just for a giggle, channel 4 news which is basically the guardian on the screen, spent most of the day trying to get Boris. Cathy Newman (so what you're saying is) was asking JRM about Boris and his uni days but for a giggle asked JRM has he ever done drugs? from 14:00-14:30 https://www.channel4.com/news/boris...ing-for-a-leader-who-is-a-practising-catholic
Imagine if we did get one of those Catholic types as the next PM (A priest I'm on about, not a occasional god botherer). They get up to all sorts of shenanigans. Give me a normal bloke who tried a bit of toot in his early days, any day. Even better if he admitted to getting off his tits on E's in Ibiza while doing 'Big box, Little box' for 17 hours straight. I reckon JRM could have done that 30 years ago.
Yes, but exactly 750 people asking for them in every ward (Except one) is weird, unless the postal votes received are allocated evenly across the wards rather than allocated by actual address. @Loz wants to know whether anyone here has, or can, answered that question?
Breaking News: Lib Dems to change name of party - "Change Democracy", or maybe "Change Liberals" or possibly "Independent Democratic Liberals for Change" - not sure yet, they may *change* their minds. "Change their minds"! Get it? I'll get my coat.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48631116 So according to Chuka, and I'll paraphrase a little here : "I was wrong, although I made statements insisting I knew what people wanted, it actually ends up I was just wrong, in fact it turns out on many occasions I was very wrong indeed" "Vote for me, I'll probably be right at some point due to the law of averages, or I'll show consistency and just be wrong again " As for the Lib Dems, I kinda see their angle, switch old creepy white man for young black man with questionable judgement. Go Lib Dems
https://www.westmonster.com/eu-budg...tle-dispute-if-uk-refuses-to-pay-39-billion1/ "Gunther Oettinger said yesterday that: “Mrs. May’s government accepted the payment of that amount so we expect that, no matter which government will be our negotiating partner in the future. We expect them to accept that bill. “We’re willing to go into the detail of how that sum breaks down. If a future government would not be ready or willing to pay then the problem is there’s not really a court to settle the dispute, but we do have some arguments.” The ridiculous EU claim that the UK must hand over nearly £40 billion just because that’s what they got Theresa May on the hook for is unlikely to hold much weight. The frontrunner to be the next PM, Boris Johnson, has already threatened to hold back the £39 billion unless Brussels shift position in the negotiations. Meanwhile S&P primary analyst for the UK, Aarti Sakhuja, recently told Reuters that: “The UK not paying the £39 billion would therefore not constitute a sovereign default under our methodology,” as “our ratings speak to commercial debt obligations”.
I wouldn't be too surprised that you see high up civil servants changing opinions. They know the remain old guard are about to be replaced with a brexiteer new guard and will see the actual events rather than what the public has been spoon fed. I wonder how long Olly Robins will last
It's might just be me, well OK, it's very probably just me, but I can't help seeing the love child of these two Willam Dafoe + Child Catcher (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) = This fella Someone pass me my tin hat
Shock: senior civil servant justifies his own position by saying we’ve done a great job.. by saying we are in pretty good shape in preparation isn’t the same as saying he thinks no deal will be great. He could be saying the equivalent of - we’re in pretty good shape we’ve gone out and got house insurance for when the sewers break, the shit comes through the floor and the roof caves in. For balance the world wont end, we might have to do things a bit differently, somethings will be tough at first and we will find a way round it - those with a few quid will still have a few quid and those that don’t, will still not.. With the same civil servants and politicians leading the way. Business as usual then. [off he pops to double check he renewed house insurance]
