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Hmmm... the “don’t encourage pupils to be politically engaged” noise is being turned into official advice for teachers. By people who clearly don’t understand students… many are more likely to be trying to encourage adults to be politically engaged. All this because some kids criticised our dear leader (using the same arguments put forward by Conservative MPs and past Conservative ministers and a PM)? Is the “war on woke” line from Ministers being exposed as really being a “war on the young”?
I am reminded of a phrase I saw recently: "Democracy is not a spectator sport".
We should, no, we have a duty to encourage young adults to be engaged with democracy and the running of the country. The alternative is that democracy ceases to become representative of society
Is the “war on woke” line from Ministers being exposed as really being a “war on the young”?
Nah its just part of their culture wars in general. Remember they need a new enemy now to blame everything on now that brexit has happened. Whilst the EU can, and will, be blamed still as much as possible it isnt quite as good a target as before so need plan b.
I wonder if they have really thought it through though eg “in a balanced manner”. might have the opposite affect from what they were hoping when applied to empire
The thing is, state school teachers are already advised (it’s more than that, it’s a legal duty) not to push a party political line on kids… this is about not encouraging kids to be politically engaged, to not encourage them to argue a political position… very odd… it’s not very in keeping with best practice from top schools like Eton College, is it.
But the rules may not really apply to places like Eton, after all, where would you want the leaders of the country to come from, the fine halls of Eton and Oxbridge, or the grimy state schools and the local shop floors?
Maybe one of them with nothing to hide will have enough of a conscience to leak more of the actual details in it
EDIT: Wishful thinking - just saw they cannot access info about anyone other than themselves
Here's what we know Sue Grey has written about you before you write your answer to any questions we're going to ask?
That's a new interview technique fo'shure.
Is Johnson attending the cobra meeting?
He didn't bother during a pandemic but after Partygate a bit of a storm might be enough...
I don;t think they should be fined for lockdown breaches, it is the least of their sins...
This. Down Whitehall onto Westminster Bridge and into the Thames.
Along with his sponsors,cronies and the rest of the useless tossers.
1) state you want more Conservative people in key posts
2) privately invite Conservative donors to apply for key posts
3) ministers appoint Conservative donors to key posts
4) claim an open, fair, transparent and balanced appointment procedure is still in place
…
5) probably appoint someone from Vote Leave to oversee/audit the process in future
Oohh
https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1496250594197221388?t=v8twdNnT4fjlcb-VZlFqIQ&s=19
Shameless toerag he'll sleaze his way out of this
He'll do the whole "innocent until proven guilty", "being interviewed under caution is no indication of a crime being committed" guff that, while technically correct is just a way to deflect the reality.
the daily fail are reporting on a new poll suggesting half the cabinet and Johnson would lose their seats in a GE that was held now. (Labour would have a 14 seat majority with the tories losing 165 seats, in a result similar to Howard vs Blair)
His corruption is showing over Ukraine in that he will not go after the kleptocrats that have their money in london. Either way he is in trouble on this one. Freezes their funds then I am sure somone will complain and let out secrets about all the dodgy deals and all the money they pump into the tory party, continue to do nothing and he is helping Putin.
He's happy to make putins life not too hard
The man's worth £200billion. You can paper a whole flat for that and still have change left over.
Whilst almost all press attention is on Ukraine, what is DePleffel and his mates up to?
If we thought that party gate was a good time for him to “get stuff done on the quiet” imagine what opportunities this will have brought and I’ll bet that the Tories are not honourable enough to avoid doing so, rather will take full advantage.
Sadly we won't find out until it's too late but whatever they get up to can always be undone, Putin's war is more important right now. We can keep an eye on both but our focus might be drawn away at times.
He's on the frontline getting stuck in, in Oxfordshire
https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1497896015214620676
looks like he's struggling to stand up !
Did they really misspell Ukraine in the hashtag? 🙄
How the **** did they get that plane in a fridge?
Surprised he hasn't donned a flak jacket.
Partygate ? Piffle…Don’t you know there’s a bloody war on 🙄
Partygate ?
Putin has ‘nuclear deterrent on special alert’ says the BBC, I’m hoping for an invite to Boris’s bunker bunker party
Someone needs to Photoshop him a straight arm in that pic.
Partygate ? Piffle…Don’t you know there’s a bloody war on
is that one of Liz Truss's photos with depfeffeffel's head photoshopped in?
Just when you think your contempt for him couldn't sink any lower, he surpasses himself...
Don't worry about people being massacred, our glorious leader has grabbed the opportunity for a party political broadcast
Whilst simultaneously giving his Russian Oligarch funders the chance to get their money out of the country
This is absolutely obscene! Its difficult to know where to start with this as it is so jarringly offensive on so many levels. Christ, I utterly loath this bastard and everything he represents. How on earth did we end up with this sub-human charlatan as our PM
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1498953241337503744?s=20&t=I5vw0xNZ0Ma6_YSQz3iYQQ
Be fair... he's got to do this to fight off the advancing intellectual colossus Liz Truss. It's way more importanter than Slavic peeps fighting over stuff
I thought it needed more flags. He's slacking.
Brave Boris... fighting Russian-funded toxic nationalism with Russian-funded toxic nationalism
The difference between Johnson and Starmer on PMs Q's just now is staggering.
Starmer is leading on details about our response to Russia... Johnson just keeps saying that the UK is "leading the way". Sadly, the repeated three word phrase will be far more easily absorbed and recalled by the voters than anything Starmer is (correctly) pushing on. We have a Prime Minister on the opposition benches, and a glib campaigner in the prime spot on the government benches. But that's not a mistake, it's where UK politics is right now.
I suspect that not for the first time Carole Cadwalladr may find herself in court with that tweet above.
Unless she’s got proof it’s straight forward defamation - and given her track record of getting quite basic facts wrong it could get expensive. You’d think that a competent journalist would have the nouse to differentiate actual facts from allegations…
See: https://order-order.com/people/carole-cadwalladr/
Which bit of it, exactly?
'Suppressed the Russia Report'. Chair of the committee that drew it up says he did, personally (Dominic Grieve).
'Rolling in Russian Cash'. The extent of Russian donations to the Conservative Party is well documented
'Failed to Sanction Abramovich'. I don't think this is even contentious. He hasn't.
There is nothing particularly defamatory about the tweet, and certainly nothing actionable. It's also quite hard to suffer reputational damage when you have a well-established reputation as a liar, as Johnson does. Also he doesn't have the cash for expensive libel actions, especially now the taps have been turned off to his party.
Which fact are you calling out as wrong @cheddarchallenged, or are you just smearing around a bit of vague distrust in a journalist to defend the PM?
If there's anything that the events of the past couple of weeks have taught us (if we didn't already know), is that Carole Cadwalladr has been right about a lot of stuff, despite some dedicated and well-funded efforts to smear her as a 'crazy cat lady'. The current libel action against her is tenuous in the extreme.
I suspect that not for the first time Carole Cadwalladr may find herself in court with that tweet above
Yeah… Good luck with finding a lawyer to pursue that one, given what facts are in the public domain
I think you might only find one taker for that brief
Thing with UK libel / slander laws is even if you win you only get damages in proportion to the damage to your reputation. As Johnson is a known liar and philanderer he has no reputation to be ruined 🙂 damages would be 1p. Plenty of cases of this happening.
A decent gag appeared in the comments section of a Danny Finkelstein leader in The Times today:
An aide to Boris Johnson quipped about the Ukraine president, on Friday 25 February 2022: “Who would have thought that a former chat-show host would turn into a statesman of great principle and stature.”
Then, much to the PM’s chagrin and annoyance, the aide joked candidly and tellingly: “It wouldn’t happen here!”
If you have access to The Times btw, DF's article is excellent IHMO and worth reading.
I suspect that not for the first time Carole Cadwalladr may find herself in court with that tweet above.
Unless she’s got proof it’s straight forward defamation – and given her track record of getting quite basic facts wrong it could get expensive. You’d think that a competent journalist would have the nouse to differentiate actual facts from allegations…
See: https://order-order.com/people/carole-cadwalladr//blockquote >
I see you've linked to Guido Fawkes, a right-wing blogger with an unhealthy interest in Cadwalladr. This has nothing to do of course with his pro-Brexit views or her expose of Cambridge Analytica.
I think you might only find one taker for that brief
Depends how much you are willing to pay.
There has been a long history of millionaires/billionaires using libel laws to silence their critics in the UK court.
Look at the various cases against Private Eye in the past or more recently and highly applicable to the Russian question the oligarchs libel cases against Catherine Belton and Harper Collins (the suing her personally as well as the publisher seems to be a new favoured trick used against Cadwalladr as well).
I suspect that not for the first time Carole Cadwalladr may find herself in court with that tweet above.
Guido Fawkes reader eh?, perfect way to out yourself
Look at the various cases against Private Eye in the past
IIRC they have never lost a libel case and the threat of it does not shut them up - see Arkell V Pressdram
https://lettersofnote.com/2013/08/07/arkell-v-pressdram/
tj - the Eye have lost a few libel cases; that small number is a tiny proportion of the number of cases brought against them.
IIRC they have never lost a libel case and the threat of it does not shut them up
They have done eg Maxwell and the fat "cheque for the fat Czech" quip, Goldsmith and several others. Some of those cases came very very close to bankrupting them as well with them running appeals to readers to cover legal costs.
Yes Private Eye and a few others will take the risk but a lot of journalists, writers and publishers
will decide its not worth the risk and expense.
I wonder if any tory donners are close to getting on any sanction lists? I know they aren't, not until they have go their money out
Well Abramovic doesn't need to be in any hurry to offload Chelski. He's got 18 months to get is ill-gotten gains out of the country. I presume the same applies to the rest of them.
'Honest Bob' Jenrick was interviewed on Radio 4 at lunchtime and even he thought that was probably a bit much
Imagine how dodgy it has to be for Robert Jenrick (the man who didn't bat an eyelid about taking a bung to let Richard Desmond off with millions in tax) to balk at it. They really are utterly, totally and unashamedly corrupt
I’m sure these two things are entirely unconnected…
https://twitter.com/snowleopardess/status/1498990485146329096?s=21
https://twitter.com/jamiejones77/status/1499285950572244992?s=21
You’d think that a competent journalist would have the nouse to differentiate actual facts from allegations…
You level that accusation at her using a Guido Fawkes piece as 'evidence' ? Irony much?
tory donners
Theresa Coffey's lunch order?
Given how the UK population seems to be mostly pro-Ukraine, allegations like this have to be pretty bad news for Johnson surely?
You might want to check the details of Banks libel trial against Carole- has been something of an own goal, whatever the outcome
Its revealed that he cant/won't disclose where he got the money he donated to vote leave from via his mysterious diamond mines in africa
Even more fascinating was the fact that his wife entered the country on a passport sequentially numbered to one used by a known honeypot spy the UK had deported for targeting a British MP
Exactly as the skripal poisoners did.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/honey-im-trapped-in-russia-n79s85679k5
Meanwhile Banks has been tweeting in support of Putins war!!
"I wonder if any tory donners are close to getting on any sanction lists?"
Let's hope they get skewered like a kebab.
It’s clear that in “leading the world” on sanctions, the UK government is really dragging its heels and giving identified banks, businesses and individuals space and time to work around sanctions before they eventually kick in…
https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1499388668108226564?s=21
PM Boris Johnson told to explain why crackdown on Russian ‘dirty money’ will take 18 months
If you want to see how quickly the Tories can impose sanctions when they want to, try turning up a few minutes late to an appointment at the JobCentre.
If you want to see how quickly the Tories can impose sanctions when they want to, try turning up a few minutes late to an appointment at the JobCentre.
Brilliantly put!
How the **** can Gavin Williamson be awarded a knighthood? What has he done in secret that deserves such an accolade, or what has be got on Johnson? This is the incompetent who presided over exams debacle after being sacked as Defence Secretary for alleged leak?? Our country is rotten to the core!
Ah loyalty to the party comrade Philby :-).
Anyone remember that er comedy in the 80’s when the u.k. joined the Warsaw pact.
Sir Gavin Williamson!
FFS
How the **** can Gavin Williamson be awarded a knighthood
He apparently has loads of dirt on Johnson and when he was sacked, this was his pay off to keep his mouth shut. He may be utterly useless at everything else but he was supposedly excellent as chief whip, digging up dirt on people
He was hardly subtle about it either. Note the book, which apparently lists where the bodies are buried, complete with an actual whip, placed prominently in this toe-curling photo that even Instagram Liz might consider a bit much
It’s just more blatant corruption. They don’t even make any attempt to justify it any more
Arise Sir Frank Spencer
It's also another Boris deadcat to deflect from the shit job he's doing on Russian money
It's seriously time for some civil disobedience, I've had enough.
How the **** can Gavin Williamson be awarded a knighthood
Maybe it'll be treated like one of the exam results he presided over and downgraded to a Blue Peter badge in a few weeks time.
There's actually more integrity in a blue Peter badge than there is in a knighthood these days.
Don't they actually an ounce what honours are given for at the ceremony?
"....and for services to, er......Boris?....."
Theresa Coffey’s lunch order?
Not the full lunch, one course.
Anyone remember that er comedy in the 80’s when the u.k. joined the Warsaw pact.
My first guess was Whoops Apocalypse & wikki agrees. I always liked the disguises the quark bomb went through 😬
Say hello to the wallygarchy
Kompromat
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1500232483324968970?t=7M****VZYycJkUq3ABGQTSQ&s=19
I'm not surprised.
Though I'm becoming a bit concerned that all this shit is sticking to Boris and the wider Tory party will escape the reckoning.
Why would Johnsomn have to worry about having a laugh dishing out the honours? Is he likely to get any grief from Sir Kief?
Mail reporting Johnson's 6 point plan for Ukraine puts him as leader of the global response.
He can't believe his luck.
Mail reporting Johnson’s 6 point plan for Ukraine puts him as leader of the global response.
He can’t believe his luck.
It puts him as the cheerleader for the global response as it seems largely to be a list of commitments other people should make
Gotta larf thou how a newly ‘sovereign’ nation who have thrown off the shackles of E.U. Oppression seem to very slow to actually implement sanctions(whereas Germany seems to have nabbed a boat), the law they mumble which is an odd thing to say as they make the laws and could pretty rapidly implement one overnight.
Think I understood that.
Is he likely to get any grief from Sir Kief?
He could have him arrested for treason. Apparently that's all the rage in some Eastern European countries 😉
(whereas Germany seems to have nabbed a boat),
Yup, they missed a trick there and in need of a Royal Yacht. Could have killed 2 birds with one stone. Free 160m megayacht with all the trimmings, one extremely pissed off oligarch owner. Bought from new.
Saved a fortune. Probably has gold taps and slave accommodation for 50.
It puts him as the cheerleader for the global response as it seems largely to be a list of commitments other people should make
Hopefully Putin will reward him for his cheerleading by releasing a shedload of kompromat. I hadn't realised Carrie was a founder member of the Conservative Friends of Russia group...
Kompromat
Why would Johnsomn have to worry about having a laugh dishing out the honours? Is he likely to get any grief from Sir Kief?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60638289
Sir Keir Starmer has called for a senior parliamentary committee to investigate claims Boris Johnson pushed for a Russian-born businessman to get a peerage, despite security concerns.