Surely this was an obvious decision once the election campaign was underway? Not denying the fury and outrage, but it seems like it would be an inevitability.
Very much damned if they do and damned if they don't. Imagine if the election campaign were full of stories about the enquiry, the Tories failed to win, Johnson's career was terminated, and then it turned out afterwards that he had no case to answer?
only lefties and the public sector read the Guardian and its Sunday sister paper so this headline is little more than tomorrow's chip paper. The little runt Bercow opening is gob before the election is over is of more concern. Personally I wouldn't give the little shit the time of day let alone a peerage.
Very much damned if they do and damned if they don't. Imagine if the election campaign were full of stories about the enquiry, the Tories failed to win, Johnson's career was terminated, and then it turned out afterwards that he had no case to answer?
I know people still upset about the Hilary Clinton stuff that went don for example.
Surely this was an obvious decision once the election campaign was underway? Not denying the fury and outrage, but it seems like it would be an inevitability.
“Fury”. An emotion reserved for people who speak to journalists who need a headline. Local newspapers will feature the photograph of a miserable (but furious) set of people staring aggressively at a geographical feature.
If Boris wins a general election we should have an online petition to send Gina Miller to Brussels, receive Belgian citizenship and send her there for good. The woman is a bloody menace.
Very Soviet. Peering through the window at Animal Farm, the Thatcherites have transmogrified into Stalinists.
If Boris wins a general election we should have an online petition to send Gina Miller to Brussels, receive Belgian citizenship and send her there for good. The woman is a bloody menace.
If it makes you feel any better, she regularly gets death threats and needs bodyguards when she appears at public gatherings.
LDs now ahead of Corbyn Labour in Scotland as well as the East of England, South East England and South West England. Only in London, the North, the Midlands and Wales are Labour even still the Tories main opponents and only in the North East, London and Wales are Labour actually ahead.
Have had a busy day canvassing in Chingford for IDS and delivering in Harlow for Robert Halfon. In Chingford the Tory vote was solid, certainly on the Leave side, there were a few Tory Remainers wavering but they were only considering the LDs, they all could not stand Corbyn
, given Labour are at almost zero in Scotland that is no surprise, UKIP are likely to be ahead of them.
There is a swimg from the SNP to the LDs with Yougov too in Scotland
For those of you thinking about Cheltenham. I am convinced that part of Martin Horwoods downfall was because every Focus seemed to have the message "Martin fighting hard to save XXX health service in Cheltenham." Yet in his tenure Battledown Childrens Hospital closed (can it get worse for an MP than the closure of a Childrens Hospital) and we had a large crisis in A&E on a Saturday morning, featured on Sky News. I can remember my reaction to these and it was "This is Cheltenham, these things do not happen here."
So Mr Chalk has been on his own "I will save the NHS in Cheltenham", the local trust wants to move A&E to Gloucester and close Cheltenham. I seems Mr Chalk has won, just in time for the GE (what a surprise).
Chalk will get this message out and I think it could be significant, vote Tory keep your healthcare.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
They may only be a motorway between Cheltenham and Gloucester but the divide is much greater than that, it is i have to say class based or money based.
Well, yes. Gloucester’s the grotty working class city and Cheltenham’s where all the poshos and Corbynistas hang out.
But it’s still daft.
Well apart from Hesters Way.....the birthplace of the Chav.
Actually the roughest part of Cheltenham and indeed probably Gloucestershire as a whole is St Paul's.
LDs now ahead of Corbyn Labour in Scotland as well as the East of England, South East England and South West England. Only in London, the North, the Midlands and Wales are Labour even still the Tories main opponents and only in the North East, London and Wales are Labour actually ahead.
Have had a busy day canvassing in Chingford for IDS and delivering in Harlow for Robert Halfon. In Chingford the Tory vote was solid, certainly on the Leave side, there were a few Tory Remainers wavering but they were only considering the LDs, they all could not stand Corbyn
, given Labour are at almost zero in Scotland that is no surprise, UKIP are likely to be ahead of them.
There is a swimg from the SNP to the LDs with Yougov too in Scotland
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
The Guardian says a Corbyn government virtually impossible, even tactical voting only gets Labour to 233 seats.
However it says tactical voting could make the difference between a Tory majority on 347 seats as now and the Tories on just 309 seats in another hung parliament with Labour and the LDs and SNP combined having enough votes for EUref2
Wiser heads will be able to advise me on the following, as I have no idea:
If SNP's primary aim is to gain a second indy referendum, is that made more or less likely by Brexit?
If SNP's secondary aim is to win independence from a second indy referendum, is that made more or less likely by Brexit?
On balance, I would say Brexit makes independence an easier sell. The Scottish Government position is very pro-EU - thus, if the UK stays in, Scotland has to leave the EU of its own accord and then negotiate its way back in. A somewhat awkward proposition.
Prince Philip once met a Brazilian general in Rio on a state visit. He expressed curiosity about the large number of medals said general was wearing, and got the answer, 'I won them in the war.'
'I didn't know Brazil was in the war that long,' joked Philip.
'Well, at least I didn't get them for marrying my wife,' snapped the General.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
This is the problem when we stop treating the NHS as a healthcare system and start treating it as a religion.
Who wants their local temple closing down? They would be deprived of their personal connection to God.
The fact that one big central hospital might provide a better bloody health service than two (not very good) medium sized ones is neither here nor there.
It's much simpler in that most people are risk-averse and have a strong preference for bad healthcare to loss of life due to being far from a hospital. Local lobbying for well-paid professional jobs also plays some role.
That's the thick electorate for you. They assume it's essential to have a hospital five minutes away because, in the unlikely event of a massive heart attack, they have a vastly better chance of surviving if they don't have to spend five extra minutes in the back of an ambulance. Which is, of course, bollocks. It wouldn't make much difference, and they'd most likely die regardless.
A large, well-equipped, modern facility half-an-hour away will almost invariably be better for your personal health outcomes and those of your family than an understaffed, tumbledown dump at the bottom of the street. Regardless of how many raffles to buy new bits of machinery for it that you've bought tickets for.
We may share those risk preferences, but people at higher risk of a stroke or sub-massive heart attack may prefer a 5% chance of an extra week in hospital to a 0.5% higher chance of death. However, as said, there are also other reasons to lobby for local hospitals, like the economic stimulus they bring and the convenience of access for staff and visitors.
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
As a Liverpool fan I'm glad I've never said anything on social media/forums that could be misinterpreted if I ever ran for political office.
United rather than Liverpool. But yes, it is fun when people drag stuff out of your timeline and go "AHA". Ok so i havent got my dick out, started pluckimg it and shouting "willy banjo". But i did post pro Corbyn stuff.
For those of you thinking about Cheltenham. I am convinced that part of Martin Horwoods downfall was because every Focus seemed to have the message "Martin fighting hard to save XXX health service in Cheltenham." Yet in his tenure Battledown Childrens Hospital closed (can it get worse for an MP than the closure of a Childrens Hospital) and we had a large crisis in A&E on a Saturday morning, featured on Sky News. I can remember my reaction to these and it was "This is Cheltenham, these things do not happen here."
So Mr Chalk has been on his own "I will save the NHS in Cheltenham", the local trust wants to move A&E to Gloucester and close Cheltenham. I seems Mr Chalk has won, just in time for the GE (what a surprise).
Chalk will get this message out and I think it could be significant, vote Tory keep your healthcare.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
They may only be a motorway between Cheltenham and Gloucester but the divide is much greater than that, it is i have to say class based or money based.
Well, yes. Gloucester’s the grotty working class city and Cheltenham’s where all the poshos and Corbynistas hang out.
But it’s still daft.
Well apart from Hesters Way.....the birthplace of the Chav.
Actually the roughest part of Cheltenham and indeed probably Gloucestershire as a whole is St Paul's.
Ah St. Paul's. Yes. You have a point. Isn't it made-up a lot these days of student housing? Haven't lived there for a while now.
I was always surprised about the "new" use of "Chav" in the mid 2000's. We Cheltonians were using that in the early 90's. Always thought it meant CHeltenham AVerage. Shellsuits,gold stud earring. Highly gelled hair and wispy moustaches. Soonest thump you in the face than bother with an argument kind of people. Call you "mush".
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
I thought as a Baroness she didn't have a vote anyway?
For those of you thinking about Cheltenham. I am convinced that part of Martin Horwoods downfall was because every Focus seemed to have the message "Martin fighting hard to save XXX health service in Cheltenham." Yet in his tenure Battledown Childrens Hospital closed (can it get worse for an MP than the closure of a Childrens Hospital) and we had a large crisis in A&E on a Saturday morning, featured on Sky News. I can remember my reaction to these and it was "This is Cheltenham, these things do not happen here."
So Mr Chalk has been on his own "I will save the NHS in Cheltenham", the local trust wants to move A&E to Gloucester and close Cheltenham. I seems Mr Chalk has won, just in time for the GE (what a surprise).
Chalk will get this message out and I think it could be significant, vote Tory keep your healthcare.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
They may only be a motorway between Cheltenham and Gloucester but the divide is much greater than that, it is i have to say class based or money based.
Well, yes. Gloucester’s the grotty working class city and Cheltenham’s where all the poshos and Corbynistas hang out.
But it’s still daft.
Well apart from Hesters Way.....the birthplace of the Chav.
Actually the roughest part of Cheltenham and indeed probably Gloucestershire as a whole is St Paul's.
Ah St. Paul's. Yes. You have a point. Isn't it made-up a lot these days of student housing? Haven't lived there for a while now.
I was always surprised about the "new" use of "Chav" in the mid 2000's. We Cheltonians were using that in the early 90's. Always thought it meant CHeltenham AVerage. Shellsuits,gold stud earring. Highly gelled hair and wispy moustaches. Soonest thump you in the face than bother with an argument kind of people. Call you "mush".
If Boris wins a general election we should have an online petition to send Gina Miller to Brussels, receive Belgian citizenship and send her there for good. The woman is a bloody menace.
If only it were that easy to become a Belgian citizen ...
In short, because he's a queue jumper who is getting money, attention and support despite not having as much experience or profile as them.
I've no idea if he would be any good - he clearly speaks well - but it seems like a lot their concern is he hasn't jumped through the same hoops they did and is succeeding despite it. Given the age of many of the candidates they probably support a new age cursus honorum for aspiring presidents to run through.
If Boris wins a general election we should have an online petition to send Gina Miller to Brussels, receive Belgian citizenship and send her there for good. The woman is a bloody menace.
If it makes you feel any better, she regularly gets death threats and needs bodyguards when she appears at public gatherings.
I don't wish her any physical harm. I would just throw her out of the country and revoke her citizenship since she is clearly so desperate to be an EU citizen.
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
Lady Warsi is not a Conservative any longer. She's a religious fanatic.
For those of you thinking about Cheltenham. I am convinced that part of Martin Horwoods downfall was because every Focus seemed to have the message "Martin fighting hard to save XXX health service in Cheltenham." Yet in his tenure Battledown Childrens Hospital closed (can it get worse for an MP than the closure of a Childrens Hospital) and we had a large crisis in A&E on a Saturday morning, featured on Sky News. I can remember my reaction to these and it was "This is Cheltenham, these things do not happen here."
So Mr Chalk has been on his own "I will save the NHS in Cheltenham", the local trust wants to move A&E to Gloucester and close Cheltenham. I seems Mr Chalk has won, just in time for the GE (what a surprise).
Chalk will get this message out and I think it could be significant, vote Tory keep your healthcare.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
They may only be a motorway between Cheltenham and Gloucester but the divide is much greater than that, it is i have to say class based or money based.
Well, yes. Gloucester’s the grotty working class city and Cheltenham’s where all the poshos and Corbynistas hang out.
But it’s still daft.
Well apart from Hesters Way.....the birthplace of the Chav.
Actually the roughest part of Cheltenham and indeed probably Gloucestershire as a whole is St Paul's.
Ah St. Paul's. Yes. You have a point. Isn't it made-up a lot these days of student housing? Haven't lived there for a while now.
I was always surprised about the "new" use of "Chav" in the mid 2000's. We Cheltonians were using that in the early 90's. Always thought it meant CHeltenham AVerage. Shellsuits,gold stud earring. Highly gelled hair and wispy moustaches. Soonest thump you in the face than bother with an argument kind of people. Call you "mush".
Yes been a very disappointing evening for polls considering there's an election campaign going on as we speak!
Polls cost money and in recent years the polls have been as accurate as an American war film.
The Deer Hunter- the whole Russian roulette stuff was just made up.... You watch the film again, and you think what a pile of shit....despite the first hour being one of the most most brilliant pieces of cinema.....
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
Lady Warsi is not a Conservative any longer. She's a religious fanatic.
That seems to presume all Labour MPs are working class. Pretty sure we know that's not the case, leader included.
And it's clearly not that he thinks there is an effort to exclude those fighting for the working class, which would presumably include more Labour MPs than just those who actually are working class.
The Queen appears to have five poppies attached to a brooch. I guess that's Royal sanction for every poppy display previously deemed to be over the top.
The media hysteria over the YouGov regional polling completely ignores the same type of polling which was done in May 2017 .
I’d advise people to look at how awful Labour were doing then , indeed the Tories are doing worse now compared to the same time period before the June 2017 GE.
Some clear green shoots of recovery starting to show for the anti tory Parties. Corbyn is doing the right things at last. He looks like he gives a fuck which is a look Johnson can never master.
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
Lady Warsi is not a Conservative any longer. She's a religious fanatic.
For those of you thinking about Cheltenham. I am convinced that part of Martin Horwoods downfall was because every Focus seemed to have the message "Martin fighting hard to save XXX health service in Cheltenham." Yet in his tenure Battledown Childrens Hospital closed (can it get worse for an MP than the closure of a Childrens Hospital) and we had a large crisis in A&E on a Saturday morning, featured on Sky News. I can remember my reaction to these and it was "This is Cheltenham, these things do not happen here."
So Mr Chalk has been on his own "I will save the NHS in Cheltenham", the local trust wants to move A&E to Gloucester and close Cheltenham. I seems Mr Chalk has won, just in time for the GE (what a surprise).
Chalk will get this message out and I think it could be significant, vote Tory keep your healthcare.
It has always struck me as daft that Gloucester and Cheltenham have two hospitals on cramped, inaccessible and badly located sites when you could build a vast new hospital at Churchdown or Elmbridge Court complete with things like car parks and a proper helipad to serve the whole of northern Gloucestershire.
But, every time it has been proposed it has been shot down.
They may only be a motorway between Cheltenham and Gloucester but the divide is much greater than that, it is i have to say class based or money based.
Well, yes. Gloucester’s the grotty working class city and Cheltenham’s where all the poshos and Corbynistas hang out.
But it’s still daft.
Well apart from Hesters Way.....the birthplace of the Chav.
Actually the roughest part of Cheltenham and indeed probably Gloucestershire as a whole is St Paul's.
Ah St. Paul's. Yes. You have a point. Isn't it made-up a lot these days of student housing? Haven't lived there for a while now.
I was always surprised about the "new" use of "Chav" in the mid 2000's. We Cheltonians were using that in the early 90's. Always thought it meant CHeltenham AVerage. Shellsuits,gold stud earring. Highly gelled hair and wispy moustaches. Soonest thump you in the face than bother with an argument kind of people. Call you "mush".
If Boris wins a general election we should have an online petition to send Gina Miller to Brussels, receive Belgian citizenship and send her there for good. The woman is a bloody menace.
If it makes you feel any better, she regularly gets death threats and needs bodyguards when she appears at public gatherings.
I don't wish her any physical harm. I would just throw her out of the country and revoke her citizenship since she is clearly so desperate to be an EU citizen.
To be fair, she currently is an EU citizen... it would be interesting to see how the choices would break if on Brexit day all UK citizens were given the choice of UK citizenship or citizenship in an EU country of their choice.
That seems to presume all Labour MPs are working class. Pretty sure we know that's not the case, leader included.
And it's clearly not that he thinks there is an effort to exclude those fighting for the working class, which would presumably include more Labour MPs than just those who actually are working class.
Putting the latest four polls into my model gives:
Con 325 Lab 221 LD 36 SNP 48
Sporting Index
Con 325-333 Lab 207-215 LD 46-49 SNP 42-47
325 would be perfect in one respect - Boris will have enough votes to see a decision made on this phase of Brexit, but he cannot officially be able to claim he, like Cameron, won a majority.
Anne - If Boris gets a majority it may solve the current Brexit problem, but as I used to tell people when I was in the consulting business, when you solve your number one problem, you promote your number two problem.
Once we are technically "out" we still be in until at least 2021 and I am not sure how many Leavers have realised that. Freedom of Movement will still apply. It will at that point that many will go "They can still come here even though we are out?" and there will be more political drama.
I am unsure if Johnson's govt will actually last very long.
Leaver angst is driven by the possibility of remainers overturning the referendum result.
Once the answer to the question "Can Brexit be stopped?" is an unequivocal "No" then that will be considered the battle won with just the administrative loose ends to be tied up.
"... just the administrative loose ends to be tied up"
Oh yes. That is all that needs to be done. Just a minor detail for the next 7 to 10 years....
Apparently the sun have asked the bbc bods that tweet the front pages not to do include their paper from now on. Interesting decision / timing.
Not within the power of the Sun to “decide”. They put filth in the public domain, then anybody has the right to show them up. Journalists need to be scrutinised
Putting the latest four polls into my model gives:
Con 325 Lab 221 LD 36 SNP 48
Sporting Index
Con 325-333 Lab 207-215 LD 46-49 SNP 42-47
325 would be perfect in one respect - Boris will have enough votes to see a decision made on this phase of Brexit, but he cannot officially be able to claim he, like Cameron, won a majority.
If Boris Johnson fails to win a majority I will become (even more) unbearable as I will repeatedly point out that in the last 27 years David Cameron (pbuh) is the only Tory to win a majority.
Putting the latest four polls into my model gives:
Con 325 Lab 221 LD 36 SNP 48
Sporting Index
Con 325-333 Lab 207-215 LD 46-49 SNP 42-47
325 would be perfect in one respect - Boris will have enough votes to see a decision made on this phase of Brexit, but he cannot officially be able to claim he, like Cameron, won a majority.
Apparently the sun have asked the bbc bods that tweet the front pages not to do include their paper from now on. Interesting decision / timing.
Have they given a reason?
Tony Gallagher's wanted to be able to direct traffic to The Sun's website.
Ah, right, so someone posting a link here to the Sun front page story would have to link to their website, rather than a twitter feed from a BBC journo. That makes sense.
An interesting take. Though, of course, if any old shit is acceptable coming from the mouths of poor people then rich people deserve the same consideration. So we'll have no more whining about JRM's fascinating contributions to fire safety education. Because granting special leniency to working class people would be patronising.
In all seriousness, however, the guy has some kind of a point. Each of these cases does, at least, have to be treated on its merits. You have to think about both severity of offence and patterns of behaviour. If somebody said an idiotic thing on Twitter, once, five or six years ago, it shouldn't always count as grounds for instant disqualification. Otherwise, in another five or ten years' time, there will be nobody left to contest these elections.
Putting the latest four polls into my model gives:
Con 325 Lab 221 LD 36 SNP 48
Sporting Index
Con 325-333 Lab 207-215 LD 46-49 SNP 42-47
325 would be perfect in one respect - Boris will have enough votes to see a decision made on this phase of Brexit, but he cannot officially be able to claim he, like Cameron, won a majority.
Comments
https://twitter.com/MoS_Politics/status/1193277441457958917
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-democrats.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Liverpool may not be fertile TSE land either!
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/09/biden-super-pac-trump-choose-nominee-068481
In other news Warsi won't say Johnson isn't a racist. She thinks the Tory party is institutionally racist and it's hard to disagree. She says she's appalled with their inaction and she wouldn't even confirm she'll vote Tory. So they're all at it!
'I didn't know Brazil was in the war that long,' joked Philip.
'Well, at least I didn't get them for marrying my wife,' snapped the General.
I was always surprised about the "new" use of "Chav" in the mid 2000's. We Cheltonians were using that in the early 90's. Always thought it meant CHeltenham AVerage.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/whats-wrong-st-pauls-cheltenham-558046
I've no idea if he would be any good - he clearly speaks well - but it seems like a lot their concern is he hasn't jumped through the same hoops they did and is succeeding despite it. Given the age of many of the candidates they probably support a new age cursus honorum for aspiring presidents to run through.
Though I know in my heart as a clean living Muslim boy it would only have been Sarsaparilla
Edit - although on checking, I find he was apparently King of Poland as well. Never realised that.
Best prices - Dumfries and Galloway (Alister Jack, Con Maj 5,643)
Con 3/4
SNP Evs
Lab 50/1
LD 100/1
You watch the film again, and you think what a pile of shit....despite the first hour being one of the most most brilliant pieces of cinema.....
And it's clearly not that he thinks there is an effort to exclude those fighting for the working class, which would presumably include more Labour MPs than just those who actually are working class.
Con 325
Lab 221
LD 36
SNP 48
Sporting Index
Con 325-333
Lab 207-215
LD 46-49
SNP 42-47
Maybe he got his medals for fighting off repeated attempts at sodomy.
Full turnout from the senior royals plus Boris & Carrie.
I mean it is ok to sneer at toffs but the moment I start sneering a peasant wagon using plebs suddenly I'm a snob and elitist.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1193229789479485446?s=19
Oh yes. That is all that needs to be done. Just a minor detail for the next 7 to 10 years....
You leak.
He is charged under Section 2a of The Official Secrets Act.
Looks as if someone has been doing one of these things after all.
Which part of the verb to leak covers it.
Seems we are getting into the meat of this election now.
I mean we ALWAYS have YouGov!
In all seriousness, however, the guy has some kind of a point. Each of these cases does, at least, have to be treated on its merits. You have to think about both severity of offence and patterns of behaviour. If somebody said an idiotic thing on Twitter, once, five or six years ago, it shouldn't always count as grounds for instant disqualification. Otherwise, in another five or ten years' time, there will be nobody left to contest these elections.
November 1922 was 73%.
Tories are kinda of lucky again that jezza and pals are even more connected to putin.