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And FabricantLine6 HXFX wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 4:38 pm Jacob Rees Mogg Knighted, Pritti Patel gets a Damehood.
No, you didn't just wake up in Sandshark and Opensides wet dream, this is actually happenning.
Yeah, roll a Guillotine into Parliament square, & sit an old dear on the steps knitting a stitch for every head that rolls.tabascoboy wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 4:50 pm
FFS look at these simpering assholes getting honours - or at least nominated. Hopefully some way to stop this abuse of the system
Yeah, I think the combination of nominated, & elected works well, because it allows you to have people in the House for their knowledge & experience, & some people who hopefully bring different viewpoints. I think you can also make terms, say 8 years, so they're decoupled from the regular cycle, & not beholden to the Government of the day.Biffer wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:18 pm I'm OK with a substantially nominated house but it should be fixed term and there should be a range of people doing the nominating.
Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has announced she is standing down as an MP.
The former culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson said she was standing down "with immediate effect" after "something significant" happened to change her mind.
It means there will be a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency, where she has a majority of 24,664.
Ms Dorries had already said she would not stand at the next general election.
It came ahead of the publication of Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.
Ms Dorries had been expected to be nominated for an honour, but she was not included on the list.
I'd like to have various societal groups nominating people as well. Trades Union, Business organisations, charities, universities, sporting organisations, many others that might make sense.fishfoodie wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:31 pmYeah, I think the combination of nominated, & elected works well, because it allows you to have people in the House for their knowledge & experience, & some people who hopefully bring different viewpoints. I think you can also make terms, say 8 years, so they're decoupled from the regular cycle, & not beholden to the Government of the day.Biffer wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:18 pm I'm OK with a substantially nominated house but it should be fixed term and there should be a range of people doing the nominating.
I'd also have minimum attendance requirements too.
He got the conclusions of Standards group today; I don't think it's a coincidencesalanya wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 7:10 pm Boris out too.
Off with Nadine to keep his 'ego' inflated.
Throwing shite all over the shop in his resignation - a slightly more literate version of Trump.
Best riddance.
Boris Johnson stepping down as MP with immediate effect and says he is ‘bewildered and appalled’ at being ‘forced out’
Maybe change the honours to something appropiate ?sturginho wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:17 pm That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?
If he had an ounce of political nous, or his balls weren't locked in his wife's purse.sturginho wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:17 pm That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?
Wait a mo, just off to get my popcornJohnson's resignation tonight has unleashed familiar Tory factions into the open again.
Another unhappy Tory, Brendan Clarke-Smith, tweets: “Tonight we saw the end result of a parliamentary witch-hunt which would put a banana republic to shame.
"If you’d thought we’d seen the back of Tory civil war, tonight may have reopened that can of worms."
Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?I like neeps wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:52 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872
Labour in watering down policy shock.
That's fantastic.
Yup. Plenty to criticise Labour for but these attacks on plans being subject to financial and political reality are just silly.GogLais wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:15 pmSurely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?I like neeps wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:52 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872
Labour in watering down policy shock.
And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.GogLais wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:15 pmSurely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?I like neeps wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:52 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872
Labour in watering down policy shock.
But that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.Rhubarb & Custard wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:19 pmAnd they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.GogLais wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:15 pmSurely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?I like neeps wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:52 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872
Labour in watering down policy shock.
Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather
Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy
Building consensus to deliver on policy isn't a bad thing. Not that one suspects that would happen, and there'd still be the Tories couldn't plan their way out of a sodden paper bagfishfoodie wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:54 pmBut that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.Rhubarb & Custard wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:19 pmAnd they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.GogLais wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:15 pm
Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?
Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather
Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy
Yeah, a few more and you end up with a general election dry run of 6 or 8 elections, all Tory seats, on the same day, labour targeting some, Lib Dems the others. If they lost 6 they’d be down to a working majority of 52 I think.C69 wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:44 pm So all 3 by elections have Labour in 2nd place
However I suspect that Starmer will target Selby and Uxbridge and not bother with Nads posher constituency
Obviously on the qt
Open warfare atm with apparently a few more resignations to come in the next 72 hours.
It's the slow death of the Tories. Starmer needs to be grey, he needs to e boring and he needs to do nothing at all.
Crispin Odey: City boss quits firm after sexual misconduct claims
A City financier is leaving the company he founded after sexual harassment allegations.
Crispin Odey's departure from Odey Asset Management follows a Financial Times report that 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or assault over 25 years.
Mr Odey strenuously denies the claims and told the paper they were "rubbish".
In a statement the hedge fund said it took "all allegations of misconduct extremely seriously".
For more than three decades Mr Odey had been at the helm of the hedge fund he founded in 1991 - at its peak the firm managed more than £10bn worth of investments.
Mr Odey, a prominent Brexit backer, claimed to have made hundreds of millions of pounds as sterling plummeted in the aftermath of the referendum vote.
On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the allegations dated back to 1998 and the latest alleged incident was in December 2021.
Mr Odey said this week that "none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation".
A statement from Odey Asset Management executive on Saturday confirmed that Mr Odey would be leaving.
"As from today, he will no longer have any economic or personal involvement in the partnership," it said.
"Odey Asset Management Group Ltd will also cease to be a member and the partnership will now be owned and controlled by the remaining partners and managed as an independent legal entity."
The executive committee said the firm's policies and procedures "have been followed at all times".
"The firm has been investigating allegations concerning Mr Odey, but the firm cannot comment in detail as it is bound by legal obligations of confidentiality."
Odey Asset Management said it had been "fully transparent" with the regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and would contact clients over the weekend.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65866895
That would be interesting with fptp. Split the tory vote.Insane_Homer wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:52 pm Brace yourselves for the Full English Potential Party (FEPP) announcement later this week.
Surprised JRM hasn't dropped out yet.
I heard that if he does stand again, the >10 day sanction will still apply, so if he wins, he'll still face the recall vote, & you could have the ridiculous situation where there are 2x votes in a rowBiffer wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:11 pm Lots of senior Tories making noises about banning Johnson from standing as a candidate.
