I don’t think “parchment” and “lend” go together. 
I’m reminded of the joke about breakfast: “The chicken has an interest; the pig is committed.”
She was also a decade and a half younger in 2001.
This is your reminder that the Greek word tragedy literally means “goat song”. Although this is a little nearer to farce.
Apparently they write the speech after it’s been delivered. Of course they do - this sort of shit is liable to be revised on morning of the speech especially now, so you’d wait till it’s been read out and then inscribe it for posterity. As excuses go, this is paper thin.
The PM must be skinning her aides hides right now.
I think you may have the doer and the doee backwards there AK.
Yes, her flunkies are getting flayed. Meanwhile the “big beasts”, such as they are in present Tory ranks, are preparing a heaping dish of scapegoat stew. With Mrs. May as the main ingredient.
Or so it seems from my great remove.
And quite rightly so. The Tories’ election branding was all her, with the party name down in the (relative) small print. This was pointed out in the election thread.
Anyway, I learned yesterday that my mother has met one of the main contenders, Boris Johnson. Her evaluation of him was that he is very intelligent indeed, but has absolutely no common sense.
Oh, Boris is clearly extremely bright. I can’t speak to his common sense but he certainly is lacking in scruples, even using his peers as a benchmark. It’s not a good combination.
The Tory candidate’s flyer for where I live had a photo of him with Mrs. May.
I don’t know why they bother campaigning here. South Suffolk, True Blue Through and Through.
Although to be fair, the UKIP contender was a barmpot…
*So much for the idea that Ukip only cares about slashing immigration and international aid. Among the Ukip candidates standing in this election are Aidan Powlesland, who has pledged to invest huge sums in the asteroid mining industry if he wins in South Suffolk. His election literature states that Powlesland wants to set aside £100 million for “an interstellar colony ship design” and to award a £1 billion prize to any private company that can mine the asteroid belt by 2026”.
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Total Politics
Actually that was one of the more reasonable parts of his manifesto…
Slashing pensions, capping Welfare, losing rent controls ( he inter alia is a landlord ), repealing planning controls, getting rid of social housing, getting rid of employment regulation, and my very favourite: for interest rates to rise.
As if in the hallowed halls of the Treasury, they are saying “Damn it Carruthers: the man’s a genius, why did we never think of raising the Interest Rates ! Let it be so.”
A Trump of our own.
Urk.
She had to meet him to realise this?
Reports can be biased. There’s nothing like actual first-hand experience.
Is his hair as bad in real life as it looks on TV?
She didn’t say.
A modest Queen’s Speech that still might never become policy: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/europe/queens-speech-theresa-may/index.html
There will be a debate on the speech and then a vote. The vote is one of confidence. If the vote isn’t passed, then May’s had it.
The price of being able to run Parliament? £1B. Now we know.
Nah, the amount involved is very much open to change. If Labour had to form a minority government they would have to cut similar deals as well. Any major party would and only the names, details and and specific amounts would change.
Just imagine what the SNP or Plaid Cymru would extract from Mr. Corbyn as a price for backing a minority government.
To be fair, Mrs May worked very hard to get that money. It takes a lot of vigorous shaking to get £1 billion out of the Magic Money Tree.
This is only the first payment, of course. £1Bn is what it cost to get the DUP to back the Queen’s Speech. There’ll be a budget to pass at some point, which is a de facto confidence vote. Expect to see more goodies for NI in that. Any and all must-win legislation now comes with a price-tag, be it in cash or political favours.
Well, Momentum are out campaigning in significant numbers this weekend; in particular in Iain Duncan Smith’s constituency in Chingford.
The election can come at literally any time, or not.
That’s £1 billion - and significantly more - of public money.
Someone said yesterday ts equal to 25, 000 extra nurses for the NHS. tbf, I can’t do the maths.