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One of the things that is often commented on as people discuss who will be the next Tory leader is how underwhelming the obvious front runners appear.
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What the MOD needs is someone who isn't learning on the job.
Assuming that I'm right, then his resignation statement fell well short of the candour which might have served his party better. He gave no substantial explanation for his resignation, merely a load of circumlocutory periphrastic waffle - and no real apology, either general or specific.
Such lack of candour sets a very low bar indeed for cabinet resignations (as is already being mooted on this morning's news programmes), and could not be better designed to set the media in pursuit of further scalps.
Mr. B, indeed, though voluntarily coming out with past misconduct would've been difficult. That said, it either comes out anyway, not in a manner of his choosing, or does not, in which case his resignation was unnecessary.
Don't think I had any bets on the Next Cabinet Minister out market.
On-topic: agree entirely that fresh blood is needed.
I'll get my coat...
That Coalition does increasingly look like a golden era of good government.
In other news NZ is planning to tackle its housing and infrastructure challenge via importing British construction workers. Not sure how this fits with clamping down on migration. I expect a similar drive here would be the same but an order of magnitude bigger.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/02/new-zealand-launches-biggest-ever-drive-to-attract-brexit-britains-builders
She should sack Boris Johnson today. What backbencher is going to risk making him party leader in the current climate?
I just heard on radio that Priti Patel was a likely replacement. Her credentials being that she's a SHE and unlikely to have brushed anyone's knee with her hand.
Having a pro hanging defence secretary who believes the odd mistake isn't a problem should add to the gaiety of this government.
Time for Mrs Corbyn to get her Littlewoods catalogue out.
Ugh! She’d be a sight to behold at Questions if she got rattled. And she can get rattled.
If Mrs May had any sense she’d oust Patrick McLoughlin today as well and bring those two in.
She’s seen the light.
There is no doubt in my mind that they interfered in both Scottish Independence and Brexit referenda. Unsuccessfully in the first instance...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346330/Navy-ditches-toast-wives-sweethearts-time-200-years-women-sea.html
Fallon has no idea about The Navy.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/kevin-spacey-sexual-harassment-expose-genitals-watch-flash-barman-daniel-beal-quiet-actor-a8031521.html
So when’s the cross party meeting on all this? I bet they cannot wait to depressingly reveal to one another how many if their MPs are gropers, how many are merely sexist, and so on.
The Mash nails Fallon.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/13/capital-punishment-50-years-favoured/
Mrs Panel's views may be more popular than you think, although personally I do not support the death penalty except possibly lethal injection for serial killers.
Doesn’t mean they are right.
The first tiny step (if they do put them up) back to sanity.
So in Brexit terms, Russia might have desired the result, but any interference could only have effect if they were pushing at an open door, and therefore it is very difficult to judge how much influence that interference might have had.
Edit: http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/western_heights_shaft.htm
Spacey is indeed a great actor - he also appears to be a pretty scuzzy human being - and he's far from the first in that category.
Edited extra bit: World Series, apparently. I wasn't sure if I'd backed it, but I did, with a small stake.
As to the coalition - hundreds of billions of extra borrowing, stagnant productivity and wages, continuous trade deficits, Middle Eastern warmongering, uncontrolled immigration, triple lock pensions, unafforadable housing, student debts, EU humiliations, Scottish nationalism rampant, vanity projects and plenty more I've temporarily forgotten.
There's not much good government there.
Mind you, the Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, Roman, or an empire so it's not the first misleading title in history.
In any case New Zealand has a points system and has never had free movement so it can import workers when it needs their skills.
The unknown knows and the know unknowns.
Thinking is, however, that as a major office, it can't be given to a newcomer to the Cabinet, and therefore it will be someone already in the Cabinet, and probably at SoS level.
Which is crazy, as it would be one form of government investment almost guaranteed to generate a long term real return at current interest rates.
(edit - and would leave less borrowing headroom for any future Corbyn administration to borrow for less productive forms pf spending...)
I think the government's economic record has been better than you describe. The budget deficit has gone from 11% of GDP to 2%, while unemployment has halved.
She really doesn’t want to be making changes every few days for weeks on end, as Corbyn had to last year, it gives the impression of a massive shambles especially when in government.
So I went up to him and said 'Did you just flash at this lady?' 'No'. He said. 'It wasn't me' Turning to my PA 'Are you sure it was him?' OF COURSE I'M SURE!. Turning to him 'She's sure it was you'. 'Honestly it wasn't me' he said looking pathetic. Realising there was nowhere else to go I said 'Well if it was don't ever do it again'!
She didn't speak to me for weeks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41840007
If Rory Stewart going in to No. 10 means he's got it then of course my previous comments become moot.
Which is going to be a big issue, I'm sure there's plenty of thing 'like' this which happen to a lot of people everyday, both in Westminster and in nigh on every workplace.
Even if I examine my own behaviour, i've never approached a collegue or someone i've worked with in a sexual way, but i've engaged in flavourful jokes/banter with women which have that type of humour as well.
The Thatcher government could have done the same but chose to keep the public finances in order and reform the economy. All that popular angst and political damage from three million unemployed could have been avoided in retrospect.
Of course Hammond made his money in property and buy to let - so maybe from a purely personal perspective he doesn't want more supply?
Corbyn Vs Stewart. I'd pay to see that Marxist get his arse handed to him.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/925645750608060416
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/925495970032443392
But I'm pretty hopeful he isn't.
If he gets defence then my +Stewart position will look pretty good.
When Prof Noah Coburn volunteered to work in war-torn Afghanistan for the charity established by Rory Stewart and the Prince of Wales, his wife, Shoshana, agreed to go with him.
She promised her parents that she would stay for no more than nine months. Little did Prof Coburn know, however, that the couple’s marriage would founder and that his wife would end up being charmed by Stewart, who is now a prominent Tory MP.
“Noah was absolutely devastated when his marriage broke down,” a friend of the eminent American anthropologist tells Mandrake. “He loved Shoshana very dearly.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9434945/How-lover-of-Conservative-MP-Rory-Stewart-left-her-husband-heartbroken-in-Afghanistan.html