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Gavin Williamson has done another whoopsie – politicalbetting.com
Gavin Williamson has done another whoopsie – politicalbetting.com
It's an easy mistake to make. I quite often get Gavin Williamson confused with Frank Spencer.Hat tip to Northern Al on PB. https://t.co/DR3W2qFs8M
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Oh, and first?
Boris axe him now
I am feeling confident about my bet
We would still be in dither mode.
Good thread, Philip. I forgot to say earlier.
Not for anyone already on the minimum wage and not even getting travel allowance.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/defra-government-campaigners-boris-johnson-animal-and-plant-health-agency-b953293.html
Also this just out:
https://news.sky.com/story/geronimo-the-alpaca-did-not-have-tb-owner-claims-as-chief-veterinary-officer-insists-post-mortem-showed-tb-like-lesions-12402190
'However, the chief veterinary officer denied these claims and insisted a "number of TB-like lesions were found" and are being further tested.
Dr Christine Middlemiss said: "These tests include the developing of bacteriological cultures from tissue samples which usually takes several months - we would expect to complete the full post-mortem and culture process by the end of the year."'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/08/two-uk-energy-suppliers-succumb-to-record-surge-in-prices
The Maginot Line was unbreached. The Germans merely went round it.
It was not, fundamentally, totaly useless and entirely unfit for purpose, displaying its inadequacies on a daily basis.
An apology for the comparison with Williamson is in order before it sues.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/afghan-women-to-be-banned-from-playing-sport-taliban-say
DEFRA said he had Tb and couldn’t live more than 9 months about 4 years ago. We know it’s traditional for the farming community to hate badgers, song birds etc but does this show traditional farming actually has issues with the modern farming and alpaca fad etc?
Why do the traditional and very commercial “big farma” industry so hate the alpaca keepers? A silly fad that is actually risk to a proper industry? 🤔
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/
https://twitter.com/antonioregalado
Though you might all have discussed it already.
It's all going wrong
Imagine if Starmer said that?
A great pity.
Last year just before the pandemic hit, I was diagnosed, based on my A1C and glucose numbers, with type 2 diabetes and put on metformin. Fortunately I had not developed symptoms and was still making my own insulin, etc.
I immediately embarked on a fairly strict low-carbohydrates diet plus increased exercise. It was not full keto by any means, and wasn’t intended to be particularly low-calorie but did reduce my calorie intake somewhat.
Three months later I’d lost ~40lbs and my A1C and glucose numbers were back to normal. My GP took me off the metformin and told me to maintain my weight at my new level, so we made the diet a bit less strict but still fairly low carb. My numbers have remained normal.
This Government is ideologically and morally bankrupt.
Williamson shouldn’t be compared.
https://twitter.com/chriscurtis94/status/1435601638832680966?s=20
However voters also oppose raising income tax 36% to 27% and using more money from individuals estates by 41% to 18% and also oppose cutting spending elsewhere and raising VAT and borrowing more. Though by 43% to 18% they back raising CGT
https://twitter.com/chriscurtis94/status/1435602395908739072?s=20
An opportunity to be a pro in the Bolton League, perhaps.
In other words people do not like paying tax, nor using their home for social care
Are they out to get him? (make sure the blunder is noticed)
Or an inept attempt to head off trouble later if someone asks Rashford whether he ever spoke to Williamson? (not that smart, it's a story now rather than a risk of a story later and the later story could be less bad - Williamson admits he didn't speak to Rashford, poor memory, without noting that he confused him for another balck man)
If the team are doing this on purpose and without apparent fear of recrimination, then maybe they think/know he is toast?
Why isn’t everyone in the Tory party live on Twitter cutting up their membership cards? Such a thing is unsupportable surely? Totally outrageous? Is doing that the very building blocks of levelling up?
Which is why populists of the left and right eventually run out of money to spend.
And why wiser politicians don't promise a free moon on a stick if they expect to win.
I don't want to go all woke on this, but I think the best answer to 'is x a Conservative' (or a liberal, or a socialist, or a libertarian, or a communist, or a fascist') is 'yes, if he identifies as one.'
There are all sorts of examples of people whose views do not seem to correlate neatly with their chosen label.
Does put our ideological battles here in a bit of perspective. Should we or should we not be in the EU? Not the end of life as we know it, is it?
I always find it polite to make sure that I am not misgendering people, so I like to start each conversation with "[x], how nice to see you. Tell me, how do you self identify these days?"
Of course, there are limits to this. One shouldn't ask more than once (or at most twice) per day.
I doubt he got the £81,932 + expenses he gets now before being elected as an MP.
Some MPs take a paycut eg Gauke or Archie Norman or David Laws and return to the private sector soon after, others like Williamson I imagine got a payrise becoming an MP
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/texas-governor-abbott-rape-exception-comments-abortion-law.html
I see no reason why a social democratic Labour cannot support tax rises that are progressive to fund good public services, but oppose taxes that impact the poorest the most.
What is difficult and ineffective is to say we want more funding, not this tax and not say what taxes they prefer.
Are you really saying that you don't like them. I mean, differences of opinion are fine and all that. So, I understand you could have a different opinion.
But I'm reminded of something a musician friend of mine said "people who say they like music, who don't like Radiohead, don't really like music."
This is fascinating.
Do you think Matt Hancock's relations are what is blanked out there now we know who it was with?
Are they really living up to that commitment? It’s our expectation. I met with them myself when I was in Doha. I looked them in the eye. They revalidated that commitment.”...
...“These [the Taliban] are butchers. I met in the room with them. These were some of the most difficult meetings for me personally and emotionally. I knew exactly who I was sitting across the table from. These are evil people. The world is filled with evil people like this. … We never trusted them. … We always knew what they were telling us was almost certainly a lie.”