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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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13 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Thanks for the job as Chancellor and everything but 

 

Just in case anybody is still in any doubt as to the character of Mr Zahawi, he took the job on Tuesday evening knowing full well he would be approaching the PM the very next day to try and oust him. 

Tells you all you need to know about him. Like so many others in his party, personal ambition trumps integrity.

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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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5 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Apparently every political position in the Department for Education is now vacant; Secretary of State, junior Ministers, and PPSs.

Who is going to take responsibility for the inevitable annual fuck-up with kids exams this summer then?

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egg

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20 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Just in case anybody is still in any doubt as to the character of Mr Zahawi, he took the job on Tuesday evening knowing full well he would be approaching the PM the very next day to try and oust him. 

Tells you all you need to know about him. Like so many others in his party, personal ambition trumps integrity.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that he saw the reaction of others so gave Boris the necessary final push which appears to have knocked him of his perch. 

Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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10 minutes ago, egg said:

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that he saw the reaction of others so gave Boris the necessary final push which appears to have knocked him of his perch. 

 

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farawaysaint

farawaysaint

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15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Dont be sorry it's over be glad it happened. 

#weloveBoris

You are officially invited to my candlelight vigil this evening where we will level up our sadness.

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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Never has anyone in history been less suited to the "I tell you what, I'll stay on for a few more months and then I'll definitely go honest I will".

He wants a war, or a natural disaster or a pandemic or some other shit that just means he can say he is Prime Minister for a bit longer. Anything to cling on.

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farawaysaint

farawaysaint

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4 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

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It’s time for Beer Starmer. 

Paradoxically Boris is the best thing in the world for labour. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone competent replaces Boris that the Tories will retain their majority.

Warriorsaint

Warriorsaint

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Ohhhh Glory day. Seriously thinking about getting my boy out of school so he can watch the resignation. I saw Thatcher go huddled around a small tv in our school tv and the image has stayed with me. I want my boy to see that eventually truth wins and that these fuckers work for US and not the other way round.

Thank God he’s going . Now for the rest of the cabal. Nads, Patel, Truss moog out . Never has there been a more corruptable, incompetent govt.

Hurrah, glory be

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Turkish

Turkish

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9 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Never has anyone in history been less suited to the "I tell you what, I'll stay on for a few more months and then I'll definitely go honest I will".

He wants a war, or a natural disaster or a pandemic or some other shit that just means he can say he is Prime Minister for a bit longer. Anything to cling on.

New variant incoming?

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spyinthesky

spyinthesky

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34 minutes ago, Warriorsaint said:

Ohhhh Glory day. Seriously thinking about getting my boy out of school so he can watch the resignation. I saw Thatcher go huddled around a small tv in our school tv and the image has stayed with me. I want my boy to see that eventually truth wins and that these fuckers work for US and not the other way round.

Thank God he’s going . Now for the rest of the cabal. Nads, Patel, Truss moog out . Never has there been a more corruptable, incompetent govt.

Hurrah, glory be

Apparently Rees-Mogg has put a letter into the Prime Minister's office this morning.

Unfortunately it is written in Sanskrit, the method of communication when Rees-Mogg was a youngster and no one has yet been able to translate the scribbling.

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RedArmy

RedArmy

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41 minutes ago, Warriorsaint said:

Seriously thinking about getting my boy out of school so he can watch the resignation. 

:lol::lol:

CB Fry

CB Fry

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1 hour ago, Warriorsaint said:

Seriously thinking about getting my boy out of school so he can watch the resignation.

Jesus wept.

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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Raab has already done the Caretaker job twice when Boris had Covid, so he is already established as the Tony Parkes of the UK Government.

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Turkish

Turkish

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Boris to walk out to "my way" walk slowly to the microphone, before screaming into it "i'm not going anywhere" and burst into his best Freddie Mercury impression singing "dont stop me now"??

 

saint1977

saint1977

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2 hours ago, farawaysaint said:

Paradoxically Boris is the best thing in the world for labour. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone competent replaces Boris that the Tories will retain their majority.

Unless they pick Wallace or Tugendhat - which they won’t as not Brexit enough (ditto Hunt too) - then there isn’t anyone competent which is why Boris won the vote only a month ago. Look at the runners and riders - Sunak, shattered by the non Dom saga, a gift for Starmer and will make the cost of living crisis even worse: Truss - off her rocker, would melt on the world stage: Braverman - Donald Trump in a dress: Penny the skate: flying wardrobe on Splash is her top achievement, that’s the Southampton seats both gone red again: Patel: worse than May as Home Secretary, didn’t think that was possible, Rwanda saga will forever be her legacy and link. I could go on eg Javid too dry to appeal widely, Steve Baker a loony but I want the Tory Party gone from power as soon as possible so they can rebuild as Kinnock had to do with Labour in the 1980s. Just a rudderless, populist, single issue eg Brexit mess. And they couldn’t even get that ‘done’ properly looking at the NI protocol. 

Their legacy - austerity, Brexit (sort of), Grenfell (shared with Labour), huge scale PPE fraud (which will sink Michelle Donelan), economic shrinking eg Brexit, gross mishandling, education in chaos at all levels, record costs of living to match the stagflation of the 1970s. If like Labour this period keeps the Tories out of power for 18 years the country will be in a much better place. As a Lib Dem voter I’m not overkeen on Starmer but cannot fail to be an improvement than this pile of imbeciles on his worst day. 

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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21 minutes ago, Warriorsaint said:

He did, yes. Dry your own eyes. It’s a great day for the country.

I'm delighted Boris is going you fucking weirdo.

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AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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4 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

I'm delighted Boris is going you fucking weirdo.

That resignation is up there with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Moon Landings and the release of Nelson Mandela!

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Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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Well that speech was everything expected it to be. Waxing lyrical about how wonderful and brilliant his premiership has been and blaming his forced resignation on "the herd" in Westminster. At no point did it occur to him to even pretend to show any remorse or contrition for any of the catastrophic failures of leadership he has overseen.

As an aside, I see that Starmer has stated he will push for a VONC if he doesn't leave office immediately.

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn

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7 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Well that speech was everything expected it to be. Waxing lyrical about how wonderful and brilliant his premiership has been and blaming his forced resignation on "the herd" in Westminster. At no point did it occur to him to even pretend to show any remorse or contrition for any of the catastrophic failures of leadership he has overseen.

As an aside, I see that Starmer has stated he will push for a VONC if he doesn't leave office immediately.

I saw a suggestion on twitter that a VONC is what Boris wants as if he survives it he'll use it as an excuse to un-resign.

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RedArmy

RedArmy

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53 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

That resignation is up there with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Moon Landings and the release of Nelson Mandela!

A proper “where were you when…?” Moment. 
 

I recorded it to show my grandkids in the future. 

Turkish

Turkish

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59 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

That resignation is up there with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Moon Landings and the release of Nelson Mandela!

This is probably the greatest day of Soggys life. Bet he wishes Boris hadn't got him in to so much debt so he could afford a fiver to post relentlessly about it.

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badgerx16

badgerx16

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What collection of nonentities form the new Cabinet ? The  Government Whips are concerned that there aren't enough junior ministers to get Parliamentary business done.

kyle04

kyle04

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1 hour ago, Warriorsaint said:

Hes not going. Holding on so we can have an earthquake, or war to get involved in. Has to be dragged out. Such entitlement 

Maybe his next move :

 

 

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The Left Back

The Left Back

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40 minutes ago, Turkish said:

This is probably the greatest day of Soggys life. Bet he wishes Boris hadn't got him in to so much debt so he could afford a fiver to post relentlessly about it.

You sound a little obsessed. 

Back on topic, I'm struggling to think of a candidate who (a) is not tarnished with being loyal to Boris (b) can unite the party (c) has enough personality to appeal tp the red wall and (d) has a moral compass

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