I'm not sure quite how resonant the Epstein story is in the US (seems pretty smelly from here), but might Trump doubling down on Darroch be a handy distraction? It's a ploy that he's been accused of/credited with before.
The Darroch story isn't getting much coverage on the US media
"Trump throws Twitter tantrum" is a rather 'dog bites man' story over there.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
"sad" is nasty ?
Yep, as an anonymous one-liner. To a female MP. You have plenty of thoughts about life I don't see why you couldn't have elaborated.
'Scenario 2: Imagine that a General Election is held later this year after Brexit has been delivered.'
That 'after Brexit has been delivered' is massively problematic. Nigel will scream betrayal no matter what Boris serves up and probably all of TBP and many Tories will take Nigel's side. Boris is stuffed unless he kisses Nigel's spurs and begs for his patronage.
"Scenario 3: Imagine that Bozo has had to Revoke and is then VONCed by parliament..."
I doubt he would be VoNCed then - everyone would be ensuring Boris owned that revokation...
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
"sad" is nasty ?
Yep, as an anonymous one-liner. To a female MP. You have plenty of thoughts about life I don't see why you couldn't have elaborated.
If that is all you can come up with, I'll make you happy: you are sad too !
Not quite the same. I found that too. So what do you do ? Put in 211 for 5. Then what ? I tried to put in 46 overs for the 2nd innings . It just doesn't work.
The calculator above is useful after the 2nd innings has started.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
"sad" is nasty ?
Yep, as an anonymous one-liner. To a female MP. You have plenty of thoughts about life I don't see why you couldn't have elaborated.
If that is all you can come up with, I'll make you happy: you are sad too !
I am already happy. But I now see firsthand how the whole bullying of (especially female) MPs develops. Anonymous dickheads on the internet making nasty comments that they don't see any problems with.
Afternoon all Fascinating poll - once people see they can dump Boris, Corbyn, Brexit and Farage at the same time they'll rush at the chance. LD majority?
I am already happy. But I now see firsthand how the whole bullying of (especially female) MPs develops. Anonymous dickheads on the internet making nasty comments that they don't see any problems with.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
"sad" is nasty ?
Yep, as an anonymous one-liner. To a female MP. You have plenty of thoughts about life I don't see why you couldn't have elaborated.
If that is all you can come up with, I'll make you happy: you are sad too !
I am already happy. But I now see firsthand how the whole bullying of (especially female) MPs develops. Anonymous dickheads on the internet making nasty comments that they don't see any problems with.
I can only find one person here using nasty, horrible words. It ain't me !
Not quite the same. I found that too. So what do you do ? Put in 211 for 5. Then what ? I tried to put in 46 overs for the 2nd innings . It just doesn't work.
The calculator above is useful after the 2nd innings has started.
I just hope there aren't a lot of empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. That really would be a public relations disaster for the ICC.
How are semi final tickets allocated for the football world cup ? Surely after the playing teams are known.
What a nasty comment you wrote on Nusrat Ghani's twitter feed. Although I suppose it's easy to make any kind of comment anonymously to an Asian woman on the internet.
"sad" is nasty ?
Yep, as an anonymous one-liner. To a female MP. You have plenty of thoughts about life I don't see why you couldn't have elaborated.
If that is all you can come up with, I'll make you happy: you are sad too !
I am already happy. But I now see firsthand how the whole bullying of (especially female) MPs develops. Anonymous dickheads on the internet making nasty comments that they don't see any problems with.
I can only find one person here using nasty, horrible words. It ain't me !
I'm not talking about on here, I'm talking about on Nus Ghani's twitterfeed. We're all big boys on here.
Not quite the same. I found that too. So what do you do ? Put in 211 for 5. Then what ? I tried to put in 46 overs for the 2nd innings . It just doesn't work.
The calculator above is useful after the 2nd innings has started.
If you put in 240-10 as team A and Team B overs 46.1 for 5 wickets with maximum overs 50, it produces a team B target of 211 runs.
The resource % attributable to the remaining 5 wickets must therefore exceed 12.x % given the score to chase for 46 overs is 237.
96.1% of resources remaining for 46 overs and 0 wickets suggests that the par score attributed to New Zealand would have been 247.
56.6% of resources remaining would suggest a 20 over chase target of 140 - the real figure is 148, hence we can deduce the online calculator does not use the DLS professional tables.
Afternoon all Fascinating poll - once people see they can dump Boris, Corbyn, Brexit and Farage at the same time they'll rush at the chance. LD majority?
We used to dream of that, when I were a child.
In 1950 the Liberals poster had a picture of Big Ben and the slogan 'What's the time? Time we had the Liberals back.'
Afternoon all Fascinating poll - once people see they can dump Boris, Corbyn, Brexit and Farage at the same time they'll rush at the chance. LD majority?
We used to dream of that, when I were a child.
I used to say to our kids after getting home from the count ‘our day will come’ it sort of did in 95 but you have to keep the faith.
I have just got another follower on the internet [ also from PB ]. Don't worry, Mr Topping, that only makes it 3.
I just went over to her twitter to see what Owen Jones had been doing and your comment jumped out as apropos of nothing, no context and quite aggressive. Nasty, even. It so happened that I was able to relay my thoughts to the author of those very comments.
I appreciate twitter is a pithy medium but you do have 280 characters to put your point. Nus Ghani managed to do so. I am just responding to the impression it left. Perhaps you should head back over there to see it in the cold light of day.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
Just one problem with your assumption ... the Tories can't get Brexit done and with Labour rapidly backing themselves into the remain camp, that leaves Boris with a problem of major proportions. Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
NB The Brexit party supporters don't disappear just because Brexit has been delivered. This seems to be the hope of the Conservatives but there's no evidence of it.
This polling should terrify the Labour party too. They are expected to get absolutely no benefit from Brexit being seen in the rear view mirror. They can only hope that's incorrect in practice.
I am firmly of the belief that for Labour under Corbyn to have a good chance of winning the next general election it has to come BEFORE any Brexit is delivered.
I think they know this too.
What if Brexit is delivered and it is very bad?
That latter is their only chance, and even then they risk the backlash going to the properly remain parties.
In a pre-Brexit election now, Labour will struggle heavily since their policy toward Brexit won’t stand up to scrutiny.
I thought his sentence was a year and he'd already done some of it anyway. Where's the two years coming in, unless he's treated uniquely within the justice system... ?
I thought his sentence was a year and he'd already done some of it anyway. Where's the two years coming in, unless he's treated uniquely within the justice system... ?
The case was retried - it's possibly he could get a longer sentence this time around
Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
Good spot. I seem to have somehow dug myself to a level red of -£17.03 in that market so the first £17.03 of winnings from the additional tenner I've just popped on not before 2022 will be commission and premium charge free
I thought his sentence was a year and he'd already done some of it anyway. Where's the two years coming in, unless he's treated uniquely within the justice system... ?
I thought that Sky headline was a joke at first.
But of course, makes perfect sense.
He'll fit right in with Richard Spence and the others.
Interesting that Alan Duncan made the point that it was our Ambassadors rose-tinted view of the Shah's Government and popularity in the 50's that led to the Iranian Revolution
I thought his sentence was a year and he'd already done some of it anyway. Where's the two years coming in, unless he's treated uniquely within the justice system... ?
He was sentenced to 13 months last May and served two - released on appeal. The AG appealed that and he's been re-tried and convicted with sentencing later this week. The maximum sentence is 24 months - they may lop off the 2 months he's already served.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
Just one problem with your assumption ... the Tories can't get Brexit done and with Labour rapidly backing themselves into the remain camp, that leaves Boris with a problem of major proportions. Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
I am a Labour supporter. I could detect any "volte face" this morning. The idea that if Labour came to power, we would do our own Brexit is unacceptable to 75% of members.
It begs the question: what will be in the Labour manifesto ? If it is referendum only on a Tory Brexit or No-Deal but no referendum on a Labour Brexit then it will hardly move the needle.
Also, why should Labour negotiate a Brexit at all ? We want to Remain, period regardless of what Don Valley thinks. I bet the majority of Labour voters there too support Remain.
I thought his sentence was a year and he'd already done some of it anyway. Where's the two years coming in, unless he's treated uniquely within the justice system... ?
I thought that Sky headline was a joke at first.
But of course, makes perfect sense.
He'll fit right in with Richard Spence and the others.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
Just one problem with your assumption ... the Tories can't get Brexit done and with Labour rapidly backing themselves into the remain camp, that leaves Boris with a problem of major proportions. Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
I am a Labour supporter. I could detect any "volte face" this morning. The idea that if Labour came to power, we would do our own Brexit is unacceptable to 75% of members.
It begs the question: what will be in the Labour manifesto ? If it is referendum only on a Tory Brexit or No-Deal but no referendum on a Labour Brexit then it will hardly move the needle.
Also, why should Labour negotiate a Brexit at all ? We want to Remain, period regardless of what Don Valley thinks. I bet the majority of Labour voters there too support Remain.
Oops ! I meant I could NOT detect any volte face this morning.
In China, the concept of "face" is very important. In any negotiation, both sides must appear to retain face.
It's a mistake the EU made with the backstop (especially given it is essentially unenforceable), and it's a mistake President Trump is making now.
If HMG were to give in to this bullying, they would lose face. That cannot happen.
The way to remove an unruly Ambassador without the issue of face, is - of course - to bring it up in backchannels. Then the Ambassador can simply be transferred somewhere else, or quietly retired, or promoted to the House of Lords, and nothing need be said.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
Just one problem with your assumption ... the Tories can't get Brexit done and with Labour rapidly backing themselves into the remain camp, that leaves Boris with a problem of major proportions. Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
I am a Labour supporter. I could detect any "volte face" this morning. The idea that if Labour came to power, we would do our own Brexit is unacceptable to 75% of members.
It begs the question: what will be in the Labour manifesto ? If it is referendum only on a Tory Brexit or No-Deal but no referendum on a Labour Brexit then it will hardly move the needle.
Also, why should Labour negotiate a Brexit at all ? We want to Remain, period regardless of what Don Valley thinks. I bet the majority of Labour voters there too support Remain.
Oops ! I meant I could NOT detect any volte face this morning.
I think the Referendum result justifies a Labour Government seeking to negotiate a better deal with the EU to be followed by a further Referendum with the options being 'This is the best we can do' and Remain.
Absolute total fucking c***s have brought us to this. All the "I never voted for this type of Brexit, actually I'm in favour of a soft/EFTA/EEA/etc" bollocks and here we are.
In China, the concept of "face" is very important. In any negotiation, both sides must appear to retain face.
It's a mistake the EU made with the backstop (especially given it is essentially unenforceable), and it's a mistake President Trump is making now.
If HMG were to give in to this bullying, they would lose face. That cannot happen.
The way to remove an unruly Ambassador without the issue of face, is - of course - to bring it up in backchannels. Then the Ambassador can simply be transferred somewhere else, or quietly retired, or promoted to the House of Lords, and nothing need be said.
The EU didn't make any mistake whatsoever with the backstop.
I'd rate any sort of weather as a positive for Australia and a negative for England from a start point of expecting (In the mathematical sense of the word) an England win. Dry weather = Road = England win Rain = Slower pitch & outfield = Aus can win
On the plus side for us with weather we have our two of our fastest scorers up top (Roy/Bairstow) which should help any DLS situation, we decelerated against India if DLS had intervened then India's chase would have been truly colossal.
So Aus probably want rain before the match, but not during - winning the toss and batting could be crucial as I think the formula overvalues wickets as a resource at times.
Conservatives have only managed to scrape a majority once since Major... It always astounds me more people don't make more out of that.
After Brown, they failed to win a majority. After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe. And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
Both major parties look done for... But for Con, if they can get Brexit done and unite the right I suspect they'll survive.
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
Just one problem with your assumption ... the Tories can't get Brexit done and with Labour rapidly backing themselves into the remain camp, that leaves Boris with a problem of major proportions. Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
I am a Labour supporter. I could detect any "volte face" this morning. The idea that if Labour came to power, we would do our own Brexit is unacceptable to 75% of members.
It begs the question: what will be in the Labour manifesto ? If it is referendum only on a Tory Brexit or No-Deal but no referendum on a Labour Brexit then it will hardly move the needle.
Also, why should Labour negotiate a Brexit at all ? We want to Remain, period regardless of what Don Valley thinks. I bet the majority of Labour voters there too support Remain.
Oops ! I meant I could NOT detect any volte face this morning.
I think the Referendum result justifies a Labour Government seeking to negotiate a better deal with the EU to be followed by a further Referendum with the options being 'This is the best we can do' and Remain.
I will be Ok as long as Remain is an option even if the "deal" is negotiated by Labour. However, what is the difference between UK outside the EU but within the CU [ and almost in the SM ] and Remaining ?
I cannot see why the EU should even consider Labour's proposal. It's basically having the cake and eating it.
I'd rate any sort of weather as a positive for Australia and a negative for England from a start point of expecting (In the mathematical sense of the word) an England win. Dry weather = Road = England win Rain = Slower pitch & outfield = Aus can win
On the plus side for us with weather we have our two of our fastest scorers up top (Roy/Bairstow) which should help any DLS situation, we decelerated against India if DLS had intervened then India's chase would have been truly colossal.
So Aus probably want rain before the match, but not during - winning the toss and batting could be crucial as I think the formula overvalues wickets as a resource at times.
If Roy/Bairstow get to 120-0 off of 20 overs then the 20 over chase total will be around 280 I think...
In China, the concept of "face" is very important. In any negotiation, both sides must appear to retain face.
It's a mistake the EU made with the backstop (especially given it is essentially unenforceable), and it's a mistake President Trump is making now.
If HMG were to give in to this bullying, they would lose face. That cannot happen.
The way to remove an unruly Ambassador without the issue of face, is - of course - to bring it up in backchannels. Then the Ambassador can simply be transferred somewhere else, or quietly retired, or promoted to the House of Lords, and nothing need be said.
Though the Ambassador is leaving soon anyway isn't he? And Trump lost face due to this leak.
Trump is indulging himself in ranting and raving as he likes to do and by the time a new PM is elected he will have moved on to whoever has most recently pissed him off.
The difference between the EU and the WDA on the one hand and Trump and the Ambassador on the other is the EU want the WDA whereas Trump just wants to rant and rave. I don't think he'll care at all if Darroch gets replaced and the end of his term instead of a few weeks sooner.
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After Brown, they failed to win a majority.
After gaining a majority, they imploded due to Europe.
And after losing that majority they continue to be a zombie party.
In the long lens of the last 30 years, it is the Tories who look increasingly irrelevant with the LDs taking on wet market liberalism / unionism, and the UKIPs/ BXP taking on English nationalism.
2000-2003. Blairite Tory
(Actually he's an ex-Maoist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Triesman,_Baron_Triesman
Took me about 12 seconds...
http://www.boltoncricket.co.uk/DLcalc.html
For Lab its looking pretty terminal to me...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148573632869875712
The calculator above is useful after the 2nd innings has started.
https://twitter.com/hattmarris84/status/1148596875853008896
Parkfield community school announced it would relaunch equality teaching in September"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/09/protests-against-lgbt-lessons-in-birmingham-primary-school-resume
Apart from @Philip_Thompson.
https://www.easycalculation.com/sports/duckworth-lewis-calculator.php suggests this is a tie.
The resource % attributable to the remaining 5 wickets must therefore exceed 12.x % given the score to chase for 46 overs is 237.
96.1% of resources remaining for 46 overs and 0 wickets suggests that the par score attributed to New Zealand would have been 247.
56.6% of resources remaining would suggest a 20 over chase target of 140 - the real figure is 148, hence we can deduce the online calculator does not use the DLS professional tables.
Didn't, of course, to a lot of good.
I appreciate twitter is a pithy medium but you do have 280 characters to put your point. Nus Ghani managed to do so. I am just responding to the impression it left. Perhaps you should head back over there to see it in the cold light of day.
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https://twitter.com/krishgm/status/1148601468548722689
https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1148601449745567744
Incidentally after Labour's volte face this morming, largely driven by McDonnell and his union buddies, the Brexit betting markets as a whole appear to have moved very little. One Betfair price which caught my eye was their "No Brexit before 2022 on offer at 3.75, i.e. 11/4 in old money. If it doesn't happen over the next 6 months,it ain't going to happen over the next 2½ years.
In a pre-Brexit election now, Labour will struggle heavily since their policy toward Brexit won’t stand up to scrutiny.
But of course, makes perfect sense.
He'll fit right in with Richard Spence and the others.
Interesting that Alan Duncan made the point that it was our Ambassadors rose-tinted view of the Shah's Government and popularity in the 50's that led to the Iranian Revolution
It begs the question: what will be in the Labour manifesto ? If it is referendum only on a Tory Brexit or No-Deal but no referendum on a Labour Brexit then it will hardly move the needle.
Also, why should Labour negotiate a Brexit at all ? We want to Remain, period regardless of what Don Valley thinks. I bet the majority of Labour voters there too support Remain.
Strycova 3.4 / 3.5
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/tennis/market/1.160263563
In China, the concept of "face" is very important. In any negotiation, both sides must appear to retain face.
It's a mistake the EU made with the backstop (especially given it is essentially unenforceable), and it's a mistake President Trump is making now.
If HMG were to give in to this bullying, they would lose face. That cannot happen.
The way to remove an unruly Ambassador without the issue of face, is - of course - to bring it up in backchannels. Then the Ambassador can simply be transferred somewhere else, or quietly retired, or promoted to the House of Lords, and nothing need be said.
https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1148589762099523584
https://twitter.com/PhilipHammondUK/status/1148604913079005184
Skinner would be next father of the house with Ken Clarke standing down.
So far 4 Con, 7 Lab, 1 ex-Con (Boles) standing down.
It feels to me that a lot of MPs are hanging in there until Brexit is resolved.
Current MPs over 80=3 (3 Lab)
Current MPs 71-80 = 29 (10 Con, 16 Lab, 2 ex-Lab, 1 LD)
Current MPs 65-70 = 52 (21 Con, 22 Lab, 2 SNP, 2 SF, 2 DUP, 1 ex-Lab, 1 Plaid, 1 LD)
The forecast for Thursday's match isn't particularly good at the moment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2650236
Dry weather = Road = England win
Rain = Slower pitch & outfield = Aus can win
On the plus side for us with weather we have our two of our fastest scorers up top (Roy/Bairstow) which should help any DLS situation, we decelerated against India if DLS had intervened then India's chase would have been truly colossal.
So Aus probably want rain before the match, but not during - winning the toss and batting could be crucial as I think the formula overvalues wickets as a resource at times.
I cannot see why the EU should even consider Labour's proposal. It's basically having the cake and eating it.
Trump is indulging himself in ranting and raving as he likes to do and by the time a new PM is elected he will have moved on to whoever has most recently pissed him off.
The difference between the EU and the WDA on the one hand and Trump and the Ambassador on the other is the EU want the WDA whereas Trump just wants to rant and rave. I don't think he'll care at all if Darroch gets replaced and the end of his term instead of a few weeks sooner.