Oh Bobby J, hoist with his own petard – politicalbetting.com
Oh Bobby J, hoist with his own petard – politicalbetting.com
Whilst your own bio isn’t a CV it does blunt the Tory attacks on the likes of Reeves and Reynolds, it also reinforces the impression that both front benches are a seraglio of eunuchs.
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Edit: damn. I assumed you were talking about RFK
Still: hee hee. Bobby J’s a nasty piece of work
This wasn’t on his CV. It was on his website bio. And it wasn’t a claim about a job or a qualification - it was a statement that he was the “youngest ever Cabinet Minister”.
Of course he’s a boastful idiot but it’s not in the same league as claiming to be a solicitor when you are not.
Though i would agree claiming a political accomplishment you don't have is not quite the same thing as claiming employment status. Still embarrassing though when trying to be calling out errors.
Jenrick isn’t in a position of power or responsibility so it’s not like they are bringing down a big player with this, just highlighting that MPs can stretch the truth and the biggest stretcher by the look of things is Reeves.
And boasting of being the youngest cabinet minister is something that most people won’t give the remotest shit about, true or not, the person in charge of the Nation’s finances maybe being untruthful about the work experience they had that underlines their claim to be the right person for the job is more problematic.
Or since it is Sunday morning, let the one without sin cast the first stone.
Good to sort that out.
If Reeves isn't to be fired for doing a crap job, then this stuff is irrelevant.
But what is a CV precisely? There’s no official definition, it’s not a publicly registered document. It’s the generic name for something you write up with your qualifications in it.
Perhaps everyone should have a registered, stamped and notarised public CV that must be kept up to date annually. Then AI can approach people directly with job offers without the need for recruitment consultants.
Polling brisk at my local polling station
Was this level 1 briskness, level 2, etc?
The amount of serious shit going on out there, and the media want to focus on something which isn’t actually needed to get appointed to the job.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-121-the-mafia-state?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Which was just such a dumb reasoning if it was true, since no one is making the trip over here because they've heard the asylum centre walls are quite welcoming and that's a good sign.
Some of the responses to @Pagan2 seemed way over the top to me. There must be many voters in his position, thanks to the economy of the last decade.
Telling them it's all their own fault seems unlikely to be either true, or constructive politics.
I have experienced one election in France and it wasn’t brusque. More like a fete de village.
Also: again nobody asked to see my ID.
And if they get 20% that leaves 80% who didn’t vote for them . Of more concern to Europe should be elections in France in 2027 .
Whereas if they were, as is often complained of, “young men of fighting age masquerading as children. And probably terrorists or rapists to boot”, then presumably Disney murals would have zero positive benefit to them and might even be irritating.
It's the next lot of German elections due in 2029 we should worry about.
Local papers do sometimes uncover big stories. My friend was working on the Lewisham News Shopper when he tracked down the backstory of Richard Reid the shoe bomber and they syndicated the story to the world.
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/33094.shoe-bombers-bromley-roots/
How is Musk going to react to being publicly humiliated ?
https://youtube.com/shorts/ipGof-FEAa0?si=t8S2HJbHs8RJ2Aja
https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/trump-to-shut-down-all-8000-ev-charging-ports-at-federal-govt-buildings/
Next week he goes after the sharks.
On public transport it is definitely declined since headphones have become de rigeur - but as I don't drive I still hear more than others, I suspect.
Edit to add, we also stand in a room for two days with customers who largely like to browse undisturbed. And many of my colleagues are sole traders. I think that has quite a lot to do with it.....
It's easy to say that such and such an organisation has too many managers until said managers are fired. Then the organisation runs into trouble, services are reduced or become (even more) inefficient and the cry is for some competent management to take over.
In leaked documents the mineral deal now reportedly includes Ukrainian Oil and Gas exports, where Ukraine will have to contribute to a US led fund till 500 billion is reached."
https://x.com/WarMonitor3
it is not clear what the US will do in return for this...
Musk and others have shaped opinion in the US because MAGA supporters follow deductive reasoning: that Trump and his cabal are right, so if they decide it’s right to gut the government or switch sides and ally with Russia then that must be the correct position. Not a new phenomenon - something religions and political movements have exploited since Moses came down from Mt Sinai.
The narrative gap is simple: the budget will never balance as the government cuts get worse every year. Aberdeenshire alone gets £43m less than it would get if the government pittance was allocated by need - Glasgow gets the same per student as we do for transport, despite one being a city and the other being a vast rural county.
The challenge is similar to the Reeves Jenrick CV “scandals” - focus on minutiae rather than big picture. Council tax going up by 10% is awful - as are the critical cuts that still need to be made. With far far worse cuts to come next year when the SNP cap council tax rises. We need to be focused on the Big Picture, not the salacious details.
You can tell this by way some people act as though most of them are doing literally nothing, when even if they are unproductive it's improbable there are large numbers doing literally nothing.
Anything which is a protected profession (eg solicitor) matters as well.
The “personal statement” on a bio is just meaningless. Does anyone actually read those apart from your political opponents?
Edit: I’d put Jenrick’s claim in the same category as William “14 pints” Hague
CDU/CSU 28-32% (average 30%)
AfD 19-21% (average 20.5%)
Even if CDU/CSU polled 2 points lower than the bottom of the range, and the AfD polled 2 points higher than top, CDU/CSU would still be top. So it looks quite unlikely. I certainly wouldn't back at the 12-1 being offered at the bookies. Maybe 100-1 would start to be interesting.
"I am endlessly amused by the infinite indignities I suffer on the very platform that I own"
The real one not to annoy is Trump himself. He doesn't take it well
But it has to be done competently.
What we'd likely get is incompetent posturing followed by endless legal action.
And any chance of competent reform lost for over a decade.
Easter Egg, the assassin that shoots him at the end is in the same train carriage as him on the way North at the start
The remake is phenomenally bad
Trump doesn't understand that he only sees winners and losers and he has to be seen to win and losers have to be visible be seen to lose.
Fraser Nelson. I would say that Rishi Sunak is as English as Tizer and Y-fronts. He is absolutely English, he was born and bred here, and I wouldn't say the colour of his skin makes him any less...
Konstantin Kisin (interrupting): He's a brown Hindu, how is he English?
Fraser Nelson (shocked): Because he was born and bred here.
Konstantin Kisin (incredulous): So by being born here you become English in your opinion?
Fraser Nelson: Yeah.
Source: https://x.com/60sJapanfan/status/1891532608837755051
The Guardian (oh, for Pete's sake) chose to reward such remarks by giving him a mostly unchallenged profile, in which he said
“...The Moron Industrial Complex is desperately trying to fabricate outrage over the fact that I said there is a difference between being British, an umbrella imperial identity into which we can all integrate, as I have done, and being English which is a group that, at the very least, has an ethnicity dimension...”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/22/konstantin-kisin-anti-woke-libertarian-reluctantly-calls-himself-right-wing
I would politely suggest that this was an unsuccessful attempt to mute the sting of his remarks by phrasing them politely, and the Guardian should have pointed this out.
Actually that’s a silly question. Yes they do. Bit they’re structuring personal services to pay lower NI and get more deductions. They’re not the sorts of businesses that look for capital growth.
- Be good at politics
- Compete in democratic elections and win them
Patel - appointed by Trump to take an axe to the FBI
Musk - appointed by Trump to take an axe to the government
Musk is being told to GO FASTER by Trump. Patel instructs his people to Go Slower.
Two people. Appointed to do the same thing. Directly clashing over how to do that.
Fun times!!!
Also, you can be Hindu and English. Which religions do you have to follow in order to forfeit being English according to this arse?
I would predict something like this:
- Reform down a bit through unhelpful comparisons with Trump and Musk (and possibly the AfD) if things continue as is, or
- Reform up further if Trump somehow pulls something out of the bag for Ukraine
- Tories flat
- Labour either up a couple of points, if Starmer manages to look statesmanlike and either hits back at Trump it remains diplomatic, or
- Labour down further if Starmer bends over and kisses Trump’s arse, with LD benefiting
Nestle field sales 20+ years ago. Young enthusiastic rep was getting great results. Like *really* great results. Senior manager wanted to know what the magic touch was so decided to go speak to some of the shops. Aaaaaand found that they either had never heard of her. Or better still the shop had closed down completely.
Rumbled. Fired. Why?
The inability to ever admit to maybe at least having phrased something badly, and instead painting criticism as a conspiracy against your own obviously fine words, is a common trope of these grifters.
And why should anyone pay attention to him?