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.
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- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 104
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 104
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: 160
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: 160
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: 79
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: 339
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: 339
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: 289
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: 289
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: 188
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: 272
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: 272
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: 497
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: 690
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: 690
- Fri 23 Feb, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd February 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 358
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: 358
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: 358
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: 358
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: 698
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: 1496
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: 1496
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: 1496
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: 1582
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: 1582
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: 2255
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: 1586
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: 3687
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: 1527
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: 2639
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: 2639
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: 1924
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: 1924
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: 2388
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: 2388
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2119
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: 2119
- Mon 18 Dec, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2119
Re: Monday 18th Decemeber 2023
In the Oh dear, how sad, never mind category of stories... Tory MP Miriam Cates being investigated by standards watchdog https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/18/tory-mp-miriam-cates-investigated-standards-watchdog Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire since 2019, i...
- Sun 17 Dec, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th December 2023
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2538
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th December 2023
Talking of Mone and her hubby...
- Thu 14 Dec, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th December 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2303
Re: Thursday 14th December 2023
Lovely bit of whataboutery from a Tory Peer - but good on Cameron for dong this.
- Thu 14 Dec, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th December 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2303
Re: Thursday 14th December 2023
Good morning. Not quite sure why everyone seems to be so surprised by the Israeli Ambassador saying a two-state solution was now dead given she slapped down the Board of Deputies over this issue three years ago. Incoming envoy Hotovely attacked Board over two-state commitment https://www.thejc.com/n...
- Mon 11 Dec, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1445
Re: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
How have the Tory Party got to the point where Mark Francois has any influence over it?
- Mon 11 Dec, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1445
Re: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
I see Lee Kern is having a bit of a meltdown again...
Weird post - there's an awful lot of "I'm just making this up" here.
And right wing politicians - here, Hamas - not here. Reasonable I think.
Weird post - there's an awful lot of "I'm just making this up" here.
And right wing politicians - here, Hamas - not here. Reasonable I think.
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2016
Re: Thursday 7th December 2023
Monbiot telling it like it is...and not a single interruption.
- Thu 07 Dec, 2023 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2016
Re: Thursday 7th December 2023
Central Office playing a blinder this afternoon...
- Wed 06 Dec, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1769
Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023
So, it's all about finding Hamas leaders is it?
Hmm...
Hmm...
- Wed 06 Dec, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1769
Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Jenrick's resigned apparently.
- Wed 06 Dec, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1769
Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Oh dear...just goes to show just how extreme Braverman and her backers are.
- Tue 05 Dec, 2023 10:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th December 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1747
Re: Tuesday 5th December 2023
"No, not them either!"
- Tue 05 Dec, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th December 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1747
Re: Tuesday 5th December 2023
"Cut down on immigration!...No, not those ones!"
Oh dear.
Oh dear.