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23 Oct 2022, 4:02 am

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However, we can't force the government to hold an election because unlike the USA, elections don't have to be held every 4 years. The government can choose to hold one at the best time for themselves, ensuring they will survive.
No less than 5 years but the government decides when exactly, do I understand it correctly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit ... e_election
Indeed, it is biased for the ruling party... still, with current opinion polls, I don't think they can achieve much with meddling with it.


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23 Oct 2022, 6:01 am

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Show me a photo of Boris Johnson that isn't disappointing, he is generally a disappointment :lol:
Those photos are going to be rare - but here's a more typical one from The Torygraph, dishevelled and falling out of his clothes on his return to the UK -

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Sunak has finally announced he's running; the BBC is reporting the current counts as:
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With just over 48 hours to go until nominations for the next Conservative Party leader close at 14:00 BST on Monday, 211 out of 357 Tory MPs have gone public with their support:

Rishi Sunak - 133 MPs
Boris Johnson - 55 MPs
Penny Mordaunt - 23 MPs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63327087

So, that's 55 MPs with an incredibly short memory and no morals. :roll:


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23 Oct 2022, 6:06 am

Cornflake wrote:
KitLily wrote:
Show me a photo of Boris Johnson that isn't disappointing, he is generally a disappointment :lol:
Those photos are going to be rare - but here's a more typical one from The Torygraph, dishevelled and falling out of his clothes on his return to the UK -

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Sunak has finally announced he's running; the BBC is reporting the current counts as:
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With just over 48 hours to go until nominations for the next Conservative Party leader close at 14:00 BST on Monday, 211 out of 357 Tory MPs have gone public with their support:

Rishi Sunak - 133 MPs
Boris Johnson - 55 MPs
Penny Mordaunt - 23 MPs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63327087

So, that's 55 MPs with an incredibly short memory and no morals. :roll:


On a complete tangent, how has he managed have so many babies when he looks like that at a time he needs to dress sharp?



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23 Oct 2022, 6:08 am

:lol: The same thought had occurred here...


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23 Oct 2022, 7:08 am

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:lol: The same thought had occurred here...


He might be extreeeeeemly confident. I wish I could go to work dressed like a tramp and get paid hundreds of grand.

I remember watching a Reddit video on YouTube titled roughly "What screams I'm rich but nobody would know" and dressing like that was a common theme. Perhaps he's so sire of himself he's given up trying.



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23 Oct 2022, 8:07 am

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No less than 5 years but the government decides when exactly, do I understand it correctly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit ... e_election
Indeed, it is biased for the ruling party... still, with current opinion polls, I don't think they can achieve much with meddling with it.


I think it's no more than 5 years, I mean an election can't be held any later than 5 years after the current one.

So the government has options:

1. Get a decent leader who unites the party and inspires the voters to vote for them. <--Unlikely.
2. Wait until January 2025 and hope things have turned around for them by then. <--Possible.
3. Hold an election sooner and hope for the best. <--Unlikely.
4. Pass a law making elections illegal/ declare the UK a One Party Nation so there isn't an opposition. <--Possible.


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23 Oct 2022, 8:10 am

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On a complete tangent, how has he managed have so many babies when he looks like that at a time he needs to dress sharp?


He was fairly good looking when he was younger...but I think it's about power now. People fall in love with power and he also has a reputation as a maverick. To some women a powerful maverick is irresistible :eew:


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23 Oct 2022, 9:18 am

KitLily wrote:
Nades wrote:
On a complete tangent, how has he managed have so many babies when he looks like that at a time he needs to dress sharp?

He was fairly good looking when he was younger...but I think it's about power now. People fall in love with power and he also has a reputation as a maverick. To some women a powerful maverick is irresistible :eew:
Yes indeed, :eew:

Here's a short history:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -number-10
(which also seems to show how his toddler haircut was a deliberately adopted look)


Also this, from Andrew Rawnsley -
If the Tory party brings back Boris Johnson, it really will be fit only for a straitjacket


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23 Oct 2022, 10:12 am

He has played all his cards and has nothing left up his (shabby) sleeve. He is destined for the dustbin of history.


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23 Oct 2022, 10:38 am

Amazing Guardian article, Mr Cornflake. Andrew Rawnsley is a great writer who doesn’t pull any punches. I loved the expression “pyramid of bollocks”.


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23 Oct 2022, 10:57 am

Cornflake wrote:
Here's a short history:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -number-10
(which also seems to show how his toddler haircut was a deliberately adopted look)


Also this, from Andrew Rawnsley -
If the Tory party brings back Boris Johnson, it really will be fit only for a straitjacket


Great articles Cornflake! *clapping*


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23 Oct 2022, 11:00 am

Johnson claimed yesterday he had the 100, yet couldn't name them. Then today he is begging for more backers, then calls Mordaunt asking her to back out as he needs her backers :lol:

He hasn't even declared he is in the running yet, because if he can't get 100 he will claim he was never interested anyway



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23 Oct 2022, 11:12 am

KitLily wrote:
People fall in love with power and he also has a reputation as a maverick. To some women a powerful maverick is irresistible :eew:


I'm afraid so. Here's a snap of Rupert Murdoch:
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The Daily Mail's caption to the picture begins thus:

That's love! Supermodel Jerry Hall, 62, held hands with her husband Rupert Murdoch, 87, at the beach in the South of France

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... rance.html

Is it love, or is it gold-digging?



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23 Oct 2022, 11:14 am

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Johnson claimed yesterday he had the 100, yet couldn't name them. Then today he is begging for more backers, then calls Mordaunt asking her to back out as he needs her backers :lol:

He hasn't even declared he is in the running yet, because if he can't get 100 he will claim he was never interested anyway


Bl00dy cheek. Why should Mordaunt drop out of the race to please him?


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23 Oct 2022, 11:15 am

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KitLily wrote:
People fall in love with power and he also has a reputation as a maverick. To some women a powerful maverick is irresistible :eew:


I'm afraid so.
That's love! Supermodel Jerry Hall, 62, held hands with her husband Rupert Murdoch, 87, at the beach in the South of France

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... rance.html

Is it love, or is it gold-digging?


I can't believe she's in love with his mind or body...


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23 Oct 2022, 11:32 am

I think Jerry Hall looked a bit better in this video (at 1:55 mark). :lol:



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