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What do Tory MPs think about this? – politicalbetting.com
What do Tory MPs think about this? – politicalbetting.com
NEW: Boris Johnson has watered down the ministerial code – allowing ministers to break the rules without resigning – and blocked a bid to give his ethics advisor the power to investigate him… https://t.co/IlDvkqbhSX
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But I guess it's too important that opposition politicians should be able to demand ministers' resignations for the most trivial of perceived transgressions.
The Saronic Gulf, indeed. As you can also see, Plastic Bag Lady is alive and well
BBC News - Cost of living: Is the government package really worth £37bn?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/61594553
It conveniently ignores that 25bn is going to be spent uprating benefits to oldies etc (if that is a good use of money is a different matter).
He's done plenty of bad things. Implementing a recommendation from the Committee on Standards in Public Life is not one of them.
I suspect she is an expert virologist who understand viruses are remarkably polite, and always refrain from attacking you if you are snacking
Boris' ex-colleague says he is a disgrace & considers return to politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ZslHXbAuI
They also seem to go further than the Committee recommended.
When people are in such high profile and powerful positions, it is not unfair or unreasonable to hold them to a very high standard, such that, yes, a minor breach should mean resignation. If it was indeed minor, and they are contrite and have learned something, they can always be brought back after a time.
Anything else is a whinge that the most powerful people in the country are being held to high standards, when they asked to be placed in positions of such power, and that whinge should not be given any weight.
Driven mad by covid panto. It is rather pitiful. She sums up the madness of the last two and a half years, really
Given that, we should expect a Tory bounce. Whether it's substantial and lasts more than a couple of days will tell us a lot about whether the Labour leads have been frothy midterm stuff or voters are quietly determined to remove the Tories from office, even when they do something that people mostly like. What do we expect? My guess is a Labour lead down to 1-2. points for now, recovering to 4-5 after a few days.
On other news, to please TSE and others, I'm going with a friend to the Abba event tomorrow. Will report back!
But in any case, all the headlines seem to be about the introduction of lesser sanctions than removal from office...
* Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporzhzhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Luhansk
Who recommended the rather brutal changes to the foreward ?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches.
https://twitter.com/neill_bob/status/1530220000560263171
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1529930193481220110
The governor of Oklahoma, who just signed a bill banning abortion, period, is being primaried by another Republican who says life begins *before* conception. Yes, you read that right.
Really, this looks like an attept to complain about literally everything he does in the hope that something sticks. It risks looking like crying wolf. Focus on the actual wolf.
And the rewriting of the code is the least interesting thing about this story.
'In his introduction to the previous edition of the ministerial code, the Prime Minister said ministers must "uphold the very highest standards of propriety" - words that have been removed from the revamped edition.
The new introduction says the code should "guide my ministers on how they should act and arrange their affairs".
And the foreword no longer explicitly mentions the seven Nolan principles of public life - integrity, objectivity, accountability, transparency, honesty and leadership in the public interest.'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-waters-down-ethics-27083430
nothing there to give you a moment's pause?
Therefore it’s not necessarily unlikely that there are anti-Brexit people who view the UK as the best, foreigners less so and thus wanted to stay in but now we are out then we are out so their views on other Europeans are still “anti” but more obvious as we aren’t part of the club anymore so don’t have to subsume those feelings for the greater good.
Basically says constituents' feedback.
An outbreak of BDS on his patch?
Just for context on government largesse.
The foreword gives an indication of how the PM will interpret the new code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existence
Looks like these tweets have been taken down for breaking an embargo, but I got a screenshot so will just post them here.
Why? Because if you deliberately try to line your poll up to release at the same time as ours to spike us, I will be petty.
https://twitter.com/chriscurtis94/status/1530220695313166337
That's what moral decay has always looked like.
Now that I think of it, your attitude is very similar to those Germans who looked down on anyone who disagreed with rapprochement with Russia and saw it as a low-status opinion only held by people who read tabloids like Bild. In your case, you associate any criticism of Germany with "two World Wars and one World Cup" football chants and think disagreeing with it is a mark of sophistication. Where disagreement isn't possible, you think a good cosmopolitan should just maintain a dignified silence lest they whip up anti-foreigner sentiment.
But that's enough pedantry.
Your crass rants are really low powered. As I said, you remind me of the stupid children from when I was at school.
Or does every pro EU person in the EU love and praise all actions by other member states?
*checks clock and remembers there is some NZ white in the fridge*
Finance secretary Kate Forbes is facing the choice of either raising taxes or cutting funding for services to reverse a projected multi-billion pound deficit in Scotland’s finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/tax-or-slash-scots-could-face-tax-hikes-or-cuts-to-services-to-tackle-ps35bn-deficit-3712228
You winner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink
https://www.shipcamouflage.com/4_7.htm
The irony that jubilee parties could see his denouement
Your honour, I demand 19 years of support for the children we have not decided to have yet !
Hopefully it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back but it may well be wishful thinking on my part and the current Tory Party really does have no shame is is going to go the full Trump.
I just can't see it happening now.