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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Total voters
    29
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We are roughly two more Prime Ministers away from returning to strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as the basis of a system of government.
 
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I have 2 games in this window :lol:
 
Those games were infinitely more rewarding than Truss's reign. "I shall go on and on"... about pork markets.
 
A ten minute biography of Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Business Jacob Rees-Mogg which outlines the possible origins of his apparent outright contempt for most of the British population.

People see him and Boris as buffoons but they seem to possess a really nasty core once you scrape away the surrounding fluff.

 
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Boris Johnson will not run to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister

Thank **** for that. The fact that he even considered running is an abomination, but at least someone has managed to persuade him not to make a complete mockery of the UK, Parliament, his party and himself (well, not any more so than he already has)...

Now... as for those who backed Boris to regain the leadership, like Rees-Mogg as a leading example, should quit.
 
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Boris Johnson will not run to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister

Thank **** for that. The fact that he even considered running is an abomination, but at least someone has managed to persuade him not to make a complete mockery of the UK, Parliament, his party and himself (well, not any more so than he already has)...
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Rather poses the question of what he was up to flying back from his... holiday? just to not run.

I remember when he pulled out (after a mild scandal, I forget which one) to let Pob have a run at Theresa May for the post-Cameron poisoned chalice of getting Brexit done; it was a tactical masterstroke, and he took over after the catastrophe with a resounding double-victory.

As you'd expect from a man with six kids from five women, he's not pulling out unless it benefits him...
 
I'm Not Back-In Boris. Glad we dodged that bullet if not the nuclear missile of austerity coming our way.
 
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Maybe someone convinced BoJo that re-entering office only to then be potentially booted out again pending the findings of the investigation of the Privileges Committee into him breaching lockdown isn't a particularly good look.
 
Similar to what @Famine said above, I reckon Johnson believes he has a better chance of regaining power for longer by biding his time and letting Sunak take the fall now during a time where Johnson would certainly have failed himself.

Indeed, I would not be surprised if there's already some plotting going on to make sure that Sunak is kicked out before the next election and Johnson is re-installed to fight the election against Starmer.

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Meanwhile, there's less than an hour to go before the nominations officially close for the leadership of the Tory party, and current rumblings are that Mordaunt will either fail to hit the 100 backers needed, or will be urged to withdraw - possibly within the next half hour or so - to leave Sunak unopposed.

The joke is, if Mordaunt does get enough support to continue and it goes to a vote of 'the members' (who got it so horribly wrong the last time), then Mordaunt could win despite having a minority of MPs behind her. Sound familiar??
 
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Well, it looks like the Penny has dropped and it's Rishi time...

Hopefully she doesn't become Chancellor because... well...

 
Apparently a market research company asked people to describe Rishi Sunak in one word, and the BBC shared the resulting word cloud live on BBC News just now... all I can say is, they need a better proofreader :lol:

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Say what you like about Rishi but no other PM had gadget legs that allowed them to gain height on a whim

 
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Maybe it's the equivalent of Pinocchio's nose, his legs grow when he's telling fibs.
 
Rees-Mogg is out of government. Probably the only good thing that will come out of this new regime.
2 long years until we screw up another chance to kick out the Hunts.
 
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Rees-Mogg is out of government. Probably the only good thing that will come out of this new regime.
2 long years until we screw up another chance to kick out the *****.
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There are few people in this world that I loathe more than that creepy freak. There's a rumour that Braverman is making a return to her previous post...
 
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There are few people in this world that I loathe more than that creepy freak. There's a rumour that Braverman is making a return to her previous post...
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I saw that. Resigned "on principle" because she "inadvertantly" broke the ministerial code, but apparently coming back a week later is absolutely fine. I doubt though she gets that job, Raab was supposedly after it and he's Sunak's BFF.
 
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Everyone's going to look dumb when it turns out he's been advised on the correct Panjabi phonology, and we've all been using an incorrect, heavily Anglicised version.


Although probably not.
 
Optimism out the window. Rashid Sanook has reappointed Sue-Ellen Braverman as Home Secretary! Six days after she quit after mishandling official documents...
 
Raab back as deputy PM and justice, Cruella back at the Home Office. Gove, Hunt, Shapps, etc.

Really doing Labour's attack job for them - continuity Tory, nothing changes, same people doing the same crap.
 
Famine
Optimism out the window. Rashid Sanook has reappointed Sue-Ellen Braverman as Home Secretary! Six days after she quit after mishandling official documents...
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Integrity and accountability in all levels of government...

Oh wait, Raab has rematerialised from his idiot chamber to take over as Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor again.
 

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