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This one is particularly important because Senator Lindsay Graham has emerged as the main attack dog for Trump. It very much undermines what he is trying to do now as part of helping the President get re-elected.
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He put those arrogant monarchs in their place and gave us parliamentary supremacy.
All democrats should be positively tumescent about Cromwell.
A more plausible target would surely be Charles Gordon on the Embankment, although there would be a certain irony in that given he at least temporarily disrupted slaving in Sudan and the Horn of Africa.
There’s also something of an irony in that having fought a vicious war to impose Parliament on the king, once getting to power they both sidelined it to arrogate power to themselves.
Who could we have as a Parliamentary champion untainted by slaving? Disraeli perhaps, as the author of the Second Reform Act? But even he made some pretty unpleasant remarks about the Irish.
There are an almost infinite amount of attack lines. Attacking someone on health grounds sets a very dangerous, unethical precedent I think
And on that note, I’m off to bed.
Good night.
The starters have only just been consumed, it’s main course next.
If they go too far then the right will respond with rightwing populists in response and Boris and Trump and Salvini, Tony Abbott, Bolsonaro, even Le Pen etc will become the norm for the leadership of the western right if the centre right establishment is seen as too weak to stand up to extreme wokeism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA#t=12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1b8Hpgkw4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgTX-QNtjM#t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA#t=12s
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/17/lockdown-beer-firms-warn-boris-johnson-sales-confusion-reopening-uk-jobs
... Hundreds of pubs could shut for ever unless Boris Johnson decides in the next 48 hours when they can reopen, the UK’s largest beer companies have warned.
In an open letter to the prime minister, more than 50 companies said plummeting beer sales and prolonged uncertainty had brought the pub and brewing industry to “a moment of maximum jeopardy” that could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The signatories – from global giants such as the Guinness owner Diageo to family brewers such as Adnam’s – urged Johnson to say by Friday whether the government would allow pubs to reopen from 4 July....
No-one appears to have anything positive to say at all, we have five months more of this to come.
I don’t think I received an answer.
Thomas Carlyle's comments (grabbed from Wikipedia, but originally in a letter proposing the statue) seem relevant to the whole statue debate:
"My private suspicion I confess is that the present generation of Englishmen—who have filled their towns with such a set of "public statues" as were never before erected by any people, ugly brazen images (to mere commonplace adventurers with titles on them, and even sometimes to mere paltry scoundrels, worthy of immediate oblivion only)..."
Health is off limits.
https://twitter.com/GrayInGlasgow/status/1273237832488890368?s=20
Whatever the right and wrongs of statues - and quite frankly I don’t care all that much either way; we are not the US - history is not going to be erased.
Certain aspects less celebrated, or no longer glossed over, perhaps.
I certainly wouldn’t want to see ads of that ilk in the UK.
Compared to Covid-19 and the economic consequences, it's not even worth being called chip paper.
To be fair, Conservative supporters need every bit of encouragement they can find in the next few months and years. It's going to be a painful, humiliating and tortuous route to their final defeat in 2024 - let's get in the popcorn.
Someone told me that the hospitality sector is expecting an announcement tomorrow; let’s hope this letter is timed to align with that.
Funny old world.
Greene King, one of the UK's largest pub chains, and Lloyd's of London, one of the world's biggest insurance firms, both said they would make payments.
The payments mark the first time the controversy over the UK's past involvement with slavery, which has led to statues being torn down, has impacted the corporate sector."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/17/companies-britain-linked-slave-trade-say-today/
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1273315147004641280?s=20
https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/1272984874195050498
What a leader...
https://twitter.com/sophgaston/status/1272525523583934466?s=09
As for his successor; the next few years are likely to be a bit of a mess. Government is going to be difficult and Boris and Brexit-in-the-abstract are the only things holding the Conservative party and vote together right now. On top of that, there's the Covid fallout.
So if I were young, smart and ambitious, I might look to hold back for now. Take over after the defeat in 2024, be PM in 2029. It might be a nice job by then. So not Sunak as king, though maybe as kingmaker.
But someone has to take over. They need to be competent enough, ambitious enough and realising that it's now or never. Why doesn't that point to M. Gove?
This is going to be the most brutal we have ever seen I reckon.
That's pretty shit, and hardly embodies the spirit of country we're trying to promote.
https://twitter.com/bellacaledonia/status/1273357759090765830?s=20
'Today’s organised demonstration by Glasgow No Evictions Campaign, in support of asylum seekers currently living in temporary accommodation in Glasgow and their demands was attended by at least 80 people, holding placards and peacefully demonstrating in solidarity.
The asylum seekers are demanding to go back to their flats. They are also demanding the immediate reinstatement of their financial support which has been entirely cut by the state, as well as an improvement in the quality of their food for the duration of their stay in temporary accommodation.
In response to this demonstration, neo-nazi group National Defence League (NDL) held a counter demonstration under the premise of defending the statues of George Square. They issued a call out for one hour before the Glasgow No Evictions demonstration. Approximately 250 neo-nazis and loyalists assembled at the square.
It is important to note the Glasgow No Evictions Campaign never mentioned any intent to attack statues or any other structures- the demonstration was entirely peaceful and in solidarity with struggling asylum seekers. The mobilisation of neo-nazis against this event, on the pretext of defending statues, should therefore be seen as an attempt to exploit the situation to spread disinformation and influence more people.'
I wonder whether any of the London banking houses with old enough roots are considering their position.
Announcing that they can re-open from 4th of July would be a start - further funding if that is not safe to do yet.
Pubs are an intrinsic part of the culture of this country - some medium term structural support would be appropriate. How about the removal of excise duty on alcohol sold in pubs and bars?
Meanwhile in Germany...
App up and running. Apple/Google os based.
What a shower our lot are. Pathetically predictable.
Chillaxing with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc and Netflix is the modern way.
I feel sorry for him though. He fathered 4 little Dukes of Cambridge and none of them made it past 3.
I have done my best over the years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoare_Jr
I haven't seen much comparable polling from UK, but it does feel now like things like taking down statues of racists now command public support, when it wouldn't have done before.
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1273364932722130945
"My great-great-great-great grand-father was a Quaker banker named Samuel Hoare (1751-1825). As a footnote, he was nothing to do with the well-known 18th and 19th century Hoare’s Bank – that was another family entirely. No, Sam Hoare was a banker, but he was also a Quaker and in those days people were less inclined to trust their money to any old bank, as they do today."
https://pryorfrancis.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-slave-trade-beginning-the-end/
Trump over Biden. I think Biden is very weak and not suited to dealing with the challenges the US faces. If it was Warren vs Trump, that would be a closer call.
Do I get mobs round my house and calls for my employer to sack me because of that?
Zefram Cock-up!