I think this means a full time (35 hours a week working 233 days a year) wage is about £17,100 in 2024, but that equates to about £15,500 today, in real terms, so not quite as generous as it looks in nominal.
I’d hope The Saj would cut employer NI rates to help them pay for it too, and mitigate impact on employment.
Noone works 35 hours a week.
Quite a lot of people I know work a 35 hour week.
Never heard of zero hours contracts Mr B?
How could I have missed them with Corbyn spouting some rubbish about them every PMQs? But what's that got to do with a 35 hour working week.
It's 5.5% a year. Average wage inflation is 4% right now.
CPI is running at 1.7%.
The Tories are offering OVER 3 TIMES the current rate of inflation to the lowest paid in society.
You would have to be a swivel-eyed Labour drone to criticize that.
If you look back through my postings you'll recognise I'm nothing of the sort. I don't like the idea of a government telling employees and employers what the price of the former's labour must be at all. I do, though, like to see a greater labour share of income. I don't think NMW or NLW is the best way to go about it
But the figures are the figures. It's an increase, but in the context of current wage growth it's a modest increase. We shouldn't lose our shit over it.
I, for one, am totally losing my shit over it.
Labour were a calling with their banning of private schools and 32 hours.
But Tories have just played their pocket rockets.
I judge parties by their policies and I can sit on the fence no more.
The 32 hours a week policy, on the same review, is actually a policy that nobody gets a pay rise for eight years but at the end you'll only be working four days a week.
Also bear in mind that if you're on NMW now, the best way to get a raise over a five year period is not to wait for HMG to mandate it for you
What’s the difference between nation living wage and the minimum wage? Is one voluntary?
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Maybe that’s the master plan all along. Cummings and Gove hype Boris up to do mad things. Gove inherits the Earth as a moderating influence. Cummings and Gove were close.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Any replacement Tory PM would immediately be impaled on the do-or-die deadline, which is now firmly established as the most solemn vow of the Tory death-cult.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Maybe that’s the master plan all along. Cummings and Gove hype Boris up to do mad things. Gove inherits the Earth as a moderating influence. Cummings and Gove were close.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Any replacement Tory MP would immediately be impaled on the do-or-die deadline, which is now firmly established as the most solemn vow of the Tory death-cult.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Any replacement Tory MP would immediately be impaled on the do-or-die deadline, which is now firmly established as the most solemn vow of the Tory death-cult.
Wouldn’t ‘die’ have been the outcome?
Yes, but the replacement would be expected to honour the pledge.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Maybe that’s the master plan all along. Cummings and Gove hype Boris up to do mad things. Gove inherits the Earth as a moderating influence. Cummings and Gove were close.
You mean Cummings has wargamed this?
It is surely one of the infinite possibilities he has navigated.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Gove is unelectable, perhaps the only way Corbyn could win a general election would be to face Gove.
Gove is a behind the scenes man not a leader, in any case even if he ceases to be PM rather than agree an extension Boris would remain Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition so no vacancy for Gove. Corbyn is certainly not going to make Gove PM to extend
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Any replacement Tory MP would immediately be impaled on the do-or-die deadline, which is now firmly established as the most solemn vow of the Tory death-cult.
Wouldn’t ‘die’ have been the outcome?
Yes, but the replacement would be expected to honour the pledge.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Any replacement Tory MP would immediately be impaled on the do-or-die deadline, which is now firmly established as the most solemn vow of the Tory death-cult.
Wouldn’t ‘die’ have been the outcome?
Yes, but the replacement would be expected to honour the pledge.
The sequel. Do or die harder? Seriously, why don’t all the headbangers have a week in charge. The party would be back to its senses by Christmas. And we can all move on.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Gove is unelectable, perhaps the only way Corbyn could win a general election would be to face Gove.
Gove is a behind the scenes man not a leader, in any case even if he ceases to be PM rather than agree an extension Boris would remain Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition so no vacancy for Gove. Corbyn is certainly not going to make Gove PM to extend
He has a face for radio but not the voice to go with it
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Thankyou.
"He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future." You could call it the English Socialism Party.
I was in Waterstones on Saturday, buying "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History" (David Edgerton, ISBN: 9780141975979) when I noticed "The Cold War" by John Lewis Gaddis. I had a look at his Waterstone's page[1] and he looks interesting. Has anybody read Gaddis and if so, what did you think?
Edgerton is good, although these days he ploughs a lonely furrow. His thesis is that the modern view of twentieth-century Britain as a nation in decline is not borne out by the experiences of those at the time nor the facts, and that it and its Empire was an equal to the US and USSR and capable of remarkable innovation and growth. I figure the Leavers would like him because he regards the EU as unnecessary, and the Labour would like him because he regards Thatcher as a diversion. As the Anglosphere Leavers intend to treat the UK like the Daleks intended to treat the Earth, I think this might be a good way forward for the left instead of the hollowed-out shell of Corbynism. If OGH permits, I'll do a review next year.
A new case set to start in Scotland later in the week to effectively allow a remedy if Bozo refuses to sign the extension letter.
This is likely to end up in the Supreme Court and centres around the nobile officium.
Essentially a clerk of the Scottish court can sign the extension letter to effect remedy .
This does bring up though a difficult scenario for the EU who don’t want to be drawn in to this and would rather just have an extension letter from the PM.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Gove is unelectable, perhaps the only way Corbyn could win a general election would be to face Gove.
Gove is a behind the scenes man not a leader, in any case even if he ceases to be PM rather than agree an extension Boris would remain Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition so no vacancy for Gove. Corbyn is certainly not going to make Gove PM to extend
He has a face for radio but not the voice to go with it
I was in Waterstones on Saturday, buying "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History" (David Edgerton, ISBN: 9780141975979) when I noticed "The Cold War" by John Lewis Gaddis. I had a look at his Waterstone's page[1] and he looks interesting. Has anybody read Gaddis and if so, what did you think?
Edgerton is good, although these days he ploughs a lonely furrow. His thesis is that the modern view of twentieth-century Britain as a nation in decline is not borne out by the experiences of those at the time nor the facts, and that it and its Empire was an equal to the US and USSR and capable of remarkable innovation and growth. I figure the Leavers would like him because he regards the EU as unnecessary, and the Labour would like him because he regards Thatcher as a diversion. As the Anglosphere Leavers intend to treat the UK like the Daleks intended to treat the Earth, I think this might be a good way forward for the left instead of the hollowed-out shell of Corbynism. If OGH permits, I'll do a review next year.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
Boris hasn't been shown up, he is just willing to fight the diehard Remainers in the Commons and they can't stand being talked back to rather than having a PM they ignored and walked all over like May
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
He has some great qualities but PM is not the right outlet for them. He would be better suited to a more ceremonial role. High viz but without too much - and preferably any - direct power. Something like a mascot.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
Boris hasn't been shown up, he is just willing to fight the diehard Remainers in the Commons and they can't stand being talked back to rather than having a PM they ignored and walked all over like May
Gove is always on manoeuvres. He can’t help himself.
It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Weirdly, I suspect Gove would make a pretty good PM in terms of his cleverness and adaptability.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Gove is unelectable, perhaps the only way Corbyn could win a general election would be to face Gove.
Gove is a behind the scenes man not a leader, in any case even if he ceases to be PM rather than agree an extension Boris would remain Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition so no vacancy for Gove. Corbyn is certainly not going to make Gove PM to extend
He has a face for radio but not the voice to go with it
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
Boris hasn't been shown up, he is just willing to fight the diehard Remainers in the Commons and they can't stand being talked back to rather than having a PM they ignored and walked all over like May
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
He has some great qualities but PM is not the right outlet for them. He would be better suited to a more ceremonial role. High viz but without too much - and preferably any - direct power. Something like a mascot.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
JohnO are you still a Conservative (ie have you left the party)?
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
Indeed. It's merely a coincidence. What other explanation could there possibly be?
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
JohnO are you still a Conservative (ie have you left the party)?
I am very much a Conservative and Indeed the life and soul of the Party.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
I sincerely wonder if democracy itself is doable in the internet age, amidst the whirling madness of social media. China has it right, in some ways. Tragically,
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
SeanT must be lurking on here, watching what I write! Wanker.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
I sincerely wonder if democracy itself is doable in the internet age, amidst the whirling madness of social media. China has it right, in some ways. Tragically,
No it doesn't, China has brutal suppression of opposition, human rights abuses and slowing economic growth.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
Blair forced Brown to follow Tory spending plans for the first term continuing on the excellent economic work of the Conservatives.
In fact, as I recall, around 2001 they could have almost abolished income tax with the budget surplus they had accrued following Conservatives plans.
ABOLISH INCOME TAX...let than sink in for a moment in the context of the boost to the economy we could have had.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
The only one of importance was the one that will bring about the ending of Unity on these islands.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
Blair forced Brown to follow Tory spending plans for the first term continuing on the excellent economic work of the Conservatives.
In fact, as I recall, around 2001 they could have almost abolished income tax with the budget surplus they had accrued following Conservatives plans.
ABOLISH INCOME TAX...let than sink in for a moment in the context of the boost to the economy we could have had.
The budget surplus was because GB sold the gold reserves at $500 an ounce. just before it went to $1000 an ounce
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
I sincerely wonder if democracy itself is doable in the internet age, amidst the whirling madness of social media. China has it right, in some ways. Tragically,
China has concentration camps for Muslims. That's not quite Conservative policy. Yet.
I was in Waterstones on Saturday, buying "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History" (David Edgerton, ISBN: 9780141975979) when I noticed "The Cold War" by John Lewis Gaddis. I had a look at his Waterstone's page[1] and he looks interesting. Has anybody read Gaddis and if so, what did you think?
I have. A few years ago but recall finding it interesting. Note it does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of the Cold War. More an analysis of key aspects of it.
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
As Byron himself would have known, bad poets borrow, great poets steal.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Margaret Thatcher
But she was malign in a different way - thoroughly unchristian PM.
Hello everyone, my name is JBriskinindref2 - and I am now officially a PB Tory
The only Tory in the village
Tories are third in my constituency, LDs lost, or came close to, losing their deposit.
I might have a flutter.
So you have decided to surrender your humanity?
It is a shame. But I'm a policy focused kinda guy. And 10 fifty was just what the doctor ordered.
Apparently Labour is already committed to £10 an hour from 2020 - thereafter increased with inflation. Likely to imply £11 by 2024.
I'd rather have the Tories in control of national finances. Labour seem to struggle with a calculator nowadays (or under Brown, basic Keynsian economics)
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
The only one of importance was the one that will bring about the ending of Unity on these islands.
I have always hated Tony Blair.
if it had been a change to a federal system (with the English regions getting devolved government) it would have worked better.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
Blair forced Brown to follow Tory spending plans for the first term continuing on the excellent economic work of the Conservatives.
In fact, as I recall, around 2001 they could have almost abolished income tax with the budget surplus they had accrued following Conservatives plans.
ABOLISH INCOME TAX...let than sink in for a moment in the context of the boost to the economy we could have had.
The budget surplus was because GB sold the gold reserves at $500 an ounce. just before it went to $1000 an ounce
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
Blair forced Brown to follow Tory spending plans for the first term continuing on the excellent economic work of the Conservatives.
In fact, as I recall, around 2001 they could have almost abolished income tax with the budget surplus they had accrued following Conservatives plans.
ABOLISH INCOME TAX...let than sink in for a moment in the context of the boost to the economy we could have had.
You'd be roughly doubling everyone's take-home pay in that scenario. I suspect the inflationary implications would be non-trivial.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
He has some great qualities but PM is not the right outlet for them. He would be better suited to a more ceremonial role. High viz but without too much - and preferably any - direct power. Something like a mascot.
More likely would be as a warning to others of how not to get things done...
One month to go to do or die Brexit day and no-one has the foggiest clue what is going to happen. Whatever your politics, that's not a great state of affairs.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
I suppose that’s progress. We’re getting better at exposing the duds. I begin to wonder if the job is doable in the Internet age. It would be a massive shock to the country if we ended up with a really decent, effective, competent PM. Hard to remember what that feels like.
Tony Blair in the 1990s, up to and including 10/09/2001. He knew what he could do and more importantly what he couldn't. he brought the country with him for some of the major changes he made. it can be seen by the fact that they haven't been repealed. (only GBs overly complex tax credits got that)
The only one of importance was the one that will bring about the ending of Unity on these islands.
I have always hated Tony Blair.
if it had been a change to a federal system (with the English regions getting devolved government) it would have worked better.
I'm all for a Federal UK. As has been hinted at already on this thread, the break-up of these islands is now on the cards.
Hello everyone, my name is JBriskinindref2 - and I am now officially a PB Tory
The only Tory in the village
Tories are third in my constituency, LDs lost, or came close to, losing their deposit.
I might have a flutter.
So you have decided to surrender your humanity?
It is a shame. But I'm a policy focused kinda guy. And 10 fifty was just what the doctor ordered.
Apparently Labour is already committed to £10 an hour from 2020 - thereafter increased with inflation. Likely to imply £11 by 2024.
I'd rather have the Tories in control of national finances. Labour seem to struggle with a calculator nowadays (or under Brown, basic Keynsian economics)
Despite having found their own Magic Moneytree? The Tories left the country facing economic crisis in both October 1964 and March 1974.
Has there ever been a Prime Minister less fit for the role than Boris Johnson?
You could name a few because of the disasters that they unleashed on the country but very few have been shown up so quickly.
Boris hasn't been shown up, he is just willing to fight the diehard Remainers in the Commons and they can't stand being talked back to rather than having a PM they ignored and walked all over like May
If he was 'willing to fight the diehard Remainers in the Commons' why did he try to shut it down for 5 weeks?
Hello everyone, my name is JBriskinindref2 - and I am now officially a PB Tory
The only Tory in the village
Tories are third in my constituency, LDs lost, or came close to, losing their deposit.
I might have a flutter.
So you have decided to surrender your humanity?
It is a shame. But I'm a policy focused kinda guy. And 10 fifty was just what the doctor ordered.
Apparently Labour is already committed to £10 an hour from 2020 - thereafter increased with inflation. Likely to imply £11 by 2024.
I'd rather have the Tories in control of national finances. Labour seem to struggle with a calculator nowadays (or under Brown, basic Keynsian economics)
Despite having found their own Magic Moneytree? The Tories left the country facing economic crisis in both October 1964 and March 1974.
I was born 79 - my first political memories were of Major and despising Tony Blair for his tory lite agenda (my dad was a labour man)
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Coincidences happen all the time: doesn’t mean a thing. Byronic was simply plagiarising an above average insight from Sean Thomas. I agree he should have acknowledged the reference but it’s hardly a capital offence.
SeanT must be lurking on here, watching what I write! Wanker.
No wonder. As a crossdressing international male model transitioning to a woman with a small cottage in Greece, your life is truly inspirational. It's certainly incredible.
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It’s why I’ve got him covered as next PM.
Trouble is he is horribly tainted now, and he looks a bit like something out Eraserhead, the Director's Cut.
Maybe this is the ultimate vindication for him.
Gove is a behind the scenes man not a leader, in any case even if he ceases to be PM rather than agree an extension Boris would remain Tory leader and Leader of the Opposition so no vacancy for Gove. Corbyn is certainly not going to make Gove PM to extend
I am going to start a new party.
THE PRETEND BREXIT NEVER HAPPENED PARTY
Our manifesto will, boldly and explicitly, make no mention of Brexit at all. Our policy is not to Brexit, or not Brexit, not to revoke, go to No Deal, press for a referendum, or endlessly extend. No, all those are for parallel universes where this odd thing tried to occur.
In our brand new and brilliant party, Brexit simply never happened, so does not need addressing, furthermore, any mentions of "Brexit", whatever that is, will be met with a notarised raised eyebrow and a EU-compatible puzzled glance. Those who persist in mentioning Brexit, whether "Remain" or "Leave" will be given calming valerian sweets.
Within a year of attaining power, all mentions of Brexit in print, online, on walls, and in government documents, will be entirely expunged like the hieroglyphs of Akhenaten, after the fall of the monotheistic pharaoh of Akhetaten.
Thankyou.
A new case set to start in Scotland later in the week to effectively allow a remedy if Bozo refuses to sign the extension letter.
This is likely to end up in the Supreme Court and centres around the nobile officium.
Essentially a clerk of the Scottish court can sign the extension letter to effect remedy .
This does bring up though a difficult scenario for the EU who don’t want to be drawn in to this and would rather just have an extension letter from the PM.
I’m convinced...
I will try to look at this!
I think it is reasonable to infer the well of succour for remainers is pretty much dry.
Is that William of Orange on your avatar?
Like this one? But it's in Glasgow, so probably neither he nor the city would regard each other as suitable.
Ps it's culturally insensitive not to refer to Akhetaten by his chosen pronoun Amenhotep III.
Democratic India does it better
In fact, as I recall, around 2001 they could have almost abolished income tax with the budget surplus they had accrued following Conservatives plans.
ABOLISH INCOME TAX...let than sink in for a moment in the context of the boost to the economy we could have had.
I have always hated Tony Blair.
Your man is a dud.
(1) ask for (and secure) an extension
(2) No Confidence itself
That could happen over the length of a Kenneth Clarke lunch.