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Downing Street puts Boris on "flounce-watch"https://t.co/tHZSpfJQBR
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Losing Boris could stir up crisis (another), or not be a bad thing. He's inept, unfit to be Foreign Secretary. Good opportunity to promote some backbench talent (if not directly, to the ministerial office the new FS vacates).
You need to keep the sacrificial goats handy.
LOL.
"The foreign secretary is angry when he looks at his reflection in the mirror...."
Is Boris going to deny that he said "....I think 'go whistle' is an entirely appropriate expression."
http://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-negotiation-theresa-may-florence-speech-and-the-machine/amp/
A senior Italian official in Florence briefed on London’s plans said: “We were told that May chose Florence because it is the historical heart of Europe and which existed without the need for the European Union. It used to be a European capital centuries before the EU was created, it’s a sort of Europe without the EU.”
Oh, I know, she might have to interact with some voters, so that's why she's headed to Italy.
If that is "talent" then things are worse than I thought. Are there any people who are competent at actually doing things rather than simply being able to espouse views that are a century out of date?
May does not make the tough choices - until forced to do so, and then tends to make a hash of them.
As an inveterate procrastinator, I sympathise - but it's not a characteristic one looks for in a Prime Minister.
More than $1.30 to the £ seems to me a great opportunity to move cash out of sterling but DYOR.
Now you may not agree that that is the case (that we should not pay anything) but to say he has misled when he is not the person about to surrender on the issue and thinks we should not do so is a rather unique way of thinking.
From about €1 = $1.03 in Jan'17 to $1.19 now. Was there a change in tenants in the White House ?
But that doesn't stop me having a view as to who is suited to which party.
A sterling crisis before Brexit is, on the other hand, quite likely. Early next year, when it become clear that the UK won't get a besopke transition deal, is my guess, though if talks break down it could be sooner.
If I wanted to stand as an independent non-party candidate in my Ward here in Newham, I'd have to reach around 10,000 voters. Unless you can get help that's an impossible task but even if I got elected by some miracle, I would be the opposition to 59 Labour Councillors and would achieve the sum total of sod all.
So if you want to get something done or for pure personal self-aggrandisement, you have to join the Labour Party because they are the beginning and end of power here just as the Conservative Party is in Bromley for example.
This isn't some Athenian idyll - democracy requires slog, commitment, money and help. Taking some high-minded view and treating it with disdain is all very well and good but gets you precisely nowhere.
I agree party politics isn't without its flaws but short of personal dictatorship (and everyone thinks they would be the answer though to what is never explained), I don't see an alternative to the process as currently constituted.
Faisal tweets a huge amount about Brexit, far more than Peston or Robbo. The vast majority of his tweets are split between having either a negative sentiment or a neutral sentiment. Only 6% have a positive sentiment. He has sent a massive 683 negative tweets about Brexit since the referendum, which is unrivalled among his broadcast peers.
Guido’s statistical analysis of Faisal, Peston and Robbo has found that three of the highest profile broadcasters covering Brexit tweet with overwhelming negativity. They promote opponents of Brexit far more than proponents, they report negative stories far more than positive ones, and they occasionally let their own pro-Remain opinions slip through as well. The BBC, ITV and Sky are supposed to be impartial – the evidence shows their Brexit journalists are anything but…
Most obviously, Thatcher wielded the knife against Heath and won but Eden and Macmillan for the Tories, Brown for Labour, and Campbell for the Lib Dems have all been complicit in the downfall of their predecessor and all came out with the leadership. Heseltine himself would almost certainly have won had Thatcher chosen to fight on, going by nearly all contemporary reports.
However, Boris won't win the crown not because of any knife wielding but because he's not the man for the top job, particularly at a time like this.
During the debate on abuse of MPs, Bob Stewart has told the Commons of a disturbing story involving a teacher and his young son:
“During the last general election, a teacher tells the class of my 13 year-old boy that nobody should talk to him because he’s the son of a Conservative MP.”
You’d think it unbelievable, but then teachers had primary school kids put hammer and sickle posters in the windows on election day, so it’s hardly beyond the realms of fantasy
This kind of thing - from whichever side it comes - is chilling. Politicians should not be in the business of trying to silence or intimidate journalists.
Or is it
'Pound weakens= ITS ALL ABOUT BREXIT'
'Pound strengthens= ITS ALL ABOUT TRUMP'
In a heads I win, Tails you lose kinda way.
I'd have raised it with the Head, Governors, local press and national press (in that order) until I got a result, taking legal advice all the way.
The story is still valid even if the problem has been removed...
https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/908239295999365120
https://www.ft.com/content/fa4de166-9938-11e7-b83c-9588e51488a0
It works for me
If all 3 networks report that, how do they do it "positively for Brexit" and impartially?
Given the choice between Guido Fawkes's journalistic methods and Faisal Islam's, I'll cheerfully stick with the latter.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/908281268755992576
(Hat-tip David H for pointing to this)
I know this is my stuck record but I do feel it is worth repeating. Party politics is a corruption of our system of governance and whilst you will never be rid of it entirely it certainly needs to be beaten down severely.
Q: How big a Brexit bill do you want to pay?
A: The smallest amount possible
IOW - normal human behaviour.
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https://twitter.com/DavidHerdson/status/907944811080101894
1) Hannibal Lecter
2) Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith
3) Hannibal Hamlin
4) Hannibal Barca
The article and I refer to number 1)
Far more troubling are the journalists like Andrew Neil who see it as their job to tubthump for Brexit and seek to silence anyone raising important but awkward questions.