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Two things stand out from a quick glance at the odds for the next PM. The first is that Ed Miliband (8/11, Ladbrokes), is rated about ten times more likely to be next to get the job than anyone else. That’s not too surprising:
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I see the Tele allowed James Delingpole to do a Mandela blog but not SeanT...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100249908/peter-hain-mp-mandela-owed-him-everything/
"Hain doesn't like to mention it much but in his activist youth in South Africa he was almost singlehandedly responsible for overthrowing the Apartheid regime and became one of Mandela's most trusted confidantes."
https://history.blog.gov.uk/2013/04/24/prime-ministers-in-the-house-of-lords/
He regularly tops their preference for next leader
From July 2012
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2012/07/boris-johnson-emerges-as-grassroots-early-favourite-to-be-next-tory-leader.html
From August 2013
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2013/08/gove-now-almost-level-with-boris-as-party-members-favourite-for-next-tory-leader.html
Given Parliament is no longer either Sovereign or Supreme arguably it should also be open to those who represent the people at the most supreme representative level as well. After all if the Tories are so enthralled with Brussels why deny their representatives there access to the top job?
After all if UKIP can do it why would the Tories or the other establishment parties not want to?
BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking 9m
Cuban President Raul Castro & US President Obama shake hands - & other #MandelaMemorial photos http://bbc.in/18R19Sl pic.twitter.com/RzbVWfS5g5
We're the ones who elected IDS*, so anything is possible.
*I voted for Ken Clarke.
So much for Labour and gender politics and being on the side of women!
I remember my father telling me about those protests that used to follow the touring springboks around Wales in the 1960s.
At one match (against Swansea?) the club apparently took the measure of recruiting 'stewards' from local junior rugby clubs to ring the pitch.
There was a pitch invasion, at which point the 'stewards' went into action. Protestors (including women) were hit by full blooded no-quarter-given tackles. Some were hurled back into the terraces by their hair, according to my father.
Gruesome, but I guess these were different days.
Leaving with only two central midfielders for a while, Lucas and Joe Allen.
Happy Days for Spurs on Sunday.
He ain't eligible.
Douglas-Home became PM in 1963, btw...
HuffPostUKPolitics @HuffPostUKPol 3m
DCMS announces the first same-sex weddings will be able to take place on Saturday 22 March 2014.
http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/which-constituency-will-boris-johnson-stand-in
It's hard to be a Machiavelli without being a good orator. And Mandelson was one of the best the UK had.
Really? No wonder the BBC is in such a mess.
(Zzzzzzzzzzzz....)
De Gaulle, Gorbachov, Kohl, Thatcher, Lloyd George, Reagan, Adenhauner, Deng, Ataturk...where does the list stop.
Harding needs to read more.
This man is the BBC's news director...????
FFS.
- Boris quoted in The Independent, 17 June 2004.
Whilst a tremendously important figure, that does rather neglect the likes of Caesar, Camillus, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine, Alexius Comnenus etc etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus
Deng undoubtedly did more to lift millions out of poverty. Gorbachov more to release people from oppression.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xht9hz_vintage-streaker-erica-roe_redband
It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.
- Boris quoted in the Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004.
(only kidding David H!)
I wonder if they even polled for viewing figures when their tissue festival was going on 24/7.
But doesn't make him the greatest statesman.
Certainly up there. Did incredible job of coaxing a very reluctant super power into saving democracy.
For me the most 'significant' statesman in the last 100 years is Adolf Hitler. By a street.
He moved more mountains than all the rest put together. In the cause of evil of course, but there it is. And its also true that without him, none of it would have happened.
Bit like Satan in Paradise lost. Pure evil, but didn;t half cause some ructions.
The thing that was really annoying is that, given they had two channels, they appeared to be broadcasting the same feed. Anyone wanting to pay their respects by viewing got the same gurning, preening presenters orgasming at being at the event. One channel should have played the feed interrupted whilst the other had presenters giving context.
Cue the usual idiots popping up when anyone has the temerity to criticise the BBC.
Just waiting for the ambulance to arrive now my sides have split.
That is a properly bonkers statement by Harding.
Communist Russia was already starting to rot on the vine before Barbarossa. The Wehrmacht effectively trained it up through the intensest competition. And then Germany crumbled, allowing Stalin to create a vast bloc.
The soviet bloc would not have happened without Hitler, or the cold war, or the EU.
Up until the 1990s, the entire world was shaped by the reaction to the monstrous evil he created.
The OTT statements about him being the greatest for the last century etc are so ridiculous that they detract from what made him worthy of celebration. And they're silly too - even the greatest of men have flaws and have made mistakes - and Mandela was no exception to that rule. A more intelligent appraisal would be more sensible and fitting than this rush to turn him into some sort of secular saint and the rest of us into worshippers at a shrine.
Where exactly in "Marxism" does it advocate reducing other races to "untermench" ?
2. Yes, he is. And you and Labour are well aware of his electoral record in London, which is, I imagine, one reason why you don't want him anywhere near the leadership of the Tories. Of course, it could go spectacularly wrong for Boris were he to be leader but then it could go the other way too.
I don;t know if you've read the Ian Kershaw Hitler biog, its an amazing tome.
Kershaw keeps wanting to pour contempt on his subject, but that attitude simply does not square with the sheer scale of the evil Hitler perpetrated (which Kershaw portrays in meticulous detail).
David Smith @dsmitheconomics 4m
National Institute projects a 0,8% rise in GDP in the three months to November following today's industrial production figures.
But he definitely isn't suitable if he thinks that the rules should be changed simply to accommodate him.
Maybe an MEP could be PM. What a shit storm that would cause!
The odd thing is that Mandelson, behind the scenes, did a great deal to help the Omagh families in their campaign to bring the bombers to justice, even after he stopped being NI secretary. It was a noble act in its way and not something he has ever boasted about and is something which shows him in a better light than he is normally shown.
There is no doubt that Mandela was a great man and brought about an end to a racist regime, but for the TV stations to say he was the singular best statesman of the past century is just ridiculous and belittles the achievements of all the people who defeated Nazi Germany and Marxism across Europe which was more damaging than Apartheid. I also doubt Mandela himself would claim to be at the top, given how humble he was.
It's like the news editors are all trying to outdo themselves on how respectful and upset they can be about it.
If Cameron were to lose in 2015 and the country is not completely evacuated thereafter there is no reason why he could not hang on for months or up to a year to allow the leadership election to take place. Brown could have done a similar service for Labour if he was not so self obsessed. This seems to me the likely outcome if Cameron should lose. If he wins I doubt Boris will return to the Commons and he will look for some sort of international post.
Either way Boris is not the next PM. I really cannot see a path for that outcome at all.
In short, the exact opposite of this year's other notable political death. Although, that said, she did work with Ted Heath in opposition, so at least they have that have that in common.
He has won London twice that should be enough anyway.. rules are for fools!
...& if he stands he will win and the Tories will shorten up to win the next GE
Bullingdon Schmullingdon, Eton Shmeton, the public love him
Purely on my spur of the moment analysis, Theresa May is surely too unattractive and evil looking to win an election? Looks like a Quentin Blake illustration....
Cam being PM, Boris being mayor says not.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25321111
I think Theresa May will have such a lead among the MPs and cabinet she would win.
As the Conservatives are 9-4 next mayor winning party that makes him an implied 17/20 on to run again in 2015 for mayor.
For one thing it sounds creepy now he is dead
John Prescott @johnprescott 7m
So Twitter. Shall we try and make Free Nelson Mandela the Xmas No 1? http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/watch-free-nelson-mandela-running-6390513 …
Diana and Nelson enjoying a cup of tea in the afterlife, poured of course by the blessed Margaret. That's enough to bring warmth to the coldest of hearts.
"THE Guardian newspaper has launched its annual appeal to make you feel dreadful about Christmas.
Unveiling a miserable George Monbiot article about how having nice things is bad, editor Alan Rusbridger pledged to ‘gnaw at our readers’ consciences like they will gnaw at the bones of horribly abused poultry’.
The paper is lining up a series of nasty, depressing yuletide features including excerpts from Jonathan Freedland’s new book It is Not a Wonderful Life, Polly Toynbee’s Guide to Turning a Nice Christmas Dinner into an Argument About Universal Benefits and a Nick Cohen article about reactionary toys made by lovely, tiny dogs.
Rusbridger said: “The only good thing capitalism has ever done is to turn Christmas into a secular indulgence instead of a credulous rehashing of manipulative, Iron Age fairy stories.
“We’re going to put that on a tea towel that you can give to your gran.”"
James Chapman (Mail) @jameschappers 3m
Michelle O looking properly unimpressed by the Dave/Barack/Helle selfie #mandela http://twitpic.com/do92rk
When I was about 8 , the last thing I would have wanted was for my photo of me being in some daft school play to be put on the internet for my mum's friends to 'like' and make comments like 'how sweet' RANT OVER