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Revenge is a Ferrero Rocher best served cold. Boris Johnson mocks Theresa May's leather 'lederhosen'. Gags in full: https://t.co/Te1nAx3Avw
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I'm assuming this is payback for this and Mrs May slapping him down for his comments over Saudi Arabia
Mrs May in the lounge with the candlestick?
'I've learnt from experience, never upset a woman who wears leather trousers, they are very good at giving out discipline and punishment'
Harmless fun.
Good evening, everybody.
But, Theresa May will notice and she won't forget.
A sanctioned joke, apparently
Ok, a stretch, but he's not an idiot and he won't want to fail in this.
And who can take a joke better?
Boris wins on both scores.
The jest-about-managing party perhaps.
Once A50 is triggered, the fuse of Hard Brexit is lit.
(What happened to that?)
A (atomic) bomb, not H (hydrogen) bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both fission devices, in which a fissile material (an element high up the periodic table with heavier atoms than normal) is forced rapidly into a critical mass, at which point it undergoes fission (its heavy atoms split releasing electrons) and a chain reaction (each electron splits more atoms, so even more electrons...) and a rapid outpouring of energy (the explosion)
A fusion bomb works the other way around: it forces light atoms to combine (fuse) rapidly. To do this you need a material with lighter atoms than normal, for example an isotope (variant) of hydrogen (hence "H bomb"). It is bloody difficult to make atoms fuse, so to set a fusion bomb off you have to wrap it in a fission bomb and set that off first
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Quick, think of a diversion...
..."Love Actually"'s on ITV2!
(Phew, I think I got away with it...)
After a bit of flack he turned up on FOX and said 'I don’t have to be told – you know, I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years – but eight years. I don’t need that. But I do say, “If something should change, let us know.”
'But if they’re going to come in and tell me the exact same thing that they tell me — you know, it doesn’t change, necessarily. Now, there will be times where it might change. I mean, there will be some very fluid situations. I’ll be there not every day, but more than that. But I don’t need to be told, Chris, the same thing every day, every morning — same words. “Sir, nothing has changed. Let’s go over it again.” I don’t need that.'
Meanwhile on Market news on LBC the other night they were joking about which overnight tweets were going to send which US corporations shares into a nosedive.
This man has the attention span of a five year old and with the same level of entitlement. This mans hand is on the button. The danger of stumbling at a critical point is very real.
57 different varieties:
Beanz Meanz HeinzBrexit Meanz Brexit.http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/dec/02/gavin-newsom/pences-support-conversion-therapy-not-settled-matt/
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/mike-pence-record-reproductive-rights-lgbtq-refugees
He's completely reverted to type. The President-Elect bitching about SNL impressions of himself.
I think he will end up disappointing his alt-right supporters, establishment republicans who backed him, and the rust-belt ex democrats, simply because he is going to overtly be focused on his own interests above and beyond any ideology (be it conservatism or alt-rightism), the party, or the voters.
http://rodenfordenton.com/2016/12/that-time-i-spent-a-week-with-rex-tillerson/
Hard Brexit is likely but not inevitable. Brexit is, other than immense political change that is unforeseeable, inevitable.
It's the hope that will get you, and distract from winnable fights and allies on other fronts.
Con 41%
Lab 27%
UKIP 14%
LD 9%
Greens 3%
Edit: Ah, I see that it might have been a reference to this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/12/exclusive-european-citizens-living-uk-should-remain-jurisdiction/
Yeah, well, nice try by Monsieur Barnier. I doubt if he takes it seriously himself.
Edit: Sorry I see you have edited your posting as well along the same lines.
Liverpool Walton could be interesting, its next door to Doc Nuttall's stamping ground of Bootle. IIRC Bootle byelection back in the early 1990s was the nail in the SDP coffin so a bit of pressure for the purples there I think. Didnt know there was a possible byelection on in walton.
In both contests I would expect a Tory push to capture the anti-EU vote (keep deposit was the traget in years past in Liverpool's seats)
"The Leigh by-election will be very instructive (and the Liverpool Walton one too, though expecting anyone to overturn a 72% majority is unreasonable). Oldham was a false dawn for UKIP after the near-miss in Heywood last Parliament: what's a year of Corbyn and the fact of Brexit done for their chances?"
Some places just don't have anything to lose. Look at this map of deaths from substance abuse/mental disorders. (Why that would make them want to reject universal healthcare is another issue...)
Edit - the percentage change map in the pink
http://jamanetwork.com/data/Journals/JAMA/935924/joi160106f8.png
The SNP will not stand candidates in elections outside of Scotland, PoliticsHome has learned – after Nicola Sturgeon said she was “tempted” by the idea.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/snp/nicola-sturgeon/news/81709/excl-nicola-sturgeon-will-not-field-snp
Never rains but it pours.....
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/snp/news/81716/snp-mp-tasmina-ahmed-sheikh-facing-hmrc-court-hearing
Ms Ahmed-Sheikh is the fourth member of the SNP's 2015 intake to find herself at the centre of financial controversy.
Glasgow East MP Natalie McGarry has been charged after a police investigation into claims of financial discrepancies in a Scottish independence campaign group. She resigned the SNP whip when the allegations emerged last year.
Michelle Thomson, the MP for Edinburgh West, also stood down from the party last year after police launched an investigation into “alleged irregularities relating to property deals”. She has vowed to clear her name.
And Dundee West MP Chris Law has also been investigated by police over alleged irregularities in relation to a pro-Scottish independence campaign he set up.
Oh, and how on earth does a lawyer who now has an MP salary end up bankrupt - did she just forget to do her tax return for a few years?
Once that's entrenched there will be pressure to bring these out-of-control global judges under democratic control, and hey presto, OWG.
Slapping down Saudi Arabia mattered.
This was just part of Boris's persona - and I'm rather glad that the Cabinet feels able to make little jokes at each other's expense. It's rather healthy.
Edit - imagine one of St Nicola's acolyte's trying it.....
According to wiki, in the boosted weapons the fusion component only adds about 1% to the total yield (seems a bit pointless).
http://www.reformation.org/british-thermonuclear-bluff.html
Now we don't know the context - it's most likely one of a laundry list that the EU legal service included only for it to be dismissed as impractical/unobtainable.
But Barnier is hardly "a completely obscure MEP"
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Uk/UKOrigin.html
An implosion fission bomb uses a shell of explosives around the radioactive fuel to implode it in on itself to reach criticality (Nagasaki).
An H bomb does the same, but then uses that explosion to bring about fusion of deuterium and tritium (hence fusion-boosted fission and hence H bomb as deuterium and tritium are isomers of hydrogen).
Later designs have multiple stage explosions. I believe the US got up to a 3-stage explosion.
Johnson’s amusing ribbing of the PM looks nothing like revenge, served hot or cold.
LOL. No. America is flawed, but Russia is sadly another order of magnitude. Just look at a small area that is in the news at the moment, sports, and see how over 1,000 athletes benefited from doping in a state-run scheme.
Not that some US sports stars don't use drugs, but the scale of what happened in Russia was something else.
I'm also surprised that someone who lives and works in London for most of the time is so forgetful of Litvinenko. That messy, botched assassination could easily have caused more injury to innocents around, such as yourself.
Your love of hardmen dictators such as Assad or Putin is odd given your occupation. As a journalist and writer, if you lived in such a state you would be one of the first people to be faced with a choice: bow down and support the government uncritically, or end up with you (and possibly your family) in jail or worse.
So what would it be? Would you be a Solzhenitsyn and a Gerlich, or would you bow down to what you know are forces of evil?