In the unlikely situation of the Queen dying in the next four years and then Charles not abdicating, it might work to Jeremy’s advantage.
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Social media is just an echo chamber though, so all the pro-Corbyn people will be telling one another about how terrible the news reports are, and all the anti-Corbyn people will be telling each other about how terrible Corbyn is.
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It’s very simple. The term ‘presidential system’ has a meaning. If Coburn is using it and using it correctly he should, in my opinion, reconsider. If he or doctoro are using it incorrectly they should fix thier language.
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He wants further devolution, to get rid of the house of lords (with strong regional assemblies the house of commons should be able to do most of the work the lords currently does), and a president. Would you be ok with that as long as it was semi-presidential, or a ceremonial presidency?
Sounds like the use of the term ‘presidential system’ was erronious (as I had expected really).
I am not knowledgeable enough to comment on further devolution in the UK, but it sounds vaguely resonable.
The problem with further devolution is that it has been rejected by referendum already. I don’t think the English really want to be regionalized (other than perhaps Cornwall and the People’s Republic of Yorkshire), but England is too big to have its own parliament as well as dominating Westminster (hence, I guess, EVEL).
There’s also the problem that Cumbria really doesn’t want to be part of the North-West region. They might just agree to being in a Northern region along with Tyne and Wear, Northumbria and Durham but I wouldn’t bet on it.
It’ll be back on the agenda again if the new devolution proposals for Scotland don’t pass muster with the SNP (which EVEL won’t). Ideally I think you’d have north-west, north-east (or maybe both combined), Midlands, Cornwall, and southern English assemblies, and maybe some additional powers for the London mayors office. Then reduce the number of MPs in the commons, draw up much larger multi-seat constituencies (with PR) and bin the lords. That doesn’t seem at all likely though under the conservatives, which could play into Corbyn’s hands if he’s still around in a couple of elections time, and Scotland are still unhappy and part of the union.
What, Lovely Timmy The Liberal having to deal with all those dirty communist miner types in the North East? He’d have conniptions.
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Always surprises me how much of t’north is above Lancashire and Yorkshire. I tend to think it goes Chester and Sheffield, then Manchester and Leeds, then Glasgow and Edinburgh, with a few lakes in between.
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Lancashire barely counts as Northern if you’re from where I am.
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I think it’s going to get several pages longer in the coming months. Hilarious.
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A couple of them were relatively accurate headlines actually, if occasionally hyperbolic (the Zimabwe one for example, but at least the rationale behind that should be obvious). He has however just accepted his seat on the Privy Council, so that’s one they definitely got wrong at least.
Zimbabwe introduced QE on a massive scale to inject ready-cash into a crashing economy with hyper-inflation, not to invest in infrastructure, so that one’s way off the mark too.
Missing from the page is the Telegraph’s (and others)
“Jeremy Corbyn calls death of Osama bin Laden a 'tragedy”
His words were;
“…no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process. This was an
assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.
The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantánamo and Bagram. Can’t we learn some lessons from this? Are we just going to sink deeper and deeper?”
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I see he’s also getting shit today for not having enough women in his cabinet’s senior positions, even though most of his team are women.
Maybe if Cooper, Kendall et al hadn’t refused to be involved, they would be?
so he did call it a tragedy then.
It was a tragedy that he was killed and not taken to trial.
there’s a huge difference in the two.
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He didn’t explicitly say that though, he said there was no effort for trial, implying there should have been. New sentence, his assassination was a tragedy. Now, clearly in the context of the full text the more nuanced reading should be obvious, but what did he think people would take from it? This is politics 101, he’s going to get continually stitched up like this unless he wises up. Another problem with him is how he deals with these things, he tends to double-down, restate his positions to show everyone that his original statement wasn’t crazy, he’d be better suited to re-wording things to make himself clear in a less easily distorted manner. He did the same in an interview on C4 when he referred to Hamas (I think it was) as ‘friends’. It’s not that he’s always in the wrong here, but he has to learn to play the system to some degree at least.
