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Now we have the build-up to the Cummings appearance before Commons Health and Science Committee – po
Now we have the build-up to the Cummings appearance before Commons Health and Science Committee – politicalbetting.com
Dusting this down ahead of 9.30am Weds when Cummings will give evidence on the govt’s handling of the Covid pandemic to health/sci cttee joint inquiry. What to expect ??What Cummings has to say about govt’s handling of pandemic will be box office viewinghttps://t.co/GpxrsXUHpv
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Up to that point, there had been loads of it won't be that bad here mindset, and despite this paper that says 1 in 10 end up in hospital, look at the gross numbers, they are tiny for such a massive city. We now know the Chinese were lying, the percentages were about right, but the gross numbers were orders of magnitude out.
Where the government were too slow has been when there has been a window to make a decision, with the option lockdown now, wait a week or two and / or go for regional systems...each time they have gone for the lesser option and we know with COVID that just doesn't work.
For someone who was telling people he had a galaxy brain and that he was more powerful than the PM it turns out Dom wasn't that clever or powerful.
He's a pound shop Rasputin.
For this to really hurt Boris, I think it needed to be said about 7-8 months ago
Whilst the story hasn't cut through in the way opponents of the PM had hoped if Dom does drop a donor's name then Boris is buggered because like Al Capone he's doing to have a tax problem. It should have been declared as a benefit in kind/P11D between last April and July, if it wasn't HMRC are going to crack down on that big style.
Cases get bad in an area, news and media notice and publicises, then people voluntarily change their behaver, 'flattening the curve' then just as cases drop the government starts to do something.
We have ended up with the worsed result on all fronts (except the vaccine)
The Labour leader squirmed during a grilling sparked by claims he was a “party animal” at university.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/15066704/piers-morgan-keir-starmer-drugs-life-stories/
Its such a silly approach, just say yes....Nobody is going to give a monkeys if you had a cheeky smoke 40 years ago.
There used to be a R5 show, was it Pienaar which asked a regular series of questions to the MP of week who was the guest and it was always have you done drugs. I remember some Tory, just said yes, of course, and next week Stephen Kinnock came on and did a Starmer.
That all been said, I can't believe Starmer was a party animal....I mean the man is so boring. Chess club captain perhaps, but the big man on campus?
We do not expect to see placard waving mobs howling Allahu Akbar stomping through schools in this country. Nothing good will come of it.
Many people his age were. It makes him more relatable, and, arguably, interesting.
Who the heck is advising him?
Edit. I see you said pretty much the same in the extended remix of your post. I replied to the radio play single.
All bloody baffling.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30185-9/fulltext
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m308
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/
At the last Tory leadership election the various candidates virtually fell over themselves to acknowledge their drug taking past, but Gove talking about Cocaine made him a laughing stock (his own personal articles on cocaine written in the past resurfacing probably didn't help to be fair).
Unfortunately he hung around too long...
We are getting to the ages of senior politicians now, (I'm 54) where drug use was, if not ubiquitous, then certainly widespread in my youth. Hard to believe the majority of University educated people in the late eighties and nineties never tried anything.
Another shooting opportunity he's chosen to pass all the way back to the keeper.
And he's 3-0 down in the second half.
Sigh.
This is Boris' advantage over Starmer.
He must have tried drugs, else he’d just say he hadn’t. But it is a tricky one for him as admitting it opens all kinds of cans of worms. I can see why he’d prevaricate
Hardly leaving ‘nothing in the locker’ as Morgan claims though, if he won’t tell all. He won’t speak about how many conquests he’s had either, according to that report.
Nor even carnal, as my autocorrect suggests...
It is gets incredibly messy and complicated is that the Conservative Party isn't a limited liability company or a company in any way shape or form (but it does have a charitable section built on it.)
Now it really doesn't have any business giving out loans to officers or employees of the government.
If this was a normal company and the loan hadn't been repaid within 6/9 months then it leads to a tax charge for the company, how the Conservative Party doesn't pay any corporation tax, so the tax liability shifts to the officer/employee.
So on an unpaid 60k loan, the tax payable would be 45% for our PM, so £27k payable for the PM.
Howard Stern didn't get the big ratings back in the day for his radio show from having guests say "not saying".
Very few people who know me would call me boring.
BiK/P11D relate to non-cash emoluments from your *employer*
Remember he's not an employee of the the Conservative Party but an officer of the party.
Quite possible tomorrow the "critics" will be raving about it, while it still remains a box office flop that doesn't move the dial.
http://evington.localstats.co.uk/census-demographics/england/east-midlands/leicester/evington
Wonder if Piers pressed him on his student republicanism - that’s more interesting
As is stands he's admitted to receiving a £60,000 loan for the Conservative Party, that needs to be declared on a P11D.
We are getting to the stage now where if everyone who has ever partaken were to be sacked we wouldn't have many lawyers, or Police Officers, or any of a multitude of occupations. How about teachers? Then there is the blackmail angle.
Plus. Coming down the track, in 10-20 years every single senior official's social media history.
Starmer is in a unique position to start a conversation about this. One that needs to be had.
But, no. Forward defensive at a wide long hop as per.
Double sigh.
Then hopefully because he didn't the PCP will issue a P45!
They won't he is a winner.
In 1986 in the 8th congressional district of Indiana there was a knock-down, drag-out re-match, grudge-match between incumbent Democrat Frank McCloskey and Republican challenger Rick McIntyre, who lost in 1984 by just -4 votes (after two recounts, the last by the Democratic-controlled US House itself). Both sides were giving the race everything they had.
Then a bombshell. A former undercover narcotics agent said that he'd been to parties in Bloomington, home of Indiana University, when McCloskey was mayor (elected by the student vote) and had personally witnessed him smoking marijuana.
Which Frank admitted was true. Yes, he HAD smoked it. But only a few times at parties, to be polite, because he didn't like it. Public reaction was mixed, but initial reaction from the media and independent, swing voters (a small but significant component of the Hoosier electorate) was NOT strongly negative for McCloskey, because by 1986 most people were less-than-shocked by the Evil Weed AND because he was honest about admitting it.
At this point the GOP decided to double-down. The ex-narc said that he'd not only seen McCloskey smoke pot, but also OPIUM.
The Big O was clearly a BIGGER deal than wacky tobaccy in the opinion of most voters. A MUCH more serious allegation. However, it quickly emerged it was an allegation that most voters - in particular swing independents - were NOT prepared to take seriously.
For most voters in 1986, opium was something out of a Sherlock Holmes story or an old B-movie about Chinatown. McCloskey denied vehemently that he'd ever smoked a bowl of the stuff, and the press & public believed him. Because it was so outlandish AND because while Frank was a fighting liberal progressive (in 1980s terms) supported by students and hippies, personally he was NOT a wild and crazy guy. Instead, he was quite serious and nerdy, looking and sounding like an accountant not a firebrand.
The result, in the only US House race were Ronald Reagan personally campaigned, on behalf of Republican Rick McIntyre, Democrat Frank McCloskey was re-elected by margin of over 13,000 votes.
Number 1 super guy. It's always the mild-mannered janitor, isn't it?
Sorry, forgot to mention that!
If one can't laugh, they would cry. What do we need in a Prime Minister? 1968 style vaguely racial comedy gold!
And also too early. In a few months, when we can see how much worse (and better) Britain's response was than our European neighbours, we might be more inclined to condemn Boris for excess deaths (and credit him for the vaccine rollout).
A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57101248
Catherine Liu"
https://quillette.com/2021/05/20/how-liberal-elites-use-race-to-keep-workers-divided-and-justify-class-based-inequities/
Just because The Mail leads with it means nothing. They were wrong about the wallpaper and they're wrong about this.
Cummings is a has-been whose reputation plummeted when he broke lockdown.
Sorry, Dom. No-one cares.
In any event do we know the Conservative loan was interest free? If they charged Boris 3% then it’s no longer a benefit in kind.
Floyd's death was appalling but it is typical of the BBC that they blanket coverage the anniversary on their sports page. Their lead was all about how Floyd's death affected sport.
Will the BBC ever get over their cringeworthy wokeness?
I've stopped paying the licence fee. I'm not funding this shit any longer.
Sorry, Dom. No-one's listening. No-one cares.
The only things we watch are on BBC4 and occasionally BBC2 and on Radio, Radio 2 and BBC4 extra and I can watch much of the BBC back catalogue on free to air channels.
Let the BBC take advertising on television but not radio... after all I can record and use the fast forward button through the trailers and adverts....most of our TV watching is done this way now.
So we haven't taken the risk.
All froth and bubble from Mr C is my expectation.
100.4% book on Back side on exchanges (BF) though. Slightly worse on Lay side.