Nadine Dorries, a woman who has written more books than she's read. I forget who said it but a saw a comment along the lines of - The reason Dorries et al. are so invested in Johnsons staying PM is because under practically any other PM the closest any of them will get to a Cabinet position is IKEA.
Went with the local independent, he's the only one that does fun things like get in punch ups at the town hall.
Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Probably a win-win for Johnson and a Lose-Lose for everyone else. If he wins, it re-cements his position, despite the endless scandals. Partygate et al immediately dismissed as 'tories won election, electorate clearly don't care'. If he loses, he probably won't care as he was probably on his way out the door anyway. Plus give labour the poison chalice of trying to fix everything inside a single parliamentary term [or fix enough to stand any hope of re-election], whilst handing the Tories at least 5 years of 'everything's ****, blame labour' ammo.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken
The job is done, LibDems have 61 of the 110 seats. The Tories attempted a power grab by switching to a unitary authority and, they have failed.
If only all democratic processes were so delicious. Although watching the Cons lose more than 25% of their sitting councillors was pretty tasty.
Um, yep. When you remember it was Corbyn/McDonnell as the alternative at that election you have to work through the alternate history. So Covid, taking a guess: Comparatively limited support for business =I'm bankrupt, staff redundnant Generous Universal Basic Income introduced = I can still eat, staff don't need the jobs anymore. Vaccine program = well private enterprise bad so we nationalise uk production facilities to produce the Oxford vaccine.... if that goes wrong (vaccine production process non-trivial) there might be an deal for that sputnik vaccine! Brexit = Well Corbyn wanted out of the EU long before Boris and hates free trade so not sure, but perhaps we adopt the EU labour regulations while still leaving in order to have an industrial policy. Ukraine = Definitely no military support for Ukraine pre-invasion. Leave or obstruct NATO. Can't be on the same side as USA ever. Peace talks with Putin highly useful. please suggest alternatives but I really think that Corbyn would have been a monumentally bad idea.
Fun fact: actual experiments with UBI have shown an increase in employment, not a decrease, amongst the cohort.
well rather more than others https://www.forces.net/news/what-military-support-has-uk-given-ukraine (note date ) and that seems to be the view from ukraine. But I posed a counterfactual? How would Corbyn have reacted post 24-feb other that calling for ceasefires and peace talks?
I have no idea how he would have reacted. I can guess but I don't know. I'm not a huge fan of washing away actions and consequences with guesses at what someone else didn't do. At the end of the day we have a party system not a presidential one (well unless you ask JRM) so that should be somewhat of a buffer. Should be. It's a problem with our system, alot of the time it pushes people into a two party clusterfrak. As for Ukraine, I think the only MP to really give a crap was Ed Davey when he was in the coalition government who questioned the over reliance on Russian oil/gas. Nobody really listened.
