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Above is updating live betting from the Betfair exchange on the fight for the LAB leadership which has been totally overshadowed by events in the Tory party and the new PM. To recap in case you haven’t noticed
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Boris is foreign secretary. I slept on it and it really is true :-D
Oh dear...
https://twitter.com/montie/status/558341101279772672
CO - Clinton 44 .. Trump 34
VA - Clinton 44 .. Trump 37
http://www.politico.com/blogs/swing-states-2016-election/2016/07/trump-clinton-colorado-virginia-225502
1950
Aneurin Bevan (Lab) 28,245 (80.72306%)
G. B. Finley (Con) 6,745 (19.27694%)
1951
Aneurin Bevan (Lab) 28,283 (80.72323%) (+0.00017%)
J. E. Bowan (Con) 6,754 (19.27677%) (-0.00017%)
https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/753303826971713536
https://twitter.com/mickfealty/status/753346134828089348
One commenter on Der Spiegel even said they think Theresa May will one day be spoken of as the new Winston Churchill.
The fact that this image didn't kill his career shows how remarkable BoJo is.
Neither are, I suspect, personally very nice people, and neither have ever held senior positions in government,
One now does. It'll be interesting to see how long the teflon coating can last.
More fun this morning with the rest of the Cabinet appts. I still can't get over Georgexit.
Think I'll need a Venn diagram re Brexit on who does what.
I'm hoping for a govt of less spin and manipulation, less cronyism and back slapping and more responsible decision making. I did say hoping.
Whoever leads Ukip has a tough task on their hands, my advice is to target the corpse that is the Labour Party, they are finished as serious opposition.
Well, quite.
We'll struggle to hear more hyperbole than that today. Foreign politicians are as low calibre as ours, you only have to look at the EU parliament, its full of dross.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/theresa-may-shows-really-serious-brexit/
He is, as many here keep forgetting, a One Nation Tory - which signals suggest is the very point of this administration.
https://t.co/rTF6akpVDt
I'm ambivalent to Boris, his new job is irrelevant really, people trade with each other, it has very little to do with politicians. Good stuff sells, rubbish doesn't.
https://www.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/753398572515725312
May is very thoughtful which is why before giving Boris the job she carved most of it away into other departments. Boris will find most of the traditional job of FS being done by Davis and Fox. It was an appointment that puzzled me to start with until I realised how cunning she had been.
I would suggest the market prediction for Owen Smith (who he? ed) is based on early punters snapping him up at decent odds, rather than any realistic hope that he’d beat Jeremy Corbyn.
If not not it seems May is sending out a message about gossip, backstabbing and cliques. Good for her.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/146195/labour-donor-explains-why-he-heckled-jeremy-corbyn-israel-event
http://news.sky.com/story/chancellor-there-will-be-no-emergency-budget-10501035?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
I'd agree that his pandering to antisemitism is part of the problem.
...except a budget...
Ok...
Anyone remember? It was a blizzard of announcements and rumours yesterday.
I don't think so.
Boris flourishes - with the odd bump along the way, no doubt - May's faith vindicated.
Boris crashes & burns - major potential threat eliminated for good...
"Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews... But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews." Dr. Hajo Meyer, former inmate of Auschwitz.
The trouble with Gove is that he is not awfully good at politics. He antagonises people who would naturally be on his side, and in case he is ever too busy to offend people in person, he pays Dominic Cummings to do it for him.
Jeremy Hunt seems like a less bright version.
And the unnecessarily theatrical sacking of Osborne had spin written all over it.
Do they sit at home brooding over what the neighbours think about everything they do at home like Hyacinth Bucket?
Argh! This is getting most confusing. Come on Theresa!
Let him sit it out in the wilderness for a couple of years.
BoJo is probably best known for arguments over whether the US embassy should pay congestion charges...
A Labour candidate has denied launching a foul-mouthed attack on a political rival for pointing out he lives in a £1.5 million home.
Michael Foster was appearing at a public ‘hustings’ in the Camborne and Redruth constituency when he objected to mention of his luxurious four-bedroom home by Loveday Jenkin who is standing for the Cornish party Mebyon Kernow.
Ms Jenkin claims Mr Foster turned to her and said: ‘You c***. If you pick on me again I will destroy you.’
Re BOJO's appointment as FS, i.e. the new Clarkson, the only comment that will really cause difficulties in the near future is his insulting Limerick about the dictator of his ancestral homeland. May would be advised to deal directly with Erdogan, not via her FS. However, BJ's comment about Obama was accurate.
Better to wait and see how things pan out before taking the appropriate corrective action.
I very much hope that Hammond abolishes the awful "autumn statement" and goes back to a single annual budget. Well thought through plans don't need tweaking every second week.
No, the whole affair seemed designed for public consumption. The question is why.
My gut feeling is that the Labour right is now desperate enough for a candidate with what they call leadership that they will swing behind him even if he sticks to a policy agenda that will be left enough for many of Corbyn's supporters who are looking for something more distinctive than simply "not the Tories". This is a big change from last summer when any policy pronouncements with a hint of socialism about them were seen as too dangerous for a credible leader.
Be afraid, I'm a Charizard.
Its not like she frog marched him out the front door into the press pack.
May is a traditionalist - these things are best done face to face.....not by phone, or text.....
#noemergencybudgetneeded
Given the character and temperament he has displayed throughout his political career, it could almost be an exquisite form of torture...