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« Reply #1845 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 16:02:31 » |
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Girl Power. Next PM to be a woman then.
Whoever it is, hope they bring some feminine qualities to the job unlike the last one.
Very much like nanny has to clear up the mess after the naughty school boys have had their fun. |
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« Reply #1846 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 16:26:36 » |
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Very much like nanny has to clear up the mess after the naughty school boys have had their fun.
Not quite. Was thinking more along the lines of showing a bit of empathy for the downtrodden masses. The party line will override any of that though. |
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
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« Reply #1847 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 16:39:12 » |
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Girl Power. Next PM to be a woman then.
Whoever it is, hope they bring some feminine qualities to the job unlike the last one.
You do have an idea who Theresa May is, right?  |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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« Reply #1848 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 16:52:34 » |
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Not quite. Was thinking more along the lines of showing a bit of empathy for the downtrodden masses.
The party line will override any of that though.
Here's a small sample of the people voting for our next PM. I have every faith in their judgement   |
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« Reply #1849 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 17:03:40 » |
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You do have an idea who Theresa May is, right?
Oh yes. Just expressing a forlorn hope. Another Margaret in the making. |
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
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« Reply #1850 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 17:06:41 » |
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Here's a small sample of the people voting for our next PM. I have every faith in their judgement A rainbow nation in action. |
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
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« Reply #1851 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 17:27:51 » |
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You'd imagine there's a few swivel eyed loons in this lot.....they did go for IDS a few years back, so Leadsom it is, as the Brexit candidate.
Tbf, I hadn't even heard of the woman until the other day....apparently does a nice line in Cameron style tax evasion so should be right down the Tory voters street.
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« Reply #1852 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 17:48:19 » |
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Tbf, I hadn't even heard of the woman until the other day....apparently does a nice line in Cameron style tax evasion so should be right down the Tory voters street.
And a good line in bullshit and exaggeration too. Claims to have had an illustrious 25 year career in financial services, whereas nobody in the City has actually ever heard of her. Quite scarily, she's all for deregulation of almost everything too. |
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« Reply #1853 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 19:31:47 » |
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The Tory party is about to become even more Torier. Yay.
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« Reply #1854 on: Thursday, July 7, 2016, 20:00:02 » |
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Quite scarily, she's all for deregulation of almost everything too.
I kind of get the logic of the Brexit case is to tear up worker's rights, environmental concerns and other things which might hinder the pursuit of profit. People voted for this, so the logic is it should be delivered... |
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« Reply #1855 on: Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:39:10 » |
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Leadsom pulling out at noon (after newspapers viciously printed what she said, turns out being PM involves thinking about what you say before saying it), which means Theresa May is more or less PM.
Oh, and Eagle is challenging Corbyn today, and that will all end up in court. Politics is a bit of a mess really.
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« Reply #1856 on: Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:57:00 » |
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Leadsom pulling out at noon (after newspapers viciously printed what she said, turns out being PM involves thinking about what you say before saying it), which means Theresa May is more or less PM.
Oh, and Eagle is challenging Corbyn today, and that will all end up in court. Politics is a bit of a mess really.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36763208Not clear whether the abuse to which she refers is that which she directed towards May or that directed against her? Looks like Teresa Mays well planned referendum fence sitting has worked? Be interesting to see what the majority of the Labour MP's who voted against Corbyn will actually do, if they had principles one would expect them to fuck off now and form a new centre left party, which could also combine with the centre right Tories and Lib Dems and give the old school a kicking at a likely forthcoming election, but that would mean possibly sacfificing their seats and thus having to extract their noses from the trough |
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« Reply #1857 on: Monday, July 11, 2016, 11:01:05 » |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36763208Not clear whether the abuse to which she refers is that which she directed towards May or that directed against her? Looks like Teresa Mays well planned referendum fence sitting has worked? Be interesting to see what the majority of the Labour MP's who voted against Corbyn will actually do, if they had principles one would expect them to fuck off now and form a new centre left party, which could also combine with the centre right Tories and Lib Dems and give the old school a kicking at a likely forthcoming election, but that would mean possibly sacfificing their seats and thus having to extract their noses from the trough Apparently a Leadsom win would have tempted moderate Tories to join a new centre party....now that won't happen. |
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« Reply #1858 on: Monday, July 11, 2016, 11:29:25 » |
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Andrea Leadsom was simply given a small taste of the kind of pressure she would be under every single day were she to become PM; pressure that Cameron (and his predecessors) has mopped up routinely. I think it demonstrates quite clearly that the fears of those who thought she did not have the requisite experience were entirely founded. She's not ready. She was simply the next best thing that Leaverish-tending Tory MPs had to rally around after the main contenders had killed each other's political careers. Somebody had to occupy the vacuum.
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« Reply #1859 on: Monday, July 11, 2016, 11:36:00 » |
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And I wouldn't bank on Article 50 being triggered now any time soon. Unlike Leadsom, May will be in no rush at all.
I guess it also puts pressure on Cameron to forego his finally farewell jolly with the other G8 leaders and to move aside ASAP. Keeping May in the wings until Sep 9th now looks daft.
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