The Tunbridge Wells Manifesto:I suspect he was thinking back to his longer answer in the leadership hustings which went down reasonably well. He looked angry about the fact that people didn't realise he was actually in Kent, which does have areas of deprivation.
It's not true that the Tories took some of the money from poor areas in the North to give to poor areas in the South, but it is a better answer - and he looked offended when he said it, which worked.
Sounds like he's just remembered the bullet point, and that it went down well, so he assumes it's something worth smiling about. Probably need an advisor to give him the deprived/far away explanation one more time to see if it sinks in.
Following in the footsteps of Truss who didn’t turn up for her urgent question only last week. Shows the contempt they have for parliamentary accountability.It’s rather unedifying to see a politician, of any hue, slink out of the chamber when they know they are about to be questioned. It also makes a mockery of the ‘reclaiming sovereignty’ boast because there’s been nothing but contempt for Parliament and, by extension, public accountability.
Point the finger at his cabinet but he also had to dodge questions over his own integrity. Let's not pretend he is an innocent good guy in all of this. He's a posh prick who couldn't give a shit about regular folk.
Because that’s how you spell it, without the hyphen to be completely correct.Finally, can I say I also admire him for being tea-total. The newspaper had it as tee-total yesterday, I don't know why.
Thank you, I never knew that.Because that’s how you spell it, without the hyphen to be completely correct.
It’s actually a derivation of the letter T. It was started in the USA and someone used to write down the letter T next to people who had stated they would be ‘totally abstemious‘ and therefore practice ‘temperance totally‘.Thank you, I never knew that.
I always thought tee was the thing you put your golf ball on and tea was the drink, consequently being teetotal was not drinking alcohol as opposed to being addicted to little wooden (or plastic) sticks!
AA I don’t know about although with prohibition ending in the 30’s that would seem about right. The teetotal stuff was about in the mid 19th century, so about 100 years before.Thank you. I suppose I could have googled this but I didn't so it is kind of you to inform me. Didn't AA also start in America in the 1930s too?
There is a conflicting view that the term originated in Preston, Lancashire which was where the Temperance movement was founded.It’s actually a derivation of the letter T. It was started in the USA and someone used to write down the letter T next to people who had stated they would be ‘totally abstemious‘ and therefore practice ‘temperance totally‘.
They thus became known as T Totalers or teetotal as it was then spelt.
May, Johnson, truss, sunak = Ball, Hartford, Coppell,Clarke
Indeed. It's gone under the radar that the furlough scheme was actually replacing rich people's luxury spending rather than middle/ working class wages. I'm really concerned that when starmer gets in in two years he'll be left with such a mess that he'll fail and it will open the door to facism like 30's Germany. Hopefully I'm wrong/mad etc.
I’ve just read that. Seems like it’s on an epitaph for Richard Turner of Preston who, oddly enough, died on October 27th 1846 or 176 years ago today!There is a conflicting view that the term originated in Preston, Lancashire which was where the Temperance movement was founded.
I left out Phil Neal who also did a truss- length stint.Ha - I was thinking about this the other day, did Coppell do like 30 days? Liz Truss did more, but if your minus the mourning period for QEII it was about the same.
Truss = Fat Sam - if you think about it from an England point of view!
I don't confess to having a great understanding of politics in the USA, but I've seen some documentaries from respected British journalists covering the mid term elections, and I've found their reports quite shocking.Change the names and minor circumstances, and you have, albeit to a lesser degree in the UK, MAGA America and the Republican Party!
Real conservatives and historical Republicans abhor what they are seeing from the MAGA Extremes in “their party,” but it is a loose amalgam, at best, and more of an Anti-Democratic Party at this point.
Sadly, though, it is built on a foundation of lies and tropes that doesn’t hold up to any serious examination, which means it will fail spectacularly in the cold harsh light of day. The questions then become “How?“ and “Who gets hurt?” I’m not looking forward to finding out those answers.
I don't confess to having a great understanding of politics in the USA, but I've seen some documentaries from respected British journalists covering the mid term elections, and I've found their reports quite shocking.
So many people were being interviwed at rallies and conventions thinking a civil war was about to break out, with accustations of fake news and fixed elections being promoted by the speakers on stage fuelling the fire, it didn't promote a country at ease with itself.
On this side of the pond, it came across as a confused mess with frightening consequences. I don't know how representative those reports were but is that take on the situation, that civil war could break out, a real concern for you?