acemuzzy wrote:Here's a stat if not seen before...
85% of the UK based hedge fund companies that went short on the result of the EU referendum (between April and June 2016) were directly or indirectly connected to hedge funds who were part of the Vote Leave campaign
How these fuckers got/get away with it, even now...
GooberTheHat wrote:Andy wrote:A quick aside regarding WhatsApp and our Article 8 Human Right (right to respect for private life, including personal correspondence). Some Police Scotland cops were recently disciplined in relation to messages they had exchanged in a private WhatsApp group. The cops objected that their Article 8 rights had been infringed, and a judge ruled that Police officers should be held to a higher standard, and that effectively they have less protection of their Article 8 rights than others. Now, I find it galling to be told that Police officers deserve less protection of their human rights, and imagine it will be challenged, but if cops can have their tasteless out of work jokes open to disclosure, you can bet your bottom dollar I expect the PM’s Brexit chats to be made available.
I suppose the difference here is that in the police chat incident someone in the group volunteered the information, rather than someone being compelled to provide it. Once it has been released it is in the public domain and is no longer considered private. There is an argument that, if the person who shared the chat was a government employee then art. 8 rights might have been infringed, but I would suspect it's more of an HR issue than a human rights one.
GooberTheHat wrote:I suppose the difference here is that in the police chat incident someone in the group volunteered the information, rather than someone being compelled to provide it. Once it has been released it is in the public domain and is no longer considered private. There is an argument that, if the person who shared the chat was a government employee then art. 8 rights might have been infringed, but I would suspect it's more of an HR issue than a human rights one.
Kwasi Kwarteng wrote:"I think that they are impartial, but I'm saying that many people, many Leave voters, many people up and down the country, are beginning to question the partiality of the judges.
"That's just a fact. People are saying this all the time, they are saying 'why are judges getting involved in politics'... we've got to be honest about the debate."
He added: "The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people."
Andy wrote:Something is illegal if it breaks an existing law. Something being unlawful means that there is no law to support it.
It's basically 'what if project fear was actually real and experts knew what they were talking about all along'.dynamiteReady wrote:Has someone already posted a YellowHammer summary here?
Note that the European Parliament’s new draft #Brexit resolution suggests “avoiding a no deal exit” is a good enough reason for granting an extension. So not just for an election, a referendum or a massive rethink then...
The fascinating thing about these encounters on Channel 5 between Tony Blair and angry members of the electorate is what didn't happen next. Alastair Campbell didn't punch his BlackBerry blue with expletive-rich e-mails to the editor of the show raging that the audience had been packed with Tories, Trots and tossers. Tony Blair didn't leave the studio demanding the head of the aide who had signed him up to this lacerating confrontation with discontented voters.
No, the Prime Minister and his strategists were quietly satisfied. It couldn't have gone more to their plan had they scripted it themselves. If their 'masochism strategy' is to come off as intended, it is vital that people are rude to Tony Blair. If it ain't hurting, it ain't working.
For the fallen celeb, the route to rehabilitation can involve submitting to a dose of ritual humiliation presided over by Ant and Dec. For a Prime Minister trying to re-establish his credibility with alienated voters, redemption is sought from a tongue-lashing on TV. Mr Blair is doing the political equivalent of bushtucker trials. It is a case of I'm A Prime Minister ... Keep Me In There.
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