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Let’s start with Hillary Clinton. Remember her? Failed Presidential candidate last time around, not standing this time. Would lose, badly, if she had stood.
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Btw, how many guns you own now? Used any of them yet?
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) cleared five detectives of wrongdoing, but Sir Richard Henriques said its review was "flawed".
Sir Richard said it "fell well short of an effective investigation"."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49955628
Not clear whether this was from detailed listening to Brexit Debates on the Parliament Channel or Bercow's house style of a blend between Just William and Trollope Refugee having achieved some self-publicity.
If Trump pulls out of the nomination race before February then there will be normal primaries, and I can't see Pence being odds on to win that.
If Trump pulls out during or after the primary season then what happens will depend on whether the primaries are/were contested or not. And what happens next could be quite messy. I don't see the Rep party just accepting Pence because Trump has nominated him.
Only in the situation where Trump pulls out at a point when it is too late to realistically find another candidate would Pence be a shoe in.
It's all too awful, boring or infuriating to want to mention.
They could do to get their (anti) Crusader Saladin, back!
In the polling process, people who have never heard of Amy Kloubachar are asked the question who would you vote for in an election Biden vs Trump, and then in the next question Kloubachar vs Trump. Of course Biden is going to get better poll results than Kloubachar in such a comparison.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/49954966
Indeed that is how Gerald Ford became Republican candidate in 1976.
A droll thought has occurred to me.
What happens if the EU respond to Mr Johnson later this week by saying something along these lines:
'Look, your plan has some merit and the makings of a deal. We all need 6 months to flesh it out properly.'
Dead in a ditch talk is going to look as stupid as the man uttering it, isn't it?
I'd love to see them call his bluff on this.
In this scenario Pence is not an eligible candidate (there are no Running mates for the primaries), but there is no eligible candidate. There must be other obscure rules which kick in here.
In the Ford example, he had a year and a half in the White House before the primaries began and had enough time to bed in his presidential credentials. LBJ might be a better example.
I think it is worth giving thought to what the Democratic field is going to look like when he is no longer in it.
Boris's plan is unfinished. It's a "Heads of Terms" not a contract or a treaty. There are bits the EU will probably give in on (such as allowing the Northern Irish Assembly the final say). But there are other bits that are simply not spelled out in proper detail, such as the all important question of dispute resolution.
He can ride that one out. It's an "extension just because there is no other option" which will see him lying in a ditch.
Of course Pence should be favourite for next POTUS because it is completely unclear who else (Dem or other Rep) it would be.
This is the legacy.
Regan was a Nixon loyalist to the very end, Bush Snr learnt everything he knew in the Nixon administration. They both retained and promoted key Nixon officials.
Being a Nixon loyalist, defending the indefensible, was rewarded.
The Republican party is still furious that Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court failed.
So what I'm saying is you are right.
Based on what we have learnt in this case, neither the Met nor Wiltshire Police nor IPOC are fit for purpose.
Whilst Warren may attract some potential Sanders supporters I wonder if Biden supporters might actually be a better pool for Sanders and not that good for Warren.
Some good tips, Mr. 1000. My wallet's a bit thin, but those who have a bit to spend will do well to take your suggestions.
Because if not, we haven't even learned that.
Politicised law. Its just too dangerous to mess about with.
Were there any justice in the world, were there any concept of leadership or responsibility, were our Home Secretary someone who really valued law and order rather than smirked about it for the purpose of cheap applause, there would be resignations and significant changes to how the police approach investigations and proper retraining.
Even Warren is a fair bit younger than those two.
But for God’s sake, is it too much to expect people to be competent in their job? Or even have some sense of shame and responsibility. Clearly it is.
I’ve not been to the blasted police training college and I seem to know more about how investigations should be done than these bozos or even the Victim’s Commissioner, one Vera Baird QC.
You, whose job description is 'trying to stop bankers from being fuckwits?'
Yes, Cyclefree, it is too much to expect. That would be an intelligent request and when has the Home Office ever behaved intelligently?
I do agree it's bizarre that the younger generation appear so overshadowed. I cannot help but feel Obama missed a trick by staying with Biden as VP in his second term. He could and should have brought through somebody younger and more dynamic.
Ex-Barclays executives face fraud trial over Qatar rescue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49951412
I acknowledge that they felt obliged to do this because Boris was taking the piss (as Alastair memorably summarised) but once these doors are open they are very hard to close again. The latest nonsense in the Court of Session is a good example. Is this really how we want our politics to be? Dominated by those willing and able to run off to the Courts at the drop of a hat?
As you know all law is intimately bound up with politics, in the widest sense. Even the very idea that the ruler should be bound by the law was a profoundly political statement when first expressed.
Nonetheless over time we have been pretty good in this country at developing a system which seems to understand where the boundaries are between law and politics in a narrow sense. The US has a different way of approaching this even though it grew out of the English system and takes much from it. You cannot simply take one case from the US and transpose it here. There is a delicate balancing act between the three branches of the US government, in part because the Founding Fathers thought hard about these issues when drawing up the US Constitution. We have done it in another way.
But when one bit of government behaves in a way which upends all normal and generally understood conventions and rules then it is only right that other parts intervene. Indeed it may be necessary. That seems very political. But we should remember why it became necessary: because the executive seems to have adopted a “end justifies all means” approach to governance, something which is profoundly at odds with the normal way of doing things here.
I think you would find the Sumption Reith lectures interesting if you haven’t already heard them.
On that note, I had better be off and earn my living.
Does that need Senate confirmation?
He also has a good way of turning his own health around into advocacy for medicare for all, which will put some critics off pressing the issue too much or give him a good opportunity when they do.
In the still unlikely, thought not impossible event of Trump going down, I'm not convinced Pence's chances are that brilliant.
Had they done so then the Supreme Court would not have been called upon to act.
Was he still with his wife at the time?
Ford also had to see off a strong GOP primary challenge from Ronald Reagan in 1976 before he even got the nomination and he then went on to lose the general election to Jimmy Carter, albeit narrowly
(Does a new VP need Senate confirmation?)
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/green-party-policies-home-office-abolished-conference-2019-643450
Like if you watch, eg. SCD because it’s a really good show and not because forced to sit through it out of obedience to your other half
Can't answer categorically but I think it's a name recognition thing. Probably why David Miliband has short odds (relatively) as next Labour leader when he'd stopped being an MP.