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I'm just pleased Gove isnt running for PM, I cant stand the sight and sound of that man!
He's a SNAKE!!! 😉
Apparently Ben Wallace set a record for the biggest bar bill at the Scots Guards officer’s mess. Not sure if that qualifies him to be a good PM or not?
Did he pay it himself or did he wangle it on expenses?
Although tbh whichever it was I would still be pretty impressed.
Baker & Braverman my absolute favourite comedy self-deluded popmpous ****s so far
And I'm not normally a fan but this was spot on
https://twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp/status/1545299214636310529?t=aWmNZGxS0QLecCJgJYhwcw&s=19
Did Steve Baker really say in his interview with the BBC last night "...seize power..."? I may have mis-heard or taken completely out of context (was flicking channels as England lost another wicket in their T20 drubbing 😂), but if not, I am very terrified now!
reeksy
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If Tom Tugenhat throws his hat into the ring will he thereafter be Tom Tugen?No. Tom Onegenhat.
Deserves some credit as it suffered from being the last post on the page.
all these damages done by BoJo but what are those damages exactly?
I just wrote a long list for you but didn't realise the forum had logged me out and it disappeared when I hit submit. I'll take that as an omen that this isn't the thread for that.
Given where we are as a nation I'm going with Sam allerdyce/ Steve Bruce
Yep, I heard him say "seize power" too. Chilling.
I just wrote a long list for you but didn’t realise the forum had logged me out and it disappeared when I hit submit. I’ll take that as an omen that this isn’t the thread for that.
No worries. BoJo has gone now.
Given where we are as a nation I’m going with Sam allerdyce/ Steve Bruce
Crikey Steve Bruce ...
And I’m not normally a fan but this was spot on
Hahaha, no love lost there.
Politico has reported that Priti Patel is considering a run.
Obviously it'd be more surprising if she wasn't thinking about it, but it's still a chilling prospect.
Mogg
“Sic transit gloria mundi”
Didn't have Mogg down as a Brand New fan
At least Zahawi would provide a stable government
I hear poopscoop was standing.
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Or am I conflating threads?
I must say, a quick skim of the Wiki entry for Tom Tugendhat puts him out front in the eyes of this floating voter (i've been known to vote Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, Green and Plaid Cymru over the past 37 odd years!). Let's see what the papers say about him as that will be a better indication as to whether he is a suitable candidate.
What stumpyjon said. Mordaunt and Wallace seem vaguely capable, but as early favourites they'll not be anywhere near the top by the end. I fear we're in for another Brexit halfwit.
Then we might get a GE. With maybe enough red wall new blue voters having died off or given up on the brexit bullplop and maybe voting labour again. With maybe a policy of back-into-the-EU-bit-by-bit.
Our democracy is poisonous. The real poison chalice was the UK getting on board with vanilla FPTP, two centuries ago.
Suella Braverman is my parents 'local' MP, they generally only have bad things to say of her now that she's been there a while - her human rights and welfare voting history makes Priti Patel look saintly.
Steve "Mein Kamph" Baker.... right wing Christian fundamentalist... better suited to Utah than The UK
Just to follow up on my post further back, i have had a good look around the mad and sensible options for the UK economy going forward... its not great if you are unskilled poorly educated etc.
Even the mad deregulation elements are concluding that they may actually end up with nothing to deregulate.
What is interesting is that the economy (primarily London) has a lot of money in the system and a lot of inertia so this is like a very big flywheel and it may simply take a long time to slow down. This theory makes a lot of sense and explains much about our Country, this also explains why the economy is slowly going downhill rather than off a cliff. This is in sharp contrast to the late 70s when the economy only had a fraction of that cash and inertia - there was little flywheel.
Interesting if worrying... unmanaged decline if you like.
Just talking to an acquaintance and yhey think that the redwalls are heading down the "slowly boiling the frog" route.
Again fits the flywheel model.
Rishi Sunak has put his name in the hat......
Rishi Sunak has put his name in the hat……
That bloke is delusional if he thinks he has leadership quality.
Interesting I thought Sunak would fly off into billionaire land.
Seriously piss off you fiscal nutjob.
Interesting I thought Sunak would fly off into billionaire land.
He would be better off doing just that rather than trying to pretend his billions mean leadership ...
That bloke is delusional if he thinks he has leadership quality.
Do any of them?
According to the Daily Mail… Dorries is thinking of running for leader.
[ what a sentence - well done Britain ]
According to the Daily Mail… Dorries is thinking of running for leader.
Please let this be true.
On Twitter recently I saw Nadine Dorries described as 'thick as a Boxing Day shit'
Given where we are as a nation I’m going with Sam allerdyce/ Steve Bruce
As an Albion fan, please let Bruce have the job. We'll take Liz as first team coach.
Is Sunak busy pretending he wasn't our previous cock-up reluctant-with-cash in a dying economy chancellor?
Must be a different Sunak if this one is the competent one.
Looking at the line-up for Tory chancers is like an special edition of the Monster Munch crisp mob.
Suella Braverman is my parents ‘local’ MP, they generally only have bad things to say of her now that she’s been there a while – her human rights and welfare voting history makes Priti Patel look saintly.
I read an article very recently about her, and I knew nothing about her before that, that effectively described her as Trump in a frock. A truly scary thought in oh, so many ways! 😱
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/suella-braverman-boris-johnson-resigns-b2117756.html
Braverman is the attorney general who defended her lawbreaking boss and literally said that it was OK for him to break the law, and ok for him to get gentler treatment than the general public, because "democracy" ie got brexit dun. It's one thing for a Dorres or someone to come out with that sort of shit but she was attorney general. Her job literally includes intervening when people receive overly lenient sentences, and advising and representing the government in legal matters, and she appoints the director of public prosecutions- and she was his handpicked candidate. Imagine any other silk with that level of conflict of interest.
"I will do whatever the Prime Minister asks me to do." She finally managed to criticise him at the last but still wouldnt resign.
What Giuliani was to Trump, Braverman was to Johnson.
I really don't care who wins beyond who would be the least likely to unnecessarily antagonize Russia for personal or party political gain.
Sajid Javid - was linked to CDOs collateralised debt obligations (packaged toxic debt) during the last finance crisis.
These people aren't even good at capitalism.
Vile.
So at a time when people are screaming for help financially, Rishi Sunak the billionaire is standing on a platform of fiscal restraint and austerity. Talk about finger on the pulse! If Starmer is lucky Sunak might actually win.
So at a time when people are screaming for help financially, Rishi Sunak the billionaire is standing on a platform of fiscal restraint and austerity
Arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
These people are lunatics.
Also it's fine for them to be extremely well off but not okay for everyone else to have some wedge.
They're all just jockeying for position in the stalls. E.g. Badenoch. She's useless but demonstrating that you think you're good enough to be leader, even if delusional, makes you more likely to end up with a position in the next Cabinet even if just a junior minister.
Sunak Vs Braverman in the finals?
You'd hope at that point the membership would be sensible
Most of them have no expectation of leadership, they are kite flying to the eventual winner that their score is rising and they should be considered for a job in the winning cabinet. But Braverman, she's out. I suspect she knows it.
The winner will be the smartest that offers some sort of band-aid to the current problems but dresses it up in a fiscal pissery.
Austerity just doesn't make sense.
Most of them have no expectation of leadership, they are kite flying to the eventual winner that their score is rising and they should be considered for a job in the winning cabinet. But Braverman, she’s out. I suspect she knows it.
Remember the 'money' that financed Johnson's journey and also ensured that a political nobody got a prime seat & then the top Ministerial job? It'll also decide who the next Leader is and IMO it doesn't matter who it is, the 'agenda' is already set.