[Tech1] Is it me...........

Tue Dec 15 06:43:46 CST 2020

Poor lamb, how can he be expected to survive on just that. He deserves greener pastures doesn’t he?
Geoff

> On 15 Dec 2020, at 12:16, David Denness via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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> Boris has already said he's going in the Spring as he can't live on the PM's salary which is £110k I believe
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> From: Tech1 <tech1-bounces at tech-ops.co.uk> On Behalf Of Alan Taylor via Tech1
> Sent: 15 December 2020 10:58
> To: Tech-Ops-chit-chat <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Tech1] Is it me...........
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> I expect there will be another such change of PM in a few months too.
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> Alan Taylor 
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>> On 15 Dec 2020, at 09:54, Alasdair Lawrance via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>> It's also how we can have a change of Prime Minister with no reference to the electorate.
>> Blair to Brown, Cameron to May, May to Johnson. (If my memory is correct).
>> 
>> Alasdair Lawrance
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>> Don’t blame me, I voted Remain.
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>>>> On 15 Dec 2020, at 09:47, Roger E Long via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Its sort of London Weighting in reverse.
>>> Nebraska v NYc
>>> Roger
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>>>>> On 14 Dec 2020, at 20:42, Graeme Wall via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>> Not at all like our system. We don’t vote for a prime minister as such. We vote for individual MPs who are members of political parties. Each party has its own method of choosing a party leader. Whichever party commands the greatest number of seats at an election gets to form the government and the party leader gets to be prime minister. In the US the electroate gets to vote directly for the president who is not necessarily the leader of the majority party in either the Senate or Congress. The electoral college looks strange from our perspective but it is designed to correct what is percieved to be an imbalance between the states.
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>>>> Graeme Wall
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>>>>>> On 14 Dec 2020, at 19:31, patheigham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> Maybe someone could explain – very simply – to a bear of little brain – like me! As to whether the election of the US president is similar to our system of electing the UK Prime Minister.
>>>>> As I understand, in the UK, it’s the party which polls the superior number of constituencies, and therefore that party leader becomes PM. We, the electorate do not have a direct vote for the PM.
>>>>> It seems that in the USA, the various States do actually vote for the person standing, or is it that they vote Democratic or Republican and the figurehead of that party gets the vote. So it seems pretty similar to our constituency system?
>>>>> Maybe they do not have the Monster Raving Loony  – Oh! but they do – he’s currently in the White House.
>>>>> Pat
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>>>>> From: Garth Tucker via Tech1
>>>>> Sent: 14 December 2020 17:24
>>>>> To: tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Tech1] Is it me...........
>>>>> 
>>>>> Was Mr Johnson the journalist not sacked for making up copy? Garth
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 14 Dec 2020, at 09:58, Keith Wicks via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> Boris worked as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph from 1989, and was the Spectator's magazine editor from 1999 to 2005, in spite of becoming an MP in 2001.
>>>>> KW
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 08:51, Alasdair Lawrance via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Boris a journalist? Really?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alasdair Lawrance
>>>>> 
>>>>> Don’t blame me, I voted Remain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 14 Dec 2020, at 07:35, Graeme Wall via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>> Someone pointed out that, as a jounalist, Boris was notorious for missing deadlines.
>>>>>> — 
>>>>>> Graeme Wall
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>>>>>>> On 14 Dec 2020, at 07:25, Mike Giles via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Oven-ready, that is!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mike G
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 13 Dec 2020, at 22:33, Alan Taylor via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Boris wants to be the giver of good news.  If the true intention of these meetings was to walk away without a deal, Boris wouldn’t go there, as a no deal would be seen as failure. The fact he went there shows that he intends to agree to a deal.   He wishes to be portrayed as the guy who negotiated an amazing deal against all odds.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> There are even people who will fall for it too and the more compliant elements of the press will spin it the way he wants anyway.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Alan Taylor
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 13 Dec 2020, at 22:25, Mike Giles via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> My sentiments entirely - I think Boris expects to be applauded as a hero when “the deal” is done. It was supposed to be open-ready, but I think by now they’ve overcooked it! It didn‘t  seem very appetising to me in the first place. 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Mike G
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>>>>>>>>>> On 13 Dec 2020, at 20:26, techtone via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> .......simply being cynical, but does anyone else get the feeling that these Brexit 'negotiations' are stage managed? There's a simply rotten deal all set and ready to go, but of necessity it's a complete bodge full of compromise, and on New Year's Eve it will be announced at the last possible minute and hailed as a triumph of international cooperation and successful diplomacy, whilst the following day when the hangovers rebound around the UK and the continent, everyone will complain and pick holes etc. but it's 1st January - deal done, Brexit, tough luck.
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>>>>>>>>>> TeaTeaFN - Tony
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