Boris's Brain is missing
Re: Boris's Brain is missing
Just seen Johnson on the news using the exact same script as for the early days of denying parties except "party" replaced with "blackmail". I can see by next week the script will have developed to "Nobody told me take holding families and children hostage was kidnapping ...".
Ian
Ian
Re: Boris's Brain is missing
Study cost £900k. Could have been a lot worse.Jdsk wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 12:06am"Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707
Is scrapped different from abandoned?
And plans rather overstates how far this ever got.
https://www.itv.com/news/border/2022-01 ... ayers-900k
Jonathan
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£900,000 could have helped our many food banks quite a lot.Jdsk wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 9:22pmStudy cost £900k. Could have been a lot worse.Jdsk wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 12:06am"Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707
Is scrapped different from abandoned?
And plans rather overstates how far this ever got.
https://www.itv.com/news/border/2022-01 ... ayers-900k
Jonathan
Ian
Re: Boris's Brain is missing
It sure could.Psamathe wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 9:32pm£900,000 could have helped our many food banks quite a lot.Jdsk wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 9:22pmStudy cost £900k. Could have been a lot worse.Jdsk wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 12:06am
"Northern Ireland to Scotland bridge plans scrapped":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707
Is scrapped different from abandoned?
And plans rather overstates how far this ever got.
https://www.itv.com/news/border/2022-01 ... ayers-900k
Jonathan
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Your last paragraph sums up the cabinet nicely.Psamathe wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 2:35pm One aspect I'd been considering and have recently heard raised by commentators (on TV, news/Peston) is that with Johnson planning on sacking loads of people to take the blame for his failings, he will likely find it hard to recruit capable replacements. If you were appropriately qualified/experienced, maybe in the Civil Service or maybe in business would you give-up a secure post you are happy with to work for Johnson and then stand a good chance of getting sacked from when he fails to take your advice and needs somebody to take the blame? Most sensible capable people would well avoid such posts. So Johnson will only be able to recruit inexperienced and nt so capable people seeing it as a high risk stepping stone - not good news for the country.
Ian
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And the longer he stays in power the less likely chosen cabinet members are to be competent,which becomes a downward spiral.Psamathe wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 2:35pm One aspect I'd been considering and have recently heard raised by commentators (on TV, news/Peston) is that with Johnson planning on sacking loads of people to take the blame for his failings, he will likely find it hard to recruit capable replacements. If you were appropriately qualified/experienced, maybe in the Civil Service or maybe in business would you give-up a secure post you are happy with to work for Johnson and then stand a good chance of getting sacked from when he fails to take your advice and needs somebody to take the blame? Most sensible capable people would well avoid such posts. So Johnson will only be able to recruit inexperienced and nt so capable people seeing it as a high risk stepping stone - not good news for the country.
Ian
Looking at the present bunch of no marks it's apparent the spiral is in full entropic acceleration......
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Rory Stewart has the measure of Boris
Whatever I am, wherever I am, this is me. This is my life
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Yesterday's interview with the Most Interesting Living Englishman.
https://news.sky.com/video/stewart-uk-i ... p-12521202
Jonathan
https://news.sky.com/video/stewart-uk-i ... p-12521202
Jonathan
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Rory Stewart is absolutely spot on about Johnson,the state of the country,the Tory party and UK politics.Jdsk wrote: ↑21 Jan 2022, 9:19am Yesterday's interview with the Most Interesting Living Englishman.
https://news.sky.com/video/stewart-uk-i ... p-12521202
Jonathan
A true leader who's interest is in the country's welbeing,mostly likely why he didn't make leader of the Tory party.
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Remember the discussion about how important it was to support "the poorest folk"?
"Underpayments of the State Pension":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... mmary.html
Utterly disgraceful.
Jonathan
"Underpayments of the State Pension":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... mmary.html
Utterly disgraceful.
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Re: Boris's Brain is missing
The two major parties have lost any idea of getting bills passed by debate to convince the house to vote a certain way.
Perhaps a parliament Made up of a majority of independent MPs would stop all this whipping to get bills through and we'd get better government?
Perhaps a parliament Made up of a majority of independent MPs would stop all this whipping to get bills through and we'd get better government?
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"In the matter of the Metropolitan Police refusal to investigate No. 10 gatherings"
Application now made.
The legal opinion:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wpelem ... pJUyY/view
Jonathan
Application now made.
The legal opinion:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wpelem ... pJUyY/view
Jonathan
Re: Boris's Brain is missing
It might but there are a number of challenges to overcome, including the economies of scale of parties being able to do national campaigning when most news media are national, and how committees would be structured when most MPs were independents: at the moment, committee seats are split between parties according to rules based on proportions and the parties then allocate them based on whatever they like but hopefully including ability and interest.francovendee wrote: ↑21 Jan 2022, 10:27am The two major parties have lost any idea of getting bills passed by debate to convince the house to vote a certain way.
Perhaps a parliament Made up of a majority of independent MPs would stop all this whipping to get bills through and we'd get better government?
In local government, independents and sometimes smaller parties form groups in order to obtain a larger number of committee or panel seats (as two 5% parties may not get a seat on a particular 12-member committee, but together a 10% group normally would) and avoid fighting each other more than the ruling party. If the majority are independents, they could form several groups of broadly-compatible members to secure committee seats, but then have you just reinvented parties in another way without voters being able to see them on the ballot paper?
In the rare town/parish councils I've seen that are big enough to have committees but minor enough to have an overwhelming majority of independents, key committees become "committees of the whole" with all interested members able to take part, even if that results in a potentially-cumbersome 20+-member committee.
I'm not sure what's happened at district/borough councils that elected an overwhelming majority of independents in 2019 — Ashfield (30 independents out of 35) and Uttlesford (28 out of 39) — and whether they'll settle to long-term independent rule like Epsom & Ewell (led by its Residents Association since the 1930s).
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Too much for me to read but I was surprised it doesn't seem to make reference to Blackburn. I went through most of my career believing that was the law, and it was reiterated just after I retired in a case against the chief constable of Sussex. Summary The police have discretion in which laws they enforce, so long as it's reasonable. (My words.)Jdsk wrote: ↑21 Jan 2022, 1:18pm "In the matter of the Metropolitan Police refusal to investigate No. 10 gatherings"
Application now made.
The legal opinion:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wpelem ... pJUyY/view
Jonathan