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Amazing speedrunning by Truss of the role of First Lord of the Treasury. Will never be beaten. A name to live in infamy.
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How many ministers have resigned this year now?
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Oct 19, 2022 17:34
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So has Boris Johnson got back from the Caribbean in time for the three-line-whip-no-slips fracking vote?
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Oct 19, 2022 17:34
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being fired for hillarycrime is a certain sign that whatever she actually did is either so heinous the blowback would ruin them all or Hunt is exceptionally hosed off from the triple lock continuation being surprised announced at pmqs
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Oct 19, 2022 17:36
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smellmycheese posted:MPs openly defying the whip on Twitter now. Place your bets on what time she goes. This would make it the best birthday I've ever had 
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Oct 19, 2022 17:37
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So apparently George Canning lasted 139 days, and Liz Truss may be about to obliterate that record
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Oct 19, 2022 17:41
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C'mon, let it repeat as farce https://twitter.com/ZaltzCricket/status/1582771175465156614
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Oct 19, 2022 17:42
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Tesseraction posted:Something that could spook the markets eh some kind of large bird-of-prey?
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Oct 19, 2022 17:43
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Seth Pecksniff posted:So apparently George Canning lasted 139 days, and Liz Truss may be about to obliterate that record i think she has to get to 1 Jan 2023 to not be the shortest PM in history and lol lmao etc at that
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Oct 19, 2022 17:48
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Tesseraction posted:C'mon, let it repeat as farce https://twitter.com/ZaltzCricket/status/1582771175465156614
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Oct 19, 2022 17:48
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Rarity posted:Lmao gently caress off Suella you absolute oval office It's this. This is my opinion. Nenonen posted:How many ministers have resigned this year now? Under Boris Oliver Dowden, Party Chairman Sajid Javid, Health Secretary Rishi Sunak, Chancellor Michelle Donelan, Education Simon Hart, Wales Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland Plus Michael Gove was sacked from Levelling Up, Housing & Communities I can't really remember who Liz kicked out when she took over from Boris, Nadhim Zahawi was one, Grant Shapps was one, Steve Barclay another, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab. It gets hard keeping up with it. Since she actually took over there's only been 2 but they are from 2 of the 4 Great Offices, Kwarteng & Braverman. And also Conor Burns was a Minister of State & got sacked for groping. Strong & stable So yeah, quite a lot.
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Oct 19, 2022 17:49
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apologies if this has been posted already but lol if it's true https://twitter.com/theousherwood/status/1582324631129665538
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Oct 19, 2022 17:51
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Jel Shaker posted:lurpak is the bees knees i will fight you on this Dramona butter is the stuff you need, the only decent thing to ever come out of Cullybackey. 
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Oct 19, 2022 17:52
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French butter is ace but it is so expensive, I only have it if I am on holiday in France (at the expansive estates of my brother - who is the caretaker before you get the guillotines out) and can bundle it into Capital Expenditure (Holidays).
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Just Another Lurker posted:Dramona butter is the stuff you need, the only decent thing to ever come out of Cullybackey. Agree with this. NI butter is the best. gently caress lurpak.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French butter is ace but it is so expensive, I only have it if I am on holiday in France (at the expansive estates of my brother - who is the caretaker before you get the guillotines out) and can bundle it into Capital Expenditure (Holidays). I got some from M&S a bunch of years back and it is indeed dead nice.
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Oct 19, 2022 17:57
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Watched part of the fracking thing and it's just "who are you?" Tories in heavily anti-fracking areas loyally throwing themselves under the bus and gifting red wall seats away.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:01
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just buy £1 margarine or whatever out of aldi and put a bit of table salt on it.
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I am enjoying the idea that the version of Napoleon returning from Elba for the English is going to be Bojo swanning in from his hols in the Caribbean.
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So It seems to be a pretty universal assumption that Braverman resigned after being told her "launch migrants back into the channel with a trebuchet" immigration policy was off the cards because the public finances can't cover the cost of a trebuchet. What's the probability that the upcoming fracking confidence-but-not-a-confidence vote will backfire horrendously? I can't see the threat of losing the whip as being all that effective when applied against Tory MPs who've already seen their reelection chances drop down the toilet over the course of the last few weeks.
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you can make butter with cream using a whisk, you can make it spreadable butter by mixing olive oil into it. £7.50 worth of cream going to get you a lot more than that lurpack and you are going to end up with a jug of butter milk worth a fiver as well.
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Soylent Yellow posted:What's the probability that the upcoming fracking confidence-but-not-a-confidence vote will backfire horrendously? I can't see the threat of losing the whip as being all that effective when applied against Tory MPs who've already seen their reelection chances drop down the toilet over the course of the last few weeks. Unlikely to backfire I reckon. - Not economically viable to frack in the UK - Assurances given that locals can veto it. Meaning that if it passes then fracking is very unlikely to happen anyway. No benefits to voting against but consequences in losing the whip. Declaring it as a confidence vote means they can point at it afterwards as a win and say "See! The party has confidence in her!"
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Oct 19, 2022 18:20
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Given the polling and the fact many were apparently resigned to losing their seat next election anyway, wouldn't the smart thing be to defy the government, lose the whip, then cross the floor looking principled instead of an opportunist?
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Nilbop posted:I am enjoying the idea that the version of Napoleon returning from Elba for the English is going to be Bojo swanning in from his hols in the Caribbean. Napoleon was a baddy, Johnson has already laid the groundwork for pushing himself as the modern Cincinnatus.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:23
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escapegoat posted:Given the polling and the fact many were apparently resigned to losing their seat next election anyway, wouldn't the smart thing be to defy the government, lose the whip, then cross the floor looking principled instead of an opportunist? Only for Labour to screech "you can't sit with us" Mean Girlsishly
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sebzilla posted:Only for Labour to screech "you can't sit with us" Mean Girlsishly I don't know if that would happen given how they've treated all the tory defectors up to now, probably get a personal blowie from starmer himself at this point.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What would you do if you were an anti-fracking tory but know that if you vote against the bill tonight, you'll lose the whip and not have any say in the party going forward and your letter of no-confidence would no longer be valid. Not likely to happen. Brady reportedly has at least 100 letters of no confidence and I'm told he has reduced his threshold for suspending the rules on immunity from half the Parliamentary party to a third. That would mean he needs fewer than 20 more letters. If there's anyone in a red wall seat or a fracking target area who hasn't yet submitted a letter, they will have done so by midnight.
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Beat the other rats off the ship and appear honourable! 42 year old mum discovers this easy trick (whips hate it) 1) Send a government document that's about to be published to your personal email address. 2) Forward it to a government official 3) Report yourself for a technical breach of the rules 4) "Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign"
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Payndz posted:Last time I did a comparison (a month or two ago), Asda's own-brand butter was £2.50 a tub, vs £5 for Lurpack. Is the £7.25 pack in one of those tiny branches where they whack the prices up because they know the people who shop there are a captive market who can't drive to a bigger, cheaper branch?
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Yank here. Could King Charles (thats weird to type) say "I do not have confidence in the government representing me and the people" and automatically trigger a GE?
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my partner insists on lurpak which is an annoying cost when I'd happily have any ol poo poo spread
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Cimber posted:Yank here. Could King Charles (thats weird to type) say "I do not have confidence in the government representing me and the people" and automatically trigger a GE? No, Parliament needs to have no confidence as it's His Majesty's Government
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Cimber posted:Yank here. Could King Charles (thats weird to type) say "I do not have confidence in the government representing me and the people" and automatically trigger a GE? Not without getting decapitated.
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Cimber posted:Yank here. Could King Charles (thats weird to type) say "I do not have confidence in the government representing me and the people" and automatically trigger a GE? Constitutionally, yes. Really, no.
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just want to clarify on the thoughtcrime bill that you can't be tagged just because the cops think you might eat tofu. You can only be tagged for five years if two fascists claim you ate tofu in a loud and provocative manner. Then the police can tag you without trial and order you be placed under full house arrest whenever they suspect you could potentially join no less than one other person for a provocative and loud tofu lunch, resulting in a custodial sentence if you went to work before they phoned your house to inform you that they're doing this. It's absolutely intended to work exactly like this but iirc they haven't had much luck in convicting white people of terror offences for carrying a bus pass, and it would actually be very funny to make a 100,000 strong crack team of post-2019 labour deserters whose only job is to disappear everyone who ever attends any event remotely related to the conservative party, which might also also be legal in the standard "maybe technically true, definitely not how a judge sees it, who gives a flying gently caress what judges think in 2022" way
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Cimber posted:Yank here. Could King Charles (thats weird to type) say "I do not have confidence in the government representing me and the people" and automatically trigger a GE? It would certainly be historically appropriate for him to give it a go 
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Rarity posted:Lmao gently caress off Suella you absolute oval office
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How likely is that bill to go ahead now that Poundshop Priti Patel is gone?
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escapegoat posted:How likely is that bill to go ahead now that Poundshop Priti Patel is gone? If oval office's quietly shuffled her offstage for being hosed mental then presumably he'll be snuffing her baby in its crib as well
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