Clearly, in retrospect, a coup. She knew she was safe to resign, Sunak would reappoint her and the chaos would finish the Trussbot.
Nope, him and Keggy Keegle are the only ones I can remember from that show. Anyhoo, as Davy C would say, back to the serious stuff.
Braverman's 'new'# job may be very, very 'shortlived': https://twitter.com/shippersunbound/status/1584939423703396352
Any tiny benefit of the doubt I might have given Sunak has evaporated with the reappointment of Braverman, to appease the ERG goons. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
We really need to stop relying on the ******* ministerial code scouts honour system and make it actually ******* illegal to do this, and prosecute those people. People working at mundane companies selling consumer tat have list their jobs for less
Yer, Nurse Ratched lives ....... uh, except she died just the other day. Louise Fletcher followed her Oscar winning performance in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with a prominent role in the flawed but entertaining Exorcist II: The Heretic.
They should build a fit for purpose Parliament building laid out in a semi-circle as in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood to promote a better atmosphere, and leave the Palace of Westminister to become the museum and collection of fossils as it now is. The working day of the chambers needs to be more akin to a regular work place with the main working day of the chamber being a 4 day 9 to 5, no evening/over night sittings, a no boozing on the premises or surrounding areas culture, and a Friday timetable of either compulsory constituency surgeries or other related work. An end to the public school term style term working stretches when Parliament sits, with a 30 day leave allowance + bank holidays, similar to the rest of us. Let's face it they are Public Sector workers and should have very similar working conditions.
Not Keegan but the Immortal Gareth Edwards, one kick away from winning nearly $5000 in a penalty shoot out.
For someone who regularly criticises others for their poor communication and letter writing skills, he's got really poor, almost illegible, handwriting!
Not really, from what I remember of my father's hidden 'photographic study art magazines' the letter pages often had communications in praise of the journals' previous content that contained the line "...please excuse the shaky handwriting..." and it should be apparent that JRM is, without doubt, the biggest w**ker in parliament.
If PMQs is anything to go by Rishi loves to lean into Corbyn doesn't he? If that's the game plan he's going with I can't see it getting him very far with the electorate. You can't fight an election from 3 years ago.
Being advised by Gove on how to deal with PMQs, so yesterday’s man advising him to fight yesterday’s war.
Countries in Europe that use First Past the Post for their equivalent of the House of Commons: 1. The UK 2. Belarus The end. The fact that people have been brainwashed over decades into thinking that coalition governments simply can't work and unthinkingly parrot this 'FPTP isn't perfect but it's better than any alternative' is a huge win for the two largest parties and their supporters in the media. We had a coalition in power less than a decade ago and look how much better that was than everything that's followed since!
We had joy, we had fun, we had L*t*n on the run(s!) But the joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast. Topical.
I’m absolutely for PR, until Labour win the next election and the choice is whether to give a bigger say to Lib Dems and a load of hairy-eared right wing loons. Not saying it’s wrong, just hard to do.
It pretty much killed off the Lib Dems because they had to compromise on some of their key policies. Not sure they'd agree it went particularly well. I'm not brainwashed, I'm a realist. I'd actually prefer PR. Not that half arsed offer they put to a referendum, but proper PR, as long as the disconnect to a constituency MP can be sorted. For it to work however you need an array of parties. More than just the dominant 2 that we have currently. For PR to work you need an overlap of ideas so majorities can be arranged. Where we have just the 2 big parties (currently) one just disagrees with the other and nothing gets done. Mind you at least they wouldn't be able to **** anything up. If neither party has a majority then they have to team up with the more extreme smaller parties to push things through. You get situations where you have to lob wedges of cash over to the the likes of the DUP to get stuff passed. That being said with the Tories imploding the Lib dems and others may come back into play. The Tories are quite likely and rightfully going to get a hammering at the next election and it's not out of the question that they could split. There's always a risk of the same happening with the extreme left of Labour and suddenly you've got 5 parties (ind LD) that run across the whole of the UK with a spectrum of ideas where a proper PR system could work. Think we need massive reforms first and before that we need to sort the economy out. It's a decade off at the very least. In the meantime Count Binface continues to receive my support.
There's a real cause and effect thing going on here. Isn't FPTP the primary reason we have two large parties; not the other way around? So if you change the electoral system, more parties will come into play and bingo, no longer two party dominance. The Greens and Lib Dems already have reasonably substantial national presence which would be enhanced by PR. Their share of the vote is fairly low now because many people consider a vote for them to be wasted given little likelihood of winning. Then there are the SNP and PC and the NI parties. As you say, there could be splinter parties from Labour or Tories. That looks like 'an array of parties' to me.
You don't think that changing the way the voting system works would have any effect on voter behaviour? Seriously??
We really deserved a Coffey break, surely...? And you can always bank on Barclay. Mr Who? always turns up and contrives to do f*** all in his trademark anonymous way. Sunak has successfully managed some deckchair shifting as he promised, bringing together a cabinet of all the mad mediocres. Well done PM, out with the old broom and in with the old broom too.
Thank god, she is our saviour determined to fight crime. All the other leaders and police weren't determined enough. Let's just try harder. And be harder in crime. Especially drugs. We can't stop drugs getting into prisons, but I'm sure if we get tougher we can stop teenagers smoking any weed