Have to laugh at the idea of Raaaaaab as Deputy PM. Having just utterly shirked his responsibilities as Foreign Secretary he is now to be relied upon to run the country when Worzel is off to find a cup of tea and a slice of cake for his latest Aunt Sally.
Have to laugh at the idea of Raaaaaab as Deputy PM. Having just utterly shirked his responsibilities as Foreign Secretary he is now to be relied upon to run the country when Worzel is off to find a cup of tea and a slice of cake for his latest Aunt Sally.
He already was, it even happened last year when Boris was incapacitated. Being Deputy PM makes no difference, he was already the deputy with another title.
All the Tories who said Starmer was weak and useless, I am sure will be straight out to call BoJo the same, after Raab just pulled the same move.
Anyone? Anyone?
Rayner just called Gavin Williamson a “prat”. Government in waiting?
When it comes to Rayner, Starmer is weak and useless.
Rayner’s directly elected by the membership, she doesn’t report to Starmer.
It is evident that whilst gealbhan has a good political knowledge - and I am sure much better knowledge than me on most things - their Labour knowledge is dreadful.
Hold on, has Raab just done an Angela Rayner on Johnson
Definitely. He unsacked himself.
I wonder how many "er er er"s Bozo did in that conversation: "well, er er er Dominic, yes, well, er er er, please don't get so er er er, jolly cross, how about I whizz you the er er er, post of Deputy PM eh, wot? "not enough, oh er er er.... let me ask Carrie...er er er, she says sack you, er er er, no can't do that cam we, er er er? "
Hold on, has Raab just done an Angela Rayner on Johnson
How does Raab have enough clout to do that? Why does Johnson have to give a fuck what Raab says or does?
Seems like a straight demotion to me. Previously foreign secretary and deputy prime minister, now justice secretary and deputy prime minister.
I mistakenly thought he was DPM as well, however he was only that whilst BJ was incapable, it was just a one off temporary role which he lost when the PM came back.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Hold on, has Raab just done an Angela Rayner on Johnson
How does Raab have enough clout to do that? Why does Johnson have to give a fuck what Raab says or does?
Seems like a straight demotion to me. Previously foreign secretary and deputy prime minister, now justice secretary and deputy prime minister.
I mistakenly thought he was DPM as well, however he was only that whilst BJ was incapable, it was just a one off temporary role which he lost when the PM came back.
Ah, I was getting it mixed up with first secretary of state. Then it seems like a bauble to me.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
Hold on, has Raab just done an Angela Rayner on Johnson
Done a Geoffrey Howe.
Demoted from the Foreign Office but made it look good with getting the title Deputy Prime Minister.
Narrator: 15 months later Howe helped topple Thatcher.
Surely that comparison won't have been lost on Boris. Did he do it just to humiliate Raab: 'This is what great prime ministers do to their miserable little underlings but you won't have the spunk to take revenge.'?
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
How long before it's all back to one State supplier?
I can't see the point of all the private suppliers. Might as well make a British EDF.
The neoliberal ideal of a competitive market for everything is dying a long slow painful death. At last.
For energy, last time I looked there was only one supply coming into our house. The 'market' is an artifice.
How is it efficient to have savvy consumers being switched from one seller to another every year (with all the admin, call centre support etc. that that requires) whilst the non-savvy, vulnerable and cant-be-arsed subsidise those of us who switch?
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
She did, but the shine is starting to come off.
You should hear what the Kiwis stuck in the sandpit have to say about her!
Most of them are redundant workers from oil & gas, aviation, logistics and private security industries, who are being quoted April for return dates, and are sofa-surfing until then.
All the Tories who said Starmer was weak and useless, I am sure will be straight out to call BoJo the same, after Raab just pulled the same move.
Anyone? Anyone?
Rayner just called Gavin Williamson a “prat”. Government in waiting?
When it comes to Rayner, Starmer is weak and useless.
Rayner’s directly elected by the membership, she doesn’t report to Starmer.
It is evident that whilst gealbhan has a good political knowledge - and I am sure much better knowledge than me on most things - their Labour knowledge is dreadful.
Nonsense. I have explained on here exactly how it’s done. Two thirds vote on the NEC abolishes Angela Rayner.
Quite amusing that the BBC slips this news out when eyes are elsewhere, a tactic beloved of this government (eg the Friday afternoon press release bonanza)
Hold on, has Raab just done an Angela Rayner on Johnson
How does Raab have enough clout to do that? Why does Johnson have to give a fuck what Raab says or does?
Seems like a straight demotion to me. Previously foreign secretary and deputy prime minister, now justice secretary and deputy prime minister.
I mistakenly thought he was DPM as well, however he was only that whilst BJ was incapable, it was just a one off temporary role which he lost when the PM came back.
No no no. He wasn't DPM at any point, but he was appointed to act as deputy (lower case). He was First Secretary indicating he was to be considered, well, first amongst them, and thus it was no surprise he was picked to deputize. Some past First Secretaries have been referred to as deputy PMs despite not holding that role.
I'm not crazy am I, I'm sure that is the situation as was?
It certainly is a bauble as RobD says since we often dont have one and were Boris to disappear theres no guarantee hed be picked as PM.
President Joe Biden will announce a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies in a thinly veiled bid to counter China, a White House official and a Congressional staffer told POLITICO.
The trio, which will be known by the acronym AUUKUS, will make it easier for the nations to share information and know-how in key technological areas like artificial intelligence, cyber, underwater systems and long-range strike capabilities
One of the people said there will be a nuclear element to the pact in which the U.S. and U.K. share their knowledge of how to maintain nuclear-defense infrastructure.
Australian rumours that they may junk their French sub deal.....
Great news. Terrible acronym.
AUKUS would work better. Drop the double-u's.
Yes, it would not only be more pronouncable ('Orcus') but more consistent - Australia is a one-word country. We don't need the U. It's not at all unclear which country beginning with A it refers to.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
President Joe Biden will announce a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies in a thinly veiled bid to counter China, a White House official and a Congressional staffer told POLITICO.
The trio, which will be known by the acronym AUUKUS, will make it easier for the nations to share information and know-how in key technological areas like artificial intelligence, cyber, underwater systems and long-range strike capabilities
One of the people said there will be a nuclear element to the pact in which the U.S. and U.K. share their knowledge of how to maintain nuclear-defense infrastructure.
Australian rumours that they may junk their French sub deal.....
Great news. Terrible acronym.
AUKUS would work better. Drop the double-u's.
Yes, it would not only be more pronouncable ('Orcus') but more consistent - Australia is a one-word country. We don't need the U. It's not at all unclear which country beginning with A it refers to.
Quite amusing that the BBC slips this news out when eyes are elsewhere, a tactic beloved of this government (eg the Friday afternoon press release bonanza)
Have to laugh at the idea of Raaaaaab as Deputy PM. Having just utterly shirked his responsibilities as Foreign Secretary he is now to be relied upon to run the country when Worzel is off to find a cup of tea and a slice of cake for his latest Aunt Sally.
He's already done it, Rochdale. He stood in while Boris was in hospital.
@Peston With @MattHancock forced out a few weeks ago and Robert Buckland sacked today, @OliverDowden may be the last member of the cabinet who campaigned against Brexit
And Hancock wasn't exactly forced out, was he? His own libido and egregious incompetence caught up to him, I thought.
Well, consider who remained in cabinet despite ...
Remember, Diane Abbott was the alternative at the last GE.
Please do not remind us of the paucity of talent amongst our political "elite"! Most of the people in positions of seniority in our political parties would struggle to get above middle management in any half decent corporate company. The choice between Johnson and Corbyn at the last election was like voting for dumb or dumber. A polemicist journalist who comes across like a game show host or a left wing career contrarian with two Es at A-level. What choice for one of the leading so-called democracies of the world.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
Remember, Diane Abbott was the alternative at the last GE.
Please do not remind us of the paucity of talent amongst our political "elite"! Most of the people in positions of seniority in our political parties would struggle to get above middle management in any half decent corporate company. The choice between Johnson and Corbyn at the last election was like voting for dumb or dumber. A polemicist journalist who comes across like a game show host or a left wing career contrarian with two Es at A-level. What choice for one of the leading so-called democracies of the world.
However, that lot are gone, the country said no and Labour listened. Bye bye.
However the other lot are still there. 2019 is over.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
I dont think casino meant being woke means you cannot win though. He might well prefer it if thay was the case.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
I dont think casino meant being woke means you cannot win though. He might well prefer it if thay was the case.
There is an opinion by some on this board that being woke means you instantly lose elections. I strongly disagree.
Being alert to injustice in society, especially racism - the actual definition - is something any PM should be.
haha, I thought the same. When I saw that I did think for a moment that perhaps Johnson had messed up on the back of his fag packet and reshuffled himself!
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
So why are so many of those who consider themselves ‘woke’, actually quite racist? Can’t we all just be colour-blind, and not try and bring race into everything?
Actually I think people keep the Rt Hon after losing the position they were granted it for (because its tied to Privy Council?) so it's a rare example of us being like the American practice of referring to former office holders by their old title?
If Westminster does not play ball, the long-standing Scottish nationalist plan for negotiated independence collapses. Even if moderate independence supporters were on board with a Scottish UDI – a big ‘if’ – no country Scotland would want as an ally will recognise its independence against the wishes of the British government. Whatever the current state of the transatlantic alliance, no American President would recognise an independent Scotland against the wishes of Downing Street. Spain would not countenance a ‘breakaway’ state’s accession to the EU: that’s why it accepts Montenegro’s candidacy (because it separated with the consent of Serbia) but not Kosovo’s (because it separated from Serbia without its consent). Even China and Russia might balk at recognising Scotland, mindful of their own separatist problems. So a Scottish government seeking recognition in these circumstances would meet the same flat refusal as that encountered by Éamon de Valera’s emissaries to Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau in 1919, and Scotland would not be a recognised independent state.
"Ciaran Martin is Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. From 2011-14 he served as Constitution Director in the Cabinet Office."
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
So why are so many of those who consider themselves ‘woke’, actually quite racist? Can’t we all just be colour-blind, and not try and bring race into everything?
Because those people are idiots - and I don't associate with such people. I am actually woke, by the definition that is the correct one.
I am alert to injustice in society as I want to create a more equal society for all, that is why I am a Labour man.
Although there's an old saw in politics about keeping the seekers of the throne at Foreign office as they are out of the country all the time so no politicking in Westminster on the quiet.
Remember, Diane Abbott was the alternative at the last GE.
Please do not remind us of the paucity of talent amongst our political "elite"! Most of the people in positions of seniority in our political parties would struggle to get above middle management in any half decent corporate company. The choice between Johnson and Corbyn at the last election was like voting for dumb or dumber. A polemicist journalist who comes across like a game show host or a left wing career contrarian with two Es at A-level. What choice for one of the leading so-called democracies of the world.
However, that lot are gone, the country said no and Labour listened. Bye bye.
However the other lot are still there. 2019 is over.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
So why are so many of those who consider themselves ‘woke’, actually quite racist? Can’t we all just be colour-blind, and not try and bring race into everything?
Because those people are idiots - and I don't associate with such people. I am actually woke, by the definition that is the correct one.
I am alert to injustice in society as I want to create a more equal society for all, that is why I am a Labour man.
That would be a biggie. She's the darling of The Daily Express.
Careful what you wish for. If Patel gets replaced, it’ll be because she’s failed to stop the boats - and that’s what will be top of the inbox for the new HS.
I'd love it to be Gove.
The rumour is Gove to “Minister for levelling-up the North”.
Nah, after his dancing exploits, to the Ministry of Sound.
Actually I think people keep the Rt Hon after losing the position they were granted it for (because its tied to Privy Council?) so it's a rare example of us being like the American practice of referring to former office holders by their old title?
Remember, Diane Abbott was the alternative at the last GE.
Please do not remind us of the paucity of talent amongst our political "elite"! Most of the people in positions of seniority in our political parties would struggle to get above middle management in any half decent corporate company. The choice between Johnson and Corbyn at the last election was like voting for dumb or dumber. A polemicist journalist who comes across like a game show host or a left wing career contrarian with two Es at A-level. What choice for one of the leading so-called democracies of the world.
However, that lot are gone, the country said no and Labour listened. Bye bye.
However the other lot are still there. 2019 is over.
I think @Casino_Royale is right to be bearish on Jacinda's future prospects, actually.
She won the election, as he implies, during a perfect storm for her: zero covid cases, no vaccines anywhere and a sharp contrast with the Old Country (to which NZ has a massive inferiority complex): No restrictions in Auckland. London shut.
Now, the situation is the exact opposite. Extreme restrictions in Auckland (and the ever-present and immediate hair-trigger threat of them even when unlocked, because of NZ's utterly dire vaccination rates). London free.
What is her next move? At some point she has to open the borders (and thus accept the cases that she has made a huge show of 'eliminating') because NZ will ultimately collapse economically without international visitors.
Ardern is a classic Wokey. Attack the historic and culture of your own country, and meanwhile cosy up to modern nasty authoritarian regimes and bat away any issues with Whataboutery for an extra buck.
No wonder the Chinese love her.
She won a landslide, she's obviously popular in New Zealand.
Boris won a landslide too on about only 5% less of the vote share, I dont think that inures him from criticism at home or abroad. Arden is surely not perfect even if she is very popular in NZ.
No it's just that there's an opinion that the so-called "woke" (or whatever that means, for goodness sake Ardern ran on immigration controls) can't win elections, when Jacinda did.
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
She won a Covid election at a time when NZ had zero cases, we were entering new lockdowns here and there were no vaccinations on the horizon.
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
Woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
It's been done to death, how people act while being 'woke' differs and what it means to people is not the same.
Some self labelled as woke are pretty unwoke in practice and someone might reject the label but still be alert to injustice.
That's why whether someone is proud to be woke matters not in my opinion, since its actions that matter, and an unwoke but reasonable leader would be better than one who is woke but crap. And indeed reasonable and woke bettervthsn unwoke and crap.
I note Boris has knifed his prominent cabinet leadership supporters. TBF, a couple of them richly deserved it (Buckland a bit less so), but there is an element of boat burning about this. Should the economy turn really sticky, there might be a reshuffle of PM ahead of the next election ?
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When it comes to Rayner, Starmer is weak and useless.
25 June 1976 i suggest
UK DPM = same raised to power of a googol AND without the succession rights which make VPdom slightly more attractive than a used prophylactic.
Put it another way, he has been sent to sit on the Cleggy step.
My respect for her increases (from an absolute zero baseline)
Thank you to the voluntary party and the team at CCHQ for their support.
Thank you to @BorisJohnson for this opportunity. I will continue working to deliver on our plans to level up the UK.
https://twitter.com/amandamilling/status/1438149276853489664?s=20
No wonder the Chinese love her.
Boris should have moved Rishi to FO and Truss into number 11.
Why? PM and Chancellor not on same page on spending is vote losing trouble.
Another thing for Govey to destroy
It's just a sympathy fuck.
I didn't think people not being shuffled or sacked or promoted bothered.
Patel seems to have had no movement at all yet went in, is that a first ?
Education ?
Much to learn for Starmer from her.
Most of them are redundant workers from oil & gas, aviation, logistics and private security industries, who are being quoted April for return dates, and are sofa-surfing until then.
You haven’t been paying attention. 😆
https://twitter.com/skynewsniall/status/1438152398384533505?s=20
I'm not crazy am I, I'm sure that is the situation as was?
It certainly is a bauble as RobD says since we often dont have one and were Boris to disappear theres no guarantee hed be picked as PM.
#Reshuffle
https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1438152707764801536?s=20
It's a different beast.
[PS. And you know very well what "woke" means - and I even just explained it to you. People who claim they don't simply don't want to engage with it in case it means they have to do the very hard work of having to think and revise their worldview.]
The Corbynista sharpened the guillotine for Watson, Corbyn called the execution off late in the day.
Back to your pit, of sand.
Don't say stuff like that.
I am proudly woke and I hope any decent PM in the world is too.
However the other lot are still there. 2019 is over.
Next leader?
Being alert to injustice in society, especially racism - the actual definition - is something any PM should be.
Actually I think people keep the Rt Hon after losing the position they were granted it for (because its tied to Privy Council?) so it's a rare example of us being like the American practice of referring to former office holders by their old title?
2014, NB.
I am alert to injustice in society as I want to create a more equal society for all, that is why I am a Labour man.
Now, to the outdoors!
Although there's an old saw in politics about keeping the seekers of the throne at Foreign office as they are out of the country all the time so no politicking in Westminster on the quiet.
Wildly popular with the grassroots apparently.
U Rt, Hon?
She won the election, as he implies, during a perfect storm for her: zero covid cases, no vaccines anywhere and a sharp contrast with the Old Country (to which NZ has a massive inferiority complex): No restrictions in Auckland. London shut.
Now, the situation is the exact opposite. Extreme restrictions in Auckland (and the ever-present and immediate hair-trigger threat of them even when unlocked, because of NZ's utterly dire vaccination rates). London free.
What is her next move? At some point she has to open the borders (and thus accept the cases that she has made a huge show of 'eliminating') because NZ will ultimately collapse economically without international visitors.
Some self labelled as woke are pretty unwoke in practice and someone might reject the label but still be alert to injustice.
That's why whether someone is proud to be woke matters not in my opinion, since its actions that matter, and an unwoke but reasonable leader would be better than one who is woke but crap. And indeed reasonable and woke bettervthsn unwoke and crap.
If used as shorthand for morals it's nonsense.
Time to get worried...
Should the economy turn really sticky, there might be a reshuffle of PM ahead of the next election ?