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Unlike the Tories, who charge thousands of pounds to go pheasant shooting with their ministers, a Labour government will never be bought off by the rich and powerful.https://t.co/mFBYHGTSK2
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Has Crick interviewed May though, I cannot recall.
Or is Labour saying that unions aren't powerful or aren't rich?
(I feel this discussion has now reached a cul de sac. Or un cul, certainly.)
England have dropped wicketkeeper Ben Foakes and recalled Keaton Jennings for the final Test against West Indies, which begins on Saturday.
It would be amusing to see who would bid for instance to be duke of Upper Ramsbottom in Lancashire for instance!
The whole honours system is a complete joke anyway. Very few of the honours at higher levels are given for actual contributions to society, quite often an individual is awarded some honour for doing a job many others could do to the same ability.
Peerages and the like seem to be awarded not on merit but which PC correctness or political goal they address. Personally, I think the House of Lords should be abolished, some peers have their place in the Lords simply due to the hereditary principle still being active for F -sake! Others, have simply bought their way in because they have been lucky in life. It has no natural justice!
*cough* Bernie Ecclestone *cough*
*cough* million quid *cough*
No-deal Brexit risks rise as UK-Japan trade talks stall.
Tokyo confident it can secure better terms from the UK than it did in discussions with EU.
Britain and Japan have made little progress on a new trade deal in the past 18 months, according to officials involved in the talks, with tariffs set to revert to World Trade Organization levels at the end of March unless the UK ratifies a Brexit deal.
Japan has agreed to extend existing trade terms for the duration of Britain’s planned transition period with the EU — but this will not apply if the UK fails to strike a deal with Brussels.
It is now too late for the Japanese Diet to ratify any agreement before Brexit is scheduled to take place on March 29. There is also a wide gap in expectations about a trade accord, which would apply either in the case of no-deal Brexit or at the end of Britain’s planned transition period, which is due to end in December 2020.
Tokyo is confident that it can secure better terms from the UK than it did in negotiations with the much larger EU, and is not willing to duplicate the existing treaty precisely in either a bilateral deal or in talks for the UK to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership group.
“The new agreement is not just a copy-and-paste of the existing treaty,” said one Japanese official briefed on the talks. “The tariffs, rules and quotas need to be negotiated separately.”
The lack of progress on a future bilateral deal — a goal set out by prime minister Theresa May on a visit to Japan in August 2017 — highlights the UK’s broader struggle to roll over existing EU trade deals, let alone secure anything better.
This week, Britain’s Department for International Trade briefed 30 business groups on its failure to replicate “most” of the EU’s trade deals with other countries around the world. Participants complained that they would be seriously affected by the failure to conclude agreements with partners as significant as Canada, Turkey and Japan.
https://www.ft.com/content/5ce60af2-2b90-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7
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So not that Tory, then...
And then we will be back to Corbyn and McCluskey and it will be about knobs hobnobbing with other knobs.
Even Chris Martin was a batter batsman than that.
Basically Stokes isn't likely to play, so they need to bring in a bowler and a batter, so dropping Foakes brings in Wood.
That said, the Aussies are awful as well.
We've got our outfits sorted for the Headingley test, we're all going dressed as sandpaper, which might be the only joy during the Ashes, oh that and chating, get your shit stars off our flag.
Lay the UK for Eurovision.
https://twitter.com/bbceurovision/status/1093976941592498176
Is there any high street chain mike doesn’t want to buy?
Nobody was going to bet on those anyway.
A female Sumatran tiger at London Zoo has been killed by a potential mate as the pair were being introduced.
Melati, 10, died on Friday during her first meeting with seven-year-old Asim - whose name means "protector" in Arabic.
They had been housed in adjoining enclosures for the last 10 days so they could see and smell each other, and it was hoped they would breed as part of a Europe-wide conservation programme for the species.
But the zoo said their first encounter "quickly escalated into a more aggressive interaction"
https://news.sky.com/story/sumatran-tiger-melati-killed-at-london-zoo-by-new-mate-11631853
Corbyn adds to the misery as he is quite the most hopeless opposition leader since Foot, and at least Foot was intelligent. We see blockades of vehicles put by Maduro to stop the basic medical and food supplies coming in to help the sick children and elderly and yet we have a labour leadership that refuses to condemn him. The hounding of Luciana Berger is an ever present reminder of just how far labour has gone from its values, and many labour mps want out but cannot organise themselves to leave thereby adding to Corbyn's legitimacy
TM pointless EU travels adds to the gloom and we have the ERG, ready to crash our economy onto the rocks
I can never recall such a depressing time and if it was not for the triumphant and smug looks on the EU unelected bureaucrats I would support stopping it all now and revoking A50
I am ashamed of the ERG as must so many labour mps be with Corbyn. I will not remain in the conservative party if they drive us to a no deal
I condemn each and every mp and the media who have failed us. I do not know how this ends but I am ashamed of our politicians
I was mulling over leaders of the opposition who were less effective than Corbyn. I think he's worse than Lansbury, although the parallels are obvious. I think we have to go back to the Marquis of Granby in February 1848 (that being the one month he served) to find someone more extraordinarily useless.
And he at least had the self awareness to resign!
I honestly don’t see Ashley’s plan here with house of Fraser, Debenhams and he tried to get game.
The sports direct play he pulled off I got.
Admittedly that's like saying somebody is more democratically elected than Maduro.
Lord Birkenhead.
It's not the fault of a political class or even a political system - to paraphrase "the fault lies not in our politicians but in ourselves". We are a complex post-industrial advanced society - technology is offering not just evolution or devolution but revolution in how it can re-order the very concepts which provided the stability and order of the 20th Century.
Such things challenge us fundamentally and they can seem overwhelming and it's easy to retreat back to the comfortable solutions of the past but the future won't allow such luxury.
It grieves one to think that IDS was the Stop Ken Clarke candidate. What were you guys in blue thinking of?
IDS was shit on a stick. I saw him give a floundering speech at a hustings and wondered why people were voting for him. Clarke on the other hand gave a speech without notes to an audience that he tailored his message toward. I have a very high regard for KC, shame he is not in his forties now as he has the qualities to lead the UK out of this malaise.
But with all his faults nobody to my knowledge accused Duncan Smith of racism, covering up child sex abuse or of taking money to promote anti-British propaganda.
But it's not hard to imagine given the shambles the Tories were at the time that his career as leader in 1997 or 2001 would indeed have been comparable to Foot's.
And with that cheerful thought, good night.
Judge: I've listened to you for an hour and I'm none wiser.
FE Smith: None the wiser, perhaps, my lord but certainly better informed.
Nothing to do with my case today of course.
Also: "Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks."
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember a quote from Tony Benn describing the Falklands War as "the last twitch of Britain's colonial past". But actually, I see Brexit in these terms. All the talk of 'Empire 2.0', the constant digging up of WWII tropes and propaganda. For a small but significant number of powerful individuals in this country, it's a last desperate grasp for the past in the face of a complex and transformed world. All of us kick and rail against 'the new' to some extent, but I guess if you have vast wealth and power you get to try to turn the clock back.
I have kids Big G, so I must be optimistic: we will get through this. A poorer, more humble nation certainly. But perhaps one that can finally shake off its colonial baggage and undergo a long, dark teatime of the soul - and consider the kind of country and culture we want. I'm still proud to be British, but that pride comes from British values of tolerance, liberty and democracy. I see the coming 'Battle of Britain' after Brexit more a Jihad for this country's soul, and we need everyone to bring their best selves to the fight.