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Angela, Angela, when will those clouds all disappear? – politicalbetting.com
Angela, Angela, when will those clouds all disappear? – politicalbetting.com
Police are reassessing claims that Angela Rayner broke electoral law after receiving a complaint from the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. She denied this claim and said “I’ve been very clear there’s no rules broken ?? https://t.co/AjAUgXkaIw
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Should it not be Angie rather than Angela? Great song.
I'm reminded of the scandal that engulfs Villefort at the end of The Count of Monte Cristo. As a journalist leaves, he asks one of the guards what he thinks will happen to Villefort who has just admitted infanticide, concealing a death and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
The guard simply replies, 'They'll find extenuating circumstances.'
I sadly suspect something similar will happen here.
Spoiler: It is the headline
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Russian Pacific Fleet entered the Red Sea and is heading towards Yemen where American and British ships have carried out strikes on Houthis.
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1773413722733842766?s=20
A council has confirmed it will review allegations that Angela Rayner committed electoral or tax fraud, renewing pressure on the Labour deputy leader.
Rayner, 44, said she lived apart from her husband, the father to two of her children, for the first five years of their marriage, between 2010 and 2015.
Stockport council was asked to investigate whether this was false by the Conservative deputy chairman James Daly in a letter sent on Monday. The letter suggested Rayner may have misled council officials when she said she was living at her house on Vicarage Road rather than her husband’s house a mile away.
Daly asked if Rayner had claimed a single-person discount on council tax on the home, given that neighbours said her brother had lived there from about 2012.
In a statement, Stockport council said: “We are reviewing the questions that have been put to us and we will respond in due course.”
A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them.
Parents at Aboyne Primary complained after being sent a link from a photography company offering them alternative pictures.
Aberdeenshire Council said the decision was not taken by the school and the link to the photos was immediately removed.
Tempest Photography told BBC Scotland in a statement it was investigating the matter, that it had spoken to the photographer involved and the school, and that at this stage there was no further comment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5epgp2zdno
What an odd feeling
Bet she's a real joy to live with.
Imagine complex needs is a separate unit at the school. They took three photos: main school, complex needs unit, and everyone together. The parents are automatically only sent photos which their child is in. So the parent of children from the main school only saw the main school picture and the everyone together one.
Not a great look, but not a scandal. And the school's fault not the photographers.
"Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded".
Edmund Burke being prescient about Angela Rayner, star of Basic Instinct and generally a person who adds to the gaiety of nations.
Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried
Angie, you're beautiful, yeah
But ain't it time we said goodbye?
Angie
I still love you
Remember all those nights we cried?
All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
Oh, Angie, don't you weep
All your kisses still taste sweet
I hate that sadness in your eyes
But, Angie, Angie
Ain't it time we said goodbye, yeah?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But, Angie, I still love you, baby
Everywhere I look, I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on, baby, dry your eyes
Angie, Angie
Ain't it good to be alive?
Angie, Angie
They can't say we never tried
Are you referring to something else?
Which did NOT mean that TR (perhaps first POTUS widely known by his initials, though US Grant got that ball rolling in USA) would berate supporters for calling him Teddy!
He was MUCH tooooooo good a politico for that.
The people we bought from had enjoyed four years of paying the minimal level of tax, but I recognised straight away - despite some reluctance from my other half - that I couldn’t legitimately sit on this situation as the local councillor, and I wrote to the council and got the house re-banded to E. Keeping your head down in a situation like that can very easily come back to bite you in the end.
Rayner performed a tour-de-force on the radio today, but the fact remains that the circumstantial evidence does suggest that she probably has something to hide.
I think one problem Angela has is that she is somewhat unlikely to get a lot of support from Starmer who seems to want rid of her.
Here is the definition.
"A child who has been diagnosed with an illness, disability or sensory impairment and needs a lot of additional support on a daily basis."
Unless, of course, the photographer kept them all on one side of the photo and then edited them out...
The genius twist here would be if the photographer is also one of the school's parents.
I have no time for Labour or Tory, perhaps they hate each other, certainly they hate the other parties, but most of the time they contrive by their actions, when they secure power, to hurt the voters.
Who is on my side we all ask; your family and friends if you are lucky.
If you dislike it so much why do you keep coming back for more?
This is approximately 0.03% of the settlement Nadhim Zadhawi is alleged to have made with HMRC.
"The Russian battleship fired 96 rounds and scored no hits, though some near misses did cause splinter damage to the battlecruiser.[2] The Ottomans fired 60 rounds, but couldn't bring their 11-inch guns into range, and withdrew after 30 minutes.[3] The Russians attempted to pursue, but the Yavuz was faster and outran them."
Sounds like porky pies.
If it’s only £1500, and she was ignorant rather than devious, why not just fess up? No one would have cared.
Is this another example of the cover up doing for a politician when the truth was no big deal?
"Ms Rayner, who has committed to reforming the scheme, which she says has “helped fuel the housing crisis” by depleting publicly-owned housing stock, is said to have made a £48,500 profit when selling the house eight years later."
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/starmer-backs-rayner-over-right-to-buy-council-house-sale-369490/
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NEW: Rishi Sunak has just given a knighthood to businessman Mohamed Mansour, a Tory party treasurer who gave them £5m last year 🤨
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1773407891501789562
58-37 with YouGov and 59-35 with We Think as both record 19 point Labour leads meaning we've not had a 20+ point Labour lead in a week. Crisis...
We are told there is no enthusiasm for Labour as though it was great revelation - it's been clear in every poll the kind of "hope" there was in the pre-1997 period for Blair just isn't there anymore. Were people enthusiastic about Thatcher in 1978? I don't remember it.
It had got to the point where it was less a case of "a plague on all your houses" as "we cannot go on like this" and after nearly 14 years of leading the Government, is it any surprise the muted desire for change is the prevailing mood?
The truth is populism has run out of road here in a way it hasn't in other places. Perhaps a form of socialist populism is the next big political thing - working class social conservatism combined with economic and cultural nationalism based on strong State intervention.
Starmer seems to be a man who cannot believe his good fortune and is going to spend every second between now and the election reassuring former Conservatives he's no Corbyn and is at best a mild social democrat who would have been comfortable in Blair's Labour or the SDP of Jenkins or even Kennedy's Liberal Democrats.
But I don't think that this is an issue that will catch the public's imagination. The narrative, at least for the Labour leadership, has now moved on from dispelling every last poisonous trace of the legacy of bogeyman Boris Johnson to preserving the visionary legacy of political giant Boris Johnson. Rule-breaking is old-hat; everyone is doing it these days (not least in the current party of government) and it's nothing special. It may mean the end of Rayner but it will not damage Labour before or during the election.
Redfield & Wilton 24 Mar = 20% Labour lead 4 days ago
Savanta 22-24 = 20% Labour lead 4 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
But I agree that we are becoming accustomed to 20%+ Labour leads
Except when used in the context of NHS reforms.
I bloody love Easter. Easter asks absolutely nothing of you. It doesn't give you a list of things to do; doesn't ask you to wear fancy dress, or to feel a certain emotion. Greetings cards companies might see a market for their product, but they're fooling no-one. All Easter does is come along without you really budgeting for it and gives you a lovely long weekend.
I'm going to have a lie in tomorrow. Christ may be risen, but I'm not planning on following his example until gone 10.
https://www.malvernrockarchive.org.uk/catalogue_item/ticket-for-the-jam-at-malvern-winter-gardens-13-february-1980
A Georgia Republican official who pushed false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” was found to have voted illegally nine times, a judge ruled this week.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1773438675382116607
Liek whether wild-bred pheasant is permitted food?
They had a massive computer with 192K(!) of memory!
Does that mean I am a "boffin"?
I remember watching "Grease" in the Malvern cinema for £1.
The clear winner was one Bassirou Diomaye Faye, just 44 years old, who easily defeated the candidate of the ruling party by 54-36. He is a left-wing pan-African (apparently) which essentially means he will move Senegal away from France and Europe to a more neutral position which marks another former Francophone country trying to distance itself from Paris.
Except of course for a small number of English majors focusing on 20th-century Brit Lit, and others acute anglophiliacs.
If only Douglas Adams was still around.
Rishi Sunak went to the Mark Zuckerberg school of "how to human".
AP (via Seattle Times) - Michigan GOP lawmaker claims that buses carrying March Madness teams are ‘illegal invaders’
A right-wing Michigan state lawmaker who has been tied to former President Donald Trump and his election denials is being widely criticized after making claims that buses carrying college athletes to Detroit for March Madness were immigrant “invaders” being shuttled into the city illegally.
Michigan state House Rep. Matt Maddock made the claim Wednesday night in a social media post accompanied by photos of three buses near an Allegiant plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Maddock wrote that the buses “just loaded up with illegal invaders.”
“Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” Maddock wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Four college basketball teams traveling to Detroit for the second weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament arrived by plane Wednesday evening, the Wayne County Airport Authority said in a statement. The “buses seen in a photograph circulating online were transporting the basketball teams and their respective staffs,” the statement added.
Maddock’s post drew swift criticism on social media, with multiple accounts noting that an earlier post on the Gonzaga men’s basketball team’s social media page had indicated their departure for Detroit, featuring an Allegiant plane. . . .
Maddock doubled down on his posts Thursday, adding that hundreds of thousands of “illegals are pouring into our country,” and into Michigan. In a text response to The Associated Press, Maddock declined to acknowledge that the buses were transporting basketball players.
“I haven’t heard a good answer yet,” Maddock wrote. “I took a tip and asked because this is happening in many places and it is well documented.” . . .
. . . Maddock has a history of being among the most far-right members in the Michigan Legislature. His wife, Meshawn Maddock, the former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, is one of 15 Republicans charged for acting as fake electors for then-President Trump in 2020.
The defining characteristic is that failure leads to a better job. And the belief that this is their *right*
Recall the lady who transferred to the CoE and was shocked that she wasn’t catapulted to the Bishopric of London by her 3rd day on the job?
It shouldn't be so mundane, but the shamelessness crept in a long time ago.
It was looking a bit shaky a few months ago but in hindsight the much hyped democratic crisis was on about a level with Boris proroguing parliament.
I’m going there for a week and a bit this December, taking a look around a few different spots with a couple of friends.
He is the greatest Labour candidate in history. Thanks Rishi!
Also the Groucho is really hopping. Astonishing. Haven’t seen it this full since pre Covid. And it’s a rainy chilly midweek night. Encouraging
"There is a free kick far away without a City wall."
Odd oversight.
It's not people pretending either, people in the House and Senate genuinely buy this sort of thing, and even when they do not they 100% support backing people who never admit to getting anything wrong.
One can only hope it starts to put off voters more than it has to date.
Probably had a few British beers, with six Union flags on the glasses, followed by a rendition of Rule Britannia.
Aren't you feeling patriotic?
Possibly I don't hang out in the right whatsapp groups.
"Or the one (Reform fan)."
Given the per diem etc, it actually worked out as a really good pension plan.
- The CFA currency region: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-u1Pjce4Lg
- The Sahel Confederation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5w6PyI66Y
- Wagner warfare in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydH39HjuFZs
- France's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD24uEvY1U
- China And Russia Push the West Out of Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJu2lVc_cc
TLDR: France has held sway over many countries in Africa for decades by overseeing a currency system. Nations are breaking away and Russia is waging a proxy war there, as part of the Russian and Chinese move to push the West out of Africa.