Keith Sansum1
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Interesting division between
Javid and Boris
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Weird Granny Slater
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Jan Higgins wrote:Maybe the " aides" do not always get their own way after all, I assume the majority if not all were civil servants.
You don't need to be a civil servant to get close to government. And some 'aides' do get their own way. I suspect one who did is Munira Mirza, Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and a Johnson sidekick when he was London mayor. There are more 'ex-' Trotskyists in high office than you can shake a stick at.
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Brian Dixon
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so wgs are you saying johnson and his cohorts trotskys, is they conneted to putin
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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I doubt any of these were civil servants. They'll all be political appointees I would have thought.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:so wgs are you saying johnson and his cohorts trotskys, is they conneted to putin
Hardly, BD. Putin, as far as I'm aware, isn't a communist, let alone a Trotskyist. And followers of Lev Davidovitch weren't fond of the old Soviet Union, especially since that small matter of Stalin, Trotsky, and an ice-pick.
But it's old news that they turn up in the most interesting places, either as elected representatives or political appointees, e.g. The Brexit Party (Claire Fox MEP) and PM (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair). So, they are spread across the political spectrum; except the Left, which is where everybody thought they were.
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Jan Higgins
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Maybe at the moment the question to be asked is who is running the country, is it Johnson or Cummings?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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cummings an unelected bog roll, I thought we left the EU.
Reginald Barrington
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Boris sticking to what he does best, getting the right people in and giving them enough rope so they can do the job properly. (or hang themselves!)
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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rb, is mr pierpoint still around, may be coming of retirement soon then,
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Long since dead and buried Brian
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Maybe another shuffle in the pipeline or maybe not, it all depends on how many feathers Priti Patel has ruffled. I guess the upside for someone is they will be getting promotion, be it deserved or not.
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Captain Haddock
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Does the Home Office do NDAs?
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Well he wouldn’t do the buy off Bob, so little doubt he’s on a mission.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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That was certainly the impression I got Paul, also that he was someone who liked getting his own way.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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As opposed to Patel presumably, who doesn't like getting her own way.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Remarkable turn of events. Interesting to see what happens next.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:As opposed to Patel presumably, who doesn't like getting her own way.
I bet she is just as bad that is why they clashed but in that statement interview he did not give me any reason to sympathise with him.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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The government 'will pledge to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research.'
Looks like Labour landed the Chancellorship after all:
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Yup. But nobody actually trusted Labour to deliver.
The boy done good.
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