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Gyro Zeppeli posted:A really fun (not fun at all) fact is Nadhim Zahawi is a member and former chairman of Le Cercle, a pro-apartheid, anti-communist club founded by Nazi collaborators & Opus Dei members. Weren't these guys tied to the CIA and the Years of Lead in Italy too, or am I getting my shadowy far-right intelligence clubs mixed up?
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keep punching joe posted:Ah well, nevertheless. 
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Give me a general election yesterday
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keep punching joe posted:Ah well, nevertheless. 
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Diet Crack posted:Give me a general election yesterday Please don't, I got my Curve Jailer kill in World of Warcraft and I would have missed it if I'd had to work an election.
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keep punching joe posted:Ah well, nevertheless. I don't see how he would actually do this though. He needs a two thirds of parliament to agree an election. refusing to step down though is a possibility.
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Mega Comrade posted:I don't see how he would actually do this though. He needs a two thirds of parliament to agree an election. Fixed term parliaments act was abolished last year.
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Jul 6, 2022 13:52
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Banter timeline: Johnson calls and fights an election, Starmer gets fined by Durham police and resigns.
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keep punching joe posted:Ah well, nevertheless. Full calvinball, love it
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keep punching joe posted:Ah well, nevertheless. do it boris, drive the bus off the cliff, do it and be legends
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Failed Imagineer posted:The chaos always sounded like the more fun option tbh Got a sneaky suspicion that this IS the chaos option.
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how does this even work? deselect the majority of your own party? is this source a drunk and vengeful nadine dorries? i hope it's not bluster and he really is going to bolt the doors in no10 shut
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I can definitely see him deselecting some people. If nothing else, he can't run in Uxbridge in the next election or else he'll lose his seat. So he needs to parachute somewhere safe
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Jul 6, 2022 14:04
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Is this any less true of the countries that have PR? According to this list (https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/which-european-countries-use-proportional-representation/) the overwhelming majority of countries in Europe use PR and Europe is still a neoliberal hellhole? PR isn't going to change the World Order but it does mean that your MP will have to represent the interests of more of their constituents. In some areas they might continue to win with the support of curtain twitchers alone, but in most areas they have to do things that actually improve lives in their local area as well. It's a small but meaningful difference.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Did he do anything specific that led to that or was it just Murdoch deciding to back a different horse If you listen to Flying Rodent on Twitter, the problem Boris has is that he was rammed into No. 10 by the press all acting as one to get him there, and he's been a national embarassment for the past three years that's making them all look like complete idiots. The press have now withdrawn their consent for him to be there. They want him gone and they'll keep on hammering him with everything they can until it works. Aside from the Express apparently, but Express readers have only the faintest relationship with reality.
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:I can definitely see him deselecting some people. If nothing else, he can't run in Uxbridge in the next election or else he'll lose his seat. So he needs to parachute somewhere safe Nope. If he calls an election, that's him finished in politics. He knows it, as does everyone else. He'll gently caress off, probably out of the country, possibly to somewhere they can't make him pay child support.
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If he did set fire to everything on the way out I think that might make him the PM I most identify with.
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OwlFancier posted:If he did set fire to everything on the way out I think that might make him the PM I most identify with. It'll be the most substantial thing he's done as PM ( Other than indirectly getting hundreds of thousands killed through policy in-action).
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OwlFancier posted:If he did set fire to everything on the way out I think that might make him the PM I most identify with. i mean blair did that, except iraq
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Diet Crack posted:Give me a general election yesterday Given the choice between Johnson or Starmer... Nicola Sturgeon is going to end up as the next PM isn't she? I'm not even going to bother looking up the current LibDem leader.
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Jul 6, 2022 14:18
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What's the extent of his personal ability to deselect anyone that's on his poo poo list? Does he still have that much party influence if not parliamentary?
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I think we know what BoJos resignation letter would look like
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Bug Squash posted:I think we know what BoJos resignation letter would look like Not often i see a Babylon 5 reference in the wild.  
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Oh no, how will Johnson’s premiership survive without Herbert Scrimegour, MP for West Pendelforth and [checks notes] Deputy Undersecretary for the Grouse and Foxhunting Committee
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Dabir posted:If you listen to Flying Rodent on Twitter, the problem Boris has is that he was rammed into No. 10 by the press all acting as one to get him there, and he's been a national embarassment for the past three years that's making them all look like complete idiots. The press have now withdrawn their consent for him to be there. They want him gone and they'll keep on hammering him with everything they can until it works. Aside from the Express apparently, but Express readers have only the faintest relationship with reality. The article is quite enjoyable https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/fleet-streets-hot-dog-suit-shortage
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Skarsnik posted:That pic of him outside was totally him getting his orders from murdoch wasn't it Or calling his dealer
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Skarsnik posted:https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1544674416541552640 Maybe, but I doubt the spineless oval office said anything to Legend Bozza's face, he's more of a "brief against the Big Dog to the Mail, then barricade self into office" kinda nematode
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I'm trying to game this out in my head, if Johnson does decide to trigger an election out of pure spite (do it!), he literally just has to draft a piece of paper dissolving parliament and calling for an election, drive to the palace and have the queen sign it, right? What can the tories do to stop that? If they change the leadership rules, I suppose they could adopt a new measure which holds an instant vote for an interim leader, who would ideally be some temporary compromise candidate agreed in advance, and that person then needs to drive to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen and advise that they are the one who has the confidence of the house and should therefore be appointed prime minister? Is it just a race then to see who gets to the palace first? Would the queen necessarily be bound to act on whoever gets there first, or is she going to be forced to choose who to listen to ala Australia's Governor-General John Kerr in 1975? Would be loving hilarious if in addition to just burning down parliament in spite he manages to trash the Royals' (public) reputation as politically neutral too.
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xtothez posted:I'm not even going to bother looking up the current LibDem leader.
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It's very funny that despite being desperate for anyone to become a minister he still hasn't promoted his biggest fan Michael Fabricant off the backbenches.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Not often i see a Babylon 5 reference in the wild. Not only that but it kinda fits.
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Dabir posted:Aside from the Express apparently, but Express readers have only the faintest relationship with reality. 
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Who the gently caress are all these made up ministers
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the sex ghost posted:Who the gently caress are all these made up ministers Yeah if we are learning one thing today its that there are too many ministers
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Reveilled posted:Is it just a race then to see who gets to the palace first? I hope so. Probably a bit dangerous to give them real cars for it though. 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah if we are learning one thing today its that there are too many ministers I have some good news for you on that front.
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Doesn’t being a minister come with extra salary? Maybe just another way to shovel cash into their mates’ pockets.
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