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This doesn't look like the right strategy for the LAB leader. Corbyn hits out at media over 'stupid woman' row. https://t.co/CGqjw0avA2
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The rest of the voters will running around trying to sort Xmas in time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
He's a bit Greeny and he might want to take the attention off himself (Fess up and put it behind you).
Someone on the previous thread suggested it might be a Grandad, but this looks more deliberate.
Any odds on Caroline Lucas?
"I’ll be wrapping up the blog in about an hour so so. And then I’m not expecting to be blogging again until Monday 7 January, when the Commons returns after the Christmas recess."
Let's hope everyone has calmed down a bit by then and we can sort this mess out sensibly.
I imagine Gatwick did indeed have both preventative and contingency plans.
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
which is very specific language.
Also, there have been two periods when they've definitely been deployed.
“They were over the perimeter fence and into where the runway operates from. They disappeared and reappeared over the night period from 9pm until 3am at which point we reopened the runway. That lasted for 45 minutes before the drones reappeared again."
Practically. the jig will be up only when McDonnell says it's up, and for now, he seems to be happy to let his lifelong friend carry on his little games.
He might even recall a fuss almost 30 years ago when a honourable Member was called a stupid woman, as he was in the chamber at the time.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-01-20/Debate-5.html
Mr. Holt : I could not possibly call the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) an intelligent woman.
The takeaway for Team Corbyn is that if you are going to make up fairy stories about what he said, then don't choose an alternative word with exactly the opposite mouth movements. It ain't very credible.
Agree with Alistair, that this will confirm opinions whether for skeptics or groupies. This has shades of his memorial to the terrorists where iirc one version of his many dissemblings (was it 4 or 5 lots of fairytales on that occasion?) was was to claim to have been at a memorial that isn't even in the graveyard.
Presumably the allotment is being turned over exclusively to faceplants.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/this-shoulder-mounted-net-firing-bazooka-can-down-a-rogue-drone-at-100-meters/
Backed by a disgraced ex NEC member.
"Showing a concern for the sanctity of democracy which has not always been a hallmark of his career, Putin argued that the will of the people must be respected."
I'm not one of those "British is always best" types, but I do think we win on elegant irony.
What’s going on at Gatwick appears to be the quite deliberate misuse of the sort of drones used commercially, some organised group must be behind it and it’s surprising we haven’t heard from them yet. Many other groups are going to see what’s going on and see the amount of disruption that can be caused by only a few people.
As for whom, I can see the same type of people who try to close down power stations doing this stuff - conceivably militant evironmental types protesting against the rather creative runway use changes pending at Gatwick?
EDIT: Looks to be a hoax. Ignore.
Still, to be serious, has he not stood up and lied to the House of Commons? Yes, he undeniably has. Therefore could this not, trivial as it seems to many, lead to a scandal which grows and grows until the only way to end it is for him to stand down as Labour leader? Unlikely. Very unlikely indeed. But not impossible.
If so, what a time for that to happen, right slap bang in the middle of the biggest political crisis that this country has seen for many a year!
I was reliably told, and this is not something I'd heard here, that the shift in editorial tone was largely necessitated by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
Apparently SFH managed to convince so many advertisers to pull their contracts with the Mail that Rothermere was convinced that it was an existential threat to the paper unless they shifted to an editorial line that advertisers were comfortable with.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3734916/The-hypnotic-view-Fascinating-aerial-photographs-London-s-Gatwick-Airport-ve-never-seen-before.html
Who do you want deciding on what shape your banana should be? An expert in that particular topic who works in Brussels or Owen Patterson?
It's at the very least debatable.
But whether he said it or not it is another example where Corbyn gets petty and ranty when the media annoys him. E.g. his 'can we have a question on the nhs' moment.
Really he's fine as plenty of non fans are unclear if he did say what is alleged, so anger at the naughty media plays to his base.
Though I think the real significance of the row is to make some sort of negotiated Labour support for the Deal even less likely. An olive branch would have been better from TM, but she is too partisan.
And, the question that saw Labour support fall to 22% was extremely leading.
The new runway use proposals at LGW are certainly creative, that’s for sure. It’s currently the world’s busiest single-runway airport.
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Seems like a majority of people think he did say stupid woman but that it’s not actually sexist.
I think I would agree with that. The woman part of stupid woman is simply for lack of a different term. I could just as easily see May calling Corbyn a stupid man, but stupid person doesn’t really sound natural, I think most people would use woman/man in this context. He clearly shouldn’t have said it but I don’t see this story lasting much longer, it was just a nice distraction from Brexit.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/14/passenger-plane-left-gaping-hole-crashing-drone-8249661/
It resembles the damage caused by a large bird
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4543186/bird-strike-boeing-737-sudan/
We don't close airports because of flocks of geese. Just carry on flying.