Re: Wednesday 13th July 2016
Posted: Wed 13 Jul, 2016 8:17 pm
#BanTheBoris
He changes who he has sex with very frequently already.HindleA wrote:Boris has agreed to have a sex change I believe,as part of conditions.
And people thought that leaving the EU would protect us from TTIPRogerOThornhill wrote:Really?
Freddie Whittaker
@FCDWhittaker
New Department for International Trade established, led by Liam Fox. Does this pave the way for break-up of BIS? Will DfE get HE and FE?
Lots of foreign travel for an old chum then...
Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist demonstrating that he's not very bright there.Jeremy Cliffe @JeremyCliffe
Boris won't have role in Brexit. Suspect he will accelerate FCO's transformation from foreign ministry to glorified trade promotion agency.
13 Jul 2016, 8:01 pm
New shoes needed? May, if she has any sense, won't be wanting to fill the old ones.HindleA wrote:If.you thought that was bad I've just had a 'phone call from Number 10.
Asking if I would do some shopping.for them tomorrow.
Yet to slither out from behind the tree.danesclose wrote:Any news of Health yet? Or Murdoch's representative on earth (Culture Secretary)?
If you are a Tory, Prime Minister apparently.Tim Bale @ProfTimBale
Now let me think, what high-profile cabinet job can someone cock up in but ruin only their own career, not their party's electoral chances?
13 Jul 2016, 8:26 pm
Boris the SpiderHindleA wrote:Boris The Clown
Jacob Rees Mogg is Secretary of State for the new dept of Victorian Workhouses.DWP is scrapped.frog222 wrote:Did I miss the DWP
( the one responsible for persecuting the disabled et al )
I think you'll find the position went to his nanny.TobyLatimer wrote:Jacob Rees Mogg is Secretary of State for the new dept of Victorian Workhouses.DWP is scrapped.frog222 wrote:Did I miss the DWP
( the one responsible for persecuting the disabled et al )
JonnyT1234 wrote:Any news yet on when May gives David Miliband the position he so richly deserves?
He's not Jeremy Corbyn. Apparently this makes some people wet their pants with glee.frog222 wrote:I hear Owen Smith was against Syria, a point in favour, but know nothing about him apart from having been (being?) a Pfizer lobbyist . More info and opinions welcome .
The bad news? That's the kind of thing he really, really, really enjoys.PorFavor wrote:The only good news, so far, is that George Osborne has been humiliated.
frog222 wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:Any news yet on when May gives David Miliband the position he so richly deserves?
You forgot Hilary Benn, that other ally in the warmongering adventures.
DMiliband was a great coverer-up of Rendition and Torture, I wonder where Hilary stood on those ?
Angela Eagle also ... ?
I hear Owen Smith was against Syria, a point in favour, but know nothing about him apart from having been (being?) a Pfizer lobbyist . More info and opinions welcome .
Thanks for the link .thatchersorphan wrote:frog222 wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:Any news yet on when May gives David Miliband the position he so richly deserves?
You forgot Hilary Benn, that other ally in the warmongering adventures.
DMiliband was a great coverer-up of Rendition and Torture, I wonder where Hilary stood on those ?
Angela Eagle also ... ?
I hear Owen Smith was against Syria, a point in favour, but know nothing about him apart from having been (being?) a Pfizer lobbyist . More info and opinions welcome .
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Owen Smith on the Iraq War
"We are making significant inroads in improving what is happening in Iraq.
"I thought at the time the tradition of the Labour Party and the tradition of left-wing engagement to remove dictators was a noble, valuable tradition, and one that in South Wales, from the Spanish Civil War onwards, we have recognised and played a part in."
That was on the NHS ."I'm not someone, frankly, who gets terribly wound up about some of the ideological nuances that get read into some of these things, and I think sometimes they are totally overblown."
Robert -- it does indeed show a somewhat superficial knowledge of History , as i just pointed out in another, recent very parallel post about Iraq and PFI !RobertSnozers wrote:I think Mr Smith needs to undertake a history course if he thinks the Spanish Civil War was about removing a dictator.thatchersorphan wrote:frog222 wrote:
You forgot Hilary Benn, that other ally in the warmongering adventures.
DMiliband was a great coverer-up of Rendition and Torture, I wonder where Hilary stood on those ?
Angela Eagle also ... ?
I hear Owen Smith was against Syria, a point in favour, but know nothing about him apart from having been (being?) a Pfizer lobbyist . More info and opinions welcome .
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... ar_twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Owen Smith on the Iraq War
"We are making significant inroads in improving what is happening in Iraq.
"I thought at the time the tradition of the Labour Party and the tradition of left-wing engagement to remove dictators was a noble, valuable tradition, and one that in South Wales, from the Spanish Civil War onwards, we have recognised and played a part in."
RogerOThornhill wrote:How To Be Wrong About Everything
And this was only 3 hrs ago when Hammond's name was already in the frame for Chancellor and Osborne was tipped for the sack.
Given the lack of hardened negotiators in the Civil Service, and the simple maths of public borrowing being Always Cheaper than private, I was always a priori against PFI .RobertSnozers wrote:Indeed! I've been a pragmatic supporter of PFI in the past, and I think in theory there are good reasons for using it in some parts of the public sector, but in reality the chances of the public sector getting a bad deal are high (as is the vulnerability to changes in inflation etc).frog222 wrote:Robert -- it does indeed show a somewhat superficial knowledge of History , as i just pointed out in another, recent very parallel post about Iraq and PFI !RobertSnozers wrote: I think Mr Smith needs to undertake a history course if he thinks the Spanish Civil War was about removing a dictator.
In terms of the running of services, I don't know how anyone who calls themselves a left winger could countenance any private involvement other than the smallest, and most reluctantly.
This is the nub of it mbc.mbc1955 wrote:Ok, the thing is done now, and a new era of British politics has officially begun. Cameron and Osborne, Britain's most inept Prime Minister ever, and the most unflinchingly doctrinaire economically-challenged Chancellor of all time have gone, one because he's a coward and the other because at least Teresa May isn't stupid enough to keep him. There has been a reset at the top, and I get the sense of a new seriousness settling in (though the inclusion of Boris Johnson at the top table,in one of the great Offices of State is a major sign that this impression might be completely off-the-wall).
Nevertheless, I do stand by my impression that Teresa May is much more serious about the business of being Prime Minister than the Bullingdon Boys ever were, and that we are in for something different now.
Let's be equally honest and state right away that we are at our closest to a one-party state since the great Whig hegemony under Robert Walpole. The Labour Party has been torn to pieces and is now functionally useless. I think Corbyn was exactly right to stand his ground, but I also think that Labour is dead, and a formal dissolution of the party, as soon as possible, has to take place before anything can grow on that ground again. The PLP has demonstrated incredible, years-long treachery and an ineptitude at politics that has been greater than anything Corbyn has been accused of. Don't try sticking tubes don't the throat of this beast, if it wakes up it will be without a working synapse.
I think that, to some extent, it is fair to say that Corbyn has never grasped that the purpose of politics is to be in power to implement your policies and beliefs. But to an even greater extent, the majority of the PLP, and especially those ringleaders who have actively sought to undermine their own side in order to pursue power have never grasped that the purpose of politics is to have policies and beliefs that you want to implement for the benefit of the majority of the people over whom that power is to be exercised.
What use is political power if all you want to do is to ape your political opponents? From the very beginning an accommodation between the two wings was needed but once side's idea of compromise, of combination, of collegiacy was to have 100% of what they wanted.
Corbyn has been the catalyst. His election made the fault stresses in Labour too visible to be suppressed. Without him, it would have limped on, either into futility as a pale shadow of the Tories, or until someone else was given prominence by people desperately wanting, and needing things the PLP won't give them.
We are in the midst of change. The demons are loose. This is the best time to square our shoulders and get involved in the Change. Build what we want to see. Everything has been jarred loose. If we cannot make something better than the vehicle that has failed us finally, when can we do this?
Don't ask me how. But let's recognise that this is where we're at. The Groaning Hinges of the World have turned over (and if you know where that comes from, you are a person of great taste and elegance): stop wasting time riding tides that no longer exist.
tePaulfromYorkshire wrote:mbc1955 wrote:Ok, the thing is done now, and a new era of British politics has officially begun. Cameron and Osborne, Britain's most inept Prime Minister ever, and the most unflinchingly doctrinaire economically-challenged Chancellor of all time have gone, one because he's a coward and the other because at least Teresa May isn't stupid enough to keep him. There has been a reset at the top, and I get the sense of a new seriousness settling in (though the inclusion of Boris Johnson at the top table,in one of the great Offices of State is a major sign that this impression might be completely off-the-wall).
Nevertheless, I do stand by my impression that Teresa May is much more serious about the business of being Prime Minister than the Bullingdon Boys ever were, and that we are in for something different now.
Let's be equally honest and state right away that we are at our closest to a one-party state since the great Whig hegemony under Robert Walpole. The Labour Party has been torn to pieces and is now functionally useless. I think Corbyn was exactly right to stand his ground, but I also think that Labour is dead, and a formal dissolution of the party, as soon as possible, has to take place before anything can grow on that ground again. The PLP has demonstrated incredible, years-long treachery and an ineptitude at politics that has been greater than anything Corbyn has been accused of. Don't try sticking tubes don't the throat of this beast, if it wakes up it will be without a working synapse.
I think that, to some extent, it is fair to say that Corbyn has never grasped that the purpose of politics is to be in power to implement your policies and beliefs. But to an even greater extent, the majority of the PLP, and especially those ringleaders who have actively sought to undermine their own side in order to pursue power have never grasped that the purpose of politics is to have policies and beliefs that you want to implement for the benefit of the majority of the people over whom that power is to be exercised.
What use is political power if all you want to do is to ape your political opponents? From the very beginning an accommodation between the two wings was needed but once side's idea of compromise, of combination, of collegiacy was to have 100% of what they wanted.
Corbyn has been the catalyst. His election made the fault stresses in Labour too visible to be suppressed. Without him, it would have limped on, either into futility as a pale shadow of the Tories, or until someone else was given prominence by people desperately wanting, and needing things the PLP won't give them.
We are in the midst of change. The demons are loose. This is the best time to square our shoulders and get involved in the Change. Build what we want to see. Everything has been jarred loose. If we cannot make something better than the vehicle that has failed us finally, when can we do this?
Don't ask me how. But let's recognise that this is where we're at. The Groaning Hinges of the World have turned over (and if you know where that comes from, you are a person of great taste and elegance): stop wasting time riding tides that no longer exist.
oh ffs, we will be at war so fast.......PorFavor wrote:Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary? (BBC)