John Curtis
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jun
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And what we got was a lot of bitchiness, a lot of vanity.
Not much that moved the story on a great deal.
And a little bit of embarrassment, too, for what some of the ministers communicated to Peter Mandelson.
I guess the reason we're not going to get the real crux of it is because there is a potential police investigation.
And on the advice of the Metropolitan Police, I'm sure a lot of this stuff has been withheld.
But yeah, I think that the Pat McFadden quote ranks alongside Liam Byrne's
when the Labour government left office in 2010 and he left a note to his successor saying, sorry, there's no money left.
And the Tories absolutely weaponised that.
And I think the Conservative Party will weaponise the Pac McFadden quote where, you know, I just meet people who want to say, where can we tax more so that we can give more benefits out in welfare?
I think that has a real toxic element to it for Labour and the way that they're managing the economy.
I also think it just shows,
What we already know that a lot of ministers around Keir Starmer think that Keir Starmer is just a bit crap and that he hasn't kind of on top of things and there's no verve and there's no panache and there's no story in the government.
All things that we've been hearing.
But what these texts show is that, yeah, all the ministers were saying that.
Apple News Today · Musk’s latest email to federal employees sows more confusion · 24 Feb 2025
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If I could say one thing to Elon Musk, it's please put a dose of compassion in this. These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. It's a false narrative to say we have to cut and you have to be cruel to do it as well. We can do both.
In other words, rubber stamp. Yeah, I heard that from my son, by the way, at Thanksgiving. Yeah. He said that? He did. He said, Dad, I'm a self-described, I took the red pill. Yeah. So he kind of set that up. And my response to him was a couple of things. One, in kind of a joking way, I said, you know, I did get more votes than him in Utah. Does that give me a mandate?
But let me come back to this kind of this concept that I think me speaking my mind and me being up front makes the president a better president. And right now I'm interviewing these nominees, and I think people forget the advice part of advice and consent.
I can't advise the president if I haven't thoroughly talked to these people, if I haven't investigated everything about them, if I haven't learned their strengths and their weaknesses. And I think I owe that to the president. And I think the better job I do, the better president he will be.
from supporters of the president say what's wrong with you just get in line already listen why are you asking questions why are you saying you have concerns anybody wants to give me heat for doing my job bring it on this is my job it's my constitutional responsibility these same people are the same people who would have said earlier you need to take power back from the executive branch you need to do your job i have heard that from these very same people and that's what i'm doing
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