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Yes sounds like Project Fear to me. But Oops, its all come true, well would you believe it !

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They might well be if they get no tourists from the UK. :p:

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100 euro per day, that's a lot of lager, have they thought this out properly :shocked:

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Thank you - that means a lot to me… :)

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"May/might be" being the operative terms - sounds like the Spanish are giving themselves a get out of jail card if they want to keep out hooligans/lowlifes…

https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/...y-condiciones/

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...adership-news/
She probably fell asleep through boredom. Should have got GB News to do it, they're much more professional ;)

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The Telegraph are getting really desperate to find Johnson a new job, aren’t they?

(probably trying to save the £275k a year (approx. £2,300 per hour) they used to pay him for the ten hours a month he ‘worked’ when he threw together his weekly column…)

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www....-general-nato/

https://c.tenor.com/7wL0mjEP5o0AAAAM/data-laugh.gif

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Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 39% (-1)
CON: 32% (+3)
LDM: 12% (-1)
GRN: 8% (+1)
RFM: 4% (=)
SNP: 4% (=)

Via @YouGov, 22-22 Jul.
Changes w/ 13-14 Jul.

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Much as I like Boris a position in NATO really wouldn't be a good match for him. Part of his popularity is that he is sometimes viewed as one of the lads, someone you could go to the pub with (even if you need to count you fingers afterwards). I can't see that working in NATO, the NAAFI maybe.

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Tories will be hoping to close that gap further with Johnson gone. Maybe he wasn't dragging down the party as much as was suggested. :erm:

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Remember the 'Brown Bounce' and how that ended up ? ;)
Truss will be a gift to Labour, Sunak more challenging...

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HIGNY was his best role. He's an entertainer. He's an excellent Upper Class Twit character. Nato errm, no.

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Not sure if he would be popular in the NAAFI - never pays for a round, always scrounging off his mates, not a team-player, always skiving off rather than actually working.

Those sort of people aren’t very popular in the Military…

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I wouldn’t be so sure, Mr K. People like your good self will hate Truss as PM, but she is a Maggie Thatcher type without that condescending maternal voice she had, who won over both the right wing of the party and the centre ground, hence the huge majorities she had at each election.

Truss might just see Labour out of office for another 15 years minimum. That suits me just fine.

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Ah, so you like her Thatcher clothes/impersonation ! ;) Funny impersonation being a remainer and a Liberal Democrat.

Interesting after the first debate Sunak rated more highly than Truss wit the general public. But it was the other way round with Con members (who represent 0.2% of the population). They are going to fall into the trap of choosing who they prefer rather than who the electorate prefer. Con MPs know this and also went for Sunak as their jobs depend on it !

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I didn’t mean that Truss is a Thatcher clone. But she does have similar no nonsense ways of looking at things.

She will not tolerate fools gladly, and you can bet your life she would win any war with the trade unions. She’s already threatened to take away some of the trade union mechanisms for disrupting the country and I have no doubt she will take this a lot further if they try taking her on.

I’m sure the grassroots Conservatives will love her, and the public will warm to her as she starts to achieve real benefits for the country.

The Left will become even more disgruntled as it is brought home to them that they do not, and never will, represent the majority views of the British public.

Quite how she will go down with the Scots, however, I’m not so sure! But she will certainly not give them a second referendum!

I am pretty sure that Truss will be our next PM.

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I actually feel sorry for you, you're like one of those OAP's scammers target repeatedly and you keep falling for it, no matter what, there you are parroting the party line, btainwashed into not believing the evidence of your own eyes, they kick you and kick you like an abused puppy and no matter how cruel they are there you are, tail wagging, with boundless enthusiasm ready to be kicked again but in desperate hope of a pat on the head, meet the new master, same as the old master except maybe crueler