Tuesday 26th July 2022

[refitman]

Morning all.

[frog222]

Morning RFM
excellent late news last night on Lee Harpin and Audrey White .

I bet Truss had no clue on US house mortgage rates --

"For a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, the average rate you'll pay is 5.65%, which is a decline of 10 basis points compared to one week ago. (A basis point is equivalent to 0.01%.) (15y about 4.80%)
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/m ... s-retreat/

There they are again --


Teetering --

[frog222]

Thread

[frog222]

Dear Frog

The Met Police have, at last, admitted they did not send questionnaires to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, before deciding not to fine him for attending a gathering in No.10 on 13 November 2020 or a gathering in the Cabinet Office on 17 December 2020.

According to Sue Gray, at the November gathering the Prime Minister gave a leaving speech for Lee Cain, his Director of Communications. Wine was provided and those attending, including the Prime Minister, drank alcohol. There are a number of photographs of the event. The Prime Minister also attended the December 2020 gathering, where wine was also provided, and made a speech. The Met have issued other attendees at both events with fines.

In their formal pleaded reply to our legal challenge, the Met admit they did not send the PM questionnaires, but continue to fail to provide any explanation of how they cleared the Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak’s Partygate fine suggests that passing through a gathering en route to a meeting doesn’t prevent you from being fined, so it’s far from clear how turning up to a gathering deliberately, raising a toast and encouraging the revels to continue can be compliant with the law.

We don’t think the Met’s response is consistent with their legal duty of candour. And we certainly don’t think it’s consistent with what the Met has elsewhere conceded is their public duty to maintain public confidence in policing.

In the circumstances, Good Law Project and Lord Paddick will continue with the judicial review.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Yes, that decision does need some explaining doesn't it.

[refitman]

[refitman]

[gilsey]

'As far as I am aware, no government business was discussed'

How reassuring.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Is that a reference about Johnson's visit to Lebedev's villa?

[gilsey]

Aye.

[RogerOThornhill]

Good afternoon.

You mean to say that it was only an empty slogan? Shocked etc,

[AnatolyKasparov]

Don't worry though, Truss says she will "double down" on it.

[frog222]

Haven't checked the second bit ...

[frog222]

[frog222]

Random Word Generator Truss --

[AnatolyKasparov]

That "keep Johnson" petition being so easy to fiddle really does add to the pure Trumpiness of it all.

[refitman]

Oh...

[gilsey]

Wren-Lewis

Sunak vs Truss: a battle between two failed economic policies

While the dividing lines between the two candidates on economic policy appear fairly clear, the division is more fundamental than the timing of tax cuts. It is the politics of one big lie, that we saw under Cameron and Osborne, against the politics of perpetual lying, that we saw with Brexit and Johnson. Both candidates share the same aim, which is to minimise the quality of public services and maximise tax cuts while still winning elections. They differ only on what the best political means of achieving that goal is.

[gilsey]

Football, eh.

[notnowsonny]

Football, eh.

Enjoyed that as much as any game for a while (I do support Wolves and England Men after all!).
Happy to be English again
@sky

[refitman]

Football, eh.

Cheeky