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12 Jul
7:33pm, 12 Jul 2024
21,922 posts
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Chrisull
Three things. Third is having a process that can be reversed for anyone other than Harris. They've already had the primaries and many Biden voters would feel bringing in Newsom or someone else would ignore their votes. I don't think it's possible for the primaries process to be reversed.
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12 Jul
8:15pm, 12 Jul 2024
32,758 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I can't see that they will want to make it an open contest but things are moving pretty quickly at the moment.
It's always possible that Trump will implode or that they could land the message that Trump will end American democracy and that swings enough voters, but it's all becoming harder with a candidate who is struggling to campaign at anything like full throttle.
And chances of Trump taking another defeat lying down = zero.
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13 Jul
7:14am, 13 Jul 2024
32,632 posts
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macca 53
Only place for NE Labour and Union supporters to be today is Durham. The mixture of politics and tradition is fantastic!
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13 Jul
10:57am, 13 Jul 2024
32,759 posts
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Johnny Blaze
ION: Biden calling Trump a rapist in his speeches now.
And Starmer to boot hereditaries out of the HofL tout de suite.
Only took 700 years or so but we got there in the end.
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13 Jul
11:01am, 13 Jul 2024
28,489 posts
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richmac
Biden getting the boot in early.
Waiting for the Orgreave enquiry to be announced.
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13 Jul
11:37am, 13 Jul 2024
28,491 posts
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richmac
Also, Starmer can claim victory on 'Change' can't he, we've gone a whole week with no one on the government benches getting arrested or caught watching porn, no expenses scandals ... Oh you get it...
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13 Jul
12:12pm, 13 Jul 2024
138 posts
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Yakima Canutt
Starmer has had a very decent week, but I can't recall such events in the first week of the May, Cameron or even Boris governments?
I wonder if Emily Thornbury is right now planning the right time to shit in Starmers shoes?
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13 Jul
6:03pm, 13 Jul 2024
25,104 posts
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larkim
I don't watch football generally, but interesting to watch the 1966 mens world cup final on Ch4 now in colour to see the crowd waving the union flag rather than the cross of st George. Not strictly politics I know, but thought it made an interesting contrast.
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13 Jul
6:08pm, 13 Jul 2024
5,845 posts
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paulcook
Was apparently 1996 - when England and Scotland - were in the same group that changed the common use of Union Jack to the St George’s Cross.
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13 Jul
6:17pm, 13 Jul 2024
25,105 posts
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larkim
I can 100% see why the other nations would object of course to England adopting the State flag, and back then I'm guessing the concept of the four nations having any degree of parity would have been quite anathema. (I hold the quaint and unpopular view that for sport etc our "state" should field a single team on the the international stage, so the UK flag would be right for that of course!)
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Fantasy General Election
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