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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4381 Post by 4mastacker » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:19 am

Kemi Badenoch?? From what I've seen of her on Parliament TV, she's a formidable performer and takes no sh** from the other side of the House.
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4382 Post by Woody » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:31 am

Never mind all this about Boris, the new series of Love Island starts tonight :)
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4383 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:46 am

It is a moot point whether ANYONE in the Conservative party placed in a ministerial or other position by the buffoon could be considered as a 'clean' option.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4384 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:21 am

Anyone with any intelligence.... Sorry, MPs I'm writing about...... I'll start again.

Anyone thinking about ousting Boris must surely have second thoughts when looking at the list of possible replacements. What a bunch of no-hopers and snivelling creepy-crawlies, the likes of which you'd scrape off the sole of your shoe with a blunt stick.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4385 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:29 am

I wonder if someone like Ben Wallace might 'appear'?

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#4386 Post by Wodrick » Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:31 am

That's my thinking who on earth and who would want the poisoned chalice ?
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4387 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:52 am

It is important to remember that becoming PM is the pinnacle of an MP's career. It unfortunately has very little to do with serving the electorate in many cases.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4388 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:58 am

James O'Brian on LBC just read on his show the letter from Boris to his MPs, urging them to support him, and stopping at each claim to debunk it for the transparent tissue of lies dropping from (Boris's) ugly slavering lips.

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#4389 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:00 pm

Sadly I think that all the current cabinet members, along with their grifter boss, don't understand the notion of public service, B to D grade self serving chancers to a man, and a woman.
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#4390 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:17 pm

From The Independent - Boris Johnson will win the confidence vote – but even so, it’s over for himThis, to borrow a phrase, is the beginning of the end for The nasty, brutish and short premiership of Boris Johnson.

He’s moved fast and decisively for a change, in getting the vote of confidence under way as soon as possible, in an effort to deny his less organised enemies a chance to get their act together and mobilise opposition. It suggests a certain nervousness on his part – even panic.

The cabinet, or most of it, will back him: the large “payroll” vote of ministers are morally obliged to either vote for him or resign, and some Tory MPs remain irrationally devoted to the idea of “Boris” as a brilliant leader and gifted campaigner.

They are so invested in Brexit and in him that there is nothing he could do, no crime he could commit, that would persuade them that the game is up. These are people who believe he did well in the local elections, that Brexit is going swimmingly, that people are “moving on from Partygate”, and that the mainstream media made up the story that he was booed on the way in and again on the way out at the jubilee thanksgiving service.

So he’ll win, but it might be tight, and the vote will not “draw a line and move on”. Some big names may quit during the day, because many cannot accept the result. If you think Johnson is a disaster on Monday morning, you’re not going to believe he’s a genius on Monday evening, and no one would believe you if you said so.

More importantly, a vote in which, say, 100-plus of his own MPs have indicated that they don’t have any confidence in him means that he will just limp on to the next election, dithering, delaying, a prisoner of the different factions in his own party and the irremediable flaws in his own personality.

Many MPs, and not just in marginal seats, are contemplating the end of their careers at the next election, and there is nothing to suggest otherwise. For Boris Johnson, winning the vote of confidence by one vote will be enough. According to the rules, it is.

Politically, he’s finished, and it will be a long, drawn-out affair. Next up are a couple of disastrous by-elections, historically so, in Wakefield and in Tiverton & Honiton; there will be more inflation, more hungry kids, more Brexit chaos, more strikes, more austerity, higher mortgage bills, a recession, and possibly a housing crash. Plus a trade war with Europe and the collapse of the Irish peace process. There will be more Partygate revelations, and he’ll be found to have not told the whole truth to parliament, and be sanctioned. Because Johnson is Johnson, and even a spanking today won’t make him change his ways. There will be more scandals. More gaffes. More blunders. More culture wars the country is tired of. He’ll still lie, dither and delay his way through the working week, and his government will continue to drift.
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4391 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:02 pm

Boris 'safe' for a year, 211 versus 148.

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#4392 Post by 4mastacker » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:42 pm

I bet the BBC are spitting feathers.
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4393 Post by Pinky the pilot » Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:00 am

A question; Ok, Boris survived (for now) but at present is there a viable alternative to him? :-\
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4394 Post by Boac » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:15 am

Almost certainly, even if not 'visible' at present. It is a dangerous thing to do to stick one's head above the parapet.

Did anyone see on TV that the result of the vote appeared to be exactly the same as the two bus numbers serving the House of Commons, 148 and 211..............?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4395 Post by Woody » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:24 am

Mad Nads, with the latest update on the war with Ukraine :((

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4396 Post by Woody » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:36 am

Can anyone help him by coughing at the right time :ymdevil:

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4397 Post by OFSO » Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:57 pm

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was reportedly booed at the London restaurant that his son Theo works in on Friday.

In response, the Tory leader reportedly ‘flicked his finger’ at fellow dinners and left the establishment.

Johnson visited Morito in Hackney during lunch time yesterday when he faced a ‘severe unwelcome’, according to various media, including London Loves Business and Metro newspaper.

Mr Johnson then made a dismissive hand gesture in the direction of the other customers.

Johnson may have reportedly committed a criminal offence as “any person is guilty of an offence if they use threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or display any writing or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby,” under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Earlier this weekend, Johnson and his wife Carrie were booed outside St Pauls Cathedral in the City when he arrived for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert on Saturday

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4398 Post by Woody » Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:45 am

Exclusive video of the first Cabinet meeting after Mondays vote :ymdevil:

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#4399 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:15 am

OFSO wrote:
Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:57 pm
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was reportedly booed at the London restaurant that his son Theo works in on Friday.

In response, the Tory leader reportedly ‘flicked his finger’ at fellow dinners and left the establishment.

Johnson visited Morito in Hackney during lunch time yesterday when he faced a ‘severe unwelcome’, according to various media, including London Loves Business and Metro newspaper.

Mr Johnson then made a dismissive hand gesture in the direction of the other customers.

Johnson may have reportedly committed a criminal offence as “any person is guilty of an offence if they use threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or display any writing or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby,” under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Earlier this weekend, Johnson and his wife Carrie were booed outside St Pauls Cathedral in the City when he arrived for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert on Saturday
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4400 Post by llondel » Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:52 pm

He'd just counter claim on the basis that they were abusive and threatening to him first.

He got less than 2/3 of the vote, if he had any integrity he would have quit.

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