We all knew Liz truss wasnt the brightest but stil....
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1157696024900788224?s=19
That's high quality skewering by Eddie Mair - and Truss deserves it; another politico who exemplifies the 'Peter principle' of being promoted to the level of one's own incompetence - Peter Drucker, if you're interested.
On dear Johnson is in trouble
farage is going to snatch his votes away in every seat
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1157625465567371266
On & this is being paid for by his far right American backers
https://eutoday.net/news/politics/2019/world4brexit
Our first slate of 50 Prospective Parliamentary Candidates to fight a Brexit general election.
100 more will follow next week, watch this space. pic.twitter.com/xGG7qk84Zp
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 3, 2019
We need Treebeard and the Ents to save us!
Why is Cummings announcing government policy and saying what parliament can and cannot do?
Its more like a junta has taken over and BJ is just their front man.
On dear Johnson is in trouble
farage is going to snatch his votes away in every seat
Ok me looking into the crystal ball into the future ...
While those two cannibalise each other's votes, Lib Dem and Labour (Green etc) will form an alliance to snatch a GE win from them. Then the winner celebrate in big style to demonstrate they prowess.
But after their celebration they will notice they face the same problems to govern so they call for the help of EU army to assist them. For the first time in history there will be foreign army setting foot in UK soil to quash a rebellion.
The charade continues for another decade or so ... The End. 😆
Do you ever worry about the varying relationship between your effective vocabulary and your grammar?
Do you ever worry about the varying relationship between your effective vocabulary and your grammar?
😅
Our grammar is rather different in the far east ...
So is your grasp on reality. There is no EU army.
I'd take that crystal ball back where you bought it if I were you.
So is your grasp on reality. There is no EU army.
I’d take that crystal ball back where you bought it if I were you.
That is the "reality" of crystal ball so not going to argue with crystal ball.
No refund as it is a crystal ball ... hang on ... I would have seen that in the crystal ball before buying. They must have seen me coming 😂
...so they call for the help of EU army to assist them...
What EU Army?
https://fullfact.org/europe/hunt-eu-army/
Grammatical differences are one thing, attempting to get away with posting absolute rubbish is quite another.
What EU Army?
https://fullfact.org/europe/hunt-eu-army/
Grammatical differences are one thing, attempting to get away with posting absolute rubbish is quite another.
You need to ask the Independent newspaper ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-army-angela-merkel-macron-germany-france-military-european-commission-juncker-a8633196.html
Other info ... not sure if they are true but there you go ...
QUARTZ
EUobserver
EU Parliament
Somewhat surprisingly the constituency used to be a Labour stronghold.
The constituency hasn't been held by Labour since 1979 ( 4 decades ago!) and in the 101 years that the current constituency has existed Labour have only held it for 42 years, with the Liberals/Lib Dems and Conservatives holding it for the majority of the other 59 years.
It is an extremely rural constituency, traditionally the kind that votes Conservative or Lib Dem.
Prior to the amalgamation of the constituent areas (Radnorshire and Breconshire) the individuals constituencies had only ever been held by Parliamentarians/Whigs/Liberals or Tories/Conservatives.
It was actually an achievement for Labour to hold the constituency as long as they did, one that went against historical precedent.
@chewkw - You need to do a bit more reading around this.
Currently it is largely the French and Germans who are pushing for closer military ties within the EU but any such move would require unanimous agreement by EU member states.
As it stands the Irish are not interested in such a force (due to their policy of neutrality and some Eastern European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic States are very much against the idea due to historical experience.
The other overriding concern is the an 'EU Army' would undermine NATO, with which many EU member states have far more invested.
It only takes one state to veto the formation of such a force and, as it stands, there are many who would use their veto.
The 'EU Army' is nothing more than the wet dream of France, Germany and Brexiteers who need an easy soundbite to attack the larger EU.
The ‘EU Army’ is
nothing more thanthewetdream of France, Germany andBrexiteers who need an easy soundbite to attack thelarger EU.
Based on me crystal ball their dream may come true which is scary ...
I know it’s hard to resist, I’m worse than most for falling for his ducking games, but please, do not feed the troll.
I know it’s hard to resist, I’m worse than most for falling for his ducking games, but please, do not feed the troll.
It's odd that he's kept it going for so long and still isn't bored.
It’s odd that he’s kept it going for so long and still isn’t bored.
Not odd if you appreciate the needs and mentality of the typical troll.
Killfile.
Why is Cummings now the defacto deputy PM?
Who elected him?
Why is Cummings now the defacto deputy PM?
Who elected him?
Look, the British people voted very clearly for powerful unelected bureaucrats. Why do you hate democracy?
i just had to google the spelling of bureaucrats 🙁
Politico London Playbook has daily write a ups about the de facto PM Cummings threatening the Spads with dire consequences if anyone leaks stuff to the press.
Seems he has sidelined the civil servants and brought in a load of Spads to carry out the juntas plans away from prying eyes.
SpAd jihad: The most fun article of yesterday came via BuzzFeed’s Alex Wickham, who has a full read-out of Cummings’ big Monday morning meeting with his new SpAd army. One aide memorably describes his interventions over the past two weeks as a “jihad on SpAds.” The Times’ Steven Swinford also has the deets, and it’s comedy stuff — not least because Cummings’ main aim appears to have been to clamp down on, erm, leaks. Cummings apparently even claimed lobby hacks would reveal their best SpAd sources to him in return for a decent story. “My worth to journalists is far greater than yours,” Cummings apparently said. “For the right story they will rat you out.”
Lolz: No they won’t. Journalists do not reveal their sources, ever. They certainly don’t trade them for tips from government officials. This is not a thing, SpAds. Fear not.
Journalists do not reveal their sources, ever.
You mean apart from the ones that did that at The Sunday Times? ( https://www.private-eye.co.uk/street-of-shame).
After reading a lot of this behaviour, I would say that honest journalists do not reveal sources.
SpAds
Say whut?
: No they won’t. Journalists do not reveal their sources, ever. They certainly don’t trade them for tips from government officials.
In 1950 maybe, these days the number of [s] journalists [/s] people who work in news who've shared a lift with integrity, let alone have their own is significantly smaller than those who'd sell their own children for a front page
Cummings is simply sounding desperate if thats true
Even if they squeeze a no deal brexit through before an election (which seems very likely at the moment) theres absolutely no certainty that johnson will win an election, especially if theres disruption & manufacturing chaos after no deal.
Spads = special advisors
These are unelected bureaucrats, but obviously not those horrid EU unelected ones, but our own glorious ones that they told us we could have loads of once we left. If you don't remember that happening, Dominic Rabb will be along in a minute to glare at you menacingly until you do
theres absolutely no certainty that johnson will win an election, especially if theres disruption & manufacturing chaos after no deal
Beyond having put a few quid on it at Ladbroke I can't see that Cummings could care less. His interest in Boris is purely down to Boris being a tool.
Why is Cummings now the defacto deputy PM?
Who elected him?
Nobody. Very similar to who elected the actual PM.
Spads = special advisors
Ah.
I miss the days when things had an actual name.
It is actually now a game of chicken withe two vehicles at either end of a runway with both drivers about to floor it towards each other, head on
The problem with that being that they're in a fully loaded artic, while Boris is in a little clown car that the doors keep falling off
The game of chicken analogy is slightly off. Boris (and the whole country) are jammed in a clapped out Yugo going flat out. The EU are at home chillin' to some tunes, no need for shows of machismo.
Yet somehow Boris will still manage to crash.
Boris, as PM, crashes UK out of EU.
Boris, with Brexit pals, strong arms "emergency" trade deal with US that give the US ALL the cards.
Boris quits after first term/booted out.
Boris goes home.
Levers are pulled, buttons are pushed, some palms crossed.
Boris begins journey to become US president.
After all, what could be more American than a boy from the Upper East Side of Manhattan?
Boris, with Brexit pals, strong arms “emergency” trade deal with US that give the US ALL the cards.
I don't think there's any trade deal to be done with between UK USA in which the USA doesn't hold all the cards*, emergency or otherwise.
*Admittedly I can imagine Borris trying to play big stakes poker with his favourite pokemon cards.
I see Cummings - the Uncle Duke of No10 - has challenged Grieve over VONC.
While parliament is in recess they have a clear run at getting all the headlines and strutting their stuff. Roll on 3 September.
Another interesting take on Uncle Duke the voice in Johnsons head.
If you thought a Labour government would be bad prepare to be transformed.
https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-mind-of-boris-johnsons-right-hand-man/
In Cummings’ grand vision, the U.K. would take on “a central role in tackling humanity’s biggest problems and shaping the new institutions, displacing the EU and UN, that will emerge as the world makes painful transitions in coming decades.”
Is he 14 years old?
He will have to tho at some point he will lose a confidence vote.
I see he's throwing 100 million at the prisons.
Expecting a big riot, I guess.
He will have to tho at some point he will lose a confidence vote.
And thanks to JC insisting earlier in the week that Labour wouldn't support a tory no confidence motion so he can launch his own plan of a coup we're stuck with Bo Jo.
I don't think I'm the only one who thinks he wouldn't go.
And thanks to JC insisting Labour wouldn’t support a tory no confidence motion
What? cite please
#10 still punting the £350 mil for NHS thing, from that link:
"There is a clear choice: Either Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister who will overrule the referendum and wreck the economy, or Boris Johnson as prime minister who will respect the referendum and deliver more money for the NHS and more police on our streets.
Also, tractor production will be increased.
