ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Perhaps she yearns for a junior ministerial role or maybe a job in the whip's office, following the footsteps of her illustrious ex husband? Whatever, she appears to have nailed her colours to the mast. Like all Tory MPs she has to decide how toxic her boss really is in the eyes of the public.
I don't know many people, even among local Tory votes, who can honestly say they will continue to believe a word BoJo says. He's a proven habitual liar. Some would even say a pathological liar. If that's the standards that our principled MP wants to uphold, then on her own head be it.
Jan Higgins
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Button wrote:"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s apology. He has taken responsibility; he has apologised; and it is right that he should do so. Can he confirm that tackling the small boats crisis will remain top in the new Office of the Prime Minister, because that is what the country wants to see—this Prime Minister getting on with the job?"
Well, my grandmother used to tell tea-leaves but I doubt that even she could have divined that the country wants to see this Prime Minister continuing in office. I thought Baroness Davidson was nearer the mark.
That was a very carefully worded double edged response from Natalie, very concise with an added dig about the boats. Maybe she does want to stand again
and finally understands how the public feels about Boris and those who openly fully support him, but wants to keep near him just in case he survives.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Predictably banal, autopilot support from Natalie. Maybe she'd be better advised to keep her power dry and try and gain some leverage for the community before she so predictably falls into line? That's what the experienced politicians are doing....
Weird Granny Slater
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Though Mrs Elphicke may have poor lines, I'm heartened that she's reached across the floor and handed her entire cake allocation to Ian Blackford.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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With friends like this, who needs enemies, eh?
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Nadine. The absolute state of things.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:Nadine. The absolute state of things.
Worrying, isn't it? Mad Nad. An archetypal Johnson acolyte. And to think people used to post on here self-righteously taking the mick out of Diane Abbott.
Button
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ray hutstone wrote:Worrying, isn't it? Mad Nad. An archetypal Johnson acolyte. And to think people used to post on here self-righteously taking the mick out of Diane Abbott.
That's cos there's one in every family - two in this one actually.
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Keith Sansum1
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Maybe she' had made a mistake with this speech
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Johnson's sycophants appear to be dropping like flies. How long before spineless Natalie changes her tune (like she did over Cummings).....
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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On this one I think she's making a mistake
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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It is starting to feel like the only people really backing Johnson are Fabricant, Dorries and JRM. Not a gaggle you want to be associated with.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I think our MP could have made a bad error of judgement
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Captain Haddock
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:I think our MP could have made a bad error of judgement
Few people are criticised for showing loyalty however misplaced (See 'Our' Charlie)
Few people who see off a leader are trusted by his replacement.
(Octavian, later Augustus, made sure that every single one of Julius Caesar's assassins paid with his own life. )
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Brian Dixon
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when will people wake up and smell the coffee.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Boris and his chums are hoping your right Bob
But it's not looking good for boris or our Nat
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:It is starting to feel like the only people really backing Johnson are Fabricant, Dorries and JRM. Not a gaggle you want to be associated with.
Let's just cast our minds back to when this hapless individual's main objective was to eat a camel's toe and an ostrich's anus on live TV. For God's sake, these idiots represent our country.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I find it strange the vast majority of Tory MPs still back him
Surely a fair number are in marginal seats ?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I must say that I feel rather sorry for Mrs Elphicke. She worked hard to get her own thread, and now it's been taken over by aliens.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:I must say that I feel rather sorry for Mrs Elphicke. She worked hard to get her own thread, and now it's been taken over by aliens.
Again! Cf, for example, #176.
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