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"… in office but not in power.”

Today is the Cabinet Meeting and here is an amusing list of the attendees

I doubt it's that. It's just that May is powerless and rudderless. And everyone knows it.

presumably May daren't start sacking people because that would spell the end of her already flaky majority. an election now = RIP this tory shitshower.

any 'moral authority' these cunts think they may have possessed is in tatters. not that there was much to begin with.

amazing

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/927890886209437696

Seems fair enough. She ended up working on her last holiday so it's probably time 'in lieu'.

The lamentable May needs only 7 disaffected Tories to derail her enDUPped majority.
Just 7.
7 ex-Cameroons/Osbornites who see who chance for Ministerial office under May.
7 ex-Ministers, who have no future career to consider.
7 'new intake' who wonder why their constituencies risk the chance of going marginal due the proclivities of current Ministers.
7 old timers who remember how the Sleaze that brought the 5 years of drift of John Major to an end, and condemned the Tories to 13 years of opposition.
7 'decent', (long shot I know), Tories from Remain constituencies who want the trainwreck of brexit to stop.

Let's hope a 7 find the courage.

7 ex-Cameroons/Osbornites who see who chance for Ministerial office under May.

'I'd better bring this whole shitshow to an end before she promotes me'?

7 'decent', (long shot I know), Tories from Remain constituencies who want the trainwreck of brexit to stop.

To be honest, you don't need to worry about not being able to find seven 'decent' ones (that would be a long shot); the Magnificent Seven can come from your other more self interested groups.

Also where in this makeup of fraud, evasion and "hidden economy" the majority of off shore funds sit.

Off-shore funds is a pretty broad term. Are you including things like pension funds? If you mean in the colloquial sense of rich people with money off-shore, then I expect those with the most wealth account for the majority. Those with the most/their families have had that money for long enough not to need to commit fraud or evasion and can avoid tax perfectly legally.

What I'd be really curious to know is how much

a total of £15.7bn from illegal activities

compares to the amount of money passed through to the UK economy by illegal / close to illegal money from outside? And I guess, to what extent that is counted in the figures?

edit:
Somewhere between hundreds of millions and tens of billions http://www.transparency.org.uk/the-numbers-game-putting-a-figure-on-corrupt-flows-into-the-uk/#.WgHNeaVOnqA

Boris Johnson can't even admit to his mistake. He gives no fucks.

I'm sorry if any words of mine have been taken out of context and misconstrued to cause anxiety to Nazanin's family

Well fuck a duck.

^ thats fucking disgraceful. call them and make it abundantly clear that youre a fucking moron and that nobody should ever take anything you say seriously ever again. so fucking reckless. thats a persons life hes fucking about with.

edit. new page fail. Boris Johnson. WAC.

Direct quote:

When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism, as I understand it

What could possibly be misconstrued there? He even had the 'as I understand it' qualifier, which would have allowed him to backtrack by saying he had misunderstood.

The way he's seeing it is, if he admits to making a mistake, and that makes no difference to her sentence, he's finished as a candidate for PM. He's far too vain to appreciate that he's finished anyway, and making amends would at least show a shred of decency and may, possibly, be of some help to Nazanin. Cunt.

Also, is there a way of searching this site to identify anyone who has ever referred to Johnson as a 'legend' and appending the relevant quote to every post they ever make in the future?

He's not finished and neither would admitting this finish him. Most people don't care/aren't engaged in this stuff, esp in the group that vote Tory. He's doing it to save face, because he vain. That's how awful he is.

^^And tattooing it on their face?

Boris Johnson is a legendary cunt.

wot a ledge tho. See him on hignfy? LAD

Yet last week she could sack Fallon, although he resigned officially.

Why is she strong enough to sack a senior cabinet minister one week, yet too weak to sack a junior one the next?

It is astonishing how many half sensible people basically think this.

See also Clarkson, Rnige, Jake ReMo.

Exactly.

She is trying to maintain her power and the party's.

BJ is such an amazing choice for so many political reasons. He appeases the Brexshit wing, while being one of the sacrificial offerings in the event of a Brexit failure.

Importantly giving him a prominent role that he is totally unsuited to gives him the opportunity to showcase his ineptitude to prevent him taking over the party. My guess is that she reasons that eventually he will go too far - a bit like tabloids and phone hacking;
celebs = "oh of course it happens, it's fine they're famous."
parents of missing children = pitchforks

All the big political reporters on Twitter suggesting Patel's departure is imminent.

Sat with a friend tonight who blindly refused to accept Boris was in the wrong. "Iran, not Boris, is in the wrong here. My boy Boris? Nope."

Under the radar Tory - passionate, party committed, mid 30s. Shame really as a sound fellow and good friend, unless news is raised. Then it's shutters down, true blue.

There's talk about the party supporters ageing and becoming redundant, but it's undoubtedly true that there's a hell of a lot of people out there who quietly support the party through thick or thin "as long as it keeps the reds out, that's the main thing"

#rambling
#actual quotes

I think your Friend might be my dad. I can well see him as a boris sympathiser.