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Angepain posted:Mordaunt'll get the next go at it in 45 days or so Yes but not as insecure about it as Rishi.
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:I cancelled my membership the day he suspended Corbyn. Yeah, I dropped my membership a few days after he became leader when he put a TERF on the NEC. (Not that transphobia was much better under Corbyn but hey)
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https://twitter.com/MrKennethClarke/status/1584525589486399489 #NormalIsland lol e: oops, of course it's a parody account. still. lol.... fuctifino fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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What you see here is a picture of a party united behind a single strong, capable, grown-up candidate.
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Answers Me posted:I haven’t really dwelt much on this until now (and I know that we elect MPs, not Prime Ministers blah blah), but it’s genuinely insane how anti-democratic this is. A couple hundred people in a boardroom selecting the de facto head of state. technically it's democratic as people voted to trust their conservative MP with deciding who gets to be PM, which is a stupid decision but technically they freely chose to do it (please ignore that they didn't get a majority of voters for their majority of MPs, the way the entire campaign was basically Boris Boris Boris and full of bollocks about having a great plan for brexit, please also ignore that they didn't really have a choice of who would be the tory candidate for MP, please also ignore that any third parties have been weeded out, please also ignore everything unequal and unfair about politics and british society at large)
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Private Speech posted:What you see here is a picture of a party united behind a single strong, capable, grown-up candidate.
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Rarity posted:Checking into the thread for the steamed gammon tears I thought we were having green plans
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Rarity posted:Checking into the thread for the steamed gammon tears Awaiting my fat tory brother in law having a heart attack. He was very pro Truss / anti Sunak for completely normal and not bad reasons. F5ing the family WhatsApp
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:
Yeah, I just noticed. Ooops. Ah well. Nevertheless.... lol https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1584531043998380035 This still hasn't fully sunk in yet
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Rarity posted:Checking into the thread for the steamed gammon tears Democracy died again, killed by the globulist Rishi Sunak and his socialist WWE.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:As an uninformed outsider I vaguely assumed a lot of the Starmer complaints were sour grapes from events past, but, uh, what? Who is Starmer trying to appeal to? I don't get it. Tories in disarray, now's the time to bring your A game....and he goes with 'oh man those dang protesters blocking the m-way'? As things are the argument that's being put into the arena is "These protestors are stopping ambulances getting to hospital," and as Ferrari points out in the phone in, someone did die in an ambulance that was caught in traffic as a result of the protests. The man on the street is very unlikely to sympathise with the protests when the cost presented is a person dying in an ambulance. (Even if that cost is being presented falsely.)
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/_Munish_Sharma/status/1584287403887718400 Death by choke slam
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:I cancelled my membership the day he suspended Corbyn. I cancelled mine when he sacked RLB for retweeting an article in the Independent
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Can landlords for long leases charge fees for telling you your ground rent is due (as they are legally required to)? https://twitter.com/nearlylegal/status/1584527532971692032?t=FpZpP2m71mSrCdgnHMeEUg&s=19 Turns out the answer is no, after two appeals. But it hinges on some thin technicalities and they'll probably manage it after their next effort. (The judges were also skeptical if the size of the charge but that wasn't at issue)
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sebzilla posted:I cancelled mine when he sacked RLB for retweeting an article in the Independent Yeah that was what did for me too
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sebzilla posted:I cancelled mine when he sacked RLB for retweeting an article in the Independent And she still defends him, it's very funny
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thrawn527 posted:So, who is Sunak and how terrible is this, on a scale of, "same as it ever was" to "end of the world"? It's austerity. E: which will "work" even less because the UK is in a worse situation in a worse global economy than last time.
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thrawn527 posted:So, who is Sunak and how terrible is this, on a scale of, "same as it ever was" to "end of the world"? He sucks so bad he'd fit in with the US Democrats. Massively rich ex-hedge fund that who will ensure Britain never leaves austerity
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Fumble posted:Post the numbers cowards. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9?
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Barry Foster posted:A coronation is hopefully just the thing to kick off further tory chaos All this talk of Coronation's, I want it to be like the Coronation scene from Transformers the movie. I just don't know which former PM should have been rebuilt by Unicron to destroy the treacherous Sunakscream.
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thrawn527 posted:So, who is Sunak and how terrible is this, on a scale of, "same as it ever was" to "end of the world"? Generic libertarian business tory - who despite strong "sensible pick" credentials with the elite, will prove controversial with the Tory base for, ahem ~ 'just not the right sort' reasons ~ no matter how much actual austerity on poor neighbourhoods he does. Not that it matters, whoever is in charge this winter will get blamed for the power-cuts / cost of living regardless, and we will likely see another Tory face change before the next election. So the end of the world same as it ever was.
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forkboy84 posted:He sucks so bad he'd fit in with the US Democrats. Also expect everything to goto consultants, contractors and privatization schemes. His FiL is the founder and former chairmen of Infosys; notable in the US for allow firms to cut staffing costs by abusing workers via the h1b nightmare system and other visa shenanigans.
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Glad things will settle down a bit with Rishi in charge, finally things will get back to normal https://twitter.com/EllaDecember/status/1584542453910016000
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Answers Me posted:They didn’t even announce final numbers for Mordaunt, which reeks of a stitch up of sorts. The 2pm deadline was for her to turn up with a list of names of people backing her. Nothing's official before that, so when she saw she didn't have the numbers, she conceded, and didn't have to provide any list of names. In itself, that's not too weird. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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Shout out to this guy who managed to predict Rishi's victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCgz5LHPs0
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:As an uninformed outsider I vaguely assumed a lot of the Starmer complaints were sour grapes from events past What events past? He very carefully kept himself out of any factionalism during the Corbyn years other than being conspicuously pro-EU, to the point where some in this thread were wondering if he would be a decent successor long before 2019. Then he ran for leader on a platform of 'Corbynism without Corbyn', economically speaking, and as a unity candidate who would unite left and right, which is why he won out over the actual admitted Blairite running. Then soon as he got his feet under the table he ripped the mask off and underneath it was Margaret Thatcher.
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Fumble posted:Post the numbers cowards. 4 8 15 16 23 42
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Not enough people are talking about how Rishi will be Britain's shortest prime minister in modern times, tying Thatcher at 5ft 5.
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I am a clueless American who knows very little about Sunak, but just the fact that he used to work for the notoriously corrupt investment bank Goldman Sachs (from 2001-2004) is not a good sign. Another worrisome sign is that he supported "Eat Out to Help Out" during the month of August 2020. While this may have helped the U.K.'s hospitality industry, it very likely contributed to a rise of COVID cases and deaths, and he should have known that it would at the time - the pandemic had been spreading for months. (As I remember, COVID started to really take off around February of 2020, though obviously the specifics varied from country to country.) Yet another troubling thing about him: he supported a law that would help make stablecoins (a type of cryptocurrency) easier to use for everyday payments, despite opposition from the Bank of England. In April of 2022 (two months AFTER Russia's invasion of Ukraine began!) he ordered the Royal Mint to create a UK government-backed NFT. Uh, with all the current problems related to inflation, energy scarcity, and climate change, I would think the LAST thing the U.K. needs is to burn precious energy on loving crypto/NFTs, or anything related to them...? He's married to the daughter of a billionaire... I feel very unsurprised to learn that. OK, I'm going to stop looking at Sunak's Wikipedia entry now. This is getting depressing.
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forkboy84 posted:He sucks so bad he'd fit in with the US Democrats. He could. Hasn't he actually registered himself as a US citizen to avoid paying taxes or something? Nephthys fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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Victar posted:I am a clueless American who knows very little about Sunak, but just the fact that he used to work for the notoriously corrupt investment bank Goldman Sachs (from 2001-2004) is not a good sign. He didn't just support it, he came up with it. Hence his media nickname 'Dishy Rishy'. He also frequently pushed for more cuts as chancellor (mostly without success).
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Voter ID: Interesting email exchange with local county council election officer. Having identified that at least a few of the old dears on my small block have no form of photo id (no passport no driving licence no bus pass) I contacted cc to ask when voter ID was coming in and how CC was planning to manage ensuring everyone who wants to vote can vote. (A) they haven't been informed yet of when but are presuming May 2023. (B) they haven't been told the format BUT (C) to get the Voter ID because you don't have photo id - yes, you've guessed it - you need photo id. He said he understands fully that this is a major hurdle for residents in retirement / shelter / care - tone of email was 'unhappy'. (I didn't ask about younger people because my credential' for asking him was my role as chair of the residents' committee.)
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Victar posted:I am a clueless American who knows very little about Sunak, but just the fact that he used to work for the notoriously corrupt investment bank Goldman Sachs (from 2001-2004) is not a good sign. Eat out was entirely him, pushed through despite the obvious objections. He also worked tirelessly to oppose furlough and massively below inflation NHS pay rises, marking him out both as more of a oval office and significantly less economically sensible than boris johnson
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