Thanks for the link.
But gah, the fawning! Parts of it are like reading obsequious syrup.
She accepted a peerage from him. Maybe he thought she would be hypocritical enough to accept it and he would buy her off? She’s lionised by a faction of the Tory press in England but their readers wouldn’t have seen her hapless performances against Sturgeon in Parliament - all surface, an ear for a sound bite, she presided over a period in opposition which not only failed to land a glove on the SNP but saw a massive rise in voting for the SNP.Ruth(the mooth)Davidson is now saying Boris Johnson is unfit for office, to be fair I don't think she's ever been a fan.
The Tory MP William Wragg who has made criminal allegations of blackmail to the police has opened a can of worms. I’m assuming the content is something other than withdrawing funding from his constituency and more to do with threatening to make public personal details?
IANAL However I suspect the critical distinction is between:
1) 'Personal threats' like: "If you do this you'll never been offerred a plumb job with the Party or get to be a Minister."
and
2) Other threats like: "If you don't follow our orders the people in your *constituency* will suffer - because we'll block them getting what *Government* would otherwise give them on a rational basis that treats them on the same as all other constiuents elsewhere".
(1) is a matter of the individual MP's standing in the party.
(2) Is more a matter of blackmail on the basis of *Government* actions out of spite used as a threat. And attempts to subvert the conscience and decisions an MP is meant to take for the sake of his constituents.
I'd regard (1) as routine. But (2) may be a criminal threat or blackmail.
That said, yes, I'd expect "Shut up or we'll tell you family some nasty secret you've kept from them" might well be blackmail/intimidation or similar.
Of course, the whips will deny everything. That's what whips do. 8-]
Just read this in a Guardian article about Jacinda Ardern having to cancel her wedding:
Asked about her wedding cancellation, Ardern said: “Such is life. I am no different to, dare I say, thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic. The most gutting of which is the inability to be with a loved one sometimes when they’re gravely ill. That will far, far outstrip any sadness I experience.”
Quite a contrast...
Not exactly Tory corruption, but the government declaring war on people working from home at a time when government has issued advise that people should work from home where possible is a demonstration of this governments hopeless, clueless, confusion.
But perhaps more important than hopeless confusion over our government reaction to Covid is the utter madness of the longer term implications for the environment of forcing people to travel unnecessarily. If we are serious about tackling climate change, working from home where possible has to be one small positive step forward.
Yes well she is a proper leader with integrity not an entitled conman and chancer.Just read this in a Guardian article about Jacinda Ardern having to cancel her wedding:
Asked about her wedding cancellation, Ardern said: “Such is life. I am no different to, dare I say, thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic. The most gutting of which is the inability to be with a loved one sometimes when they’re gravely ill. That will far, far outstrip any sadness I experience.”
Quite a contrast...
it’s just another facet to the war on woke. So depressing.