Chris Grayling Resignation.

[ynnafymmi]

Wasnt this the same incompetent who spent £12,000,000 of taxpayers money on a ferry company with no ferries?

[ichkeria]

Powell was a revolting racist.

In CJ Sansom’s novel Dominion he’s cast as a major collaborator with the Nazis in a British Fascist government.
Fiction but sobering nonetheless

[Jackdaw33]

Your opinion.

[ynnafymmi]

Not at all,J.John Smith was perhaps the best leader Labour has ever had.An intelligent,humane democratic socialist(and Scottish),his death enabled Tony Blair to take over the leadership of the Labour Party and eventually the country and the country has never recovered from his tenureship.

[Jackdaw33]

In 1968, why did the London dockers, Labour to a man, come out on strike in support of Enoch?

[jim360]

Presumably, calling Powell the greatest PM we never had is opinion also. I don't know enough about him or John Smith to comment further. Dave Miliband, at least would have been a far more capable leader than his brother, although that isn't in itself saying much.

[dannyk13]

ynna//John Smith was perhaps the best leader Labour has ever had.//
I'm no fan of Labour but I agree with you there.

[ichkeria]

“ What’s wrong with racism? Racism is the basis of nationality.”

Said one E Powell

How did we get on to this?

[dannyk13]

Jack, in and around 1968 the unions would strike at any chance that arose.

[ynnafymmi]

@11.34.Isnt it a bit strange then that he gave up seven years of his life fighting against real fascists like Hitler and Tojo?You should really get out more....and stop reading fictional novels while you are at it.

[ynnafymmi]

@11.43.We seem to have went from a low iq,unintelligent chancer(Grayling)to probably the most intelligent person in Britain at one time(Powell) over 50 answers.Brilliant.

[ichkeria]

Powell was a rabid nationalist which therefore makes it strange that such as ynnafymmi, who are evidently very anti-nationlist, would idolise him.
He was indeed very clever but who says racists have to be thick?
He believed that immigration was wrong, that racial tensions (many of which he himself stoked with his own rhetoric) would bring disorder to Britain on a scale far greater than the Troubles in NI, to which by 1976 - when he said - it he’d decamped as a Unionist MP. Disowned by his own PM, by Labour and having toxified the immigration issue himself with his emotive end divisive language.
Not sure any of that does him any favours in the “Greatest PM we never had” stakes.
Even if he was clever then most

[gulliver1]

I Think there will be a real challenge to Johnsons leadership next year , once the hardship of Brexit starts hurting.

[ichkeria]

I can’t see it myself.

[jim360]

I'd expect Johnson will stop being PM only if he steps down or is defeated in 2024. Otherwise, as long as he retains his popular appeal, what incentive is there for the Tories to remove him?

[youngmafbog]

"as long as he retains his popular appeal"

Has he got any at all at the moment?

[youngmafbog]

Oh, and Grayling is another waste of space. His ambition far exceeds his capabilities.

[jno]

who would you put in the government then, ymb?

There may be bright sparks on the back benches, I don't know. So far Sunak's the only one who's consistently impressed me. Living in London I've long been aware of Boris's preference for loyalty, which currently still means Brexit loyalists, over talent (and coming from the man who was most massively disloyal to the previous PM, that's quite some hypocrisy). But the sheer lack of ability in the cabinet is surprising.

[ynnafymmi]

I suppose things could be a lot worse,Jno-Corbyn and his rag-tag bunch of misfits could be in power.I think we all missed a bullet there.

[jno]

people seem to have stopped moaning about Diane Abbott now they've seen Priti Patel in action.

[ynnafymmi]

Huh.Diane Abbott makes Grayling look like the cleverest bloke in Britain.They would make the perfect couple.Thick incompetent idiot meets an equally thick incompetent idiot.