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Old 28-06-2021, 21:00   #76
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Or laws introduced where you can be arrested for expressing contrary opinions in your own home, or trying to introduce laws were your child is appointed a state “guardian”.

They keep you sweet by giving titbits funded by the residents of Kent.
Well let’s be honest Pierre, 2 trillion of debt and rising nobody is actually paying for anything.
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Well let’s be honest Pierre, 2 trillion of debt and rising nobody is actually paying for anything.
Worse than the EU average. We just need to man up and raise taxes, there's little space to cut expenditure except on some of the fanciful PPE procurement and advisers we've seen.
https://www.cityam.com/britain-is-si...to-climb-down/
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Worse than the EU average. We just need to man up and raise taxes, there's little space to cut expenditure except on some of the fanciful PPE procurement and advisers we've seen.
https://www.cityam.com/britain-is-si...to-climb-down/
Where’s the fun in that when you can keep kicking the can down the road.
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Old 28-06-2021, 23:04   #80
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Not sure he did a u-turn - Hancock resigned so he appointed his successor.
By U turn I meant that he was all for keeping Hancock and had accepted his apology. When even Hancock realised that his position was untenable and resigned, Johnson joined in in attacking him and said that he couldn't be allowed not to follow the rules he had introduced himself.
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It won’t, for reasons I’ve said above about who is the better choice out of Tories, Labour and Lib Dem’s. You’ve never been a Tory fan, so they could be squeaky clean and you’d still attribute corruption at them.
Correct I'm not a fan of the Tories even though they're the party I've voted most for in general elections, I've never voted Labour although I would have if John Smith had lived and I did vote Liberal right up until they got a sniff of power in the coalition and never again since, I've voted UKip and even Green and come to the conclusion I don't like any of them, have no faith in any of them, Hancock isn't the exception he's the norm and like many millions of others I'm sick of them all
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The thing about this that me laugh is some people on my towns FB page would have called for his execution for as they said "he was breaking the law".

When these exact same people said it was guidance, and they would not wear masks, and they would still hug family despite being told not too.
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Matt Hancock has faced calls from disgruntled Tories to stand down as an MP after quitting his Health Secretary role in disgrace.

The demand from his West Suffolk constituency comes days after the love rat left his wife, Martha, for his married adviser, Gina Coladangelo.

Hancock is facing furious demands to resign over his bombshell affair - as Tory stalwarts call upon the local party to de-select him, say reports.

Cllr Ian Houlder, a Tory councillor at West Suffolk Council, told the Telegraph that he has personally written to the local association chairman.

He's urged the group to de-select Hancock before the next election.

A fuming Cllr Houlder has also slammed the MP directly in a letter, telling him off about his "hypocrisy" and to "express my ire".
Looks like the knives are out for him. Serves him right.

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Looks like the knives are out for him. Serves him right.

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Surely Hancock's extra-marital affair only increases his chances of becoming Prime Minister?
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Surely Hancock's extra-marital affair only increases his chances of becoming Prime Minister?
Surely using that as a guideline would make Wayne Rooney a candidate too
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Surely using that as a guideline would make Wayne Rooney a candidate too
It increases his chances, for sure!
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Surely using that as a guideline would make Wayne Rooney a candidate too
Do either of them know how many children they've got (and own up to fathering them all)? Thought that was a question on the application form .
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Tonight's The Skewer was pretty good

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xdr2
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Six days ago…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-Universe.html
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SARAH VINE: The problem with the wife who's been with you for ever is that she knows you're not the Master of the Universe you purport to be

… I was struck by something Hancock told an interviewer during lockdown.

Asked about how the family had been coping, he said ‘of course, Martha’s borne the brunt of it’, adding: ‘Thank God Martha is totally wonderful in looking after the children and looking after me, and it’s really tough.’

For many people, this might sound like a compliment. And I am certain that was the intention.

But to anyone who truly understands how high-level politics works, it’s also an alarm bell. Because the dynamic it implies is that of two people on very different paths.

In many ways this exemplifies the eternal lot of the political spouse: keeping the home fires burning so the ‘Big I Am’ can do more important stuff – in this case saving the world from Covid-19.

The old ‘behind every great man there’s a woman drowning in dirty laundry’ is a cliche. But it’s true.

It is very hard to do these high-level, high-pressure, high-stakes jobs unless you have someone prepared to take up the reins in every other department of your life.

But the problem is that inevitably sets you on different tracks. You become so entrenched in your respective roles that you begin to drift apart.
Today…



The end of a marriage is never easy, and I hope that Sarah Vine be shown the same empathy and compassion as she has shown to others…
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