Do you think Hilary Clinton was more liberal than Obama? And yet he crushed it in 2008 and 2012.
Ultimately Clinton was a flawed candidate with too much baggage. She was misadvised in the campaign and didn't have a positive enough message.
Obama wasn't running against Donald Trump.
I agree with your second paragraph.
The point I was making is very simple. The election will be decided in a few states, probably the usual ones: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. If they want to win, the Dems need a clear focus on what policies, and which candidate, will appeal in those states, and especially to white 'middle-class' (in UK terms, working-class and white-van man) male voters in those states. Everyone else they need to win is already on board,
That's simply not true, turnout amongst African Americans was badly, fatally, down on the Obama years.
Dems have turnout problems and need a candidate who can motivate turnout across an incredibly heterogenous set of voter demographics.
In the rejoin referendum there'll be no Russian interference and lots of pro EU content thanks to Nick.
I wonder if Facebook know that he wrote this:
Because in a footloose, fancy-free world in which large multinational corporations can effectively pick and choose where they pay their taxes, huge questions of national sovereignty and fairness loom: if the big multinationals can minimise the tax they pay, who’s going to pay for the public services that their customers rely on? ... is it governments, working together, who retain the right to set the taxes that should be fairly paid? Or is it multinationals, capable of relocating for tax purposes from one place to the next, who set the pace?
In the rejoin referendum there'll be no Russian interference and lots of pro EU content thanks to Nick.
I wonder if Facebook know that he wrote this:
Because in a footloose, fancy-free world in which large multinational corporations can effectively pick and choose where they pay their taxes, huge questions of national sovereignty and fairness loom: if the big multinationals can minimise the tax they pay, who’s going to pay for the public services that their customers rely on? ... is it governments, working together, who retain the right to set the taxes that should be fairly paid? Or is it multinationals, capable of relocating for tax purposes from one place to the next, who set the pace?
The ME number quoted in the article means they specifically trying to ban .50 BMG chambered weapons but something like a .416 Barret would still be permitted. The OB would still be seriously outgunned by a .416 which is a man killer out to 2,000+m. The stated motivation for the legislation just doesn't add up. I
Hope Faisal checked his facts this time - he has made some howlers over brexit claims recently.
Well I have no idea about Faisal's track record, but in this tweet at least he has found something that we would all do well to take notice of.
"If no withdrawal agreement is reached and the transition period through December 2020 is consequently not implemented, corporate activities and consumers will be adversely affected by the impacts of suspended production activities resulting from failed just-in-time logistics operations, declines in revenue, and revised vehicle sales prices caused by spiralling logistics and production costs."
That is pretty strong language for the head of a trade association to be using.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Coming across well on telly for an hour in 2010 has certainly paid off
Five years as Deputy PM in a very good coalition probably helped more.
Yes, my point is he only got that gig on the back of not being Gordon Brown or a Tory in the debates. He subsequently sold his voters out on Tuition Fees in 2011, was torn to shreds by Farage in the 2014 Euro debate, led his party electoral destruction in 2015, lost a referendum in 16, lost his seat in 17. A real sliding doors career.
Hope Faisal checked his facts this time - he has made some howlers over brexit claims recently.
Well I have no idea about Faisal's track record, but in this tweet at least he has found something that we would all do well to take notice of.
"If no withdrawal agreement is reached and the transition period through December 2020 is consequently not implemented, corporate activities and consumers will be adversely affected by the impacts of suspended production activities resulting from failed just-in-time logistics operations, declines in revenue, and revised vehicle sales prices caused by spiralling logistics and production costs."
That is pretty strong language for the head of a trade association to be using.
Well, he probably feels it necessary to get it across to the dunderheads in government.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
So it looks like she just needs to get it through Parliament and the Deal is done
I am getting the impression that May says whatever she thinks people want to hear or what will get her through the next half-hour, crisis, meeting or whatever. No wonder the EU, her own MPs and the DUP no longer trust her.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
His son attends a state academy in inner London, not a religious school but 100% Muslim, the UN have contacted them to warn it is a radicalisation hotspot...
Do you think Hilary Clinton was more liberal than Obama? And yet he crushed it in 2008 and 2012.
Ultimately Clinton was a flawed candidate with too much baggage. She was misadvised in the campaign and didn't have a positive enough message.
Obama wasn't running against Donald Trump.
I agree with your second paragraph.
The point I was making is very simple. The election will be decided in a few states, probably the usual ones: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. If they want to win, the Dems need a clear focus on what policies, and which candidate, will appeal in those states, and especially to white 'middle-class' (in UK terms, working-class and white-van man) male voters in those states. Everyone else they need to win is already on board,
Just another point on 2016 battleground states... Trump won Ohio and Iowa by around 9 points, but won Arizona by 4 points and Georgia by 5 points. The map is shifting.
Coming across well on telly for an hour in 2010 has certainly paid off
Five years as Deputy PM in a very good coalition probably helped more.
Yes, my point is he only got that gig on the back of not being Gordon Brown or a Tory in the debates. He subsequently sold his voters out on Tuition Fees in 2011, was torn to shreds by Farage in the 2014 Euro debate, led his party electoral destruction in 2015, lost a referendum in 16, lost his seat in 17. A real sliding doors career.
Yet there's polling out there that says the voters would take the coalition right now.
Lots of politicians have successful careers outside their homeland.
Clegg's gone to America, Enoch Powell went to Northern Ireland after being proven wrong about the black man having the whip hand over the English.
Mr. HYUFD, no time limit makes it worse than EU membership. We can't leave without their consent, we have to abide by EU rules, and concede to regulatory annexation of UK territory to appease a foreign power.
Capitulation, as predicted. We'll see whether the DUP/Conservative front- and backbenchers who stopped the nonsense before can do so again.
Worth recalling that Richard II was brought low by a coalition but managed to reduce it over time, establishing a new tyranny that would've endured had he not let Henry Bolingbroke slip his grasp.
Hope Faisal checked his facts this time - he has made some howlers over brexit claims recently.
Well I have no idea about Faisal's track record, but in this tweet at least he has found something that we would all do well to take notice of.
"If no withdrawal agreement is reached and the transition period through December 2020 is consequently not implemented, corporate activities and consumers will be adversely affected by the impacts of suspended production activities resulting from failed just-in-time logistics operations, declines in revenue, and revised vehicle sales prices caused by spiralling logistics and production costs."
That is pretty strong language for the head of a trade association to be using.
Well, he probably feels it necessary to get it across to the dunderheads in government.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Coming across well on telly for an hour in 2010 has certainly paid off
Five years as Deputy PM in a very good coalition probably helped more.
Yes, my point is he only got that gig on the back of not being Gordon Brown or a Tory in the debates. He subsequently sold his voters out on Tuition Fees in 2011, was torn to shreds by Farage in the 2014 Euro debate, led his party electoral destruction in 2015, lost a referendum in 16, lost his seat in 17. A real sliding doors career.
Yet there's polling out there that says the voters would take the coalition right now.
Lots of politicians have successful careers outside their homeland.
Clegg's gone to America, Enoch Powell went to Northern Ireland after being proven wrong about the black man having the whip hand over the English.
The point I am making is that he only got the job of Deputy PM via a sliding doors moment, and thereafter was an abject failure.
Do you think Enoch Powell considered Northern Ireland a foreign country?
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
Coming across well on telly for an hour in 2010 has certainly paid off
Five years as Deputy PM in a very good coalition probably helped more.
Yes, my point is he only got that gig on the back of not being Gordon Brown or a Tory in the debates. He subsequently sold his voters out on Tuition Fees in 2011, was torn to shreds by Farage in the 2014 Euro debate, led his party electoral destruction in 2015, lost a referendum in 16, lost his seat in 17. A real sliding doors career.
Yet there's polling out there that says the voters would take the coalition right now.
Lots of politicians have successful careers outside their homeland.
Clegg's gone to America, Enoch Powell went to Northern Ireland after being proven wrong about the black man having the whip hand over the English.
The point I am making is that he only got the job of Deputy PM via a sliding doors moment, and thereafter was an abject failure.
Do you think Enoch Powell considered Northern Ireland a foreign country?
That's not what I said.
As a Brummie with Welsh roots moving out of England and Great Britain to live in Northern Ireland is moving outside his homeland.
Another Powell Clegg comparison, both were eventually rejected by their voters.
Mr. HYUFD, no time limit makes it worse than EU membership. We can't leave without their consent, we have to abide by EU rules, and concede to regulatory annexation of UK territory to appease a foreign power.
Capitulation, as predicted. We'll see whether the DUP/Conservative front- and backbenchers who stopped the nonsense before can do so again.
Worth recalling that Richard II was brought low by a coalition but managed to reduce it over time, establishing a new tyranny that would've endured had he not let Henry Bolingbroke slip his grasp.
The DUP and ERG will oppose it but Starmer made clear on QT last night Labour will back an untime limited backstop to protect the Good Friday Agreement, the LDs and SNP and Lucas will also back it so it should pass the Commons and Lords and we move to the Withdrawal Agreement and Transition Period.
The ERG will likely force a No Confidence vote in May, probably over 100 Tory MPs will vote against her but I think she will survive. Leadsom, McVey and Mourdaunt will all resign from the Cabinet most likely joining Boris and Davis and Patel as ex Cabinet Leavers on the backbencher leading opposition to May. The DUP will also still back the Tories on a No Confidence vote given McDonnell' s backing for a United Ireland this week.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
I'm hoping to get a job on it.
Done something I've never done before.
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
What prompted that, if its not too personal a question?
Coming across well on telly for an hour in 2010 has certainly paid off
Five years as Deputy PM in a very good coalition probably helped more.
Yes, my point is he only got that gig on the back of not being Gordon Brown or a Tory in the debates. He subsequently sold his voters out on Tuition Fees in 2011, was torn to shreds by Farage in the 2014 Euro debate, led his party electoral destruction in 2015, lost a referendum in 16, lost his seat in 17. A real sliding doors career.
Yet there's polling out there that says the voters would take the coalition right now.
Lots of politicians have successful careers outside their homeland.
Clegg's gone to America, Enoch Powell went to Northern Ireland after being proven wrong about the black man having the whip hand over the English.
The point I am making is that he only got the job of Deputy PM via a sliding doors moment, and thereafter was an abject failure.
Do you think Enoch Powell considered Northern Ireland a foreign country?
That's not what I said.
As a Brummie with Welsh roots moving out of England and Great Britain to live in Northern Ireland is moving outside his homeland.
Another Powell Clegg comparison, both were eventually rejected by their voters.
Whatever you say.
Nothing to do with the point I am making, however, that Clegg has built a whole career (of failure after failure) on an hours decent tv coverage.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
What prompted that, if its not too personal a question?
The thought of spending most of next year and 2020 without seeing my kids on a daily basis was making me ill.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
Yes. They can't wait to fall under the auspices of a supra-national organisation setting the rules for its members' trading.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
I'm hoping to get a job on it.
Done something I've never done before.
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
Wow brave move !
was it the prospect of Frankfurt ?
in any event wish you all the best in getting a new job quickly
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
What prompted that, if its not too personal a question?
The thought of spending most of next year and 2020 without seeing my kids on a daily basis was making me ill.
Mr. HYUFD, no time limit makes it worse than EU membership. We can't leave without their consent, we have to abide by EU rules, and concede to regulatory annexation of UK territory to appease a foreign power.
Capitulation, as predicted. We'll see whether the DUP/Conservative front- and backbenchers who stopped the nonsense before can do so again.
Worth recalling that Richard II was brought low by a coalition but managed to reduce it over time, establishing a new tyranny that would've endured had he not let Henry Bolingbroke slip his grasp.
Mr Dancer, though I think it is likely you voted differently to me in the referendum, I always respect your thoughtful posts, which though sometimes I disagree with, are often insightful. Do you think now might be the time for the more thoughtful of Leavers to be asking whether the self-inflicted national humiliation that we are experiencing, and will continue to experience, is worth it?
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
That's Wilson's argument. He says that Varadkar "knows just how some of the Republican madmen will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border".
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
I'm hoping to get a job on it.
Done something I've never done before.
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
If we get a Labour government I suspect it will be one of the first things they will initiate. It would be a great diversion from there own extraordinary incompetence. Each time any Conservative tries to say "You are screwing up the economy", Labour will just reply "Brexit". It will be an albatross of much greater weight and wingspan than Black Wednesday ever was
What say you lads (and any lasses that may be lurking), acceptable or unacceptable face of capitalism? Since the face tried to slither off camera asap, he apparently may have a view on that himself.
So basically the interview was supposed to be about something else and the interviewer raises the bonus, end of interview.
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
What say you lads (and any lasses that may be lurking), acceptable or unacceptable face of capitalism? Since the face tried to slither off camera asap, he apparently may have a view on that himself.
So basically the interview was supposed to be about something else and the interviewer raises the bonus, end of interview.
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
Persimmon are one of the major beneficiaries of Osbornes lending scheme. Public money is boosting his remuneration.
What say you lads (and any lasses that may be lurking), acceptable or unacceptable face of capitalism? Since the face tried to slither off camera asap, he apparently may have a view on that himself.
So basically the interview was supposed to be about something else and the interviewer raises the bonus, end of interview.
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
Persimmon are one of the major beneficiaries of Osbornes lending scheme. Public money is boosting his remuneration.
Agreed, but you can't blame them for taking the cash. The problem with this is that Labour can't really attack it because the Tories would just say "Labour don't care about building houses" etc.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
That's Wilson's argument. He says that Varadkar "knows just how some of the Republican madmen will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border".
Didn’t he literally tell an EU council meeting that a border would mean violence?
What say you lads (and any lasses that may be lurking), acceptable or unacceptable face of capitalism? Since the face tried to slither off camera asap, he apparently may have a view on that himself.
So basically the interview was supposed to be about something else and the interviewer raises the bonus, end of interview.
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
Persimmon are one of the major beneficiaries of Osbornes lending scheme. Public money is boosting his remuneration.
Agreed, but you can't blame them for taking the cash. The problem with this is that Labour can't really attack it because the Tories would just say "Labour don't care about building houses" etc.
I can blame his shareholders. Nonsense like this is discrediting capitalism, idiots like this are the route to a Corbyn government.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
That's Wilson's argument. He says that Varadkar "knows just how some of the Republican madmen will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border".
Didn’t he literally tell an EU council meeting that a border would mean violence?
Wilson is saying it will too but he's using that argument to say that everyone should just ignore the problem.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
no it was made because the IRA had lost the will to continue, Easier borders were simply an issue to help de escalate tensions. The EU had very little to do with it.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
The EU is the only thing holding NI back from more bloodshed? OK.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
That's Wilson's argument. He says that Varadkar "knows just how some of the Republican madmen will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border".
Didn’t he literally tell an EU council meeting that a border would mean violence?
Wilson is saying it will too but he's using that argument to say that everyone should just ignore the problem.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
What prompted that, if its not too personal a question?
The thought of spending most of next year and 2020 without seeing my kids on a daily basis was making me ill.
Good call
A job is just a job and I am sure you can find something else to do, but your kids are only kids for a little while. Looking back, childhood is over in a flash.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
Given May has capitulated on absolutely everything the EU have asked of her so far, hardly a surprise if she has capitulated on an untimelimited backstop for the Irish border either
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
The EU is the only thing holding NI back from more bloodshed? OK.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
no it was made because the IRA had lost the will to continue, Easier borders were simply an issue to help de escalate tensions. The EU had very little to do with it.
"Receipts in September 2018 increased by 3.2% compared with September 2017, to £56.4 billion, while total expenditure increased by 2.8% to £59.4 billion.
Much of the annual growth in receipts came from Value Added Tax (VAT), Income Tax and National Insurance contributions, while other taxes such as duties on both tobacco and Stamp Duty (on land and properties) have fallen marginally on September 2017."
I mean, what is it going to take for us to rebase our growth figures? Its getting silly.
What say you lads (and any lasses that may be lurking), acceptable or unacceptable face of capitalism? Since the face tried to slither off camera asap, he apparently may have a view on that himself.
So basically the interview was supposed to be about something else and the interviewer raises the bonus, end of interview.
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
Persimmon are one of the major beneficiaries of Osbornes lending scheme. Public money is boosting his remuneration.
Agreed, but you can't blame them for taking the cash. The problem with this is that Labour can't really attack it because the Tories would just say "Labour don't care about building houses" etc.
Persimmon can sell their dross for effectively above market value due to the Help to buy I think they're also acknowledged as the worst of all the big housebuilders in terms of quality issues & lebensraum per person.
Varadkar says May has privately conceded to him the backstop cannot have a time limit
A man who reveals the contents of a private conversation is to be trusted is he?
Leo is getting desperate.....
It's not often I agree with Sammy Wilson but he has a point.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
Where's the stirring up of the prospects of violence? Or does any border automatically mean violence these days?
I think the point you're missing is that the Good Friday Agreement which brought the violence (almost) to an end, was made easier by the fact that Eire and the UK were both in the EU.
no it was made because the IRA had lost the will to continue, Easier borders were simply an issue to help de escalate tensions. The EU had very little to do with it.
The "IRA" might have.
well as I have said to you before the paddy posh boys are playing with fire and they will eventually get their fingers burned. The Irish government is made up of blokes in their thirties who think they can do no wrong. Older heads would tell them not to poke the sleeping dogs.
"Receipts in September 2018 increased by 3.2% compared with September 2017, to £56.4 billion, while total expenditure increased by 2.8% to £59.4 billion.
Much of the annual growth in receipts came from Value Added Tax (VAT), Income Tax and National Insurance contributions, while other taxes such as duties on both tobacco and Stamp Duty (on land and properties) have fallen marginally on September 2017."
I mean, what is it going to take for us to rebase our growth figures? Its getting silly.
Is May really going to be left to push us off a cliff come next March, as now seems inevitable? Is no-one going to intervene?
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
You forget that there's a lot of Leavers in the Tory party who prefer/want a no deal Brexit.
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
By “great boost” presumably they mean that there will be a great boost in the number of newspaper articles describing how Britain has cut itself off without any sort of deal or agreement on stuff like the import of food, medecines and the like, queues outside supermarkets, banks etc...? That sort of boost?
Great economic boost.
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
you;ll be dead before its published
I'm hoping to get a job on it.
Done something I've never done before.
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
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Texas is a lot like Yorkshire.
Dems have turnout problems and need a candidate who can motivate turnout across an incredibly heterogenous set of voter demographics.
More sandals and gluten-free porridge than any LibDem can shake a stick* at.
*from a sustainable forest.
Because in a footloose, fancy-free world in which large multinational corporations can effectively pick and choose where they pay their taxes, huge questions of national sovereignty and fairness loom: if the big multinationals can minimise the tax they pay, who’s going to pay for the public services that their customers rely on?
...
is it governments, working together, who retain the right to set the taxes that should be fairly paid? Or is it multinationals, capable of relocating for tax purposes from one place to the next, who set the pace?
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/nick-clegg-why-brexit-the-junior-doctors-and-apple-tax-are-all-connected-a3337086.html
https://mobile.twitter.com/SJAMcBride/status/1053204058201309186
https://mobile.twitter.com/duponline/status/1053244725665370113
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/nick-clegg-defence-facebook-silicon-valley-tech-giants/
https://mobile.twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1053242539468296192?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
"If no withdrawal agreement is reached and the transition period through December 2020 is consequently not implemented, corporate activities and consumers will be adversely affected by the impacts of suspended production activities resulting from failed just-in-time logistics operations, declines in revenue, and revised vehicle sales prices caused by spiralling logistics and production costs."
That is pretty strong language for the head of a trade association to be using.
On an unrelated note, I see that Anjem Choudary has been released today on licence, half-way through his sentence. And yet he has resolutely refused to go on any deradicalisation programmes. I would have thought, given what he was convicted for, going on one of those programmes should have been a condition for early release.
Christ: our rulers really are useless!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Stone_SkyNews/status/1052969763532627969
So it looks like she just needs to get it through Parliament and the Deal is done
Some of them think moving to WTO will be a great boost for the country.
Trump won Ohio and Iowa by around 9 points, but won Arizona by 4 points and Georgia by 5 points. The map is shifting.
Lots of politicians have successful careers outside their homeland.
Clegg's gone to America, Enoch Powell went to Northern Ireland after being proven wrong about the black man having the whip hand over the English.
SPD now trail Greens and AfD
Capitulation, as predicted. We'll see whether the DUP/Conservative front- and backbenchers who stopped the nonsense before can do so again.
Worth recalling that Richard II was brought low by a coalition but managed to reduce it over time, establishing a new tyranny that would've endured had he not let Henry Bolingbroke slip his grasp.
Do you think Enoch Powell considered Northern Ireland a foreign country?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45911710
The foreign secretary said the "great strength" of other EU nations was that they had stayed united in the talks - and he urged Tories to do the same.
The same would have happened in the UK if we didn't have FPTP
I'm really looking forward to the Brexit equivalent of the Chilcot Report.
Leo is getting desperate.....
If the far left gain power (or the far right, but that's a more distant prospect) then that may change.
As a Brummie with Welsh roots moving out of England and Great Britain to live in Northern Ireland is moving outside his homeland.
Another Powell Clegg comparison, both were eventually rejected by their voters.
The ERG will likely force a No Confidence vote in May, probably over 100 Tory MPs will vote against her but I think she will survive. Leadsom, McVey and Mourdaunt will all resign from the Cabinet most likely joining Boris and Davis and Patel as ex Cabinet Leavers on the backbencher leading opposition to May. The DUP will also still back the Tories on a No Confidence vote given McDonnell' s backing for a United Ireland this week.
https://twitter.com/Gillofthepeople/status/1053258419795357697
Done something I've never done before.
Handed in my notice this morning without a job lined up.
I can remember 3 day weeks and rolling black outs with TV shutting down at 7pm.
He was in San Francisco the other day.
https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1050049445583364101
Nothing to do with the point I am making, however, that Clegg has built a whole career (of failure after failure) on an hours decent tv coverage.
was it the prospect of Frankfurt ?
in any event wish you all the best in getting a new job quickly
Was looking at my 2019 schedule and realised money isn't everything. I'd rather earn a little bit less and spend more time with the family.
I'm hoping to get a job with a UK based financial institution so I can spend the next 6 months on gardening leave.
"First of all he knows just how some of the republican madmen in NI will react to the false fears he is stirring up about barriers along the border. Indeed he knows that they will use them to influence stupid and easily led young people to join their ranks"
the only people stirring up the prospects of violence are Varadkar and Coveney
http://uk.businessinsider.com/leaked-boris-johnson-letter-brexit-hard-irish-border-2018-2/
Perhaps a future thread on universal credit and how it affects work incentives of those returning to finance?
Well, can't blame him for trying I suppose and a story about bricks would obviously hold limited interest. Stepping back a bit this seems to be a matter between the Persimmon shareholders and their chief exec. If they are happy what's it got to do with us?
https://twitter.com/Peacharu_/status/1053039011307155456
A job is just a job and I am sure you can find something else to do, but your kids are only kids for a little while. Looking back, childhood is over in a flash.
"Receipts in September 2018 increased by 3.2% compared with September 2017, to £56.4 billion, while total expenditure increased by 2.8% to £59.4 billion.
Much of the annual growth in receipts came from Value Added Tax (VAT), Income Tax and National Insurance contributions, while other taxes such as duties on both tobacco and Stamp Duty (on land and properties) have fallen marginally on September 2017."
I mean, what is it going to take for us to rebase our growth figures? Its getting silly.
I think they're also acknowledged as the worst of all the big housebuilders in terms of quality issues & lebensraum per person.