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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Cummings won't last I don't think. He's out of control already.
I wonder how intelligent he is.
https://dominiccummings.com/2014/08...-bombing-parliament-genetics-amp/#comment-432
He seems to have a surface level understanding of different subjects, know who the smart people are, and what is potentially a smart idea. This is a useful skill set, but still different from being the enigmatic genius he is being portrayed as.
Is he not getting everything he wanted right now?
Depends how publicly out of control he gets. He clearly runs the show for Boris behind the scenes. I wonder if Boris is strong enough to run it himself, or smart enough to employ someone with the same skills who isn’t a psychopath
I think having ideas and being able to recognise that you need smarter people than yourself to implement them is clever. Knowing your own limitations is a good skill to have.
Don't worry, if he wants to move the story on he'll just shit out another blogpost and wait for the BBC's political editor to tweet it out again.
Saying that, this whole eugenics thing appears to have passed her by entirely, so he might not need to bother.
Andrew Sabisky has resigned
Which Steve is Dominic Cummings in the UK version? Bannon or Miller?
Good.
Was at the pub watching the United game and someone shouted (and I mean shouted) a racist remark when Zouma put the ball in the net. I thought, Jesus, why is this getting worse nowadays, and then I remembered you've got guys like this in positions of power. Glad to hear he's gone.
He's Bannon. Miller is 4chan Osborne.
Miller just got married to a real hottie.
One Conservative MP from a BME background said: “I’m not necessarily against hiring intellectually interesting people with sometimes controversial views, but this guy just doesn’t seem very smart, and if you are not very smart and at the very least appear bigoted that cannot be a good look for the party. By all means we should be against ultra-woke nonsense, but we should also stand against alt-right nonsense too.”
Brutal quote if true.Dr Adam Rutherford, a geneticist and author, accused Sabisky and Cummings of being “bewitched by science, without having made the effort to understand the areas he is invoking, nor its history”.
He said the “moral repugnance” of the remarks was “overwhelming”, adding: “I am all for scientifically minded people advising government ... [but] this resembles the marshalling of misunderstood or specious science into a political ideology. The history here is important, because this process is exactly what happened at the birth of scientific racism and the birth of eugenics.”
I said that, yea. Just saying the medial portrayal is of a genius - I don't think anywhere close.
I do that think while it is a useful skill set to have, but when you have self aggrandized notions of your own intellect, it can be a problem.
Sabisky got fired, and reading his interview, seems like another dunce. The comment on black people having median/mean IQ is bizarre. Current situation isn't representative of natural distribution.
Andrew Sabisky: Controversial Boris Johnson aide who suggested black people were mentally inferior resigns
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...signs/ar-BB107aEx?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
Guess they wanted their very own Stephen Miller.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...signs/ar-BB107aEx?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
Guess they wanted their very own Stephen Miller.
Labour take Whaley Bridge for the first time in shock by-election result
https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/...idge-first-time-shock-election-result-1758233
https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/...idge-first-time-shock-election-result-1758233
This made me chuckle.
Worst job in government?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51560290
I wonder how many HS2 ministers will be fired before a high speed train goes from Birmingham to Euston
I'm sceptical that an ex insurance broker and local councillor with no former experience in transport or infrastructure is the best person to get their head round a £100bn civil engineering scheme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51560290
I wonder how many HS2 ministers will be fired before a high speed train goes from Birmingham to Euston
I'm sceptical that an ex insurance broker and local councillor with no former experience in transport or infrastructure is the best person to get their head round a £100bn civil engineering scheme.
"I am here to inform the House that HS2 has gone another £20bn over budget...".
Chris Grayling is available.
Liam fox is available who I thought did a good job at international trade and particularly with getting ukef to fund some large infra schemes and better connect with UK businesses... Would have been my shout though whoever gets it has a poisoned chalice ...
D'oh!
This seems to be building. Not at all surprising.
How did they find a bloke called Vic Haddock to complain about being flooded. That’s some serious skill, I refuse to believe that’s luck
Building to what ... A promotion? A pay rise?
I think bullying civil servants would be seen as a plus from Cummings
Smirky Patel is a bully? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
And why wouldn't she be.
After all she is in a cabinet loaded with Bullys who flatly refuse to listen to anyone else because they have been handed a massive majority.
Is it any surprise that Johnson has once again run off to hide in a fridge whilst the country goes to pot? We've gone from the Strong & Stable illusion of May to someone who can't even deal with standing up for his actions. I didn't think we could get any worse than Runs Through Fields but we've somehow managed it with Dances with Twats.
He's so thick that he probably believed Cummings when he said Adaptation was the fourth member of the Three Stooges. Or that the Heiligendamm Process has something to do with making Swiss cheese. Or dogs can't look up. He's a fecking spoon of the greatest design.
And yet his attitude has become the norm in politics. It doesn't matter if you're a lying, cheating, cowardly man-child who throws a strop daily in between bursts of racist remarks and hand outs to your rich mates - you'll still get elected. It seems that the only requirement nowadays to become the leader of a nation is a questionable moral compass and shit hair.
He's so thick that he probably believed Cummings when he said Adaptation was the fourth member of the Three Stooges. Or that the Heiligendamm Process has something to do with making Swiss cheese. Or dogs can't look up. He's a fecking spoon of the greatest design.
And yet his attitude has become the norm in politics. It doesn't matter if you're a lying, cheating, cowardly man-child who throws a strop daily in between bursts of racist remarks and hand outs to your rich mates - you'll still get elected. It seems that the only requirement nowadays to become the leader of a nation is a questionable moral compass and shit hair.
Why are the Brexit Party still a thing ?
For some reason I found the dinghy drifting into the frame quite amusing.
The Sun remains the biggest-selling print newspaper in the UK but is on track to lose that title to the Daily Mail at some point this year
.......Poorest women's life expectancy declines, finds report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51619608
Anyone see the cancel Yorkshire Tea movement?
If you read the thread Yorkshire Tea seem to feel it's more serious than that.
Probably more people reacting to the 'movement' than the 'movement' itself!
Fair play to Yorkshire Team for making hay of it.