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#Prexit. It's official. Priti Patel has resigned, No.10 sources say.
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Stupid dumb Librarian.
That support of the death penalty, eesh.
Now she needs to get rid of Boris Johnson, replace Hammond, and although she is stuck with David Davies, the more younger members she can promote, the more likely is the Tory party to find a leader who can beat Corbyn in 2022.
We still don't know why the hell Patel did any of this on her hols?
Or have I missed a step?
Her sacking Osborne seems like a lifetime ago
And yet after all that she was still allowed to go with some semblance of grace. Utter weakness.
Would have been better to sack her I suspect...
I’m coming round to the view that she was just clueless and thought she was entitled to ignore official advice.
He refused a peerage and demanded a public exchange of letters. Blake described his as 'frosty'. It contained the immortal line, 'You have told me you would like me to resign and this I willingly do.'
Or Charles Clarke - 'The Prime Minister has told me he wishes me to leave the Home Office and while I disagree with his decision I do not dispute his right to make it.'
Both Macmillan and Blair were gone within a year. Will May last that long? Matt seems very optimistic to suggest one disaster a day.
One is easily portrayed as decisive. The other seems duplicitous.
I too have been very disappointed by Priti Patel. She used to be a bit of a looker, but she's let herself go recently and put on loads of weight.
As for ticking a box, I agree. The pretty woman box is one I'd support, although I generally don't approve of the box-ticking approach.
We've got one party in total chaos and the other led by a total bonehead. The minor party still thinks it won the EU referendum.
Join the NOTA party and chill out, you'll be able to sleep at night.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/928343089189675008
Unless of course you’re James Comey, who found out he was fired when he saw it on TV.
Remember when Blair had someone fly back from Aus for a crucial vote?
It gives the story a bit of juice... that’s my theory anyway.
Grammar, on the other hand...
He has enough experience in running Somerset capital to know numbers/business and be a good junior minister. But I think he prefers to argue from 1st principles from the backbenches.
Kevin Spacey: New allegations emerge
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41918966
There is an unpleasant whiff of tricoteuserie in the air. I hope I never have as humiliating a day as Patel has had today, and I don't see the fun in wishing it had been even worse. And May didn't get much praise for the size of her cojones for sacking Osborne, so it isn't clear what she is meant to do in these situations.
"So looks is more important to you than ability?"
When it comes to politics, I'm shallow. At least I do have self-awareness, something many politicians lack. The only ones I have ever had any regard for went nowhere or sunk rapidly.
Frank Field, Charlie Kennedy, and even Neil Kinnock on a good day. All destined to be failures.
Yet Gordon Brown and the moronic Jezza (nice man, shame about the brains) will end up being ex-PMs. Life isn't fair, Beverley (if I may be presumptuous), and as an LD supporter, you should know that. Never take politics seriously or you'll end up like Lenin - with a stroke at 54.
True, there was more intent (or at least, deliberate disregard for the rules) in Patel's actions than in Boris's gaffe, but ultimately, there haven't been victims from Patel's actions, whereas Boris has caused an innocent woman to be facing more unjust jail time.
Appreciate you might want to discuss the weather.
Although some commentators believe being shot in the neck in 1918 didn't help.
I went to my bank to open a business account. While waiting the branch was proudly showing a film saying that it was going to reintroduce...... TA DA! ...... bank managers. Blimey. Just like there used to be. Whatever next? Employees who can count, maybe.
It still took an hour and a lot of faffing mainly because I had to tell them what to do, what all the documents were and where to send them. Plus they did not know how to operate their own photocopying machine so had to get them to do that twice.
I was very tempted to tell them that my new business will consist of training people like them not to behave like fuckwits but thought better of it. For the time being anyway.
It's a wonder sometimes how our financial services sector grew to be as big as it is. Still, from what I hear of German banks they are even less capable than ours at organising a piss up in a brewery. So maybe that's it. Our competitive advantage is that we're not as crap as they are.
There's a marketing slogan: "Not as crap as the other banks."
A bit like the trader at a Dutch bank caught up in one of the many LIBOR scandals who wrote a chat saying: "There are bigger crooks than us out there."
Never mind visions and fancy apps. I'd vote for a bit of boring competence, frankly, in most walks of life.
It is from the new blood the next generation will emerge - by the way heard Gavin Williamson today - he looks very young but answered the questions well. Both my wife and I were pleasantly surprised
https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/stuart-polak-the-westminster-veteran-1.447570
Who paid for these 'hundreds of trips?' Surely not the MPs who would have had a much more interesting time in Lebanon next door. This is starting to reek.
My immediate thought however is that there is literally nobody capable of replacing him. It is not quite out of the question we could be heading for new elections in Wales.
Instead what we have is Patel overstepping the line, being pulled back to the UK and then being given the opportunity to resign. You either sack someone or you don't. "We've found out about x you have to go" is fine. But not when the minister is abroad and you invite the bizarre circus of the voyage home - and then DON'T carry out the sacking.
She's Frit.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/928351164332236800
"Although some commentators believe being shot in the neck in 1918 didn't help."
Thanks for the info, but it doesn't encourage me to take politics too seriously. I've already outlived him by 15 years and I intend to keep my record intact for a bit longer.
Regardless, while that should get him sacked, the reason for anyone going or staying now are purely political, I cannot imagine many would dispute that - if someone won't go quietly and willingly, they won't be moved.
Too cynical?
And yes new elections may well come along due to the make up of the Assembly
Boring...
https://order-order.com/2017/11/08/pressure-carwyn-carl-sargeants-family-releases-emails/
One can dream....
Sadly, Priti Patel always struck me as a tool. Her career outside of politics was confined to stints in PR, frequently lobbying for alcohol and tobacco companies, and built upon upon her links with the conservative party.
Given that she has very little experience of actual work, ie of the kind that ordinary people do to earn a living and not £300 per hour lobbying, and no academic credentials, it was quite surprising that she wrote a book peddling the idea that British workers are lazy.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tackle-lazy-britain-fellow-tories-tell-david-cameron-8056787.html
It is no suprise at all that she got too close too Israeli lobbyists, to the point where she ruined her ministerial career.
Basically, I hold her in the same regard as Laura Pidcock. She is a windbag. A ranter. Someone who has no clue how to get us out of the mess we are in.
Suppliers of popcorn to the cinematic industry, Mr B N Grey, appealed for restraint and rationing to be introduced.
'We simply can't keep up with demand,' he told a press conference. 'When Weinstein was caught it was all a bit funny, but now we're running double shifts and we still can't bang those grains nearly as fast as it turns out powerful sleazebags have been banging other things. If we don't have rationing, we might run out before the Episode VIII premier and I won't know where to put my face.'
However, Jeremy Corbyn, about the only powerful man not implicated so far, said this was a bad idea. At least, he said something while spraying popcorn everywhere, pointing and laughing as Boris Johnson made another mindless clusterfuck live on TV.
Ok.
I would recommend a period of calm quiet reflection.