An interesting stat about Reform councillors – politicalbetting.com
An interesting stat about Reform councillors – politicalbetting.com
Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…
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So when do we get to see a serious attempt by Farage to install a team of shadow ministers and develop policy for each department?
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice.
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/bullseye-series2025-returndateann1
It's a plan scrawled in crayon, though. For a start, it requires all these new Reform MPs to accept their status as lobby fodder. Also- without changing the rules, it rather messes with parliament's ability to question ministers. Then there's the whole "unelected rulers" thing that Brexit backers used to think was so important.
If we get to 2028, and Reform are still going strong, I'd advise Nigel to bulk buy brown trousers in advance. Just in case.
Breaking: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to carry out "immediate, powerful"
strikes in Gaza following security consultations, the PM’s office said in a statement. Earlier Netanyahu’s office said Hamas is in “clear violation” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement after returning remains that did not belong to any of the 13 hostages still unaccounted for.
As far as I can see, ministers who are not MPs could already answer questions in the HoC by:
Being called to the Bar of the House
The House sitting as a committee (we know strangers can be questioned by committees)
Alternatively, the HoC could amend its SOs to allow ministers who are not MPs to speak but not vote.
His shadow minsters need to be running for the Commons in the safest seats they can find. If that means a donor needs to pay them and a research team for the next three years, then he needs to write the cheque.
Otherwise they’re not a serious prospective party of government.
There's a fairly good case to be made for having ministers from outside Parliament anyway. I would say so we can have people who know what they're talking about, although remembering that SPADs on Education in recent years have included Spielman, Cummings, Freedman, Mansfield, McDermott and that twat who thinks all children who breathe loudly should be caned but whose name I cannot remember, that would be an optimistic assessment.
Reform aren't a serious prospective party of government. Not for 2029, anyway.
There's an irresistible force of everyone else being hated and Nigel being our last hope, but it can't help but run up against the immovable object that Reform isn't even trying to be a government-in-waiting.
You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders.
And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans.
Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call.
Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891ex72nj7t
Sell off Royal Mail and then let them rip us off
Its an effing disgrace.
If Johnson has lost even the utterly batshit MTG, he is completely fucked.
Trump is going to go ape though when he finds out.
Got a question for our legal eagles.
CPS = "'The decision to accept a guilty plea to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm was taken after carefully reviewing evidence provided by two separate expert psychiatrists.
'The impact of the expert evidence meant that we could not prove that Pintaru specifically intended to kill, which is an essential element of an attempted murder offence."
How does that work? If he isn't right in the head, then surely he needs sending to a secure headshrinking facility? Or is there some intermediate not-all-there state where you can be partially guilty of criminal charges?
"Our system has checks and balances that will check the powers of a President" as numerous complacent Americans said a year ago
Scoop! U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements. Story moving now
https://x.com/phildstewart/status/1983211108681846844
And decided he liked it very much, but on balance it wasn't enough.
The regional peacekeeping force can’t arrive soon enough. A dangerous moment for the peace process.
I wouldn't trust Hamas as far as I could throw them, but I trust Netanyahu even less, and Ben-Gvir makes Dominic Cummings look positively honest.
@NbergWX
HORRIBLE: WORST CASE scenario is unfolding. Really, I am near a loss of words. "Last chance to protect your life at all costs" is the words from the NHC. Melissa is about to make landfall at its strongest intensity. A humanitarian disaster is about to unfold. The hurricane hunters detected 252 MPH gusts 300 feet off the ocean surface. 185 MPH max sustained winds and 220+ MPH gusts in the eyewall about to obliterate Black River area.
https://x.com/NbergWX/status/1983191842943291625
In Charlotte Owen and Amanda Spielman it includes at least two never-weres.
It's still bad, it's still very bad, and that is presumably the coldest of cold comfort to the 4,000 inhabitants of Black River, but it's not the worst case scenario.
The price is now about $65 and Goldman Sachs is predicting it could fall to $40.
So, given their forecasting record, I'm fairly confident we'll be paying at least $90-100 before too long.
All we need now is for McKinsey to be invited in to work on lots of oil companies and the whole industry could collapse.
“If you thought the Canada/America relationship was in tatters last week, get ready for armageddon. Rumors are swirling that the government of Canada, on top of several travel advisories to the United States, is set to officially condemn the Trump Regime as an enemy of the American people and democracy, due to the extreme human rights abuses being carried out at the hands of Donald J Trump.”
https://x.com/shannonrwatts/status/1982992298347499875
Doesn't really sound like Carney's style, though.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/surrey-local-government-reorganisation
That said: in Canada and Brazil, it seems like the votes are for standing up for their countries independence. I think SKS would be wise to learn that lesson.
Just think of how much cheap, renewable power he could generate by standing under a turbine all day every day.
(1) She's been voting with the Democrats to "release the Epstein files"
(2) She's noticed that sending Americans healthcare bills spiralling is probably not a popular policy
(3) She's become increasing skeptical of the 'just back Netanyahu' instincts of the current administration
And the answer is, probably not. Some of the Israeli strikes, especially the ones which collapsed tunnels, probably resulted in the deaths of hostages, and it may very well be that Hamas cannot access them.
@atrupar
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Trump: "I said, 'put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1983190379097628823
Permanent shutdown?
But why not just stand him above a turbine and remove his nappy?
That said (and speaking as a former money manager in the space), I don't think I'd be anywhere near as negative.
To get to $40, you would need at least two of the following to happen:
(1) The Ukrainian war to end, and therefore Russian oil & gas to reenter the market
(2) Iranian sanctions to be lifted
(3) A serious worldwide recession that cut oil demand meaningfully
There's also a very big natural stabalizer for oil prices these days: US tight oil production, especially in the Permian. Those wells have extremely high decline rates, and therefore if prices fall, then so does drilling activity, and therefore production. It's a natural price stabilizer. (And which works both ways: if the oil price goes up to $85, then more drilling will happen, and more oil will flow from the US.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-42830757
https://x.com/met4castuk/status/1983209215234638194
Doesn’t look good for the whole Western half of the island.
That’s (a) going to be unpopular and (b) makes you wonder why they bothered with consultation at all if they’re just going to say, ‘fuck you all, we know better.’
I'm sure Donald will help out.
Another way of looking at it is that nearly 95% are not, and less than 5% turnover in 6 months isn't bad for any brand new business.
LOL.
It is an irrelevant series of documents now.
And the GOP made this happen.
The very next day after that, he'll do something else - and probably call someone racist.
(The interesting bit was that an Asian man said what would have been labelled bigoted had he been WWC, not to do with representation of minorities on tv)
An Afghan, who looked completely crazy, murdered one man and stabbed two others yesterday in a residential street. Police have ruled out terrorism, and he wasn't a small boatee
He has said he will have outsiders in his Cabinet who aren't in Parliament, not that they will be appointed Peers, Yusuf suggested that but he is not party leader