Jul 2022
10:03am, 8 Jul 2022
4,240 posts
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Dillthedog
Plus, most of them are as mad as a box of frogs. As are the blue rinse brigade who will have the final say on who becomes the next Tory leader/PM. They would be delighted if Mogg, Patel, Truss or mad Nad were amongst the choices. Hopefully there are enough semi sensible MPs to filter them out first. |
Jul 2022
10:08am, 8 Jul 2022
18,345 posts
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larkim
Careful JB, if the new leader comes on here and reads that they might actually be successful and manage to win the next GE. Agree, the US system is very peculiar in how much power both within the party and in office they vest into one individual. Or at least they cede that power to them. |
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Jul 2022
10:47am, 8 Jul 2022
18,347 posts
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larkim
bbc.co.uk 21:26m in, anyone else think Steve Baker on here sounds exactly like a candidate from the Apprentice who's about to put themselves forward for PM (project manager!) only to find that they actually have none of the skills they so eloquently claim to have in their pre-contest bluster. |
Jul 2022
10:52am, 8 Jul 2022
22,047 posts
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DeeGee
"I'm absolutely confident that if I *seized* power, I'd do a good job." It's not about seizing power, Baker. That *democracy* that you so love when it delivers you what you want is nothing to so with seizing power. |
Jul 2022
10:53am, 8 Jul 2022
23,073 posts
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Bazoaxe
I don’t know why anyone listens to Steve baker.
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Jul 2022
10:53am, 8 Jul 2022
42,868 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
James Cleverly reminded me in an R4 interview today of one of our junior analysts or project managers that had just been given a project beyond their capability too larks!  G
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Jul 2022
10:53am, 8 Jul 2022
72 posts
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EuanB
Watched with incredulity the "vox pops" in Macclesfield on the news last night. I admire loyalty, but I can't fathom what's going on in the head of anyone in the general population that isn't a r-w activist that feels they are outraged by Johnson being forced out of office. Utterly baffling. Interesting that they went to Macclesfield, the sort of place where people would vote for a teddy bear if it had a blue rosette on. The sort of place that's full of working class people who would *never* vote Labour, probably because their ancestors lived in pocket boroughs where the landowner could require them to vote the correct way. They could at least justify voting Tory on the grounds that 1) Boris is a lad/character, and 2) GET BREXIT DONE. |
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Jul 2022
10:57am, 8 Jul 2022
42,870 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I know Brexit is so last decade, but you could do such an easy parody on "What have the EU ever done for us?" with the people of Macclesfield and everywhere else: buildings, gardens, playparks, bridges, business parks. Oh yeah, well those, but...
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Jul 2022
11:02am, 8 Jul 2022
16,902 posts
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Cerrertonia
Macclesfield itself doesn't have a single Conservative councillor, and voted Remain in 2016. It's the rural area around the town that makes it a safe Conservative seat in parliament.
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Jul 2022
11:04am, 8 Jul 2022
1,147 posts
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fuzzyduck79
If I was thinking about sending my offspring to Eton, I'd be having serious second thoughts. Last two male PM's we've had haven't exactly been a ringing endorsement for the place, have they? Disagree - the sort of person who wants their child at the elite private schools will see Cameron/Johnson as stone cold confirmation that if you get them in, the connections they get are worth more than gold and you are buying them access to a life for which they have zero merit. |
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