Jul 2024
10:32am, 25 Jul 2024
28,108 posts
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TROSaracen
Yeah but insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result....
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Jul 2024
11:27am, 25 Jul 2024
22,753 posts
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rf_fozzy
Jeez, the Tory leadership contest is shaping up to be the battle of the no-hopers.
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Jul 2024
11:29am, 25 Jul 2024
9,200 posts
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Pothunter
Anyone with long-term ambitions would be crazy to take on the leadership now. They’ve got at least 5 years (hopefully more!) of trying to rebuild and I’d be astonished if the next leader actually takes the party into the next GE.
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Jul 2024
11:30am, 25 Jul 2024
28,649 posts
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richmac
What these Tories don't realise, are not capable of realising due their selfishness and I hope they don't cotton onto, is that none absolutley none of the ones who were even heard of by people during the last government has a cat in hells chance of leading them back to power. They are all tainted & most of the public hate them
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Jul 2024
11:35am, 25 Jul 2024
22,754 posts
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rf_fozzy
Cameroon wasn't even an MP until 2001 - 4 years after the election defeat in 1997 Similarly Starmer (although in the civil service as DPP) wasn't elected as an MP until 2015. I suspect the next GE-winning Tory leader (*if* it happens - but it probably will) will not currently be an MP. |
Jul 2024
11:37am, 25 Jul 2024
20,900 posts
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Dave W
No. They’re going to get Bojo back in. A proven winner who everyone likes. No brainer really. Don’t know why they didn’t think of it earlier.
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Jul 2024
11:42am, 25 Jul 2024
22,755 posts
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rf_fozzy
Except he's not currently an MP....
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Jul 2024
12:00pm, 25 Jul 2024
22,756 posts
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rf_fozzy
Anyway, the potential next president of the US apparently told his nephew that maybe disabled people should just die because they were a financial burden. If his nephew's son did that then he'd be able to move to Florida. What a nice chap the Republican nominee is. /s |
Jul 2024
12:47pm, 25 Jul 2024
161 posts
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Yakima Canutt
I sometimes wonder if the Tories are expecting the same level of popularity if they act and do more like trump MAGAs but with a bowler hat on it. They are trying (and so is the Telegraph and Express on their behalf) but its not cutting through.
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Jul 2024
1:27pm, 25 Jul 2024
5,545 posts
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J2R
@Yakima Canutt , yes, it's a point I've made a number of times. The Right in this country are so intellectually impoverished and lacking in imagination that they get most of their ideas from the already intellectually impoverished Right in the States, on the basis that they're popular there so with a bit of luck will be here as well. But a great number of those ideas are only relevant to the States and don't apply here. It's dismal.
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