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It appears some people need educating on what a good electoral performance is & how it compares to past results, well I'm here to help. Especially with tomorrow being the third anniversary of Cameron winning a majority.
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See the latest ruse from the elite is to extend the "transition" period for the customs union for another two years!!!
How many people who voted for Brexit will actually be dead before it happens? I'm 40 and even starting to wonder if I'll ever actually see it...
Who could have predicted that?
Going to university, leaving home, getting married*, training, learning to drive (etc) all cause upheaval/difficulties of one kind or another - but are worth it.
* Opinions may differ on this one.
Brexit should have been framed as a process not an event.
Being the son of the editor of The Times makes you working class.
I said he should have gone postal on Boris and Gove during the referendum.
https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos/status/993114265325309952
I wonder if Trump is now pretty much inoculated against any criticism, and the likes of Giuliani are just getting it all out there.
We may end up with a May fudge which pleases no one.
some blokes who didn't have to have called a referendum did
they seriously misjudged the mood of the electorate
they ran a totally crap campaign
they lost
they cant accept they lost
they cant bring themselves to understand why
I am now educated.
Can you do a graph of how long the Liberal Elite have been in power please
Anyway the weather is too lovely this afternoon to spend going round in circles about Brexit.
Only Jezza as PM will smash the Liberal elite Concencus
Then only if we have a more Non Liberal Elite PLP
https://twitter.com/scribblercat/status/992422774101639169
Very sunny. Be glad when it cools off, but the footage of the Tour de Yorkshire will do the county's tourism no harm at all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44022663
They need to U-turn and do it now.
After they won a referendum with xenophobic lies, they should have thought about how they were going to seek to reunite the country. Instead they seem affronted that their opponents have not immediately become unalienated.
On the Irish side, that’s up to them and their EU masters.
Now it's shade-seeking weather, so I am on the edge of the garden watching a badminton tournament unfold. Life at its best.
Mr. Sandpit, indeed.
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/993088385391693825
And on Wednesday there's a vote in which Labour will seek to regulate the press in a way that hasn't happened since the 17th century.
https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/992819965521784832
That's your side, that is.
Your remark about "them and their EU masters" was symptomatic of a characteristic I have frequently bemoaned (the word is unusually appropriate!) on PB: namely the fact that many people in the UK are constitutionally incapable of realising that Ireland is a country in its own right, and with its own government and goals which may or may not align with the UK and which may sometimes actively act against it. Is it really too difficult to realise that Ireland may be its own master and not subservient to the EU?
[1] Might have got the wrong politician here: if so, apols.
The RoI, as EU members have subcontracted their trade policy to Brussels. We are not and can not negotiate with Ireland, only with the EU. The Irish have been told that they have to enforce a hard border because that is what EU law requires. I’d much prefer for the British and the Irish to be able to discuss and agree on what happens to the border, but we are not allowed to do so.
Sadly, the EU side are no longer negotiating in good faith, they are actively finding reasons to keep the clock running down, dismissing out of hand everything we propose and intending to present us with an 11th hour binary choice of either signing up to be members but without a seat at the table, or to crash out and the planes stop flying
*Offer excludes our only land border...
I can't help but wonder if we might bodge something on Ireland where the consequences of no deal would be pretty serious for the Irish, only to stumble over Spain and the Rock, again.
Given the number of Lords defeats on the EU recently, it will be interesting to see how the next vote goes.
a) the EU are imposing this on RoI and
b) the UK is going to fail at its negotiations and that this is the fault of the EU, and
c) power in this case lies with the EU and not the UK.
One of the reasons why I was so fervently Remain is that Leavers were confusing "control" with "power": "control" is the ability to set laws and issue instructions and is very legalistic and polite, but "power" is the ability to enforce actions upon others and is very visceral and impolite. Your stance implies that I was correct: we have gained control but lost power; we can decide what we do to ourselves but we cannot decide what others do to us.
But it is far too nice today for a rant, and I have other things to do today, so please excuse me for a bit.
https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/993151218162823169
And that is what makes Brexit so incredible for them. They felt the people had betrayed them when they elected Thatcher. But, Brexit is the first time the people have overturned the rules the Liberal Elite has set for playing the game.
The most successful winners of election majorities since WW2 are first Thatcher, Blair and Wilson with 3 each.
Then Attlee with 2. Then Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath, Major and Cameron with 1 each
So 5 One Nation Tories, 2 Old Labour leaders, 1 rightwing Thatcherite Tory, 1 New Labour leader. Churchill appealed to both One Nation and right wing Tories.
That suggests One Nation Toryism is the default ideology of most voters
I therefore take it that the press is a disgrace until such time as they're useful ...
I see he’s deleted it now with an apology. Good.
The question is, 'has there ever been a moment when Lord Adonis was sane?'
This is the man who gave us these:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/jun/28/schools.newschools
Whatever happened to him, by the way?
Number of years since Marxist-Bennite government had a working majority is infinity.
It is dubious to class the current Labour set-up as 'Old Labour'. I doubt Callaghan, Wilson, Kinnock, Atlee and co would have any truck with Corbynism.
Indeed, we know the first three didn't, as they spent so much time trying to deal with Benn.
My interpretation of the numbers here (http://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-numbers.html) mean that excluding museum workers, librarians, transport administrators etc the number has reduced by 40%.
Andrew Adonis has gone from a run-of-the-mill Blairite to a an expert in everything. Last week education policy, the week before that archaeology - but most of all Brexit. He thinks everything is easy, thinks himself a genius and everyone else idiots. A giant among pygmies. It makes a mockery of any sensible attempt to advocate an anti-Brexit policy.
You might find this blogpost on the size of the Civil Service in the nineteenth century of interest:
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/uk-government-did-we-rule-the-empire-with-4000-civil-servants/
They omit what i still think is the most amazing statistic: until 1908, excluding customs and excise officers, there were just 25 civil servants in the Treasury. And they were very, very proud that despite a vast increase in workload they hadn't had to increase the number of staff.
He was considerably more deluded than Michael Gove on that point - at least Gove identified the problems correctly.