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The man who refused to be a sub to Dom is back in the cabinet – politicalbetting.com
The man who refused to be a sub to Dom is back in the cabinet – politicalbetting.com
PM appoints former chancellor Sajid Javid as new health secretary https://t.co/nx7ySTmsPX
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So apparently all his successor need to is follow the policies, planning and trail already blazed under Hancock's watch. Heck, even yours truly could do that!
May the spirit and wisdom of Lord Woolton guide Sajid Javid as head of DHSC.
I say this sincerely. because somehow I doubt that the problems of social care are unlikely to be solved definitively and permanently under the premiership of Boris Johnson. Even IF he was Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee combined.
EDIT - First in bore, first in place, last in the hearts of his fellow PBers . . .
We are on a spending splurge. Andrew Neil has brilliantly commented that the Government's credit card may have to be taken away.
It's not just a splurge. It's a chaotic one. There's no consistency or strategy to the levelling up process and vanity projects - that thing beloved of Johnson - are to the fore. Remember that this is the guy who wanted to build a brand new London airport in the Thames estuary. He loves to spend, spend, spend.
It's disastrous for Britain finances.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/26/rishi-sunak-must-confiscate-governments-credit-card-say-tory/
What a surprise.
I'm not sure left-right comes into it, except to note that this is (in some ways) the most leftwing Government of my lifetime. Nationalisation, statism, high spending, plans to build all over the southern green belt, vanity projects, higher business taxes and a raid on people's pensions.
By 2025, we will have three million more higher rate taxpayers than in 2010. Corporation tax is heading to its highest level since 1989. The tax burden is rising to its highest since the Sixties. Our debt is at its highest since the early Sixties. And, according to last week's ONS figures, borrowing in the year to March (as a percentage of GDP) has reached a level last seen in the Second World War.
And The Guardian, Sun and Evening Standard have all written about these problems in recent days and probably others too.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/21/social-care-royal-yacht-battle-looms-uk-spending-priorities
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/five-years-brexit-vote-better-off-b942161.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15363925/rishi-sunak-britains-debt-2-2trillion/
Meanwhile I see that the Handycock camera footage was regular office CCTV with the footage having been obtained by a disgruntled employee of the department who saw him or herself as a whistleblower.
F1: bit groggy but Tsunoda, at the moment, doesn't appear to have a penalty for impeding Bottas. Mildly surprised. Will peruse the markets for things worth backing.
Been thinking of trying to alter my strategy sometimes, and go for more tips with lower stakes. May or may not do that today.
The Tory Party has already had two leaders from an ethnic minority - in 1868 and 2003.
The Liberals and Labour have one each - 1931 and 2010.
I think you mean the first *non-white* leader which is not quite the same thing.
If.
https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/decision-document/2021 Styrian Grand Prix - Offence - Car 22 - impeding car 77.pdf
Mr. JohnL, be very brave to rule one of them out.
If they collided and took one another out on lap 1 I'd probably put Bottas favourite.
Incidentally, Ladbrokes doesn't have each way for the winner, which is a shade disappointing. I suppose it's a reaction to last year's Hamilton dominance becoming a top 2 dominance.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/15402370/tour-de-france-chaos-as-massive-crash-caused-by-a-fan-wipes-out-half-of-the-peloton/?rec_article=true
Just another variety of anti-semitism going on here? The subtext of it buys into the notion that they're not as deserving of the (vomit-inducing) smug self congratulations because they must have money hoarded away somewhere. Let's parade our son of a Pakistani bus driver rather than those whose families are sitting on mountains of Rothschild gold. (Neatly ignoring the fact that in reality many of them had narrowly escaped the concentrations camps.)
It takes me back to that hideous old bat Anne Widdecombe and her clearly anti-semitic attack on Michael Howard. He apparently had 'something of the night' about him. Naked anti-semitism. He was portrayed on at least one front page as a Fagin figure. I'm just surprised they didn't go the whole hog and picture him drinking the blood of virgins before returning to his casket at dawn.
The man is a grade A shit
https://twitter.com/callumjodwyer/status/1408915831996747786?s=19
Sorry I gave you a chronic illness, I'm leaving you.
Betting PostF1: You'll never guess how many tips I offer for this race!
Unless you guess five, of course.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2021/06/styria-pre-race-2021.html
Edited extra bit:
Gasly to win group 1 (Leclerc, Ricciardo, Alonso) at 2.3
Vettel to win group 2 (Sainz, Stroll, Tsunoda) at 4.5
Winner without the big 4, Norris at 1.53
Over 17.5 classified finishers, 2.5
Russell points, 2.25
Re Javid - I think a good appointment and a fair and well-balanced header - is someone impersonating TSE today?
The real problem with this piece is that it mentions the issue at all. It's a can of worms which TSE doesn't appear sufficiently sensitive to tackle.
And frankly I really hope we don't go the direction of the US on race. Once the card is played it's very difficult to un-play it.
That’s the problem with being a shit. You get blamed for anything and everything, however unfairly. Pile on!
And you're quite right about the Fagin and pig posters. Alastair Campbell was behind them.
I think Ann Widdecombe set the idea in motion though with her 'something of the night' remarks.
The sign said, in a mixture of French and German, Go Granny & Grandad (Allez Opi Omi). At least the fan can be pretty sure her grandparents will have seen her greeting, so job done!
Compare with the USA and its unending line of WASPs (bar Kennedy) until Obama.
Boris Johnson doesn't appear to have any idea what he signed up to when he entered his Faustian pact making him Prime Minister and Dominic Cummings the most powerful man in the land.
They call him Rasputin but that doesn't do him justice. To sell Brexit to 52% of a population against the forces of government parliament academia business and the media makes him a genius that not even the greatest minds could match.
This is not a person any sane man would cross. This is Anton Chigurth in No Country for Old Men. A man who gets his man.
Good luck Boris.
I’m doing so he ends the story.
Not that that’s much of a surprise.
He’s going to be eaten alive in the divorce, isn’t he?
Could well force him to leave the Commons in search of financial sustenance elsewhere. Might be value in betting on a West Suffolk by election.
Should be an easy Tory hold if there is though.
1 in 5 Brits have had an affair, there must be one or two on PB.
I do think the stress of the last year must have been immense and it is absolutely textbook that this can manifest in affairs.
This assumes the affair started recently, though.
Oh those pre-woke days when he would rhapsodise about pubescent Thai courtesans.
One feature about the appointment of Javid is that there's now someone in the Cabinet who doesn't owe Dominic Cummings anything. At all.
Ed. Does though give SJ the opportunity for revenge.
It is worse than nailing Al Capone for not paying income tax. Lots of people have affairs at work, often shortlived. Many employers have rules about it. Many families break up. These things are commonplace.
Boris's instinct was that Matt's dalliance with Gina did not matter. He was wrong about that, but probably right that it *should* not have mattered.
The list of papabiles is actually quite long now.
Rishi
Patel
Truss
Hunt
Javid
Gove
Raab
I don’t think the latter two have a chance, but both probably still harbour ambitions.
Who knows what the state of the marriage was? Today it's in ashes. But we can all feel a yuck factor in the treatment of young children. There are not just his three but hers as well. All young and all finding their lives turned upside down.
That is very sad. You can stop being a husband or wife. You cannot stop being a parent.
The findings of a Panelbase poll carried out for The Sunday Times indicates that, excluding “don’t knows”, 48 per cent would back independence, down four points since April when support for breaking up the Union stood at 52 per cent. Support for the Union in today’s poll is 52 per cent, up four points.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/support-for-secession-falls-since-may-election-pd2vjtqbg
Canny Scottish electorate - keep Westminster on their toes by returning SNP administrations, keep Holyrood on its toes by prevaricating over independence. They have both where they want them.
Although that said, on every level this is much less serious than the care homes Covid disaster, or indeed the DfE/DoH guidance to schools.
But I was very unimpressed with Javid at the last contest. I expected him to shine and when it came to it he just didn’t.
It is the reason I think why Fagin tropes and the like can be so devastating - they can be both produced and/or responded to without one or either party consciously making the Jewish connection as they do so. Obviously because of this, this is why it is so important for it to be called out at every opportunity.
In some ways I think it makes a justification for the complete banning of Oliver Twist from television (or a number of other “kids favourites” which include similar characters eg Chitty chitty bang bang - the child catcher).
Still, he has to be in with a decent shot at the leadership given how well liked he is on the backbenches.
Which would certainly seem to be the case here given her illness.
Is that no longer the case?
Meanwhile, in Egypt it was banned because it showed Jews in far too sympathetic a light.
Truss is like the nation's permanently angry first wife.
Hunt is too remainy for the tories and looks like the result of a human/rat gene splicing experiment in a Wuhan lab.
Looks like Javid vs Gove vs Raab.
But you forget 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕆𝕌𝕋𝕊𝕀𝔻𝔼ℝ.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57624942
Liberal Democrats @LibDems 3m
From the PPE scandal, the crisis in our care service and the unbelievably poor test and trace system, he has utterly failed. It is time for the Health Secretary to go.
https://twitter.com/LibDems/status/1409044072304721921
I hope she has some good friends and her own family rallying round her. And, also, that the press leave her alone. To be publicly - as well as privately - humiliated in this way must be awful.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9728749/SARAH-VINE-problem-wife-knows-youre-not-Master-Universe.html?ico=amp-comments-viewall#article-9728749
I would say it’s as well the person contacted the Beeb and not the Russian Embassy, but I wonder why they didn’t contact the MoD or the police?
Still, he's probably politically in a strong position now. Odd that Boris didn't promote Zawahi or Argar. They'd have owed him. Javid doesn't.
Better to stick to one simple change given a couple of candidates were available.
Much the same logic that led Thatcher to make Pym foreign Secretary, despite hating his guts, when Carrington resigned.
For everything else, there is a counterfactual you could present where things would have been worse, or a heat of battle argument, or you can point to other countries who made the same error. Indeed, the argument about over-caution in release from lockdown could also go into the 'honest mistake' category.
The sitting on the data which could have seen us released last week - well, he should have gone for that, for me - that falls into the 'dishonest mistake' category. But even here he could use the 'means to an end argument.
Whereas the revelation that he wasn't even following his own rules - his own shitty, stupid, draconian, wildly disproportionate rules that have locked millions of people into this perpetual half life - without a doubt, that comes top of the charge sheet.
He made having an affair illegal. He spent billions morally blackmailing the country into not seeing other people. And then he had an affair.
Labour doesnt do women leaders or ethnic for that matter
The Cons. will elect a trans non-human cyborg first while Labour is still choosing between the friends of Len Mcclusky
The problem with the wife who has known you since way before you were king of the world is that she sees through your facade.
She knows your fears and your insecurities. She knows that, deep down inside, you are not the Master of the Universe you purport to be. And some people don’t like to be reminded of that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9728749/SARAH-VINE-problem-wife-knows-youre-not-Master-Universe.html
But they’re on the side of the goodies so it’s all ok…
But Thatcher appointed lots of people to senior posts whom she didn't much like and who didn't necessarily share her views.
Whereas Boris got rid of all his rivals and any MP who opposed him. He's been pretty ruthless. So I wonder whether he is now a little bit weakened.
Lord Bethell, Test & Trace minister, shielded Hancock from scrutiny for months
Big Qs for Hancock's friend/donor
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-bethell-faces-inquiry-over-sponsorship-of-parliamentary-pass-for-matt-hancocks-lover-wp5qmf359
We first asked @JimBethell, a minister, why he sponsored Coladangelo's parliamentary pass ... last November.
The govt answered most of our questions but simply ignored this one.
The rules say peers can only sponsor passes for staffers who "genuinely & personally work for them' https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1409034430904258562
Procurement - we’ve been through that.
Care homes - the law states that care home residents should only be discharged from hospital when the manager of the care home has signed to say they accept them back. Instead, there have been cases in Birmingham where Covid positive care home residents were brought back by ambulance at 2am and threats were made to force the duty staff to take them in. This was to ensure a manager couldn’t refuse to take them back. No wonder Covid went ripping through our care homes.
Schools - the rules state that close contacts should isolate. The guidelines state that this is anyone within a ‘bubble.’ The law has actually been reinterpreted so as far as possible it is only anyone within 2 metres of a positive case. Not including any staff. No wonder Covid went rampaging through our schools.
Hancock genuinely seems to think that the law is what he says it is and if it disagrees with him, it can go fuck itself. While this isn’t his most serious breach of it, it’s all of a piece with his general attitude.
And such an attitude makes him totally unfit to serve in public office.
1) the breach of SD rules
2) the appointment of GC as non-executive director
3) the use of private emails for government business.
4) the potential undeclared conflicts of interest when awarding NHS contracts.
His ‘landslides don’t make successful governments’ remark is usually blamed, but in fact two days after his appointment he said to a group of friends ‘that woman’s a corporal, not a cavalry officer.’
And she got to hear about it...
This clearly makes a massive difference.
Thatcher took on the snobs. And won.
One presumes it is *easier* to find time as a politician to have an affair.
But he comes across as a bit thick.
How about contacting the MoD?
Another Tory scandal!