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A good post and I broadly agree. That said, I think that Option A (the Tories force Truss to resign and appoint a different candidate, whether Wallace, Mordaunt, Hunt or Boris, etc) is most likely by far. There is less than zero chance chance they let Truss hold on - as you note it would finish the party for a generation, if not for good. As for holding an election now - its tempting, as it would let them dump all the problems they have created on Labour (yet again). But those brutal polls make me think they won't - they are greedy cowards addicated to power - they will likely prefer to hold onto power for the next 2 years - maybe anger will dampen down by then - a new PM might even manage to turn things around enough to eak out a narrow win in 2024. And if it doesn't, well they will have used those 2 years to dole out enough political favors to business to earn their juicy post-Parliament consultancies/board positions.
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Flux Wildly posted:Cool cool cool Make it from 6pm until 9pm instead. I like to go for an evening nap anyway. 4-7 though? Not into that. Instead we should ration energy use. But only for people living in the English countryside, they get 4 hours a day so the rest of us can get 24 hours
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I'll be fine with being rationed during those hours... Hopefully by then have solar and battery fully established. It seem sensible to have those with off grid capability lessen the load during peak times.
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Tigey posted:As for holding an election now - its tempting, as it would let them dump all the problems they have created on Labour (yet again). But those brutal polls make me think they won't - they are greedy cowards addicated to power - they will likely prefer to hold onto power for the next 2 years - maybe anger will dampen down by then - a new PM might even manage to turn things around enough to eak out a narrow win in 2024. And if it doesn't, well they will have used those 2 years to dole out enough political favors to business to earn their juicy post-Parliament consultancies/board positions. Also, they can't be oblivious to the fact that Starmer is the exemplar of Pathetic Opposition. If the Tories can find someone to lead who can look competent and bring the media back on board, I can see Labour really struggling at the next election. They have the best and the brightest working for them [citation needed] and are on a Campaign Footing, but they loving suck when it comes to PR. It's lovely photoshopping and boring memes all the way. They still haven't re-established a campaigning team for on-the-ground stuff as far as I can tell (and they adore their own turds, so they'd have made a big deal of it if they had) and they're busy making sure a bunch of actually likeable candidates can't run in marginal seats. So who's going to get out the vote? Plus, they have Keith as leader, a man literally no-one can get even remotely enthused about. And he's backed up by some of the greyest middle-manager cunts who ever thought about politics, developing a set of policies that have been focus-grouped to be as inoffensive, bland and worthless as humanly possible.
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See, even the worst prime minister has a silver lining.
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imagine if you woke up and it was 2009 and people were like what no we sorted out that financial crisis by heavily regulating the banks and real estate markets. you realise it's 2022? lemme call a doctor *arrives immediately* ...david cameron? he died in a tragic clay shooting accident, man. yeah spontaneous heart attack. the nation grieved for 3 minutes.
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For your entertainment, I present; a take. https://twitter.com/hannahrosewoods/status/1581909133107683328?t=VUnyribTOD3pym4UN2ZfBQ&s=19
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What is a sludge burger and where can i buy one? Two in fact. If I'm going to freeze to loving death with the power out, I'm going to do it while double fisting pasted cow meat. Yes I'm aware of the connotation. I married an American and they use that to mean holding something in each hand. Because of course they do.
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Mebh posted:What is a sludge burger and where can i buy one? Two in fact. If I'm going to freeze to loving death with the power out, I'm going to do it while double fisting pasted cow meat. Well I assumed it was a burger made not of slabs of meat but of meat-slurry. Until I googled. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sludge%20Burger
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Bobby Deluxe posted:For your entertainment, I present; a take. he should stick to milquetoast poo poo-taking of the middle class where he belongs
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Bobby Deluxe posted:For your entertainment, I present; a take. It might be that I've just woken up but that is a very confusing thread where Hannah seems genuinely upset that people are telling her David Mitchell is joking. quote:"Yeah but [it's like] if Joe Lycett had genuine warmth towards Liz Truss" ??? Nilbop fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Oct 18, 2022 |
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Nilbop posted:It might be that I've just woken up but that is a very confusing thread where Hannah seems genuinely upset that people are telling her David Mitchell is joking. Is he the baddies? *falls through bar* *hits car with branch*
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Well, it's Tuesday, Brady has come back from his noncing trip and has opened his mail, Jeremy oval office insists L*z Tr*ss is still in charge, Mommy Mordaunt says all these problems the Tories caused are the fault of The Last Labour Government, so welcome to the last day of the reign of Queen Elizabeth Hashtag Three I guess.
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roomtone posted:imagine if you woke up and it was 2009 and people were like what I try not to imagine stuff like this, it just makes me deeply, deeply sad
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Noxville posted:Lol I didn’t see the approval ratings in that recent poll, absolutely dire How does a party keep fielding less and less competent characters, is someone piping lead into Tory MPs drinkingwater?
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evilmiera posted:How does a party keep fielding less and less competent characters, is someone piping lead into Tory MPs drinkingwater? if it is remotely like the United states, their voters are told that the alternative is anarchy and satanism?
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Nilbop posted:It might be that I've just woken up but that is a very confusing thread where Hannah seems genuinely upset that people are telling her David Mitchell is joking. He might be joking about the Charles nonsense but he's not joking about Corbyn being an "extreme socialist" with all the implications that contains.
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Lungboy posted:He might be joking about the Charles nonsense but he's not joking about Corbyn being an "extreme socialist" with all the implications that contains.
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They'll publish any old nutter's half baked opinions in the guardian now though, even extreme socialists.
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Barry Foster posted:it just makes me deeply, deeply sad Works for pretty much anything in this thread.
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Someone left a handbag with a bunch of passports in it hung on our front door this morning. Do I drop it off at a post office or something?
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evilmiera posted:How does a party keep fielding less and less competent characters, is someone piping lead into Tory MPs drinkingwater? A friend and I were talking about this last week (during the last constitutional crisis) and we decided it's basically because they've gone through literally anyone who might be competent after years of May, BoJo, and now Truss leadership. Anyone who wasn't vehemently pro-Brexit was cast out and treated like a traitor, then we had cabinet reshuffle after cabinet reshuffle, scandal after scandal, so now there's very very few MPs left who 1) can be trusted (by Tories) to run anything, and 2) hasn't been touched by any of the poo poo going on in the last few years. No election since 2019 means they haven't had a chance to inject new blood into the MPs and the members think they're still bound by the 2019 manifesto. Imagine going back 3 years and saying Truss will be in charge of the country. The most common response would probably be "...who?"
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Yeah Brois culled all the ones people had heard off to get brexit done.
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Necrothatcher posted:Someone left a handbag with a bunch of passports in it hung on our front door this morning. Do I drop it off at a post office or something? police station probably more useful
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Jel Shaker posted:police station probably more useful I'm in London, I don't trust the met not to pinch them and use them to commit id fraud.
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Don't passports have addresses in them?
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Necrothatcher posted:Someone left a handbag with a bunch of passports in it hung on our front door this morning. Do I drop it off at a post office or something?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Don't passports have addresses in them? I'll check when I get home, gone to work now. The only thing I can think of it is that someone dropped it outside the house then someone else assumed it must have been a person who lived here.
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Are these UK passports for lots of people or Jason Bourne’s stash of passports from around the world?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Don't passports have addresses in them? Only if you write one in on the emergency contacts page. Your're thinking of driving licenses.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Don't passports have addresses in them? No. Don't you have a passport?
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Jedit posted:No. Don't you have a passport? No I don't.
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Flux Wildly posted:Cool cool cool lmao
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