news & politics:discussion

[Guest]

Just now, tigger123 said:

Apparently 13 weeks (aka 25% of the year) of parliamentary recess isn’t quite enough holiday for him 

Is he quiet quitting!?

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Dam right they do 🙂  hence why we live in a Tory / Brexit wonderland 🙂 

I would take that over @Crazyfool01 communist wonderland 😄 

imagine the world where the nhs worked fantastically, i'd get my german sis in law to run it as she always tells me what they do in germany, (she's an admin for german health service) when we don't get it here.

i gave the nhs a proper long test (around five hospitals) last year, and discovered its the nurses who make it work, when they're prepared to go the extra mile to do a great job.

[clarkete]

17 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Did anyone say getting brexit done ?   I said he delivered Brexit which May failed to do...  He got it signed and actioned.  Which is what he stood on and did.

Brexit will never be "done" as a process...  But it IS what the public voted for and its something people like you just can't deal with.

I hate Brexit - I would reverse it if I could - but to view him carrying out an election pledge to push through a democratic referendum then you have a fundamental issue with democracy. 

Advisory referendum obviously 😉

[steviewevie]

7 minutes ago, Neil said:

only boris, as the only one who can save them their seats.

I think he'll struggle to get 100..but we'll see. Could be just Sunak, or Wallace if he stands.

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, tigger123 said:

Apparently 13 weeks (aka 25% of the year) of parliamentary recess isn’t quite enough holiday for him 

he's famous for being a shirker, maybe truss's opinion of British workers is got from knowing Boris.

[steviewevie]

there will be lots of deals going on in the background...maybe between Sunak and Mordaunt like in that dream ticket story the other week..but which would be PM?

[lost]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Wallace if he stands.

Wallace vs Starmer PMQ's. It'd be about as exciting as those big train world staring contest sketches.

[steviewevie]

5 minutes ago, lost said:

Wallace vs Starmer PMQ's. It'd be about as exciting as those big train world staring contest sketches.

😄

I have no idea what Wallace is actually like...only that he wrote something all grown up and serious about the threat from Russia towards the start of the year.

Maybe though...a bit of boring might be a good thing. It's got too panto last few years.

[Neil]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

there will be lots of deals going on in the background...maybe between Sunak and Mordaunt like in that dream ticket story the other week..but which would be PM?

spaffer has been shown to reward his supporters, from the gongs hes handed out already. don't think he needs to make deals. mps will see that spaffer as pm works for them by keeping them their seats - and thats enough for most, the more ambitious just need to be boris fans from here, and they'll get rewarded.

 

[steviewevie]

Ok...so...

Sunak, Mordaunt, Wallace or Johnson?

BET NOW!

(I am going for Sunak).

Whoever gets it right can do the obligatory CALLED IT! thing.

[Crazyfool01]

19 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Dam right they do 🙂  hence why we live in a Tory / Brexit wonderland 🙂 

I would take that over @Crazyfool01 communist wonderland 😄 

A woke communist to you … 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Ok...so...

Sunak, Mordaunt, Wallace or Johnson?

BET NOW!

(I am going for Sunak).

Whoever gets it right can do the obligatory CALLED IT! thing.

Sunak, he got a lot of support last time with MPs and polls well with the members. 

[Guest]

 

[maelzoid]

56 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:

Lloyd George selling off honours, then again I'm not sure that is a scandal in 2022.

Who coincidentally left office exactly 100 years ago yesterday.

[Guest]

 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Barry Fish said:

No such thing...  I've just got you chalked up as a commi at this point. 

Ok can’t I be a tree hugging commie then ? 

[Guest]

Who was the clown that tried to claim Johnson was popular earlier on?

Data is your friend if you look at it with an open mind 😉

[steviewevie]

5 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Who was the clown that tried to claim Johnson was popular earlier on?

Data is your friend if you look at it with an open mind 😉

from that it looks like his approval rating was highest when he was in hospital almost dying from covid.

[Crazyfool01]

Replacement needs 100 votes … gonna be tight for Boris surely ? 

[steviewevie]

what happens if no one gets 100 nominations?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Replacement needs 100 votes … gonna be tight for Boris surely ? 

Yeah I’d say that rules him out. 
 

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

from that it looks like his approval rating was highest when he was in hospital almost dying from covid.

That was during the start of the pandemic and the ‘rally round the flag’ effect. 

[steviewevie]

If it ends up with Mordaunt vs Sunak that goes to the membership...not sure who would win....the thinking in the summer was that it would be Mordaunt, but not so sure now that Sunak has kind of been proved right..and the fact that Mordaunt is kind of boring...

[steviewevie]

we're like one of those countries that has a different leader every 6 months.

When I was growing up it was Thatcher...and then Thatcher...and then a bit more Thatcher...

[squirrelarmy]

27 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Ok...so...

Sunak, Mordaunt, Wallace or Johnson?

BET NOW!

(I am going for Sunak).

Whoever gets it right can do the obligatory CALLED IT! thing.

Whoever wins the country loses

[steviewevie]