Theresa May's husband's company, Capital Group, with $1.7tn AUM, is the second largest shareholder in thousands of companies. And the largest shareholder likely in thousands more, and the third largest shareholder in...
What are you saying Lockheed Martin's ethical crime is?
And if all you were interested in was making a quick buck, I can think of a lot of better ways in which you could adjust government policy to assist the share price.
Theresa May slashed police numbers and it bit her in the arse during the election campaign after the terror attack in Manchester. Now, her withdrawal of protection from deportation for the Windrush generation has come back to haunt her. I fear this war in Syria is not going to end well either.
The Windrush scandal is dreadful and it is being addressed but it should not have happened.
Syria will be a positive for TM and an added benefit is Corbyn's exposure to the accusation that his foreign policy is subject to a Russian veto. That will cost him in an election
If Donald trump withdraws his support from action against Syria or Russia, she will be more exposed than a nude swimmer as the tide goes out.
Methinks that is your political prejudice which of course you are entitled to
If her record is a predictor of the future, ...............
Theresa May slashed police numbers and it bit her in the arse during the election campaign after the terror attack in Manchester. Now, her withdrawal of protection from deportation for the Windrush generation has come back to haunt her. I fear this war in Syria is not going to end well either.
The Windrush scandal is dreadful and it is being addressed but it should not have happened.
Syria will be a positive for TM and an added benefit is Corbyn's exposure to the accusation that his foreign policy is subject to a Russian veto. That will cost him in an election
If Donald trump withdraws his support from action against Syria or Russia, she will be more exposed than a nude swimmer as the tide goes out.
Mr. City, I think the UK's migration bureaucracy is more likely to be institutionally incompetent than racist. I remember reading here of terrible and obviously stupid mistakes made regarding Americans who had every right to work here yet, upon a quick holiday back home, returned to Blighty only to find their status under question.
Just when people might be forgetting that the Tories are the Nasty Party, they kindly give us a stark reminder.
Poor Esther, her efforts at being Nasty yesterday were completely overshadowed.
The people voted in the Conservatives, who thereby received a mandate to reduce immigration as per their manifesto commitment. I am not particularly proud of the fact that, although I was one of those people, I didn't give serious enough thought to the consequences of such a policy.
Now they are being criticised for bringing the policy in whereas it was the one they were elected on. (The other side of that coin is, of course, that they are criticised for not bringing down non-EU immigration.)
Cameron at GE2010 and May at GE2017 both failed to win majorities and therefore had no mandate.
When did any UK party last win over 50% of the votes at a general election - what, itcould be argued, is necessary to claim a mandate?
Baldwin in 1931 got 55% and that was the last time a party got over 50%.
Though Eden and Macmillan came close in 1955 and 1959 with 49%
Labour in ’51 got 48.8% Tories 48% including Ulster Unionists and National Liberals. Although some UU’s were unopposed.
As an aside, that site is hosted on Amazon. I doubt there is a single American government, state government or dog warden web site hosted by a Scottish provider. That's how America supports its own companies and turns them into world-beaters. Scotland and Britain, not so much.
Yeah, but we are going to be buccaneering free traders. No protection here.
Theresa May's husband's company, Capital Group, with $1.7tn AUM, is the second largest shareholder in thousands of companies. And the largest shareholder likely in thousands more, and the third largest shareholder in...
What are you saying Lockheed Martin's ethical crime is?
And if all you were interested in was making a quick buck, I can think of a lot of better ways in which you could adjust government policy to assist the share price.
That link is a bit far-fetched but follows news of Jeremy Hunt's investment in rising house prices. It might be time for another look at the conflict-of-interest rules affecting ministers and their families, and for greater use of blind trusts. Now, if only we knew who Theresa May has backed as next minister to leave the cabinet.
Mr. Tyson, if you're suggesting I was upset by your post I can reassure you that that was, and is, not the case.
I read something similar some years ago, namely that certain conditions could be helpful for the species as a whole. Psychopaths as leaders, manic-depressives as artists and so on.
Not that there aren't potentially enormous downsides for both individuals and wider society, of course. Psychopaths are fantastic leaders, but can also be somewhat murderous.
Mr. City, I think the UK's migration bureaucracy is more likely to be institutionally incompetent than racist. I remember reading here of terrible and obviously stupid mistakes made regarding Americans who had every right to work here yet, upon a quick holiday back home, returned to Blighty only to find their status under question.
That is my point......I defy anyone trying to run a bureaucracy beset by cuts and staff turnover whilst continually managing policy changes underpinned by an IT system that is always playing catch up and hardly fit for purpose in the first place, whilst contracting out and fragmenting service delivery.....
When will the penny drop that we cannot continually cut our public services and hope that they deliver......
The report doesn't seem to have gone down well with Leavers, that's true. Most of them are trying to ignore it.
It would be nice if one or two might acknowledge that it is highly supportive of what I have said on the odd occasion. But I won't hold out too much hope.
From before, TMay might be many things, but she's not autistic. Burnham would testify to that through the work with the Hillsborough associations. Corbyn is much more on the spectrum...his interest in drainpipe and train timetables, say no more....On that matter, 90% of the pbCOM commentariat are well up the spectrum...from those obsessively posting on all things F1 to the folk who get off on different Brexit options....And yes, those of you here who are aged 12 and over and obsess over any of...Dr Who, Star Wars, James Bond...yes you are all on the spectrum.
Windrush is one of those policy fuckups that gets mashed by the law of unintended consequences.
That said, it is a political gift to TMay's opponents......
What was the unintended consequence here? Surely the law, the manifesto and not least the Prime Minister's slow reaction all suggest that deporting these people was indeed the intention and the only unintended bit was the political damage.
Naughty.
The intention was to ensure that people who had no right to live here could not receive the benefits of citizenship. Fair enough.
The unintended consequence was that proving the right to live here turned out to be problematic for a subset of people with a right to live here which, it seems, no one foresaw.
If we changed the legal system so that in criminal trials the onus of evidence was on the defence to prove innocence, I don't think it would be fair to call the subsequent increase in false convictions an "unintended consequence".
Is the present Home Office , institutionally racist ?
Well there's plenty of evidence that Theresa May has questions to answer. If Jeremy Corbyn had sent vans round telling immigrants to 'GO HOME' all the Guidoistas would be apoplectic. I just think that in the Tory Party and right wing circles in general racism is endemic which is why as a distraction they've pounced on these overblown charges against Corbyn.
To be fair to Vince Cable (why?) dual-use rules can be utterly messy, at least in my limited experience. It'd be interesting to know more about what the chemicals were and what the claimed usage was.
Sodium chloride is the precursor to chlorine which seems to have been the toxic chemical used in this case. Sodium chloride has dual uses.
Probably in combination with some of that nasty dihydrogen monoxide.
A solution of dihydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride makes people vomit if they accidentally swallow it
Thank god for that. It would mean financial interests could commission private polls while the great, unwashed voting public are kept in the dark.
The problem with opinion polls is not that they are unreliable but that far too many people think they are much more reliable than they are (or can be). The solution is therefore one of education, not proscription.
Theresa May slashed police numbers and it bit her in the arse during the election campaign after the terror attack in Manchester. Now, her withdrawal of protection from deportation for the Windrush generation has come back to haunt her. I fear this war in Syria is not going to end well either.
The Windrush scandal is dreadful and it is being addressed but it should not have happened.
Syria will be a positive for TM and an added benefit is Corbyn's exposure to the accusation that his foreign policy is subject to a Russian veto. That will cost him in an election
If Donald trump withdraws his support from action against Syria or Russia, she will be more exposed than a nude swimmer as the tide goes out.
She did not take instructions from Trump !
You are right, the Holy Spirit entered her while she was hill walking in Wales.
From before, TMay might be many things, but she's not autistic. Burnham would testify to that through the work with the Hillsborough associations. Corbyn is much more on the spectrum...his interest in drainpipe and train timetables, say no more....On that matter, 90% of the pbCOM commentariat are well up the spectrum...from those obsessively posting on all things F1 to the folk who get off on different Brexit options....And yes, those of you here who are aged 12 and over and obsess over any of...Dr Who, Star Wars, James Bond...yes you are all on the spectrum.
Windrush is one of those policy fuckups that gets mashed by the law of unintended consequences.
That said, it is a political gift to TMay's opponents......
What was the unintended consequence here? Surely the law, the manifesto and not least the Prime Minister's slow reaction all suggest that deporting these people was indeed the intention and the only unintended bit was the political damage.
Naughty.
The intention was to ensure that people who had no right to live here could not receive the benefits of citizenship. Fair enough.
The unintended consequence was that proving the right to live here turned out to be problematic for a subset of people with a right to live here which, it seems, no one foresaw.
I don't think that was unintended. It was a purposeful decision to increase the burden of proof for anyone wishing to live in the UK. This applies to all of us. If you can't prove that you have the right to live here the government will prevent you from having a home, a job, healthcare, etc.
No papers, no life.
It's a massive change in the balance of power between the government and British citizens. We should never have allowed it to happen.
Thank god for that. It would mean financial interests could commission private polls while the great, unwashed voting public are kept in the dark.
The problem with opinion polls is not that they are unreliable but that far too many people think they are much more reliable than they are (or can be). The solution is therefore one of education, not proscription.
The report doesn't seem to have gone down well with Leavers, that's true. Most of them are trying to ignore it.
It would be nice if one or two might acknowledge that it is highly supportive of what I have said on the odd occasion. But I won't hold out too much hope.
It would be great if you admit the double standards you employ on here,while you call most leavers xenophobic, you have a second home in one of the racists countries in Europe.
Or are you suggesting that "he had a quiet word" and got her to bomb Syria to pump his share portfolio? (And if he had that much influence, one might just idly muse why he didn't tell her calling an election last year was a damn fool notion....)
I notice that Shami Chakrabarti has said that the recommendations made in her (not at all white-wash of) report in antisemitism still haven't been implemented.
Thank god for that. It would mean financial interests could commission private polls while the great, unwashed voting public are kept in the dark.
The problem with opinion polls is not that they are unreliable but that far too many people think they are much more reliable than they are (or can be). The solution is therefore one of education, not proscription.
HuffPost was the only media outlet that reported opinion polling properly in the lead up to the GE2017 (imo). You can clearly see an undecided line swinging to Labour as the campaign goes on.
Far too many media organisations are far too interested in pumping up THEIR LATEST poll as if it was gospel truth. The polling assumptions to essentially add a fair bit to the Tory vote were also fighting the last war.
Theresa May's husband's company, Capital Group, with $1.7tn AUM, is the second largest shareholder in thousands of companies. And the largest shareholder likely in thousands more, and the third largest shareholder in...
What are you saying Lockheed Martin's ethical crime is?
Perhaps Caesar's wife should not work for Lockheed Martin.
The report doesn't seem to have gone down well with Leavers, that's true. Most of them are trying to ignore it.
It would be nice if one or two might acknowledge that it is highly supportive of what I have said on the odd occasion. But I won't hold out too much hope.
It would be great if you admit the double standards you employ on here,while you call most leavers xenophobic, you have a second home in one of the racists countries in Europe.
Do we have a point ?
The ethical position of one London pensions lawyer is irrelevant when considering the problems caused by the country having voted for a Leave campaign that was driven by xenophobic lies. You can assume what you like about me since I do not court your approval and I am comfortable with my own choices.
Now, back to the profound damage that the xenophobic lies that you happily fell in behind during the Leave campaign have done to the country.
TM on camera at meeting at no 10 with Caribbean leaders publically apologising and saying it will be resolved
I'd love to see how she's going to retroactively give cancer treatment
To be fair, if we’re thinking of AT, while he needs the treatment ‘soon’ it sould well be that it may not be a question of ‘now like now’. I had radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer last year; it was suggested early in May, I was a bit doubtful, and had a holiday booked so the consultant told me to think about and in any event it could be done after my return, which it was. First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
On the radio, a man who has been here for decades and caring for his cancer-stricken, elderly mother has been told to leave or face being banged up in a detention centre despite Dominic Grieve and David Lammy trying to resolve the situation. The bloke is leaving tomorrow rather than be arrested.
190 military personnel to assist with clean up of the liquid agent in parts of Salisbury and could take upto Christmas !!!!!!!!!
Where else have they found traces apart from the door handle?
Not sure but seems quite widespread.
It must raise questions over compensation to businesses for serious loss of trade
I wasn't expecting you to specifically know, it was more a general question.
If they have found it elsewhere, have these areas been cordoned off etc? If they're going to need nearly 200 people to clear this up, I would have expected large chunks of Salisbury to be sealed off by now. Also seems a bit strange that only 3 people have been affected by it.
TM on camera at meeting at no 10 with Caribbean leaders publically apologising and saying it will be resolved
I'd love to see how she's going to retroactively give cancer treatment
To be fair, if we’re thinking of AT, while he needs the treatment ‘soon’ it sould well be that it may not be a question of ‘now like now’. I had radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer last year; it was suggested early in May, I was a bit doubtful, and had a holiday booked so the consultant told me to think about and in any event it could be done after my return, which it was. First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
Wow, puts all our squabbles in perspective. Good luck!
I'm trying to say that there is an evolutionary reason for many of our mental health conditions. So for the autistic spectrum....you have high achieving, very intelligent brains who would be diagnosed with some kind of asbergers syndrome. People like Zuckerberg, Gates....certainly most of the high achievers in science, technology are asbergery.
Once human beings collectivised, there was a role for psychopaths as they were drawn to leadership.
Similarly, ADHD and creativity are linked together. Stephen Fry has learned to embrace his bi-polar disorder because of the creativity it inspires in him during his high moments.
Morris Dancer took my post a little personally. As he rightly points out mental health conditions are labelled and stigmatised. This is of course wrong...... these very same mental health conditions are part of our genetic makeup and have been responsible for the development and evolution of the human race.
And this is drawn from your doctoral thesis on the issue is it?
The link between insanity and art (the mad artist) is a well-worn and worn out trope.
What you might mean is that there are complex reasons for all types of behaviour and character traits which defy lay or medical assessments of causation.
TM on camera at meeting at no 10 with Caribbean leaders publically apologising and saying it will be resolved
I'd love to see how she's going to retroactively give cancer treatment
To be fair, if we’re thinking of AT, while he needs the treatment ‘soon’ it sould well be that it may not be a question of ‘now like now’. I had radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer last year; it was suggested early in May, I was a bit doubtful, and had a holiday booked so the consultant told me to think about and in any event it could be done after my return, which it was. First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
the LOL about that is that she made the admission in response to Brendan O'Hara having a go at her:
"Brittany Kaiser, former director of program development at the under-fire consultancy, made the admission under questioning from SNP MP Brendan O'Hara.
She told MPs on a Westminster committee: “I do know that we have been in pitches and negotiations with UK parties in the past, such as the SNP.”
The revelation – which appeared to visibly surprise Mr O'Hara – comes amid widespread outcry over the company’s alleged misuse of social media data."
I wasn't expecting you to specifically know, it was more a general question.
If they have found it elsewhere, have these areas been cordoned off etc? If they're going to need nearly 200 people to clear this up, I would have expected large chunks of Salisbury to be sealed off by now. Also seems a bit strange that only 3 people have been affected by it.
Not really, they are likely being extra careful. It's better to be very thorough than to miss a bit.
IIRC the Polonium 210 exposed something like 30,000 people on the aircraft that it was taken on before they were withdrawn.
So May has ber best day as PM since the election yesterday, her position is completely secure, Corbyn is ridiculed in Parliament by loads of his own MPs and we have a thread on how May's position is under threat.!
Or are you suggesting that "he had a quiet word" and got her to bomb Syria to pump his share portfolio? (And if he had that much influence, one might just idly muse why he didn't tell her calling an election last year was a damn fool notion....)
I thought the official story was that he had a quiet word with her while they were out walking in Wales, and he was fully behind her calling the general election, despite all her promises that she would keep going until the end of the Parliament.
On the radio, a man who has been here for decades and caring for his cancer-stricken, elderly mother has been told to leave or face being banged up in a detention centre despite Dominic Grieve and David Lammy trying to resolve the situation. The bloke is leaving tomorrow rather than be arrested.
To be fair to Vince Cable (why?) dual-use rules can be utterly messy, at least in my limited experience. It'd be interesting to know more about what the chemicals were and what the claimed usage was.
Sodium chloride is the precursor to chlorine which seems to have been the toxic chemical used in this case. Sodium chloride has dual uses.
Probably in combination with some of that nasty dihydrogen monoxide.
A solution of dihydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride makes people vomit if they accidentally swallow it
What's even worse is if you mix dihydrogen monoxide with certain biological components and distil the result you end up with a highly potent agent that has significant neurological effects. An independent Scotland would have access to some of the World's largest stores of this, with the ability to deploy it within 45 minutes.
TM on camera at meeting at no 10 with Caribbean leaders publically apologising and saying it will be resolved
I'd love to see how she's going to retroactively give cancer treatment
To be fair, if we’re thinking of AT, while he needs the treatment ‘soon’ it sould well be that it may not be a question of ‘now like now’. I had radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer last year; it was suggested early in May, I was a bit doubtful, and had a holiday booked so the consultant told me to think about and in any event it could be done after my return, which it was. First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
So May has ber best day as PM since the election yesterday, her position is completely secure, Corbyn is ridiculed in Parliament by loads of his own MPs and we have a thread on how May's position is under threat.!
Neither is under any threat I believe.
Next leader out most likely Strong and Cable, methinks.
190 military personnel to assist with clean up of the liquid agent in parts of Salisbury and could take upto Christmas !!!!!!!!!
Where else have they found traces apart from the door handle?
Not sure but seems quite widespread.
It must raise questions over compensation to businesses for serious loss of trade
I wasn't expecting you to specifically know, it was more a general question.
If they have found it elsewhere, have these areas been cordoned off etc? If they're going to need nearly 200 people to clear this up, I would have expected large chunks of Salisbury to be sealed off by now. Also seems a bit strange that only 3 people have been affected by it.
Sky and BBC both reporting that the liquid form of the nerve agent does not degrade and 190+ military are going to assist in decontaminating various areas and it may well take to Christmas. They do say there is low risk to the public
To be fair to Vince Cable (why?) dual-use rules can be utterly messy, at least in my limited experience. It'd be interesting to know more about what the chemicals were and what the claimed usage was.
Sodium chloride is the precursor to chlorine which seems to have been the toxic chemical used in this case. Sodium chloride has dual uses.
Probably in combination with some of that nasty dihydrogen monoxide.
A solution of dihydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride makes people vomit if they accidentally swallow it
What's even worse is if you mix dihydrogen monoxide with certain biological components and distil the result you end up with a highly potent agent that has significant neurological effects. An independent Scotland would have access to some of the World's largest stores of this, with the ability to deploy it within 45 minutes.
45 minutes? I salute your adherence to delayed gratification.
Just when people might be forgetting that the Tories are the Nasty Party, they kindly give us a stark reminder.
Poor Esther, her efforts at being Nasty yesterday were completely overshadowed.
The people voted in the Conservatives, who thereby received a mandate to reduce immigration as per their manifesto commitment. I am not particularly proud of the fact that, although I was one of those people, I didn't give serious enough thought to the consequences of such a policy.
Now they are being criticised for bringing the policy in whereas it was the one they were elected on. (The other side of that coin is, of course, that they are criticised for not bringing down non-EU immigration.)
Cameron at GE2010 and May at GE2017 both failed to win majorities and therefore had no mandate.
When did any UK party last win over 50% of the votes at a general election - what, itcould be argued, is necessary to claim a mandate?
Baldwin in 1931 got 55% and that was the last time a party got over 50%.
Though Eden and Macmillan came close in 1955 and 1959 with 49%
Labour in ’51 got 48.8% Tories 48% including Ulster Unionists and National Liberals. Although some UU’s were unopposed.
It helped that the minor parties did not score highly at that time, though the collapse of the LD and UKIP vote now means both the Tories and Labour can get over 40% in the same election
To be fair to Vince Cable (why?) dual-use rules can be utterly messy, at least in my limited experience. It'd be interesting to know more about what the chemicals were and what the claimed usage was.
Sodium chloride is the precursor to chlorine which seems to have been the toxic chemical used in this case. Sodium chloride has dual uses.
Probably in combination with some of that nasty dihydrogen monoxide.
A solution of dihydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride makes people vomit if they accidentally swallow it
What's even worse is if you mix dihydrogen monoxide with certain biological components and distil the result you end up with a highly potent agent that has significant neurological effects. An independent Scotland would have access to some of the World's largest stores of this, with the ability to deploy it within 45 minutes.
45 minutes? I salute your adherence to delayed gratification.
Or are you suggesting that "he had a quiet word" and got her to bomb Syria to pump his share portfolio? (And if he had that much influence, one might just idly muse why he didn't tell her calling an election last year was a damn fool notion....)
So May has ber best day as PM since the election yesterday, her position is completely secure, Corbyn is ridiculed in Parliament by loads of his own MPs and we have a thread on how May's position is under threat.!
On the radio, a man who has been here for decades and caring for his cancer-stricken, elderly mother has been told to leave or face being banged up in a detention centre despite Dominic Grieve and David Lammy trying to resolve the situation. The bloke is leaving tomorrow rather than be arrested.
He will not be deported tomorrow now
He is self-deporting to avoid being detained and having to undergo the humiliation of being taken to a plane in handcuffs.
On the radio, a man who has been here for decades and caring for his cancer-stricken, elderly mother has been told to leave or face being banged up in a detention centre despite Dominic Grieve and David Lammy trying to resolve the situation. The bloke is leaving tomorrow rather than be arrested.
He will not be deported tomorrow now
He is self-deporting to avoid being detained and having to undergo the humiliation of being taken to a plane in handcuffs.
Well he should cancel his flight and report to the new task force.
I have been as angry as anyone over this issue but if he self deports now he is taking an entirely unnecessary step
As an aside, that site is hosted on Amazon. I doubt there is a single American government, state government or dog warden web site hosted by a Scottish provider. That's how America supports its own companies and turns them into world-beaters. Scotland and Britain, not so much.
Are there any Scottish providers that have the sort of tech offered by the likes of AWS? To be perfectly honest, you have to have a really good reason not to use them these days when it comes to web services.
If the Scottish government and Scottish councils had supported their own providers, there might be. That's what I'm getting at: the Americans look after their own and make long term gains. We do not.
Privately, Downing Street tells us she is “furious” that her chance to shine at the Commonwealth conference in London has been ruined.
Read it all!
And for the second time today, I note that others are drawing the same conclusion that I have for some time:
"there is no escaping the simple truth. The treatment of the Windrush generation was not a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy.
It results from a deliberate act of policy. It was Mrs May, as Home Secretary, who pursued a relentless drive to make life in Britain impossible for those who, her department believed, were here illegally — all in pursuit of an arbitrary and elusive target of reducing net migration to below 100,000.
...
Then the Brexiteers harnessed age-old hostility to immigrants to win majority support for their minority concerns about Parliamentary sovereignty. ...
Privately, Downing Street tells us she is “furious” that her chance to shine at the Commonwealth conference in London has been ruined.
Read it all!
And for the second time today, I note that others are drawing the same conclusion that I have for some time:
"there is no escaping the simple truth. The treatment of the Windrush generation was not a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy.
It results from a deliberate act of policy. It was Mrs May, as Home Secretary, who pursued a relentless drive to make life in Britain impossible for those who, her department believed, were here illegally — all in pursuit of an arbitrary and elusive target of reducing net migration to below 100,000.
...
Then the Brexiteers harnessed age-old hostility to immigrants to win majority support for their minority concerns about Parliamentary sovereignty. ...
Now Britain is reaping what it sowed."
I'm trying to recall who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the relevant legislation was introduced.
Lordy, it looks like our white "kith and kin" are being effected by the May/Rudd immigration mess as well.
James O'Brien Verified account @mrjamesob 2h2 hours ago
Just taken a call from a woman who came here from Rhodesia, aged 2, in '62. Three years before independence. She's already lost her job due to her immigration status and being told by the Home Office that she's not British.
On the radio, a man who has been here for decades and caring for his cancer-stricken, elderly mother has been told to leave or face being banged up in a detention centre despite Dominic Grieve and David Lammy trying to resolve the situation. The bloke is leaving tomorrow rather than be arrested.
He will not be deported tomorrow now
He is self-deporting to avoid being detained and having to undergo the humiliation of being taken to a plane in handcuffs.
Well he should cancel his flight and report to the new task force.
I have been as angry as anyone over this issue but if he self deports now he is taking an entirely unnecessary step
I would imagine he would like that in writing from the shambolic Home Office.
Privately, Downing Street tells us she is “furious” that her chance to shine at the Commonwealth conference in London has been ruined.
Read it all!
And for the second time today, I note that others are drawing the same conclusion that I have for some time:
"there is no escaping the simple truth. The treatment of the Windrush generation was not a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy.
It results from a deliberate act of policy. It was Mrs May, as Home Secretary, who pursued a relentless drive to make life in Britain impossible for those who, her department believed, were here illegally — all in pursuit of an arbitrary and elusive target of reducing net migration to below 100,000.
...
Then the Brexiteers harnessed age-old hostility to immigrants to win majority support for their minority concerns about Parliamentary sovereignty. ...
Now Britain is reaping what it sowed."
It was Blair's failure to impose transition controls on free movement from the new accession countries in 2004 which imcreased the capacity of Leavers to exploit immigration concerns
TM on camera at meeting at no 10 with Caribbean leaders publically apologising and saying it will be resolved
I'd love to see how she's going to retroactively give cancer treatment
To be fair, if we’re thinking of AT, while he needs the treatment ‘soon’ it sould well be that it may not be a question of ‘now like now’. I had radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer last year; it was suggested early in May, I was a bit doubtful, and had a holiday booked so the consultant told me to think about and in any event it could be done after my return, which it was. First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
All the best for your follow up
Thank you. And Messrs Stereotomy and Palmer. I shall continue to get on with life and trust in my (once upon a time) colleagues in the NHS!
As an aside, that site is hosted on Amazon. I doubt there is a single American government, state government or dog warden web site hosted by a Scottish provider. That's how America supports its own companies and turns them into world-beaters. Scotland and Britain, not so much.
Are there any Scottish providers that have the sort of tech offered by the likes of AWS? To be perfectly honest, you have to have a really good reason not to use them these days when it comes to web services.
If the Scottish government and Scottish councils had supported their own providers, there might be. That's what I'm getting at: the Americans look after their own and make long term gains. We do not.
I highly doubt it. There is basically AWS and a couple of others and that it is outside of China. If it was easy to to develop something like AWS, there would be masses of other companies doing it, because it is such a massive money maker.
It is a bit like saying, how come there isn't loads of companies as good as ARM in the world.
Just seen a Facebook vid of Anne Coulter's criticisms of Trump. She is obviously ripped to shreds in the comments, but her points about him potentially losing the base (Or enough of it to lose the next election) are valid:
1) He campaigned on non intervention. That is obviously out the window no matter your Syria stance. 2) He campaigned to be strong and tough in facing world leaders. That lasted about a day with the Germany/NATO payments speech, he tends to go agree with whichever world leader he spoke to last. 3) He campaigned to be respected rather than liked. It is clear being liked is far more important to him than being respected, again he tends to go agree with whoever he spoke to last.
I think the Democrats with the right candidate can definitely win the next election.
Lordy, it looks like our white "kith and kin" are being effected by the May/Rudd immigration mess as well.
James O'Brien Verified account @mrjamesob 2h2 hours ago
Just taken a call from a woman who came here from Rhodesia, aged 2, in '62. Three years before independence. She's already lost her job due to her immigration status and being told by the Home Office that she's not British.
The only way stop this being political herpes for the foreseeable future is to announce some sort of immigration amnesty. Otherwise every deportation sob story is going to be on the news from now until the end of time or this government. Whichever comes first.
Just seen a Facebook vid of Anne Coulter's criticisms of Trump. She is obviously ripped to shreds in the comments, but her points about him potentially losing the base (Or enough of it to lose the next election) are valid:
1) He campaigned on non intervention. That is obviously out the window no matter your Syria stance. 2) He campaigned to be strong and tough in facing world leaders. That lasted about a day with the Germany/NATO payments speech, he tends to go agree with whichever world leader he spoke to last. 3) He campaigned to be respected rather than liked. It is clear being liked is far more important to him than being respected, again he tends to go agree with whoever he spoke to last.
I think the Democrats with the right candidate can definitely win the next election.
Trump campaigned as Pat Buchanan but may well end up as Bill Clinton, especially if the Democrats win control of Congress in November and move towards impeachment proceedings.
Don't forget Trump was a Clinton Democrat in the 1990s and his opponent for the Reform Party nomination in 2000 was indeed Pat Buchanan
"there is no escaping the simple truth. The treatment of the Windrush generation was not a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy.
It results from a deliberate act of policy. It was Mrs May, as Home Secretary, who pursued a relentless drive to make life in Britain impossible for those who, her department believed, were here illegally — all in pursuit of an arbitrary and elusive target of reducing net migration to below 100,000. [snip]
Dear me, a humongous non-sequitur being quoted favourably by a distinguished lawyer!
Since the Windrush generation are here perfectly legally, and always have been, it follows that it was a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy, if the Home Office were as stated intending to make life in Britain impossible for those who were here illegally.
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Verified account @nw_nicholas
18m18 minutes ago
"What did you do about the bombing of Syria, Philip May?"
"I made a bomb."
https://twitter.com/nw_nicholas/status/986194134624022528
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/986199353286123520
https://twitter.com/andywigmore/status/986157077843365888
(and it should be 'Arron and me').
I read something similar some years ago, namely that certain conditions could be helpful for the species as a whole. Psychopaths as leaders, manic-depressives as artists and so on.
Not that there aren't potentially enormous downsides for both individuals and wider society, of course. Psychopaths are fantastic leaders, but can also be somewhat murderous.
When will the penny drop that we cannot continually cut our public services and hope that they deliver......
It would be nice if one or two might acknowledge that it is highly supportive of what I have said on the odd occasion. But I won't hold out too much hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM1IM2QUYjk
No papers, no life.
It's a massive change in the balance of power between the government and British citizens. We should never have allowed it to happen.
It must raise questions over compensation to businesses for serious loss of trade
Do we have a point ?
Or are you suggesting that "he had a quiet word" and got her to bomb Syria to pump his share portfolio? (And if he had that much influence, one might just idly muse why he didn't tell her calling an election last year was a damn fool notion....)
Far too many media organisations are far too interested in pumping up THEIR LATEST poll as if it was gospel truth.
The polling assumptions to essentially add a fair bit to the Tory vote were also fighting the last war.
Now, back to the profound damage that the xenophobic lies that you happily fell in behind during the Leave campaign have done to the country.
First indications are that it’s worked, but second follow-up appointment is next month!
If they have found it elsewhere, have these areas been cordoned off etc?
If they're going to need nearly 200 people to clear this up, I would have expected large chunks of Salisbury to be sealed off by now.
Also seems a bit strange that only 3 people have been affected by it.
The link between insanity and art (the mad artist) is a well-worn and worn out trope.
What you might mean is that there are complex reasons for all types of behaviour and character traits which defy lay or medical assessments of causation.
"Brittany Kaiser, former director of program development at the under-fire consultancy, made the admission under questioning from SNP MP Brendan O'Hara.
She told MPs on a Westminster committee: “I do know that we have been in pitches and negotiations with UK parties in the past, such as the SNP.”
The revelation – which appeared to visibly surprise Mr O'Hara – comes amid widespread outcry over the company’s alleged misuse of social media data."
Mr. Me, the Windrush situation is absolutely despicable. As you indicate, it sounds like a wretched, foolish and entirely unnecessary change.
IIRC the Polonium 210 exposed something like 30,000 people on the aircraft that it was taken on before they were withdrawn.
Next leader out most likely Strong and Cable, methinks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-might-survive-firing-rosenstein-or-even-mueller-the-reason-fox-news/2018/04/13/f388aa9c-3e78-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
Still, will keep the anti-semitism debate off the news at least
I like this little snippet about TMay.
Privately, Downing Street tells us she is “furious” that her chance to shine at the Commonwealth conference in London has been ruined.
Read it all! I am sure it is a happy coincidence.
Corbyn really is the ultimate sixth form common room revolutionary isn't he?
I have been as angry as anyone over this issue but if he self deports now he is taking an entirely unnecessary step
"there is no escaping the simple truth. The treatment of the Windrush generation was not a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy.
It results from a deliberate act of policy. It was Mrs May, as Home Secretary, who pursued a relentless drive to make life in Britain impossible for those who, her department believed, were here illegally — all in pursuit of an arbitrary and elusive target of reducing net migration to below 100,000.
...
Then the Brexiteers harnessed age-old hostility to immigrants to win majority support for their minority concerns about Parliamentary sovereignty.
...
Now Britain is reaping what it sowed."
Tears of sadness that Mrs May is once again destroying all that hard work of Dave and George to detoxify the Tory Party.
James O'Brien
Verified account @mrjamesob
2h2 hours ago
Just taken a call from a woman who came here from Rhodesia, aged 2, in '62. Three years before independence. She's already lost her job due to her immigration status and being told by the Home Office that she's not British.
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/986187232221556737
It was of course May who first recognised the Tories were sometimes called 'the nasty party'
It is a bit like saying, how come there isn't loads of companies as good as ARM in the world.
1) He campaigned on non intervention. That is obviously out the window no matter your Syria stance.
2) He campaigned to be strong and tough in facing world leaders. That lasted about a day with the Germany/NATO payments speech, he tends to go agree with whichever world leader he spoke to last.
3) He campaigned to be respected rather than liked. It is clear being liked is far more important to him than being respected, again he tends to go agree with whoever he spoke to last.
I think the Democrats with the right candidate can definitely win the next election.
There’s counter-factual and there’s counter-factual!
Don't forget Trump was a Clinton Democrat in the 1990s and his opponent for the Reform Party nomination in 2000 was indeed Pat Buchanan
Since the Windrush generation are here perfectly legally, and always have been, it follows that it was a mistake or an oversight by an unwieldy bureaucracy, if the Home Office were as stated intending to make life in Britain impossible for those who were here illegally.