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there would literally be one Leave leader and one Remain leader and I’m not making this up https://t.co/MfyMwtAtB9
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/10/boris-johnson-versus-jeremy-corbyn-for-number-10-battle-of-unfittest
What’s the right response? Surely rebutting attack where Labour get their money off unions just adds fuel to the fire as doesn’t actually rebutt?
Are the two consuls going to fight each other to the death, with the winner appointing a puppet to occupy the empty slot to make it look as if nothing has changed?
Only they already did that with Tom Watson. Boring.
Those 2 together should be around a million, plus the 200k+ pension pot we all have from a fully paid up UK Basic Pension. (Using multiple of 35-40, which is what you currently get for cashing a Final Salary pension in).
Suspect that CL is fairly clean on Parliamentary expenses, probably also compared to the average MEP whilst she was there.
Plus whatever she has accumulated from property and savings over 20 years of politics plus 15 years previsouly.
Plus whatever you make off the back of a PhD in Tudor Chick Lit.
£2-3 million?
Not as loaded as say Diane Abbott, but probably a 1-5 per-center.
Minus donations and other she has spent, which may be zero or may be substantial.
For the avoidance of doubt I am not serious. Though the two leaderplan is pretty dumb.
Labour's idea seems a bit more confused.
Doubt Corby would be as spiteful as to do this just to piss off PBers (Boring market anyway - full of lightweights - no-body has a clue)
They also need a straight woman, a straight man, and one each of all the variations of LGBTIQXYZ.
Whose going to stand as the Genderqueer Gray Asexual Atheist?
On a separate note, Lammy and Long-Bailey would be ... interesting.
Have the Greens not used this type of model, with 4 speakers - following Hari Seldon's Galactic Encyclopaedia Foundation?
Ah.
And all without hectoring others to change their lifestyles.
Having one male and one female leader is horribly discriminatory towards non-binary persons. I'm actually surprised that no-one in the Labour movement has called the Greens out on this. Seriously.
Two leaders won't cut it. They'll have to have a Triumvirate.
Or is it like old-style Saturday afternoon grappling, with the tag team member flying in over the ropes to save their fellow leader being pummelled by Andrew Neil?
PMQs would take on a different nature, too, if a single PM has to cope with two LOTOs.
Or we could have one PM/LOTO who's good at actually being the PM/LOTO and the other PM/LOTO who's good at the PR.
Neat idea.
I’m on a final salary pension myself so I know that they would cost a lot to replicate with a savings pot.
Edit for typos.
It is a fantastic idea and I am beside myself with excitement at the prospect!
Just had the LDs calling on me (Ruislip Northwood and Pinner)
I was very nice to them and wished them good luck in this constituency as they need it!
I spoil you all so much.
And if they fall out, they all raise armies and wage war until one eliminates the others and becomes Emperor.
The whole lot post-pension post-mortgage payments could be spent on whatever, and afaics it would make essentially little difference.
Happy to have my (very broad brush) estimates demolished, however. I would say that the numbers are fairly reasonable for any well-paid professional earning 50-100k with a reasonably sized London property over a couple of decades.
That will take some explaining.....
The consuls are somewhat comparable to the diarchy of Sparta but there are massive differences, not least the one year terms.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/11/10/vote-tories-can-stop-labour-nightmare/
You will hopefully note that I went on to propose a leadership triumvirate who would rotate the top job on an annual basis? At least until they got fed up and started trying to kill each other.
There's a book I wish I could remember the number of, a fantasy, whereby the ruler is immortal and splintered his soul into three pieces, rotating leadership as each (temporarily) died. One of them decides to try and hold onto the throne forever. Interesting little backstory.
There are no gods, but there are angels, but I can't remember much else about it off the top of my head.
I suspect a lot of people remain less than engaged from the GE at this point but the overnight polling was obviously very good for the Conservatives and a 40% vote share against a split opposition guarantees a landslide majority.
We now seem to be in a unseemly dutch auction between the Conservative and Labour Parties to determine which of the two can try and buy the greater number of votes with un-costed campaign spending pledges.
The problem with the hundreds of millions of spending pledges is they will have to be paid for and today's borrowing becomes tomorrow's tax rises - whichever of the two old dinosaur parties ends up in Government can say what it likes now but taxes will ultimately rise and rise considerably to meet the spending pledges.
We are being bribed with our own money and of course there will be a payback down the road.
We also have targeted campaign pledges for each and every day from the Conservative "tsunami of Tory ideas". The Veterans' Railcard - who could possibly object to that? Well, Veterans already enjoy free or heavily discounted travel in London courtesy of the Veterans Oyster Card and armed forces personnel in uniform travel free.
The truth of many of the campaign pledges is they are often far less than they appear but that isn't of course the point.
But I am already far enough down this rabbithole for today.
I stand by my estimate, subject to more detailed information.
Don't forget your Poppy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8d8WX4tyfk
cutting political satire KLAXON
Checking in, to find most of this thread seems to be about Caroline Lucas's pension pot.
Have I missed something?
I doubt that they would give the job to the top 2 in AV (applying the deadbeat rule)
I suspect you would end up with slates and the winning skate would attract the full bet
Give Labour time, the sods will come back. It would be too easy otherwise.
The fact that they've been saying the same thing since Thatcher and yet the health service remains stubbornly unprivatised goes entirely unnoticed.
Labour chiefs mull plan to replace top civil servants with political appointees
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-chiefs-mull-plan-replace-20852711.amp?__twitter_impression=true
I don't even remember it coming up during the coalition years as it says it did.
I guess we can expect Seamus to be the top man at Downing Street with complete control over who speaks to Corbyn.
I suppose the one thing in our favour is he only really hates successful people...
This is my hometown constituency and my mom still lives there. It was looking to be colourful until Watson stepped down. Despite everything (Op Midland, Get Brexit Done - it’s very Leave) I was still intending to bet on Labour here. Now the candidates have been selected and Labour have gone for an anti Brexit chap Ibrahim Dogus of Vauxhall, London, the Tories a female councillor Nicola Richards from neighbouring Dudley Council. Dogus has a decent write up, but London Remainer? Hmmm.
At the same time, if he loses I don’t think it will matter hugely as what’s left of Labour will be squabbling with the DUP for fourth party status.
https://insideevs.com/news/381094/zeroavia-hydrogen-powered-planes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+InsideEvs+(Inside+EVs)&utm_content=FeedBurner
Likewise reports about electoral malpractice in 2015 and funding irregularities and Russian activity in the referendum have not overturned Brexit.
Decrepit's first law of politics: things that ought to matter, usually don't.