keep one's powder dry/barnstorming

政治家といえば。16年でしたか。

Angela Merkel: Four expert verdicts on a contested legacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58570507

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That's not the sort of thing that is barnstorming. But in her own sort of way, she has staged a bit of a revolution in German politics and world politics generally.
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There is, of course, the simple fact that she was the country's first female chancellor. I'm sure her pragmatic, quasi-presidential style of governing will serve as a role model for her successor, whoever it may be.
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[後日追加]quasi-は文字と音声の両方でピンと来るようにならなければ。クエイザイ、クアージ。

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The second moment was her response to the Trump years. She kept the powder dry for liberal internationalism. Former US President Barack Obama actually convinced her to run for a fourth term.
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[後日追加]liberal internationalismについての理解が足りていなかったです。引用の前後を読むとわかってきますが、EURO圏とかのような考え方みたいですかね。ヒラリーとオバマが牽引していたようですが（ブレアも）。そうするとkeep the poweder dry というのはforなんですね。読解力がまだまだ。

トランプに対しては常に警戒してましたね。Tracy UllmanのMarkelを思い出しました。

Angela Merkel Skypes Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMo87P-nDc

上記BBCの記事でも笑顔のMrs Merkel developed a close relationship with France's President Emmanuel Macronの写真がありましたが。
Angela Merkel Meets Emmanuel Macron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_l5aPww-4

顔に出ちゃうんでしょうね。
Angela Merkel Can't Stop Rolling Her Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tszidfq32DQ

ついでにドッペルゲンガーNicola Sturgeon。Glasgow kiss...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fin6aP1WbaA

もう見納めですね。（コメディだけをみていた外野としては）寂しくなります。

coveted/jibe

前回備忘録的にゴシップを取り上げた途端に内閣改造があってびっくりしました。早かったですね。

Michael Gove tasked with solving housing crisis in latest role
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/15/michael-gove-housing-crisis-latest-role-cabinet-reshuffle

Goveは酔っ払って深夜にクラブで踊っていたのも録画されましたが、昔の数々の失言の音声も晒されたようですね。
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He was also the subject of claims in the Independent this week that he made sexual comments, joked about paedophilia within top levels of government and used a racist slur in a series of remarks when he was in his 20s.
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これですね。Shame!
Revealed: Michael Gove’s sexist jibes, racist jokes and homophobic slurs
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-sexist-racist-speech-b1918058.html

Goveは新しいMHCLG大臣になりましたが、前職のChancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterと比べると降格になるのでしょうか？？

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Gove’s move away from the Cabinet Office to a lower cabinet rank may also reflect Johnson’s continuing lack of trust in his former Vote Leave colleague.
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Ministerial ranking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_ranking
6位から15位ですね。Raabは4位から2位になりましたが、実質降格といわれていますよね。

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He reentered the cabinet in 2017 but has never made a coveted great office of state.
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Great Offices of State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Offices_of_State
なるほど。

Goveは深夜にクラブで踊っていましたが、Raabはタリバンがカブールを制圧した時はクレタ島にいましたね。
Dominic Raab ‘persuaded PM he could stay on holiday’ in Afghanistan crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/22/dominic-raab-persuaded-pm-he-could-stay-on-holiday-in-afghanistan-crisis

ということでどちらもさっそく人形劇で取り上げられてしまいました。
Spitting Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOa11o0Do0
Priti Patel怖っー。

blow away the cobwebs

政治家といえば。しばらく前に取り上げようとしたゴシップ。備忘録。

‘Merry’ Michael Gove seen dancing ‘alone’ in Aberdeen nightclub
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/29/merry-michael-gove-seen-dancing-alone-in-aberdeen-nightclub

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she “couldn’t believe what she was seeing” when the “merry” MP “rocked up” just before closing time.
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rock up
PHRASAL VERB
informal British
Arrive; turn up.
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地元なのにGoveを知らないなんて。やはりクラビングをする若者は政治家に関心がなさそうです。
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“I’m almost sure he was by himself. I heard people saying, ‘He’s a Tory MP.’ Others asked ‘Who’s Michael Gove?’ and were Googling him.”
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こちらのゴシップも取り上げようとして読んだだけで終わってしまいました。
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Gove and the journalist Sarah Vine announced their separation two months ago after 20 years of marriage and are in the process of getting divorced.
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A statement from the Pipe club said: “Thanks to all the amazing people, and Michael Gove, who made it out for the first Pipe last night. We had a great time going in for four hours straight. Definitely blew some cobwebs away.”
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blow away the cobwebs
Banish a state of sluggishness; enliven or refresh oneself.
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まさに。

My condolences to him and his family

どうも政治家のゴシップにしか食指が動かなくなってきたみたいです。

Boris Johnson’s mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, dies at 79
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/13/boris-johnsons-mother-charlotte-johnson-wahl-dies-at-79

このお母さんは素晴らしいのですが、なんで息子がロクでもないことになったのでしょうか。1979年に離婚していたようなので、ロクでもない父ちゃん側の影響ですね。

おじいさんはEUで人権を守る側だったなんて。
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Born in 1942, she was the daughter of the barrister Sir James Fawcett, who was the president of the European Commission for Human Rights in the 1970s.
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なんと学生結婚だったのですね。
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She later returned to complete her degree, becoming the first married female undergraduate at her college, Lady Margaret Hall, and achieving second-class honours.
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ボリスは貧乏バス旅行で出会った人の名前だったんですね。
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She once recalled how the prime minister got his name – when, after an uncomfortable Greyhound bus journey to Mexico City while three months pregnant, a man named Boris Litwin, whom they were staying with, gave them two first-class plane tickets for the journey back.
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ほんと。ロンドン市長だけだったらよかったのに・・。
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The only time she is known to have asked her son Boris, whom she described as “soft-hearted”, to use his influence was when he was mayor of London
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My condolences to him and his family.