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Oct 2022
1:42pm, 20 Oct 2022
1,891 posts
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paulcook
These piss taking twats, you cannot get rid of 2 PM's and not have a GE. FFS
Rees Mogg said (I think when May took over) that when a PM stands down there should be a GE because historically one has almost always followed anyway and the mandate has gone.
These last few weeks have shown this to be never truer. Yet I guarantee they still won't do the right thing.
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Oct 2022
1:45pm, 20 Oct 2022
1,404 posts
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fuzzyduck79
Next stage in this farce is the party membership getting out of their box about the MPs doing whatever they like to pick another leader.
As pointed out on BBC coverage, the leadership contest took longer than Truss' term in office.
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Oct 2022
1:45pm, 20 Oct 2022
19,378 posts
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larkim
So leadership election completed within a week - so ignoring the party members
I doubt they can do that, the Tory party official rules require an election via the members - but *only* if they are presented with more than one candidate.
So if the 1922 process results in just one candidate standing up for it, then the party members don't get a say.
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Oct 2022
1:46pm, 20 Oct 2022
19,379 posts
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larkim
Future trivia question.
"Which UK Prime Minister served under two monarchs but held the shortest period of office?"
Appearing in Trivial Pursuit, 2098 edition.
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Oct 2022
1:46pm, 20 Oct 2022
9,382 posts
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GordonG
I agree there should be a GE, but if I was a tory MP it's the last thing I'd call for. Turkeys, Christmas...
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Oct 2022
1:47pm, 20 Oct 2022
3,465 posts
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JRitchie
I’m a fighter not a … erm
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Oct 2022
1:48pm, 20 Oct 2022
1,892 posts
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paulcook
So leadership election completed within a week - so ignoring the party members I doubt they can do that, the Tory party official rules require an election via the members - but *only* if they are presented with more than one candidate. So if the 1922 process results in just one candidate standing up for it, then the party members don't get a say.
They're going to set the bar for nominations so high that there's either only 1 or 2 candidates on the shortlist. And if 2, one will step down during the process a la Andrea Leadsom.
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Oct 2022
1:48pm, 20 Oct 2022
7,084 posts
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Fields
These piss taking twats, you cannot get rid of 2 PM's and not have a GE. FFS
I can’t think of a PM who has taken office mid-election cycle who has gone to the country within 6 months except Eden in 1955 and Johnson in 2019. If only there was a constitution.
MacMillan, Douglas-Home, Callaghan, Brown didn’t - they all waited for the next election, though in Douglas-Home was only a year out from an election. May went to the country tactically in 2017 about a year later.
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Oct 2022
1:50pm, 20 Oct 2022
6,323 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Parliamentary democracy: as long as the PM can command a majority in the HoC they are legitimate.
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Oct 2022
1:53pm, 20 Oct 2022
1,406 posts
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fuzzyduck79
Imagine Suella resigning because she'd breached the Ministerial Code and then asking to be PM the following day
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