I think you underestimate their supply of useless wankers.

But hunt would almost certainly take the job along with a few others who are giants compared to hancock. **** it's depressing when Hunt is a massively better prospect for the job.

I love this part of your post.

Would Hunt work for Johnson though?

Yeah. It's not a job he could refuse unless there were some bizarre conditions attached.

It's actually quite a good job now. Huge budget, tons of the underlying resouces are available, the big problem is someone elses fault and there's the real opportunity to get a grip and run it properly.

Where was Hunt on Brexit?

Mine is Gary Sambrook, Birmingham Northfield. Very similar by the looks of it. Both took historically Labour constituencies, both young, both seemingly unscrupulous.

Saying 'transgenderism' is some kid of considered and calculated attack on women's rights is tin foil hat nonsense. It's not to say there aren't issues and complications that have to be discussed, but to suggest that the very purpose of increased trans rights is to attack women is just so wrong. Couldn't let that one go without response.

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Good to see the always impressive Tobais Ellwood leading the revolt against the absurd decision over free school meals.

Hard to believe a government could be so poor as to have to u-turn over the same issue twice within a couple of months. Somehow, Johnson seems incapable of recognising that if you surround yourself with idiots, they will make idiotic decisions.

An overeducated idiot will find it hard to recognise stupidity in others; Cummings hand-picked them for stupidity and loyalty.

Labour Party was responsible for anti-Semitic discrimination and broke equality laws

Not surprising for anyone, aside from anti-Semites and those with a blind spot for left-wing racism.

Hopefully this will draw a line under the whole distasteful episode and enable Starmer to rebuild trust with the Jewish communities.

It sounds like there is enough there for Starmer to justify cleaning house. **** Corbyn off out of the party for starters, with any luck some of his entourage will go too.

Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism report

Impressive against from Starmer - swift and decisive.

Well played Starmer, more please

The tankies are trying to park their tanks on Keir's lawn, except unfortunately (a) they can't find anyone with a tracked-vehicle driving licence and (b) they haven't got any tanks.



It's a good day, but Starmer has an awful lot to do -- he'll have to exceed Kinnock's honourable record of action against Militant -- and, since Corbyn can't now stand as a Labour candidate, Islington North need to deselect him. (Tony Blair's biggest mistake apart from Iraq was not letting them do that when they wanted to in the late '90s.) It has to be scorched earth and no prisoners or this will just keep happening. As Orwell and Attlee knew, Communists should have no place in Labour.

The principal trans rights org, Stonewall, states that its aims are to eliminate the single-sex exemptions under the Equality Act 2010 and to eliminate 'sex' as a protected category under the Act. That is, quite overtly, an attack on women's rights.

The first bolded claim is deliberately misleading; Stonewall's aim is to eliminate the exemptions specifically relating to "gender reassignment" (and also change the protected class to "gender identity" rather than the unclear "gender reassignment" to more clearly protect the rights of all trans people), not single-sex exemptions in general.

As for the second, as far as I can tell it is just completely made up. There is certainly nothing even close to that in their main vision for trans equality or in their general election manifesto from last year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54750775

Only 4 times the reasonable worst case planning estimate. Hancock is improving ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nd-experts-say


Also 2 cases of weakish early evidence of what was obviously going to happen have starting to emerge.

****ing idiots #1 https://www.theguardian.com/business...-rise-in-covid

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****ing idiots #2 https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/30/covid...ases-13505716/

Boris going to sentence more people to death for no reason then

No reason [ ]

Sep 1. Hospitiliastions: 58
Sep 1. Ventilators: 59

Sep 15th:H 194
Sep 15th:V 101

Sep 29th:H 310
Sep 29th:V 259

Oct 13 H: 764
OCt 13 V: 441

Oct 27 H: 1190
Oct 27 V:752

Over the same period total in hospital has gone from: 472 to 8681.

Lets keep that trend trucking for another 2 months and see how many people die of reasons completely unrelated to C19.

They did that when they encouraged eating out and going on holiday (among other stupid things). Guaranteed death sentences. Huge numbers will die or have serious impairments because of it. Huge numbers will suffer economic hardship because of it.

Just wow at that

Government scared into lockdown #2 after SAGE forecasts of 4,000 deaths per day.