Wes Streeting and No Kings! – politicalbetting.com
Wes Streeting and No Kings! – politicalbetting.com
Exclusive: Wes Streeting tells Bloomberg’s @flacqua he will not allow an Andy Burnham coronation“I’m a monarchist, but this is one coronation that I’m not enthusiastic about”He blasts Starmer’s “lack of vision, direction and drive”By @LucyGJWhite > https://t.co/qOeaVx4Qiy
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Just like he didn't the last time. I am starting to fear our Wes is just a little bit delusional.
I'm not sure why you think the Treasury "taking control" will improve the way it's managed, though.
https://x.com/navalhistorian/status/2062298874878836804
Although depicted as an MoD-Treasury "turf war" there's a buried lede to this story that goes back to the mega projects report of the Treasury's Office for Value for Money in June 2025, which was, in fact, rather critical of the Treasury's own behaviour https://gov.uk/government/publications/value-for-money-vfm-study-on-the-governance-and-budgeting-arrangements-for-mega-projects
Key criticisms included perverse incentives & annualisation creating a situation where "Living within annual budgets is prioritised over delivery..." with recommendations that included flexible project budgets & streamlined decision-making (all well known improvements).
The Treasury ultimately accepted the Office for Value for Money's report, but to the surprise of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, restricted the implementation of its improvements to just three projects (GCAP would the the fourth). https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmpubacc/642/report.html
The Treasury has been accused before, with some justification, of trying to become a government within the government.
I'm not convinced that would turn out any better under Reeves...
Right now I would say his future in front line politics is looking distinctly limited. Making an enemy of Burnham will confirm this.
Well they can fuck right off. I'll shop elsewhere or get some from my neighbour.
As Caesar once almost said.
I am intrigued by the novel writing process, though it's not something I could ever do. How much is planned out in detail before being written up or should we believe those novelists who say they just start writing and the novel emerges as if by divine inspiration as they go?
Any PB authors care to share?
Apparently the hens that lay white eggs are also less prone to pecking each other.
Anyway if you've been provoked to a frothing rage by the colour of your egg "wrapper" it doesn't say much for your critical faculties.
Besides, the line between charismatic confidence and delusion is very very thin. Johnson and Truss had way too much of that characteristic. Sunak and Starmer, because of how they ended up PM, way too little.
(I may be being slightly flippant).
The point of uncertainty is whether Burnham wins in Makerfield. If not, it's quite unclear as to what might happen next, other than that Starmer will clearly try to soldier on.
So they’ll all rally around Burnham and they will try and restart the whole thing. I suspect they can get away with one change of leader but if we’re back here in a year they’re doomed.
I would imagine there is a level of practicality in this enterprise.
I don't think the public care about party coronations, so it's about party management and if it benefits from a contest.
......... Unfortunately Amol Rajan must be demob happy because he didn't ask a single sensible follow-up question. Like what about offering meat to a vegetarian? Or what about Jews who eat pork-over 60% I believe?
If Starmer really needs an anti semitism tsar he might as well get a Jewish one who hasn't learnt his Jewishness from a comic book
On the first point I don't think the centre right of the Labour party is what it was.
At least then the winning candidate isn’t required to offer insane left / right wing (see Truss) policies to win votes from a restricted electorate that does not represent the real world
Sainsbury's went full Woke a while ago - and they seem to have trained all their checkout staff to go full American now, and strike up conversation with you about your day - so I now avoid it.
It's as low as Asda, and not far off Iceland levels.
Sainsbury's went full Woke a while ago - and they seem to have trained all their checkout staff to go full American now, and strike up conversation with you about your day - so I now avoid it.
It's as low as Asda, and not far off Iceland levels.
Rather wish I had more room. And money. And time. But there we are.
My best guess is that this is an initiative that's spun out of their internal Diversity Network (all companies like this have them) and they simply didn't think through the politics.
Do we really need them?
That's what this is about.
"Best kind of person to have," said Susan. "We don't like silliness. Anyway, I told you. I've inherited certain talents."
"Like living outside of time?"
"That's one of them."
"It's a weird talent for a schoolteacher!"
"Good for marking, though," said Susan calmly.”
Just genius.
universitiesMickey Mouse degree shops.https://shop.spectator.co.uk/products/crime-writing-masterclass-18-june-6-30-8-00pm-spectator-garden-75
Stephen King wrote On Writing which was half memoir and half instruction manual. Graham Linehan said something before he was cancelled.
It requires increased resources, but that is simply impossible whilst we have Governing parties committed to gutting local government, in their belief systems, and in practice.
I'd suggest that we have been in an era "I Me Mine" dominated politics for at least half a century.
Pot holes vs cracks in the pavement. Ref UK will improve pot holes in most places, but at the cost of God knows what else.
Cracks in the pavements will not be fixed until we remove motor vehicles from our pavements, which cause huge damage. I think you will see improvements in eg Edinburgh, where this is happening.
Pavements (and mobility tracks) are built to far lower standards than roads, which is why they are destroyed by tree roots, whilst roads are not. Pedestrian spaces are for pedestrians. Cycling spaces are for cycles. Neither are for motor vehicles, unless built for that purpose.
Provided there are a decent number of other events open to all, having a specific one for refugees, where you can have experts on qualifications and work permits available, is probably pretty sensible, even without wokery.
Yes, the optics and politics are grim, but should a company be scared off doing something that makes business sense to them because some people with a platform have an opportunity to get cross.
So it's cost minimisation, lightly whitewashed with environmentalism.
On the heggs, that feels to me like a tyranny of the averages, where it is a small enough difference to find hens with brown eggs that have a lower carbon footprint.
It's a dilemma for Restore UK - do they now have to prioritise the brown over the white?
My neighbour-with-hens up the road, where my eggs occasionally comes from, has a hen that lays blue tinted eggs.
I wonder what they make of that?
Those who want Wes are a narrow subset of those who want Starmer gone. And for the sake of change, most will accept a Burnham coronation.
And Sainsbury’s having solved a minor part of 1 (shareholder approved) corporate aims won’t care.
A fair properly conducted contest between Burnham and Streeting would be fine if Starmer stayed on through summer and in to end September.
What I would hope for the Country and Labour would be a proper job and role for the loser of the contest and a realistic understanding from 90% of the Party, ignoring the usual 20 to 30 hard left nutters that unity is strength.
An amalgum of soft left Burnham and centre Streeting with two very experienced street wise politicians and excellent communicators could give Labour power for a decade and given Streeting age, a succession plan.
If only the membership is able to see this vision.
Waitrose have sold white eggs for years. They are no better and no worse than brown eggs. The predominance of brown eggs is simply because people in the 70s thought they must be better for you, like brown bread.
Party members should have zero say in who their party leader is, they don’t know them well enough to have a sensible opinion.
When I was a kid white eggs attracted a premium. Then the fashion switched in favour of brown in the 70s (everthing switched to brown in the 70s).
PS Sainsbury's will still sell Clarence Court Burford Browns, which are the best commercially produced eggs you can get.
Given the alternative is President Farage or Blair of course we still need them
On topic, I suspect IF Burnham wins in a fortnight, Streeting will be placed under enormous pressure to stand aside. The very fact Burnham will be perceived to have stopped Reform (whether aided an abetted by Restore or by Farage himself will be of no import) will give Labour a huge lift (and the Conservatives too vicariously) and his (Burnham's) position will be very strong.
Whether Burnham offers Streeting a senior position in his Cabinet as a gesture of reconciliation and unity remains to be seen - he could just tell him to spend some time contemplating life on the backbenches.
The events of the next fortnight will be of huge interest.
I do get confused when confronted by blue araucana eggs though.
Our girls lay brown eggs iirc 2 Bluebells and 1 barred rock.
(I note that the IOPC's budget was cut by the Tories, more than a third in real terms since 2018, so that's going to make it harder for them to carry out thorough investigations in a timely manner.)
It is clear that some on the right are not interested in reading anything that might contradict that on which they have already made up their mind. This was apparent on the previous thread.
How have we reached a situation where people believe this narrative? Because the radical right in the US has been pushing a white grievance model, and the radical right in the UK have taken that up.
Japan are only in it due to the tories transitory passion for the Indo-Pacific which lasted about 15 minutes. They will almost certainly order more a/c than the UK and therefore be the senior partner with the greatest workshare. While the Japanese are honorary whites, I'm not sure the British establishment could handle it. Germany would be a smaller partner that wouldn't contend workshare as much and are a better industrial fit.
Also, Germany probably gets Spain in too and then the Eurofighter band is back together.
In recent days, Trump has lost his slush fund, his ballroom fund, and his war fund. Has the Establishment found its lost principles or just come to believe the health rumours?
A non executive president in the UK would probably end up being someone like Floella Benjamin, rather than a Blair or Farage.
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God of all creation at the coronation. Most heads of state of republics are politicians or ex politicians
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