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Old 19-07-2022, 09:21   #3676
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

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What a dilemma , if only Fabricant had run....There's no end of talent to choose from.
Redwood can't recommend any of the candidates so no help for Seph on that front.

It looks like we could well be getting Britain's first Asian Prime Minister so a historic moment. In part due to Cameron's successful efforts to get BAME candidates into safe seats.
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Old 19-07-2022, 10:49   #3677
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

Our next Prime Minister is either BAME, female, or both. All in all the supposedly nasty Tories seem to do rather well at this sort of thing. I wonder when Labour will stop lecturing the nation about equality and diversity and elect someone other than a middle class white bloke to lead it.
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Old 19-07-2022, 11:05   #3678
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

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You do realise that this was in response to Labour’s attempt to get a motion of no confidence in Boris Johnson, don’t you?

But yes, the Speaker’s response was very funny.

Ha, ha.
At least Boris' days of meaningful lies in Parliament are now at an end.

It's a great pity that the only candidates in the PM race are vegetables.


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Redwood can't recommend any of the candidates so no help for Seph on that front.

It looks like we could well be getting Britain's first Asian Prime Minister so a historic moment. In part due to Cameron's successful efforts to get BAME candidates into safe seats.
My private interactions with Redwood remain private!

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Old 19-07-2022, 11:09   #3679
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

At least Boris generally did things in style. If you are going to be a buffoon, make mistakes do it properly. I prefer that to the normal political weasels on either side of the political divide.
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Old 19-07-2022, 11:11   #3680
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

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Our next Prime Minister is either BAME, female, or both. All in all the supposedly nasty Tories seem to do rather well at this sort of thing. I wonder when Labour will stop lecturing the nation about equality and diversity and elect someone other than a middle class white bloke to lead it.
Ironically, all the Conservatives whingeing about other organisations' woke positive discrimination are members of an organisation which under Cameron's guidance did exactly this. They have helped make Johnson's cabinet so diverse in ethnicity albeit not diverse in class.
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The next year, Cameron introduced a priority list of female and ethnic-minority candidates to be selected, many for safe Conservative seats. By the next election, the number of Conservative female MPs had risen from 17 to 49, and ethnic-minority MPs had increased from two to 11. Today, those figures stand at 87 and 22, respectively. By diversifying his party “at the top and from the top,” Katwala said, Cameron succeeded in transforming its image as a seemingly more inclusive and representative party, even if, in reality, it continued to lag behind the Labour Party in the diversity of its parliamentary caucus. In the House of Commons, more than half of Labour’s nearly 200 MPs are women and 41 are of ethnic-minority backgrounds—although Labour has so far failed to elect a woman or minority leader.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...ersity/670507/

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At least Boris generally did things in style. If you are going to be a buffoon, make mistakes do it properly. I prefer that to the normal political weasels on either side of the political divide.
I prefer my buffoons to be on the small screen not heading up the country.
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

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Old 19-07-2022, 11:18   #3682
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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

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At least Boris' days of meaningful lies in Parliament are now at an end.

It's a great pity that the only candidates in the PM race are vegetables.
They are vegetables as a direct consequence of reducing the political gene pool due to the mandatory qualification to be a Brexit nodding dog.

Sunak - certain to be one of the last two. Labour pick for the next GE due to being a non-dom, elite, out of touch billionaire who really wants to be an American

Truss - a mindless joke; literally nothing behind the eyes

Badenock - untrustworthy (!) She "moved to this country 30 years ago, I'm here to be honest with you" but she was born in Wimbledon. She is also supported by the facist Britain First section of the Conservative party membership - says it all really

Mourdant - the most sinister choice given one so anonymous can likely govern the country. A cos-play soldier who has one of her backers claiming she "fought for the country"

The important thing to remember is that they all:

- knew about Johnson's character when they selected him
- supported Johnson time & again when he lied
- lied about Johnson when asked if they supported & believed him

One word to remember for the next GE: "Liars"
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Old 19-07-2022, 11:26   #3683
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They are vegetables as a direct consequence of reducing the political gene pool due to the mandatory qualification to be a Brexit nodding dog.

Sunak - certain to be one of the last two. Labour pick for the next GE due to being a non-dom, elite, out of touch billionaire who really wants to be an American

Truss - a mindless joke; literally nothing behind the eyes

Badenock - untrustworthy (!) She "moved to this country 30 years ago, I'm here to be honest with you" but she was born in Wimbledon. She is also supported by the facist Britain First section of the Conservative party membership - says it all really

Mourdant - the most sinister choice given one so anonymous can likely govern the country. A cos-play soldier who has one of her backers claiming she "fought for the country"

The important thing to remember is that they all:

- knew about Johnson's character when they selected him
- supported Johnson time & again when he lied
- lied about Johnson when asked if they supported & believed him

One word to remember for the next GE: "Liars"
It's a pity that your valid words are marred by your ideological chucking in of your Brexit remark.
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At least Boris' days of meaningful lies in Parliament are now at an end.

It's a great pity that the only candidates in the PM race are vegetables.


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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

Meanwhile, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has been stripped of the whip by BoJo for missing the no-confidence motion last night. What does Ellwood say? He couldn't return from Moldova at a meeting to re-start grain exports due to unprecedented disruption.

https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1549325198297538565
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Meanwhile, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has been stripped of the whip by BoJo for missing the no-confidence motion last night. What does Ellwood say? He couldn't return from Moldova at a meeting to re-start grain exports due to unprecedented disruption.

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It's a pity that your valid words are marred by your ideological chucking in of your Brexit remark.
Am I wrong then? Did not a large number of good, decent, Tories get ruled out of Government due to this ideological constraint?
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Nads decides to wing it in yesterday's vote of confidence after her speech writer forgot to hand her briefing notes

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Am I wrong then? Did not a large number of good, decent, Tories get ruled out of Government due to this ideological constraint?
I don't think so. Boris brought only loyalists into the cabinet (and prolly the rest of the government).
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