Yeah, Starmer is less in a punchy affair this week waiting for the report and statement in the commons. Just getting him to agree to stuff on the record as rope to hand himself on.PMQs really is awful today
This is what I was referring toDid he just throw Sunak under the bus?
Most likely yes, that is part of why inflationary pressures happen, back in the 70s it was mainly due to oil prices. It's a vicious cycle until it can be brought back under control. Governments will blame commodity prices and supply side issues, which are outside of their control and deflect blame and they are partly right. Interest rates is the blunt instrument they can use or now it is the BOE's realm. Of course, savers will be happier, but those with variable rate mortgages will feel the hit.
Yes, very credible individuals..a "chocolate king" oligarch Poroshenko,who was running successful business in Russia "during the war" (and still have another one as far as I know) and comic Zelensky, a puppet of oligarch Kolomoisky (although he tries to pretend he's more independent now). There are also other fairytale personages (like my favourite Yulia Tymoshenko) there. Just a usual fight between oligarchic groups, that we had in Russia in 90s as well,during our so called president Boris "The Glass" Yeltsin (now we have just one tsar and his oligarchic "vassals" instead) and they're all the same, not better than the tsar, imo, just not that powerful yet.
I really loved Zelensky as a comic though, he was super talented (better than he's as a president).
It's a pity you don't speak Russian, there's a brilliant parody made on Poroshenko by Zelensky when he was a comic, in 2016 (but it's only in Russian unfortunately), and that parody explains everything what's going on in Ukraine/was going on last 15-20 years, including its' desire of "closer ties" with the EU, they were talking also about Yanukovich,other politics and Russia in it (if I remember well), all is brilliant but I'm too tired and lazy to translate it all except this short passage as an example:
Zelensky was pretty brave that time, I think, the video was popular and included a very scandalous joke (that I won't translate, just in case). Here's the whole parody if you're interested to watch it even in Russian
Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index
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It's not about taking up a persons spot, it's about the PM prioritising his time to intervene on that. There are 2 options, either the PM and defence secretary are lying or the person who leaked the email was lying. At this stage would you really be willing to bet any money at all on the PM being the honest one here?Lying about the dogs is bad yes but worth pointing out that they were in cargo which was unfit for humans and didn't take up a person's spot.
Be mad about the lying but he didn't per se "prioritse dogs over people"
"I need a flight home"It's not about taking up a persons spot, it's about the PM prioritising his time to intervene on that. There are 2 options, either the PM and defence secretary are lying or the person who leaked the email was lying. At this stage would you really be willing to bet any money at all on the PM being the honest one here?
Also Rees-Mogg saying he didn't think people lied in public life... The condescending prick really does take everyone else for fools. The way the Tories are trying to trivialise this as "talking about cake" rather than talking about a systematic and continuous series of lies, lack of integrity and breach of public trust is also so condescending and treating people as ******* idiots.
You seem to be either wilfully or otherwise ignoring the part that this was the PMs personal intervention, that he and others are then lying about. So yes, it's 2 things at fault here and no it's not a case of simply saying "can I bring my dogs with me?""I need a flight home"
"OK"
"can I bring my dogs"
"yes"
He's lied about it but its not the dogs that's the issue here
I literally said it's the lying that's the problem ffs.You seem to be either wilfully or otherwise ignoring the part that this was the PMs personal intervention, that he and others are then lying about. So yes, it's 2 things at fault here and no it's not a case of simply saying "can I bring my dogs with me?"
Personal interventionI literally said it's the lying that's the problem ffs.
Just not mad about saving a couple dogs tbh
Meh, unless its proven to have taken meaningful time / resources then I really can't get mad about saving a couple dogs tbh.Personal intervention
With everything else going on he takes time to go out of his way to specifically instruct a member of another department to try to rescue some dogs. As I said the lying is one part, his sense of priorities is the other.
If Johnson for whatever reason is not removed from power before the next election, would you still put an X next to Conservative? Hell even if he is, would you still do it knowing large chunks of the party are complicit?