resigned because he didn't agree with Cummings
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Strong chance that box is empty.
Boris will be lost without his puppetmaster.
He won't know if his Cummings is goings.
He won't know if his Cummings is goings.
No, "senior No 10 officials" don't get to use Barnard Castle when the feckers defended him for it.Sadly nothing to celebrate, as his contributions to British life will be felt for generations.
She starts with the premise that 80% of the baying electorate are pitchfork carrying half-brains and ends a message placating the sensible folks.
No! It’s full of his ideas!
He'd need a pretty thick skin to take that job though, having been shat on from a great height so quickly last time.
I laughed
Wow! Big news!
now can the rest of the leave twats go too
now can the rest of the leave twats go too
Don't like Nigel, but he's probably right as to the reason for his resignation
Is this Cummings thing not just a continuation of the Tory strategy manufacturing artificial 'end-of-era' moments which allow them to distance themselves from things they did wrong 'before the change' and capitalise on a repeated 'Honeymoon' periods?
e.g - Johnston's Tories being presented as a clean break from the exact same Tories under May, and under Cameron, except now it's post-Cummings Tories as a clean break from Cummings Tories?
e.g - Johnston's Tories being presented as a clean break from the exact same Tories under May, and under Cameron, except now it's post-Cummings Tories as a clean break from Cummings Tories?
I think the leadership itself is more important there, but this itself is probably a step in that direction given Stratton is now taking more control.
BoJo looks weak now, making decisions based on what his gf tells him
If anyone believed that Cummings line that is.
No doubt he has always been weak, but listening to the women in his life doesn't seem to be his M.O.
They were and still are very much The Nasty Party.
And anyone who supports them is welcome to them and their compulsive lying.
That's fecking horrible isn't it? Just a massive splodge of Tory gangbang spaff.
The melodramaNot his biggest fan, not even close, but wish him a speedy recovery
BoJo doesn't know if he is Cummings or Goings.
So Boris is resetting himself and the party to welcome in the Biden Administration.
The nepotism at the heart of British Government
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There might be a little bit of truth in that. Biden is an Irish American, proud of his roots and is very much adamant if UK feck Ireland over, there’s no trade deals to be had
that's right
As opposed to ????
Man I wish I could photoshop, what an opportunity.
I should have said “weaker”
You wonder how he could be seen as less incompetent at this stage.
Sadly I think this is true. We have to follow the lead of the US whomever is president. In this case it’s for the best ultimately given the crappy trade deal BoJo was under pressure to sign under Trump and the softer Brexit that will likely occur. Hopefully we’ll also see an end to the aggressive and subversive Trumpian tactics they were using too.
I don’t think Cummings wanted to be associated with the new direction but I think it’s actually more in line with who Boris is politically. I think the other factor is how much his party hated Cummings. If Boris had kept him on he‘d have dwindling support for a second term.
Fair point. Especially an administration that will perceive any infringement on the Good Friday Agreement negatively.
I do think no Trump = no hard Brexit. We're probably headed to another extension for at least a year.
Seems an inevitable consequence of a political system where 3/4 of PMs since the 1720s come from the same two Universities and a huge number of the leading figures in politics did exactly the same university course:
MONDAY, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general election manifesto. It was examined by the BBC’s political editor, Oxford PPE graduate Nick Robinson, by the BBC’s economics editor, Oxford PPE graduate Robert Peston, and by the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Oxford PPE graduate Paul Johnson. It was criticised by the prime minister, Oxford PPE graduate David Cameron. It was defended by the Labour shadow chancellor, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Balls.
Elsewhere in the country, with the election three weeks away, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Oxford PPE graduate Danny Alexander, was preparing to visit Kingston and Surbiton, a vulnerable London seat held by a fellow Lib Dem minister, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Davey. In Kent, one of Ukip’s two MPs, Oxford PPE graduate Mark Reckless, was campaigning in his constituency, Rochester and Strood. Comments on the day’s developments were being posted online by Michael Crick, Oxford PPE graduate and political correspondent of Channel 4 News.
On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders. In the print media, there was an election special in the Economist magazine, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Zanny Minton-Beddoes; a clutch of election articles in the political magazine Prospect, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Bronwen Maddox; an election column in the Guardian by Oxford PPE graduate Simon Jenkins; and more election coverage in the Times and the Sun, whose proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, studied PPE at Oxford.
Elsewhere in the country, with the election three weeks away, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Oxford PPE graduate Danny Alexander, was preparing to visit Kingston and Surbiton, a vulnerable London seat held by a fellow Lib Dem minister, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Davey. In Kent, one of Ukip’s two MPs, Oxford PPE graduate Mark Reckless, was campaigning in his constituency, Rochester and Strood. Comments on the day’s developments were being posted online by Michael Crick, Oxford PPE graduate and political correspondent of Channel 4 News.
On the BBC Radio 4 website, the Financial Times statistics expert and Oxford PPE graduate Tim Harford presented his first election podcast. On BBC1, Oxford PPE graduate and Newsnight presenter Evan Davies conducted the first of a series of interviews with party leaders. In the print media, there was an election special in the Economist magazine, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Zanny Minton-Beddoes; a clutch of election articles in the political magazine Prospect, edited by Oxford PPE graduate Bronwen Maddox; an election column in the Guardian by Oxford PPE graduate Simon Jenkins; and more election coverage in the Times and the Sun, whose proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, studied PPE at Oxford.
Among the many issues with that is the fact that PMs will then be surrounded by people they already know and have any opportunity to appoint more people they already know. The "qualified options" come pre-narrowed to their own extended social circle.
Three things I don't really understand why British people think that :
1) The UK would have got a better or worse trade deal with Biden or Trump, both are only interested in the USA's interests as would any US President - will they get any type of trade deal?
2) That there's a special relationship between the USA and the UK, it's only the UK that think this.
3) Why would there be an extension to the transition period? Trade deal negotiations can continue after the transition period finishes and would have done any way. Only a very basic outline could have been negotiated by the end of it. The fact is that the UK has wasted the last year and in fact the last four and a half years with chest beating . The Uk have left the Customs Union, that's the important part and they're not rejoining.
1) The UK would have got a better or worse trade deal with Biden or Trump, both are only interested in the USA's interests as would any US President - will they get any type of trade deal?
2) That there's a special relationship between the USA and the UK, it's only the UK that think this.
3) Why would there be an extension to the transition period? Trade deal negotiations can continue after the transition period finishes and would have done any way. Only a very basic outline could have been negotiated by the end of it. The fact is that the UK has wasted the last year and in fact the last four and a half years with chest beating . The Uk have left the Customs Union, that's the important part and they're not rejoining.
BBC doing the Tories' PR for them yet again with the headline of their lead story today.
"Cummings exit gives chance to reset government"
They know exactly what they're doing.