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Puzzled by all the Brexit options floating around? Here's my summary of where we stand
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I am sure there will be some PBers along soon to 'correct' and errors though
Say's Stewart Jackson!
If "No Deal" happens, I propose that all MPs and all Civil Servants get a 90% pay cut. Non-performance related pay...
John Bercow - I can tell he's a prick from here. He might be a reformer and an articulate bloke but that doesn't stop him being a prick.
Mr. P, well, quite. But Bercow's priority is Bercow.
The brutal truth is that the EU27 may now fail in their objective to strike a withdrawal agreement in time for the UK’s departure, because of this one matter. If the backstop was something the EU had insisted on from the beginning, then perhaps it should have been a non-negotiable demand. But it was not — it was a proposal adopted some way in to the process and was adopted as a means to an end, rather than an end itself.
https://www.ft.com/content/0df6434e-d12c-11e8-a9f2-7574db66bcd5
It’s noteworthy that these reports or outside scrutiny are done by women and then ignored by the largely male leadership. Remember the way Elizabeth Filkin was abused by MPs because they did not like it when she investigated them.
There is, dare I say it, more than a touch of misogny in the way that male leaders dislike being taken to task by women.
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https://tinyurl.com/y9puld6j
Peterborough has gone from a Tory majority of 2,700 to a Labour majority of 600, while NW Leicestershire has gone from a Labour majority of 4,500 to a Tory majority of 13,300.
Isn't he the MP who got into a spat on Facebook, calling people chavs?
https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1052194937943482368
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1052194933631672320
Sounds familiar?
Though I would point out an odd seeming discrepancy. There was a story a couple of years ago about sexual harassment being rife at Westminster, with the majority of victims being male (somewhat odd, given most MPs, of course, are chaps). I wonder if that's been debunked, or if the current story is about only certain allegations, because it seems a bit strange to have gone missing.
However, I sense the EU are in trouble this week, to May’s advantage. 🤗
Salzburg was a bullying disaster for the EU, but now the spotlights on this what can they do about it? If for example they scheduled just ten minutes for May to speak, and then went into dinner to discuss Brexit without allowing May in, hows that going to look.
EU have avoided pressure building on them from their own commerce by sounding relentlessly close to a deal and in control of it, but now they talk up no deal and give impression of lacking control, they got blame and backlash coming.
Also, EU kicked issues with migrants into grass from which it’s going to race out at them this week.
Peterborough is more like Bedford or the Milton Keynes seats in being in the outer commuter belt ring. Lab also benefit from the fact that much of the more Con voting part of Peterborough UA is in the NW Cambs seat.
maybe the sisterhood should get its act together
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/steht-die-deutsche-autoindustrie-wirklich-vor-dem-abstieg-15840615.html
Win win; they either get him deposed, or they show up Labour and others who prop him up.
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1051928954695749632?s=19
That doesn't mean they won't weather the storm, but I think they require some good captaining. I've no idea if their current management are up to it or not.
Why she needs her homework marked by some other "independent" body beats me. Those who are suggesting yet another review are doing so in order to avoid confronting what she says and what it means for them. As well as being bullies they are cowards.
There is much in this report for other organisations to digest and learn from.
Very similar to the "this anti-semitism is being weaponised" argument. And coming from the same party. Odd that.
Members of Parliament are elected representatives, but their mandate does not entitle them to bully or harass those who are employed in the House to support and assist them.
You will be able to read my own thoughts on this in my work blog later today.
“He might be a liar, bully, but it’s in our interest he stays in his position of power for now. What? He’s a Jew? Stick him on the train then”.
Yeah Labour are sinking. They’re a mess.
To make the sort of cultural change that is needed will take time, much more than people anticipate. That alone is reason enough to have someone new who can see the process through.
https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1052200538295529473
This is defined by a collective ethos at the senior levels of the organisation, which sets the tone for a culture that permits abuse. The acquiescence of senior management, the institutional minimising of complaints, the lack of effective procedures to address them, and the lack of support for those targeted for such treatment has resulted in the stifling of potential, the blighting of careers and the loss of talented and dedicated employees, many of them women. And the information reveals that the problems are continuing. This is not a problem of the past....
...Many expressed frustration with what are seen as repeated failings at the most senior levels of the House to commit to tackling these issues and to take action, rather than merely to promise change, produce “tick-box” policies and then just allow everything to return to normal.
https://twitter.com/natashac/status/1052203999204536321?s=21
And how many organisations might that apply to?
3 phrases were hammered into my head over the next 30 minutes - 'universal credit(?)', Brexit, and 'back stop'. Other than brexit they were all new to me.
Is it really that FUBAR over there?
This cycle of repeatedly reacting to crises only after they have developed into crises, and sometimes only after unwelcome publicity, is a perilous approach to adopt for any organisation, but it is completely hopeless for a place of work.
10,000 majority !
When is the first battery factory capable of supplying a mass market electric vehicle planned to start producing in Europe ?
Five years' time ?
And much of their legacy engineering will be useless.
And since when has the Calder Valley been in London?!
all major German cities are now banning diesels from city centres. often backed by a court order.
Though I admit you almost swayed me.
Specifically that it makes the Tory Party look like amoral uncaring twats. I know that many PB Tories consider themselves not to be, yet so many of their MPs are likely to continue to vote for a policy so uncaring that would have Thatcher turning in her Satan Pit.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1052114107200098304
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_Abbey_(village)