Piccadilly Day Tripper
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The fanatics are losing grip. Parliamentary democracy should be about the ebb and flow of different parties, different ideas and the peaceful handover of power - not one party rule at all costs.
Confidence vote to be held today from 6pm!
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The fanatics are losing grip. Parliamentary democracy should be about the ebb and flow of different parties, different ideas and the peaceful handover of power - not one party rule at all costs.
Unravel_Morrison
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That was announced in February.
Unravel_Morrison
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Everyone knows he's a goner; it's just going to be a case of when the party decide he's no longer an electoral asset overall and try to .
I personally hope he keeps to character and hangs on to power as long as he possibly can and destroys them from the inside.
He doesn't even need any more time in the job. He'll make 10's of millions in after dinner speaking regardless of how many extra days he's in the job.
I personally hope he keeps to character and hangs on to power as long as he possibly can and destroys them from the inside.
He doesn't even need any more time in the job. He'll make 10's of millions in after dinner speaking regardless of how many extra days he's in the job.
Uwefuchs
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We've been hearing about how Labour would be a disaster and how the Tories offer stability since Cameron was voted in and its been the total opposite of stability.
Its been absolute chaos for the last few years.
We weren't all born yesterday Mr Clarke.
Caesium137
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It's mental that that's still their go to. Saying Labour will do a **** job of running the country when you've run it into the ground for 12 years.
BoroMart
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agreed, Johnson managed to marginally beat 'no one'. How will he fare against an alternative leader?
Piccadilly Day Tripper
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This is also incredible interview from last night. Armando Iannuci couldn't write this:
BoroMart
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hmmm,
My take:
1 - Voters knew that Johnson was immoral. --> Well people like coldplay and voted for the nazis, you can't trust people. Fact is at no point did he say he was going to behave this way, break the law, tear up parliamentary ways of working and ethics. In fact he invented a character 'Boris', to hide his true personality.
2 - He did brilliantly during the pandemic, because he had a baby and almost died. --> We had one of the worst deathrates in the world, he sent people with covid back to care homes, track and trace was a shambles and a way of burning money, we were ill prepared for the pandemic, PPE contracts failed to do anything other than move money to his friends. Oh yes he impregnated a woman that wasn't his wife with a baby....at least the fifth time he has impregnated a mistress...and then spent months not attending COBRA meetings because he was sorting his divorce, and it's been proven he didn't nearly die, instead he lied about nearly dying for political capital.
3 - #Partygate amounted to nothing, despite 150 criminal penalties. --> He broke the laws he wrote, he denied he broke them, and has said he would break them again because he's an entitled moron. He broke the ministerial code multiple times.
4 - The BBC is to blame. --> The bbc didn't break the rules the ministerial code, or shag around while its wife was getting chemotherapy
5 - We should be thanking Johnson. --> I'll thank him when he fooks-the-fook-off and kills this tory party on the way out
NYboro
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Number 1 is certainly true, as for the others......
Abel Tasman
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Great job title
American_Mary
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The level of utter delusion and absolute nonsense is frightening, that fact that people will see that and believe it shows just what we've become as a country, he didn't nearly die, I believe that will be the next one to run, he didn't have a baby his wife did, he did however take out a 3rd super injunction, his 'success' with Covid equated to the 22nd most populous country in the world having the 5th highest number of Covid deaths, he has not got to grips with nor has he any ideas on how to handle a cost of living crisis that threatens to put further millions below the breadline, he has presided over unprecedented levels of misuse of money during the pandemic, he has broken the law, lied to parliament, failed to deliver on all his manifesto pledges and u-turned on others, he has surrounded himself with affirmation only characters and behaved in a way totally unfitting of his position.
festa5
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Was that interview conducted in the sewer I assume he resides in?
Unravel_Morrison
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Apart from that, he's done pretty well.
Caesium137
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Well of course the roads, the roads go without saying...............
Littlejimmy
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The sanitation isn't up to much. He is the turd that won't flush.
Billy Horner
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Interesting fact.
Since the concept of a leadership election/confidence vote was first introduced, Conservative MPs have, before this latest one, held 6 such challenges against their incumbent leader (1975, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2003 and 2018). In 5 of those 6 instances, the existing leader either lost or was out of office within 12 months of the vote.
Of the 4 instances when the Tories changed their leader in this manner (as both the 1989 and 1990 votes were against Margaret Thatcher), they went on to win the following general election on 3 occasions (the only exception being the 2005 general election, when the Labour majority was reduced from 167 to 66). The only time a leader who had been subject to such challenge managed to survive beyond 12 months (John Major in 1995), at the following general election he went on to lead the party to its biggest electoral defeat in almost 100 years.
Be careful what you wish for...
Since the concept of a leadership election/confidence vote was first introduced, Conservative MPs have, before this latest one, held 6 such challenges against their incumbent leader (1975, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2003 and 2018). In 5 of those 6 instances, the existing leader either lost or was out of office within 12 months of the vote.
Of the 4 instances when the Tories changed their leader in this manner (as both the 1989 and 1990 votes were against Margaret Thatcher), they went on to win the following general election on 3 occasions (the only exception being the 2005 general election, when the Labour majority was reduced from 167 to 66). The only time a leader who had been subject to such challenge managed to survive beyond 12 months (John Major in 1995), at the following general election he went on to lead the party to its biggest electoral defeat in almost 100 years.
Be careful what you wish for...
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