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Westminstenders: Going, going, cummings

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RedToothBrush · 13/11/2020 18:36

As expected he's fucking off and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces in January. But it does look like he was eventually shown the door and left with a cardboard box. As he should have been months ago.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Johnson needing an image change, like the shape shifting creep he is, to one that fits more with the incoming Biden Administration. In other words hes got some serious sucking up to do...

... Meanwhile in Brexit land we are going into yet another final week of talks.

Many expect Cummings departure to signal 'the cave in'. The Eu say we havent moved enough and the uk say the EU wants us to do all the moving... Except the EU have done lots of moving. Barnier is still looking for a groundsman to level his field to play. We have yet to work out we aren't Canada and distance is important to trade.

Of course if we don't get a deal, that Pfizer vaccine in Germany that we want, might be hit with delays and extra costs we just can't afford.

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CoffeeNights · 14/11/2020 19:19

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FrankieStein402 · 14/11/2020 19:43

BBC story on felixstowe being bunged up:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54908129

Just happens to mention, without comment (tongue in cheek?) , that:
Two months ago, the former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling was hired to advise the port's parent company Hutchison Ports Europe, which is based in London. The register of MPs' financial interests shows he's being paid £100,000 for "around seven hours" of work per week

Another entry in the "you couldn't make it up" stakes.

Sostenueto · 14/11/2020 21:05

Thanks allxx

Have to wait so long for heamatoma to go caused by break to go down before they can operate or put cast on. Nurse comes in gives me injections to thin blood and haematoma coming down.

pussycatinboots · 14/11/2020 21:18

Sos Flowers

BlackeyedSusan · 14/11/2020 23:55

@bellinisurge The mysterious nonexistent Remainers at No.10😂😂😂

Do they still have a cat?

Get well soon Sos. ( Just caught autocorrect from putting sod)

Squid. Don't let them badger you into too many extra shifts. Look after your own health too.

Songsofexperience · 15/11/2020 09:11

Genuinely wondering how on Earth a no deal makes sense, now of all times:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/15/no-deal-fears-rise-as-boris-johnson-least-willing-to-budge-on-brexit

What is he playing at?!

Flowers for sos and squid

Pepperwort · 15/11/2020 09:27

Trouble is he’s always been the driver of the whole thing, hasn’t he. Cummings aside he has been the face all along. I wonder if Gove is hiding away a bit. I think Vetinari would cancel the whole thing.

Good luck to sostenueto and to squid.

Songsofexperience · 15/11/2020 09:59

Can't remember who said BJ is Trump' s spiritual twin (might have even been Biden). Both embattled in their own absurd egotistic pursuits.

Songsofexperience · 15/11/2020 10:01

And Vetinari is way too sensible a character for our real world...

OhLookHeKickedTheBall · 15/11/2020 10:22

squid please make sure you don't burn yourself out, as much as they need staff they also need not to have exhausted them. A few weeks ago I was picked up and treated fantastically after a stroke, the staff were all wonderful and if they'd been too knackered or burned out I doubt I'd have been in the good state of recovery I am now. ThanksWineCake to you and your fantastic colleagues

sos hope you get sorted soon. Blood thinners aren't fun, especially when you're as clumsy as I am!

dontcallmelen · 15/11/2020 10:26

@OhLookHeKickedTheBall wishing you a very speedy recovery, another stroke survivor here, if I can be of any help dont hesitate to contact me💐

DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 10:47

@Songsofexperience

Genuinely wondering how on Earth a no deal makes sense, now of all times:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/15/no-deal-fears-rise-as-boris-johnson-least-willing-to-budge-on-brexit

What is he playing at?!

Flowers for sos and squid

Some of us believe no deal was the end game all along.

Although for "his public" Boris has to play the hard nut, so this story isn't a story. It's not news. It conveys no data. It doesn't tell us anything we didn't know. It's entropy is minimal.

DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 11:10

Again, not really "news". We knew this already.

Westminstenders: Going, going, cummings
DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 11:13

And wheels coming off everywhere

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/judge-rules-daca-suspension-invalid-homeland-security-head-in-office-illegally

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A federal judge in New York has ruled that the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, assumed his position unlawfully and has invalidated Wolf’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which shields young people from deportation.
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Which compares with the story from the UK on Friday that Priti Patel has had her arse handed to her on a plate over illegal deportations.

^www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/13/priti-patel-departing-from-her-own-anti-trafficking-policy^

But again. British Minister breaking the law ? This isn't news. This isn't an unexpected event.

Songsofexperience · 15/11/2020 11:48

Interesting parallel indeed

Bodoni · 15/11/2020 12:26

What’s happening with Gary Gibbon (Ch 4 political editor)? His twitter account at twitter.com/GaryGibbonBlog has suddenly vanished. Anyone heard anything?

OchonAgusOchonO · 15/11/2020 12:43

www.thejournal.ie/coveney-no-brexit-deal-if-uk-break-international-law-5267612-Nov2020/

Simon Coveney thinks a deal is doable. However:

Coveney, who said things need to “move” this week, told Sky News: “Even if we do get a new trade deal negotiated by both sides, if the British Government is determined to continue with their Internal Market Bill – to reintroduce parts of that Bill that were removed by the House of Lords this week – then, I think this is a deal that won’t be ratified by the EU.

“Because there is no way the EU will agree to ratify a new agreement if the British Government is breaking the existing agreement that is not even 12 months old, and breaking international law by doing that.”

TatianaBis · 15/11/2020 13:06

Good piece on the Covid chumocracy:

TatianaBis · 15/11/2020 13:09

What it doesn’t say is that Kate Bingham was in the same year at school as Rachel Johnson. I think she was head girl. (Kate not Rachel - Rachel’s a twit).

DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 14:24

Seems Trump finally cracked

7 days on

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-election-result-voter-fraud-b1723217.html

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President Donald Trump has finally admitted to losing the election — while continuing to spread outright lies and misinformation about false allegations of mass voter fraud.

After days of refusing to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, the president wrote in a tweet on Sunday morning: “He won because the Election was Rigged.”

...

Clavinova · 15/11/2020 14:48

What it doesn’t say is that Kate Bingham was in the same year at school as Rachel Johnson.

I think Rachel Johnson is a red herring, Surely, the obvious connection is here;

"The Vaccine Taskforce was the brainchild of Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK Government's chief scientific adviser" ...

"Bingham, who has known the Government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance for years" ...

Did Rachel Johnson help Kate Bingham with these achievements?

"2017 - Recently awarded the lifetime achievement award by the BioIndustry Association (BIA), notably for her "enormous contribution to the UK biotech sector during her career"...

"2020 Kate Bingham Board member of The Francis Crick Institute"

From the Guardian link;
"married to Tory MP Jesse Norman, who was at Eton at the same time as Johnson"

Although Jesse Norman is aged 58 (b. June 1962) and Boris Johnson is 56 (b. June 1964).

DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 15:18

Piers Morgan reveals 201-day government 'boycott' of Good Morning Britain will end tomorrow with Matt Hancock scheduled to appear on ITV show

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8950931/Piers-Morgan-reveals-Matt-Hancock-end-201-day-government-boycott-Good-Morning-Britain.html

ListeningQuietly · 15/11/2020 15:27

Key point re Kate Bingham
cronyism not competence
WHAT her connections are is not the point
its the fact that the Government are running a kleptocracy not a proper technocracy
and Brits are dying because of it

DGRossetti · 15/11/2020 15:27

Meantimes it seems EU dairy producers are told to "Get Thee Behind Me" by a Minster whose name translates as "Uselss" in Eurish.

twitter.com/search?q=Lurpak&src=trend_click&pt=1327915454464204804&vertical=trends

Environment Secretary George Eustice told Andrew Marr that some European companies would need to move dairy production into the UK to avoid tariffs on their goods if no Brexit trade deal is reached

Usual high standard of Twitterati debate follows ....