It definitely feels like some forms of racism and discrimination are more acceptable than others. It's hard not to feel bitter, especially when you consider the reaction to the anti-Semitism report just a few weeks ago.
Westminster Politics
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I would wager 70% is owed to the national government? Which would make it just shoddy allocation of national budgets to make local government look bad.
I think Brexit will finally do it. 90% (yes, that much!) of our trade will be under WTO terms in just under 2 months' time unless the government can cobble together some sort of shite last minute deal. It's going to make the Test & Trace project look like an Industry 4.0 Swiss watch factory.
From possible Chief of Staff to resignation.
Now plonker who penned this headline in charge:
Now plonker who penned this headline in charge:
#ToryShambles is such a weak attack. Call it what it is - #ToryCorruption.
Depressing.
Classic Dom possibly off.
First Trump, then vaccine news, now this. Week of all weeks.
i'll believe it when i see it
Urgh. That's grim.
Cummings was always going to be sacked eventually. The longer Johnson kept him about the more inevitable it became that Johnson would be replaced by Sunak or whoever else was flavour of the month. Cummings' entire purpose as a human being is to seize control of institutional apparatuses of state and reorganise them under one centralised department. There's a reason that hasn't been done before and it's not because previous PMs didn't want more power.
Seems more than a coincidence that this is happening before we agree a last-minute (compromise) deal with the EU.
She makes me vomit. “Understood to want to continue his role as Jesus lord and saviour”
When she says “Understood“ what she is actually saying is “Cummings told me to say”. Understood implies that she has researched, critically analysed and concluded (come to the understanding) that these are his intentions when she clearly has done nothing of the sort. She’s a client journalist for one of the most dangerous men in the country.
"presented as policy brain of Vote Leave gang."
Probably the one that came up with hiding Trump in Biden's congratulatory message.
I'm surprised Kuenssberg hasn't been named as the new Director of Communications. It's basically what she does anyway.
Yeah but these people are all about faking it. She would actually be that, this way she can fake being a political analyst.
Dominic Cummings is going to cost Boris Johnson his job. Everything negative the government does is coming from him. I don't know if Boris just doesn't see it, or Cummings has something on him so bad he has to keep him.
'Understood' often just means 'our direct rival has reported that...' or it's an unsubstantiated rumour.
The Cain debacle all outlined here. Absolute shambles and how Kuenssberg continues to maintain she is some neutral journalist is beyond me:
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/...-leave-lost-control-mark-of-cain-cult-of-dom/
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/...-leave-lost-control-mark-of-cain-cult-of-dom/
This tweet is an all time classic for me:
If only there was a person whose job it was to get to the bottom of conflicting accounts and to report what was happening.
The Left dislikes Kuenssberg for her awful reporting and the Right dislikes her because she's a woman.
All of this must mean she is actually a very good journalist!
All of this must mean she is actually a very good journalist!
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Never go full Brwned
I may be giving them too much credit but Dom and his lot were always likely to leave shortly, this feels very orchestrated for a clean break for the PM. Ridding himself of unpopular figures in the most dramatic way possible.
I find Monbiot a very frustrating pundit. I generally agree with him but he almost invariably fails to get his arguments across effectively. Rather than keeping emphasis on a salient point which has a chance of cutting through, he launches into mini-speeches where his key argument is lost in flowery language or diluted by digressions, and which are subsequently easily ignored or deflected.
I wouldn't mind so much but as he's one of the few left-wing commentators who gets a degree of unchallenged airtime it always feels like a missed opportunity. Although, I suppose if he was more forensic and more effective as a proponent of 'the left' he probably wouldn't get the platform he does.
I wouldn't mind so much but as he's one of the few left-wing commentators who gets a degree of unchallenged airtime it always feels like a missed opportunity. Although, I suppose if he was more forensic and more effective as a proponent of 'the left' he probably wouldn't get the platform he does.
Oh my god!
On the one hand, the BBC's Political Editor constantly demonstrates inappropriately close working relationships with key figures around the Prime Minister and uncritically reports their spin as news, whilst generally playing down stories which are damaging to the Government and playing up stories which are damaging to the Opposition....but on the other hand Andrew Neil probably would have been tough on the Prime Minister if he'd interviewed him before the election, so I think it all balances out.
Are you suggesting this because there is massively increasing pressure on Boris to sign a trade deal with the EU, mainly because of the US election outcome?
I'm not sure the conclusion to Brexit matters all that much to my point no. Even if we go down the no deal path Dom and his cronies would likely go.
Boris is going to try and put Brexit behind him and rebrand next year like he failed to do this year. There's this huge narrative that's formed around Cummings and it necessitates he goes. By all accounts Cummings didn't want to stay on this long anyway.
A public spat that projects Boris as not under the thumb of Cummings is the best way to break that unhelpful alliance. I thought it would have been Barnard castle but egos got in the way.
In Britain there's a particular type of liberal/centrist politics that will dismiss any argument/critique(no matter how clear the evidence) if it's been made by the left.
It's very bizarre and shows the massive hole that is at the core of 21st century liberalism.
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i've seen it used in that context on UK/US twitter, but hadn't seen it used like that before (reading indian and sometimes foreign newspapers). is it a long-stnading thing for "understood" to mean "cribbing positive spin from a source"? i'm trying to think, not 100% sure, but the spin we usually get is something like, "A has been telling his inner circle ...."