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  • OllyTOllyT Posts: 5,027
    Alistair said:

    A massive Ohio GOP corruption scandal has just broken. FBI arrests of senior politicians, Companies being subpoena'd, the works.
    Ah, I'd seen that but hadn't registered that it was the Ohio GOP.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,866

    The Scientologists were pretty active then in that area. It was probably them.
    Pretty sure it was. Was it a couple of hundred yards up from Oxford Street, near that big empty space on the West side?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    DavidL said:

    Interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53500449

    The "anomaly" of diplomatic immunity to be amended. Surprising concession by the US.

    Fair play. Good effort by Johnson and Raab, who were entertaining the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in London yesterday.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,550
    malcolmg said:

    throw in the dead as NO next no doubt
    Do you think yes/no will be replaced with leave/remain next time?
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    kW! Not Kw or KWh!


    Sorry, it’s a Physics teacher instinct.
    Students really do near to be aware that KJ and kJ are very, very different things.
  • NerysHughesNerysHughes Posts: 3,375

    There are 5 INSET days spread out throughout the school year, it is normally up to the LA when they occur. I would suspect they are allowing this "extra" day to help schools make special arrangements.
    There are two things that annoy about Inset days

    1) You are unable to take your child out a school for a holiday but schools can pick and choose Inset days

    2) Teachers have the most holiday out of any profession, maybe have slightly less holiday and do what needs to be done on Inset days on those days. An Inset day means that children are not receiving an education that day.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,657
    Sandpit said:

    Fair play. Good effort by Johnson and Raab, who were entertaining the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in London yesterday.

    Sort of...

    https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1285891258305720320
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,588

    Pretty sure it was. Was it a couple of hundred yards up from Oxford Street, near that big empty space on the West side?
    I recall an HQ around there. Never went in.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    Nigelb said:

    I don't think so.
    The scale of the corruption was massive - a direct subsidy of well over a billion dollars to the corrupt utilities:
    https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893493224/ohio-house-speaker-arrested-in-connection-to-60-million-bribery-scheme

    Be very interesting to watch the next Ohio poll.
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/us-attorney-fbi-announce-charges-related-60-million-bribe-state-official-associates

    Sixty million in bribes make Jennrik look small time in the extreme.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    edited July 2020
    kinabalu said:

    Do you think yes/no will be replaced with leave/remain next time?
    Can't very well be 'leave the UK' as it's a matter of dissolving the Treaty of Union, and there is no other kingdom for England to be united to ...

    Edit: disolution of the ToU would be de facto even if the result went through some other legal mechanism.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    OllyT said:

    Ah, I'd seen that but hadn't registered that it was the Ohio GOP.
    Key point is it broke _after_ this poll.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,794
    Surprising win for Raab on diplomatic immunity with the US. Credit where it's due.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,554
    Sandpit said:

    HCPT is an awesome charity! I did a few trips as an auxiliary helper with them a couple of decades ago, and try to support them now whenever I can.

    Even if you're not religious yourself, the way the often seriously sick kids enjoy the trip is genuinely life-affirming.
    The twins went last year and would have gone again this year were it not for Covid. One plans to go to next year with the regional helper group, the other is planning to help with the school's Year 10 trip to Rome...
  • Fysics_TeacherFysics_Teacher Posts: 6,303

    There are two things that annoy about Inset days

    1) You are unable to take your child out a school for a holiday but schools can pick and choose Inset days

    2) Teachers have the most holiday out of any profession, maybe have slightly less holiday and do what needs to be done on Inset days on those days. An Inset day means that children are not receiving an education that day.
    Inset days were taken out of the holidays. Teachers now get five days less than they did in the eighties.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,009
    Scott_xP said:
    They will be shipping a few to Scotland for his upcoming visit.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,866

    I recall an HQ around there. Never went in.
    That was what I was thinking of - their recruiters were wandering round that area like carrion flies. I used to reply "Hail, Xenu!" when stopped by them....
  • Fysics_TeacherFysics_Teacher Posts: 6,303
    edited July 2020
    Carnyx said:

    Can't very well be 'leave the UK' as it's a matter of dissolving the Treaty of Union, and there is no other kingdom for England to be united to ...

    Edit: disolution of the ToU would be de facto even if the result went through some other legal mechanism.
    The Union between Scotland and England created Great Britain. The UK is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    Starmer again being put on the defensive. The shadow of Corbyn is hard to purge.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    eek said:

    The twins went last year and would have gone again this year were it not for Covid. One plans to go to next year with the regional helper group, the other is planning to help with the school's Year 10 trip to Rome...
    Well done to them - every sixth-former should be encouraged to do something similar. It's a week that, as you know, can change one's whole outlook on life massively for the better. You come home completely knackered but with a very different view of humanity.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,504
    DavidL said:

    Starmer again being put on the defensive. The shadow of Corbyn is hard to purge.

    I bet Boris couldn’t believe his luck when he saw the questions. Starmer also mentioning his time as DPP; his record in that job is very much fair game now.
  • Brexit Brexit Brexit
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,504
    Starmer on the canvas.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,550
    Sandpit said:

    He's making the right decisions (as have been made in the UK and other Western states), but the presentation looks like his cares more about boxing in the 'weak on China' Democrats, than he does about the actual human rights abuses going on in China.

    But it's an election year, so pretty much normal for American politics.
    But neither does anybody who would even consider voting for him give a rat's arse about human rights abuses against Muslims - in China or anywhere else - so his presentation of the issue makes perfect sense.

    Also noted his attempt to not be a complete dick in his latest virus briefing. If he can somehow keep that up I'd give him just the merest shadow of a chance in November. But I doubt he can.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,657
    Starmer was prosecuting Russians while BoZo was playing tennis with them...
  • Corbyn Corbyn Corbyn
  • eekeek Posts: 29,554
    Scott_xP said:

    Sort of...

    https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1285891258305720320
    Being honest - it's a very easy concession worth virtually nothing, oops we'll make sure it doesn't happen again isn't really much of a concession when it's only occurred once in X years and the general diplomacy rules are that such crimes are outside diplomatic immunity...
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    tlg86 said:

    I bet Boris couldn’t believe his luck when he saw the questions. Starmer also mentioning his time as DPP; his record in that job is very much fair game now.
    To be fair Labour under Starmer does seem to be approaching these matters in a mature and sensible way. Boris really doesn't have an answer as to why there was a delay but Starmer is struggling with Corbyn's appalling record.
  • Fysics_TeacherFysics_Teacher Posts: 6,303
    Scott_xP said:

    Starmer was prosecuting Russians while BoZo was playing tennis with them...

    What, the same Russians? That must have been an interestingly designed court...
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    Good response by Starmer. He is looking like the grown up here.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,665
    Dear God Shagger sounds awful on the radio. Petulant. Angry. That he is flat out wrong with what he is saying about SKS w/r/t Russia is irrelevant in this post-fact world as nobody can pull him up on it when facts no longer matter in our politics.
  • I am interested to see how the attacks on Corbyn as attacks on Starmer work going forward.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,504
    DavidL said:

    To be fair Labour under Starmer does seem to be approaching these matters in a mature and sensible way. Boris really doesn't have an answer as to why there was a delay but Starmer is struggling with Corbyn's appalling record.
    It was probably delayed simply to entice the LotO into asking about it and looking like an idiot. Most people will not care about Russia Today or any of the other bollocks. Boris’s was right to call it out for what it is.
  • Wulfrun_PhilWulfrun_Phil Posts: 4,780
    kinabalu said:

    Do you think yes/no will be replaced with leave/remain next time?
    Should Scots continue to live in an independent country? Yes/No
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,794
    PMQs still a waste of everyone's time then?
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    Scott_xP said:
    And there's me thinking he was a lazy git too.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    What made Tom Randall think that politics and public speaking was the job for him?
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,002
    Nevermind Tesla, Britain is already the base for JLR’s push towards electric motoring.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,665

    I am interested to see how the attacks on Corbyn as attacks on Starmer work going forward.

    Surely there is a simple means to fix all the pressing issues. The stench of anti-semitism. The absurd black-is-whiteism. The party within a party that is Momentum. Simply remove the whip from Corbyn and then from Sultana, Webbe and all the others who will spontaneously combust in fury. Yes he loses perhaps a dozen MPs. But (a) the Tories have a big majority (b) the sacked MPs won't back the Tories and (c) it draws a mega line between old and new.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,488

    Of course!

    Hard to imagine what kind of favours they could possibly get if they didn't build and operate the factory. Tax breaks on a factory that doesn't exists is a bit . . . hard to explain.

    Its not like the government is writing a cheque and then they're going to vanish into the night like some cowboy builder.
    I thought Somerset was only under consideration because Germany had stalled - I want to say due to a greenbelt type thing?

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    Scott_xP said:
    I think that is overstating it but the "under new management" line is one I expect us to hear pretty regularly.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,928

    Surely there is a simple means to fix all the pressing issues. The stench of anti-semitism. The absurd black-is-whiteism. The party within a party that is Momentum. Simply remove the whip from Corbyn and then from Sultana, Webbe and all the others who will spontaneously combust in fury. Yes he loses perhaps a dozen MPs. But (a) the Tories have a big majority (b) the sacked MPs won't back the Tories and (c) it draws a mega line between old and new.
    That would be the answer and would change politics dramatically

    Boris is a shambles but as yet he has not been derailed

    However lots of issues coming down the track and a sensible labour party in the wings should benefit
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Surely there is a simple means to fix all the pressing issues. The stench of anti-semitism. The absurd black-is-whiteism. The party within a party that is Momentum. Simply remove the whip from Corbyn and then from Sultana, Webbe and all the others who will spontaneously combust in fury. Yes he loses perhaps a dozen MPs. But (a) the Tories have a big majority (b) the sacked MPs won't back the Tories and (c) it draws a mega line between old and new.
    Do you think he might actually do it?

    It would represent a massive statement of intent, and make his party seem considerably more appealing to the million or two floating voters he needs to win over in 2024 - but at the cost of alienating a number of existing members, in the same way as Kinnock did when he kicked out Militant all those years ago.
  • Fysics_TeacherFysics_Teacher Posts: 6,303

    Surely there is a simple means to fix all the pressing issues. The stench of anti-semitism. The absurd black-is-whiteism. The party within a party that is Momentum. Simply remove the whip from Corbyn and then from Sultana, Webbe and all the others who will spontaneously combust in fury. Yes he loses perhaps a dozen MPs. But (a) the Tories have a big majority (b) the sacked MPs won't back the Tories and (c) it draws a mega line between old and new.
    How easily can he do that? Does he have to have a specific thing in the rules he can point to, or is there an all encompassing “bringing the party into disrepute” clause he can employ?
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    If Starmer keeps going on the line that Johnson is an opportunist who doesn't really believe in anything except Boris Johnson, he is really on to something.

  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,488
    There are two types of news stories on trade deals.

    'Britain makes appalling and desperate concessions - we will be eating American sewage by Friday'

    and

    'Deadlock in talks - we will never get a trade deal'

  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    When I was due to go down to Brazil in February for work I asked my GP which jabs I needed.

    The answer was:

    MMR (I am too old to have had it as a child and have actually had all three diseases but was advised it would be wise to have it anyway)
    Tetanus/Diptheria/Polio
    Typhoid
    Hepatitis A
    Hepatitis B
    Rabies
    Yellow Fever

    The plan was for me to get the Yellow Fever privately first as it was a live vaccine and wasn't available on the NHS and then to have the other 6 vaccines together in one visit a month later.

    This is just one of a number of reasons why I was glad Covid turned up and my trip was cancelled.

    I was once given the opportunity to inspect a BSL4 facility in GA where they were manufacturing rabies vaccines. It would have required me to receive intrathecal HRIG on site before entering the containment facility.

    I wasn’t that curious!
  • eekeek Posts: 29,554
    Sandpit said:

    Do you think he might actually do it?

    It would represent a massive statement of intent, and make his party seem considerably more appealing to the million or two floating voters he needs to win over in 2024 - but at the cost of alienating a number of existing members, in the same way as Kinnock did when he kicked out Militant all those years ago.
    It does depend on what the report says but if it had been me who saw the review version I would have made sure it contained enough evidence to provide cover when removing those mentioned within it.

    And you probably just need to suspend them, their anger at that would probably generate a reaction that gave you everything you needed to remove them...
  • logical_songlogical_song Posts: 10,017
    MattW said:

    Correct - in UK pure EV is 3% ish, but could well be a hell of a lot more in a very few years.

    But I would see Germany taking up a lot, as the German govt are hosing money over electric vehicles like a block piddling next to a statue.
    Changeover to new technology can happen very quickly. Tesla (and others) need to expand very quickly - at the moment Tesla sales are limited by their production.
    Disclosure I bought a few Tesla shares in May - and they're up 89%. Obviously I missed out and should have bought earlier!
  • Fysics_TeacherFysics_Teacher Posts: 6,303

    If Starmer keeps going on the line that Johnson is an opportunist who doesn't really believe in anything except Boris Johnson, he is really on to something.

    True, though I’m not sure that I prefer politicians driven by a particular belief either. That way you get people like Corbyn.

    A politician who is only out for themself is much less likely to do something spectacularly bad unless they think there are votes in it.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382

    If Starmer keeps going on the line that Johnson is an opportunist who doesn't really believe in anything except Boris Johnson, he is really on to something.

    I'm not sure that Johnson's excessive aggression when responding to Starmer plays well at all and he's yet to really land one on the LAB leader.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,928
    edited July 2020

    There are two types of news stories on trade deals.

    'Britain makes appalling and desperate concessions - we will be eating American sewage by Friday'

    and

    'Deadlock in talks - we will never get a trade deal'

    Adam Boulton on Sky discussing this with a trade expert said of course UK trade with the US is through the EU trade deal

    Quick as a flash the expert said no, the EU does not have a trade deal with the US and post 1st January nothing much will change in trade to the US

    Boulton, the arch remainer and hater of Brexit so out of touch and so deflated
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,436
    tlg86 said:

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/dec/23/uk.research

    'The reason we have refused to say whether Leo has had the MMR vaccine is because we never have commented on the medical health or treatment of our children,' he said. 'The advice to parents to have the MMR jab is one of scores of pieces of advice or campaigns the Government supports in matters ranging from under-age sex to teenage alcohol abuse or smoking, to different types of advice for very young children on a huge range of activities from breastfeeding to safe play.

    'Once we comment on one, it is hard to see how we can justify not commenting on them all.' Blair wrote the statement himself at Chequers after Number 10 was contacted by his wife's family.


    I always thought that last bit was a cop out.

    I strongly suspect that Cherie would subscribe to the lets just give single shot vaccines, not the MMR. Yet I also support the decision not to say - Leo didn't chose to be in the spotlight.
    If proven that they did not have the MMR for Leo, would this have been a Dominic Cummings? Possibly
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    What is particularly annoying is that because UK walked out of, and indeed, effectively threw out, the European Medicines Agency we lost immediate access to Europe-wide adverse incident reporting. Obviously we'll get reports eventually, but short term after release of the vaccine we'll be relying on adverse incidents reported in UK.
    We didn’t throw out the EMA. We suggested that we enter into an arrangement whereby we become an associate member and they remain in a London

    They chose instead to break a lease early (suggesting the U.K. government pay the penalty) and walk away with a large chunk (30-40% IIRC) choosing to quit rather than relocate.

    A negative outcome for all as a result of the EU’s inflexibility
  • houndtanghoundtang Posts: 450
    Believe it or not you can be quite OK about vaccines in general but still be very cautious about the coming Covid vaccine. It is astonishing how willing people are to swallow hook, line and sinker the total bollocks that the government has been spewing for the last few months and how readily they want to attack anyone who questions it.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,281
    Hoyle extends "Virtual" committee meetings to 30th October......not buying the "get back to your office" line.....
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    edited July 2020
    Scott_xP said:
    Drowning in miserabilism is one of the most certain routes to political defeat. That's why the Opposition has been the Opposition for so very long. When will they learn?
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,928

    Hoyle extends "Virtual" committee meetings to 30th October......not buying the "get back to your office" line.....

    Will they be in York by then
  • Surely there is a simple means to fix all the pressing issues. The stench of anti-semitism. The absurd black-is-whiteism. The party within a party that is Momentum. Simply remove the whip from Corbyn and then from Sultana, Webbe and all the others who will spontaneously combust in fury. Yes he loses perhaps a dozen MPs. But (a) the Tories have a big majority (b) the sacked MPs won't back the Tories and (c) it draws a mega line between old and new.
    Absolutely agree with this. In 2007, the Socialist Campaign Group had 24 of 353 MPs. This has now gone up to 35/202. Many of the new Corbynites are in their 40s or younger and could be there for decades.

    Blair with his large majorities could afford to turn a blind eye to the SCG. Sir Keir can’t afford to if he wants to be PM
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,748
    tlg86 said:

    Your regular reminder that Boris doesn’t get to choose his father.
    I assume you felt exactly the same when Red Ed Miliband was constantly vilified by the Mail and others for having a famous father who'd written the odd leftie treatise?
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,570
    eek said:

    It does depend on what the report says but if it had been me who saw the review version I would have made sure it contained enough evidence to provide cover when removing those mentioned within it.

    And you probably just need to suspend them, their anger at that would probably generate a reaction that gave you everything you needed to remove them...
    Surely everyone who sat in Corbyn's shadow cabinet but said nothing were equally complicit? What happened to collective responsibility? Kudos to those who refused.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959
    Not sure Layla Moran did her leadership campaign any great good there with that question.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,550

    You wrote Boris in the post I replied to. 🤷🏻‍♂️
    I did not. I would never. I wrote "Boris" with the inverteds as I always do when I'm referring to the fictional character rather than the actor (Johnson) playing it.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,154
    Scott_xP said:
    I suspect the Johnson blustering and mindless enjoiners to get behind Britain will be ringing very hollow for vast swathes of electorate by 2024.

    Many of them will have been unemployed for years by then.

  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    I'm not sure that Johnson's excessive aggression when responding to Starmer plays well at all and he's yet to really land one on the LAB leader.
    Yes indeed.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,928

    I suspect the Johnson blustering and mindless enjoiners to get behind Britain will be ringing very hollow for vast swathes of electorate by 2024.

    Many of them will have been unemployed for years by then.

    I doubt Boris will be in post by then
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959

    Nevermind Tesla, Britain is already the base for JLR’s push towards electric motoring.

    Yes, this is going to be really important for our future and the government should use its new found freedom to ensure that investments in this technology by JLR get all the help they need.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,132
    tlg86 said:

    Your regular reminder that Boris doesn’t get to choose his father.
    It appears he gets to choose to whom he wants to be a father though.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,195

    If Starmer keeps going on the line that Johnson is an opportunist who doesn't really believe in anything except Boris Johnson, he is really on to something.

    The best attack lines are the ones which everyone, deep down, believes to be true. Such as Johnson being an opportunist.

    Makes the Starter flip-flops line odd. I get that Johnson enjoys the gags, but do they match public perception? Dull seems closer to the mark.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,959

    I doubt Boris will be in post by then
    He looked healthier today.
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 764
    kinabalu said:

    Do you think yes/no will be replaced with leave/remain next time?
    I think it could. Boris can't be dumb enough to allow acquiescence bias twice.

    I also think Indy will poll close to 60% at some point, it has to to get the Unionists to really focus. Then the fun really starts.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,241
    Charles said:

    We didn’t throw out the EMA. We suggested that we enter into an arrangement whereby we become an associate member and they remain in a London

    They chose instead to break a lease early (suggesting the U.K. government pay the penalty) and walk away with a large chunk (30-40% IIRC) choosing to quit rather than relocate.

    A negative outcome for all as a result of the EU’s inflexibility
    They actually settled the Court Action with their landlord and agreed to maintain their lease, after they lost the first round in the High Court.

    They sublet with LL consent.

    But it may now become interesting, as the subtenant selected by the EMA is a workspace provider called WeWork.

    https://www.ft.com/content/eed0d05a-9e5e-11e9-9c06-a4640c9feebb
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    I suspect the Johnson blustering and mindless enjoiners to get behind Britain will be ringing very hollow for vast swathes of electorate by 2024.

    Many of them will have been unemployed for years by then.

    We will see.

    Based on the resounding relentness negativity from many parts of the media and body politic about COVID, about post-COVID, about Brexit, post-Brexit etc etc etc . . . the way people talk it seems like it should all be hopeless and no chance of success in Britain for years to come.

    The baseline is getting projected so low that if the UK doesn't have millions and millions of unemployed people in 2024 then Boris will have done a fantastic job and be well worthy of being re-elected. Though I'm sure his critics won't acknowledge that.
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,570
    DavidL said:

    Yes, this is going to be really important for our future and the government should use its new found freedom to ensure that investments in this technology by JLR get all the help they need.
    The problem for JLR will be bridging the gap as conventional production dwindles and stalls. Not an issue for Tesla.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 14,236
    DavidL said:

    Yes, this is going to be really important for our future and the government should use its new found freedom to ensure that investments in this technology by JLR get all the help they need.
    The government should help them make cars with interiors that don't fall to bits before they worry about anything else.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,665

    How easily can he do that? Does he have to have a specific thing in the rules he can point to, or is there an all encompassing “bringing the party into disrepute” clause he can employ?
    Literally that. The clause is the ultimate catch-all, and the General Secretary has the power of God to deploy it as they see fit.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,996
    Scott_xP said:
    Only when he desists from aping an overweight Tigger.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,154

    I doubt Boris will be in post by then
    Me too. Apart from anything else he doesn't really look like he enjoys the job.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,554
    edited July 2020

    Surely everyone who sat in Corbyn's shadow cabinet but said nothing were equally complicit? What happened to collective responsibility? Kudos to those who refused.
    What does the shadow cabinet have to do with Labour party management.... And it is the leadership of the party here that is the issue nut the leadership within the House of Commons.

    Sitting on the NEC and not doing anything would be complicit, sitting on the shadow cabinet (especially when the reason for being there was to ensure you were inside enough to stand for the leadership) not so much...
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,504
    I think Starmer has to expel Corbyn now. Anything less will look weak.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 14,236

    It appears he gets to choose to whom he wants to be a father though.
    Good arrows.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,550
    Scott_xP said:
    Oh dear.

    In a democracy a country gets the politics it deserves and we have a tacky, end-of-the-pier, vacuous poshboy clown as our PM.

    An uncomfortable thought.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Nigelb said:

    Only when he desists from aping an overweight Tigger.
    When we want the economy to bounce back who could be better in charge than Tigger?

    Bouncing is what Tiggers do best.
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