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Her views on social issues might not be mainstream but could well have appealed to large parts of the older middle class men who make up much of the party membership base. She’s also personable and quite a good communicator.
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Have they released the full conversation, a robot will have a camera and mic. It seems very disturbing they couldn't just spray out some pepper spray or some knock out gas.
It sounds like state sponsored murder.
I thought her pull out yesterday lunchtime was highly dignified and will hold her in good stead in the future.
And in fairness to Leadsom, a lot of the damage was done by her 'supporters' - like Jenkin, who took a minor piece embroidery and turned it into a whole tapestry, and IDS and his 'black ops'......
Corbynistas replying that 'its because of turmoil in the Labour party & things will improve once that stops...'
Oooops.
Brexit means Brexit. Doubly oops for Carlotta.
"Jeremy Corbyn promised to make Labour leaders face mandatory elections every year to avoid the party struggling with a 'personality' leader.
He said it would "bring back democracy into the Labour Party and the Labour movement."
But the embattled Labour leader seems to have radically changed his mind since he unexpectedly became leader of the party last September."
Yes, there's some remarkably sore losers still around, aren't there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EGEj6xEWM
Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina 12y 220d + Khaleda Zia 10y 60d = 22y 280d
Sri Lanka: Sirimavo Bandaranaike 17y 278d + Chandrika Kumaratunga 87d = 18y 0d
India: Indira Gandhi 16y 15d
Dominica: Eugenia Charles 14y 328d
Norway: Gro Harlem Brundtland 10y 39d + Erna Solberg 2y 269d = 12y 308d
UK: Margaret Thatcher 11y 208d
New Zealand: Helen Clark 8y 350d + Jenny Shipley 2y 0d = 10y 350d
Germany: Angela Merkel 10y 232d
The police find him holed up, and establish communication with him. They negotiate for about 2 hours, and it's obvious he's not going to cooperate. He's asking how many cops did he get and saying that he wanted to get more - and he had bombs there.
A search of the gunman's home revealed he had plenty of supplies to make explosives. Dallas Police chief Brown said police found bomb-making materials and a journal that suggested Johnson had been practicing detonations and appeared ready to take aim at larger targets. It was enough, Brown said, to have "devastating effects on our city."
At some point when negotiations are going nowhere, a decision has to be made as to how to bring this to a conclusion. If he won't give himself up, they are going to have to go in to get him. They know he has explosives at his home and may well have some with him. That means potentially more police casualties. They already have 5 dead and 6 wounded.
When the police go in, if he attempts to detonate a bomb, or shoots at the police, they will use deadly force without any hesitation.
The decision is made by Brown and his team to send in a robot loaded with a lb of C4 and detonate it.
It ain't pretty, but the truth in all these standoffs is that if you won't give yourself up and the cops have to come get you, your chances are not good. Johnson made his choice.
Given the potential for bombs, slow acting solutions - gas etc - are not an option.
Once negotiations reach an impasse, it's time to move in.
As you said - the least worst option.
'Thirty-five very stupid Labour MPs effectively destroyed their party by opening it up to the hard left and assorted useful idiots. They must hate themselves. I genuinely feel sorry for them.'
I don't agree with that. Those 35 MPs facillitated Corbyn's participation in the 2015 contest - they did not make it inevitable that he would win. The responsibility for that falls fairly and squarely on Harriet Harman's appaliing response to Osborne's July Budget when as Acting Leader she made the party abstain on his austerity proposals. That alone gave Corbyn the unstoppable momentum that carried him to victory. Frankly I am surprised that she can sleep at night having shown such lack of judgement.
1) you need a 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate
2) 3/4 of the states need to approve it.
3) There is a time limit for this to happen. Most recently it was 7 years.
I don't own a firearm of any kind so it's not important to me either way.
That's just the way it is.
“those seeking high office must expect the highest levels of scrutiny”
Indeed, I wonder for how many of the new social media generation, their future political aspirations may already be over? – On a lighter note, scanning the front pages this morning a couple of things stuck out, only the Guardian bothers reporting the Labour leadership launch yesterday on their front page, and even that’s reduced to a small square in the top left-hand corner where the 2 for I adds normally go; there’s a metaphor there somewhere? – Also Andrew Pierce for the Mail reporting on Leadsom's campaign goes with, ‘the accidental candidate’ – a PB lurker unmasked perhaps?
"Oh, look at that!" declaimed the veteran newsman as a rickety freight train rumbled past. "A class sixty-sixty,” he hooted. It was a rust bucket on wheels – but Snow's eagerness knew no limits. Later, his head would almost pop off when a viewer reported seeing a “flying banana” measurement engine near Cambridge. To describe his enthusiasm as infectious would be an overstatement. It was certainly striking.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/07/11/trainspotting-live-review-a-sleepy-valentine-to-that-most-eccent/
Only in England.....
It occurs to me that in the discussions of the various groupings of voters in the referendum, one group has been left out.
The reluctant Remainers. People, like myself, who voted remain because (even though we have no love for the political mechanism of the EU), on the balance we thought it would do too much damage to leave.
Not every Remainer is sitting there in a dark room, half way down the second bottle of brandy, the tears rolling off the signed portrait of Junker, with Ode to Joy at 11 on the stereo. In a loop...
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/combustion-brexiteers-andrea-leadsom-eu-referendum-theresa-may
Tear gas at high enough concentrations to guarantee incapacitation reduces visibility to zero.
Morally, what is the difference between a pound of C4 and a rifle bullet in .308?
Emotionally, you are reacting to the issue of doing it remotely - "A weapon that denies the capacity for the enemy to show bravery" - which was the medieval philosophical objection to ranged weapons...
Within our lifetimes, the robot going in the door will be carrying a gun. Probably will have glowing red eyes for marketing.
And people still die/are injured.
I wonder how many full bore Euronationalists there are?
The absolute master stroke which will stand her in good stead with the party faithful was timing her departure to take Eagle's wings off. That was a decision of low political cunning that students of Machiavelli would applaud to the rafters.
Her attempt to suggest that she was a better candidate because she was a mum was frightful. What on earth was she thinking of.
Still, We still have months of fun and games with Labour. That twitter last night of Corbyn at some Cuba rally was very telling .
The deal you get is the only one in town. Accept it and move on.
Tomorrow, Mrs May will get the keys to Downing St - the anniversary of Macmillan’s Night of the Long Knives.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/darling-buddies-rush-to-new-leaders-side-h68dwwkvl
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/may-joe-chamberlain-in-kitten-heels-who-will-serve-in-her-interventionist-cabinet-and-deliver-brexit.html
Probably not - but she had a fighting chance. You need a decently thick skin to become PM - if one hostile news story spells the end of your candidacy then you wouldn't have been up to the job anyway.
I don't think it was the news story that sunk her, more enough MPs dropping hints they would immediately post a letter to Mr Brady - that is my hunch.
One reason the 48% is nearer the 20% and no chance of a vote ever taking us back in.
1. REMAIN
2. Establishment
3. Cameroons
4. Osborne and co.
Add in a few Leavers and that made a formidable alliance. However it skirts over the right vs centrist split.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36770533
http://brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/corbyn-supporters-take-control-brighton-hoves-labour-party/
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d9b4-Labour-right-thugs-threaten-own-side#.V4SHergrJhE
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/may-joe-chamberlain-in-kitten-heels-who-will-serve-in-her-interventionist-cabinet-and-deliver-brexit.html
Apart from May's constituency being Maidenhead - has she said anything on this?
The kind of scrutiny that Leadsom went under is the sort that any PM has to put up with as a matter of routine. Whinging that the press didn't report your comments as you meant them - as opposed to as you said them - is absurd. You simply cannot expect that sort of favour, and to believe you do suggests a disconnect with the reality of the rigours of the role.
Heck, I think Boris Island's the long-term solution. I had given up on that as we need the infrastructure in place quickly, bit I guess now all options are open, I should evangelise for it once more.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440316/airports-commission-final-report.pdf
When it is done, sell Heathrow for housing. Make money on the deal.
Also, expanding both Gatwick and Heathrow go against the 'hub' airport concept that ISTR was central to the commission.
If the commission report can be attacked anywhere, it is on the basis they worked - the need for a hub airport being an example. I think the report itself was very good within that basis.
The interim report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/271231/airports-commission-interim-report.pdf
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-582d-Corbyn-should-have-NEC-vote-wrapped-up#.V4SOcbgrJhE
The problem was nobody was listening and he didn't understand how to make them listen. He didn't have Howard's energy or intellectual force.
Despite Corbyn’s denials, Labour’s council election results were the worst since 1982, the first time an opposition has had net losses in a non-general election year. No opposition has ever won power without reaching a 20% lead. Corbyn scores “the worst ratings of any opposition leader ever” among swing voters, says Britain Thinks. Nearly a third of Labour supporters who voted Brexit say they will not return.
This is a party in freefall, but those facts make no impression on Labour’s new members. Professor Tim Bale has surveyed them and finds 77% who joined after Corbyn became leader believe he will win the next general election. Denial, delusion, magical thinking, call it what you will, they believe it. Worse, I’ve heard many say winning is shoddy Westminster elite stuff: conviction matters more, say some Trots but mainly ardent believers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/12/tories-labour-angela-eagle-labour-corbyn-party-membership