ewerk 30620 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Quote "It is now clear to me that it is in the best interest of the UK for a new PM to lead that effort," she says. "I am today announcing that I will resign as Conservative leader on Friday 7 June. "I have agreed with the party chairman that the process for electing a new leader will begin in the following week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 I made the mistake of flicking it onto Andrew Neil's show late last night and they were discussing the next Tory leader and they were saying Boris is the only one wth the charisma to rival Corbyn and Farage This is what it has boiled down to, how popular someone is. Forget about their integrity, intelligence, morals, policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 I forgot to mention, they also put forward the notion of a Boris/Farage coalition Fuck me, stop the world it's time to get off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ewerk 30620 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Don't you really need a seat in parliament to form any sort of coalition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21628 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 The next PM will be chosen by 0.2% of the population, statistically of whom most will be dead in 15 years. The president is hereditary and the second chamber is unelected. Brexiteers like to wail about how undemocratic the EU is (whilst ironically voting on mass yesterday for their MEP), when in actual fact it is more democratic than our own system. Like everything else, maybe we should have tried to fix our own problems before worrying so much about supranational cooperation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11393 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 9 minutes ago, ewerk said: Just like Thatcher, only crying for herself. Wizened old hags the pair of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44903 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Well she might cry, the useless cunt. Plus the sun was out. Back in the coffin, fuckface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11393 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11393 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Can't disagree with any of that. Fuck off back to your fields of wheat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21628 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 11 minutes ago, Sonatine said: Can't disagree with any of that. Fuck off back to your fields of wheat. That Colin Yeo thread should remind everybody not to a feel an shred of sympathy for her. Trouble is, each and every one of the tory contenders will have a similar one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 That is painful reading like, what an odious cunt. Disgrace she got anywhere near PM with that horrific record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, Anorthernsoul said: I made the mistake of flicking it onto Andrew Neil's show late last night and they were discussing the next Tory leader and they were saying Boris is the only one wth the charisma to rival Corbyn and Farage This is what it has boiled down to, how popular someone is. Forget about their integrity, intelligence, morals, policies. Not just that but how popular and charismatic they are compared to just two cunts. Like they’re some sort of benchmark that’s difficult to obtain Edited May 24, 2019 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 The BBC love Farage mind. The coverage he receives is majorly disproportionate. Fascist bastards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11393 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Watched these this morning... Conclusion: we’re all in a lot of trouble Possibly if we don’t leave the EU at the end of October we’ll get this lots’ version of democracy. Ordinary people love Farage, he’s far from stupid and is a natural charismatic salesman who tells people precisely what they want to hear. Bannon has banded all these types of characters together all over Europe and all we need to do is look at who sits in power in his homeland to see where all this may end up and how it happened. Looks to me European post war centralism/social democracy/small “c” Conservatism is on its deathbed. Things are changing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 (edited) How was this not the end of his political career? This is the man who is favourite to be our next PM. Edited May 25, 2019 by ewerk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 This is a new one to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21628 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 One of Johnson's biographers, who knew him really well, was on R5 drivetime yesterday. She sttated that at heart he was actually a europhile who is very supportive of the EU and our position in it. As we know his position in 2016 was pure political opportunism that backfired. I maintain he won't be the one at the wheel if Brexit happens. But in response to PL, I was out with an Asian mate tonight who said he felt now like that the zeitgeist in this country has fundamentally changed since 2016, and he no longer feels safe in Newcastle like he did say a decade ago. He said he doesn't know if it is just paranoia, but things don't feel right. I dont think he's imagining it personally, we're witnessing the logical conclusion of popularism. When a third of the country vote fir Farage, that country has genuine problems. I really hope I'm wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 (edited) That’s horrible to hear but completely unsurprising at the same time. And Newcastle is probably relatively tolerant Edited May 26, 2019 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 I think en masse Newcastle is one of the most tolerant and diverse cities in the country but everywhere has it’s idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3898 Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Tom said: I think en masse Newcastle is one of the most tolerant and diverse cities in the country but everywhere has it’s idiots. Actual conversation in Glasgow. boy wearing turban playing a slot machine in a bar in Glasgow. Regular sidles up and says “so what religion are you” guy replies “Sikh”. Glaswegian “aye but are you a tim Sikh or a hun Sikh?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4386 Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said: Actual conversation in Glasgow. boy wearing turban playing a slot machine in a bar in Glasgow. Regular sidles up and says “so what religion are you” guy replies “Sikh”. Glaswegian “aye but are you a tim Sikh or a hun Sikh?” Dave Allen. Belfast. Protestant Atheist or Catholic Atheist. Circa 1973. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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