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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2022 7:13:50 GMT
The Liberal party have always been good for a protest vote and indeed have an affinity with the West country.
When I were a lad growing up in North London my neighbour was a Liberal candidate and his wife chairman (sic) of the Ladies Liberals. He stood for a number of constituencies but was never elected. He was a lovely bloke but totally useless and my father was forever being called in to sort out something practical.
I have to say that I haven’t a clue what they stand for, not that Labour party is much better.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2022 15:37:34 GMT
Is Boris starting to see the writing on the wall, or is he still blind? It seems to me that the faster he resigns, the more he cuts his losses ("Everything I did was a brilliant success so it's time to give someone else a chance."). If he keeps hanging on to power, his situtation (like the situation of the UK) will just get worse and worse and he won't be able to talk his way out of all of the failures.
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Post by lugg on Jun 24, 2022 20:00:19 GMT
Indeed catastrophic Patrick, but I have to grit my teeth when the various party leaders and MPs call out for Boris to resign. No ... just let him carry on wrecking the Tories until we can have a general election and boot them all out. But I admit I am worried about what will happen in the interim period.
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Post by lugg on Jun 24, 2022 20:01:31 GMT
I have to say that I haven’t a clue what they stand for, by and large - decency
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 25, 2022 5:23:42 GMT
Is Boris starting to see the writing on the wall, or is he still blind? It seems to me that the faster he resigns, the more he cuts his losses ("Everything I did was a brilliant success so it's time to give someone else a chance."). If he keeps hanging on to power, his situation (like the situation of the UK) will just get worse and worse and he won't be able to talk his way out of all of the failures. We're into "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" time, I think.
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Post by mossie on Jun 25, 2022 6:58:41 GMT
We have a desperately poor bunch of idiots in the House of Commons, none of them are really capable. Boris the Bounder is an overgrown public school boy, Wooden Top Starmer is thick as they come and Bighead Davey is a clueless clot. It is well past time that we had a proper leader who can take the country by the scruff of the neck and shake some common sense into it. Get rid of all the do-gooders and instil some old fashioned discipline
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 25, 2022 9:21:02 GMT
Never a truer word. Great post mossie.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 25, 2022 9:21:06 GMT
If anybody took the country by the scruff of the neck atm our heads would fall off.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 25, 2022 11:34:46 GMT
The guy will never leave. He has to be removed.
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Post by casimira on Jun 25, 2022 14:26:27 GMT
Sounds familiar...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 25, 2022 15:16:49 GMT
Boris was elected leader because we have a populist culture where being 'famous' often gets mistaken for meaning being worthy. He won't resign because he has no integrity, and maybe he's a bit worried about what else will be discovered when he does get kicked out.
I'm warming to Starmer, he's got the charisma of a paving slab but I hope that he will unite the Labour party, even if he isn't at the head of it when (not if) they win the next election. I wonder if Mick Lynch is free (google him...he's a force to be sure)
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Post by lugg on Jul 2, 2022 19:10:49 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 3, 2022 5:47:49 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2022 17:15:23 GMT
*snork!*
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 5, 2022 17:47:18 GMT
It’s all falling apart. The Chancellor and the Health Secretary have resigned.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 5, 2022 18:06:43 GMT
Rats leaving the sinking ship? Sunak has been threatening to resign for weeks acording to a political commentator on the BBC news channel.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 5, 2022 18:11:12 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have known what to do.
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Post by lugg on Jul 5, 2022 20:01:05 GMT
t’s all falling apart. The Chancellor and the Health Secretary have resigned. Really - not caught up yet but I must do
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2022 3:24:42 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 6, 2022 6:13:02 GMT
Downing Street's attempts to get round the latest shambles of denials/half-admissions and so on couldn't convince the minister who had to read it out in the House of Lords, let alone other members: My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 6, 2022 6:16:01 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have known what to do. As I recall, she tried to hang on by her fingernails until her Cabinet colleagues had to persuade her the jig was up.
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Post by bjd on Jul 6, 2022 6:33:44 GMT
Interesting how the desire for power makes them all try to hang on like limpets on a rock.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2022 9:53:26 GMT
It's a good thing the queen has been around so long and has seen it all. Any normal citizen forbidden from speaking their mind about all of ths would probably die of apoplexy.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 6, 2022 12:59:10 GMT
PMQ more than a bit surreal, and still not as many resignations as May suffered.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2022 20:54:53 GMT
Well, since he hasn't resigned, I imagine that Boris is going to put all of this foolishness behind him and take care of the things that really interest the British people.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 7, 2022 8:55:56 GMT
That's it. He has resigned.
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Post by bjd on Jul 7, 2022 9:45:20 GMT
From what I am hearing on the news, he is hoping to stay around until autumn when a new party chief is chosen. Such a wonderful bunch to choose from too.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 7, 2022 10:25:04 GMT
It's all because the elections were rigged. Oh wait, that was the American guy.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 7, 2022 10:57:16 GMT
Of course I understand the symbolism of the door of 10 Downing Street, but the static television shot of the door for hours on end has got to be one of the most boring visuals of "power" anywhere in the world. (The White House standing behind its fence is no better, but the cameras spend less time there when reporting on major events.)
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Post by bjd on Jul 7, 2022 11:01:18 GMT
They're waiting for Larry the cat to come out.
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