The odds are that there was plenty more to come for the sentient slapped arse Fallon, hence they kept steering the story towards Julia Hatley-Brewer's knee and the press oblige when they should be making more of him being listed as "a drunk", and it really needs pointing out the tabloids are showing a quite convenient amount of restraint in pretending there's no mention of his "odd sexual penchants" or Mike Freer on the list considering their usual attack dog mentality. Of course, the Dire Leader has shown great composure through this, first getting annihilated in the Commons by Wigan MP Lisa Nandy bringing up the fact she brought up the issue of whips blackmailing MPs in 2014 both in the chamber and in writing... ...and then in a fawning letter of the waffling scrotum that somehow forgot to mention his car crash interviews with Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Robert Peston during the election campaign (which I've linked, of course), or the time he tried to start a war with Spain on the Dire Leader's behalf please log in to view this image
Okay, this warrants its own post. So the whip's office is at the heart of the current Tory sleaze scandal, so who does the Dire Leader appoint to replace the sentient spanked bottom as Defence Secretary? THE CHIEF WHIP The decision is so monumentally idiotic that even Laura Kuntessberg can't defend it
So they had a blackmail list for their own politicians, one of them gets the boot and the chief blackmailer gets his job? I wonder what Little Miss Fields of Hay has done that she doesn't want people to know about?
Let's see how the reshuffle's working out so far... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Shall we start the bidding with the Dire Leader's father? https://www.freeandfearless.org.uk/theresa-mays-father/ https://theswamp.media/theresa-may-s-father
Yeah, I mentioned him before, possibly on the Prem board thread. Worked with a **** scandal organisation, left and joined another one, plus he worked with a prolific serial killer. Classy!
Add to that how, eighteen months ago, he had a Wikipedia page - which was mysteriously removed due to "lack of interest" last summer. Of course there's plenty of other things that can be dangled over the Dire Leader's head, for example... * From her time as Home Secretary, those 114 files on historic child abuse that went missing * Also from her time as Home Secretary, her suggestion that Ofcom vet all BBC programming before broadcast * Her husband's tax-dodging * Her husband's working for an investment firm that directly profits from her government's decisions * Being a type-1 diabetic (which, Tories being Tories, is grounds for a whispering campaign about her "weakness")
Anna Soubry is just about the only reasonable, half-decent Tory, isn’t she? Heard on QT or similar a couple of weeks back and she was talking what appeared to be ‘sense’. Took me quite by surprise it did!
'Nonchalant' man arrested after three killed in Colorado shooting http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...app&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=sharebutton Not currently up on the BBC and no tweets from Trump or comments from the White House. But there again, this is just a random white guy with a gun shooting the public in a Walmart........
Meanwhile, plenty of time was devoted to the black cab mounting the kerb and hitting pedestrians in Covent Garden last night - before the story very quietly went away when it was revealed to be an accident and nothing more, just like the similar incident outside the Natural History Museum a few weeks ago. Somebody seriously needs to explain it to the media to wait for the facts to come in before using the words "terror-related" when reporting on incidents such as those mentioned above (or the Glasgow bin lorry crash from a few years ago), because doing that strengthens terrorists as it serves as proof that their methods are working.
Robert Mercer has suddenly decided to dump his Breitbart stock on his daughters, leave his hedge fund and denounce his allies. Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopolous each get a personal mention and he's quick to distance himself from their politics. I wonder what's prompted this? Something tells me it's judicial in nature. Finally worked out that they're onto Cambridge Analytica, Bob? Hopefully our shambles will be investigating your interference on this end too, but I won't hold my breath.
Indeed. The message clearly is that it's far worse to be killed/injured by a terrorist than by some other method. To me if you are killed before your time by any method then it's equally bad. The more we make the terrorist losses important the more we are doing exactly what they want.
Reasonable? By whose standards? I suppose she's to the Left of the Tory party, which means her views on some issues are not as extreme as some, but reasonable might be stretching a point.
You're probably right. Maybe 'moderate' would be closer..... No? what about 'less-fascist' than some?
This comment may not meet universal approval and I am certainly not defending any deliberate harassment activity by individuals from any political persuasion, but FFS shouldn't there be an allowance for old-fashioned 'banter', even between the sexes? It may well be that the supposed comments of Fallon are the tip of an iceberg of inappropriate behaviour - but we are on a very slippery slope if people's careers and reputations are in jeopardy for an alleged light-hearted exchange between adults. There has to be some acceptance that in the absence of any suggestion to the contrary, persons are of a 'reasonable firmness' to be able to respond at the time. And I would certainly hope and expect a senior government minister (male or female) to be able to tell a colleague what to do with his 'warm place' if she felt offended by his remarks! Thats not to belittle genuine complainants and circumstances where there is a clear abuse of power or authority over a child or vulnerable person, but the current status quo seems too easy for malicious and/or frivolous complaints. These only undermine the very genuine need to address truly bad and criminal behaviour.
Twitter adhered to their own Ts & Cs for a whole eleven minutes when an employee's final act on his last day with the company was to take down Trump's profile for violating their policies on threatening content and harassment.
The most borderline cases are being pushed to the front as a distraction. Anything utterly minor that can be brushed off is currently news. Anything serious? Buried.
