New Prime Minister for the UK?

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23 Jul 2022, 6:12 am

Biscuitman wrote:

Recent poling suggests Truss will win the final vote quite easily. Something like 2/3 of the vote to her.

**Though its politics, there are always twists and turns**

Looks like it doesn't it. The Thatcher Mini Me will win.

Also...read this scary article:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... -liz-truss

UK under international pressure over deletion of abortion commitments

More than 20 countries, including those now complaining, had signed the original text, which included a commitment to the repeal of any laws that “allow harmful practices, or restrict women’s and girls’ … sexual and reproductive health and rights, bodily autonomy.”

But those phrases were removed from a later version of the international pact, which is currently online and has been signed by six countries, including the UK and Malta, where abortion is illegal.

The Tories are coming for Women's Rights. Be afraid.

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23 Jul 2022, 6:29 am

Weirdly for the first time in 6 years I feel a little bit more positive about UK politics. Not because of who is coming in as PM, but to me it feels like this appointment is the beginning of the end.

We had the lunacy around brexit claims, and since Jan 1st 2020 we had the covid impact masking (no pun intended) the brexit impact. But now covid restrictions are gone we are seeing clear brexit impacts on businesses and peoples lives.

Truss will become PM because she is the bigger 'unicornist' of the 2 of them. But you can't keep going on pretending brexit is a great thing in the face of a failing economy. They will of course try and make new excuses (energy prices, war in Ukraine, other economies having a hard time) but that will only carry so much weight. At some point it will become easy to point at joining something like the Single Market and it having a significant positive impact on British businesses and the UK tax bottom line.

30 months max until the next election. There are still going to be some unpleasant bumps in the road but to me it feels like the end of the madness may be on the horizon. I think Truss might be the final Brexit obsessed Tory leader and from the next election onwards whoever wins I am not sure we will see an extreme unicorn type leader again

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23 Jul 2022, 9:29 am

Biscuitman wrote:

I hope you are right! Yes, covid has been 'masking' the Brexit effects hasn't it, and that won't be possible now.

So 30 months...that's end of 2024 is it?

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23 Jul 2022, 3:04 pm

KitLily wrote:

Biscuitman wrote:

I hope you are right! Yes, covid has been 'masking' the Brexit effects hasn't it, and that won't be possible now.

So 30 months...that's end of 2024 is it?

Jan 25 is the latest they can hold an election. It will likely be a few months earlier than that.

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24 Jul 2022, 5:13 am

Biscuitman wrote:

Jan 25 is the latest they can hold an election. It will likely be a few months earlier than that.

I'll make sure I'm registered to vote, as we're probably moving house in 2024 :idea:

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24 Jul 2022, 7:25 am

The Battle For Number 10 Aka The Muppet Show.

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24 Jul 2022, 8:10 am

Came across this, couldn't resist:

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24 Jul 2022, 8:13 am

:lol:

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24 Jul 2022, 10:09 am

That stone circle trick is good! We should all do that asap :lol:

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25 Jul 2022, 3:23 pm

Biscuitman wrote:

Recent poling suggests Truss will win the final vote quite easily. Something like 2/3 of the vote to her.

That's scary. The Daily Express and the Daily Mail are both actively telling their readers to support Truss, which suggests to me that she's more dangerous than the other one.

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25 Jul 2022, 3:51 pm

Johnson, along with the Daily Telegraph, campaigning to get himself on the final ballot too :lol:

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26 Jul 2022, 2:53 am

FFS. Johnson trying to get himself on the ballot paper?? He's insane.

I also saw this:

Worst NHS staffing crisis in its history is putting patients at serious risk, MPs warn

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... k-mps-warn

Erm...MPs are warning there is an NHS staffing crisis? Who has been in government for the last 12 years? If only they'd been able to prevent this happening! :roll:

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26 Jul 2022, 4:33 am

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I reckon Tories love it, because it makes them seem open minded and diverse. They were going on about how diverse their list of candidates was. :roll:

But they weren't financially or educationally diverse, which is the problem.

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26 Jul 2022, 4:44 am

I’m going with Liz Truss…

Former Greenham Common activist, former committed Brexit remainer… what’s not to like?

… irony alert.

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26 Jul 2022, 5:12 am

And here is Keir Starmer U-turning on renationalising the railways!

Starmer U-turns on leadership election pledge to renationalise railways
https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-u-tu ... s-12658870

Sounds like a Tory, looks like a Tory, is a Tory

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