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To be fair, he might have it more together than he did around 1973, but it's going slowly downhill from here.
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Political Discussions And Ranting Thread
maryportfuncity replied to Deathray's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
Aye, if her thinking was more joined up I could be persuaded by the suicide bomber theory, but we're talking someone who makes Nadine Dorries look like a genius. Just a guess, she likes the perks of parliament and thinks Labour might just gift her a chance to fight another seat, hopefully miles away from the sacked locals who once worked on cross channel ferries and now want to kill her. -
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Man, this is getting tasty - any Tory will a semblence of thinking they've got a career might feel themselves obliged to distance themselves from Sunak and tell him to take ownership of this shit, effectively they'd be acting like independents but staying in the fold (obviously a few in parliament fancying the easier gig of managing a devastated party in the wake of an electoral massacre). Rishi's fucked if he does and fucked if he doesn't and we might get a repeat of the rats off the ship scenario that left Johnson unable to persuade people into the cabinet. Seriously, watching scheduled telly (i.e. the news) might become a thing again! -
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FFS - may you live in interesting times, or what? -
Dead Edward Kennedy/Curse of the Kennedys
maryportfuncity replied to DevonDeathTrip's topic in DeathList Forum
News reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is recovering from brain worms attacking his grey matter. Alongside the news reports there's a few pithy observations suggesting the worms hardly availed themselves of the most promising food source! -
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Well, the internal polling must be fairly clear because even Natalie Elphicke seems able to make sense of it! -
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Nadhim Zahawi, former chancellor (but then, which Tory isn't the former chancellor?) - standing down at the next election: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68982016 Sitting on a 20,000 majority in Stratford-on-Avon having scooped 60% of the votes in 2019, his seat is one of those the Lib Dems are fancying with a combi or Tory collapse and tactical voting by way of a pile on to oust them. So, we might just have had a Portillo moment there in other circumstances. -
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maryportfuncity replied to Deathray's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
Probably, but it's not like either side would openly admit it. It's often more along the coded lines of "I'm thinking..." followed by someone else saying "If I were you I wouldn't..." all carried out in the House of Commons tea room, or so I understand having gleaned most of this from various bits of gossip heard etc. Elphicke surprised everyone so you'd imagine it was a case of an initial contact with a Tory whip, maybe even overseen in the House by Tories who never imagined she'd defect, followed by a behind closed doors meeting or phone call. -
Sir Jackie's 84 and the only surviving world champion to win a title in the 1960s, looks like he has a few laps left in the old chassis yet
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Political Discussions And Ranting Thread
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Story in the Sunday Times a couple of days back suggested Boris' people and Farage's people are considering some joint activity to pitch the pair of them into positions that'll allow them to take over Tory operations after the pending defeat. All entertaining nonesense IMHO which suggests two things that are blatant bollocks; firstly that in the aftermath of the car crash election defeat the nation's concerns will continue to be the right-wing stuff currently being peddled by the Tories as the potential turn-the-polls-around miracle they need and secondly that Boris and Nige could act in ways trustworthy enough to build a solid basis to work together. -
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Tory gallows humour -
Oh aye, my bad - and of course the prestige of the FA Cup still to play for (arf!)
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Aye, and - apparently - convinced several people of the value of going that route -
Palace currently 4-0 up vs Manchester United, which will leave United looking at a maximum 60 points. Taxi for ten Hag, then?
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Totally random but the mention of gin above reminded me of our sometime colleague hereabouts, Bruno Brimley, last visted 2016 according to a search I just did. Anyone know owt of his current situation?