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Cont: General UK Politics III - Dumb and Dumber

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Vixen said:
Like Sunak, Braverman is ....... Buddhist.
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Hmm she is a Triratna Buddhist and they used to be the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). I used to attend meditation classes etc with them in Glasgow in the late 70s IIRC. The later revelations about sexual misconduct etc were more of a disappointment than a surprise to me. There had always been something cultlike about their attitude to the founder and there was something "off" - even to someone with undiagnosed Asperger's like me. They didn't like going outside their own school but happily listened to tapes of the founder discuss other schools. His discourse on Zen (Chan) didn't seem to mesh with the schools I read up on. I eventually became uncomfortable and drifted away.
The wikipedia article is more striving for a balance than other more condemnatory stuff I read on Usenet back in the stone age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triratna_Buddhist_Community
 
And more stench
"A charity founded by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, paid more than £110,000 – two-thirds of its income – to his former political adviser Adam Smith, who lost his job over a lobbying scandal."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...tient-safety-watch-chief-executive-adam-smith

t was established in 2019 to conduct research, but appears to have produced no papers since then. A message on its website says: “We have an ambitious research programme looking into a wide variety of patient safety issues. We will publish details of our forthcoming research on these pages.”

However, the page for reports says: “Our reports will be published here – please check back soon for our first piece of research .”
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Ian Osborne said:
Starmer's destroying Sunak at PM's Question Time. Things are looking up. :)
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Sunak's tried to do a Johnson and go on a series of irrelevant attacks in reply, but he's missing the fact that you need attacks to play to where you are perceived to be stronger than your opponent.

Implying that Starmer is out of touch and stuck in North London doesn't play well when you're known for wearing £900 trainers on a building site. And are so unattached to any part of London that your wife was claiming that the UK wasn't her main residence for tax purposes when you were actually in charge of government revenue.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Yeah, I read that piece. I've long been baffled how any nurse could be a Tory voter, let alone party member.

And some of the comments BTL show what sort of problems we have as a country...
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My mum is a retired nurse...my mum also reads the Daily Mail and frequently starts sentences with 'I'm not a racist but...'
 
Lothian said:
This is not Cruella resigning as home secretary. You have to ask why a news source finds out about and contacts a retired nurse from Bishop.

I suspect there is more to her background.
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An interesting question.

The oldest source for that particular story is 2 days old and refers to her talking to PA, but I can't find (yet) a direct PA story.

A search for the name (it's an unusual spelling of "Lyn") and Bishop Auckland, reveals only one other apparent person, born Feb 1961, so the right age, who Companies House list as a serial director of companies, usually using one of a limited range of addresses, which look like accomodation addresses, and only staying on for a very short period of time. The most used of those addresses in in the City of London and a search on that address reveals a metric ****-ton more "companies" registered at that address.

There is a LyNN Bond in Glasgow who is a registered nurse, not a retired nurse.

For comparison, I did a search on my own name and nurse but only came up with a couple of pieces I wrote for the Nursing Times and Standard, which have been digitised to their on-line archives and something I wrote which was published in a parliamentary report; nothing from any of my actual employment nor the NMC. And I have an unusual surname...

Hmmmmm.
 
Ian Osborne said:
Starmer's destroying Sunak at PM's Question Time. Things are looking up. :)
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Did anyone watch Ed Miliband's recent performance against the haunted wardrobe spirit? He crushed it. The bumbling naive simpleton that the media presented him as during his tenure as Labour leader was conspicuously absent.
 
Susheel said:
Did anyone watch Ed Miliband's recent performance against the haunted wardrobe spirit? He crushed it. The bumbling naive simpleton that the media presented him as during his tenure as Labour leader was conspicuously absent.
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Our media's representation of Miliband Jr was never a very good one. True he wasn't always the best speaker, but he was never that bad. I mean, he could speak in inteeligible sentences, which is more than Truss manages, or without dissolving into unintelligible blether and made-up nonsense like BlowJob.
 
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Susheel said:
Did anyone watch Ed Miliband's recent performance against the haunted wardrobe spirit? He crushed it. The bumbling naive simpleton that the media presented him as during his tenure as Labour leader was conspicuously absent.
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I hadn't, but I have now. :)
 
The same old familiar faces are back in the cabinet. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result. It is insane appointing the same people who have presided over a series of disasters and scandals and expect there to be a different outcome.
 
Lothian said:
Not sure we would notice Rees-Mogg leaving. 'We' being the country. As far as I can tell he left a few notes on desks of people told to work at home. He also identified that the number one brexit benefit was that we can now have larger motors in vaccumn cleaners. Did he do anything else of note?
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Wasn't it his department that did the "bring back imperial measurements" consultation?
 
Nessie said:
The same old familiar faces are back in the cabinet. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result. It is insane appointing the same people who have presided over a series of disasters and scandals and expect there to be a different outcome.
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IMO it's a pertinent question whether there is an expectation of a different result.

As Darat has suggested upthread, successive Conservative governments have been on a consistent trajectory since the 1970s to dismantle any and all institutions, services and benefits which impede the top 1% (or whatever) in their quest to enrich themselves.

Sunak's policies, and the people he has chosen to implement them, seem to continue this.
 
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Carrot Flower King said:
He dated his hand written (of course it would be...) letter of resignation "St Crispin's Day", completley ignoring the other twin saint, Crispinian...
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Hand written in abysmal handwriting. Seriously, if I'd received that, I'd have sent it back with a note saying "Unreadable. 0/10. See me after class." No doubt he thinks that hand writing letters with a fountain pen shows class and tradition, but that only works your handwriting doesn't look like you put a pen in your hand and just randomly waggled it around.
 
Wudang said:
Yes but St Crispin's Day gets a mention in the scripts for Henry V movies. The same shallow "education" I expect from him.
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It's from Shakespeare. It's the same speech as the band of brothers bit.

If he referenced it, it would be because he was trying to invoke the plucky English victory whilst severely outnumbered at the Battle of Agincourt.

ETA: the losers were the French of course, so that's all part of it.
 
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