than other democracies is a sign of bias.
I don't know of any democracies in a comparable situation to Israel, though, so it's hard to find comparators. Maybe India in respect to Kashmir?
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
That poll was from the beginning of June, before the Chequers implosion.
Nope was updated over the weekend post Chequers, Boris jumped from 16% to 21% with the public post Chequers and up to 24% with Tories well ahead of second placed Davidson
Yes it seems you're right... Boris is still less than half the don't knows, so hardly a ringing endorsement.
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
Holding a democracy to a higher standard than a dictatorship is fair enough, but holding one democracy to a higher standard than other democracies is a sign of bias.
I don't know of any democracies in a comparable situation to Israel, though, so it's hard to find comparators. Maybe India in respect to Kashmir?
2 down maybe more to come it is could become an Agatha Christie novel
Looks as if Boris has blown his chances with his newspaper column and involvement with vote leave
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
Nobody cares about the intricacies off the Vote Leave campaign either beyond diehard Remainers who want yet another excuse to try and reverse the result
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
Boris is not a minister and again nobody cares about a non story by a few Mail hacks jealous at the Telegraph scoop.
Nobody cares either about the Vote Leave story either other than diehard Remainers who want to use it to undermine Brexit, in any case it is a backroom story and Boris was a frontman
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
That poll was from the beginning of June, before the Chequers implosion.
Nope was updated over the weekend post Chequers, Boris jumped from 16% to 21% with the public post Chequers and up to 24% with Tories well ahead of second placed Davidson
Yes it seems you're right... Boris is still less than half the don't knows, so hardly a ringing endorsement.
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
Holding a democracy to a higher standard than a dictatorship is fair enough, but holding one democracy to a higher standard than other democracies is a sign of bias.
I don't know of any democracies in a comparable situation to Israel, though, so it's hard to find comparators. Maybe India in respect to Kashmir?
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
That poll was from the beginning of June, before the Chequers implosion.
Nope was updated over the weekend post Chequers, Boris jumped from 16% to 21% with the public post Chequers and up to 24% with Tories well ahead of second placed Davidson
Yes it seems you're right... Boris is still less than half the don't knows, so hardly a ringing endorsement.
Almost no leadership candidate gets anywhere near 50% before the final stages of a leadership vote, Corbyn certainly did not, so Boris is well placed for now even if still undecideds
2 down maybe more to come it is could become an Agatha Christie novel
Looks as if Boris has blown his chances with his newspaper column and involvement with vote leave
Nope, nobody cares about the intricacies of his newspaper column beyond Westminster and the Delta poll at the weekend had Boris on more than double the total of second placed candidates Mogg and Davidson as the public and Toryies preferred choice to succeed May post Chequers.
Nobody cares about the intricacies off the Vote Leave campaign either beyond diehard Remainers who want yet another excuse to try and reverse the result
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
Boris is not a minister and again nobody cares about a non story by a few Mail hacks jealous at the Telegraph scoop.
Nobody cares either about the Vote Leave story either other than diehard Remainers who want to use it to undermine Brexit, in any case it is a backroom story and Boris was a frontman
Damn them for thinking that you should be able to say that ethnic cleansing is racist, even if you're doing it to muslims
I hope they approve the use of Hitler comparisons for Israel. That'll be jokes.
Saying that Jews owe more loyalty to Israel than this country is a standard anti-Semitic trope. So is comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
Holding a democracy to a higher standard than a dictatorship is fair enough, but holding one democracy to a higher standard than other democracies is a sign of bias.
I don't know of any democracies in a comparable situation to Israel, though, so it's hard to find comparators. Maybe India in respect to Kashmir?
That point is well made.
Not sure if you are saying that India is Israel in this comparator, or Kashmir. The latter, maybe, the former, no way.
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
Mr. Fire, we had a little rain overnight. First beyond a few spots for about six or seven weeks. Next forecast rain is in eight days. Grass more brown than green, soil's pretty dusty too.
At least calls for restricting water usage are fair enough, unlike some in the past that seemed to be almost a first response to a week without rain.
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
Mr. Sandpit, Lib Dems are lagging miles behind in the civil war stakes.
Their whip did a pretty good job of having two senior MPs miss a key vote last night - and he only has a dozen of them to organise!
To be fair, we’ve all been the person who booked a minicab for a night out only to see a slightly smaller vehicle than we ordered turn up - you can see how easily it could go wrong when trying to organise the parliamentary Lib Dem party.
Its got nothing to do with Corbyn, its about opposing racism. People should be allowed to say that the denial of their right to self determination and the ethnic cleansing of their parents was racist, no matter what skin colour they are or what religion they possess.
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
We've had the tiniest bit of rain recently but the grass is still brown as.
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
It was tipping it down in central London when I arrived back from Birmingham on Friday evening.
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
No, I’m much more interested in the casual way in which Leavers accept breaking electoral law because it’s in what they consider a good cause.
Anyone who broke the law should be prosecuted.
At the end of the day though, this was £0.5m extra over a £7m limit. It's peanuts compared to the £9m the government spent that somehow wasn't included in the official limits.
Which other laws are you happy to handwave away? A malleable attitude to right and wrong is hardly a prepossessing trait.
There are two issues:-
1. Was the law broken? The Electoral Commission has ruled that it was. Unless those who have been found to have broken the law successfully challenge that finding, then it is entirely correct that they should be fined. If they broke the criminal law, then they should be prosecuted.
2. Did it alter the result? This is not a legal point (the Referendum was technically advisory) but does matter morally and politically. I don't consider it did alter the result, as the losing side had a very considerable financial advantage, which was only slightly offset by this illegal overspend.
Agreed on all points, but I would add that Leave won by 1.3 million votes. That makes it extraordinarily unlikely that the (relatively) small sums involved would have been enough to change the result.
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
Hey Beverley_C - great to have your sensible posts back on PB!
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
Mr. Glenn, if they want a head of steam for referendum 2 they could do with some people from the other side of the fence, otherwise it'll look like sore losers, and politicians versus the people.
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
It was tipping it down in central London when I arrived back from Birmingham on Friday evening.
Just 2.0mm of rain here in North Dorset since 31st May - normally we'd have about 70-80mm in that period. Still no rain forecast and it's going to get hot again over the weekend. Shaping up to be another 1976 imo.
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
You're right. HYUFD is a great asset to the Tory Party. without steadfast loyalists like him they would have folded years ago.
If there is to.be a confidence vote it will likely be called this week given the summer break coming up
If they're going to get rid of Theresa it probably makes sense to do it during the August shut-down.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
If Parliament is not in session though how can a no confidence vote be held by Tory MPs?
Can they not vote by post?
I think it has to be in person
Bloody hell, let's not let the future of the country get in the way of their six weeks in Tuscany eh?
Indeed, why is there a recess at all when a brexit is fast turning into a national emergency?
It is the EU and the Government and their respective civil servants that need to be sorting this out over the summer - not MPs casting endless academic or meaningless votes on hypotheticals. Perhaps we need more work and more detail and fewer speeches and less plotting!
If there is to.be a confidence vote it will likely be called this week given the summer break coming up
If they're going to get rid of Theresa it probably makes sense to do it during the August shut-down.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
If Parliament is not in session though how can a no confidence vote be held by Tory MPs?
Can they not vote by post?
I think it has to be in person
Bloody hell, let's not let the future of the country get in the way of their six weeks in Tuscany eh?
Indeed, why is there a recess at all when a brexit is fast turning into a national emergency?
It is the EU and the Government and their respective civil servants that need to be sorting this out over the summer - not MPs casting endless academic or meaningless votes on hypotheticals. Perhaps we need more work and more detail and fewer speeches and less plotting!
Mr. Glenn, if they want a head of steam for referendum 2 they could do with some people from the other side of the fence, otherwise it'll look like sore losers, and politicians versus the people.
Boris Johnson could do us all a favour tomorrow by calling for one...
If there is to.be a confidence vote it will likely be called this week given the summer break coming up
If they're going to get rid of Theresa it probably makes sense to do it during the August shut-down.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
If Parliament is not in session though how can a no confidence vote be held by Tory MPs?
Can they not vote by post?
I think it has to be in person
Bloody hell, let's not let the future of the country get in the way of their six weeks in Tuscany eh?
Thought that was Polly Toynbee
Future of the country not in dear old Polly's hands - though she could hardly make a worst fist of it than the Tories are!
I think everyone is to blame, including labour. If labour had a half decent leader they would be fully backing a Norway model and we would be a good way to resolving it. But labour has got Corbyn, sadly, otherwise they would be out of sight in the polls
If there is to.be a confidence vote it will likely be called this week given the summer break coming up
If they're going to get rid of Theresa it probably makes sense to do it during the August shut-down.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
If Parliament is not in session though how can a no confidence vote be held by Tory MPs?
Can they not vote by post?
I think it has to be in person
Bloody hell, let's not let the future of the country get in the way of their six weeks in Tuscany eh?
Indeed, why is there a recess at all when a brexit is fast turning into a national emergency?
It is not turning - it is a national emergency
If I were an MP I wouldn't be holidaying on the other side of the world this summer. There's got to be a pretty good chance of Parliament being recalled at some point over the summer.
Any bookie fancy putting up a market on it? 2/1 or 5/2 the recall?
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
You're right. HYUFD is a great asset to the Tory Party. without steadfast loyalists like him they would have folded years ago.
I hope I am a steadfast loyalist too but not blind to a disaster in the making. I would never trash Airbus, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, or business in general, having run my own business, and always been for low taxes and very pro business.
Mr. Sandpit, Lib Dems are lagging miles behind in the civil war stakes.
Their whip did a pretty good job of having two senior MPs miss a key vote last night - and he only has a dozen of them to organise!
Labour were all set to abstain last night. This position of theirs was entirely credible, because they have been extraordinarily helpful towards Mrs May`s government throughout this Parliament. But then, suddenly at 8.00, they did an about-turn and decided to oppose the government this time after all. For me, the really interesting question is why they had this sudden volte-face. It is something that they have not yet explained.
The other thing they need to explain precisely why 4 Labour MPs voted with the Government, and why 14 of them persisted in abstaining.
The fact that the Lib Dems thought the vote was gong to be entirely symbolic, and gave some of their MPs permission to be out of reach, is just the usual Labour smoke and mirrors.
No, I’m much more interested in the casual way in which Leavers accept breaking electoral law because it’s in what they consider a good cause.
Anyone who broke the law should be prosecuted.
At the end of the day though, this was £0.5m extra over a £7m limit. It's peanuts compared to the £9m the government spent that somehow wasn't included in the official limits.
Which other laws are you happy to handwave away? A malleable attitude to right and wrong is hardly a prepossessing trait.
There are two issues:-
1. Was the law broken? The Electoral Commission has ruled that it was. Unless those who have been found to have broken the law successfully challenge that finding, then it is entirely correct that they should be fined. If they broke the criminal law, then they should be prosecuted.
2. Did it alter the result? This is not a legal point (the Referendum was technically advisory) but does matter morally and politically. I don't consider it did alter the result, as the losing side had a very considerable financial advantage, which was only slightly offset by this illegal overspend.
Agreed on all points, but I would add that Leave won by 1.3 million votes. That makes it extraordinarily unlikely that the (relatively) small sums involved would have been enough to change the result.
That depends what the relatively small amount was spent on. If for example it had been spent on the the copywriter who came up with the concept 'THINK SMALL' then you could say a small amount of money totally transformed the fortunes of VW turning it from a basket case to the best selling small car in America and being largely responsible for the rebirth of the German economy after the war.
I'm afraid 'relatively small amounts of money' equating to a poor return is not a given in the whacky world of advertising
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
It was tipping it down in central London when I arrived back from Birmingham on Friday evening.
Just 2.0mm of rain here in North Dorset since 31st May - normally we'd have about 70-80mm in that period. Still no rain forecast and it's going to get hot again over the weekend. Shaping up to be another 1976 imo.
1976 has already been on the phone - it wants its summer back......
I hope we’re not losing PBers for wondering why @William_H is not out campaigning for the Native Americans to reclaim New York.
I support the existence of America, as I do the existence of Israel alongside Palestine. I condemn the genocide of the Native Americans, just as I do the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (and their continued lack of self determination).
I generally don't get into arguments about native americans online because few now justify the atrocities carried out against them
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
Hey Beverley_C - great to have your sensible posts back on PB!
If there is to.be a confidence vote it will likely be called this week given the summer break coming up
If they're going to get rid of Theresa it probably makes sense to do it during the August shut-down.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
If Parliament is not in session though how can a no confidence vote be held by Tory MPs?
Can they not vote by post?
I think it has to be in person
Bloody hell, let's not let the future of the country get in the way of their six weeks in Tuscany eh?
Thought that was Polly Toynbee
Future of the country not in dear old Polly's hands - though she could hardly make a worst fist of it than the Tories are!
I think everyone is to blame, including labour. If labour had a half decent leader they would be fully backing a Norway model and we would be a good way to resolving it. But labour has got Corbyn, sadly, otherwise they would be out of sight in the polls
I don't know if anyone is actually interested in the reality of this beyond a point scoring exercise but the New Statesman podcast recently covered this topic and Stephen Bush had the view given views they had expressed previously (Corbyns leadership rivals) they would be in a similar style to Corbyn, he gave reasons but the main one I can remember is some statement from Burnham about a guy in his constituency who has no friends because he can't speak Polish. That and the constituencies they represent.
He did dismiss the idea of Owen Smith from his hypothetical so you could make the argument there I guess.
Although Stepthen Bush is far from infallible he usually makes a good case and provides evidence for it.
Edit: also arguably the current strategy is working quite well from a political PoV so as decent politicians I assume they would have taken a similar approach.
Its got nothing to do with Corbyn, its about opposing racism. People should be allowed to say that the denial of their right to self determination and the ethnic cleansing of their parents was racist, no matter what skin colour they are or what religion they possess.
In his instance it is quite correct. If it is racist to tell the story of the formation of Israel or indeed to even declare the illegal settlers to be illegal settlers then the only way to obey the law involves rewriting history and an assault on natural justice.
I hope we’re not losing PBers for wondering why @William_H is not out campaigning for the Native Americans to reclaim New York.
I support the existence of America, as I do the existence of Israel alongside Palestine. I condemn the genocide of the Native Americans, just as I do the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (and their continued lack of self determination).
I generally don't get into arguments about native americans online because few now justify the atrocities carried out against them
It is not I who am being inconsistent.
How about the ethnic cleansing of Christians and other minorities from the ME over the last hundred years (esp. the Turkish Ottoman genocide against Armenians and others a hundred years ago) ? Racism that is continuing in various ME countries at various scales to this day?
Why not mention them a little more? Is it because their cause is not as trendy as the Palestinians?
His column is a breach of the ministerial code and he is going to be caught up in the vote leave controversy, but then you are loyal and very set in your ways and views
I suspect that if Party Policy was to chase HYUFD down with a torches and pitchforks mob, he would be on here telling us how running away from the mob counted as increased exercise and is good for overall health and we should all be doing it
I first attended a Tory rally for John Major in 1992 and campaigned for the party in 1997 and every general election since bar 2015 when I was in a politically restricted post. However that does not mean I support all party policy unreservedly, I was not keen on the dementia tax and had reservations on Osborne's 35% of GDP spending target as I have reservations about the Chequers Deal but I am prepared to support it for now to get and get a transition deal
OT: It’s now been about six weeks since any rain fell in south London. Some public parks look like 1930s dustbowls without a green blade of grass in sight. I’ve never seen a summer like this in the UK (note, born after 1976!)
It was tipping it down in central London when I arrived back from Birmingham on Friday evening.
Just 2.0mm of rain here in North Dorset since 31st May - normally we'd have about 70-80mm in that period. Still no rain forecast and it's going to get hot again over the weekend. Shaping up to be another 1976 imo.
I did another walk in Northamptonshire today, and I could nearly fit my boot in some of the cracks running across some of the fields. I've never seen ground so dry in England (I was three in 1976).
yet three months ago I had to stop walking the Nene Way because the river was heavily flooded ...
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It seems she's painted herself into a corner. Only instead of using paint, she's being using landmines.
Edited extra bit: Mr. HYUFD, some reckon that's why the Government wants an early recess.
At least they can argue it's not harming the "negotiations" as there won't be much happening during August anyway...
Holding Israel to a higher standard than other nations is not anti-Semitic IMHO. I think it's a mark of respect for Israel to hold that country to a higher standard than the average middle Eastern dictatorship.
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/historical-polls/voting-intention-2001-2005
Nobody cares about the intricacies off the Vote Leave campaign either beyond diehard Remainers who want yet another excuse to try and reverse the result
http://www.deltapoll.co.uk/polls/brext-chequers-may-conservatives
I don't know of any democracies in a comparable situation to Israel, though, so it's hard to find comparators. Maybe India in respect to Kashmir?
https://twitter.com/stephenpollard/status/1019254187920711680
http://www.deltapoll.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SunSunday_Brexit_Deltapoll180714.pdf
Nobody cares either about the Vote Leave story either other than diehard Remainers who want to use it to undermine Brexit, in any case it is a backroom story and Boris was a frontman
Mr. Sandpit, well, we all make mistakes.
At least calls for restricting water usage are fair enough, unlike some in the past that seemed to be almost a first response to a week without rain.
Just 2.0mm of rain here in North Dorset since 31st May - normally we'd have about 70-80mm in that period. Still no rain forecast and it's going to get hot again over the weekend. Shaping up to be another 1976 imo.
Or No Cluedo......
Any bookie fancy putting up a market on it? 2/1 or 5/2 the recall?
Not sure what that means. Surely Tory rebels won't no confidence the government, but then what happens to the Bill?
Are we heading for a general election rather than a Tory leadership election?
Surely if Tory Rebels dont fold Customs Union is inserted into Bill
ERG vote against 3rd reading
VONC
Never trust Tory rebels not to fold though
The other thing they need to explain precisely why 4 Labour MPs voted with the Government, and why 14 of them persisted in abstaining.
The fact that the Lib Dems thought the vote was gong to be entirely symbolic, and gave some of their MPs permission to be out of reach, is just the usual Labour smoke and mirrors.
I'm afraid 'relatively small amounts of money' equating to a poor return is not a given in the whacky world of advertising
May is a mouse in a maze with no exits
I generally don't get into arguments about native americans online because few now justify the atrocities carried out against them
It is not I who am being inconsistent.
I don't know if anyone is actually interested in the reality of this beyond a point scoring exercise but the New Statesman podcast recently covered this topic and Stephen Bush had the view given views they had expressed previously (Corbyns leadership rivals) they would be in a similar style to Corbyn, he gave reasons but the main one I can remember is some statement from Burnham about a guy in his constituency who has no friends because he can't speak Polish. That and the constituencies they represent.
He did dismiss the idea of Owen Smith from his hypothetical so you could make the argument there I guess.
Although Stepthen Bush is far from infallible he usually makes a good case and provides evidence for it.
Edit: also arguably the current strategy is working quite well from a political PoV so as decent politicians I assume they would have taken a similar approach.
Why not mention them a little more? Is it because their cause is not as trendy as the Palestinians?
Now voting on 17
What do PBers think?
On past form the rebels will fold at the last minute
Will this time be different?
yet three months ago I had to stop walking the Nene Way because the river was heavily flooded ...
Could TM resign tonight. Now that would be a story
I keep feeling a bit sorry for her but then i remind myself without GE 2017 ......