He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
What we need is more lawyers in government.
There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.
I think @TheScreamingEagles meant to say that we need more good lawyers in government.
Yes but in my defence there are so few bad lawyers in the world. Ahem.
It's the other way around. A few really good / excellent lawyers. A reasonable number of competent - if unimaginative - ones. Lots of plodding ones and some absolute shockers.
The Venn diagram of intelligent lawyers and lawyers with common-sense has a surprisingly small intersection.
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
What we need is more lawyers in government.
There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.
I think @TheScreamingEagles meant to say that we need more good lawyers in government.
Yes but in my defence there are so few bad lawyers in the world. Ahem.
It's the other way around. A few really good / excellent lawyers. A reasonable number of competent - if unimaginative - ones. Lots of plodding ones and some absolute shockers.
The Venn diagram of intelligent lawyers and lawyers with common-sense has a surprisingly small intersection.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
What we need is more lawyers in government.
There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.
I’ve actually got an explanation for how Richard Burgon was accepted into St John’s.
My friend’s brother was also at St John’s at the same time as Burgon and that Burgon was very good at English literature but he was a proper lefty (his uncle was a Labour MP) and that Burgon engaged in some shocking logic defying positions to support a left wing agenda, which has become worse with age.
He may have done it to impress a lady as well but he ended up as Chairman of CULC.
So the issue isn’t Cambridge letting in a duffer but the law firms that hired Burgon.
Didn't Nick Griffin go to Cambridge?
He did, which is a shame as Cambridge is well known and well honoured for producing alumni who fight against fascism.
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
What we need is more lawyers in government.
There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.
I’ve actually got an explanation for how Richard Burgon was accepted into St John’s.
My friend’s brother was also at St John’s at the same time as Burgon and that Burgon was very good at English literature but he was a proper lefty (his uncle was a Labour MP) and that Burgon engaged in some shocking logic defying positions to support a left wing agenda, which has become worse with age.
He may have done it to impress a lady as well but he ended up as Chairman of CULC.
So the issue isn’t Cambridge letting in a duffer but the law firms that hired Burgon.
Didn't Nick Griffin go to Cambridge?
He did, which is a shame as Cambridge is well known and well honoured for producing alumni who fight against fascism.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
Doesn’t harm that he’s filthy rich, though.
A filthy rich ex-GS banker will have such an understanding of the issues for people living in towns like Millom and Workington and Barrow, won’t he?
You can’t make sensible public policy just by looking at a spreadsheet.
All of which more or less you could have said, and many did, about Boris. We've moved on from there I think.
Well no. Boris has not worked in the City. I doubt he does anything by spreadsheet and he does have a way of communicating with people outside his inner circle which Sunak has shown precious little evidence of. So far.
Whatever makes Boris special - and I am largely immune to his charms but am not his target audience - we should not assume that it will transfer itself to other Tories.
I have a long shot (very long shot) idea of who might be worth looking at. But you will need to wait for my next header or one after to find out.
Brain working v slowly atm inbetween sleeps and dosage. Hence non-appearance of headers.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.
In which case we might have been looking at a genuine realignment.
Although you take such claims with a pinch of salt, of course,
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
The damning Leon Brittan files: After the former Home Secretary was hounded by police on his death bed, we reveal how Tom Watson pressured the Met to pursue false rape allegations - despite his accuser being a known liar and Labour activist.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
I don’t blame him for giving up, but rather for clinging on for so long for no benefit whatsoever.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.
There were several comments to that effect. He’s the one person who, if they’d gone, would have split the Parliamentary party in half. He could have been LotO if he’d got 120 MPs to join with him.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.
There were several comments to that effect. He’s the one person who, if they’d gone, would have split the Parliamentary party in half. He could have been LotO if he’d got 120 MPs to join with him.
He believed in the brand more than anything else. So long as he can admit that, fine, but it's not much use saying how dreadful it was when he gave up the fight, but conveniently only after convincing others to keep going in the fight.
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
What we need is more lawyers in government.
There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.
I think @TheScreamingEagles meant to say that we need more good lawyers in government.
Yes but in my defence there are so few bad lawyers in the world. Ahem.
It's the other way around. A few really good / excellent lawyers. A reasonable number of competent - if unimaginative - ones. Lots of plodding ones and some absolute shockers.
The Venn diagram of intelligent lawyers and lawyers with common-sense has a surprisingly small intersection.
You sound like one of my tutors.
'The law and justice are not the same thing.'
I am quite sure I could teach you a thing or two ........
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
I don’t blame him for giving up, but rather for clinging on for so long for no benefit whatsoever.
This. That he was staying to fight made sense, even if many outside Labour felt he should not. But he just worked to prevent a deeper split then buggered off, so what was even the point?
Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........
Doesn’t harm that he’s filthy rich, though.
A filthy rich ex-GS banker will have such an understanding of the issues for people living in towns like Millom and Workington and Barrow, won’t he?
You can’t make sensible public policy just by looking at a spreadsheet.
All of which more or less you could have said, and many did, about Boris. We've moved on from there I think.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
'his social justice campaigns'
There's an outside chance HYUFD may be the deepest of deep cover ironists.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
Political knighthoods are often reserved for complete duffers, so I can’t get much worked up about it.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.
If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.
Like my Dukedom.
Hope you put in a good word for my GCMG.
But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?
I fear the extent your naughtiness has been such that even intervention from me will be fruitless.
Nothing a few grovelling paeans to Boris during the next TSE editorship could not solve. Damn integrity though
There's a piece that's about 40% written that compares a Boris Johnson Premiership to getting a prostate exam from a leper who walks away with four fingers.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.
He is still a former Conservative PM criticising the current one
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.
He is still a former Conservative PM criticising the current one
PMs are supposed to be immune from party criticism?
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it
One of the questions at my Admiralty Board in 1988 was "Where do you think the next major conflict will start?". I answered at random, "the Spratly Islands" because I'd read about them the week before in the Times and it was the first thing that came into my head. Perhaps, I'll eventually be right!
If I had answered 'Kuwait' or 'Yugoslavia' (the two most accurate answers) they would have probably told me to fuck off.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.
He is still a former Conservative PM criticising the current one
PMs are supposed to be immune from party criticism?
Form their predecessors from their own party in public yes, John Major had respected that principle until now
or Tom Watson, tried to hand on to all the power he could, but left when he realised his own seat was going to go to the conservatives he quit, to claim and decided it would look better to claim it was a principled position, not just that he had run out of track?
or Tom Watson, tried to hand on to all the power he could, but left when he realised his own seat was going to go to the conservatives he quit, to claim and decided it would look better to claim it was a principled position, not just that he had run out of track?
The damning Leon Brittan files: After the former Home Secretary was hounded by police on his death bed, we reveal how Tom Watson pressured the Met to pursue false rape allegations - despite his accuser being a known liar and Labour activist.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
The problems created by osbourne removing the funding IDS said was and is required
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
The problems created by osbourne removing the funding IDS said was and is required
OK. So Osborne is also to blame.
So you design a system which only works if £X amount is spent. You are not given £X but a smaller sum which will cause problems for some of the poorest in the country?
You can either carry on implementing a system with inadequate money while knowing of the problems. Or you can resign.
He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.
So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.
In which case we might have been looking at a genuine realignment.
Although you take such claims with a pinch of salt, of course,
I much admire Tom W for his work in the online openness space, but I am not really sure about the polo neck.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.
The UC system is fucked by design. If you get paid early in a month (say for instance December) the UC system sees that as an increase in your pay and so automatically cuts your UC payment for that month.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.
He is still a former Conservative PM criticising the current one
PMs are supposed to be immune from party criticism?
Form their predecessors from their own party in public yes, John Major had respected that principle until now
Is this one of these new "constitutional principles" which has been invented JR-M style?
Have you forgotten Heath criticising Mrs T?
Or even MacMillan doing so very publicly in the House of Lords?
Or Mrs T criticising the policies of her predecessors?
And letting her criticisms of John Major be known?
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it
No, that is not what makes you a mouthpiece. You are often a commenter of some insight, which is why I bother tweaking your tail from time to time. It is your slavish and incessant regurgitation of whatever the current party line of the day happens to be that bothers me.
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
My significant event in 2019, if you`re interested, was a spinal cord injury (skiing) in Feb which left me in Grenoble hospital for a week and then having to wear a top-of-head-to-chest neck brace for two months. Was looking at disablement for a while - a dark time - I couldn`t lift either hand above my head. Couldn`t dress or shower myself.
With physio help (not NHS - they were shit) my recovery has been remarkable.
Mobility fully regained, in gym twice a week and I went skiing again last week.
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it
First post for a while
I'm confused by that response HYUFD. What has predicting a result got to do with who you support? How did your response have anything to do with the point being made?
Does that mean that when you predict an opponent winning you will change sides? Unless it does the post does not make any logical sense.
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
My main event, if it counts, is that my mum won Redbridge in Bloom for her front garden.
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
My main event, if it counts, is that my mum won Redbridge in Bloom for her front garden.
Fox Jr is now earning, and off my hands financially this year. Mixed feelings at the end of an era...
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas, I've been off the site primarily playing lego and jigsaws with my children. Spent Christmas evening building my 3 year old's Lego Toy Story 4 sets only to wake up Boxing Day morning to find she'd taken it apart back to its pieces. Feels rather akin actually to arguing politics online
Nice to see my tip was value and has been followed and surprised and honoured to log on tonight to see OGH mentioning it like this.
Oh and great to see Wolves beat City. 14 points and a game in hand - wow!
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas, I've been off the site primarily playing lego and jigsaws with my children. Spent Christmas evening building my 3 year old's Lego Toy Story 4 sets only to wake up Boxing Day morning to find she'd taken it apart back to its pieces. Feels rather akin actually to arguing politics online
Nice to see my tip was value and has been followed and surprised and honoured to log on tonight to see OGH mentioning it like this.
Oh and great to see Wolves beat City. 14 points and a game in hand - wow!
It was a good call. Are you inclined to take profits ?
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas, I've been off the site primarily playing lego and jigsaws with my children. Spent Christmas evening building my 3 year old's Lego Toy Story 4 sets only to wake up Boxing Day morning to find she'd taken it apart back to its pieces. Feels rather akin actually to arguing politics online
Nice to see my tip was value and has been followed and surprised and honoured to log on tonight to see OGH mentioning it like this.
Oh and great to see Wolves beat City. 14 points and a game in hand - wow!
I’ve been playing lego on my own. Great Wall of China from my beloved. Sadly she’s out for the count with the norovirus, which took me out on Christmas Eve.
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
If the day he was born had been the day we left the EU, as promised, I had floated ‘Independence’ as a middle name 🤓
@sonsam Would have been good... gets stronger with every haircut
I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.
It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!
Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.
Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....
If the day he was born had been the day we left the EU, as promised, I had floated ‘Independence’ as a middle name...
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.
The UC system is fucked by design. If you get paid early in a month (say for instance December) the UC system sees that as an increase in your pay and so automatically cuts your UC payment for that month.
I believe you, but I also understand it has replaced around 20 (?) other benefits. Therefore I think it is more likely that governments will work to fix UC than to go back to the system as it was.
There was a good programme I happened to listen to on Radio 4 about this.
If Boris is a success he has 5-10 years as PM, by which time Rishi will be a senior Cabinet minister while the Javids and Patels of the world will be long in the tooth
If Boris is a failure then you are likely not getting a Tory next PM anyway
(a) Boris is rapid failure, and is ejected by his party in the next five years. Chance: very small. Result: a current senior Cabinet Minister is next PM.
(b) Boris is a slightly less rapid failure and is dumped by the electorate in 2024. Chance: a bit higher. Result: a non-Conservative is next PM.
(c) Boris is a relative success and hands over in the next Parliament. Chance: reasonable. Result: someone who is not currently a senior Cabinet Minister becomes PM.
Personally, I'd simply sell the favourites right now.
(A) very low chance and I’d imagine many will have their hands dipped in blood anyway.
(B) agreed
(C) that’s where Rishi is in the sweet spot I think. In 7 years he will be seasoned but not jaded. Even most of the people on this site don’t know who he is!
According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.
Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain
You really are a lickspittle.
@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.
John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010
You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.
I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it
First post for a while
I'm confused by that response HYUFD. What has predicting a result got to do with who you support? How did your response have anything to do with the point being made?
Does that mean that when you predict an opponent winning you will change sides? Unless it does the post does not make any logical sense.
It s all about prediction this site - the more you re right the more kudos
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Lots of plodding ones and some absolute shockers.
The Venn diagram of intelligent lawyers and lawyers with common-sense has a surprisingly small intersection.
'The law and justice are not the same thing.'
Sir John Redwood MP
"Solo" is decent enough but ended up bearing the brunt of "The Last Jedi" backlash by being released just five months later.
Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.
What a chump.
Whatever makes Boris special - and I am largely immune to his charms but am not his target audience - we should not assume that it will transfer itself to other Tories.
I have a long shot (very long shot) idea of who might be worth looking at. But you will need to wait for my next header or one after to find out.
Brain working v slowly atm inbetween sleeps and dosage. Hence non-appearance of headers.
There are 1,150 of them!
Although you take such claims with a pinch of salt, of course,
The damning Leon Brittan files: After the former Home Secretary was hounded by police on his death bed, we reveal how Tom Watson pressured the Met to pursue false rape allegations - despite his accuser being a known liar and Labour activist.
😏
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._R._Narayana_Murthy
There's an outside chance HYUFD may be the deepest of deep cover ironists.
Obviously the newspapers have already seen embargoed copies.
Like my Dukedom.
But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?
Never mind, I shall treat you to lunch in the new year though.
£10 at 75/1. Also had a fiver on Wolves to win at 8.2. Tipped them both up here. Hope others backed it.
My longest-priced winner ever.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/27/tom-watson-reveals-quit-labour-due-brutality-hostility-within/
If I had answered 'Kuwait' or 'Yugoslavia' (the two most accurate answers) they would have probably told me to fuck off.
The damning Leon Brittan files: After the former Home Secretary was hounded by police on his death bed, we reveal how Tom Watson pressured the Met to pursue false rape allegations - despite his accuser being a known liar and Labour activist.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agdwg/pete-buttigieg-would-really-like-you-to-forget-about-that-wine-cave?__twitter_impression=true
I remember when he was the flavour of the week on PB from:
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/08/10/meet-the-ex-chief-of-staff-to-the-brexsec-now-the-de-facto-brexit-opposition-leader/
to
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/08/17/calling-theresa-may-a-nazi-totally-undermines-chapmans-anti-brexit-crusade/
So you design a system which only works if £X amount is spent. You are not given £X but a smaller sum which will cause problems for some of the poorest in the country?
You can either carry on implementing a system with inadequate money while knowing of the problems. Or you can resign.
Which choice did IDS make?
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/27/tom-watson-i-quit-because-of-labour-brutality
Have you forgotten Heath criticising Mrs T?
Or even MacMillan doing so very publicly in the House of Lords?
Or Mrs T criticising the policies of her predecessors?
And letting her criticisms of John Major be known?
Yes - it appears you have.
It is your slavish and incessant regurgitation of whatever the current party line of the day happens to be that bothers me.
With physio help (not NHS - they were shit) my recovery has been remarkable.
Mobility fully regained, in gym twice a week and I went skiing again last week.
I'm confused by that response HYUFD. What has predicting a result got to do with who you support? How did your response have anything to do with the point being made?
Does that mean that when you predict an opponent winning you will change sides? Unless it does the post does not make any logical sense.
1) Religion
2) Nationalism
3) Personal fundamental convictions
When exactly *should* we apply civility?
I would suggest that the more rigid the beliefs, the more civility is required.
Nice to see my tip was value and has been followed and surprised and honoured to log on tonight to see OGH mentioning it like this.
Oh and great to see Wolves beat City. 14 points and a game in hand - wow!
the count with the norovirus, which took me out on Christmas Eve.
@sonsam Would have been good... gets stronger with every haircut
There was a good programme I happened to listen to on Radio 4 about this.
(B) agreed
(C) that’s where Rishi is in the sweet spot I think. In 7 years he will be seasoned but not jaded. Even most of the people on this site don’t know who he is!