Who do you want to win the tory leadership contest?

[Red Phoenix]

The music industry and the illuminati go hand in hand, in fairness. You'll probably be having the call any day now mate.

 

They could offer whatever they wanted, I'd have to pass. Reminds me of what Lily Allen said earlier on twitter : "Once you sacrifice yourself you are no longer an artist. You're just a part of the machine."

 

 

Get yourself down to the crossroads

 

Not sure what you mean there, sorry. Can't I just call our new High Priestess Theresa May and ask for a loan?

[RoboRiise]

Not sure what you mean there, sorry.

 

I'll take a guess at:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Road_Blues

 

"The song has become part of the Robert Johnson mythology as referring to the place where he supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his musical talents"

[cloggypop]

RoboRiise knows

[Red Phoenix]

I'll take a guess at:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Road_Blues

 

"The song has become part of the Robert Johnson mythology as referring to the place where he supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his musical talents"

 

RoboRiise knows

 

Thanks, was thinking it was related to Voodoo because the crossroads are important for some aspects of that. It could have been partly what he was referring to in the lyrics as well, (and he was from Mississippi, which is next door to Louisiana and this.) It looks like it's been debated quite a bit though looking at that song page, so it'd probably just be guesswork at best.

[Moctezuma]

Notable that her early proclamations have tried for a reach across the isle triangulation to exploit Labour's problems. The Tories are also not thick they know that home ownership in the UK will dip into the minority in the next few years they need to start sounding like they actually give a fuck about those trapped against a housing market that they were mainly responsible for creating. Obviously they couldn't care less, but it'll be important for them that they start making noises about executive pay, building more houses and closing down offshore accounts. In particular I would imagine they'll make a b-line for the last of these as it's one of the easier things to enact.

[magicrat]

Notable that her early proclamations have tried for a reach across the isle triangulation to exploit Labour's problems. The Tories are also not thick they know that home ownership in the UK will dip into the minority in the next few years they need to start sounding like they actually give a fuck about those trapped against a housing market that they were mainly responsible for creating. Obviously they couldn't care less, but it'll be important for them that they start making noises about executive pay, building more houses and closing down offshore accounts. In particular I would imagine they'll make a b-line for the last of these as it's one of the easier things to enact.

No they are not thick and exist to govern.  No fucking about with leadership battles or consulting the membership when it looks like a dodgy rookie is about to woo the golf club set in the Shires. Tap on the shoulder from the 1922 committee and told to fuck off pronto. 

[SammyAftershave]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

If I was doing I'd probably at least have the cash for better music equipment.

I love the idea that that's the way you would use boundless unaccountable power.

 

The world needs more people like you.

[Boss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZPVqoF7j5M

 

Great, a nutcase on the trigger.

[razor]

Wonderful and powerful isn't she?

 

That's certainly Kuenssberg's take on it when she cooed: Theresa May without hesitation said that she would be willing to press the nuclear button - without flinching in the face of that question, there was not a moment's doubt.

 

Her closing comment was left for Labour:  A succession of Labour MP accused Mr Corbyn of opposing official party policy by arguing against it at this stage, one accusing him of being "juvenile and narcissistic".

 

That is actually how she ended her article.

 

Truly she is a stain on modern journalism.

[Stickman]

Laura Cuntface was obviously too busy kissing May's arse than to hold the Govt to account over yet another broken promise

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/19/jeremy-hunt-broken-nhs-england-funding-pledges

[Anubis]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/softbank-arm-takeover-theresa-may-tory-policy-segars-hammond-a7142556.html

 

May has been prime minister for five days – she just performed an about-turn on a £24bn takeover deal

 

Theresa May, the UK Prime Minister, has seemingly performed an about turn on her plans for a policy of opposing foreign takeovers of British businesses less than a week after it was announced in Birmingham.

 

May said on Monday that she personally called chief executive of Japanese company SoftBank about the £24 billion takeover of the UK's biggest global technology company, ARM Holdings, to congratulate him on the deal.

 

"This is clearly a vote of confidence in Britain. It will be the biggest ever Asian investment in the UK," the prime minister's offical spokeswoman said.

 

“The Prime Minister spoke to the chief executive of SoftBank yesterday and welcomed the investment and their commitment to keeping the company in Cambridge and doubling the number of jobs over five years.

 

“This is good news for British workers, good news for the British economy. It shows - as the Prime Minister has been saying - that we can make a success of leaving the EU," she added.

 

Philip Hammond, Ms May's new Chancellor, said that the deal will turn a "great British company into a global phenomenon".

 

The comments come days after May launched her national campaign in Birmingham, stating that the Government should be capable of stepping in when a foreign firm swoops for British businesses that are important to workers and communities.

 

"Because as we saw when Cadbury’s – that great Birmingham company – was bought by Kraft, or when AstraZeneca was almost sold to Pfizer, transient shareholders – who are mostly companies investing other people’s money – are not the only people with an interest when firms are sold or close," May said at the launch.

 

May's strategy was not to automatically stop the sale of British firms to foreign ones, but to be capable of stepping in and defending it if the business was as important as AstraZeneca to the pharmaceuticals industry.

 

David Reader, a senior research associate at the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) and UEA Law School who specialises in researching the role played by public interest considerations in merger control regimes around the world highlighted contradictions in the deal.

 

“Barely a week after setting out her plans for an industrial policy that would allow the UK to oppose foreign takeovers in strategically important sectors, Theresa May's new-look government has given its backing to a £24bn bid by Japanese firm SoftBank for UK chip-maker ARM," he said.

 

"This has led to a few raised eyebrows, including from the former business secretary Vince Cable, who – in a BBC Radio 4 interview – was critical of the Government's apparent lack of opposition to the bid."

 

ARM is the UK's biggest global technology company. It manufactures iPhones, chips and other technology that is licensed to other firms. It has the potential to be a leader in the "internet of things", when devices are given web connectivity.

 

Simon Segars, ARM chief executive, has had to defend the ARM deal against accusations that the UK is selling off its only top-tier tech company.

 

“Our culture, our management, the way we operate, our ethos, none of that is going to change," Segars told the Independent.

 

"We are not expecting SoftBank to come in here and say this is the way we do business, and here are a lot of processes you have to follow. They look at us and they see we are running a successful, profitable business. The thesis behind this is the two of us working together to drive the technology forward," he said.

[Tony Moanero]

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[AngryOfTuebrook]

We missed the obvious choice.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I mean, he's a bit of a rogue, but he's a step up from Theresa fucking May.

 

[Anubis]

I'm sure May would love to remove one tenth of the U.K. population...,

[Strontium]

About three tenths less than me, then.

[Neil G]

I'm sure May would love to remove one tenth of the U.K. population...,

Rest easy, the Toclafane would be operated by G4S on an extortionate PFI contract and break down immediately upon deployment.