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  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098
    the Lib Dems have written to the Independent Office for Police Conduct re the Met’s failure to fine Johnson at the party in the pictures
    https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1528782352989798402
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Seattle Times ($) - Starbucks officially leaving Russia, closing 130 stores

    Starbucks announced Monday that it was officially exiting Russia, with 130 stores run by a licensee there closing. The company has also halted the shipment of any Starbucks products.

    The company said in a statement that nearly 2,000 employees in the country would be paid for six months and given help to “transition to new opportunities outside of Starbucks.”

    In early March, the coffee chain condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and announced that it was suspending all store operations in agreement with its licensing partner, which owns and operates all of the Starbucks outlets in the Russia.

    Starbucks’ chief executive at the time, Kevin Johnson, said that the company would “continue to make decisions that are true to our mission and values and communicate with transparency.” He said earlier that any of the company’s royalties from business in Russia would be donated to relief efforts in Ukraine.

    After initially pausing operations, like Starbucks, many companies — including, recently, McDonald’s and French carmaker Renault — have begun revising their plans to make a more definitive exit from Russia, such as by ending licensing and partnership agreements, and removing their brands from the country entirely.
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,617
    for the many cricket fans here, this delivery is something else

    https://twitter.com/publicbenjamin/status/1528780810228314113?s=21&t=mOhHCfItrJz8Br7eEpArRg
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098
    Boris media fanboys after seeing that photo: “at its core this is not a question of law or morality, truth or probity. It’s so much more nuanced than that. For we must ask ourselves what it truly means to be human: to err and yes - to party.” https://twitter.com/KirstyStricklan/status/1528782914477084674/photo/1
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,465
    edited May 2022
    I thought there were rules about copy pasting large parts of paywalled articles on here as OGH has had some letter from the lawyers in the past?
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,340

    Sky suggesting to Thangam Debbonaire that the cabinet office, the police and Sue Gray have all seen these photos and as the PM has not been fined for this event it would wise to wait for the context

    She went on to question did he lie intentionally or unintentionally

    I did not know you could lie unintentionally

    You can say something untrue unintentionally. That wouldn't be a lie. Fair enough.

    It's an awful stretch to make the words the PM has said in the Commons match these photos though. Unless the PM is really dumb.

    Having said that, acting dumber than you can imagine is a standard resort of a schoolboy who has been caught out. ("I had borrowed that magazine to help with my anatomy homework", that sort of thing. Bloody hard work to deal with.)
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,793

    It means nothing of the sort. Lots of illegal things do not result in police charges but are still illegal. Some of the most common reasons:

    Not reported
    Suspect not found
    Lack of sufficient evidence
    Not in the public interest
    Not a police priority
    The police committed the crime!
    Taping off the radio. I did that a lot in my teens but I never got done for it or even got close to being done for it. Your number 5 - not a police priority. Also number 4 - not in the public interest. And number 1 too - never reported. Least I assume not. My dad could be a bit of a 'tough love' bastard sometimes but I don't think he'd have gone that far.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,465
    Taz said:

    for the many cricket fans here, this delivery is something else

    https://twitter.com/publicbenjamin/status/1528780810228314113?s=21&t=mOhHCfItrJz8Br7eEpArRg

    Check their pockets for bottle caps and sun screen!!!!!
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Applicant said:

    If there's no conviction then, officially, Bill is not a murderer.
    You did NOT answer the question. Instead, you devised your own question to fit answer you wanted.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,793
    edited May 2022
    TOPPING said:

    More foils than you think will come off with a firm twist rather than risking impaling yourself with a knife. Otherwise those foil cutters are quite useful.
    But he *likes* to use a sharp knife. That's the point.

    (nails for me)
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,703
    edited May 2022
    kinabalu said:

    But he *likes* to use a sharp knife. That's the point.

    (nails for me)
    He mis-spoke.
  • kyf_100kyf_100 Posts: 4,955
    rcs1000 said:

    Different people value different things.

    That's what makes the world great. On this board, most people prefer low rise, gardens, etc.

    But I'm much more of an urban bod, and would rather be on the 32nd floor of a tower block in Manhattan or in the Barbican than in a three bedroom semi with a garden in Muswell Hill.
    I am a huge fan of inner city living, however I want to own the flat in the tower block, rather than merely lease it. I want a say in how it's maintained, and I want managing agents and service charges to be regulated, with strong protections for residents to prevent over-charging for maintenence and service, with the right to change service providers enshrined in law.

    Until then, I'm out. Give me a low rise and a garden I actually own, over a flat I "lease" yet am liable for unlimited charges.
  • IshmaelZ said:

    There's alcohol and alcohol, apart from anything. Working supper with beer or still wine just about credible, working supper with fizz and gin, not.

    also what sort of party has half bottles of gin at it? Shirley these are aimed at the student and broke alcoholic markets?
    That's surely just personal taste. My wife would drink gin or fizz, not beer. Does that make her a party animal?
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    edited May 2022
    Oh look


    ETA I took that last week on Tresco. There's some kinds of zero-immigrant policy I can really get behind.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,814
    Partygate. Yaaawn.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,537
    Scott_xP said:

    Boris Johnson said repeatedly that he knew nothing about law-breaking – there’s no doubt now, he lied.

    The Prime Minister has demeaned his office.

    He made the rules, and then broke them. The British people deserve better.

    #SueGrayReport

    https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1528760511768190977

    And how's your nan, Angela...?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,793
    rcs1000 said:

    I would be very nervous about jumping into London residential right now, given the rapidly slowing economy. (And I speak as an owner!)
    Yes, I'm thinking of pressing pause and revisiting at a later point. There's some silliness afoot. A 20% drop is imo likelier than a 10% rise from here.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,806
    edited May 2022
    kle4 said:

    Because the Met are incompetent.

    Replace them with the Met Office, we might see a general improvement.
    Is the Met still headed by Dick?
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254
    kinabalu said:

    Taping off the radio. I did that a lot in my teens but I never got done for it or even got close to being done for it. Your number 5 - not a police priority. Also number 4 - not in the public interest. And number 1 too - never reported. Least I assume not. My dad could be a bit of a 'tough love' bastard sometimes but I don't think he'd have gone that far.
    If it was Reggatta de Blanc you taped, then very close to 6 as well!
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 766
    algarkirk said:

    In a sense none of this matters. However many FPNs he gets, the only mechanism for his removal, unless something novel occurs, is the body of Tory MPs. Boris won't resign. You can discuss JR till the cows come home. All it would do is give further excuse for delay.

    Tory MPs will only act if 54 of them believe:

    It serves their interest
    Boris will lose the MPs vote
    There is a better candidate who will replace him.

    All three conditions are doubtful ATM.


    Everyone who isn't Liz Truss is likely to be briefed against, in other words?
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098
    Our @ChrisMasonBBC says he’s learned few things about pic of gathering exposed by @itvnews: PM instigated it. PM was there for 10 mins and then left. Someone who attended has been fined.
    https://twitter.com/sima_kotecha/status/1528785510499553284
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,686
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    kinabalu said:

    Yep. All this FPN bollocks has cluttered things up and helped out Johnson. The cops should never have got involved imo. This is a political 'hypocrisy and lying to parliament' scandal not a legal/criminal one. The offences in themselves are trivial.

    The only thing needed was the (full) Gray report to have been published promptly and compared to his statements to the House. Slam dunk verdict ensues and pre Ukraine too. Maybe just maybe Tory MPs would have ditched him if it'd panned out that way.
    kinabalu said:

    Yep. All this FPN bollocks has cluttered things up and helped out Johnson. The cops should never have got involved imo. This is a political 'hypocrisy and lying to parliament' scandal not a legal/criminal one. The offences in themselves are trivial.

    The only thing needed was the (full) Gray report to have been published promptly and compared to his statements to the House. Slam dunk verdict ensues and pre Ukraine too. Maybe just maybe Tory MPs would have ditched him if it'd panned out that way.
    That precisely the opposite happened seems to be by design rather than accident.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,651
    edited May 2022

    Is the Met still headed by Dick?
    No. Finally gone, thank God.

    Stephen House has been appointed acting Head. From Police Scotland I believe.

    Stood down after some controversies there - no doubt @DavidL can enlarge on those.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Scott_xP said:

    Boris Johnson said repeatedly that he knew nothing about law-breaking – there’s no doubt now, he lied.

    The Prime Minister has demeaned his office.

    He made the rules, and then broke them. The British people deserve better.

    #SueGrayReport

    https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1528760511768190977

    Angela Rayner. Now there’s your impartial observer, right there.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,172
    Taz said:

    for the many cricket fans here, this delivery is something else

    https://twitter.com/publicbenjamin/status/1528780810228314113?s=21&t=mOhHCfItrJz8Br7eEpArRg

    I wonder if you can get bowled and a wide off the same delivery? Unplayable.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,806
    Scott_xP said:

    I just wrote to my MP again.

    I have just written to my MP again would be a more elegant construction.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Is the Met still headed by Dick?
    Nope. Undergoing transition.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Taz said:

    for the many cricket fans here, this delivery is something else

    https://twitter.com/publicbenjamin/status/1528780810228314113?s=21&t=mOhHCfItrJz8Br7eEpArRg

    Shane Warne would have been proud of that one!
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098

    I have just written to my MP again would be a more elegant construction.
    True, but my original should have had an Oxford comma...
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,465
    edited May 2022
    Scott_xP said:

    Our @ChrisMasonBBC says he’s learned few things about pic of gathering exposed by @itvnews: PM instigated it. PM was there for 10 mins and then left. Someone who attended has been fined.
    https://twitter.com/sima_kotecha/status/1528785510499553284

    The obvious question would be what happened after Boris left. If I had to guess, it is what has happened repeatedly, Boris gives everybody the nod and the wink to let off a bit of steam, he leaves and then they get absolutely smashed.

    In the terms of the plod / fines, perhaps they judged that raising a glass to a colleague leaving and give a few mins speech was borderline, but there was dancing on the tables with your tie around your head until 2am and that was clear case for a FPN.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254
    kinabalu said:

    Yes, I'm thinking of pressing pause and revisiting at a later point. There's some silliness afoot. A 20% drop is imo likelier than a 10% rise from here.
    For future value, think about how it fits in with working from home.

    For a 1 bed flat, I can see the ones that are 70sq m+ rising much faster than the <55 sq m ones.
    For a 2 bed flat, size again, does it have outdoor space
    For a house or maisonette, garden will make a bigger difference than before, is there a sensible place for an office.

    Expect govt props to make asset owners richer at the expense of workers, yet again, before the next election. Whether that will be enough to hold off the impact of interest rate rises, who knows.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,686
    Applicant said:

    It depends what Bill's defence was. If it was self-defence, then yes, I think I would.
    "I was quaffing wine in self defence."

    Actually, given the tediousness of some in No10, he might just go with that...
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,010
    You could equally have done a poll in 2010 where there was no UKIP or LD candidate in Labour v Tory seats and no Tory candidate in Labour v LD seats and found the Labour number of seats slashed.

    The non Tory parties are all distinct parties with their own ideologies, not just various branches of an anti Tory faction
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098

    The obvious question would be what happened after Boris left. If I had to guess, it is what has happened repeatedly, Boris gives everybody the nod and the wink to let off a bit of steam, he leaves and then they get absolutely smashed.
    The important word is "instigated"

    BoZo apparently didn't know about a party he fucking organised...
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    That's surely just personal taste. My wife would drink gin or fizz, not beer. Does that make her a party animal?
    If she demanded or accepted either as part of a working supper it would mean that "eccentric" was a very polite description of her
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,806
    Scott_xP said:

    True, but my original should have had an Oxford comma...
    Let's hope you treated your MP to a nice high standard of cuss-laden invective.
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,085
    Scott_xP said:

    Our @ChrisMasonBBC says he’s learned few things about pic of gathering exposed by @itvnews: PM instigated it. PM was there for 10 mins and then left. Someone who attended has been fined.
    https://twitter.com/sima_kotecha/status/1528785510499553284

    This is the problem for the PM. These stories are going to run and run. The whiff of cover up has not helped his cause. It would have been better to have ten fines and for him to say he was drawing a line under it. Now he can't do that.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 38,098
    Well, there's a surprise...

    NEW: The UK will introduce its legislation to override parts of its #Brexit deal within three weeks

    Story soon

    https://twitter.com/kitty_donaldson/status/1528786872260075522
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,465
    edited May 2022
    Scott_xP said:

    The important word is "instigated"

    BoZo apparently didn't know about a party he fucking organised...
    He will claim (or has claimed to the police) what he instigated wasn't what he considers a "party". It was meeting to say goodbye to a colleague. Then, as been reported on other occasions, people have got absolutely wankered.

    Should say I am not defending him, I have been clear what I think about has been going on from the start. My take has been from the get-go, that he has clearly been giving the nod and wink for people take opportunity to "relax" regardless of what the letter or the spirit of the rules were.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,806
    Cyclefree said:

    No. Finally gone, thank God.

    Stephen House has been appointed acting Head. From Police Scotland I believe.

    Stood down after some controversies there - no doubt @DavidL can enlarge on those.
    Goodness me.
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,729
    Of course not everyone would vote in line with such a pact discussed in the post. But many people would.

    I think hypothetical backlash to a pact is hard to demonstrate. You didn't see Alliance benefitting from the sectarian pacts in Belfast Westminster elections in the last few years - I say Alliance because I assume Catholics won't vote DUP out of bloody-minded anger about a pact. These are pacts that have actually happened in the UK, and by and large they succeeded. They returned Belfast East to Unionists and Belfast South to Nationalists and pushed Belfast North into Republican control. That's 3 out of 4 constituencies determined by pacts.

    The long-term issue is that it would mortally wound the Lib Dem and Green parties as independent going concerns, like it did the majority of the Liberal Party (twice!).
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,703
    kinabalu said:

    Yes, I'm thinking of pressing pause and revisiting at a later point. There's some silliness afoot. A 20% drop is imo likelier than a 10% rise from here.
    You'll miss Hampstead.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    edited May 2022
    DavidL said:

    Oh come on people, did you not see what I did there? I replaced "whether" with "weather" because we were talking about the Met Office. Genius. And not a single like.

    Tough crowd PB, tough crowd.
    Just bve grateful you weren't corpsing before the Ladybank Miners' Institute.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 45,346
    Farooq said:

    Looking at these two letters, if you didn't know anything about either person apart from their writing, you'd trust Daisy over Boris.
    Why? They're for different audiences. Johnson's one seems well-written if targeted at kids; Daisy's is targeted at the police.

    You alter the language for the audience.

    (cue jokes...)
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Farooq said:

    Looking at these two letters, if you didn't know anything about either person apart from their writing, you'd trust Daisy over Boris.
    The Johnson one is actually as emetic as fuck.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254

    He will claim (or has claimed to the police) what he instigated wasn't what he considers a "party". It was meeting to say goodbye to a colleague.

    Should say I am not defending him, I have been clear what I think about has been going on from the start.
    “all guidance was followed completely in No 10.”

    No, it was not, it received more fines than anywhere else in the country by an order of magnitude. It is that simple.

    Whether they were parties, what food or drink people had are unimportant.
  • DavidL said:

    I wonder if you can get bowled and a wide off the same delivery? Unplayable.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3V-sYH0Sks

    Legally, no, a ball that hits the wicket (or batsman or bat) can not be wide.
  • ApplicantApplicant Posts: 3,379

    You did NOT answer the question. Instead, you devised your own question to fit answer you wanted.
    That's what I tend to do when the question totally misses the point I was making...
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 30,145

    For future value, think about how it fits in with working from home.

    For a 1 bed flat, I can see the ones that are 70sq m+ rising much faster than the
    Fwiw a BTL landlord told me that the pandemic had seen commuter belt houses rise at the expense of inner-city flats. Anecdata caution applies.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,686
    Scott_xP said:

    The important word is "instigated"

    BoZo apparently didn't know about a party he fucking organised...
    Bit like the meeting with Sue Gray.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    I have just written to my MP again would be a more elegant construction.
    Big_G_WestDevon has fobbed me off twice with Wait for the Gray report, he's about to learn that he can run but he can't hide. Or run, by the look of him.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 10,136
    Think we need the Speaker to threaten resignation. House of Commons has been humiliated.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,686
    edited May 2022

    Appalled at the illegal gathering I'd burst in upon whilst working late on the priorities of the British people, I wrested a glass of illicit cava from the hand of one of the revellers. Holding it aloft to prevent the miscreant from snatching it back, I remonstrated severely with the group, leaving them in no doubt of the grave nature of of their actions, when the common, salt of the earth people of Britain were cowering under the jackboot of Covid. It was at this point that somebody seems to have snapped me with their camera phone, and frankly, any other interpretation of these events says more about the mucky cynicism of the British press than it does about me.
    He can save that one for the next set of snaps.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,798

    For future value, think about how it fits in with working from home.

    For a 1 bed flat, I can see the ones that are 70sq m+ rising much faster than the
    Except surely, surely, we've reached the point now where the notional jolliness of being able to think, "ooh, my house is worth a million pounds, hurray, I'm a millionaire, even though in practice I am no more able to afford a millionaire's lifestyle than I ever was, still, well done government you've made me notionally rich" is balanced out by thinking "Holy fuck, my children will never be able to afford a house and they'll be living with me until I die."
  • ApplicantApplicant Posts: 3,379

    The obvious question would be what happened after Boris left. If I had to guess, it is what has happened repeatedly, Boris gives everybody the nod and the wink to let off a bit of steam, he leaves and then they get absolutely smashed.

    In the terms of the plod / fines, perhaps they judged that raising a glass to a colleague leaving and give a few mins speech was borderline, but there was dancing on the tables with your tie around your head until 2am and that was clear case for a FPN.
    Wouldn't that get him a £10k FPN for organising?
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,085
    God what a mess this is.

    Don't really see how any Conservative can try and claim otherwise.

    An almighty mess.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256
    Off topic

    I've seen the Red Box!

    It was clearly a work event.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Why? They're for different audiences. Johnson's one seems well-written if targeted at kids; Daisy's is targeted at the police.

    You alter the language for the audience.

    (cue jokes...)
    Tone completely wrong, it is a mad affectation to begin a letter "Dear Children." I'd have started "Dear Little Uns, you may have seen your mothers and siblings raped, tortured and murdered in the past couple of months, and I have suffered the even greater pain of waiting for Sue Gray to publish..."
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Off topic

    I've seen the Red Box!

    It was clearly a work event.

    Well what do you expect, if you go out with a redhead?
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,537

    “all guidance was followed completely in No 10.”

    No, it was not, it received more fines than anywhere else in the country by an order of magnitude.
    Starmer: "Hold my pint....."
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254

    Starmer: "Hold my pint....."
    Lovely bit of whataboutery suggests you have no better defence.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,806

    Starmer: "Hold my pint....."
    'Supervise my samosa' surely.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,018

    The obvious question would be what happened after Boris left. If I had to guess, it is what has happened repeatedly, Boris gives everybody the nod and the wink to let off a bit of steam, he leaves and then they get absolutely smashed.

    In the terms of the plod / fines, perhaps they judged that raising a glass to a colleague leaving and give a few mins speech was borderline, but there was dancing on the tables with your tie around your head until 2am and that was clear case for a FPN.
    Re your last paragraph BBC have just come to the same conclusion
  • ApplicantApplicant Posts: 3,379

    Lovely bit of whataboutery suggests you have no better defence.
    "received more fines" doesn't say much more than "most investigated", tbf. One rule for them, one for the rest of us.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254
    Applicant said:

    "received more fines" doesn't say much more than "most investigated", tbf. One rule for them, one for the rest of us.
    Happy to accept it may or may not be the place with the most breaches as opposed to the most fines.

    Does not change the fact that it is completely inconsistent with “all guidance was followed completely in No 10.”
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Applicant said:

    "received more fines" doesn't say much more than "most investigated", tbf. One rule for them, one for the rest of us.
    Rather more events, though.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,018
    IshmaelZ said:

    Big_G_WestDevon has fobbed me off twice with Wait for the Gray report, he's about to learn that he can run but he can't hide. Or run, by the look of him.
    Not sure I understand your reference to me !!!
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256

    Re your last paragraph BBC have just come to the same conclusion
    BigG. You were outraged just three weeks ago of Starmer's egregious breach of the rules, and yet you agree this is a slam-dunk work event.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,465
    edited May 2022
    Reiceved more fines than anywhere else surely has to be false. What about Piers Corbyn weekly get togethers which always resulted in getting arrested. Or did they not fine them very much? There were 100s at those events.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    Not sure I understand your reference to me !!!
    My MP (for West Devon) is Geoffrey Cox, and so that's how I think of him.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256
    Farooq said:

    I thought the correct term was "ginger growler", not "red box"
    That is the best PB post...ever!
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,537
    Farooq said:

    Even if all 30 people at the Labour curry got FPNs (and they won't), it would still be nowhere near Downing Street's tally
    But it would squash the careers of the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 10,136
    Are the number of fatal dog attacks increasing? Seems like a regular BBC News story.

    I was out running a few days ago and got jumped at by someone's dog: "he's just friendly". Well I don't fucking know that, and now I'm covered in mud you knob.

    Not a dog person so don't appreciate the attention at all.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,368
    DavidL said:

    I wonder if you can get bowled and a wide off the same delivery? Unplayable.
    Distance from the wickets at the crease determines whether it is wide, so I would say it is essentially impossible.
  • ApplicantApplicant Posts: 3,379

    Reiceved more fines than anywhere else surely has to be false. What about Piers Corbyn weekly get togethers which always resulted in getting arrested. Or did they not fine them very much? There were 100s at those events.

    I guess those weren't always in the same place.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,018

    BigG. You were outraged just three weeks ago of Starmer's egregious breach of the rules, and yet you agree this is a slam-dunk work event.
    The BBC have suggested this was the reason, not me, and as I have said I believe Starmer will be cleared for very similar reasons
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,744
    Heathener said:

    Do you really, truly, in your heart of hearts still like London? I get the blustering about it but deep down ... do you? My suspicion is that you don't?

    So why not live abroad, or spend most of your time abroad? I've done it lots in my life and they have mostly been the most exhilarating times of my life, free as you suggest from all the crappy stresses of the UK, which are only getting worse.
    I’m certainly getting to the stage where I can consider moving away. Having adored it all my life

    Ideally of course I’d want both, the London flat and a little bolthole somewhere sunny

    However I have kids yet to grow up. A few more years and we will see. I still have a ton of friends in London, which is great. I’d be loathe to lose them
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256

    The BBC have suggested this was the reason, not me, and as I have said I believe Starmer will be cleared for very similar reasons
    Starmer's going down!
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    Lovely bit of whataboutery suggests you have no better defence.
    No bitter defence? Thought it was a bottle of lager?
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,844

    Off topic

    I've seen the Red Box!

    It was clearly a work event.

    Good News! There was a Red Box. Must be work.
    Bad News! It was used to transport booze because the suitcase was already full of bottles.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 30,145
    edited May 2022
    Eabhal said:

    Are the number of fatal dog attacks increasing? Seems like a regular BBC News story.

    I was out running a few days ago and got jumped at by someone's dog: "he's just friendly". Well I don't fucking know that, and now I'm covered in mud you knob.

    Not a dog person so don't appreciate the attention at all.

    Yes, and that increase has been on the news. For instance:-

    Dog bite injuries DOUBLE in 15 years with more than 10,000 people a year requiring hospital treatment after attack: RSPCA says 'impulse buys' during lockdown and animals from overseas puppy farms are fuelling epidemic
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10844577/Dog-bite-injuries-DOUBLE-15-years-10-000-people-year-needing-treatment-attack.html
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,793
    I do think the whole FPN thing is a red herring to the great white shark of hypocrisy and lying to parliament but I must admit to being fair flabbergasted by Johnson only getting the one when you see all the stuff he got up to.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,368
    Scott_xP said:

    Well, there's a surprise...

    NEW: The UK will introduce its legislation to override parts of its #Brexit deal within three weeks

    Story soon

    https://twitter.com/kitty_donaldson/status/1528786872260075522

    I have a theory.

    Boris Johnson is doing it this way, because it allows him to look tough, without anything actually happening. Rather than going to Article 16, this means he can stick two fingers up at the EU, knowing that the Lords will amend the legislation to death, and that he can shrug his shoulders and say "Bloody Upper House". (And hopefully this means he can keep the Brexit was going into 2024.)
  • Good point about Starmer. No way he can get a fine now.

    Well done Johnson
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,368

    Appalled at the illegal gathering I'd burst in upon whilst working late on the priorities of the British people, I wrested a glass of illicit cava from the hand of one of the revellers. Holding it aloft to prevent the miscreant from snatching it back, I remonstrated severely with the group, leaving them in no doubt of the grave nature of their actions, when the common, salt of the earth people of Britain were cowering under the jackboot of Covid. It was at this point that somebody seems to have snapped me with their camera phone, and frankly, any other interpretation of these events says more about the mucky cynicism of the British press than it does about me.
    Brilliant.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,254
    kinabalu said:

    I do think the whole FPN thing is a red herring to the great white shark of hypocrisy and lying to parliament but I must admit to being fair flabbergasted by Johnson only getting the one when you see all the stuff he got up to.

    In order of likelihood I would have had:

    Getting fined for parties other than cakegate, but not cakegate
    Cleared of cakegate and everything else
    Fined for cakegate and everything else
    What has actually happened
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,018
    kinabalu said:

    I do think the whole FPN thing is a red herring to the great white shark of hypocrisy and lying to parliament but I must admit to being fair flabbergasted by Johnson only getting the one when you see all the stuff he got up to.

    It comes down to my belief the legislation had more holes in it than a colander and they even varied month by month

    I expect clarification will be needed and of course this will all come up again in July when Durham Police reveal their decision on beergate
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    But it would squash the careers of the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

    korma karma for all.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256
    edited May 2022
    kinabalu said:

    I do think the whole FPN thing is a red herring to the great white shark of hypocrisy and lying to parliament but I must admit to being fair flabbergasted by Johnson only getting the one when you see all the stuff he got up to.

    " Barman a pint of your finest whitewash please".
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,744
    As a total alcoholic, I believe I recognise those wines

    They are all supermarket wines, probably M&S. One of the reds is a Fleurie? The yellow label might be a Greek or Portuguese white

    I can also see a Kiwi Sauv Blanc, but at the cheaper end, with a screw top?

    So they are probably all in the £7-14 bracket, not hideous, by any means, but not exactly great Barolos, either
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 31,256

    Good point about Starmer. No way he can get a fine now.

    Well done Johnson

    I still think he will. A different force, and one that was castigated over it's failure over Cummings.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 29,844
    Just watched ITV News. Peston pointed out that as people have been fined for attending that party, it was by definition illegal. So whomever it was on here earlier dancing on a pinhead about things being legal just received a little prick.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,793
    TOPPING said:

    You'll miss Hampstead.
    Yes, I know.

    When I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is forever the Hampstead crepe van.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,744
    Farooq said:

    Loath, not loathe.

    Don't do it. Whilst I'm a big advocate for rural life, it's not for someone like you. You'd get bored very quickly.
    Yeah, maybe. And I am living an unreal life these recent weeks. Drifting agreeably from sunny country to sunny country, seeing fabulous things and meeting the odd interesting person, with lots of booze and seafood throughout, from oysters in New Orleans to red mullet in the Sivota tavernas

    If I ever actually settled, it would be one or the other, for all time. Red mullet might begin to bore

    Maybe I should just be a nomad. A modern hunter gatherer!
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,283
    On topic, probably worth filing in the same drawer with that almost wholly yellow map of the UK in Charlie Kennedy's heyday showing the Lib Dems would win 224 seats if people thought "(we) could win here".
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,624

    Just watched ITV News. Peston pointed out that as people have been fined for attending that party, it was by definition illegal. So whomever it was on here earlier dancing on a pinhead about things being legal just received a little prick.

    A work meeting that turned into a party after the pm left, may be one way you are wrong. At least that will be the weasel words the met use.
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