This is a poll. Who will be UK's next PM?

[AtomKraft]

It's true Cape.
In this former communist country, now a dictatorship, it's not hard to find the evidence.
Near where I live was a prison camp 200km x 300km. Not a typo.

The population of this country is just beginning to recover from the many years of soviet rule, and the many deaths deliberately inflicted by oppression but mostly starvation.
As one local told me, it costs money to shoot people, but you can kill as many as you like for free, by starving them to death.

So to our lefty contributors on here, I suggest that you take your left wing views and stick them, as the British like to say, right up your arse.

[OFSO]

By the way, in voting in the poll I was answering the question. Not the other question, whom would I LIKE to be PM !

[om15]

I live in a former Soviet country, and if you want New Zealand or the UK to become like here, you must be fcuking certifiable

A simple question, which socialist country in the world gives its citizens a better standard of living than the UK under a conservative government?

We have had our brush with socialism in the 1970s, gridlocked industry due to malevolent unions, 3 day week, no electricity, dead bodies piled up in alley ways, dustbins unemptied for weeks on end, absolute mess, even the supposedly "New Labour" under the fiscal management of the dour and miserable Broon wiped out the economy, reduced our gold reserves and destroyed the pensions of those prudent enough to save up to take care of themselves, and now we have a seedy Marxist openly intent on reducing the economy and standard of living to that of the worst third world sh!t hole.

Bang on, anyone who can't see that must be certifiable.

[FD2]

I remember the huge piles of rubbish in the streets - the rats loved it.

[FD2]

My wife just reminded me - she worked as a nurse and frequently had to walk home about a mile through the town, with no street lights working.

[John Hill]

I find you lefties to be the tedious ones.
Your monotonous left wing droning belies a distinct lack of original thought.
If one wishes to know all of you, it's only necessary to know one of you.
Your wankerish views are photo-imprinted one to the other.
Feminism, global warming, yoomun rites, big government, ban the bomb, pro LGBT (at the rate we're going, it'll soon be compulsory to be gay) save the whales and anti-everything.

Fcuk me, it's the most boring *sh*t* I've ever encountered.

I live in a former Soviet country, and if you want New Zealand or the UK to become like here, you must be fcuking certifiable.

You have traveled a bit? That's good but you are not the only one, I have spent time in a number of countries and I would not like NZ to be like any of them.

[Slasher]

The Party reminds me of Wile E Coyote who has already run off the cliff and is slowing down, but who has not dared look down yet.

No doubt you've used this clip in your Newtonian Physics classes Fox!





Am I correct that it's the Third Law in the clip's final question?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

All three Laws are at work, but we are asked to calculate the force. There's no information about the force on the rock at the other end of the spring or the friction force on his feet or the tension in the spring, so we can't use the First or Third. We can, however, work out Wile E's acceleration using freeze frame video analysis, and estimate the mass of a male coyote, so the Second Law would be used to calculate the force on Wile E.

I had a four hour video tape of all the Road Runner movies. We started motion analysis by working out the Cartoon Laws of Physics first*, to break any association with the misconceptions people have about reality due to all the rubbish they get from non-physicists, then observed real motion of the kids themselves and worked out the real Laws from scratch.

* e.g. Gravity only starts working when you (a) look down and (b) realise it applies

[Krystal n Chips]

Should this poll now be amended to include the names of any Tory MP's who aren't applying for Treeza's job......?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48489392

[Slasher]

so the Second Law would be used to calculate the force on Wile E.

Gravity only starts working when you (a) look down and (b) realise it applies

Yes you are quite correct. The Second Law applies.

One of the funniest aspects of Mr Coyote is his "neck stretch" - as soon as his body starts falling he tries to keep his head at the same position in Space, in what I suspect is the forlorn hope he'll somehow stay where he is and not splat onto the desert!

Also some Acme products he uses defy conventional Physics as well, especially the catapult above and the bathtub/fan/sail combo.

[Pontius Navigator]

Interesting that BoJo is so far ahead. National poll has Gove/Raab equal and ahead of BoJo by one point.

[Pontius Navigator]

Way off thread but when gravity takes over it depends on what reacts first. Typically an adult will head downwards head first, feet following.

One day, investigating an interesting tree, as dogs do, she moved around the tree which was growing on the edge of a 60 foot cliff. I swear she looked at us with a surprised look on her face before disappearing.

I managed to get down to her but decided it was too dangerous to carry her up a set of rickety iron steps. Told her to make her own way up and she did, none the worse for wear.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I look in on the comments at ConservativeHome occasionally. Many are convinced the entire objective of the Conservative MPs is to ensure BoJo is not one of the choice of two offered to the membership. However, it would seem from the recent voting habits of the Conservative membership*, they will largely be off to TBP if they don't get to choose him. And indeed his likely election by them is why the MPs wish to ensure BoJo doesn't make the shortlist. This would however then seem to condemn the Conservative Party to oblivion at the next GE, and almost all the current MPs with it. The same fate, though to a slightly lesser degree, would appear to await Labour also. Doubtless they will all be attempting to drag out the current Parliament until 5 May 2022. In terms of a functioning Parliament the UK seems to be right down there with Belgium now, nevermind whether or not it actually represents the views of the citizens. Is it a tragedy, a farce, or a-tragedy-because-its-a-farce ?


* e.g. https://www.conservativehome.com/thetor ... sults.html

[AtomKraft]

The Tories seized the poison chalice that was BrExit, and hugged it close.
They could have shared the burden around, but chose not to.
It's been a brilliant spotlight into how things are done in the mother of parliaments; they are done poorly.

Interesting times lie ahead, as our political parties are forced to re read Platos' Republic.

Read and weep, you idiots who have forgotten.

But don't worry too much, it looks like Nigel Farages' BrExit party will be along soon, to remind all of us.

[AtomKraft]

Cometh the hour......

[Woody]

Apparently James Cleverly has withdrawn from the contest, leaving just the twelve nominees

[llondel]

Not as bad as the US, where pretty much everyone seems to be up for the Democratic nomination. (Not me, I'm not eligible.)

[AtomKraft]

That's the first clever thing he's done for a while...

[llondel]

For added entertainment they could have appointed Chris Grayling to run the contest.

[FD2]

Or the Speaker as he's neutral....