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Boris can easily ride this out if he wants, there literally isn't a mechanism to remove him without the MPs voting to change the rules (the Conservative Party does not want this) or a general election where many of them are slated to lose their seats. The only way anything changes is if Boris himself suddenly finds a spine and quits, or (comedy option) spitefully calls a GE.
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EvilHawk posted:Boris can easily ride this out if he wants, there literally isn't a mechanism to remove him without the MPs voting to change the rules (the Conservative Party does not want this) or a general election where many of them are slated to lose their seats. If they have to, the party will absolutely 100%, without question, change the rules. Minor procedural embarrassment to remove a leader that most want gone and is a clear electoral liability? Of course they'll do it. Chinese Gordon fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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namesake posted:Well you shouldn't expect anything good to come from the British state as it currently exists, this is good news because it's furthering the discrediting of the Tories as the natural party of government which doesn't look good for the Tories or the state in general. You're right, I'm being needlessly pessimistic
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Chinese Gordon posted:The party will absolutely 100%, without question, change the rules. The party will probably put the pressure on Johnson, but I do not believe the Conservative Party wants to give the rank and file more power to remove a leader. It goes against everything they stand for.
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EvilHawk posted:Boris can easily ride this out if he wants, there literally isn't a mechanism to remove him without the MPs voting to change the rules (the Conservative Party does not want this) or a general election where many of them are slated to lose their seats.
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EvilHawk posted:The party will probably put the pressure on Johnson, but I do not believe the Conservative Party wants to give the rank and file more power to remove a leader. It goes against everything they stand for. tories absolutely love stabbing their leaders in the back though
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EvilHawk posted:The party will probably put the pressure on Johnson, but I do not believe the Conservative Party wants to give the rank and file more power to remove a leader. It goes against everything they stand for. They already de facto have that power.
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EvilHawk posted:The party will probably put the pressure on Johnson, but I do not believe the Conservative Party wants to give the rank and file more power to remove a leader. It goes against everything they stand for. They’ll add some condition saying if like half the parliamentary party votes for no confidence that there’ll be a vote regardless of how long since the last one and they’ll get it this time, but still keep the option unrealistically out of reach under normal circumstances.
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Jesus, I come in here looking for advice on how to wipe my arse and you're all banging on about politics.
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Jul 5, 2022 20:48
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Anna Soubry really going for gusto on Sky News, fully knives out
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Pistol_Pete posted:Jesus, I come in here looking for advice on how to wipe my arse and you're all banging on about politics. A copy of The Sun is all you need for both
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EvilHawk posted:Boris can easily ride this out if he wants, there literally isn't a mechanism to remove him A guillotine technically counts as a mechanism
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EvilHawk posted:The party will probably put the pressure on Johnson, but I do not believe the Conservative Party wants to give the rank and file more power to remove a leader. It goes against everything they stand for. They threatened May with exactly this though and she quit. They will 100% change the rules, Boris has a minority power structure now.
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It's not really much of s Great Resignation when it's just two senior ministers and a bunch of nobodies, I have to say
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Pistol_Pete posted:Jesus, I come in here looking for advice on how to wipe my arse and you're all banging on about politics. With the Tories i find it hard to tell the difference between them and a small piece of sticky poo poo.
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SixFigureSandwich posted:It's not really much of s Great Resignation when it's just two senior ministers and a bunch of nobodies, I have to say Alright calm down Boris.
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Two flags, he's loving serious now. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1544401979895595008
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Chancellor will obviously come from the current cabinet. I’m calling Gove.
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If junior ministers are looking for jobs I hear Carrie’s offering them.
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Two resignations from people who have a vested interest in Johnson leaving, no less. Look, I'd love for the blubbering idiot to go, but I just don't see the Conservative Party voting to change the rules when there's not a clear person to step up to replace him. May was forced out because Boris was constantly there in the background saying he could do it better, with friends in the media promoting him. Sunak's the favourite but the knives have been out for him already, then it's Penny Mordaunt, Ben Wallace, Liz Truss, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid. Not exactly a stand out person there. More than happy to be proved wrong tomorrow of course.
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Dorries and boris have to be shagging, right? I do not at all understand why she goes to bat for him, it makes very little professional sense as even if he survives this crisis it's hard to see what future there is for him generally.
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OwlFancier posted:Dorries and boris have to be shagging, right? I do not at all understand why she goes to bat for him, it makes very little professional sense as even if he survives this crisis it's hard to see what future there is for him generally. The answer is that she's aggressively stupid.
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peanut- posted:Two flags, he's loving serious now. It's going to be like that scene at the end of The Birds where every subsequent time he appears there will be slightly more flags, until eventually the screen is filled with Kier Starmer as an anthropomorphic flag endlessly repeating the word "Britain"
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What are all the jokes about people turning up at No. 10 with four lagers and a fishing rod about?
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No poppy, CON +5 e: ^^^ They're not Raoul Moatly funny
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Dabir posted:What are all the jokes about people turning up at No. 10 with four lagers and a fishing rod about? That's what Gazza brought Raoul Moat e: ok Guavanaut had a much better answer Deketh fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Dabir posted:What are all the jokes about people turning up at No. 10 with four lagers and a fishing rod about? https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paul-gascoignes-bizarre-bid-save-22323591
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Dabir posted:What are all the jokes about people turning up at No. 10 with four lagers and a fishing rod about? A bloke went on a rampage a few years ago and was cornered by the cops. As the siege progressed Gazza turned up with some beers, food, and a fishing rod as he knew the bloke and thought he could defuse the situation. It was all very weird.
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notaspy posted:A bloke went on a rampage a few years ago and was cornered by the cops. Apparently he didn't know him, just snorted enough coke that he thought he did: quote:Having heard about Moat's horrific rampage on the news, Gascoigne decided he would try to help the murderer.
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OwlFancier posted:Dorries and boris have to be shagging, right? I do not at all understand why she goes to bat for him, it makes very little professional sense as even if he survives this crisis it's hard to see what future there is for him generally. Probably, but also the second Boris is gone, so is she. Nobody else would give her a ministerial post so this is 50/50 self preservation/gently caress buddy.
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