Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
12 mugs who want the job, lt's becoming a joke.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,861
Fun Fact - With two running, the Lib Dems have a higher percentage of MPs in the leadership race than the Conservatives.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,005
I don't think IDS would approve: '[each candidate] must also have the backing of 10% of the parliamentary party - currently, the party has 11 MPs'. So I make that less than 2 others.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,295
With Steve Baker now considering, it'll be interesting to see if the ERG can get behind a single candidate and plan, or whether they split themselves. We only need Priti Patel to stand now and it'll send them into complete meltdown.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,786
I think those going after the job must have some kind of death wish with the divided state of the party at the moment.
At least we now know who is hungry for that brief moment of power or is it simply to be in the limelight.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
More evidence of the chameleon in the running. Will either of the 2 hypocrites care to remember this?
https://www.facebook.com/tony.wrightley/videos/10211097317028361/?t=0Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,693
Listened to a fantastic interview on the Today programme this morning with Justine Greening MP, she talked loads of sense about a range of topics.
She took a very firm and reasoned swipe at the "no deal" wing of the Tory party but generously didnt name names...
Sadly she categorically ruled herself out of running for Conservative party leader
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,861
So much for my tips!
First Rory goes bonkers now Cleverley has pulled out of the race.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
#409 I heard it too, Ross. She was extremely well received by the York students. One of the few remaining in the most incompetent government in my lifetime still capable of talking some sense.
#410 If you seriously believed, Cap'n, that Cleverley could have climbed the greasy pole then you are even more misguided than your posts tend to indicate.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,981
Now the ruddy rudder's gone who's steering the sinking ship?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,981
He's no de Quincy for sure, but Gove's admission isn't something to be sniffed at. The emergence of various Tory confessions of drug-addled opium den visits, cocaine snorting parties and hashish extravaganzas goes some way to explaining the origin of the fantastical policies this ruling elite have forced on us. And, since what's sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander, the stark injustices of neoliberalism are much improved when viewed through a cloud of ganja, I have been told.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48564722'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,005
So some contenders for the leadership of the Conservative party (and our next Prime Minister) decided some years back that the law of the land could be ignored. I guess I could overlook that (after all, one could argue that a number of the motoring offences are more serious); where I struggle is with contenders who voted against the Withdrawal Agreement and hence ignored the result of the Referendum of the electorate. Those who did both would not appear to have changed their spots.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,981
Oh, Class A Class B, is that the only chemistry between us?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,861
Is there any correlation between how 'hard' the drugs taken were and how 'hard' the Brexit offered is?
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,005
One can see now why the supply of drugs in a 'No Deal' scenario was of such concern. However, taking drugs also affects people around you - like, for example, the editorial team of Private Eye, who must be rueing the fact that their front page can only accommodate one picture.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,828
I think whoever takes over won't get an agreement through commons
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,005
"Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice."
Discuss. (It has to beat 'Stuart England' and 'Health 1000 - present day' that are two of this year's exam questions.)
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Button wrote:"Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
The same applies to the death penalty, in fact more so.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
oooh sounds like a dance party.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,693
Really?
Well those killed clearly cant re-offend, but seems to have done nothing to reduce capital crimes in the USA
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus