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  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 9,012

    GE was held on 1st, but I see what you mean.

    "A new dawn" etc etc

    A fantastic night for those of us who longed for an end to years of Tory sleaze and bollocks. My wife and I stayed up all night.

    Valpurgis night

  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 45,399
    Pagan2 said:

    While you are setting up an appointments commission why not define the makeup you want in the lords,

    eg
    20% scientists
    10% IT bods
    30% from business 15% big and 15% small
    20% legal professions
    10% charity sector
    10% medical

    Each has national bodies that could submit suggestions for consideration by the committee
    I've proposed something like that in the past.

    I might also automatically allow in - if they want - ex PMs, and perhaps ex FSs and HSs is they served in post for more then (say) a couple of years.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,572

    GE was held on 1st, but I see what you mean.

    "A new dawn" etc etc

    A fantastic night for those of us who longed for an end to years of Tory sleaze and bollocks. My wife and I stayed up all night.

    Really? A feat even Bill clinton would have struggled to emulate :smile:

    It's a shame that Tory sleaze and bollocks was imply replaced by even more imposing Labour sleaze and bollocks. Bit of a let-down for us all.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 45,399
    Foxy said:

    My first choice is abolition and going unicameral, with beefed up select committees to revise legislation before a final vote.

    If we stick with a second chamber, I would have local governments do the selection from amongst councillors and send them on non renewable 10 year terms. 1 per 100k population.

    It would encourage interest in local government, give broad geographical representation, cover all successful parties, allow independents, be democratic, but indirect so not a direct rival to the Commons. This is how the US Senate was chosen until senators became directly elected.
    The question is whether the HoL performs an important role in our democracy. If it does not, we should become unicameral. If it does, we should keep and evolve it to better fulfil that role.

    Personally, I think it does fulfil a role in examining legislation, and potentially modifying it. Also: its biggest problem isn't lack of elections, but too much politicos and partisanship.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,783
    This afternoon Ukraine announced that it had liberated four more villages (Ruska Lozova, Slobidske, Prelesne and Verkhnia Rohanka) from the outskirts of Kharkiv. This follows the recapture of Momotove yesterday. Ukrainian forces continue to push Russia back from Kharkiv city.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1520464651884298240
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620
    Scott_xP said:

    Cornhub
    Just noticed #cornhub is actually 'trending' on Twitter.

    One example piced at random:

    https://twitter.com/RichardCllr/status/1520474562156281858?cxt=HHwWhIC-9d7j55kqAAAA
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,808

    The question is whether the HoL performs an important role in our democracy. If it does not, we should become unicameral. If it does, we should keep and evolve it to better fulfil that role.

    Personally, I think it does fulfil a role in examining legislation, and potentially modifying it. Also: its biggest problem isn't lack of elections, but too much politicos and partisanship.
    Our national politicians on the whole are pretty crap, our local ones are largely worse. I see no need to have politicians as part of the second chamber. I might go with foxy's suggestion about former pms but on the whole I am of the view that keeping politicians out of politics as much as possible would lead to better governance
  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,771

    To improve the HoL, simply remove the power of PM’s patronage, and leave it to an Appointments Commission.

    Each parliamentary term, appoint 30 peers in proportion to a party’s vote taken at the last election, and a further 20 cross-benchers.

    To improve the HoL, simply remove the power of PM’s patronage, and leave it to an Appointments Commission.

    Each parliamentary term, appoint 30 peers in proportion to a party’s vote taken at the last election, and a further 20 cross-benchers.

    I would go for 8 years, in proportion to the sum of seats over the parliaments in that period. Make it less swingy.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    The story Angela Rayner branded ‘a desperate, perverted smear’ was actually a story told by Angela Rayner herself, about herself. The language the PM condemned as ‘appalling, sexist, misogynist tripe’ was Angela Rayner’s language. The claim the Speaker condemned as ‘misogynistic and offensive’ was her own.

    Two weeks ago, as Tory whips desperately attempted to corral their MPs into blocking an inquiry by the Privileges Committee into whether the PM lied to the Commons over Partygate, Rayner tweeted: ‘You want the truth? They can’t handle the truth.’

    But after the events of the past seven days, a separate question must now be posed. Can she?


    https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/176486
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620
    edited April 2022

    The story Angela Rayner branded ‘a desperate, perverted smear’ was actually a story told by Angela Rayner herself, about herself. The language the PM condemned as ‘appalling, sexist, misogynist tripe’ was Angela Rayner’s language. The claim the Speaker condemned as ‘misogynistic and offensive’ was her own.

    Two weeks ago, as Tory whips desperately attempted to corral their MPs into blocking an inquiry by the Privileges Committee into whether the PM lied to the Commons over Partygate, Rayner tweeted: ‘You want the truth? They can’t handle the truth.’

    But after the events of the past seven days, a separate question must now be posed. Can she?


    https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/176486

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  • FrankBoothFrankBooth Posts: 10,022
    One thing that isn't getting enough attention is the blockade on Odessa. How can it be stopped?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,113
    edited April 2022
    Pagan2 said:

    Our national politicians on the whole are pretty crap, our local ones are largely worse. I see no need to have politicians as part of the second chamber. I might go with foxy's suggestion about former pms but on the whole I am of the view that keeping politicians out of politics as much as possible would lead to better governance
    Anyone who is elected to make policy and legislate is by definition a politician, as is arguably anyone who also scrutinises and votes on legislation even if unelected as in the upper house
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287

    The question is whether the HoL performs an important role in our democracy. If it does not, we should become unicameral. If it does, we should keep and evolve it to better fulfil that role.

    Personally, I think it does fulfil a role in examining legislation, and potentially modifying it. Also: its biggest problem isn't lack of elections, but too much politicos and partisanship.
    I think it just lets the Commons pass craply written laws, expecting that the Lords can polish the turd, and return something less obviously crap.

    It allows the Commons to be lazy. If the HoC couldn't rely on the Lords to sort out their half arsed efforts then they might need to do some work themselves.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,779
    Omnium said:

    If there was a change to that model it'd almost certainly finish up far worse in my view. You'd finish up with a far more politicised chamber with some complete nutters. It would entirely cease to function.

    I don't really like the way things work at the moment, but it does seem the most likely system to maintain some sort of worthwhile function.
    It works in practice but not in theory you mean?
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075

    The story Angela Rayner branded ‘a desperate, perverted smear’ was actually a story told by Angela Rayner herself, about herself. The language the PM condemned as ‘appalling, sexist, misogynist tripe’ was Angela Rayner’s language. The claim the Speaker condemned as ‘misogynistic and offensive’ was her own.

    Two weeks ago, as Tory whips desperately attempted to corral their MPs into blocking an inquiry by the Privileges Committee into whether the PM lied to the Commons over Partygate, Rayner tweeted: ‘You want the truth? They can’t handle the truth.’

    But after the events of the past seven days, a separate question must now be posed. Can she?


    https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/176486

    What has the Mail on Sunday got for us this week then?

    They had better stop teasing us and start coming up with some credible evidence to support their self hyped onslaught on Labour, or else their own doing is actually bolstering Rayner and the mail the only ones keeping Partygate in peoples minds when they vote this week.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    Foxy said:

    I think it just lets the Commons pass craply written laws, expecting that the Lords can polish the turd, and return something less obviously crap.

    It allows the Commons to be lazy. If the HoC couldn't rely on the Lords to sort out their half arsed efforts then they might need to do some work themselves.
    I think that is wishful thinking. Governments hate scrutiny and allow as little as they can, and the longer they are in power the more they dislike anything 'obstructing' their wishes, like someone helpfully trying to draft legislation better in committee.

    Lacking a unicameral culture I think if we got rid of the the Lords (or something like it) altogether we would not see an improvement in drafting, but continued laziness without even the occasional fix we have now.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203

    The story Angela Rayner branded ‘a desperate, perverted smear’ was actually a story told by Angela Rayner herself, about herself. The language the PM condemned as ‘appalling, sexist, misogynist tripe’ was Angela Rayner’s language. The claim the Speaker condemned as ‘misogynistic and offensive’ was her own.

    Two weeks ago, as Tory whips desperately attempted to corral their MPs into blocking an inquiry by the Privileges Committee into whether the PM lied to the Commons over Partygate, Rayner tweeted: ‘You want the truth? They can’t handle the truth.’

    But after the events of the past seven days, a separate question must now be posed. Can she?


    https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/176486

    So the Mail’s story, which claimed that Tory MPs had come forward to accuse Rayner of “Basic Instinct” was wrong.

    The whole thing is a bullshit dead cat, contrived to take heat off Boris. It was kind of working, until Neil Paris started masturbating to tractor porn.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,783
    Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev says Ukraine should never ever agree on occupation, rely on its resources and fight back to protect what it has

    He says Azerbaijan has good relations with Russia but Baku has always supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity, “we aren’t hiding”

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1520388882445045761
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203
    edited April 2022

    The question is whether the HoL performs an important role in our democracy. If it does not, we should become unicameral. If it does, we should keep and evolve it to better fulfil that role.

    Personally, I think it does fulfil a role in examining legislation, and potentially modifying it. Also: its biggest problem isn't lack of elections, but too much politicos and partisanship.
    NZ is unicameral, and - at times - it “shows”. The quid pro quo is that our terms are only three years, but this causes problems of its own.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    I think they are running out of ways to describe the continued talks.

    https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1520418958406569984?cxt=HHwWgMC-2Za_zpkqAAAA

    I keep in touch with @BorisJohnson. Spoke about the situation on the battlefield and in the blocked Mariupol. Discussed defensive support for Ukraine and the necessary diplomatic efforts to achieve peace.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    Nigelb said:

    Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev says Ukraine should never ever agree on occupation, rely on its resources and fight back to protect what it has

    He says Azerbaijan has good relations with Russia but Baku has always supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity, “we aren’t hiding”

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1520388882445045761

    Weren't Russia supporting the other side in the recent war with Armenia?
  • TresTres Posts: 2,820
    I guess the home of Sarah Vine knows which buttons to push to excite their readers. However the Mail's flailing over Rayner is starting to get a little embarrassing for the rest of us...
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,846
    Omnium said:

    Well it depends a lot on the election mechanism of course, but clearly you'd have to have some sort of electioneering and that'd undoubtedly be on a party basis. You'd also certainly have all the odd people trying to get in - Brian Rose, Count Binface, George Galloway etc. Now that's not all bad as we can see from Binface being in the list (!), but you get the idea.

    We'd also not have the resource of the various academic types.

    The way I envisage it, there would be no elections. Just a divvying up of the available appointment slots between the parties according to GE vote share.
  • NorthofStokeNorthofStoke Posts: 1,758
    Pagan2 said:

    While you are setting up an appointments commission why not define the makeup you want in the lords,

    eg
    20% scientists
    10% IT bods
    30% from business 15% big and 15% small
    20% legal professions
    10% charity sector
    10% medical

    Each has national bodies that could submit suggestions for consideration by the committee
    I like that approach and we could really do without another load of career politicians. Extending that idea I once saw a suggestion that professional bodies, interest groups (TUC, CBI), religious groups, trade organisations, voluntary sector, armed forces, sporting organisations etc. could all be allocated a certain number of seats by a committee appointed by the commons (say). There could be direct elections within the various groups and a citizen could be a member up to three groups to participate in votes. There could also be some regional members on a proportional representation basis. Something along those lines to bring disparate experience into a revising chamber. It doesn't have to be fully democratic as power would remain in the commons.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,779
    ydoethur said:

    I was just throne it out there.
    I guess you thought you stole it with that one?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287

    So the Mail’s story, which claimed that Tory MPs had come forward to accuse Rayner of “Basic Instinct” was wrong.

    The whole thing is a bullshit dead cat, contrived to take heat off Boris. It was kind of working, until Neil Paris started masturbating to tractor porn.
    The funniest thing about the Mail's misogyny is that it has led to a Tory MP resigning over his porno habits, leading to a byelection.

    Karma...

  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,572
    Foxy said:

    I think it just lets the Commons pass craply written laws, expecting that the Lords can polish the turd, and return something less obviously crap.

    It allows the Commons to be lazy. If the HoC couldn't rely on the Lords to sort out their half arsed efforts then they might need to do some work themselves.
    Although then again they might not.

    Expecting Jacob Rees-Mogg to show intelligence merely because nobody would be there to suit out the mess he makes would be like expecting Donald Trump to post a sane tweet merely because he might not be modded.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287
    Tres said:

    I guess the home of Sarah Vine knows which buttons to push to excite their readers. However the Mail's flailing over Rayner is starting to get a little embarrassing for the rest of us...

    The Mail really hates Rayner for being a successful working class woman, unashamed of her origins, and it shows. No doubt the feeling is mutual.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,572

    I guess you thought you stole it with that one?
    I did. Your attempts to steal my thunder are definitely surplice to requirements.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203
    edited April 2022
    Foxy said:

    The funniest thing about the Mail's misogyny is that it has led to a Tory MP resigning over his porno habits, leading to a byelection.

    Karma...

    The whole affair has made the Mail look like a pathetic propaganda sheet, and as you say has triggered a by-election for the Tories which it seems possible they will lose.

    I wonder if Tory MPs realise how crap and self-harming “Operation Save Big Dog” is.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    edited April 2022

    So the Mail’s story, which claimed that Tory MPs had come forward to accuse Rayner of “Basic Instinct” was wrong.

    The whole thing is a bullshit dead cat, contrived to take heat off Boris. It was kind of working, until Neil Paris started masturbating to tractor porn.
    I’m suspecting it’s not simply the mail, but Boris number 10 dirty tricks team driving this, to me there is a perfectly clear strategy to Generate traction in a media narrative about Labour front bench being liars, untrustworthy and, in this Rayner story, a bit underhand and dirty in modus operandi - very much a negative strategy, not a “good government and Strong Boris news” one.

    I think their decision to go very negative now is realising their imminent difficulty when Boris gets fined again, and again, and again. They dismissed the first with “pah, 15 minutes one cake” but multiple fines for government front bench for partygate really needs opposition front bench tarred in similar way not to look so squeaky clean.

    They are not getting much help from Times, Telegraph, express and Sun. Perhaps under present ownership Express can support Tories, but only in positive not negative way, and Murdoch empire hedging its bets expecting Tories to fall and be out 10yrs
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203
    Speaking of by-elections, when is disgraced, corrupt ex-Tory David Warburton going to step down?

    Checks: Seems we are waiting on the outcome from an ICGS report.

    The Tories sure know how to pick ‘em.
  • JACK_WJACK_W Posts: 682

    Seriously who the fuck cares?
    Only those who have the seemingly deluded view that politicians should tell the truth. A mad concept I know, but we live in hope.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,852
    kle4 said:

    Weren't Russia supporting the other side in the recent war with Armenia?
    Yes.

    The Azeris were aided by the Turks. Armenia by Russia

    Turkey is also helping Ukraine

    Turkey v Russia is a subplot of this war
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,846
    Foxy said:

    The Mail really hates Rayner for being a successful working class woman, unashamed of her origins, and it shows. No doubt the feeling is mutual.
    They didn't hate Linda Lee-Potter.
  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,771
    Leon said:

    Yes.

    The Azeris were aided by the Turks. Armenia by Russia

    Turkey is also helping Ukraine

    Turkey v Russia is a subplot of this war
    It's a subplot of every war for the last few hundred years at least.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203
    The Mail is the paper for dried up old bigots who resent that other people have a sex life.

    The Express is the same, but for the very hard of thinking.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    They didn't hate Linda Lee-Potter.
    An uncle Tom if ever there was one.
  • Jim_MillerJim_Miller Posts: 3,268
    Foxy's suggestion for electing Lords from local governments reminds me of the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
    The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.

    The amendment was proposed by the 62nd Congress in 1912 and became part of the Constitution on April 8, 1913, on ratification by three-quarters (36) of the state legislatures.
    Is it possible that, once Lords were elected, there would be an effort to change the laws in order to elect them directly? (I have no opinion on whether electing Lords, directly or indirectly, would improve your legislature, not knowing enough about how your upper House operates, now.)

    (At least one senator, Boies Penrose, was delighted by the change to direct elections. He thought his reputation was so bad that the Pennsylvania legislature would not have dared to elect him. But the people did, in 1914.)
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    TLDR: "If it's "no" again, we won't believe the result (again)":

    Dennis Canavan, a senior figure in Yes Scotland during the 2014 independence debate, warned that the Elections Act “could lead to political interference by the UK Government” with particular implications for indyref2.

    He told The National: “The Electoral Commission has responsibility for or influence on various aspects of a referendum, including the wording of the question, the appointment of the chief counting officer, ensuring that the poll is conducted fairly and that political parties and other campaigners adhere to the spending limits.

    “If a Unionist minister like Michael Gove is given some supervisory role over the Electoral Commission, it would potentially undermine the credibility of the result and many people would have no confidence in the outcome.”


    https://www.thenational.wales/news/20105832.scottish-independence-indyref2-threatened-new-uk-electoral-commission-powers/?ref=rss
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 9,012
    Leon said:

    Yes.

    The Azeris were aided by the Turks. Armenia by Russia

    Turkey is also helping Ukraine

    Turkey v Russia is a subplot of this war
    A old one, as in the song about Abdul and Ivan.

  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    mwadams said:

    It's a subplot of every war for the last few hundred years at least.
    The Crimean war had it as a plot line too, though the Crimean war would would never Have happened if France had never instigated it. Naughty French, nothing but trouble.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,846
    IshmaelZ said:

    An uncle Tom if ever there was one.
    An unfairly maligned literary character if ever there was one.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287
    edited April 2022

    The rehearsals for the Victory Day parade in St Peterburg do rather have a whiff of Leni Riefensthal about them:

    https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1520466096662405120?t=f0kznexPTx3nnZ3jkl2RNQ&s=19

  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,846

    An unfairly maligned literary character if ever there was one.
    Uncle Tom, not Linda Lee-Potter.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    One front page is ready, the Indy, headline story is number 10 just can’t stop briefing against number 11.

    Is Boris planning replacing Sunak with Truss quite soon? Can Boris get away with a reshuffle doing this now? Is Sunak so hollowed out already as to be no threat to big dog? Could Boris then try Patel as foreign Secretary?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,572

    One front page is ready, the Indy, headline story is number 10 just can’t stop briefing against number 11.

    Is Boris planning replacing Sunak with Truss quite soon? Can Boris get away with a reshuffle doing this now? Is Sunak so hollowed out already as to be no threat to big dog? Could Boris then try Patel as foreign Secretary?

    Heavens above, Truss is bad, Patel would see us all vaporised in about five minutes.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287
    Foxy said:


    The rehearsals for the Victory Day parade in St Peterburg do rather have a whiff of Leni Riefensthal about them:

    https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1520466096662405120?t=f0kznexPTx3nnZ3jkl2RNQ&s=19

    Hurrah for the Blackskirts!
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,151
    Carnyx said:

    Just noticed #cornhub is actually 'trending' on Twitter.

    One example piced at random:

    https://twitter.com/RichardCllr/status/1520474562156281858?cxt=HHwWhIC-9d7j55kqAAAA

    Don't lookup Only Farms
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287

    One front page is ready, the Indy, headline story is number 10 just can’t stop briefing against number 11.

    Is Boris planning replacing Sunak with Truss quite soon? Can Boris get away with a reshuffle doing this now? Is Sunak so hollowed out already as to be no threat to big dog? Could Boris then try Patel as foreign Secretary?

    No, Johnson will bring in some reliable nonentity.

    Gavin Williamson for example
  • GadflyGadfly Posts: 1,200
    Foxy said:


    The rehearsals for the Victory Day parade in St Peterburg do rather have a whiff of Leni Riefensthal about them:

    https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1520466096662405120?t=f0kznexPTx3nnZ3jkl2RNQ&s=19

    March of the widows.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,373
    Foxy said:

    No, Johnson will bring in some reliable nonentity.

    Gavin Williamson for example
    That's Sir Gavin Williamson to you.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    An unfairly maligned literary character if ever there was one.
    Unembarrassed to say it's a work I know only by repute, and a snippet of a dramatization in Gangs of New York
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    ydoethur said:

    Heavens above, Truss is bad, Patel would see us all vaporised in about five minutes.
    A tad over the top Doctor! Boris may well use Sunak as scapegoat and shuffle his cabinet heavyweights if under pressure in coming months, it’s not to unbelievable to imagine that happening.

    Another enormous score for King Harry Brook setting Yorkshire up for another win. Now I know it’s on a YouTube Chanel I watch some of it and his batting was amazing.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,485

    The Mail is the paper for dried up old bigots who resent that other people have a sex life.

    The Express is the same, but for the very hard of thinking.

    I'm curious those papers have their world view and then I listened to the Russian State TV panellists and their extraordinary world view (apparently one of them wants to fire a nuclear missile at London claiming the British isles will cease to exist 202 seconds later - a cheery thought).

    I find both world views mystifying and repellent in equal measure.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287
    More serious than #Growlergate

    Johnson: Press conference 25-3-2020. ““Patrick, on the numbers of people who have the disease asymptomatically, there was a study I saw quoted from some Oxford academics saying that as many as 50% may have had it asymptomatically”

    He knew. He lied.
    https://t.co/KZ7RZnikSa
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    Foxy said:

    No, Johnson will bring in some reliable nonentity.

    Gavin Williamson for example
    Unlikely to bring Gav back, but Shapps could get a big promotion in the reshuffle. It will also be really clever for Boris to bring 2019 intake into cabinet, like the talented Dehenna Davison,
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,630

    A tad over the top Doctor! Boris may well use Sunak as scapegoat and shuffle his cabinet heavyweights if under pressure in coming months, it’s not to unbelievable to imagine that happening.

    Another enormous score for King Harry Brook setting Yorkshire up for another win. Now I know it’s on a YouTube Chanel I watch some of it and his batting was amazing.
    Almost certain he will make the test squad next month. Certainly in form.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    2 more papers. Express warn Putin has an army of saboteurs sent to UK to humiliate us. Very creepy.

    I havn’t a clue what the Stars front page news is saying.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,302

    A tad over the top Doctor! Boris may well use Sunak as scapegoat and shuffle his cabinet heavyweights if under pressure in coming months, it’s not to unbelievable to imagine that happening.

    Another enormous score for King Harry Brook setting Yorkshire up for another win. Now I know it’s on a YouTube Chanel I watch some of it and his batting was amazing.
    Is it just me or are there many more big individual scores being made this season than in previous years?
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,485

    2 more papers. Express warn Putin has an army of saboteurs sent to UK to humiliate us. Very creepy.

    I havn’t a clue what the Stars front page news is saying.

    I'm sure someone can resurrect a headline like, I don't know, "The Enemy Within" or something of that nature.

    That can't have been used before, can it?

    I now have this image of a little gremlin causing signal problems, point failures and train breakdowns on the District Line and realise they've been here a while...
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075

    Is it just me or are there many more big individual scores being made this season than in previous years?
    Very dry spring weather?
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,814

    2 more papers. Express warn Putin has an army of saboteurs sent to UK to humiliate us. Very creepy.

    I havn’t a clue what the Stars front page news is saying.

    You mean like the coal power plant in the Far East of Russia that exploded last night?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,783

    2 more papers. Express warn Putin has an army of saboteurs sent to UK to humiliate us. Very creepy.

    I havn’t a clue what the Stars front page news is saying.

    By leaking our MPs' browsing habits ?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,302

    Very dry spring weather?
    1000 runs before the end of May looks doable for the first time since 1988; Shan Masood is already on 713 and May has not even started yet.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075

    2 more papers. Express warn Putin has an army of saboteurs sent to UK to humiliate us. Very creepy.

    I havn’t a clue what the Stars front page news is saying.

    Telegraph also have an army of saboteurs looking to wreck UK, but this time it’s a 5th column of rail Union members. They also have an odd story where Tory Party want 50% ladies and 50% men MPs in future as answer to sleaze issues.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    stodge said:

    I'm curious those papers have their world view and then I listened to the Russian State TV panellists and their extraordinary world view (apparently one of them wants to fire a nuclear missile at London claiming the British isles will cease to exist 202 seconds later - a cheery thought).

    I find both world views mystifying and repellent in equal measure.
    Really?

    Sense of proportion required, I think. Not liking women and foreigners and such is one thing, being genuinely happy with a nuclear strike on London is another. Lorra women and foreigners in London, and the vast majority would prefer being disliked by the Daily Mail to the annihilation of them and their loved ones.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620
    edited April 2022
    Foxy said:

    The funniest thing about the Mail's misogyny is that it has led to a Tory MP resigning over his porno habits, leading to a byelection.

    Karma...

    And we all now know that tractor porn is a thing. Which I didn't. Though I have a book on old tractors.

    Imagine being a MP remembered for duck houses, or moats, or tractor porn ...
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    edited April 2022

    Telegraph also have an army of saboteurs looking to wreck UK, but this time it’s a 5th column of rail Union members. They also have an odd story where Tory Party want 50% ladies and 50% men MPs in future as answer to sleaze issues.
    Very insipid mix of front pages so far, just a glance at Observer made me yawn. With Jolie in Ukraine and Malandra Burrows in S Mag, the express looks the best option so far.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620

    Telegraph also have an army of saboteurs looking to wreck UK, but this time it’s a 5th column of rail Union members. They also have an odd story where Tory Party want 50% ladies and 50% men MPs in future as answer to sleaze issues.
    That last thing, very woke. They'll be statue bothering next.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    Carnyx said:

    That last thing, very woke. They'll be statue bothering next.
    Not knowingly woke or muddled I suspect, just saying stuff because something or other needs to be said.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620

    Not knowingly woke or muddled I suspect, just saying stuff because something or other needs to be said.
    Even so, it'll drive the PBTories wild. They've been moaning about that sort of thing for years.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Very dry spring weather?
    That's been standard for April for years.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    Carnyx said:

    And we all now know that tractor porn is a thing. Which I didn't. Though I have a book on old tractors.

    Imagine being a MP remembered for duck houses, or moats, or tractor porn ...
    Most are not remembered at all, so at least he will, which is something.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620
    kle4 said:

    Most are not remembered at all, so at least he will, which is something.
    The Fon of Bafut approach? That's a thought.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    Carnyx said:

    Even so, it'll drive the PBTories wild. They've been moaning about that sort of thing for years.
    Are you sure, such an innocuous and progressive headline could wind anyone up?

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  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,620
    edited April 2022

    Are you sure, such an innocuous and progressive headline could wind anyone up?

    image
    Got to be on merit, we've heard for months. No set quotas. And now ...

    It's an interesting approach for the Tories to take all of a sudden. Though it would be more logical to make it 100%, given the number of Tory sex scandals due to come out still (I make it about 30 more at a rough mental arithmetical count, and that's being a little generous to them).
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    Foxy said:

    More serious than #Growlergate

    Johnson: Press conference 25-3-2020. ““Patrick, on the numbers of people who have the disease asymptomatically, there was a study I saw quoted from some Oxford academics saying that as many as 50% may have had it asymptomatically”

    He knew. He lied.
    https://t.co/KZ7RZnikSa

    The public inquiry - when it finally happens - will be box office.

    Let's hope they pick someone of impeccable qualifications to chair it.




  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    Carnyx said:

    The Fon of Bafut approach?
    I might need some assistance with that reference.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075

    1000 runs before the end of May looks doable for the first time since 1988; Shan Masood is already on 713 and May has not even started yet.
    Masood average 118, King Harry averaging 170.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075

    The public inquiry - when it finally happens - will be box office.

    Let's hope they pick someone of impeccable qualifications to chair it.




    Cyclefree! Assisted by Sunil. The rest of us can carry on comparing cricket averages 🙂
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    geoffw said:

    A old one, as in the song about Abdul and Ivan.

    Yet another classic by Percy French.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,779
    Foxy said:

    More serious than #Growlergate

    Johnson: Press conference 25-3-2020. ““Patrick, on the numbers of people who have the disease asymptomatically, there was a study I saw quoted from some Oxford academics saying that as many as 50% may have had it asymptomatically”

    He knew. He lied.
    https://t.co/KZ7RZnikSa

    Valance’s comments flagged significant doubt. He knew it was a possibility but not a fact
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,859
    Foxy said:

    More serious than #Growlergate

    Johnson: Press conference 25-3-2020. ““Patrick, on the numbers of people who have the disease asymptomatically, there was a study I saw quoted from some Oxford academics saying that as many as 50% may have had it asymptomatically”

    He knew. He lied.
    https://t.co/KZ7RZnikSa

    I'm not sure that's a smoking gun as he's presumably referring to Sunetra Gupta's paper that speculated about how many people had already got antibodies using statistical analysis. It didn't prove anything about asymptomatic transmission.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,859
    Gerhard Schröder still has state funding for his private office.

    https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1520515140310949895
  • 🥀 The secret Labour/Lib Dem elections pact has been revealed.

    Read my letter and the questions that Sir Keir Starmer must answer 👇

    https://twitter.com/OliverDowden/status/1520515882199486465

    ROFL they are desperate. What about the Tory/BXP pact at GE19?
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,678
    Carnyx said:



    Got to be on merit, we've heard for months. No set quotas. And now ...

    It's an interesting approach for the Tories to take all of a sudden. Though it would be more logical to make it 100%, given the number of Tory sex scandals due to come out still (I make it about 30 more at a rough mental arithmetical count, and that's being a little generous to them).

    So are they actually going for all-women's shortlists, or is it just a vague aspiration?
  • Labour 1997 anniversary.

    Things can only get better. Not long to wait now.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,779
    Carnyx said:

    Got to be on merit, we've heard for months. No set quotas. And now ...

    It's an interesting approach for the Tories to take all of a sudden. Though it would be more logical to make it 100%, given the number of Tory sex scandals due to come out still (I make it about 30 more at a rough mental arithmetical count, and that's being a little generous to them).
    Presumably it’s just all the blokes are being forced to resign and losing their seats?
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,485

    🥀 The secret Labour/Lib Dem elections pact has been revealed.

    Read my letter and the questions that Sir Keir Starmer must answer 👇

    https://twitter.com/OliverDowden/status/1520515882199486465

    ROFL they are desperate. What about the Tory/BXP pact at GE19?

    I suspect Oliver Dowden has now realised he will be the scapegoat for the poor Conservative performance and the seat losses on Thursday and he will be publicly sacked by the Prime Minister.
  • Hey @stodge! How are you doing
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,075
    If it’s an evil pact between two parties denying voters proper democracy, Why doesn’t Ed Davey get a letter too? Why only Starmer? 😡
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    stodge said:

    I suspect Oliver Dowden has now realised he will be the scapegoat for the poor Conservative performance and the seat losses on Thursday and he will be publicly sacked by the Prime Minister.
    I thought that was Sunak's job?
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570

    Labour 1997 anniversary.

    Things can only get better. Not long to wait now.

    Things did get better.


    And now...
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,287

    Labour 1997 anniversary.

    Things can only get better. Not long to wait now.

    They did for a bit. It was with the Second Term that New Labour turned bad.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203

    Gerhard Schröder still has state funding for his private office.

    https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1520515140310949895

    I imagine this is a courtesy extended to all former Kanzlers, and separate from the fact that he should be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    "We had no life, and we'll make sure that neither do you."

    What the older generation longing for the revival of the USSR would say to the younger people.

    https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews
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