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  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Give him his due, not even Boris tried that one.

    As far as we know.
    Why do you think they needed separate planes?
  • MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415
    edited September 2022
    MISTY said:

    Honestly all the mock outrage and halo polishing about Braverman on here is so much bullsh*t.

    Everybody knows why she's been appointed and what her task is, and why its important to the tories. See the latest red wall poll for reference.

    I have to wait and see, an opinion so soon is just bullshit?

    Well phooey - my opinion of Sueevil today is Patel minus a brain. I’m entitled to it because these political careers didn’t just begin today you know.

    Here’s my halo 😇
  • Cleverly is an astonishing lightweight.
    Probably the crappest FS since Johnson.
  • MISTY said:

    Honestly all the mock outrage and halo polishing about Braverman on here is so much bullsh*t.

    Everybody knows why she's been appointed and what her task is, and why its important to the tories. See the latest red wall poll for reference.

    I have to wait and see, an opinion so soon is just bullshit?

    Well phooey - my opinion of Sueella today is Patel minus a brain. I’m entitled to it because these political careers didn’t just begin today you know.

    Here’s my halo 😇
    :innocent:
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708
    Brandon Lewis appointed the new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

    https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567223375205916681?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392

    MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

    The government is incandescent with rage about those hoops - that shows they have an effect.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392

    Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Give him his due, not even Boris tried that one.

    As far as we know.
    Why do you think they needed separate planes?
    Because Boris would knock her out, switch clothes, and present himself to the Queen in a wig.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708

    Cleverly is an astonishing lightweight.
    Probably the crappest FS since Johnson.

    He will be our first BME UK Foreign Secretary though and that will make an impression in the developing world
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 66,729
    HYUFD said:

    Brandon Lewis appointed the new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

    https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567223375205916681?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    This is a deeply unserious cabinet. It's the Who? Who? Ministry on acid.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,557

    PM Truss is just a superb leader, already the best PM ever!

    Were you hit on the head by one of @Leon ’s dung balls ?
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/06/teacher-jailed-row-use-pronouns-transgender-pupil/

    A teacher in Ireland has been jailed for refusing to use the pronoun 'they' to refer to a pupil who identified as neither male nor female.

    Whatever the rights and wrongs of the gender identity debate, 'they' is a plural noun and totally unsuitable for referring to a person.

    Couldn't we come up with some vaguely acceptable compromise? E.g. 'shehe?' Or perhaps, to make it sound classier, borrow from Welsh and create 'fehi?'
    Well that's my position exactly.
    And to those who say there are deep roots to the use of they as singular, well, there are deep roots to the use of 'gotten' too.
    I just cannot enjoy a sentence in which the word 'they'is used to refer to a single person.
    Interested in 'fehi' though - is that a gender neutral singular pronoun? How useful
    It's a running together of the Welsh pronouns 'fe' (he) and 'hi' (pronounced he and meaning, amusingly, she).

    It works better than combining the English ones, or at least I think it does.

    And by adding an r or m you could easily replace 'his/hers' and 'him/her.'
    I see.
    The thing is, quite aside from transsexuals, it would be very useful to have such a word. As you say, it used to be "he". But that was clearly always sub-optimal, that word doing a perfectly good job elsewhere.
    The problem is that any such words now carry connotations of 'look at me and how modern my sensibilities are'.
    You're just wrong. It is still normal English.

    Thought experiment: you are in a car, with a passenger. In front of you is a single occupant car remaining stationary after thelights have gone green. If you can tell their gender you say What is he/she just sitting there for? If you can't, I bet you say, What are they just sitting there for?
  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    I know Truss had an affair but do you have a link re your allegations re Kwarteng
  • MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?
    By that logic, no law provides protection.
  • alex_alex_ Posts: 7,518

    HYUFD said:

    Head of the Taxpayers' Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, appointed Truss' chief economic adviser
    https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1567153688535306241?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Ah, the Taxpayer’s Alliance, that stalwart association of hardworking burghers.
    Nobody in the country to earn more than 100k a year - in perpetuity with no allowance for inflation. I think he’s a bit of a socialist at heart.
  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.
    Um, didn't he shag Amber Rudd???
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 43,594

    As the humble grandson of immigrants to this countrys how awesome is our new PM's cabinet.

    Fourth consecutive BAME Chancellor, BAME Foreign Secretary, and likely third consecutive Home Secretary from a BAME background.

    Remind me what Corbyn said about only Labour could unlock the potential of minorities?

    Sonia Sodha of the Guardian has just made that point

    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    They're inalienable rights protected by British courts and the British Parliament not the ECHR.

    How did the ECHR protect "the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on" in Russia until February?

    It didn't.

    UK courts will implement UK law. In the absence of the ECHR. a democratically elected UK government could remove the right to private property, limit the franchise and imprison people without trial all through simple acts of Parliament that the independent courts would be obliged apply. You are seemingly OK with that, I am not. We disagree.

    You seem to think the ECHR makes a difference when it demonstrably doesn't.

    I'm not OK with any government doing that but I put my faith more in our voters preventing that, than failed and nobbled courts.
    If I were a 1930s German jew I think I would rather the Convention applied than that it didn't. and I would continue to have that preference in the face of any number of shouty affirmations that IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE YOU REALISE?
    You don't need to look back to the 1930s anymore. Look at modern day Russia which was in the ECHR until February.
    During the Cold War, the more demented Hammer&Sickle shaggers like to claim that the Soviet constitution guaranteed far more rights than most Western countries.

    And indeed it did. Lots of nice words. Enforcement of the words was up to the judges of course…..
  • ydoethur said:

    HYUFD said:
    Blimey, she really is short of talent.
    Loads have turned it down according to the whispers.
  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.
    Um, didn't he shag Amber Rudd???
    And the rest.
    Allegedly.
  • HYUFD said:

    Brandon Lewis appointed the new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

    https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567223375205916681?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Shit choice
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415
    ydoethur said:

    I think Thérèse Coffey is a good appointment.

    I know I already said this, BUT:

    Wake up and smell the Coffey.
    That's going to be said a latte times.
    And expect robusta response to it.
  • HYUFD said:

    Head of the Taxpayers' Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, appointed Truss' chief economic adviser
    https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1567153688535306241?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Ah, the Taxpayer’s Alliance, that stalwart association of hardworking burghers.
    Tufton Street takes over Downing Street.
  • HYUFD said:

    Head of the Taxpayers' Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, appointed Truss' chief economic adviser
    https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1567153688535306241?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Ah, the Taxpayer’s Alliance, that stalwart association of hardworking burghers.
    Finally on the taxpayers’ dollar!
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206
    kle4 said:

    MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

    The government is incandescent with rage about those hoops - that shows they have an effect.
    OR the hoops are now ridiculous foreign obstacles that prevent the UK government of the day enacting the will of the people

    HMG’s Rwanda policy has been passed as lawful by all relevant British courts. It was the ECHR which stopped it

    Now you may hate the Rwanda policy but it is an attempt to solve a problem that the British people want solved, and with reason. It might not work but it is surely worth trying. If independent British judges say it does not infringe human rights then that’s good enough for me

    Get on with it
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 3,054
    edited September 2022
    Leon said:


    All the food I’m eating in Portugal is better than almost any of the food I had in Italy. Unexpected


    Addictive but trashy food also available:



    Chocolate salami does not taste much of chocolate, more like a cheap fridge cake. But the Portuguese are in love with it.
  • HYUFD said:

    Brandon Lewis appointed the new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

    https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567223375205916681?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Shit choice
    What’s wrong with him.
    I have no opinion of him one way or another.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/06/teacher-jailed-row-use-pronouns-transgender-pupil/

    A teacher in Ireland has been jailed for refusing to use the pronoun 'they' to refer to a pupil who identified as neither male nor female.

    Whatever the rights and wrongs of the gender identity debate, 'they' is a plural noun and totally unsuitable for referring to a person.

    Couldn't we come up with some vaguely acceptable compromise? E.g. 'shehe?' Or perhaps, to make it sound classier, borrow from Welsh and create 'fehi?'
    Well that's my position exactly.
    And to those who say there are deep roots to the use of they as singular, well, there are deep roots to the use of 'gotten' too.
    I just cannot enjoy a sentence in which the word 'they'is used to refer to a single person.
    Interested in 'fehi' though - is that a gender neutral singular pronoun? How useful
    It's a running together of the Welsh pronouns 'fe' (he) and 'hi' (pronounced he and meaning, amusingly, she).

    It works better than combining the English ones, or at least I think it does.

    And by adding an r or m you could easily replace 'his/hers' and 'him/her.'
    I see.
    The thing is, quite aside from transsexuals, it would be very useful to have such a word. As you say, it used to be "he". But that was clearly always sub-optimal, that word doing a perfectly good job elsewhere.
    The problem is that any such words now carry connotations of 'look at me and how modern my sensibilities are'.
    You're just wrong. It is still normal English.

    Thought experiment: you are in a car, with a passenger. In front of you is a single occupant car remaining stationary after thelights have gone green. If you can tell their gender you say What is he/she just sitting there for? If you can't, I bet you say, What are they just sitting there for?
    Following this debate my overwhelming impression is the strict 'rule' about not doing that is one of those made up rules that is not actually that important for general understanding.
  • Has anyone who wasn't on Team Truss got a job yet?
  • JRM walking up Downing Street
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,226
    Are they really going to do a universal price cap so taxpayers have to subsidise Joe Loadsamoney’s Hot Tub and heated swimming pool?
  • Cleverly is an astonishing lightweight.
    Probably the crappest FS since Johnson.

    That's quite the compliment to Raab and Truss.
  • JRM walking up Downing Street

    Oh no.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 25,042
    edited September 2022

    Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.
    Um, didn't he shag Amber Rudd???
    And the rest.
    Allegedly.
    Good grief, how many Rudds are there?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206
    carnforth said:

    Leon said:


    All the food I’m eating in Portugal is better than almost any of the food I had in Italy. Unexpected


    Addictive but trashy food also available:



    Chocolate salami does not taste much of chocolate, more like a cheap fridge cake. But the Portuguese are in love with it.
    Oddly tempting!
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    edited September 2022
    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

    The government is incandescent with rage about those hoops - that shows they have an effect.
    OR the hoops are now ridiculous foreign obstacles that prevent the UK government of the day enacting the will of the people

    HMG’s Rwanda policy has been passed as lawful by all relevant British courts. It was the ECHR which stopped it

    Now you may hate the Rwanda policy but it is an attempt to solve a problem that the British people want solved, and with reason. It might not work but it is surely worth trying. If independent British judges say it does not infringe human rights then that’s good enough for me

    Get on with it
    My problem with the Rwanda policy is not whether it is lawful or not, I think it is the wrong approach regardless of whether it is lawful. I am happy to concede that things may be lawful even if I think they are shitty. If the UK parliament wants to pursue that policy in non-compliance with the ECHR, if indeed it is, then I would object to the policy regardless, I just wouldn't mention the legality.

    Same thing over the prorogation case, albeit that did not touch on ECHR issues - it was the wrong thing to do even if the court had ruled it was acceptable (frankly I was not entirely persuaded by the argument it was not legal).
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 24,583

    Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
  • JRM walking up Downing Street

    Oh no.
    Unfortunately yes
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Cookie said:

    Cookie said:

    English is only my tenth language or summat (I first arrived in this country in early 1976 not able to speak a single word of English - I was only four months old!), BUT:

    Isn't the third person neuter singular "it"/"its"?

    "It" carries a strong implication of non-human.
    Third person singular human gender non-specific is something we just don't have a word for!

    Did you manage to cram nine more languages into your first four months?!
    But surely the word "they" implies you have multiple personas! By all means possible, of course!
    Well yes. That's very much my main problem with it.
    I get the same feeling of discomfort hearing 'they' used for an individual that I do hearing 'less' used where 'fewer' would be better, or hearing 'disinterested' used to mean 'indifferent'.
    Each and every one of which is a snobbish non-distinction dreamed up by tedious 19th century Oxford classics dons. tell us how you can't be doing with split infinitives.
  • Leon said:

    carnforth said:

    Leon said:


    All the food I’m eating in Portugal is better than almost any of the food I had in Italy. Unexpected


    Addictive but trashy food also available:



    Chocolate salami does not taste much of chocolate, more like a cheap fridge cake. But the Portuguese are in love with it.
    Oddly tempting!
    But does it belong on a pizza?
  • MISTYMISTY Posts: 1,594
    moonshine said:

    Are they really going to do a universal price cap so taxpayers have to subsidise Joe Loadsamoney’s Hot Tub and heated swimming pool?


    not to mention Rishi Sunak's heated swimming pool?
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 4,530
    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,226

    Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
    Yes suggest that is retracted
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    carnforth said:

    Leon said:


    All the food I’m eating in Portugal is better than almost any of the food I had in Italy. Unexpected


    Addictive but trashy food also available:



    Chocolate salami does not taste much of chocolate, more like a cheap fridge cake. But the Portuguese are in love with it.
    Fridge cakes are great!
  • stodgestodge Posts: 12,741
    Evening all :)

    A day of political theatre but all well choreographed and the denouement well trailed. The new senior Cabinet appointments are indeed no surprise and unfortunately the Prime Minister has forgotten one of the most important adages of political life - keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

    As a point for some on here - the ethnicity and gender of any Cabinet Minister (or indeed anyone) is entirely and totally irrelevant. It doesn't make them beyond criticism or open to unreasonable criticism - it makes them open to reasonable scrutiny and account.

    Consider the number of allies Margaret Thatcher had in the 1975 Shadow Cabinet or the extent to which John Major kept most of the Thatcher team after the 1990 leadership election.

    Concensus (however you spell it) isn't a bad thing - collective responsibility doesn't just mean single-minded obeisance to the Prime Minister. Dissent can often mean different thinking and again that shouldn't and isn't a bad thing.

    Truss' address to the nation was, as these always are, long on generalities and platitudes and short on specifics but obviously the next 48 hours will be informative.

    The well-trailed "Energy Freeze" confuses old simple-minded @stodge a wee bit. If I'm not going to pay the additional costs for my energy, where is my incentive to use less? Putting that to one side, if we assume the Government is going to pay out and do so from more borrowing, that doesn't sound like good news for the public finances.

    I read the CEO of Scottish Power claiming the Government's plans would cost a "conservative" £100 billion so we can probably double that especially if it is required well into 2023 if not beyond. We are already set to pay £100 billion in debt interest payments next year before this additional borrowing.

    I thought originally the "loan" (for that's what it is) would be repaid via no reduction in bills IF the price of gas falls but presumably there's also the option of clearing it via rises in general taxation though the most likely option i the classic kicking the can down the road solution and ensuring the next Government has a financial anchor dragging it along.

    I now wonder the extent to which spending cuts will now be inflicted on local and central Government. One advantage the Conservatives have is that 2019 was such a bad year for them in the local election round, they couldn't do much worse in 2023 - or could they?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708
    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
  • IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    Cookie said:

    English is only my tenth language or summat (I first arrived in this country in early 1976 not able to speak a single word of English - I was only four months old!), BUT:

    Isn't the third person neuter singular "it"/"its"?

    "It" carries a strong implication of non-human.
    Third person singular human gender non-specific is something we just don't have a word for!

    Did you manage to cram nine more languages into your first four months?!
    But surely the word "they" implies you have multiple personas! By all means possible, of course!
    Well yes. That's very much my main problem with it.
    I get the same feeling of discomfort hearing 'they' used for an individual that I do hearing 'less' used where 'fewer' would be better, or hearing 'disinterested' used to mean 'indifferent'.
    Each and every one of which is a snobbish non-distinction dreamed up by tedious 19th century Oxford classics dons. tell us how you can't be doing with split infinitives.
    Snobbish non-distinctions are what made our country great, and will do so again. Get with the programme.
  • HYUFD said:

    Head of the Taxpayers' Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, appointed Truss' chief economic adviser
    https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1567153688535306241?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww

    Ah, the Taxpayer’s Alliance, that stalwart association of hardworking burghers.
    Finally on the taxpayers’ dollar!
    Whatever the red wall voted for, I don't think it was the reheated Thatcherism of the Taxpayers Alliance.
  • Leon said:

    carnforth said:

    Leon said:


    All the food I’m eating in Portugal is better than almost any of the food I had in Italy. Unexpected


    Addictive but trashy food also available:



    Chocolate salami does not taste much of chocolate, more like a cheap fridge cake. But the Portuguese are in love with it.
    Oddly tempting!
    But does it belong on a pizza?
    One year my then lady friend and I had a chocolate pizza on February 14th.

    It was horrid.

    Fortunately for me, she overlooked this epic fail.
  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
    I am concerned about the allegations and have asked for a link as I know Truss had affair but that was with Mark Field

    Not sure OGH would be impressed
  • CookieCookie Posts: 11,182
    IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    ydoethur said:

    Cookie said:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/06/teacher-jailed-row-use-pronouns-transgender-pupil/

    A teacher in Ireland has been jailed for refusing to use the pronoun 'they' to refer to a pupil who identified as neither male nor female.

    Whatever the rights and wrongs of the gender identity debate, 'they' is a plural noun and totally unsuitable for referring to a person.

    Couldn't we come up with some vaguely acceptable compromise? E.g. 'shehe?' Or perhaps, to make it sound classier, borrow from Welsh and create 'fehi?'
    Well that's my position exactly.
    And to those who say there are deep roots to the use of they as singular, well, there are deep roots to the use of 'gotten' too.
    I just cannot enjoy a sentence in which the word 'they'is used to refer to a single person.
    Interested in 'fehi' though - is that a gender neutral singular pronoun? How useful
    It's a running together of the Welsh pronouns 'fe' (he) and 'hi' (pronounced he and meaning, amusingly, she).

    It works better than combining the English ones, or at least I think it does.

    And by adding an r or m you could easily replace 'his/hers' and 'him/her.'
    I see.
    The thing is, quite aside from transsexuals, it would be very useful to have such a word. As you say, it used to be "he". But that was clearly always sub-optimal, that word doing a perfectly good job elsewhere.
    The problem is that any such words now carry connotations of 'look at me and how modern my sensibilities are'.
    You're just wrong. It is still normal English.

    Thought experiment: you are in a car, with a passenger. In front of you is a single occupant car remaining stationary after thelights have gone green. If you can tell their gender you say What is he/she just sitting there for? If you can't, I bet you say, What are they just sitting there for?
    I would say 'what is that person just sitting there for?'
    Or on the grounds that that person hadn't heard me and wouldn't take offence, I would make a wild guess.
    Or I would just use "he" in the same way that I describe all cats as "he" unless I know otherwise - again, knowing that that person couldn't take offence.

    I would very much like a gender neutral politically neutral third person singular word. But we don't have one at present and I'm not going to start using the English language in an ugly manner for the lack of one.

  • ydoethur said:

    I think Thérèse Coffey is a good appointment.

    I know I already said this, BUT:

    Wake up and smell the Coffey.
    That's going to be said a latte times.
    And expect robusta response to it.
    It's certainly not a flat white Cabinet.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    Eh, I don't see that it is that different.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 20,812
    edited September 2022

    Cleverly is an astonishing lightweight.
    Probably the crappest FS since Johnson.

    That's quite the compliment to Raab and Truss.
    Britain has had a succession of poor FSs, in large because most tangible aspects of the role have been usurped by the PM.

    I’d have Johnson at bottom though, with Raab not far behind. Cleverly - on paper - is worse than Raab. Truss was just about OK.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415
    edited September 2022

    MISTY said:

    Honestly all the mock outrage and halo polishing about Braverman on here is so much bullsh*t.

    Everybody knows why she's been appointed and what her task is, and why its important to the tories. See the latest red wall poll for reference.

    I have to wait and see, an opinion so soon is just bullshit?

    Well phooey - my opinion of Sueella today is Patel minus a brain. I’m entitled to it because these political careers didn’t just begin today you know.

    Here’s my halo 😇
    :innocent:
    Mine does look better than yours. Did you even polish it before posting?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 24,583
    edited September 2022

    JRM walking up Downing Street

    I wish he was walking down Uping Street instead
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206
    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

    The government is incandescent with rage about those hoops - that shows they have an effect.
    OR the hoops are now ridiculous foreign obstacles that prevent the UK government of the day enacting the will of the people

    HMG’s Rwanda policy has been passed as lawful by all relevant British courts. It was the ECHR which stopped it

    Now you may hate the Rwanda policy but it is an attempt to solve a problem that the British people want solved, and with reason. It might not work but it is surely worth trying. If independent British judges say it does not infringe human rights then that’s good enough for me

    Get on with it
    My problem with the Rwanda policy is not whether it is lawful or not, I think it is the wrong approach regardless of whether it is lawful. I am happy to concede that things may be lawful even if I think they are shitty. If the UK parliament wants to pursue that policy in non-compliance with the ECHR, if indeed it is, then I would object to the policy regardless, I just wouldn't mention the legality.

    Same thing over the prorogation case, albeit that did not touch on ECHR issues - it was the wrong thing to do even if the court had ruled it was acceptable (frankly I was not entirely persuaded by the argument it was not legal).
    Which is entirely fair. The Rwanda policy is highly contentious, and I can understand the many objections. I believe, however, we are at a stage when we need pretty radical solutions, because this will only get worse

    But these are proper debates we need to have in a democratic country. What we don’t need is some ridiculous foreign court saying No a democratic British government can’t do something that the British people want, even though the British courts have said it is permissible. Enough
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,695

    JRM walking up Downing Street

    Bring on the Moggster :D
  • Every PM has to have one certifiable loon to pander to that portion of their base. Hopefully Truss limits it to just JRM.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 4,530
    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    I’m surprised there’s nothing at all so far for Sunak supporters . This looks risky to say the least !
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708

    Every PM has to have one certifiable loon to pander to that portion of their base. Hopefully Truss limits it to just JRM.

    Assuming you don't count Braverman as a loon
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    Cookie said:

    English is only my tenth language or summat (I first arrived in this country in early 1976 not able to speak a single word of English - I was only four months old!), BUT:

    Isn't the third person neuter singular "it"/"its"?

    "It" carries a strong implication of non-human.
    Third person singular human gender non-specific is something we just don't have a word for!

    Did you manage to cram nine more languages into your first four months?!
    But surely the word "they" implies you have multiple personas! By all means possible, of course!
    Well yes. That's very much my main problem with it.
    I get the same feeling of discomfort hearing 'they' used for an individual that I do hearing 'less' used where 'fewer' would be better, or hearing 'disinterested' used to mean 'indifferent'.
    Each and every one of which is a snobbish non-distinction dreamed up by tedious 19th century Oxford classics dons. tell us how you can't be doing with split infinitives.
    You're certainly speaking my language.

    I've said it before, but while there are occasions when less and fewer are not interchangable (I am fewer education than Ydoethur for example), the false rigidity people apply to it is just dumb, as is the supposed improperness of plenty of rules.
  • Truss is yet another PM using "their" middle name.

    Her real first name is Mary.
  • YBarddCwscYBarddCwsc Posts: 7,172

    Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
    I am concerned about the allegations and have asked for a link as I know Truss had affair but that was with Mark Field

    Not sure OGH would be impressed
    An allegation is a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong,

    It is not against the law to have sex. This can't possibly be actionable.

    Whether it is true or not is another matter.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415
    kle4 said:

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    I have some bad news for you.
    Every appointment as trailed so far. 🫣
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206
    Obviously left wing people hate obviously right wing Cabinet: SHOCK
  • Leon said:

    Obviously left wing people hate obviously right wing Cabinet: SHOCK

    On the contrary, the Tories seem to want to troll you "anti-woke" lot.
  • Every PM has to have one certifiable loon to pander to that portion of their base. Hopefully Truss limits it to just JRM.

    Too late. Braverman is HS.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708
    edited September 2022
    nico679 said:

    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    I’m surprised there’s nothing at all so far for Sunak supporters . This looks risky to say the least !
    Nor Mordaunt supporters either yet and Badenoch and Tugendhat still have not got a role either.

    So far every Cabinet member appointed endorsed Truss from the first round I think except Braverman who endorsed her when knocked out
  • I like to listen to the political news through nonpartisan, nonpolitical sources like the hourly news bulletin on Magic Radio to hear how it sounds to people who don't read PB. It wasn't great for Truss to be honest - they played that soundbite about putting spades in the ground to lower utility bills, which is literally just random words assembled into a sentence. I am already tired of her voice, too. Obviously I am not an unbiased source on this matter, but I honestly think she is going to be shit. If Labour don't win the next election they should probably just pack up and go home.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    They're inalienable rights protected by British courts and the British Parliament not the ECHR.

    How did the ECHR protect "the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on" in Russia until February?

    It didn't.

    UK courts will implement UK law. In the absence of the ECHR. a democratically elected UK government could remove the right to private property, limit the franchise and imprison people without trial all through simple acts of Parliament that the independent courts would be obliged apply. You are seemingly OK with that, I am not. We disagree.

    You seem to think the ECHR makes a difference when it demonstrably doesn't.

    I'm not OK with any government doing that but I put my faith more in our voters preventing that, than failed and nobbled courts.
    If I were a 1930s German jew I think I would rather the Convention applied than that it didn't. and I would continue to have that preference in the face of any number of shouty affirmations that IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE YOU REALISE?
    You don't need to look back to the 1930s anymore. Look at modern day Russia which was in the ECHR until February.
    A non answer, because even as a Russian dissident today I would prefer the country to be party to the convention.
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 18,154
    edited September 2022
    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    MaxPB said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    But given that Parliament is sovereign and can repeal the HRA and leave the ECHR is there really any "protection"?

    It's a very fair point. The protection is being a member of the ECHR, but it only exists as a protection for as long as Parliament allows it. I guess that all it represents is an extra hoop for a government that sought to curtail human rights to jump through before it could do so. That's not great - but it's better than nothing.

    The government is incandescent with rage about those hoops - that shows they have an effect.
    OR the hoops are now ridiculous foreign obstacles that prevent the UK government of the day enacting the will of the people

    HMG’s Rwanda policy has been passed as lawful by all relevant British courts. It was the ECHR which stopped it

    Now you may hate the Rwanda policy but it is an attempt to solve a problem that the British people want solved, and with reason. It might not work but it is surely worth trying. If independent British judges say it does not infringe human rights then that’s good enough for me

    Get on with it
    My problem with the Rwanda policy is not whether it is lawful or not, I think it is the wrong approach regardless of whether it is lawful. I am happy to concede that things may be lawful even if I think they are shitty. If the UK parliament wants to pursue that policy in non-compliance with the ECHR, if indeed it is, then I would object to the policy regardless, I just wouldn't mention the legality.

    Same thing over the prorogation case, albeit that did not touch on ECHR issues - it was the wrong thing to do even if the court had ruled it was acceptable (frankly I was not entirely persuaded by the argument it was not legal).
    Which is entirely fair. The Rwanda policy is highly contentious, and I can understand the many objections. I believe, however, we are at a stage when we need pretty radical solutions, because this will only get worse

    But these are proper debates we need to have in a democratic country. What we don’t need is some ridiculous foreign court saying No a democratic British government can’t do something that the British people want, even though the British courts have said it is permissible. Enough
    Precisely! The policy was, quite rightly, challenged in the British courts beforehand.

    As it's already been established that the ECHR doesn't work if British courts are nobbled, as Russia is an apt example of, the ECHR serves no purpose other than to infantilise politics.

    Canada, New Zealand and Australia are all Parliamentary Common Law nations with overall good human rights.

    January 2022 Putin's Russia, in the ECHR and the Council of Europe was not.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392

    Truss is yet another PM using "their" middle name.

    Her real first name is Mary.

    I look forward to people snidely talking about her using a 'stage name', as if there is not a panoply of PMs using other names.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 6,813

    JRM walking up Downing Street

    Oh no.
    Unfortunately yes
    Hes just tendered his resignation to Palmerston stating the future needs him once again.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 11,182
    IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    Cookie said:

    English is only my tenth language or summat (I first arrived in this country in early 1976 not able to speak a single word of English - I was only four months old!), BUT:

    Isn't the third person neuter singular "it"/"its"?

    "It" carries a strong implication of non-human.
    Third person singular human gender non-specific is something we just don't have a word for!

    Did you manage to cram nine more languages into your first four months?!
    But surely the word "they" implies you have multiple personas! By all means possible, of course!
    Well yes. That's very much my main problem with it.
    I get the same feeling of discomfort hearing 'they' used for an individual that I do hearing 'less' used where 'fewer' would be better, or hearing 'disinterested' used to mean 'indifferent'.
    Each and every one of which is a snobbish non-distinction dreamed up by tedious 19th century Oxford classics dons. tell us how you can't be doing with split infinitives.
    That may be so, but can you really say something like 'I want less peas' without wincing?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 61,557

    Leon said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    No one gives a fuck, sorry. A load of Bulgarian judges telling ENGLAND what to do. The cheek
    Big England = UK energy.
    Presumably your only objection to Bulgarian judges telling the Jocks, Taffs and Paddies what to do is that it’s entirely England’s job.
    I think a UK judge sits on any case involving the UK.
    As with any signatory.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392
    Cookie said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    Cookie said:

    Cookie said:

    English is only my tenth language or summat (I first arrived in this country in early 1976 not able to speak a single word of English - I was only four months old!), BUT:

    Isn't the third person neuter singular "it"/"its"?

    "It" carries a strong implication of non-human.
    Third person singular human gender non-specific is something we just don't have a word for!

    Did you manage to cram nine more languages into your first four months?!
    But surely the word "they" implies you have multiple personas! By all means possible, of course!
    Well yes. That's very much my main problem with it.
    I get the same feeling of discomfort hearing 'they' used for an individual that I do hearing 'less' used where 'fewer' would be better, or hearing 'disinterested' used to mean 'indifferent'.
    Each and every one of which is a snobbish non-distinction dreamed up by tedious 19th century Oxford classics dons. tell us how you can't be doing with split infinitives.
    That may be so, but can you really say something like 'I want less peas' without wincing?
    I wouldn't say it any other way.
  • kle4 said:

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    I have some bad news for you.
    Every appointment as trailed so far. 🫣
    Remember "She's just dressing bonkers right to win the party election. As soon as that's over, she'll tack to the centre-right to win with the public" thing?

    What we saw is what we're going to get.

  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
    I am concerned about the allegations and have asked for a link as I know Truss had affair but that was with Mark Field

    Not sure OGH would be impressed
    An allegation is a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong,

    It is not against the law to have sex. This can't possibly be actionable.

    Whether it is true or not is another matter.
    I am not a lawyer but as I read the comment allegation was not in the sentence
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 4,530
    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    I’m surprised there’s nothing at all so far for Sunak supporters . This looks risky to say the least !
    Nor Mordaunt supporters either yet and Badenoch and Tugendhat still have not got a role either.

    So far every Cabinet member appointed endorsed Truss from the first round I think
    Surely Truss wouldn’t ignore them . This looks very antagonistic and really not likely to unite the party.
  • MISTY said:

    Honestly all the mock outrage and halo polishing about Braverman on here is so much bullsh*t.

    Everybody knows why she's been appointed and what her task is, and why its important to the tories. See the latest red wall poll for reference.

    I have to wait and see, an opinion so soon is just bullshit?

    Well phooey - my opinion of Sueella today is Patel minus a brain. I’m entitled to it because these political careers didn’t just begin today you know.

    Here’s my halo 😇
    :innocent:
    Mine does look better than yours. Did you even polish it before posting?
    On the contrary, :innocent: Emoji has a much clearer halo than your simple image.
  • IshmaelZ said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    They're inalienable rights protected by British courts and the British Parliament not the ECHR.

    How did the ECHR protect "the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on" in Russia until February?

    It didn't.

    UK courts will implement UK law. In the absence of the ECHR. a democratically elected UK government could remove the right to private property, limit the franchise and imprison people without trial all through simple acts of Parliament that the independent courts would be obliged apply. You are seemingly OK with that, I am not. We disagree.

    You seem to think the ECHR makes a difference when it demonstrably doesn't.

    I'm not OK with any government doing that but I put my faith more in our voters preventing that, than failed and nobbled courts.
    If I were a 1930s German jew I think I would rather the Convention applied than that it didn't. and I would continue to have that preference in the face of any number of shouty affirmations that IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE YOU REALISE?
    You don't need to look back to the 1930s anymore. Look at modern day Russia which was in the ECHR until February.
    A non answer, because even as a Russian dissident today I would prefer the country to be party to the convention.
    As a Russian dissident I would think the ECHR was an absolute failure. It is the League of Nations of Human Rights.
  • If Labour can't win the next election, perhaps it is time to disband.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206

    I like to listen to the political news through nonpartisan, nonpolitical sources like the hourly news bulletin on Magic Radio to hear how it sounds to people who don't read PB. It wasn't great for Truss to be honest - they played that soundbite about putting spades in the ground to lower utility bills, which is literally just random words assembled into a sentence. I am already tired of her voice, too. Obviously I am not an unbiased source on this matter, but I honestly think she is going to be shit. If Labour don't win the next election they should probably just pack up and go home.

    Be of good cheer, Labour will in in 2024. My side will be the depressed people

    Which, in a way, is only fair. The pendulum must swing, and much as I abhor Wokeness etc the Tories look desperately tired

    My big worry is that Truss is going to enact some quite radically conservative policies - some of them much needed - at exactly the wrong time: with only two years to make them work, and in the teeth of a terrible downturn. So they won’t work and voters will recoil, and we will get pathetic Woke socialist declinism for a decade and a half

    MEH

  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 24,583

    Every PM has to deVilhave one certifiable loon to pander to that portion of their base. Hopefully Truss limits it to just JRM.

    Too late, she's already appointed Cruella DeVil and the halfwit from the Taxpayers Alliance.
  • HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    I’m surprised there’s nothing at all so far for Sunak supporters . This looks risky to say the least !
    Nor Mordaunt supporters either yet and Badenoch and Tugendhat still have not got a role either.

    So far every Cabinet member appointed endorsed Truss from the first round I think
    Mordaunt walked up Downing Street 20 minutes ago
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,392

    If Labour can't win the next election, perhaps it is time to disband.

    There is this alternative legacy party with a history stretching back to the 19th century, but they rarely get a look in.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415

    kle4 said:

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    Please don’t send JRM to Business

    I have some bad news for you.
    Every appointment as trailed so far. 🫣
    Remember "She's just dressing bonkers right to win the party election. As soon as that's over, she'll tack to the centre-right to win with the public" thing?

    What we saw is what we're going to get.

    🙀 . .
  • Kemi goes in
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 8,629

    Foxy said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    nico679 said:

    kle4 said:

    nico679 said:

    Looks like the UK will soon be withdrawing from the ECHR if the odious Braverman has her way . Patel replaced by an equally nasty individual .

    It is surely the principal reason for her appointment. Stop the boats, get out of the ECHR, job done - it'll give endless chances for them to claim Labour want to give succour to criminals.
    Unfortunately the general public don’t seem to realize how many rights have been secured by the ECHR . I’m hoping there’s enough backbench Tories who would rebel and stop that from happening . It wasn’t in the manifesto , the HOL should not back down if legislation gets there. Can you imagine the optics at this time for the UK to be withdrawing from the ECHR .
    This is a good argument for leaving. These questions should be decided politically in the UK.
    So you trust the Tories to protect your rights ? Good luck with that .
    Translation: "I don't trust the UK to govern itself. It needs babysitting by continental Europeans."
    You’re missing the point . Governments can change , and rights could then be at the whim of those . Why don’t you read up on the rights won by Brits because of the ECHR .
    Name one.

    And name how the ECHR protected that right in Putin's Russia.

    Russia and Belarus are not signatories to the ECHR.

    Russia was until February 2022.

    And before that the court's judgments could not be enforced in Russia because the courts were not independent of the government. The ECHR only works in countries in which the rule of law applies.

    So the ECtHR does not work then. It isn't a guarantor.
    It is in a country where courts are independent of government influence.
    In a country where courts are independent of government influence, then why do you need it? Is it just the urge to standardise? You can't face the idea that 'rights' might be contingent?

    Yep, I am guilty of that. I believe the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on are not contingent, but inalienable.

    They're inalienable rights protected by British courts and the British Parliament not the ECHR.

    How did the ECHR protect "the right to vote, to hold private property, to be protected from arbitrary imprisonment and so on" in Russia until February?

    It didn't.

    UK courts will implement UK law. In the absence of the ECHR. a democratically elected UK government could remove the right to private property, limit the franchise and imprison people without trial all through simple acts of Parliament that the independent courts would be obliged apply. You are seemingly OK with that, I am not. We disagree.

    And if we are still in the echr and the governement is ruled against after doing any of these and says "fuck off we were elected to run the country" the echr is going to do what exactly?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 46,206
    BADENOCH FOR EDUCATION, surely?
  • glwglw Posts: 9,535
    edited September 2022
    Cookie said:

    As the humble grandson of immigrants to this country how awesome is our new PM's cabinet.

    Fourth consecutive BAME Chancellor, BAME Foreign Secretary, and likely third consecutive Home Secretary from a BAME background.

    Remind me what Corbyn said about only Labour could unlock the potential of minorities?

    The point is also that none of those characters got their jobs because of their ethnicities.
    Exactly. The Tories appoint berks of all ethnicities, religions, and genders.
  • On what planet does Mogg as Business Sec help the £ or the markets or the bond market?

    Fecking bonkers.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 12,415
    HYUFD said:

    nico679 said:

    I don’t think anyone would argue with Ben Wallace at defence . As for the rest of the appointments they vary from meh to absolutely horrific !

    Boris' Cabinet looks heavyweight compared to this one so far, with the exceptions of Kwarteng, Wallace and maybe Coffey
    Thatcher had a Willie. Where’s Truss’ Willie?
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,695

    Kemi goes in

    Kemi!!
  • Truss should have offered Sunak FS, and Sunak should have accepted.
  • Coffey has a PhD in Chemistry and works like a trooper. She'll be fine.

    Kwarteng is an ex Kings Scholar and a brainbox. He'll be fine.

    Suella Braverman is absolutely lovely in person but appears to have gone off the deep end in recent years. She'll almost certainly fail at Home Secretary, which is a horrible job anyway. For her political career to survive she has to stop the boats. I have no confidence.

    Kwasi is obviously very smart.
    On paper, he looks great.

    The problem is that he seems to have been a dud in BEIS.

    The fact that he has shagged the new PM (or vice versa) adds a interesting frisson perhaps not seems since James I.

    I’ll be watching with interest.
    Ruddy hell!

    Are we sure about this? Are OGH's legal team sure about this?
    @Gardenwalker got his facts wrong (again!).

    Kwarteng had a fling with Amber Rudd, NOT Truss.

    Truss had her fling with Mark Field MP.

    Sources:
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amber-gives-green-light-to-suitors-hhn02r537
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/nov/05/elizabeth-truss-deselection-affair
  • Norfolk Mafia - asks Coates on sky.

    Chloe Smith goes in.

    Hope she gets DWP.

  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,708
    Nadhim Zahawi appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Equalities Minister

    https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1567228869475704832?s=20&t=89sFpch1U0OCXe8MujhTww
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