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l hope that parachute has not been tampered with..;)

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Boris Johnson tops Conservative poll as favourite to replace Theresa May


Boris Johnson has returned to being the darling of the Tory grassroots after quitting government in protest at the prime minister's Brexit strategy.

The former foreign secretary, who quit the role last month, has topped a monthly poll of Conservative Party members as to who they want as their next party leader.

It is the first time Mr Johnson has achieved such popularity since March 2016, soon after the ex-London mayor came out in support of Brexit.

https://news.sky.com/story/boris-joh...a-may-11456262

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Well, we could certainly do with a good laugh!

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The omnishambles in the current Government and Opposition over-deliver in that respect right now! :D

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For once Andrew l agree with you as one could not make up this omnishambles.

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Some pretty strong words from Andrew Lewer, the MP for Northamptonshire South about the underlying financial pressures affecting all local authorities with social care responsibilities.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...council-crisis

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It's only confirmation of what we already know, that Adult Social Care is in crisis. Unfortunately, there is a little problem of where the money will come from to pay for the funding gap.

(Silence)

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Politicians in Westminster continue to pay lip service to this crisis basically as being in hospital lately just cemented my thoughts of how big a crisis we have in this country in regards to our social care system.

You could say its a bit like Nero fiddled while Rome burned..

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We as a nation are also paying the highest amount of our GDP in taxes since the seventies. One wonders where all the money is going?

Maybe a freedom of information request to Northamptonshire council should be made as to how many council employees are being paid more than the Prime Minister?

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Local council funding has been drastically cut: https://www.ft.com/content/9c6b5284-...7-502f7ee26895

Whilst I am sure council leaders may be inefficient and spending too much it's unlikely to be the cause of the funding crisis since even paying them three times the PM is small change in contrast to the budgets we're talking about.

Wherever the extra tax is going it's being spent by central government.

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This is just weird .. what she doing down there?

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2018/08/3.jpg

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First she coughed, but then the knees went.

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It's the BINO negotiating position. Cameron had something similar when bent over taking the EU broom handle. :erm:

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I glad to be a Republican...