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Old 06-06-2022, 04:37 PM   #21
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I have never been so convinced about anything in my life that I am now that he will lose after this post.
You strike me as a person who believes Johnny Gaudreau is going to sign a contract extension with the Flames.
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Old 07-06-2022, 10:10 AM   #22
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Priti Patel is reportedly visiting No. 10 right now. Game over for Boris.
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Old 07-06-2022, 10:15 AM   #23
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Priti Patel is reportedly visiting No. 10 right now. Game over for Boris.
What does this mean?
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Its Priti Patel!

(I don't know either)
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Old 07-06-2022, 11:14 AM   #25
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Priti Patel is reportedly visiting No. 10 right now. Game over for Boris.
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What does this mean?
She's their Home Secretary. I assume Mega means she's there to resign, like 30 or more other members of cabinet have done in the past day or so. Mega would appear to feel this means Johnson will have no choice but to resign, since there is no confidence in him from his ministers. He's getting Kenney'd, from the looks/sounds of it. Her quitting wouldn't be such a big loss, from what I've read - she's sketchy.

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Sajid Javid — health secretary
Rishi Sunak — chancellor of the exchequer
Andrew Murrison — trade envoy to Morocco
Bim Afolami — Conservative party vice-chair
Jonathan Gullis — PPS to the secretary of state for Northern Ireland
Saqib Bhatti — PPS to the department for health and social care
Nicola Richards — PPS to the department for transport
Virginia Crosbie — PPS to the Welsh office
Theo Clarke — trade envoy to Kenya
Alex Chalk — solicitor general
Laura Trott — PPS to the secretary of state for transport
Will Quince — children’s minister
Robin Walker — schools minister
Felicity Buchan — PPS at the department for business, energy and industrial strategy
John Glen — City minister and economic secretary to the Treasury
Victoria Atkins — justice minister
Jo Churchill — parliamentary under-secretary of state for agri-innovation and climate adaptation
Stuart Andrew — housing minister
Selaine Saxby — PPS to the chief secretary to the Treasury
David Johnston — PPS to the department of education
Claire Coutinho — PPS to the Treasury
Kemi Badenoch — minister at the department for levelling up, housing and communities, and minister for equalities
Neil O’Brien — parliamentary under secretary of state at the department for levelling up, housing and communities
Alex Burghart — parliamentary under secretary for apprenticeships and skills
Julia Lopez — minister at the department for digital, culture, media & sport
Lee Rowley — parliamentary under secretary at the department for business, energy and industrial strategy
Mims Davies — employment minister
Duncan Baker — PPS at the department of levelling-up, housing and communities
Craig Williams — PPS to the chancellor of the exchequer
Mark Logan — PPS to the minister of state
Rachel Maclean — minister for safeguarding
Mike Freer — minister for exports, and minister for equalities
Mark Fletcher — PPS to the secretary of state at the department of business, energy and industrial strategy
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I also saw the Labour leader is promising to resign if the police fine him for breaking covid rules and that decision is supposed to come down this week. Good ole Brits and Americans always up for making our politics seems normal.
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Old 07-06-2022, 12:00 PM   #27
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Old 07-06-2022, 12:18 PM   #28
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He’s pledging to hold on but this is just a matter of when, not if. Patel sticking a knife in his back would have been unfathomable even a week ago.
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I strongly recommend listening to LBC radio, right now the UK Government is pretty much a rolling episode of 'The Thick of it'

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Johnson is refusing to go, his party hates him (always have) they are trying to push him out the window but he is clinging on to the curtains and threatening to call an election that would destroy the party, he has so few ministers now the actual function of Government has shut down, meetings and committees are being cancelled due to the lack of members because they have all resigned, Prime Ministers Question Time today consisted of his own MP's asking him under what circumstances a PM should resign, its an absolute crap show


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Old 07-06-2022, 02:46 PM   #31
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He has now sacked Michael Gove, his right hand man during the Brexschitt Referendum.

The man is now so clearly high up the nuts scale, he makes Trump seem balanced.

I cannot ####ing believe how insane UK politics has become. Half the Tory party are sex offenders and the other half are corrupt and incompetent.

Then there are those smack in the middle of the Venn diagram.
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He has now sacked Michael Gove, his right hand man during the Brexschitt Referendum.

The man is now so clearly high up the nuts scale, he makes Trump seem balanced.

I cannot ####ing believe how insane UK politics has become. Half the Tory party are sex offenders and the other half are corrupt and incompetent.

Then there are those smack in the middle of the Venn diagram.
And would it really shock you if they won re-election again despite all of this. I know the polls have them behind but they are like the Liberals in Canada in that they can trail polls but as soon as an election is called - they end up being competitive again.
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You have to admit...it makes for great entertainment.

We have a serious problem with Politics in the World right now. Its occupied almost exclusively by clowns.
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And would it really shock you if they won re-election again despite all of this. I know the polls have them behind but they are like the Liberals in Canada in that they can trail polls but as soon as an election is called - they end up being competitive again.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all.

The Liberals have plumbed the depths, but this is on a whole different level.
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I must admit it is kind of nice to watch a country other than the US soil itself and root its hands around in their underpants for a bit.

So what happens next? Elections or Johnson becomes a dictator or how does this all work. If he refuses to resign is this another instance of us all finding out another government functions entirely on the honour system?
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I must admit it is kind of nice to watch a country other than the US soil itself and root its hands around in their underpants for a bit.

So what happens next? Elections or Johnson becomes a dictator or how does this all work. If he refuses to resign is this another instance of us all finding out another government functions entirely on the honour system?
I must admit, I do love the 'Refuse to Resign' bit.

Boris Johnson right now is going Full-On 'George Costanza @ PlayNow.'
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Larry the Cat is out too now...

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I must admit it is kind of nice to watch a country other than the US soil itself and root its hands around in their underpants for a bit.

So what happens next? Elections or Johnson becomes a dictator or how does this all work. If he refuses to resign is this another instance of us all finding out another government functions entirely on the honour system?
in about a weeks time the Tory Party will rewrite their rules on when they can pick a party leader, about 5 minutes later Johnson will be dumped as the Tory Party leader and at that point he legally ceases to be the PM, if he refuses to go after that the coppers go in and arrest him
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in about a weeks time the Tory Party will rewrite their rules on when they can pick a party leader, about 5 minutes later Johnson will be dumped as the Tory Party leader and at that point he legally ceases to be the PM, if he refuses to go after that the coppers go in and arrest him
The PM serves at the Sovereign's pleasure so the only way Johnson leaves is he voluntarily resigns with or without a motion of no-confidence from Parliament or the Queen dismisses him.
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