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Aspiring Caretaker, Jeremy, Going Fact-Finding In Ghana
//Jeremy Corbyn will jet off on four-day fact-finding trip to Ghana while he is supposed to be getting MPs behind his mission to become Prime Minister….. He plans to win a confidence vote in the Commons and become the interim leader but this can only happen with cross-party support. But instead of consolidating this, Corbyn will spend most of the week in meetings with Ghana's socialist leaders and member of their National Democratic Congress //
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What facts does he hope to find and will they be instrumental to his ambitions?
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What facts does he hope to find and will they be instrumental to his ambitions?
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Pinter's play, The Caretaker, is said to combine Realism with The Theatre of the Absurd. So, about right then ...
11:47 Mon 19th Aug 2019
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Non-story.
MPs are on their summer break while Parliament is in Recess. Nothing is going to happen until MPs return in September.
‘Fact Finding’ is code for the Ghana Government are paying for it or it is official opposition business, and the taxpayer is paying. As distinct from its a Corbyn holiday and Mr Corbyn is paying for it.
MPs are on their summer break while Parliament is in Recess. Nothing is going to happen until MPs return in September.
‘Fact Finding’ is code for the Ghana Government are paying for it or it is official opposition business, and the taxpayer is paying. As distinct from its a Corbyn holiday and Mr Corbyn is paying for it.
“Ugandan Discussions” is a Private Eye euphemism.
// "Ugandan discussions", or a variation thereof (such as "discussing Ugandan affairs"), is often used as a euphemism for sex, usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. The term originally referred to an incident at a party hosted by journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at which fellow journalist Mary Kenny allegedly had a "meaningful confrontation" with a former cabinet minister in the government of Milton Obote, later claiming that they were "upstairs discussing Uganda". The poet James Fenton apparently coined the term.[1] The saying is sometimes wrongly said to derive from a slanderous lie told by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin about his female foreign minister, when he claimed that he had fired her on 28 November 1974 for having sex with an unnamed white man in a toilet at a Paris airport,[2] but his lie came over 20 months after the phrase was first used by Private Eye on 9 March 1973.[1] The euphemism has variations: for example, before his marriage a senior member of the Royal family allegedly went on holiday with an aging ex-Page Three girl, whereupon Private Eye reported he had contracted a "Ugandan virus". In 1996, "Getting back to basics" was suggested as a replacement euphemism after the policy of the same name adopted by John Major's government, which some Private Eye contributors regarded as hypocritical. This view was vindicated by Conservative MP Edwina Currie's subsequent confirmation of a four-year affair with John Major in her book Diaries. //
// "Ugandan discussions", or a variation thereof (such as "discussing Ugandan affairs"), is often used as a euphemism for sex, usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. The term originally referred to an incident at a party hosted by journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at which fellow journalist Mary Kenny allegedly had a "meaningful confrontation" with a former cabinet minister in the government of Milton Obote, later claiming that they were "upstairs discussing Uganda". The poet James Fenton apparently coined the term.[1] The saying is sometimes wrongly said to derive from a slanderous lie told by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin about his female foreign minister, when he claimed that he had fired her on 28 November 1974 for having sex with an unnamed white man in a toilet at a Paris airport,[2] but his lie came over 20 months after the phrase was first used by Private Eye on 9 March 1973.[1] The euphemism has variations: for example, before his marriage a senior member of the Royal family allegedly went on holiday with an aging ex-Page Three girl, whereupon Private Eye reported he had contracted a "Ugandan virus". In 1996, "Getting back to basics" was suggested as a replacement euphemism after the policy of the same name adopted by John Major's government, which some Private Eye contributors regarded as hypocritical. This view was vindicated by Conservative MP Edwina Currie's subsequent confirmation of a four-year affair with John Major in her book Diaries. //
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