Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

[Vayutuvan]

But now I hear that it's pi$$ed off the Brishits, I'm definitely watching it!

Watch the Telugu version please. In a theatre. It is a superb movie. No punches were pulled to show the brutishness of the Brutishit.

[Cyrano]

Thanks, Madhukar and Alodonkar for the summary of why BoJo sank.
He managed to get opponents everywhere

But the lefties don’t like his lying, the conservatives don’t like his infidelity and they all know he is not the most competent just like them.

Or as Shakespeare wrote, "His cup runneth over!"

On top of all that, BoJo seems to be in for it like a celebrity dilettante, like Trump. Loving every minute of media attention, but incapable of rolling up sleeves and try to UNDERSTAND the briefings by his cabinet or advisors and totally disinterested in the core activity of governing. Even a PMs job will have many mundane unglamorous tasks and grunt work. I always felt he hated it and palmed it off to his colleagues and officials as much as possible, but then the buck stops with him.

This is a familiar pattern now in many Western countries. Wanting all the trappings of power but having no intent to actually work. BoJo, Trump earlier, Draghi, Trudeau, to some extent Macron and a few others (Scholz I have no idea, and geriatric Biden cant do much even if he tried) are all like ineffective CEOs chasing twitter likes and opinion polls. And surround themselves with people of similar calibre and inclination.

When they are faced with intelligent, diligent and motivated leaders like NaMo or Putin, they can only fall back on their past glory halos and seek to impress or intimidate. But of course that doesn't work.

[chetak]

No wonder that the britshits are so gung ho about the trade treaty with India, they are in the throes of an economic panic

the britshits are currently facing a record high inflation (the highest in G7), a slowdown in their economy and also a very high recession risk.

there is also cost-of-living crisis which will affect millions this winter in britshitistan, along with crippling labour shortages and increased operating costs for businesses.

apart from all this, the twice blessed britshits are also carrying a huge burden of welfare and benefits addicted, non contributors to the economy burkh@s+be@rd0s who have, like termites, infested the country, while costing them about 13-15 billion GBP yearly with no returns to the country.

the cup truly runneth over

[Cyrano]

How do the Fitch & Moody ratings for the G7 look? Thats yet another scam of the System 2.0.

BTW, Italia's Draghi has resigned. Looks like the expendable clown elensly will out last them all !

[IndraD]

London Court gives minor victory to Dr.Vijay Mallya in money lending case; London Court puts a question mark of responsibility on then PM Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Chidambram for their letter written ordering for grant of loan to Dr.Vijay Mallya

https://hellolondonnews.co.uk/2022/07/0 ... ding-case/

dubious Indian media, congi ecosystem who keep such news under wraps aur nikamma hai bjp who do not exploit such rare gifts by western courts.

[Tanaji]

Wokeness going overboard:

Adani sponsors an event in British science museum which gets boycotted because Adani owns coal mines.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uk/hundr ... reappshare

[Lisa]

Wokeness going overboard:

Adani sponsors an event in British science museum which gets boycotted because Adani owns coal mines.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uk/hundr ... reappshare

He should be sponsoring museum in India. A lot more children in India need access to knowledge that such investments can bring.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/bori ... 220715.htm
Boris Johnson running 'anyone but Rishi' campaign: Report
Aditi Khanna, July 15, 2022
With Rishi Sunak now firmly placed as the candidate to beat, the battle lines are drawn for second place in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and British prime minister, with the remaining five contenders set for their first public clash on Friday.
Sunak, who was the winner of the first two rounds of voting by Tory members of Parliament, will appear for a series of televised debates over the weekend with his remaining opponents -- Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former minister Kemi Badenoch and Tory backbencher Tom Tugendhat.
Suella Braverman, the Indian-origin attorney general who was knocked out of the race in round two, has thrown her support behind Truss -- boosting the third-placed candidate's chances.
"Liz is the best person to unleash the opportunities of Brexit, and deliver much-needed tax cuts,” said Braverman, in a statement after the second round of voting on Thursday.
All eyes are now on who between Truss and Mordaunt will clinch the No. 2 spot to go head-to-head with Sunak when the final two candidates have to campaign for votes among the Conservative Party membership around the UK from later next week.
According to The Times, caretaker Prime Minister Johnson and his camp are running an ”anyone but Rishi” hidden campaign after feeling betrayed over the former chancellor's resignation which precipitated his exit from 10 Downing Street.
While Johnson has said he would not publicly endorse any of the contenders in the race to succeed him, behind the scenes it is believed that he is in favour of either Truss or Mordaunt.
”The whole No.10 [Downing Street] team hates Rishi. It's personal. It's vitriolic. They don't blame Saj [Sajid Javid] for bringing him down. They blame Rishi. They think he was planning this for months,” the newspaper quoted a source as saying.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ip-contest
While Britain burns, the Tories are … fiddling with themselves again
Marina Hyde, Fri 15 Jul 2022
do hope you’re enjoying the triennial Conservative party leadership contest, which has frequently resembled tipping-out time at Arkham Asylum. Various insane claims have been made – “Rishi Sunak is a socialist”, “Only Liz Truss can save Brexit now” – and the UK remains very much in search of a costumed vigilante to rescue it. Boris Johnson insists he will leave Downing Street “with my head held high”. But by who? Which of our hopefuls will be grasping that severed noggin by the famously unkempt hair, and roaring something totally questionable about public service?
We’ve already said goodbye to historical footnotes such as Jeremy Hunt; footnotes’ footnotes, such as Rehman Chishti; and verrucas on the footnotes, such as Suella Braverman. Making all the running is supposed cleanskin Penny Mordaunt, whose ascent from comparative obscurity to the office of prime minister would be like an arranged marriage, giving the British public and Penny all the time in the world to get to know each other after the event. The scale of the knifing operation against Mordaunt is laid bare by the anonymous briefing that she would make Andrea Leadsom her chancellor of the exchequer. I hear what you’re thinking: Andrea Leadsom? Chancellor? IN THIS ECONOMY?! But yes. Of course, of course. The second I heard it, given the experience of the past few years, I realised that I had long ago subconsciously accepted the inevitability that Andrea Leadsom hadn’t actually finished with us. In fact, I think I’ve … always known it.
Anyway: on to Rishi Sunak, who, having once been relatively adored, is now about as popular with Tory members as shingles or contemporary art. Sunak is the sort of guy who wouldn’t have even tried a joint at university because he already wanted to go into politics: “Can’t risk it, mate.” He has the air of someone who has spent most of his adult life in a permanent state of path-plotting and calculation – yet was somehow unable to spot the biggest possible bear trap: his wife’s non-dom status. The best thing Sunak did this week was to patronise Johnson in a manner that will have sent the latter absolutely up the wall, declaring that the outgoing PM “has a good heart”. Oof. Three weeks ago Johnson was telling people he’d be in power till 2030; this week, yesterday’s man was being firmly shunted into “he has a good heart” corner. Though not one of the truly great sports, politics – like tennis, or the various American ones – can be very watchable.
Next up: Liz Truss, who got lost trying to exit the room in which her launch was held. Asked how she felt about trailing to Sunak and Mordaunt, she ventured: “I’ve been focused on making sure Vladimir Putin is defeated.” Mm. But look – she’s still fighting for this title. And fighting dirty, according to the other campaigns. Indeed, there has been much talk about the so-called “dark arts”. I must say I have a slight issue with the term “art” in this context. Just as sledging is supposed to be an “art form” that can be mastered by any Australian cricketer who can call someone a fat prick, so the “dark arts” are something at which Gavin Williamson can be regarded as a virtuoso.
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Gautam
And you thought Vilayati chunao was boring?

[Cyrano]

LHR, along with other busy airports like Schiphol is going down the tubes. I came through CDG very smoothly a couple of weeks ago but they too are having some good and some bad days. But the worst has been LHR.

Covid has been ebbing since several months. If the airport managements can't hire back and scale up it means they are in deep financial holes, much worse than it appears. The only thing saving them is that a Euro hop is mandatory for transatlantic passengers on route to Asia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/emirate ... ights.html

[S_Madhukar]

How do the Fitch & Moody ratings for the G7 look? Thats yet another scam of the System 2.0.

BTW, Italia's Draghi has resigned. Looks like the expendable clown elensly will out last them all !

Until retail collapses every thing is OK. In summer people will spend and things look ok so far. Will be interesting in winter unless more ME oil enters the market. Rating agencies are always optimistic about the west and pessimistic about the east. So much for bias !

[nandakumar]

LHR, along with other busy airports like Schiphol is going down the tubes. I came through CDG very smoothly a couple of weeks ago but they too are having some good and some bad days. But the worst has been LHR.

Covid has been ebbing since several months. If the airport managements can't hire back and scale up it means they are in deep financial holes, much worse than it appears. The only thing saving them is that a Euro hop is mandatory for transatlantic passengers on route to Asia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/emirate ... ights.html

Many transatlantic flights to India halt at Qatar/Dubai or Abudhabi. Granted that it is a skewed transit halt. But if you are carrying a full load and hence requiring only a refuelling halt then even Istanbul further down South could be an option, isn't it. In fact, I suspect that must have been the Tata's Air India game plan when they first appointed a Turkish CEO.

[komal]

Not to be disparaging to Hinduism, but watching the debate today shows how low UK has fallen in the power structure.

No way the powers that be would allow a Hindu to become PM of a major country. Indeed, we have reached the level where, to powerful factions in the West, a Hindu PM of UK is acceptable while a Hindu PM of India is not acceptable.

[Haresh]

Not to be disparaging to Hinduism, but watching the debate today shows how low UK has fallen in the power structure.

No way the powers that be would allow a Hindu to become PM of a major country. Indeed, we have reached the level where, to powerful factions in the West, a Hindu PM of UK is acceptable while a Hindu PM of India is not acceptable.

I think you are 100% right.

Sunak is not going to be PM.
If he is, he won't last long. There will be a media campaign against him.
The right and left racist media will join forces with the islamists & christian fanatics.

He will be asked to condemn this that and the other about India etc.

[Haresh]

FoRB-A Trojan?

https://kapilskhichadi.wordpress.com/20 ... -a-trojan/

[Haresh]

Grooming gangs: the making of a national scandal

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/1 ... l-scandal/

[krithivas]

^^^ Grooming is becoming a problem in India of late. An Indian women lawyer very vocal in Twitter is personally handling such cases where the Peaceful entrap Hindu women into sexual abuse and conversion. Grooming is a conquest strategy outlined in one of their "holy" text.

[Manish_P]

^^^ Grooming is becoming a problem in India of late...

It's been here for a long time... And unlike the politically correct Britshits, we have called it for what it is - Love jihad

[g.sarkar]

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/worl ... uk-pm-five
Race to become UK PM: And then there were five
Antonia Filmer, July 16, 2022
London: The Conservative party leadership election has been compared to the Hunger Games and a reality TV show hosted by Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee—as in a reality TV programme the contestants are whittled down by the audience, in this case the MPs, who must cast their vote for their preferred candidate.
Jeremy Hunt, Nadim Zahawi and Suella Braverman have bitten the dust. This is according to the rules agreed by the 1922 Committee and the Conservative Party Board. Remaining on the third ballot on Monday, 18 July, are Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat. The candidate with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated, ballots continue next week until only two finalists are left.
The candidates divide between left of centre and right of centre Conservatives.
Rishi Sunak appears to be the frontrunner; he is a contrast to Boris Johnson. He appeals to conservative types who were taken in by Tony Blair. Sunak is running a very slick campaign, while simultaneously being targeted with slurs. Some say he has peaked too soon. Johnson loyalists are upset as they imagine Sunak has crafted a coup, which started with his resignation, against the Prime Minister. Sunak’s relationships with Dominic Cummings, Michael Gove, Gavin Williamson and other left of centre Tories are repeatedly scrutinised and hypothesized. Many believe that the Prime Minister’s downfall began when Dominic Cummings left No.10 in November 2020.
Penny Mordaunt was forecast to be number two in the final contest, but she is also under attack from Tory grassroots for her alleged “wokery” and moonlighting from ministerial duties to prepare for her campaign. Mordaunt claims “people are trying to stop her getting into the finals as they don’t want to run against her”—tactics she calls “black ops”. This could be quite damaging for her as it will not be popular with Conservative Associations or Conservative party members, who will have the final vote about who the leader of the party is. Mordaunt is polling well and popular with the Red Wall MPs.
Liz Truss, at the moment third in the ranking, but picking up steam, has cleverly cast herself as the Boris continuity candidate, loyal to the PM but with a fresh “Trusstworthy” vision. She announced an immediate budget that would put the £400 bn Covid spend into a war debt to be repaid over generations. Truss is determined to defeat President Vladimir Putin and deliver on Brexit and conservative policies. She is the preferred candidates of the ERG executive committee and is known for gathering the right advisers and experts around her, but she needs to gather support.
Kemi Badenoch has the advantage of Michael Gove’s support, but from the votes cast so far is unlikely to be in the final two, each of which requires over 120 MPs’ support.
Tom Tugendhat has held his own in the contest. Army centric but a name to watch and reckon with, once he has some ministerial experience he will stand much better leadership chance.
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Gautam

[Rony]

Another Britshit whining about Telugu movie RRR linking it with "Hindu nationalism", Muslims, Christians and what not

After dailymail whining now spectator whining

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wha ... ritish-raj

[Vayutuvan]

Another Britshit whining about Telugu movie RRR linking it with "Hindu nationalism", Muslims, Christians and what not

The author is this guy.

Robert Tombs
Robert Tombs is an emeritus professor in history at the University of Cambridge and the author of This Sovereign Isle: Britain in and out of Europe (Allen Lane, 2021)

[IndraD]

Sunak Is Losing Momentum In Race For British Prime Minister And That Is Not Bad News For India
https://swarajyamag.com/world/sunak-is- ... -for-india

when it comes to Rishi Sunak’s rise in the Conservative Party, Indian well-wishers should hope that he does not succeed in his bid to become the next occupier of 10 Downing Street. Sunak, who is already handicapped by being the son-in-law of tech billionaire N R Narayana Murthy (he is married to Murthy’s daughter Akshata), he will have to bend over backwards to prove that he has no soft corner for India or Indian business interests. We should expect him to play tougher while negotiating the free trade agreement (FTA) with India, and will be forced to make irritating comments about the alleged mistreatment of minorities in India in order to prove he is a tough cookie on human rights. Boris Johnson did not have anything to prove about his Britishness, and if any of Sunak’s rivals for the leadership — Penny Mordaunt or Liz Truss — win, they will prove to be better for India than Sunak.

As Sanjaya Baru, former media adviser to Manmohan Singh when he was prime minister, wrote in a Times of India column, nearly 200 persons of Indian origin have been elected to political offices across 25 countries, and 10 have even been (or still are) heads of government. While some have been comfortable in their Indian skins and dealt normally with India, others have proved more prickly. Sunak will probably prove to be more of the latter. Mahathir Mohammed of Malaysia was a tougher man to handle for India than any local Malay prime minister.

Fortunately for India, Sunak’s campaign seems to be losing momentum despite his head start. Between the first and fourth rounds of voting among Conservative Party MPs, Sunak saw his vote grow 34 per cent from 88 to 118. His two remaining challengers, both women, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss, saw their votes rise 37 per cent and 72 per cent respectively.

The momentum is shifting towards the two women. Though Sunak may still remain in the final round of two, one should rate his chances as less than even because powerful forces, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are ranged against him. Johnson’s allies have started campaigning against Sunak. And even before the race began in earnest, Johnson was suspected of trying to scuttle Sunak’s bid.

[IndraD]

Liz Truss will be the PM. Everyone inside Tory knows this.

[vijayk]

Liz Truss will be the PM. Everyone inside Tory knows this.

In a way good for us ... Narayana Murthy clan has to stop feeding the filthy BIF to please white Britshit so that their SIL can become PM

[kit]

Sunak Is Losing Momentum In Race For British Prime Minister And That Is Not Bad News For India

The momentum is shifting towards the two women. Though Sunak may still remain in the final round of two, one should rate his chances as less than even because powerful forces, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are ranged against him. Johnson’s allies have started campaigning against Sunak. And even before the race began in earnest, Johnson was suspected of trying to scuttle Sunak’s bid.

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Sunak is a staunch Hindu and proud of it., has publicly expressed this as well. This does matter. The mami opposite the Atlantic is plain opposite

[Vayutuvan]

Kit ji

Not really. He might be a staunch Hindu and all that yet as a PM of Amreekhan's closest ally, he is expected to tow the Amreekhan line. Political expediency and all that. BIF will use that as a stick to beat India, especially Modi ji's govt.

[vinod]

Liz Truss will be the PM. Everyone inside Tory knows this.

It is not a given. There are lot of people who hate Truss. Rishi is considered more capable. It depends on the next few days of campaign for both of them. Given Boris's influence, I expect a tirade of "Rishi losing" themed articles. Good thing is Rishi has enough funds and capability to neutralize those attacks. So, we will simply have to wait and see.

Rishi or Truss being good for India is non-starter.

[bala]

If Rishi does become PM then India can ask for reparations and return of all the stolen diamonds adorning the Queen's vault..and much more.

[sanjaykumar]

Unfortunately, it’s not as straightforward as that. Firstly Britain cannot recompense India ever for the crimes of their ancestors. Secondly, it was their ancestors, is it ethical for the sins of the fathers to be visited upon the sons?

Finally it is not about the material losses. India had the intellectual infrastructure in place for the “scientific” revolution. Only in India’s case it would have been evolution, given the absence of the intellectual dead end of Christianity in Europe.


It was the successive waves of invasions that destroyed all higher order cognitive activity. The Kerala school of mathematics in the Deep South only reinforces my point. In short Islamic and Christian conquests of India imposed a catastrophic opportunity cost on India.

However I do see the outlines of a resurgence to the historical wealth, material and more abstract, taking form.

[ramana]

The race is now between Sunak and Truss.

Also if the talk is about the UK in recession, Truss is hardly the one to pull them out.
Sunak has shown his ability during the pandemic.

Also, Sanjay ABur us a windbag.
How much talent is needed to manage a maun Singh?

[Vayutuvan]

There is no reason why India can't ask for settling the bottom 10% economical strata of India into UK, Canada, and Australia. All three are under the crown. Let us not call it reparations but socialism the woke of the Europe seem to like a lot.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/why-d ... 36211.html
Why despite a new Prime Minister, Britain may be in for historic endgame
Boris Johnson’s hollow demagoguery has now plunged the country into a virtually insurmountable economic and political crisis because the cost of Brexit was misrepresented and the withdrawal appallingly badly negotiated
Gautam Sen, July 21, 2022
The dismissal of Prime Minister Boris Johnson by his own Conservative Party was no surprise. His lack of judgement was daily becoming an embarrassment and an impossible burden for the party. He was periodically exhibiting, what, at best, can be described, as a cavalier attitude towards facts and indifference towards established protocols of prime ministerial conduct. Boris Johnson had caused public outrage for disregarding laws, enacted and enforced by his own government, against any large numbers assembling together during the Covid pandemic, which foisted stern and deeply inconvenient restrictions on even family gatherings.
The prime minister, his ministers and staff repeatedly violated these laws by holding disorderly parties during the height of the pandemic in his own august residence at 10 Downing Street. Many officials were fined, as a result, including Mr Clean, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Boris Johnson looked like weathering the storm, though the public had not yet forgiven or forgotten until another instance of misleading the country over a sex scandal concerning a minister he had appointed surfaced; somewhere in the background, the interference of his new young activist spouse was supposedly also a factor in his serial miscalculations. This was the last straw and his two senior ethnic ministers, Rishi Sunak and his pal, Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary (i.e. Minister) resigned, precipitating a tsunami of resignations by other ministerial colleagues though some like the Foreign Secretary, the vastly ambitious and overrated Liz Truss, stuck with Boris Johnson.
A rather indecorous and ill-tempered contest to replace Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and become prime minister, automatically as a result, has ensued. There have been media briefings against each other by candidates, leaking information of assorted missteps and examples of faux pas by each other. Front-runner Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, NR Narayana Murthy funding alleged ‘fascist Hindu’ publications like Swarajya magazine is being bandied about, indicating a British penchant for contemptibly absurd hyperbole whenever India is invoked. More damaging and politically consequential has been the rank poor judgement of Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of Exchequer, the Finance Minister of the country, allowing his very wealthy wife to remain a ‘non domicile’ to reduce her UK tax liability though she quickly abandoned the status once knowledge of it became public. But the damage has been done, compounding the disadvantage of him being brown and too clever by half.
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On the international political stage, Britain is an American vassal that has obediently upped the ante in the Ukraine war, as instructed by Washington, in desperation to reach a trade pact with the US though that cannot be reached overnight. The allure of the Chinese trade and investment option that had been embraced with shameless alacrity has faded somewhat in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. A desperate campaign, assisted by dubious Indian-origin influencers of East African origin, is in train to ensnare the ever-gullible Indians in an economic embrace though, in any event, the desired positive impact on Britain’s economic fortunes can only occur in the long-term.
Yet, there is also a deeper political crisis in the United Kingdom that is uncoiling like a python to which there is no obvious solution. Scotland is repeatedly pressing for independence from the United Kingdom, especially in the aftermath of Brexit which its voters had rejected and that seems an outcome that will eventually occur. The fate of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom is also increasingly in doubt because the open border with the Irish Republic is a non-negotiable reality and its sanctity can only be assured by ending the open border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. This is a potentially explosive problem since it threatens a descent back to the thirty-year civil war that was ended by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
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Gautam

[sanjaykumar]

Concerning reparations, further, some in Britain and America are abjuring their patrimony as tainted, that is blood money.

This is almost unbelievable in its integrity. Interesting that I have not come across similar evidence of troubled conscience from Germany, France, holland and Belgium.

[ramana]

Don't get distracted with unobtanium reparations and get outraged!

[ramana]

More from Gautam Sen article linked above!

...The final two contenders are most likely to be Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson’s own preferred choice to replace him, Liz, Truss, whose inane advice to India on Ukraine its EAM, Subramanium Jaishankar had skewered during a public interview in Delhi.

...Britain is also descending into a miasma of Islamic tyranny, with the authorities apparently not unwilling to make any concession to appease Muslim voters. They populate its prisons vastly disproportionately (15 percent of all inmates) in relation to their numbers in the general population (4 percent) and Pakistani-origin Muslim men have been grooming and raping thousands of vulnerable young women for decades, with apparent official complicity. This constituency is likely to exercise a baleful influence over Indo-British relations and especially when the Labour Party, its SDP, and Green Party allies are in power, which will inevitably happen.

....Britain last had a prime minister of substance and standing was the Welshman David Lloyd George during World War I and its aftermath. Winston Churchill was a great wartime leader but sagacity and vision have been lacking ever since. The quality of the political class has been deteriorating with the ebbing of empire, which both necessitated and produced skill and vision, among them Lord George Nathaniel Curzon though he never became prime minister of the country. Once upon a time, Britain had institutions in the shape of its private schooling, described as ‘public schools’ and its older universities that produced the British equivalent of Ottoman janissaries who were taught and socialised in patriotism, selfless service, and religious fidelity.

A huge swathe of this generation of students were pointlessly sacrificed in the battlefields of Europe during World War I and the public schooling system itself also declined in the face of ideology and cultural change. A contemporary revival of British public schools has occurred owing to foreign demand of the culturally and politically bankrupt elites of former colonies and escapees from privations in communist China. But nothing is destined to revive a vigorous and determined elite that history has made defunct and changed circumstances their relevance unbefitting. A new British prime minister will be in office within weeks but it is unlikely to bring momentous change even if the ambitious and abstemious Rishi Sunak is selected, though he will herald a truly symbolic severing of Britain from its imperial past.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... inal-round
YouGov Poll Shows Rishi Sunak Losing Tory Leadership Race in Final Round
Tiago Ramos Alfaro, July 19, 2022
The battle to clinch the leadership of the UK’s Conservative Party is getting tougher for former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
A new poll published by YouGov Tuesday shows that Sunak would lose to any of his three remaining rivals among Tory members in a final two-way round of votes. Kemi Badenoch, who has proved popular with the right wing of the party despite never holding a cabinet position, is favored to win against any of the candidates.
“Although unlikely to be a problem if she is eliminated today, Sunak’s score against Badenoch has actively declined,” YouGov said. Among the four remaining contenders, Badenoch received the fewest votes from Conservative Party MPs on Monday and will drop out of contention is she’s unable to overtake any of her rivals in Tuesday’s round.
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Gautam

[g.sarkar]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... well-ahead
Rishi Sunak steps up attack on Truss tax cuts as poll puts his rival well ahead
Former chancellor says opponent’s economic policies risk stoking inflation and pushing up interest rates
Heather Stewart and Phillip Inman, 21 Jul 2022
Rishi Sunak has launched his strongest attack yet on his rival Liz Truss’s economic policies, claiming her £30bn plans for unfunded tax cuts risk stoking inflation and pushing up interest rates.
His attack came as a new poll of Tory party members gave Truss a commanding lead in the race to become prime minister.
Tax and spending has become the key battleground in the hard-fought contest, with Sunak insisting that cutting taxes immediately, as Truss has promised, would risk exacerbating the cost of living crisis.
Polling of Tory members by YouGov published on Thursday put Truss significantly ahead, by 62% to 38%. With ballot papers expected to drop in the next few days, the candidates will take part in 12 hustings across the country before a result is announced on 5 September.
Liz Truss’s tax and spending plans sow consternation among economists
Sunak has repeatedly portrayed himself as the candidate willing to have a “grownup conversation” about the economy instead of telling what he has dismissed as “fairytales”. Asked about the impact of Truss’s tax cut plans, Sunak said: “Yes, I think it would be inflation.”
With inflation already at a 40-year high, he told LBC: “My strong point of view is if the government goes on a huge borrowing spree, that is only going to make that situation worse. And that will mean that the problem will last longer.”
He pointed to the potential impact on homeowners, saying: “It’s going to push up their mortgage rates, if interest rates have to go up very high to deal with that.”
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Gautam

[Haresh]

Jeremy Corbyn shows off his bhangra dance moves at Pakistani wedding

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ifted.html

[Haresh]

Sussex Police Sergeant 'sent naked selfie to sex assault victim, said he wanted to use handcuffs on her and would have put his hand up her skirt too'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... t-her.html

[Haresh]

Chinese seafarers were coerced into leaving UK after war, Home Office admits

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ice-admits

[IndraD]

Prince Charles accepted £1m from Osama Bin Laden's family - report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62366487