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UK PoliGAF |OT3| - Strong and Stable Government? No. Coalition Of Chaos!
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Bony Manifesto
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418 councils in the UK. So that's an extra 12 houses per council per year.
CharmingCharlie
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I bet any money it was one of those lazy, evil, alcoholic, drug using, fornicating, baby making single blokes that stuck the sign to the wall. Probably used their own bodily emanations to stick the letters to the wall cos he didn't have a wife.
I honestly have to wonder how the Tory party is still a thing. These are some of the vilest people in the country.
I honestly have to wonder how the Tory party is still a thing. These are some of the vilest people in the country.
"Struggling on" is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of May's premiership.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
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You could say their overall message was: F off.
JonnyDBrit
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There's something poetic in the aspirations of the Conservatives holding together just long enough for them to try and sell it to people.
Little Old Man
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"Struggling on" is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of May's premiership.
Absolutely.
Theonik
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Too many vowels.
SuperEpicMan
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I thought that was what did happen.
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Personally I'm just glad we're putting aside Tolkien's blatant speciesism and looking to work with the Orks.
JonnyDBrit
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No, no, those were the orcs. If we're workings with the Orks, then the Imperium really has gone down the shitter.
No Ork would be caught dead working with anyone wearing blue. All Orks know that red ones go faster.
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I think it's pretty fair to say that the British Imperium passed the U-bend some time back.
PJV3
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To win? Or just to stand?
To stand.
I reckon she'll go this weekend. She'll just quit. She's behaved like there's some way back for her up till now. We're now getting various leaks from her inner circle saying she's not been in a good place mentally on the run up to this conference and this was her big chance at a reset. If all hope for that reset is done, with her authority even more shot she's just volunteering for another couple of months of misery until someone plunges the knife.
Waiting for the Mail's "THE WOMAN WHO HATES BRITAIN" headline.
CyclopsRock
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Please for the love of fuck will someone elevate Ruth to the Lords. It's a little bit "19th Century" to have a Prime Minister from the Lords, but everyone loves her!
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You don't even have to be a Lord - there's no statutory condition to being Prime Minister other than being appointed by the monarch, holding the confidence of the Commons, and not holding an office of profit under the Crown (E.g. the Chiltern Hundreds).
It would just be very awkward.
She's fucking terrible.
Honestly. When she's shorn of her 'SNP bad, union good' response to everything. She really really struggles under even pretty soft ball questioning on policy.
She's had it relatively easy up here. Just position her and her party as anti-SNP and with the continuing travails of Scottish Labour, she's merely just had to wrap the union jack around her, pander to the Orange order and sell some brexit lies to farmers and fishermen and profit. In Holyrood, Sturgeon basically slaps her about with ease.
Nah, God-Empress of the British Imperium is a more fitting role.
Seriously though, Ruth and Boris seem to be the only two charismatic Tories out there with any sort of popular support.
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Boris has net unfavourable public opinion - I wouldn't say he has popular support, just a fervent support base.
As far as I'm aware, Ruth Davidson is the only high-profile Conservative politician with net positive ratings.
As far as I'm aware, Ruth Davidson is the only high-profile Conservative politician with net positive ratings.
She's basically generic Tory down south with an added side of presumed competence and likability because the media keeps saying she has those qualities. I've met her in a social setting before, she's relatively sane and pleasant enough to talk to, but I've got a sneaky feeling a lot of English tories are going to be awfully disappointed given extended exposure.
For one, she's more centrist than either Hammond or Rudd. Two, her debating ability isn't great. Three, she's not great under hostile questioning (she gets almost none of that up here), in fact the one time I remember her getting a sustained hard time on was Radio 5 and she pretty much froze.
CyclopsRock
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Oh, I'm sorry, please take Boris/Hunt/Davis/Literally the entire cabinet.
Just been catching up on everything that was May's speech and there's been some comedy gold in the last few pages (both deliberate from gaffers and accidental from the Tories) that's had me rolling.
Politics of late has been crying out for a SPITTING IMAGE or THE THICK OF IT, but at least today we saw the return of AWLTY TOWERS, slapstick inept shenanigans in tact.
Politics of late has been crying out for a SPITTING IMAGE or THE THICK OF IT, but at least today we saw the return of AWLTY TOWERS, slapstick inept shenanigans in tact.
PJV3
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Possible, if they really think Mogg is going to be a viable option then they must be scraping the barrel. Boris has really fucked it up this week even by his own standards.
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JonathanEx
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He does a podcast now too. Because of course he does.
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On a different note, May's bracelet at the conference carried artwork by Frida Kahlo, a member of the Mexican Communist Party who had a wild affair with Trotsky. The only possible conclusion to be drawn is that she is actually a sleeper agent playing the long game, activated by Agent Corbyn to ensure maximum communisation.
*smirks Russianly*
*smirks Russianly*
The only reason May will hang on is because the alternative is Boris.
The whole hype about Davidson is overblown, she hasn't held a job of any responsibility and people want her to step in and lead Britain through Brexit.
What if May is actually Corbyn is disguise? Would explain why she didn't want to do the debates :O
I mean, I've never actually believed PMQs takes place in the same reality as the rest of our world, so I think I can reconcile these theories
Pyroclastic
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he won our hearts and minds <3
he's so much better suited to what he's doing now and what he was doing before becoming leader. I hope he has an important role in a future government.
as leader in this country you need to be a battering ram unfortunately.
he's so much better suited to what he's doing now and what he was doing before becoming leader. I hope he has an important role in a future government.
as leader in this country you need to be a battering ram unfortunately.
Principate
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He was the hero the country needed but not the one it deserved. Not remotely.
Bonen no Max'd
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Is it normal for former leaders to not be part of the shadow government?
Theonik
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The camera never shows them on screen at the same time so it's just Corbyn running across the aisle really quickly.
If you can change the tires on an F1 car in less than 10 seconds you can put a wig on a Corbyn in that time.
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