Jul 2022
9:37pm, 7 Jul 2022
7,988 posts
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Dave W
As the Downing Street door opened and its downstairs toilet flushed out its familiar payload for the final time, it’s important to point out, in the interest of balance, that not everyone in the crowd was booing. Quite a lot of them were simply shouting “arsehole”. Lol!! |
Jul 2022
9:51pm, 7 Jul 2022
2,213 posts
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Roberto
Just had a look at both tugendhat and wallaces voting records. If they are considered the good options, then I dread to look at the bad options.
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Jul 2022
9:58pm, 7 Jul 2022
2,118 posts
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Ally-C
Just had a look at both tugendhat and wallaces voting records. If they are considered the good options, then I dread to look at the bad options. Comparing shades of shite. |
Jul 2022
10:06pm, 7 Jul 2022
19,145 posts
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richmac
Still lying bbc.co.uk |
Jul 2022
10:25pm, 7 Jul 2022
27,710 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Can't a Foreign Secretary get pissed at a bunga bunga party thrown by a KGB man's son anymore? What has this country come to? |
Jul 2022
10:32pm, 7 Jul 2022
1,371 posts
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paulcook
Coincidentally last night I read this piece theguardian.com which specifically states "In a brief entry of ministerial interests on the Foreign Office website, Johnson declared he had an “overnight stay” with Lebedev on 28 April, travelling “accompanied by a spouse, family member or friend”." Yes, it's sparse on details, but unless the Guardian is wrong/lying, then Johnson did report meeting Lebedev. Suffice to say, the word that keeps coming to me is kompromat. |
Jul 2022
10:34pm, 7 Jul 2022
18,335 posts
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larkim
I don't think it's right to say that the current legislation on no confidence motions allows the PCP to change their leader. The way the legislation is drafted now I think forces a dissolution of parliament and nothing else. The only way a no confidence motion doesn't result in dissolution now is for a motion of confidence to be passed within 14 days but for that to happen that would also I think require the PM to formally resign or have the queen remove him from the role. And despite what it might feel like, she will not do that. Of course, there would be the highest order of pressure on a PM to resign if it really looks like the only options are resign or be seen as the person who forced Liz to act in a completely inappropriate way. No, the only way Johnson is going quickly is either for a single candidate to emerge from the Tory hustings so there doesn't need to be a members election or if he actually resigns the position early himself, and as he's shown over the last few days he really doesn't feel inclined to do that. Imagining there are other clever mechanisms for getting him out I think is misguided. They simply don't exist. it's either his choice, a dissolved parliament after a no confidence or getting the monarch to act in what would be regarded today as a constitutional aberration. |
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Jul 2022
10:36pm, 7 Jul 2022
1,372 posts
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paulcook
He ain't resigning early. He's got a wedding to hold: twitter.com |
Jul 2022
10:53pm, 7 Jul 2022
3,209 posts
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JRitchie
How can we not feel confident about the future now that we have an education secretary whose name is Cleverly.
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Jul 2022
10:54pm, 7 Jul 2022
27,711 posts
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Johnny Blaze
"accompanied by a spouse, family member or friend”." And yet when he flew back he was apparently on his own... |
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