Henry Staunton ex-PO Chairman has published his contemporaneous note and Bad Enoch has probably breathed a sigh of relief. It's certainly not a smoking gun memo in itself, but raises serious questions for Sarah Munby, the HO Civil Servant to answer. What was she referring to and did she receive direct or In direct instruction from the SoS that compensation payments were to be delayed beyond the next election?
I guess Bad Enoch can stick to what she's good at: pretending to be in trade talks with Canada, which is news to the Canadian government
Oh I don't think she's out of the mire on this one just yet. Just not based in this 'note' alone. She is a particularly odious individual and I still expect her to be gone in weeks rather than months (unless the election is in May, in which case the good people of Saffron Waldon will be required to rid Parliament of her!
Miriam Cates apparently doesn't have much of a grasp of late 20th century history, considering at least two of the things she mentions are the exact sanctions that Reagan and Thatcher hit Israel with in the 80s Or, more recently, what her current bosses did to Russia two years ago
Except they didn't even do that properly, as there are still oligarchs close to Putin quite happily counting their money, mega-yachts and private jets.
There's a slight problem with boycotting Russian oil and gas: certain countries have been overly reliant on it for several decades so a boycott would see the countries revert to how they were in the 18th century practically overnight, for example Putin's held Germany's need for Russian gas over their heads like the Sword of Damocles for a couple of decades and has threatened to turn off the tap when they threaten sanctions more than once
...and it looks like the case against nominative determinism might also be in a spot of bother for sacking somebody
It's incredible that reading that quote, instead of talking about context, you don't question why he would need to say that at all? Which in itself btw makes the context irrelevant.
No it really doesn't. Anyway, fun times in the Commons yesterday. The Speaker suggesting that part of the reason why he allowed the vote on the Labour amendment was because of fears over MPs safety. Dunno if true or not, but I'm sorry to say that it's something that is coming even if it wasn't a factor yesterday. There may well be votes for which MPs will be afraid to vote the "wrong" way, which is a massive problem for the sovereignty of Parliament. We've already had Mike Freer quit over the death threats and the arson attack on his offices. Mind you I am assuming you all condemn attempts to intimidate MPs, regardless of what party they are members of?
I know this is nonsense, but how are Reform even remotely close to the Tories? Is it just their old voters and the BNP/UKIP lot? Who's pushing them? I've seen very little about them anywhere, yet they're polling consistently well.
Of course this has nothing to do with the BBC habitually platforming them on their news programming and giving them spots on Question Time in recent weeks
