Brexit, for once some facts.

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Which reflects very badly on the person who CHOSE him for the job. (She wasn't quite out of alternatives.)
Rather than laying low as one might expect, he's still forcefully denying that he was the source of the leak.

If she's got this wrong she's made a potentially dangerous enemy.
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Rather than laying low as one might expect, he's still forcefully denying that he was the source of the leak.

If she's got this wrong she's made a potentially dangerous enemy.
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If she's got this wrong, it is her who deserves to be sacked.

(Doesn't for one minute mean it isn't possible.)
 
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Well they will have one of two more chances, either another referendum or a general election. If the 52% don't support UKIP or its policy in either of those, it will be their own fault again.
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This has come as a revelation to me! I had assumed (wrongly it appears) that no one would expect UKIP to be honest, yet here we have evidence that someone did!
 
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Rather than laying low as one might expect, he's still forcefully denying that he was the source of the leak.
This is what puzzles me. Usually they stick to the worn out script of, I've made a mistake, I regret my actions, I never intended this outcome, can I have another job, will you give me some money, etc etc. Williamson is on the offensive, which breaks with tradition. It makes me wonder if he’s not the one what’s done it :) This could turn out to be very funny.
 

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Williamson brings the total of ministers Theresa May has lost in just over a year to 38, a new record, and I'd suggest a new record of Prime Ministerial incompetence.

Justice might have been served better if most of the 38 had remained and she had resigned.
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Can't help thinking there's more to this story that meets the eye. As I said earlier in this thread the fact that Chinese companies are supplying the UK with communications equip is not exactly a secret known only to the Pope and his donkey, it's well known throughout the industry...I know for a start, as did the engineer who fitted the fibre optic equipment that I'm communicating through now.
Incidentally the chap working for Open Reach was in fact an American, Florida actually, I chatted to him out in the street when he set it up.
Ah well so much for the yanks not finding out who we do business with, TM gets it wrong yet again.
 

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Williamson brings the total of ministers Theresa May has lost in just over a year to 38, a new record, and I'd suggest a new record of Prime Ministerial incompetence.
She’s certainly smashing all of the previous records. Pity they are the wrong ones :-(

She must be up there as a contender for the title of worst Home Secretary too.

But, we let her and others like her get away with it. We need to take a serious look at the criteria we are using to measure people’s suitability for a job. Not Just in government, but everywhere.
 
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So when does the police investigation start? You know, the one concerning the betrayal of the official secrets act.

Rumour has it that the Chinese told May it was Williamson. They were eves dropping on the security meeting via a back-door hack into some coms equipment they supplied to us at a knock-down price.
 
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So when does the police investigation start? You know, the one concerning the betrayal of the official secrets act.

Rumour has it that the Chinese told May it was Williamson. They were eves dropping on the security meeting via a back-door hack into some coms equipment they supplied to us at a knock-down price.

You do like that joke don’t you 50....
 
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Williamson brings the total of ministers Theresa May has lost in just over a year to 38, a new record, and I'd suggest a new record of Prime Ministerial incompetence.

Justice might have been served better if most of the 38 had remained and she had resigned.
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What was the previous record? Which PM?
 
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At least it's now being said Williamson didn't actually give any technical secrets away, he just shouldn't have opened his gob.
BTW anyone watch Corrie last night? The character Nick Tilsley is arrested for some wrong doing and interviewed at the local nick. Did anybody spot the brand name on the tablet recording his interview ? Clue: it begins with the letter H. :)
 
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At least it's now being said Williamson didn't actually give any technical secrets away
That makes no difference, any form of disclosure from that security meeting is a criminal offence under the official secrets act. It's something I'm very familiar with since I'm bound by that act three times over. By work in the Porton Down chemical and biological defence research centre, by work in Central London government offices and by work in UK nuclear and armaments establishments.

I'm more convinced than ever that May has got this wrong. If there really was "compelling evidence" as she said, why has that serious offence not been referred to the police?
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At least it's now being said Williamson didn't actually give any technical secrets away, he just shouldn't have opened his gob.
BTW anyone watch Corrie last night? The character Nick Tilsley is arrested for some wrong doing and interviewed at the local nick. Did anybody spot the brand name on the tablet recording his interview ? Clue: it begins with the letter H. :)

Hitachi?
 

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No sense ? ah that's not an H is it.

On the subject of compelling evidence, wasn't that the term Tony Blah used when describing the documentation he saw relating to WMD Saddam Hussein supposedly had stashed away in Iraq.
Remind me again did they ever find anything...
 

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Bit like Brexit, it seems to stem from Cameron getting cosy with Huawei and interwining roles for mates with Huawei UK

December - David Cameron defends Huawei investment
Following American senators once again insisting that Huawei equipment posed a security risk, David Cameron defended the earlier UK-Huawei £1.3 billion deal. He said that Britain had a "proper system in the UK for examining whether investments in the UK are pro-competitive and whether they're in the national interest".

 
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