Who would have thought I’d ever agree with John Major!
But thinking back to when he was on, it’s also a reminder that there was a time when you could be on the right and have decency and integrity.
How things have changed.
#JohnMajor
"When did you last hear, from any party, a senior politician make a lengthy detailed speech on what we needed to do to protect our place in the world - and our values and our wealth - 25 years from now" - John Major
#JohnMajor #AmolRajan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jr449q
@JorisBohnsonPM With the likes of #JohnMajor and #RoryStewart long gone, who within the current gaggle of #tories realistically even has the intent, intellect, and standing amongst his peers to return the party to a sane form of conservatism? We are seeing much the same with the current #CDU here in #Germany BTW, with chairperson #FriedrichMerz being more interested in destroying the #Greens rather than defeating the #fascist #AfD (no wonder #AngelaMerkel hated that guy BITD).
‘Un-British, un-Christian, unconscionable’: Major condemns Tories’ Rwanda policy – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/18/john-major-condemns-tory-rwanda-policy-uk-politics-live #Politics #UKnews #Labour #JohnMajor #Immigrationandasylum
John Major criticises Rwanda asylum plan as ‘un-Conservative and un-British’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/18/john-major-rwanda-plan-un-conservative-un-british #JohnMajor #Conservatives #Immigrationandasylum #Politics #UKnews
Just getting to the features section in Friday's newspaper. The 'Daily Almanac' list of birthdays is now providing the year of birth rather than the person's age, but what struck me as rather curious were the descriptions of some of the individuals who celebrated birthdays on Friday.
(I also had never realised that John Major and Eric Idle were born on the same day.)
The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.
One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report
#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
Rishi Sunak should forget Margaret Thatcher – and learn lessons instead from John Major
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-sunak-should-forget-margaret-thatcher-and-learn-lessons-instead-from-john-major-2057202
#RishiSunak
#JohnMajor
#PaulWaugh
The #Tories infamous Rail Privatisation, the gift which keeps on giving, mainly from the British Taxpayer to foreign railways!! NB: Those Commies in the Tory Party have Nationalised four railways in five years!
#RailFail #SameOldTories #JohnMajor
The #Tories infamous Rail Privatisation, the gift which keeps on giving, mainly from the British Taxpayer to foreign railways!!
#RailFail #SameOldTories #JohnMajor
When conservatives at least made sense and had integrity.
#brexit #johnmajor said it before it happened https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_MibwzlZ84&feature=share
RT @Jon_Danzig: Former @Conservatives Prime Minister, Sir #JohnMajor, did not mince his words at a Westminster Committee meeting today. He said that #Brexit has been “a colossal mistake.” Watch 4-minute video on YouTube at https://sirjohnmajor.jondanzig.com/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VivianeRedingEU/status/1623578612266942467
Dave Brown's #RoguesGallery cartoon, after #Velazquez #NadhimZahawi #RishiSunak #JohnMajor #TorySleaze #ToryCorruption #ToriesUnfitForOffice #GeneralElectionN0W? -political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Exhibit 1. 🥒
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Folks, I was really very glad to share my thoughts about the evolution of British-Ukrainian relations.
All this was possible due to activities of @Ukraine_DAO and @cryptodrftng
#JohnMajor 🙈 in Besarabka market during his visit to #Kyiv. It was in April 1996.
https://twitter.com/YehorBrailian/status/1604506862891765765
📌 Thank you very much to @YehorBrailian from @armyinformcomua for the space and all the useful materials
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Folks, I was really very glad to share my thoughts about the evolution of British-Ukrainian relations.
All this was possible due to activities of @Ukraine_DAO and @cryptodrftng
#JohnMajor 🙈 in Besarabka market during his visit to #Kyiv. It was in April 1996.
https://twitter.com/YehorBrailian/status/1604506862891765765
A fascinating historical account and insight into #urbandesign, the place given to #cars, #JohnMajor & how local #resistance saved #Brixton & #London from #motorways #pollution obliteration. Support #localaction when you see it, because that's the only thing that actually makes a difference! Via @TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/londons-lost-mega-motorway-the-eight-lane-ring-road-that-would-have-destroyed-much-of-the-city
Mission 2024: Rishi Sunak’s ‘laborious’ challenge to repeat 1992
The situations in 2024 and 1992 are almost identical. A struggling economy, over a decade of Conservative rule and a widespread prediction of a Labour victory in the 2024 election.
In 1992, Major played the captain of the ship and steered the Tories through a less than stellar campaign, which had Labour ahead in the polls throughout. It was only in the last moments Major upped the ante and warned a recession-hit society of the further gloom they might face under a Labour government. These attacks landed well, and Labour lost so badly they might well have sunk into a political Mariana trench.
Aavish Kant @YorkshireBylines
@BylineTimes
#ukpolitics #generalelection #JohnMajor #RishiSunak #Labour #KeirStarmer #recession #inflation #GeneralElectionNOW #gtto
Good question @UKLabour
RT @Jon_Danzig: In a speech two years ago, former @Conservatives Prime Minister, Sir #JohnMajor, told the brutal truth about #Brexit. Is it only #Tories of old that can tell us about the reality of leaving the #EU? Why can’t @UKLabour leader, @Keir_Starmer, also tell us the truth about Brexit?
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Christia_Allard/status/1592503346354847744
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