The funniest bit of the defection is that she didn't go over to Reform. Tice must have been gutted...
Are Labour voters really not going to vote for them just because a Tory MP who isn't even contesting the seat again has joined for a few months?
I doubt that.
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- Thu 09 May, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 110
- Mon 06 May, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
the funniest thing about this demonstration of Cates being a few sandwiches short etc...is that she went to...Cambridge.
- Mon 06 May, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Well, I'm sure this will pass peacefully with absolutely no running fights with the Met...no idea what it's for - just an anti-Muslim thing I would imagine. Laurence Fox reposted Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra We need as many of you as possible marching with us on June 1st in London Fox and his ...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
If you thought before that Caroline Farrow was slightly unhinged, well, then you were probably right...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
- Sat 04 May, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
- Sat 04 May, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
- Sat 04 May, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
And that's it.
The tantrums on the right had already started...Sadiq Khan officially wins London mayoral race
The final London mayoral constituency of Lambeth and Southwark has announced its results, and it shows that Labour’s Sadiq Khan has held it.
- Sat 04 May, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
ULEZ reminds me of Inheritance Tax.
It impacts far fewer people than some make it out to...
It impacts far fewer people than some make it out to...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
And another - not natural Labour territory I would have said.
Sadiq Khan wins South West (Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames).
Sadiq Khan has won in the South West (Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames).
The results are:
Sadiq Khan – 77,011
Susan Hall – 68,856
- Sat 04 May, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 395
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Good afternoon. Well this is interesting...from the Guardian live thing Sadiq Khan wins West Central Sadiq Khan has won in West Central (Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster), taking it from the Conservatives. Khan has received 11,076 more votes than Hall. In 2021, Tory Shaun ...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 293
- Thu 02 May, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 293
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
Good morning. Given their previous support for BoJo which resulted in the editor getting a nice plum job afterwards (a fact that seems to elude the dimwitted Charlotte Gill who seems to think it a new thing that mayors get to appoint their own people as Deputies...are all Gills bad news?), the Eveni...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1741
Re: Friday 26th April 2024
I was going to say that maybe it was about time people started to look at Jake Wallis Simon...and look what's just come on my timeline...that last bit about him on X behaving more like a political activist than a journalist is spot on.
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1741
Re: Friday 26th April 2024
Another lol on this one, the officer wasn't commenting on Falter's physical/facial features but on his wearing the kippah ! CST, which was one of the bodies that met Rowley this week to discuss the Falter incident, issued a carefully worded statement in response that praised the overall police resp...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2074
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Oof.
The expression on West Streeting's face at the end...
The expression on West Streeting's face at the end...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2074
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Good afternoon. For utterances of meaningless bollocks, take a listen to this. And remember that the only reason that this one has been chuntering on about individual research grants over the past few weeks is that she has been able to look them up on a website which open to everyone to look at. I t...
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2164
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Good morning.
I can't help thinking that the Met know far more about Mr Gideon Falter and the backgrounds of his entourage than they are letting on.
I can't help thinking that the Met know far more about Mr Gideon Falter and the backgrounds of his entourage than they are letting on.
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2542
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Very much more detail here, from Gideon Falter I was treated like a criminal for being Jewish. The Met chief must go Pelted with insults like ‘scum’ and ‘Nazi’ after stumbling across a march, the leader of the Campaign Against Antisemitism was told he could be arrested https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ar...
- Sat 20 Apr, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2542
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Take a look at the signatories list on this letter from someone who writes for the usual suspects...you get the picture quite early when he says "Some schools teach gender identity ideology to pupils as if it were fact" - something which has been said often but I've never seen proven - and...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2593
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
I find it of interest that the story about Truss using an antisemitic trope appears in the JC, the editor of said newspaper so far hasn't seen fit to draw attention to it on X. Funny that...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2593
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Good morning.
Yeah, funny that...
Yeah, funny that...
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2205
Re: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Oh hello. I appear to have been missing in action for a while.
Anyway, this is...amusing. Reminds me of another one in the news lately who put a fake Churchill quote on the wall of her school...
Anyway, this is...amusing. Reminds me of another one in the news lately who put a fake Churchill quote on the wall of her school...
- Tue 05 Mar, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 463
Re: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
And who paid for Donelan's incompetence?
Why, we did of course...lucky old us eh.
Why, we did of course...lucky old us eh.
- Tue 05 Mar, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 463
Re: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
Afternoon. Been a tad busy lately...that's my excuse.
The best policy with Policy Exchange is not to believe a word they say...
The best policy with Policy Exchange is not to believe a word they say...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th February 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 563
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Good morning.
Badenoch being economical with the truth? I'm shocked...
Badenoch being economical with the truth? I'm shocked...
- Sat 24 Feb, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 775
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
I note that Truss was putting it about that top civil servants 'can't be sacked'.
Did she forget that she and Kwarteng sacked Tom Scholar?
Did she forget that she and Kwarteng sacked Tom Scholar?
- Sat 24 Feb, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 775
- Fri 23 Feb, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd February 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 432
Re: Friday 23rd February 2024
I see that 30p Lee is trying to get the whip taken away as well (assuming Sunak would do such a thing). What I tend to think of as halfway decent Tories aren't impressed.
- Fri 23 Feb, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd February 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 432
Re: Friday 23rd February 2024
More Truss. More bonkersness. LT, "Exactly.. And what I discovered, I was not holding the levers.. The levers were held by the Bank of England, the Office of Budget Responsibility, they weren't held by the Prime Minister, or the Chancellor" :lol: https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/...
- Fri 23 Feb, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd February 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 432
Re: Friday 23rd February 2024
A bit weird for Braverman to admit that the Tories have been a complete failure in running Britain but there you go...
- Fri 23 Feb, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd February 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 432
Re: Friday 23rd February 2024
Morning!
I see that Liz Truss seems to have gone full crank over in the US. Quangos which all report into a Government department are now 'Deep State''? What on earth is she on?
I see that Liz Truss seems to have gone full crank over in the US. Quangos which all report into a Government department are now 'Deep State''? What on earth is she on?
- Tue 06 Feb, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 773
Re: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Evening. I guess the PopCons could have picked a better moment to launch since most people's attention is elsewhere. But this tuff is completely nuts. “The entire institutional framework of the UK is entirely geared against the sorts of goals that conservatives share. There’s a powerful network of b...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1569
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
And so it begins...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1569
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Elsewhere I see that JRM had that nice lady who used to run Restore Trust on his programme. I see that she is now full-time at the Legatum Institute. So where was the MD of said Institute before his current position? Radomir was Special Adviser to Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP as Minister for Brexit Opp...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1569
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Well, there are efficiencies that the NHS could make - bringing services back in-house that were previously outsourced for a start. I think I posted about a Trust in our area bring back in house patient transport. Outsourcing was always a nonsense- the very same people doing precisely he same work b...
- Fri 19 Jan, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th January 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1661
Re: Friday 19th January 2024
Palestinians - "From the river to the sea"
Everyone - "How dare you! Bunch of anti-semites!"
Netanyahu - "From the river to the sea"
Everyone - "Sorry, did someone say something?"
Everyone - "How dare you! Bunch of anti-semites!"
Netanyahu - "From the river to the sea"
Everyone - "Sorry, did someone say something?"
- Fri 19 Jan, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th January 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1661
Re: Friday 19th January 2024
Ah there you are...I got a bit lost over the last week or so and Google Chrome seemed to second-guess the links I wanted and change them all to last-used. Anyway, this is a really interesting thread on the relationships between No 10 and the treasure. https://twitter.com/Gilesyb/status/1748274647135...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2328
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Good afternoon. There's an awful lot of (i) scrambling to get on the bandwagon and (ii) finger-pointing at those who may have done something about - and I stress may - the PO Horizon scandal a decade ago or so. Here for the community notes... https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1744464170169290979
- Fri 05 Jan, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1628
Re: Friday 5th January 2024
Good afternoon.
And if I haven't been in here since the event, a very Happy New Year to you all.
Rats leaving the sinking ship...
And if I haven't been in here since the event, a very Happy New Year to you all.
Rats leaving the sinking ship...
- Sat 23 Dec, 2023 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Christmas week 23-29 December 2023
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3809
Re: Christmas week 23-29 December 2023
Good evening. I think I've done pretty well all things considered - decorations up, food bought, presents all wrapped, and the kids are home. And the Home Secretary is making jokes about date rape drugs...oh dear. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/23/james-cleverly-apologises-for-appalli...
- Fri 22 Dec, 2023 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd December 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1571
Re: Friday 22nd December 2023
The Bar Council is not amused at the right wing attempt to smear Starmer. Honestly, has nobody been watching repeats of Rumpole?
- Thu 21 Dec, 2023 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 21st December 2023
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2723
Re: Thursday 21st December 2023
And...oh look...a climbdown. that didn't take long.
- Thu 21 Dec, 2023 7:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 21st December 2023
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2723
Re: Thursday 21st December 2023
Must be great being a Tory-leaning teacher - every job at the DfE is open to you. Keegan’s policy aide to advise new Ofsted chief https://twitter.com/SchoolsWeek/status/1737877244360405028 A key policy aide to Gillian Keegan will become new Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver’s lead adviser, Schools Week...
- Wed 20 Dec, 2023 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 20th December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1975
Re: Wednesday 20th December 2023
I missed this earlier - about time someone called out Wallis Simons. And Kemp can sod off too.
- Wed 20 Dec, 2023 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 20th December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1975
Re: Wednesday 20th December 2023
The funniest but about this is the assumption - and yes, I know Portes is a bit of a wind up merchant - that Allister Heath has any integrity to start with.
- Tue 19 Dec, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19th December 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2459
Re: Tuesday 19th December 2023
The last sentence from the government spokesman is a bit of a giveaway..."we are on track to get debt falling.”
- Tue 19 Dec, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19th December 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2459
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2186
Re: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
"I've made up this term to stifle any criticism of Israel, and then I'm going to dig up an 8 year old tweet to smear a former Foreign Secretary." Ah what point do the right wing owners of the JC look at him and think "Hang on..."? https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1736708848...
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2186