Why should Priti Patel be given anything at all? A liar. Really quite dim. And no record of achievement at all.
Is the bar really that low?
When Trump and Johnson are heads of state, the main settings on the high jump bar are clearly very low.
Johnson will never be Head of State!
And yet he is. Look at how Trump introduced him ; from one incarnation of America to his favoured incarnation of Britain. Even Thatcher and Blair didn't allow such assumptions to be entertained to the same extent.
He is head of government. Or will be, tomorrow, probably.
The most paradoxically presidential British head of government ever is what he will be, from tomorrow, as you say.
Why should Priti Patel be given anything at all? A liar. Really quite dim. And no record of achievement at all.
Is the bar really that low?
She believes in Brexit and she believes in Boris and she is tough
On that basis Andrea Jenkyns and Nadine Dorries should be in the cabinet.
They may yet be
How about Mark Francois and Andrew Bridgen?
Junior Ministers, who knows
These are people so thick they should be at the back of the class doing something simple with raffia baskets. Not anywhere near government or knives or boiling water.
Like it’s now coming as surprise his first and best backers, his friends closest allies and campaign team, are going to get profile roles in his administration?
Not just MPs getting jobs, but the whole No. 10 team around him is in change.
Apologies to Neil ♦️ but this can’t be done too soon
Steve Bannon, [Jesus Christ!] Boris Johnson and Jamie Wharton, Jo Johnson and on to Priti Patel.
Oli Dowden, Lee Cain, Lyton Crosby, and Carrie Symonds, Sajid Javid, and Michael his best mate Gove
Grant Shapps, Dominic Raab Jacob Rees-Mogg and Geoffrey Cox James Cleverly Nigel Adams Gavin Williamson
Duncan Smith and Matty Hancock, Mark Fulbrook, and kit the malt house liz truss, And HYUFD too.
Let’s be honest, HY has a better grasp of detail than the incoming PM, he can spin, he can argue, with infatiguable confidence. Rather like Dominic Cummings was moping at home and there was a knock on the door, they need to go and get HY into number ten don’t they?
This photo everywhere of Boris doing the Eric Morecambe is it like one of those caught him at unlucky moment like someone waving at Doris and papers try to make out is a Nazi salute? Or did he really pose like the biggest prat in the world?
@twistedfirestopper3 read your post on the last thread, all the very best to you and your missus. Insofar as I have a fcking clue, tell your kids as soon as you feel it's right (in my vaguely approximate experience you'll probably know).
Just caught up with this news from @twistedfirestopper3. Awful. Let's keep our collective fingers crossed on the treatment.
Thirded. Very sad news.
Agreed. Sending good thoughts to Mrs Firestopper for a full and swift recovery.
We have changed PMs so many times mid-Parliament in recent decades for it to be a completely normal part of our system
Johnson May Brown Major Callaghan
Those are just the ones in my lifetime
Where is the mandate for No Deal?
If May could have an election in 2017. Why not Boris? He was a senior member of the cabinet that agreed to that. We keep being told he is popular, he connects with people, he has a vision. Then he should call an election this afternoon and prove he is not chicken! He has no mandate for No Deal and it is only right he gets a mandate for that if he plans to do it. I think he will fail to get that mandate...
We have changed PMs so many times mid-Parliament in recent decades for it to be a completely normal part of our system
Johnson May Brown Major Callaghan
Those are just the ones in my lifetime
Where is the mandate for No Deal?
If May could have an election in 2017. Why not Boris? He was a senior member of the cabinet that agreed to that. We keep being told he is popular, he connects with people, he has a vision. Then he should call an election this afternoon and prove he is not chicken! He has no mandate for No Deal and it is only right he gets a mandate for that if he plans to do it. I think he will fail to get that mandate...
You might have missed it, but he isn't actually PM yet.
I absolutely fucking despise what the Labour Party has becomflsee. That I voted for that anal pustule Jezbollah is a shame I will never get over. I stay for 2 reasons - one, putting cretins to the sword relieves my stress levels, two, we need to defeat said cretins
56% of Labour members think Corbyn is doing well, 43% doing badly, 2% DK. (Back in March it was 80/19/1). 56% want him to be leader at the GE, 39% want him to step down before the GE, 5% DK, (74/22/3 back in March).
So: 1. Anything but "overwhelming". 2. Really poor figures for the leader of any party from the group who should be most supportive of him - worse I think even than the figures Ed Miliband achieved amongst members at his lowest ebb. 3. A huge shift in attitudes towards Corbyn since March. 4. And these are the opinions of those who are still in the Labour Party, excluding the many former members who have left in despair at what it has become. https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/vt5q4u6pst/TheTimes_190719_LabourMemberResults_w.pdf
Many findings in that poll are astonishing, not least that a third... yes, one third... of SLab members support Scottish independence. Even after the mass-exodus to the SNP and Greens.
All those BritNats who add up SNP+Green support and then chortle that it is less than 50% are falling in the complacency trap. Again.
Given the SLAB is polling about 15% max and SLab were just 5th in the European Parliament elections on an abysmal 9% and Scottish Labour members are barely a fraction of that and mainly Marxists now anyway if they do not already vote SNP half the time it is really not that surprising
Some polls have Labour in the 17% - 20% range - and in second place.
The latest Yougov has Labour on 15% in Scotland with the Tories and Brexit Party on 23% combined
1. There is no party called “The Tories and Brexit Party”
2. June’s full-sample Panalbase has SLab on 17%, just one point behind SCon. May’s Panelbase had them on 19%, two points ahead of SCon. It’s MoE stuff, reflected in Shadsy’s even-Stevens 7/1 prices.
3. You are quoting a sub-sample, and have chosen an ok one for Ruthie’s team. There are plenty of appalling ones too.
Boris Johnson’s claims of ‘side deals’ are ‘pure rubbish’, EU says New Tory leader said no-deal Brexit would be less painful because of ‘side deals’ with Brussels
All Johnson has done is destroy trust with an organisation he claims he wants to negotiate with. He either has no intention of negotiating with them, or he is a buffoon. I suspect the latter.
Funnily enough in my neck of the woods the new council leader did make one of the other candidates deputy.
But hunt is forcing Boris's hand - hes going to backbenches.
Which interestingly means there will have been no Minister serving continuously since 2010 in Boris' Cabinet - May, Hammond and Hunt being the last ones.
I was watching it around 1240 - I've never seen such frequent flashes but it was eerily quiet
Saw a storm last night about 11.00, plenty of sheet lightning, but no sound. Local BBC weatherman implied it was due to height of storm and heavy cloud cover muffling the noise.
Can't recall when I last noticed a thunderstorm without any significant noise.
Comments
Apologies to Neil ♦️ but this can’t be done too soon
Steve Bannon, [Jesus Christ!]
Boris Johnson and Jamie Wharton,
Jo Johnson and on to Priti Patel.
Oli Dowden, Lee Cain,
Lyton Crosby, and Carrie Symonds,
Sajid Javid,
and Michael his best mate Gove
Grant Shapps, Dominic Raab
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Geoffrey Cox
James Cleverly Nigel Adams
Gavin Williamson
Duncan Smith and Matty Hancock,
Mark Fulbrook, and kit the malt house
liz truss, And HYUFD too.
Let’s be honest, HY has a better grasp of detail than the incoming PM, he can spin, he can argue, with infatiguable confidence. Rather like Dominic Cummings was moping at home and there was a knock on the door, they need to go and get HY into number ten don’t they?
This photo everywhere of Boris doing the Eric Morecambe is it like one of those caught him at unlucky moment like someone waving at Doris and papers try to make out is a Nazi salute? Or did he really pose like the biggest prat in the world?
We have changed PMs so many times mid-Parliament in recent decades for it to be a completely normal part of our system
Johnson
May
Brown
Major
Callaghan
Those are just the ones in my lifetime
If May could have an election in 2017. Why not Boris? He was a senior member of the cabinet that agreed to that. We keep being told he is popular, he connects with people, he has a vision. Then he should call an election this afternoon and prove he is not chicken! He has no mandate for No Deal and it is only right he gets a mandate for that if he plans to do it. I think he will fail to get that mandate...
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus196586641/Brexit-Boris-Johnson-bringt-die-Queen-in-Bedraengnis.html
The Free Tommy crew are on board for Boris, he really is the Britain Trump.
http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/jul/23/brexit-under-boris-johnson-the-scenarios
2. June’s full-sample Panalbase has SLab on 17%, just one point behind SCon. May’s Panelbase had them on 19%, two points ahead of SCon. It’s MoE stuff, reflected in Shadsy’s even-Stevens 7/1 prices.
3. You are quoting a sub-sample, and have chosen an ok one for Ruthie’s team. There are plenty of appalling ones too.
Boris Johnson’s claims of ‘side deals’ are ‘pure rubbish’, EU says
New Tory leader said no-deal Brexit would be less painful because of ‘side deals’ with Brussels
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/24/boris-johnson-claims-of-side-deals-are-rubbish-eu-says
All Johnson has done is destroy trust with an organisation he claims he wants to negotiate with. He either has no intention of negotiating with them, or he is a buffoon. I suspect the latter.
Jeremy Corbyn 11/10
Boris Johnson 9/4
John Bercow 7/2
Jo Swinson 8/1
Ursula von der Leyen 16/1
Nicola Sturgeon 20/1
Funnily enough in my neck of the woods the new council leader did make one of the other candidates deputy.
But hunt is forcing Boris's hand - hes going to backbenches.
https://twitter.com/Aggerscricket/status/1154000404004446208
Can't recall when I last noticed a thunderstorm without any significant noise.