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During Corbyn’s leadership, Labour was relentlessly attacked by the Tories, their supporters and cheerleaders in the press for the many failings which, they said, made Labour unfit to run the country. Worth dwelling on the accusations for what they tell us about today’s Tories.
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Also, Goodwin is a bit shit. Why is held up as some kind of intellectual heavyweight when he's been called out for misleading people several times now
That means filling in the reporting hole on the weekend. Using PHE's methodology, deaths are probably below 40 per day now.
I do though think the point about Jo Johnson doesn't really fit with the other complaints. As the description of him shows he is not simply an example of cronyism since he didn't simply do what his brother wanted, so the nepotism is not as huge a deal as it is made out to be. The 'However worthy, it's not exactly a lifetime of public service' line I find to be rather odd. If he's worthy, then does it matter it was not a lifetime? If not worthy, a lifetime of service would not make it ok, and in any case it's not merely a place for people with a lifetime of service.
In this box, I have one ear. In this box, I have two ears.
Ear, ear, ear.
It’s worse than the Six Nations in the 2000s.
At least then you expected Ireland to win!
Not every appointment to the Lords is a Tory.
I despise Fox and think she should be nowhere near the Lords but since she's not going as a Tory who did choose her to go there?
https://img2.rtve.es/rtve/minutoaminuto/userfiles/image/20200804-637321688163164967.jpg
I'm not saying he was the greatest of options to contribute as a member of the Lords, but I think the family connection while of course reason for it not in itself proof it is a bad thing because he is not so much of a yes man that he would fail to resign from his own brother's government, and the suggestion he should have had a lifetime of service before getting such a role I find to be extremely dumb. I welcome people with such service getting in, particularly from non-political fields, and I think too many ex-MPs get in despite not that much distinction, but making it a point about the length of his tenure as an MP is silly.
It reads to me like a reward for the fact that he could no longer prosper as an MP because of his opposition to Brexit. I may be wrong. But that is how it comes across.
Personally, to avoid even the appearance of any impropriety or conflict of interest, no immediate family member of the PM or other Ministers should get honours awarded by the government.
It's a similar situation in the USA. Trump is bad (and i think in his case uniquely bad and takes it to a completely different level to what has come before) but there is something rotten in the US body politic.
In both countries there is a serious need to reset the clock. To somehow find a leadership that can bring people together and move beyond kneejerk partisanship. That doesn't lead to the replacing of one party with another determining to wreak revenge for what the had to endure under the previous regime. But i can't see it happening. (Ironically i think it might be easier to see it happening in the US even though (or even because) they are so far worse overall. Although their media are generally better.
Or alternatively have no fixed principles in the first place.
Claire Fox in the days afterwards defending that bombing. She has never apologised for doing so.
That's quite enough on its own for me.
I've heard a couple of hostile comments about JoJo though and understandably so.
Arguably the worst peerage since Warsi.
My first nomination - Lord Dingleberry
By eagerly promoting people into the House of Lords (including fairly young people as a way to appoint them to Govt posts) the Govt diminishes our democracy itself, and the idea that they, as elected politicians have a legitimacy and accountability that their appointees don't.
Sad.
Even worse, there's Cummings.
Here are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656220
Sadly, always seemed likely.
Let them try and widen their supporters rather than rely on a few rich individuals or bodies. And if they can’t raise any money, boo-bloody-hoo. They’ll have to live within their means, just like the rest of us.
But the worst part about this explosion is buried towards the bottom of the report.
It’s destroyed the port of Beirut and left it unusable.
How is aid going to get in?
I am fucking furious about the debasement of public life in this country.
If you try and behave decently and competently and act with integrity, you’re just a mug, you’re taken for a fool.
We can all be world weary and go “oh it’s always been like that. Why get het up. The other lot are just as bad.”
Or we can bloody well refuse to put up with this and call out such behaviour and expect more, expect better. Britain should be better than this. We should not be worn down into cynical world-weariness.
I’m rapidly beginning to head for the ropes and lampposts end of the spectrum.
But also, the main airport is in the port. It appears to have been damaged, I don’t know how badly.
Even if it hadn’t there are comparatively few people who could fly in aid on the scale needed. Realistically, we would be talking about the USAF.
And nobody can get at it overland because it’s surrounded by Syria and Israel.
What did you put on your fingers before coming out?
Nicely played by Balbirnie though.
I fear it’s too late though.
I wish we had more men of the calibre of Hume in public life. A genuinely brave man. I particularly like the story told that at the end of his life when he was suffering from dementia he still liked to go for walks along the river Foyle and people would see him and just walk with him to keep him company, to keep him safe. To be such a man, to have earned the respect and love of people at the end of your life, well, that is real achievement.
I do wonder why, of all the possible former Brexit Party MEPs, why she was chosen. Some like Farage may still have electoral ambitions (though sending him to the Lords might next that nicely!), others may have unsavoury links, but could they be worse than Fox?
My hunch is that Cummings decided it. He loathes most of the other Brexiteers, but I get the feeling that he likes the Spiked former Revolutionary Communists. Their Leninist clique seizing power appeals to him.
Not that more evidence is needed, of course.
https://twitter.com/_amcintyre/status/1290239533972205568?s=09
Have people hungry and dying. With these wazzocks insisting its Good for Britain. And I fear for the reaction as millions realise they've been gaslit to vote for their own destruction.
We do have some C17s that could do it, of course, as do the Canadians and Australians, but not nearly enough even if the airport is functional or can be quickly made so.
I expect it's already en route...
David Laws resigned over expenses.
Michael Fallon resigned following allegations of harassment.
Amber Rudd resigned over Windrush.
Tracey Crouch resigned over betting machines.
No, politicians weren't angels. But there was an acknowledgement of a moral line, and if you were seen to have crossed it, you went. You didn't wait to see if the police were going to prosecute.
Now? "Well, if you don't like it, you can always vote for someone else... in 2024..."
You can almost hear the smirk in the middle.
If my MiL came down with it, Mrs Foxy would not want her admitted to hospital.
So I do not think the Israelis will allow aid in from Haifa, even though it would be a diplomatic coup and a fine humanitarian gesture.
Not that Netanyahu would, because he’s a twat.
Grrrrrr 😡
And it looks ridiculous when compared with the numbers being reported by other countries. Of course we could be right and they are wrong. But it clearly undermines any attempts at 'comparative' outcomes.
https://twitter.com/reider/status/1290724248282169344?s=19
(1) It increases the power of the party machine, by making safe seats (from which you can get a peerage) more attractive than marginal ones.
(2) MPs who realise they are likely to lose at the next election will simply retire so as to ensure that they can still ascend to the Lords.
However have they said how it will get there?
Keep going...
Do you honestly think the Israelis will do that? Because pleased though I am they have offered aid to the innocent people of Beirut the idea they will help their real enemies is one I find difficult to get my head wrong.
I felt genuinely sad on hearing of his death. What a life, though. Ah, I didn’t know that. Wouldn’t it be lovely if just this once Israel and Hezbollah could suspend hostilities and collaborate to help the poor Lebanese.
We can but dream. One day that part of the world may, God willing, get its Martin Luther King, its Mandela, Hume or Seamus Mallon or David Trimble. One day ....
And then a wide and another free hit!
It isn’t a good equation.
https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1290707294343356416?s=20
You would still have expected an international cricketer to take it.
As well as totally wrong, of course.