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The Patel saga is getting murkier. Exclusive in Jewish Chronicle: No 10 knew about Patel meetings https://t.co/gDQhL2Q1RR
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Er, no.
The longer she stays, the worse it gets.
What did we ever do before 24hr news channels...
Maybe Boris will end up in the frame somehow.
ONLY. SENSIBLE. CHOICE.
She is just crossing into Albanian airspace
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Now there are three options - the bubble is wrong, the numbers are wrong or everything is wrong - but how do we figure out which is the right answer?
Mind you the consolation is that Faisal Islam, Ed Conway, Adam Boulton and others will be off our screens
Thatcher was dealing with a recession and dire unemployment stats.
Context is everything.
I would suggest Brexit is even more polarizing than phone hacking.
TSE's "bat shit mental" seems more appropriate.
Major reshuffle -> civil war in Conservative Party -> May ousted
Everyone, tomorrow: She crazy.
Or, for that matter, after the Varro/Paullus disagreement over Cannae tactics, Rome suffered a huge defeat and then won the war (eventually).
Edited extra bit: a shame we can't get Quintus Fabius Maximus to do the negotiating for us.
You're going all Finland backs Catalonia again.
The UK has already ruled out staying in the single market beyond a transition period in order to end free movement.
Both vastly overrated for starters.
Cannae = Her 2017 General election.
Hollow victory and she lost the war.
At Cannae, Hannibal successfully surrounded and annihilated a force twice his size in the greatest pincer movement in military history.
You think that resembles May's 2017 General Election?
Anyway, I don't have time to educate you (or attempt to do so, you do appear quite impervious to it), as the hound requires perambulation.
A sort of Lake Trasimene in reverse
Does she go to no10 or do a little press conference at the airport?
What does she do with duty frees?
I don't blame her for not rocking the boat.
It is execrable, weak, bad government, a shambles. But I don't blame her for it.
Soubry agreed. She said: "I’m with Mary [Creagh]. I think Mary’s instincts are usually good and on this one I’m sure she is right."
I'm increasingly wondering about Soubry's place in the Conservatives. She seems to be freelancing as an independent centrist rather than a whipped Tory MP.
As it is, the whips seem to have largely given up, just rolling over and abstaining every time Labour looks like winning a vote. But assuming Patel also becomes an enemy of May after the near-inevitable sacking, that DUP-enhanced majority is looking more precarious by the day. How on earth is any Brexit legislation going to get through?
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so they might switch direction if the wind veers round a bit more. I am assuming she sat on the right as befits her political outlook
There will never be a better time for her to seize the initiative.
However, she won't.
Hence why no one wants the job - until 60 seconds after Brexit.
I mean, "she's only a Cabinet minister".
If it ain't on pprune it ain't interesting in the skies.
* Edit: possibly twice - "nasty party" speech.
The fun thing is that no-one on the plane will have any idea what’s going on back on the ground in London, unless someone chooses to make a call on the sat phone system. You can’t make an incoming call to the plane, except via ATC or the airline.
She’ll have no idea at all that 22,000 people and the two 24h news channels have been following the plane in real time all day!
Edit - I’d say this is the second worst opposition ever. The worst was the one Corbyn led before the general election.
I am struggling to think of a government that gets close to the current one for sheer ineptitude and dysfunctionality.
External forces are at work at present - can she stagger over the line in March '19.
Prittigate?
Oh come, oh come, Priti Patel
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