Why’s Boris making an announcement at 3. 30?

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

Is he going to resign?!!

@Marney

Labour created huge academies in this town Closed primary schools Created a local primary with five hundred children My daughter was in a class of 33 at primary school Thhievements haven't improved still A good small secondarywas closed Children children left in a school closing down waiting for teachers from the the super academy to turn up but they didn't bother Pupils who used to get support who couldn't read no longer getting help The local Làbour mps a m ulti millionaire who was never available well he had homes everywhere one in Oxford That was schools under Labour

But that is very similar to where I live, under the Conservatives. The simple fact is that, for too long, all the emphasis has been on opening academies to the exclusion of all else.

"water can't be disconnected though" Therese Coffey, replying to Marcus Rashford's tweet asking to spare a thought for the families scared of their services being disconnected. Lovely lady.

[quote Thirtytimesround]This is awesome:
www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-public-vote-of-no-confidence-in-pm-johnson[/quote]
Thanks. Need to get this over the line!

BEHOLD! Our secretary of state for Work and Pensions!

twitter.com/theresecoffey/status/1272789819354161152?t=XfV-0Pp3D4zPe5802FDX6w&s=19

Ah, just spotted that petition was started two years ago! Not likely to have any impact then. Wonder what else there is to do??

@mum2jakie

Ah, just spotted that petition was started two years ago! Not likely to have any impact then. Wonder what else there is to do??

Vote tactically

[quote GreenLunchBox]BEHOLD! Our secretary of state for Work and Pensions!

twitter.com/theresecoffey/status/1272789819354161152?t=XfV-0Pp3D4zPe5802FDX6w&s=19[/quote]
See Marcus Rashford's response to her.

Quiet dignity. The government are childish and embarrassing. The electorate actually deserve them

They seem to exist to rile us up. We can only watch prostrate on the sidelines as they raze the country to the ground. Good grief.

[quote Mischance]Theresa May was spot on. No emotional diatribes but simply asked the only question that really mattered. Hats off to her.

www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/jan/31/theresa-may-challenges-boris-johnson-gray-report-video[/quote]
Agree..her comment really did sum up how fucking pathetic he is !

I've always thought that history will look back on Theresa May more favourably than the electorate did at the time. I'm glad she wasn't PM during the pandemic for her own wellbeing, but I can't help feeling she would have been a far safer and measured pair of hands. At the very least she would have got through briefings without baffling everyone and with her hair out of her eyes.

It's embarrassing that the only reason we did so well with vaccines initially wasn't because of well thought out strategy but because Matt Hancock once watched Contagion.

Theresa May had a very strong authoritarian streak, evident by her 'citizens of nowhere' speech and her reckless red lines . I won't look back on her fondly just because she's less catastrophic than Johnson.

Plus for once Boris appointed a woman who knew what she was doing rather than Dido & the rest of his cronies, otherwise the rollout would have been another disaster like T&T etc etc

It says everything that Johnson needs the police to tell him whether he had either not read Covid rules, or did not understand them, or thought he was exempt. Are they supposed to be able to read his mind for him?

Of course, the answer is that he didn't think they should apply to him.

Therese Coffey really is embarrassingly bad. A government that includes her and Nadir Dorries is automatically a failed government.

@HangoverSquare

Theresa May had a very strong authoritarian streak, evident by her 'citizens of nowhere' speech and her reckless red lines . I won't look back on her fondly just because she's less catastrophic than Johnson.

I disliked Theresa May's policies intensely. I detested her hostile environment policy. I blame her entirely for leading us towards a hard Brexit. I think she failed the people of the UK.

But I will acknowledge that she at least had a sense of duty. While she fucked up left, right and centre, I believe that she was at least trying to do what she considered to be the right thing. I cannot say the same of Boris.

@HangoverSquare

Theresa May had a very strong authoritarian streak, evident by her 'citizens of nowhere' speech and her reckless red lines . I won't look back on her fondly just because she's less catastrophic than Johnson.

Me neither, I loathed her and still do, but I think it's fair to say we wouldn't be in the specific pickle we are now if this was on her watch.

True, she certainly has a strong sense of duty whereas Johnson is all about himself and his self-preservation. No principles beyond looking out for Boris.

I think it's the unpredictability that a lot of people struggle with.

Because of May's often awful and clearly articulated principles, the worst shit she did was entirely on brand and predictable. Windrush for example, that was very her. Johnson would totally have done it too, but his version would've also included sending one of his mistresses along for a jolly on a deportation flight, scrounging the compo off the victims to do up his flat and threatening to close schools in the constituency of any MP who dared mention it whilst also telling Parliament none of it had ever happened and he was in the garden at the time.

My kids say " leave Boris alone" when I moan about the state we're in. They think he's hilarious

Have you asked them WHY they think it's a good idea to have a clown running the country?

As for why he's popular, I have no fucking idea.

Theresa May had a very strong authoritarian streak, evident by her 'citizens of nowhere' speech and her reckless red lines . I won't look back on her fondly just because she's less catastrophic than Johnson

Can’t remember exactly what it was about but at one point I remember seeing something that made me think that she was trying to please everyone and was going to end up pleasing no one
I think her lack of flexible thinking contributed to her downfall
Even when things went wrong she didn’t change her approach or her goals and the route she was taking even if it became clear it wasn’t the right way to do something

The only duty May felt is to her party. Whereas Johnson is happy to let the party burn for his own ego.

The speaker expressed his anger with the comments today. So I guess that is something

' Unfortunately the public out there think I’ve got this magic power. You give me the power. If you’re not happy with the power I’ve got, it’s in your hands to change it.'

The speaker has just said. I think we may not have been the only people to contact him

I've just watched Ian Blackford again. What a star. And so disappointed in the Speaker of the House. How dare LH try to make IB say inadvertently when we all know that would be a lie?

How dare LH try to make IB say inadvertently when we all know that would be a lie?

Because it is basic tenet of the House. You don't call anyone a liar and if you do the meeting is cloised. He explained it all, repeteatedly, at the time. "Just say 'inadvertently' and we can continue this much needed discussion. Don't force me to have you removed and the debate closed"

It's not that he supports Johnson, just that this is one of the non negotiable rules of the House. It is there to protect Members from various legal allegations, to ensure freedom of speech etc .

IB could have said "apparently inadvertently" and that would have been enough... and he, like all other MPs, know that!