My opportunity to vote.
Author: telboy2
Sadiq and the PM
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/picture/2016/jun/01/steve-bell-on-david-camerons-eu-campaigning-cartoon
Little aeroplane experience
The ripples from the EU referendum grow
Tory MPs escalate party turmoil with open call for Cameron to quit
Andrew Bridgen says Conservatives so fractured over EU that fresh election needed, while Nadine Dorries says prime minister ‘has lied profoundly’
David Cameron’s hopes of being able to avoid terminal damage to Conservative party unity after the EU referendum campaign were dented on Sunday when two rebel MPs openly called for a new leader and a general election before Christmas.
The attacks came from Andrew Bridgen and Nadine Dorries – both Brexiters, and longstanding, publicity-hungry opponents of the prime minister – and their claim that even winning the EU referendum won’t stop Cameron facing a leadership challenge in the summer was dismissed by fellow Tories.
David Cameron, political genius (not) | Memex 1.1
The reason we’re having a Referendum about EU membership has nothing much to do with EU membership. It’s because Cameron needed some way of getting the Europhobes in his party off his back. So he threw them a Referendum, much as one would throw a leg of lamb to a pack of baying wolves. Some thought it was a stroke of tactical genius at the time. In fact it was a colossal strategic error, because — whatever happens on June 23 — the Tory party has been rent asunder. And it’s hard to imagine a vote that will change that. Even a large Remain margin won’t appease the Euronutters. A narrow Remain vote will simply make them salivate for a return match. And of course a Leave vote will mean that both Cameron and the country are screwed. Some genius, eh?
Source: David Cameron, political genius (not) | Memex 1.1
A blog I have followed for years. So much interesting reading, including the above.
Keep up the tobacco pressure
Tobacco firms lose high court battle over plain packaging
Campaigners cheer ‘crushing defeat’ for industry after judge backs standardised packaging rules on eve of introduction
Plain packaging of cigarettes will be mandatory from Friday after the high court in London rejected an attempt by the tobacco industry to prevent the change in the law.
Campaigners say other countries considering plain packaging – including Canada, Hungary, Norway and Slovenia – will be encouraged by the defeat of the industry.
“This landmark judgment is a crushing defeat for the tobacco industry and fully justifies the government’s determination to go ahead with the introduction of standardised packaging,” said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the charity Ash (Action on Smoking and Health).
Well taxation would seem to work
Britvic to change recipes for more of its drinks to avoid sugar tax
Company says legislation on sweetened drinks is one of biggest risks for business as it announces 7.3% rise in pre-tax profit
Britvic plans to change the recipes for more of its drinks in order to avoid the sugar tax, which is expected to be introduced in the UK in 2018.
Government plans for the tax were confirmed in the Queen’s speech on Wednesday. The Britvic chief executive, Simon Litherland, said the company was aiming to cut the calories in its products by 20% within four years
Spoilt?
Possibly like all youngest children he is the most spoilt. Well the older siblings say that is the case anyway.
IPhone 6s- so probably true.
Sadiq Khan accuses PM of taking tactics ‘from Trump playbook’ | Politics | The Guardian
New London mayor deplores attempts ‘to turn ethnic communities against each other’ during Zac Goldsmith’s campaign
Source: Sadiq Khan accuses PM of taking tactics ‘from Trump playbook’ | Politics | The Guardian
Sadiq Khan, the new Labour mayor of London, has launched an extraordinary attack on David Cameron and his defeated opponent, Zac Goldsmith, accusing them of trying to turn different ethnic communities against each other to stop him winning in the capital.
Writing in the Observer after becoming the most powerful Muslim politician in Europe, Khan says the prime minister and Goldsmith deployed tactics “straight out of the Donald Trump playbook” – a reference to the anti-Muslim campaign of the Republican hopeful in the US.
Khan wrested control of the capital from the Tories after eight years under Boris Johnson, in what turned out to be a comfortable win. He said he had hoped the campaign would focus on issues such as housing, transport and air pollution. “But David Cameron and Zac Goldsmith chose to set out to divide London’s communities in an attempt to win votes in some areas and suppress voters in other parts of the city,” he said.
The campaign was very negative, smearing him with the radical innuendo. Dirty stuff and actually truly ridiculous. Cameron in the Commons using PMQ with a planted question to slag Khan off. Typical piss-poor Cameron.
London mayor: The Sadiq Khan story – BBC News
A profile of Sadiq Khan – the council estate boy turned lawyer, then MP and now mayor of London.
Source: London mayor: The Sadiq Khan story – BBC News
He has often said that his early impressions of the world of work shaped his belief in the trade union movement. His father, a bus driver for 25 years, “was in a union and got decent pay and conditions” whereas his mum, a stay-at-home seamstress, “wasn’t, and didn’t”.
He lived with his parents and siblings in a cramped three-bedroomed house on the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield, south-west London, sharing a bunkbed with one of his brothers until he left home in his 20s.
He attended the local comprehensive, Ernest Bevin College, which he describes as “a tough school – it wasn’t always a bed of roses”. The nickname “Bevin boys” was at that time in that part of south London a byword for bad behaviour.
It was at school that he first began to gravitate towards politics, joining the Labour Party aged 15. He credits the school’s head, Naz Bokhari, who happened to be the first Muslim headteacher at a UK secondary school, with making him realise “skin colour or background wasn’t a barrier to making something with your life”.
Mr Khan was raised a Muslim and has never shied away from acknowledging the importance of his faith. In his maiden speech as an MP he spoke about his father teaching him Mohammed’s sayings, or hadiths – in particular the principle that “if one sees something wrong, one has the duty to try to change it”.
Image copyrightGetty ImagesHe was an able student who loved football, boxing and cricket – he even had a trial for Surrey County Cricket Club as a teenager. He has since spoken about the racist abuse he and his brothers faced at Wimbledon and Chelsea football matches, saying he felt “safer” watching at home and became a Liverpool fan simply “because they were playing such great football at the time”.
So now my claim to fame in life is that I used to play Sunday morning football on the astroturf in Wandsworth with the Mayor of London.
He will resign his seat at Westminster. TC to get the chance? You never know.