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Can Therese Coffey sing?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways‘Starmer also accepted £700 of hospitality to attend a Coldplay concert.
I always thought he would like Coldplay.’
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If the Lib Dems make a binding public declaration that, unlike in 2010, they won’t form a coalition with the Tories, not even if the Tories are biggest Party in a hung parliament, I could see a lot of Labour voters in seats where the Lib Dems are second finally forgive the Lib Dems for the Clegg years and vote Lib Dem to get the Tories out.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Stood next to Robin Cook at Newbury Races one day. Really wish I’d spoken to him but I thought it would be wrong talking to him when he wasn’t working. I really regret it and I know he wouldn’t have minded. He died on my daughters wedding day: it cast a shadow over the evening as most of the family are staunch Labour. I made my daughter listen to his resignation speech, telling her that she’d never hear a better parliamentary speech. I did chat to Anna Soubry at Nottingham Races after the referendum because I wanted to thank her.In general though, I tend to keep quiet about liking racing these days albeit telling people what I think about activists putting horses lives in danger.It was probably just before I retired that I stopped talking about racing at work so that would have been ten or so years ago.I do wonder what it would be like at work now; probably even more anti racing.
Brighton staged a race meeting for the new Blair government during its first conference in Brighton and most of the cabinet attended. Pretty popular and successful. I took my mum. We were on the rails near the winning post. At the finish, Clare Short barged past us cheering (being filmed for a photo opportunity). My mum was 4′ 11″, raised in the Dublin tenements and not prepared to take any of that. She spun round in a fury, luckily to be met by Short’s PR woman who was charming and apologetic and managed to prevent an embarrassing (albeit potentially hilarious) scene.
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Not the cricket score, but the result of the parliamentary vote on the Partygate report.
Pity that so many Conservative MPs were too spineless to show up… especially the Prime Minister.
I was watching a public interview between Beth Rigby and Alastair Campbell and Rigby was making the point that Sunak hasn’t got much room for manoeuvre because he lost the initial vote with the membership, he thus became the PM of last resort post-Truss and he has to try to unite a divided Party hence he tolerates all manner of Ministers he may not privately approve of – like Braverman.
Campbell’s retort was even rabid Johnsonite Rees-Mogg says they can’t change the Leader again before the next Election, Sunak’s position is actually secure until then and Sunak just seems incredibly weak.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"So a Conservative majority committee of democratically elected MPs has made recommendations to a Conservative majority Parliament of democratically elected MPs, which it has resoundingly supported. Still, it’ll all be someone else’s fault, kangaroo court, undemocratic etc etc.
Absolute cowards those abstaining. I do actually have a small amount of respect for the seven who stood up for their beliefs, however divorced from reality they may be. Yet another example of Sunak’s weakness as you say Glad.
If Sunak thinks this will go away quickly then he is badly mistaken , Starmer has a new big stick to hit him with , with Sunak unlikely to act on the up coming mortgage crisis ( it’s going to have to hurt ) it looks like another bad day/week/month for the Tories
Beth Rigby and Alastair Campbell taking the moral high ground.
Is there a bucket I can be sick in?
I never said I was a fan of either of them, CAS, but I never allow anyone’s previous personal track record to prevent me from at least listening to what they have to say.
I’d say the truth on this issue lies somewhere between their respective viewpoints.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Almost no mention of it on the front pages of the Tory press. Look over there! Some wealthy white people have gone missing.
My MP Heather Wheeler, was one of the 7 who voted no. I’ve asked her to give me the reasoning behind this, given that she didn’t even have the decency to stand up in parliament and defend Johnson. She is, of course, besotted with him like Dorries. I had written to her to say that, given she represents me in Parliament, I hoped that she wouldn’t support someone who lied to the House. So much for that!On the plus side, the speeches yesterday were excellent, apart from a few eg Bridgen, who’s now in the Reclaim Party, but at least he was told to shut up.
The inflation figures are worse than expected, which means the Bank of England will almost certainly hike up interest rates tomorrow. That will hit many people in the pocket.
Sunak is failing on his 5 key pledges apart from economic growth – and even that is only 0.1%. He is not popular with the general public or the Conservative Party membership.
Even allowing for Starmer’s limitations, I think my bet on the Conservatives being the largest party at the next General Election is not looking like my finest hour as a punter!
At least I will collect on Truss not being Prime Minister at the end of 2024.
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