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fuctifino posted:Sunak met with the 1922 committee. Rumours on twitter say that there are enough letters to force his resignation If this happened, they couldnt possibly avoid having to call a General Election could they?
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Dec 6, 2023 21:45
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FiftySeven posted:If this happened, they couldnt possibly avoid having to call a General Election could they? Can and will
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Dec 6, 2023 21:46
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FiftySeven posted:If this happened, they couldnt possibly avoid having to call a General Election could they? If anything, by number 4 you should be quite good at doing it without an election.
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Dec 6, 2023 21:46
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I'm genuinely not sure if there's enough Tories currently expected to hold on to their seats to even join a VONC.
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Dec 6, 2023 21:47
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Every manifesto pledge is a  clause
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Dec 6, 2023 21:47
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Yeah I'm sure Braverman could draft a bill just saying it always gets done by the tory membership process in future and Starmer would abstain.
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Dec 6, 2023 21:47
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Funnily, the entire concept of "the maximum length of a parliament" is something that is decided... by parliament... which is why we went 10 years without an election after 1935, they kept voting to say they didn't have to have an election. You might be able to get the current parliament to agree on the minimum length of a prime minister in order to disqualify Sunak. I suppose in theory the maximum length of a parliament is decided by "until the mob breaks in with the pitchforks" ultimately but that house doesn't sit very often. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Dec 6, 2023 21:48
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FiftySeven posted:If this happened, they couldnt possibly avoid having to call a General Election could they? I mean they can't kick the can down the road much longer, but another unelected PM during this parliament absolutely can happen. Dunno that I expect it to, the Tories surely cannot be that daft. The chalice is well and truly poisoned, it'd have to be a deluded idiot who wants it. I suppose they have plenty of those tho
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Dec 6, 2023 21:55
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forkboy84 posted:I mean they can't kick the can down the road much longer, but another unelected PM during this parliament absolutely can happen. The chalice is poisoned but you respawn on the lecture circuit or in a thinktank
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Dec 6, 2023 21:57
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Even that has gone from "ignorable but well compensated facebook/meta drone" down to "audience of half a dozen ex klansmen at some American
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Dec 6, 2023 22:00
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I know it's generally considered that the royals sticking their noses into parliamentary affairs is a big no-no, but I think in this case Charles could just refuse to recognise another Tory PM without an election and very few people would have a problem with it. It won't happen, but it would at least be something.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:06
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Guavanaut posted:The Fixed Term Parliament Act could have been decent, but it was just overridden by total stupid poo poo in 2019, less than a decade later, proving that "no parliament can bind a future one" might sometimes be a case for having something that can. How would it improve things? It'd just delay the election slightly.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:06
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I know it's generally considered that the royals sticking their noses into parliamentary affairs is a big no-no, but I think in this case Charles could just refuse to recognise another Tory PM without an election and very few people would have a problem with it. Yes - I’m sure this will be the particular government fuckup that will cause the monarch to upset the gravy train and jeopardise their life of indolent luxury
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Dec 6, 2023 22:10
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forkboy84 posted:I mean they can't kick the can down the road much longer, but another unelected PM during this parliament absolutely can happen. You're not thinking like a Tory. They don't see it as a poisoned chalice, unless they had an iota of care on how the country works. It's all about personal gain. And for some this is the last time they are within getting that next tier of grifting. The £8000 after dinner speeches, foreign investor invites to get your favour is some deal coming up, the amount of bribes from down the hierarchy desperate for an honor. Sure they'll be there for less than a year, another 5 after if they are lucky, but they get the pension, and book deal for doing gently caress all and blaming it on every one else. This is the last chance for Gove, Mogg, and a few others to get into no. 10.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:12
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Don't forget that sweet sweet PM pension!
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Dec 6, 2023 22:15
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feedmegin posted:How would it improve things? It'd just delay the election slightly. I suppose from an accelerationist perspective you could say that's a good thing and they should push through as many clownshoes letters as possible until Rwanda is telling them what they can and can't legislate on, but it does require people pointing out the ridiculousness of the mechanism in order for even that to work. happyhippy posted:You're not thinking like a Tory.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:16
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If there's a new leadership election, no-one with even the faintest hint of sense is going to run. Therefore, it'll just be the absolute lunatic fringe taking part. Not that it wouldn't be funny to see someone who's already announced they're stepping down throw their hat in the ring.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:17
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My prediction is that Lord Hameron will be tasked with being the caretaker PM until the election, along with his Foreign Secretary position and probably the Immigration Minister position too.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:19
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do it you cowards
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Dec 6, 2023 22:20
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I know it's generally considered that the royals sticking their noses into parliamentary affairs is a big no-no That’s certainly quite a benign way of describing the event that would probably kick off Civil War 2.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:21
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kingturnip posted:If there's a new leadership election, no-one with even the faintest hint of sense is going to run. 
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Dec 6, 2023 22:22
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OwlFancier posted:This is the first one I've been able to actually laugh at though in a long time, as hopefully it might kill the policy and it's not really making things worse for everyone else. *monkey paw curls* "The failed Rwanda deal was the last straw that broke Sunak's support among the party, paving way to Suella Braverman's entry to Downing Street 10."
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Dec 6, 2023 22:22
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fuctifino posted:My prediction is that Lord Hameron will be tasked with being the caretaker PM until the election, along with his Foreign Secretary position and probably the Immigration Minister position too. Honestly I wonder if david cameron shouting through the window of the house of commons might not be an improvement.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:24
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PMQs will be Black Rod running between the two chambers passing messages back and forth
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Dec 6, 2023 22:27
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OwlFancier posted:Honestly I wonder if david cameron shouting through the window of the house of commons might not be an improvement.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:29
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Guavanaut posted:Speaker, I don't believe that is the Lord's tongue protruding into the chamber. 
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Dec 6, 2023 22:31
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https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1731814217865466168 This was from a couple of days ago, but a relevant possible hell timeline
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Dec 6, 2023 22:31
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I'd say deport him to Rwanda instead but knowing that opportunist oval office he'd somehow run to the right of the Patriotic Front and be leading some kind of genocides didn't happen but if they did they were good wing within the decade, and nobody deserves that.
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Dec 6, 2023 22:37
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Guavanaut posted:Being able to loophole an act like that with another act with simple majority and a manifesto promise to repeal the act you just loopholed to get the election makes the entire process a joke. Well yes but that doesn't mean the FTPA itself would make any difference here (or is a good idea in general).
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Dec 6, 2023 23:36
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There's probably just about time for every sitting Tory MP to have a day as PM before they absolutely have to call an election, I think they should make the most of it
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Dec 6, 2023 23:37
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Apparently Graham Linehan is in meltdown after being caught producing AI porn of one of his critics while pretending to be a woman on Twitter.
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Dec 6, 2023 23:39
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He has to do that because if he didn't then the weird people might win.
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Dec 6, 2023 23:48
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Necrothatcher posted:Apparently Graham Linehan is in meltdown after being caught producing AI porn of one of his critics while pretending to be a woman on Twitter. oh no his reputation
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Dec 6, 2023 23:50
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Guavanaut posted:Ah good Going to need more guillotines, one at a time is too slow. 
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Dec 6, 2023 23:50
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nice wallpaper grandma
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Dec 6, 2023 23:55
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Necrothatcher posted:Apparently Graham Linehan is in meltdown after being caught producing AI porn of one of his critics while pretending to be a woman on Twitter. Lol this is the most Linehan update I have ever heard
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Dec 7, 2023 00:55
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The Perfect Element posted:Lol this is the most Linehan update I have ever heard He apparently had a podcast I guess about being transphobic bigots and his co-host was bemoaning that since starting this he's lost everything lol https://twitter.com/ICanSeeForever1/status/1731987850810265974?t=DvS7drNn2jpOx0vlx7-4SA&s=19 Imagine burning up your entire life just to be Graham Linehan's lovely sidekick
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Dec 7, 2023 01:07
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Nenonen posted:*monkey paw curls*
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Dec 7, 2023 08:18
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Necrothatcher posted:Apparently Graham Linehan is in meltdown after being caught producing AI porn of one of his critics while pretending to be a woman on Twitter. At what point does everyone realise this is all for attention? Linehan would rather be hated than forgotten. Irrelevance is his worst fear because then he will have to face that it was all for nothing.
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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1732540232459833611 lol
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