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Jeremy Corbyn is lining up Emily Thornberry as his new foreign secretary to replace Hilary Benn, in a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet expected next week, the Sunday Telegraph understands.
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Not bad from Corby, the one who constantly rebelled against his own front bench hundreds of times. Yes I do recognise that he was not in cabinet when he did so but the dividing line between the front bench and the back bench is only a few rows. You can read 'rows' as in rows of seats or angry disagreements ..( both work in this case)
" opponents should not estimate him" ....mmmmmm
Considering that he is about to place his closet opponent for leadership on the back benches, ( he won't accept a lesser role) pee off both of the Eagle sisters and consequently have them as well as just about all of the PLP outside the tent peeing in ... Nope let's not underestimate Corby for total fuckwittery of the most highest order.
Ah well he can always rely on Andy, Dianne and Emily I suppose .....these colossus of the political arena.
I can only assume Ms Thornberry’s appointment is a two fingered gesture to white van man.
Great decision, what can go wrong..?
He's basically leader until he chooses to resign, or until the wider Labour 'community' of members, TU members and £3ers decide to vote for a specific someone else! The MPs as a group are almost completely neutered by the new electoral system once the process is underway.
The replies to this first comment are interesting including this one.....
LofADay___, London, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
It's high time this paper grew a pair and started supporting Farage and did something about the hackers with 9000 green arrows on this in an hour (2000 in 10 secs and 4000 in 10 mins). I will hold the DM responsible if something happens to this man.
It also has one of the worst photoshop's ever published depicting the actual event.... (Top guys not back from the New Year celebs yet then obviously. )
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382294/Nigel-Farage-s-car-wheels-sabotaged-assassination-attempt-Ukip-leader-lost-control-Volvo-wheel-fell-motorway-police-confirm-foul-play.html#ixzz3w9wXyL1r
Delicious...
*Positions comfy chair, "puffs up" cushions and confirms adequate popcorn supplies available and within reach*
"PM must go if he loses EU vote", adding that half his Cabinet believe this to be the case. I think it's likely that Cameron probably also believes this himself.
We have here a potentially massive story, whereby the "Leave" faction might just prevail in the referendum as a result of attracting a sufficient number of anti-Cameron voters from the Labour, SNP, etc ranks who might otherwise vote to Remain. They might well see this as the only realistic prospect of removing the Tories from power at the 2020 General Election and they could just be right.
Add to this a further significant number from all parts of the political divide who are sure to be disappointed by the meagre concessions secured by Cameron from his EU counterparts, who believe that the real bargaining will only occur if and when the UK is on the very point of leaving the EU and you have the very real prospect of a victory being achieved by the Leavers. A further possible complication would be a very narrow win for Remain, which was only achieved by a very pro-EU vote by the Scots, with the English by contrast voting to leave - it seems doubtful that Cameron would have the authority to continue were this to be the case.
There are therefore potentially interesting times ahead with best-priced Paddy Power's odds of 15/8 for a Leave vote appearing to have certain attractions.
http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/searches/expand.asp?uniqueID=F0E0D8B14EAE38C0802577C000465F45
I don't like Farage, but the story as reported is rather grave.
Hopefully the French police have opened an inquiry into what happened. At the very least, surely they would have impounded his car for forensic tests?
Will they accept this one ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382417/MPs-fury-bid-student-halls-order-save-second-home-expenses.html
If it's true, we've got to hope the police will get to the bottom off it, and he increases his own security. And if he's lying, it'll come out in time.
As I said in my previous post, surely the French police should have opened an investigation?
Surely the options are:
*) the investigation was outside Mr Fouard's remit (why?),
*) the police on the scene mistakenly told Farage incorrect information (believable)
*) Farage genuinely misheard or misunderstood
*) Farage is lying and using his own incompetence to garner sympathy
Corbyn doesn't like the anthem, Thornberry doesn't like the flag. A match made in Heaven
On a more serious note, she's an airhead incompetent brimming with condescension. I also agree that if the PLP do nothing then they've shown themselves to be as ineffectual as Softsword.
The one voice issue is not legitimate because it follows Corbyn offering a free vote and then, if this is an accurate forecast, effectively sacking someone for not following the leader's line.
I think this sez it all:
https://twitter.com/IsraelNewsNow/status/683507013356105729
I would also point out that Saudi Arabia is no less a discriminatory state than South Africa was.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12078659/Tony-Blair-is-banned-from-staying-at-British-embassies-on-commercial-missions.html
Actually - no, she's not a lesbian so it should be Mrs Thornberry - except that also she seems unable to manage the simplest tasks and change her married surname to Mrs Nugee.
Almost as absent-minded as the LoTO who forgot to add his name to the birth certificate of his son.
On the previous thread there was a discussion about Philby et al. Quite why such people were attracted to Soviet Russia even in the 1930's when there was plenty of evidence, for those willing to see (cf Orwell and Koestler), of how vile it was is another mystery but at least most of the West understood that the ideology of Communism was a threat. Whereas there is still too much of a reluctance to understand that Islamism - and the states who sponsor and promote it - like Saudi Arabia and others are also a threat, and not just to unrestrained capitalism but to liberal democracy, which is rather more valuable.
We may have to deal with such states for raisons d'etat but we do not have to embrace them. It's the difference between being polite and calling someone "friends", I suppose.
On topic: is Corbyn quite as left- wing as all that? If this story is to be believed he's proposing replacing the mere grandson of a Viscount with a Lady. Still, given her property empire she'll have plenty to talk about with Jon Lansman.
But Saudi Arabia's time in the sun is drawing to a close, and therefore, also much of the threat from ISIS/Al Queda.
The late George Mitchell's pioneering work in using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to open up the tight oil and gas fields of North America (techniques that will be exported around the world) is breaking Saudi Arabia's monopoly.
And the dramatic improvements in battery and solar technology mean that our previously insatiable desire for oil may slow, and perhaps reverse.
ISIS and Al Queda have always depended on rich paymasters. In a world of $30 oil, there are no rich paymasters.
It may be that without the likes of Daesh for inspiration such attacks would cease. But perhaps not.
They are having to massively cut government spending this year - due to the low oil price that they've engineered themselves in an attempt to drive out the Russian and unconventional US suppliers in the O&G sector. This is risking local population upsets a la Bahrain a few years ago.
I guess they realise that they're only at the top table because of the realpolitik of the international dependence on their production, and that without that dependence they would be very much in the cold from a Western point of view.
OPEC is now pretty much dead as a concept, with most smaller producers desparate to keep the oil price up. There was an interview on local radio here last week with the CFO of Emirates, he suggests that for his company $80/bl was the sweet spot - lower is better in terms of his costs, but too low and he starts losing customers and those he retains start flying in cheaper cabins as they carefully manage their costs.
Without the money, these mosques - the ones that have generated almost all the suicide bombers - will lose market share.
I cannot see Labour, LD or other voters seeing the Euro-Ref as a way to bring down Cameron, by voting Leave. He is going shortly after anyway, and replacing him with a Europhobe Tory would be the likely outcome.
The only party that will split over the Euro-ref will be the Tories, and as Remain is something that all of Labour and the Unions back (apart from a handful of isolated backbenchers) we may see unity break out in Labour just as the Tories start a divisive civil war.
This is like watching a 20/20 match!
But not just any mosque: they are almost all huge buildings with giant minarets, meant to be overbearing and alien to their immediate surroundings. A not so subtle statement of Triumphant Islam and Wahabism, the Saudis own particular brand of Islam.
150 Partnership now, 50 up for Bairstow too.
I think it's high risk for Corbyn though. Not high risk that he'll be ousted but that his authority is further weakened as moderates will be less inclined to work with him.
They have a looming financial crisis, a war going badly in Yemen, and their factions losing ground to the Shias in Iraq and Syria. It will not be long before they have their own civil war. The executions yesterday are a sign of weakness not of strength. The house of Saud is not immune to the popular discontent with corrupt rulers of the MENA region.
I do think it will be a very messy end, and like much of MENA the replacement likely to be an even more vile Islamist regime.
Best to take $30 now rather than nothing later....
That Emirates view is surely unique to them and probably Eastern (who fly mainly to Aberdeen). For anyone else lower oil prices just means lower costs.
@theobertram: More London: 20% members from capital (10% in 92). Reshuffle: Barnsley, Leeds, Wallasey out, Islington & Hackney in. https://t.co/Kt9z4OWjej
Mosques are built as large as possible and on sites previously used by other religions, as a military/political statement of conquest. The Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple mount in Jerusalem, the Hagia Sopia in Istanbul (and Blue Mosque on the old Byzantine palace) as well as the Ayodha mosque in India are all examples of this.
Synagogues by contrast are pretty nearly always discrete. My understanding is that they should never attempt to rival Soloman's Temple.
Nigel said he didn't want it taken further, he did nothing at the time until the press found out and contacted him. If he increases his security who foots the bill? Why on earth would the French police open an investigation when a foreigner says he doesn't want to pursue it?
Imagine the furore if Nigel had reported an assassination attempt, he has acted entirely appropriately
"Approximately 71 percent of oil is used for transportation, with 48 percent for automobiles, 16 percent for diesel vehicles, and 7 percent for airplanes. Various industrial processes—the chemical industry is the largest—use most of the rest while small amounts are used for heating and electrical generation."
http://fresh-energy.org/2011/11/energy-101-oil/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.
A lot of married female doctors (and other professionals) continue to work under their unmarried names, partly because they have established a reputation, and partly because of security. Female doctors can attract stalkers fairly easily and having a different name outside work helps.
Btw I'm surprised the pbtories arent dancing as they dig Danczuk's grave
100 this morning added to the total inside an hour, from less than 13 overs. Partnership 195 from 189 balls
Eng 420/5 after 100 overs.
What one may do, and what is the path of wisdom are, of course, two different things.
And as I keep on saying (yet Kippers such yourself seem to be incapable of understanding) - I don't belong to a political party.
The flaws in the rest of your post are all too obvious. For one thing, it's not just his life that is endangered by such actions, but also those of others in the car and other road users.
Jubbly.
Spurs later?
As usual, you swerve the questions I raise in favour of more opprobrium. I'm surprised you haven't accused him of loosening the nuts himself as part of a publicity stunt.
Any individual can of course choose their own name by deed poll if they so desire but there is convention to the use of titles and that's just something that people who choose togo outside the norms, for whatever reason, will have to accept.
As for swerving questions: with your track record that's a bit rich. Have you learnt anything about foreign aid yet, or are you still wallowing in angry ignorance based on hundreds of doorstep conversations?
As for your last line: that's just contemptible. Grow up.
Nothing untoward but it was very disconcerting.
Anyway, more importantly, three games without a goal - Ranieri out?