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Brendan Rodgers posted:Boris Johnson and his quest for making babies: Shows been so good this season, the fact that it seems to be boiling a lot of racist piss is just a secondary enjoyment
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Jul 6, 2022 20:11
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He's gonna do it isn't he, the Chaos Reshuffle. And without a chief whip. How deep down past the bottom of the barrel are we going to get? Can he even get enough MPs?
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Jul 6, 2022 20:16
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learnincurve posted:He's quoting the Iliad and nailing the doors shut. Perhaps he'd like to nail the door shut with all the ministers who've come to see him still inside, and then set the building on fire. Like some Ancient Greek guy who did that.
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Boris has appointed his new Chancellor, Keir Starmer, having run out of conservative MPs. The new Education Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is reported to be furious at the snub.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:20
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The absolute best, most chaotic universe is that Boris sticks it out until next week, the 1922 committee change the rules to allow a second VONC, and then Johnson wins it. What do they do in that scenario? keep voting until he loses? Put in a proper parliamentary VONC? Pretend everything's okay?
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Jul 6, 2022 20:20
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Can he win a VONC a though? Where are the numbers?
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Jul 6, 2022 20:22
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Can he win a VONC a though? Where are the numbers? It's incredibly unlikely, he'd need less than about 35 to flip, but it'd be funny. edit: the BBC have just said 75 MPs have gone from neutral/supportive to publicly opposing him, but it's not clear how many actually voted for him in the last one.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:26
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Of course he can't win, and he knows it. He's absolutely going to force them to hold one though.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:26
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Can he win a VONC a though? Where are the numbers? Under current rules he gets entered into the new leader election, which he might have a chance of winning as lol of course he does
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Jul 6, 2022 20:27
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BBC liveblog posted:Our political research unit says a record 14 ministers have resigned in a single day today, more than have ever quit in a single day before. lmao
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Jul 6, 2022 20:27
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Got understandably drowned out in the news today but: https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1544688311712743429?cxt=HHwWioCwxbv16u8qAAAA
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Jul 6, 2022 20:29
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notaspy posted:Under current rules he gets entered into the new leader election, which he might have a chance of winning as lol of course he does No he doesn't. Leaders who are (VO)NCed are barred from standing in the subsequent contest, and if there's one rule that *won't* be changed, it's that one.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:29
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Brandon Lewis has gone.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:31
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it's been a whole few hours since a minister resigned, i'm not sure how to feel about this unprecedented period of government stability e: bwahahaha lol
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Jul 6, 2022 20:31
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Can he win a VONC a though? Where are the numbers? if the party wanted to vonc him they'd have done it today, I have no idea how they expected this to go down. You just told a limpet he has more time to cling on but you'd like him to stop - the limpet will cling, gently caress you, it's a limpet. All boris heard was "we've chickened out but we'll have a vote about whether to have a vote on monday and then you're finished!!!" and the individual interviews are just round one of his entire life for the next week. I don't know where the numbers are, boris doesn't either, but it should be really obvious to his own cabinet that he has won today massively. The "I dont want to focus on politics" line was one of the most honest things he's ever said. Angepain posted:it's been a whole few hours since a minister resigned, i'm not sure how to feel about this unprecedented period of government stability EvilHawk posted:Brandon Lewis has gone. amazing poo poo
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Jul 6, 2022 20:31
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If he's doing the classics, maybe (It is possible I have misremembered the cast of characters in the Ancient Greek classics).
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Jul 6, 2022 20:32
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minema posted:Is Chris Bryant a horrible centrist or is he alright? https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1421613896037720065 https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1421755405420609538
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Jul 6, 2022 20:36
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https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1544750649853837312
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Jul 6, 2022 20:36
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Gonna be amazing if he causes the Queen to peg out due to the hassle on top of everything else. Just take the whole establishment with him, why not.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:41
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https://twitter.com/ionewells/status/1544765904570957825 what bluff
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Jul 6, 2022 20:42
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If he were to break into parliament, maybe with MI5 help, and then steal this thing, and present it to the Queen on his knees, does that have any powers, how does this all work? 
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Jul 6, 2022 20:43
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Brendan Rodgers posted:If he were to break into parliament, maybe with MI5 help, and then steal this thing, and present it to the Queen on his knees, does that have any powers, how does this all work? That would be handing the queen back to herself, which would break reality and suck the Palace of Westminster into the 6th circle of hell. .
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Jul 6, 2022 20:44
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This isn't how Winston Churchill II was meant to end.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:45
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Does Paddington Bear become the new monarch when Elizabeth dies due to their marmalade sandwich tryst?
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Jul 6, 2022 20:45
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The new
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BTW while all this is going on France has just announced they're nationalising EDF Energy.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:48
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happyhippy posted:This isn't how Winston Churchill II was meant to end. Oh this is just the dark middle of the character arch, where all odds seems stacked against the hero. Tomorrow morning MPs will scream and scatter across the Parliament greens as a gleeful Boris Johnsson crashes through the wall in a WW1 era tank.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:50
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WhatEvil posted:BTW while all this is going on France has just announced they're nationalising EDF Energy. Hell yeah
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Jul 6, 2022 20:50
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learnincurve posted:That would be handing the queen back to herself, which would break reality and suck the Palace of Westminster into the 6th circle of hell. . So you're saying there is still hope.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:51
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Chinese Gordon posted:No he doesn't. Leaders who are (VO)NCed are barred from standing in the subsequent contest, and if there's one rule that *won't* be changed, it's that one. Fair enough, I type corrected
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Jul 6, 2022 20:55
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Boris has a mandate. A 7 day plan to get the economy firing on all cylinders and get the NHS back to stuff Do note all the plans seem to be getting shorter so it may become the 7 hour plan within hours.
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Jul 6, 2022 21:04
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Answers Me posted:Gonna be amazing if he causes the Queen to peg one of the weirder possible outcomes but i think it's still in with a shot
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Jul 6, 2022 21:06
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Brendan Rodgers posted:If he were to break into parliament, maybe with MI5 help, and then steal this thing, and present it to the Queen on his knees, does that have any powers, how does this all work? That *particular* mace? I guess she could appoint him Prime Minister of Canada? But he's got to get to Ottawa for it.
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Jul 6, 2022 21:06
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Wasn't that long ago Boris was talking about planning for a 3rd term
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Jul 6, 2022 21:07
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forkboy84 posted:Wasn't that long ago Boris was talking about planning for a 3rd term It was literally last week
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Jul 6, 2022 21:09
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Brendan Rodgers posted:He's like the opposite of those anti-natalists. Every day he just wants to spread his seed, he wants that exponential effect where generations from now when our irradiated descendants are huddling in the polar regions, most of them are his distant offspring, like a poundland Genghis Khan. Beautifully put. It makes me wonder, is Boris Johnson my father?
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Jul 6, 2022 21:10
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Rust Martialis posted:That *particular* mace? I guess she could appoint him Prime Minister of Canada? But he's got to get to Ottawa for it. Wait there are multiple "parliament maces"? Sorry, that's what I searched on google images. What happens if someone collects them all and gives them back to the Queen?
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GOVE SACKED
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Gove gone
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