Oldjohnw wrote:Anybody remember that holiday costing £15k but you cannot remember who paid?
Was that the same Maldives that are off the West coast of Cornwall? Turn R at Land's End?
Oldjohnw wrote:Anybody remember that holiday costing £15k but you cannot remember who paid?
All right. You win! I suppose it was not having twigged "HI" as colloquial abbreviation for "HIGH", that stumped me. And cyclists are always talking about, say, "HI-VIZ". I should have known...PDQ Mobile wrote:661-Pete wrote:Well - as a 'crossword fan' myself (both as setter and solver), I couldn't resist fetching out the Scrabble letters - but this collection beats me. Best I can come up with is ASK? I RUSH IN! If you've come out with something more salacious or risqué, spit it out!
Your starter for 10.
Hi risk ....
Well - confession time - the holiday we took last year cost around £10K - but that was for the two of us, and we most definitely paid for it ourselves, out of our savings. At least we didn't have to shell out $150 visa fees for our 24-hour stopover in Bolivia - as our American fellow-tourists had to...Oldjohnw wrote:Anybody remember that holiday costing £15k but you cannot remember who paid?
661-Pete wrote:Well - confession time - the holiday we took last year cost around £10K - but that was for the two of us, and we most definitely paid for it ourselves, out of our savings. At least we didn't have to shell out $150 visa fees for our 24-hour stopover in Bolivia - as our American fellow-tourists had to...Oldjohnw wrote:Anybody remember that holiday costing £15k but you cannot remember who paid?
carpetcleaner wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:I see Javid has resigned because he won't accept #10 imposing advisers. I'm no fan of Javid and he has rolled over far too many times but at least this time he has done the right thing.
It appears that Dominic Cummings, member of nowhere, is appointing the cabinet.
What if he is? The PM is free to ask anyone he likes for their views on who should be in the cabinet or not, and he is free to ignore or to follow their advice.
All PMs have employed unelected advisors. It is the norm, and anyone who thinks it is a novelty isn't too aware of how things have always worked.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-news-privately-educated-mps-a9335261.html wrote:Boris Johnson cabinet now two-thirds privately educated after reshuffle, compared to 7% of UK population
Boris Johnson has increased the proportion of cabinet ministers from privately educated backgrounds, with nearly two-thirds of his top team having attended a fee-paying school.
Despite boasting he would put together a cabinet "to truly reflect modern Britain” when he entered Downing Street, new research now shows that members of his top team are nine-times as likely to have been privately educated than the general population.
Psamathe wrote:Report sums-up the nature of Brois' mateshttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-news-privately-educated-mps-a9335261.html wrote:Boris Johnson cabinet now two-thirds privately educated after reshuffle, compared to 7% of UK population
Boris Johnson has increased the proportion of cabinet ministers from privately educated backgrounds, with nearly two-thirds of his top team having attended a fee-paying school.
Despite boasting he would put together a cabinet "to truly reflect modern Britain” when he entered Downing Street, new research now shows that members of his top team are nine-times as likely to have been privately educated than the general population.
Ian
carpetcleaner wrote:Boris is likely to be PM for at least 10 years if his opponents concentrate on criticising him rather than on finding some attractive polices to put to the people.
mercalia wrote:yeah Labour potential leaders and Labours control by the unions dont bode well for the rest of us.
mercalia wrote:carpetcleaner wrote:Boris is likely to be PM for at least 10 years if his opponents concentrate on criticising him rather than on finding some attractive polices to put to the people.
yeah Labour potential leaders and Labours control by the unions dont bode well for the rest of us.
carpetcleaner wrote:
Labour is not controlled by the unions now. It is controlled by its membership.
That why it is in its current mess.
PDQ Mobile wrote:carpetcleaner wrote:
Labour is not controlled by the unions now. It is controlled by its membership.
That why it is in its current mess.
Leaving aside the control issue (although why being controlled by the actual membership is so bad kind of escapes me), Labour was stated to have put forward at the last election a detailed manifesto which was even "greener" than the Greens.
They had costed it by raising taxes from many of those who are now in power, or behind that power.
As in buying £15,000 holidays for Johnson out of the goodness of their charitable hearts.
This Tory Govt is goingbto finance everything by more borrowing- exactly the very thing they so castigated past Labour Govts for so strongly.
If things go badly then the poor and middle income group will end up with the tab.
And inflation is surely set to rise, that's what Duncan- Smith said on the World at One yesterday as he attempted damage limitation about Javid. He cares not one jot about food inflation of course. 'Tis but a trifle for him.
I think your vote was dominated by the Brexit issue and to write what you have above is an obfuscation of your real motive.