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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 20, 2022 7:02:28 GMT
Michael Gove! You should have done your stabby-in-the-back thing on Liz Truss several weeks ago when it might have done some good! It's too late now!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2022 8:47:52 GMT
I look forward to him vanishing from public life.
-Ralph
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Oct 14, 2022 12:19:18 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2022 12:19:18 GMT
*checks news*
Blimey. Is the Government collapsing again?
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 14, 2022 15:39:14 GMT
Is the Government collapsing again? Do you mean again or still? Chancellor dear, would you mind awfully just stepping back to the UK for a minute? Your best friend the Prime Minister, whose leadership policies you have been following, and whose views are in perfect harmony with your own, would like a quiet word with you. Martin |
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Oct 19, 2022 21:21:28 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 19, 2022 21:21:28 GMT
Who knows what will happen in tomorrow's episode of The Tory Hunger Games?
-Ralph
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Oct 19, 2022 21:38:34 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 19, 2022 21:38:34 GMT
I don't know where this ends. Watching the news now is just plain frightening.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 19, 2022 22:04:23 GMT
I don't, haven't done for 20+ years
A glance at the BBC's front page a couple of times a day is all I need
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2022 14:49:09 GMT
The lettuce won!
-Ralph
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Oct 21, 2022 22:22:02 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 21, 2022 22:22:02 GMT
I... I need to keep laughing at them- the chimps in their trees, the lunatics in their halls. The precious little maniacs. Because if I didn't laugh, I'd ... I'd be really worried for my children and stuff.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 23, 2022 20:08:22 GMT
Breaking news...
YES!!!
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 23, 2022 20:14:50 GMT
Result
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Oct 23, 2022 20:49:54 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 23, 2022 20:49:54 GMT
I think he knows he wouldn't win and the last thing he wants is to come second to one of his own cabinet. Besides, if he has any common sense at all he'd know him being back at the top would shrink the conservatives' credibility even further than it already has been.
What *is* going on. Is this the start of the descent into madness? Or will history look back on this time as being a political aberration? I just can't see how we get out of this.
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Oct 23, 2022 21:06:48 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2022 21:06:48 GMT
It's good to see he quit at the same time as Doctor Who ended tonight. Boris blasted by regeneration energy out of politics.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 23, 2022 21:12:59 GMT
I think he knows he wouldn't win and the last thing he wants is to come second to one of his own cabinet. Besides, if he has any common sense at all he'd know him being back at the top would shrink the conservatives' credibility even further than it already has been. I'm not sure Boris has anything other than what's best for Boris in mind. Tpry Credibility is nowhere near it. What *is* going on. Is this the start of the descent into madness? Or will history look back on this time as being a political aberration? I just can't see how we get out of this. Not sure I see the torys getting out of it without a party split. I can't see them winning next time though I think Sunak will be more competent than Truss or Johnson |
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Post by legios on Oct 23, 2022 22:03:31 GMT
Alexander B deP Johnson has never had anything other than what was good for him in mind. This was obvious from as far back as his period as Mayor of London. His alliance with the Neo-Libertarian wing of the Conservative Party was very much about "Quite right, the rich are the right sort of chaps and should be monarchs of their own domains. I happen to be a rich chap myself," rather than a genuine ideological attachment to the Randian exceptionalism of Truss and Kwartengs cult roots. Much more a fellow traveler than a genuine believer in their Randian Superhuman ideology.
I'm glad to see him withdraw for the race. If he had been in and won, we would have to face the facts that we were on a level with Berlisconi's Italy. On the other hand, this makes it very likely that it is going to be Sunak, and he can do a lot of damage to the quality of life and rights of the majority of the British people before the next election. This was always very much a "whoever wins, we lose".
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 23, 2022 22:22:29 GMT
He either didnt have the 100 votes or he realised it would be an absolute disaster and his ego wouldnt let him do it.
Its almost a shame. His credibility is shot so he wouldnt have improved their chances at the next election, probably would have made them worse, but as a populist he might, might have avoided at least some of the austerity cuts that are coming.
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Feb 22, 2023 19:01:35 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2023 19:01:35 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 3, 2023 17:34:01 GMT
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Mar 3, 2023 19:08:34 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2023 19:08:34 GMT
But no apology.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 5, 2023 10:54:14 GMT
Why would she? All she ever wanted was power and influence, sod the consequences to everyone else.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 20, 2023 17:50:58 GMT
What would be the Dominic Raab equivalent of Liz Truss's lettuce?
Martin
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Apr 20, 2023 17:52:48 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 20, 2023 17:52:48 GMT
Rishi Sunak?
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Apr 20, 2023 18:36:30 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2023 18:36:30 GMT
Looks like Raab is going to get away with it. Fucks sake.
-Ralph
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Apr 22, 2023 7:39:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 22, 2023 7:39:23 GMT
As someone who has experienced serious and sustained bullying at multiple previous employers, I have found the reaction of Raab and his allies to the report extremely distressing. The behaviour exhibited reminds me so much of bullies from the past. I am still affected by their behaviour on a daily basis, even decades later.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 9, 2023 19:39:58 GMT
Stuff happening today.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2023 20:25:24 GMT
Most if it good
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 9, 2023 22:20:56 GMT
Sadly not, he won't face any consequences of note and will rake in money hand over fist and be a poisionous presence in the media for some time to come.
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Jun 9, 2023 22:39:53 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 9, 2023 22:39:53 GMT
True, but at least he will no longer be in public life. May he vanish into obscurity.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 9, 2023 22:43:51 GMT
True, but at least he will no longer be in public life. May he vanish into obscurity. -Ralph He will be, in exactly the same way that Trump gets more coverage than Biden despite not having been president for three years. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 11, 2023 13:47:47 GMT
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