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OscarAcosta
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If they vote against the government on any number of votes in the Commons then I think it signals the end of him. Particularly on any great matters of importance.
By the rules, I think that heās safe from another VONC for 12-months, but that does not stop the sizeable number 0f rebels making his situation untenable.
They can make his life a living Hell.
OscarAcosta
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TBF, I would imagine that all of this signals a general election within 12-months, and I canāt see anything other than a bloodbath with him at the helm. If a GE is announced & early polling is terrible based on his leadership then he may be forced upon his own sword.
He is such a craven piece of shyt, though. Theyāll find his fingernails dug into the doorstep when they finally drag him out.
He is such a craven piece of shyt, though. Theyāll find his fingernails dug into the doorstep when they finally drag him out.
the next guy
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Ugh, nasty. What are they afraid of? He'll get rid of them?
OscarAcosta
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Anonymous vote - bewilderingly, it appears that there are still some true believers.
is a UK PM named Boris the equivalent of the US having a President named Barack?
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is a UK PM named Boris the equivalent of the US having a President named Barack?
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
"Johnson's paternal great-grandfather was the Ottoman Interior Minister and journalist Ali Kemal who was of Turkish-Circassian origin[828][829][830] and a secular Muslim. Johnson's paternal grandfather, Wilfred Johnson, Ali Kemal's son, was an RAF pilot in Coastal Command during the Second World War.[831] His father's other ancestry includes English, German and French; one of his German ancestors was said to be the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of WĆ¼rttemberg and thus a descendant of King George II of Great Britain.[832] This would make him and Elizabeth II sixth cousins twice removed. Through Mary of Teck's connection to Duke Frederick II Eugene of WĆ¼rttemberg, they would in that case also have a closer genealogical link as fifth cousins twice removed. Johnson's mother is the granddaughter of Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US,[833] and Pennsylvania-born Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator of Thomas Mann.[834] Referring to his varied ancestry, Johnson has described himself as a "one-man melting pot" with a combination of Abrahamic religious great-grandparents.[835] Johnson was given the middle name "Boris" after a White Russian Ć©migrĆ© named Boris Litwin, who was a friend of his parents.[24] An episode of Who Do You Think You Are? explored the German origins of his middle name Pfeffel.[5][836][837] Through this family line, Johnson is a descendant in the seventh generation of Anna Catharina Bischoff, whose mummified corpse was found in 1975 and identified in 2018.[838][839]"
OscarAcosta
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āLetās move on!ā says Boris.
No, letās not. How about you move on, you fukking c*nt.
No, letās not. How about you move on, you fukking c*nt.
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brehs got beef with Bojo 
I read this in a yorkshire accent
OscarAcosta
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Rebel Tories plan āvote strikesā to capitalise on PMās weakened position
MPs will attempt to stymie Boris Johnsonās legislative agenda, starting with bill on NI protocol
www.theguardian.com
Rail workers to bring British network to a halt with three-day strike in June
Workers to strike on 21, 23 and 25 June over possible job cuts at Transport for London and national rail network
www.theguardian.com
About to be a hot summer
Would you expect the supply issues to remain for a long time, then?This seems to suggest that Japan was a special case (and I'm not aware of anywhere else trying negative interest rates
) so perhaps things won't end up like they did there?Cool. Will watch later.
It warms my heart when I hear or read about people who have left. When will it be my turn?
UK is babylon central. The old families will make sure that it doesn't all collapse.
Icke does a good tour of London.
(find the full video about London)
at least Libor isn't set in London anymore
Definitely. My concern is that they will let things get worse for everyone apart from a vanishingly small subset of people - I'm thinking of the political class, their donors, those who lobby and/or employ them once they're out. They will still have plenty of options, even as the rest of the country has fewer and fewer (but perhaps just enough to think things are okay). I can't even really conceive of the old money.
I feel that to some extent where the US goes, Britain follows - culturally, politically - it's hard for me to explain (and they're obv not directly comparable), but it seems the current form of the Conservative Party is borrowing heavily from the Republicans' playbook with the use of the culture wars, for example (though it has always been easier to point to a nebulous enemy than to, you know, govern well). And I think we are fortunate that guns are not as easy to get here... (though in terms of crime, we're #1 for fraud!)
Feeling a mixture of
I was almost hopeful for a bit there. My only consolation is that they kind of went in in the comments here
: What the Tories now offer Britain ā a lame duck leader and a party that has lost the plot | Gaby HinsliffI really hope so... but why? Whoever succeeds him will probably be just as trash; maybe a little less annoying