like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

meanwhile the underlying structure emerges

https://i.imgur.com/MKY5VIn.png

Someone remind me, was it Steven Gerrard that got subbed on in that one game, then clattered someone within the first minute and promptly got red-carded? His heat map was basically a straight line to the centre circle and back again

oh yes

Gerrard's heat map pic.twitter.com/jCqwMaPNJq

— Hasnain (@HasnainMobeen) March 22, 2015

Came on, absolutely blatted the economy, straight back off again

Channeling the spirit of Don Revie IIRC

Tenure of Clough

Get David Peace on it!

I wonder what Truss is going to do with herself now? She's only 47 years old (looking at wikipedia it seems like she's the youngest PM at time of leaving office since F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich who was in PM from 1827-8) so she potentially has another four decades or more to fill.

115k a year for not very much. not sure there'll be much of a demand to hear her talk.

she won't last four decades in the gulag tho

https://studyfinds.org/british-adults-lack-joy-in-lives/

ffs get it right, Sky you cunts, Liz Truss did not grow up in Glasgow.

Even I didn't think she would be this bad and I wrote an article comparing her to Enoch Powell!

— Kojo Koram (@KojoKoram) October 20, 2022

Newsnight doing a “sad montage” to Rihanna’s Take a Bow like Liz Truss just lost the Euros

Now three Tories including Peter Bone talking about it with Victoria Derbyshire. Not exactly balanced??

So this is the gang Corbyn kept losing against?

no in many many ways not at all really and quite a simplistic and ignorant contrast to make, and also please fuck off and die

Calz, seriously? I know you're angry, we all are, with good reason, but how is that ever acceptable to make such a vile attack on another poster for committing the "crime" of not coming from the UK and having the audacity to come onto a UK politics thread to ask an innocent, albeit ill-informed question? How much do you know about the machinations of Belgian* politics?

* guessing a bit here, could be Dutch, the upper case 'V' normally is how Belgian surnames are styled, with Dutch ones tending to begin w/ lower case....time to let VHS answer for themselves.

("Van Horn Street" is from Red Dead Redemption, a computer game)

Van Horn Street is also a worthless trolling arsehole who hasn't been permabanned from ILX yet.

think that post deserved that response and yes all is well in the thread

GG - maybe you don't know VHS, who is so angry he is hated he now comes in and drops little sad trolly posts in politics threads and will never argue his stupid positions anymore.

No, xyzzzz, that is a fair point. I don't know him. For good or ill, I don't find consuming large screeds of the boards to be good use of my time and stick with the threads I know for the most part. I saw he wrote a fair bit about US sports, but I remain in blissful ignorance of the bile directed at him (unlike, say, Fred, where it is pretty obvious) and the reasons behind it.

VHS is like Fred, just more of a poundshop version.

Fred was at least passionate, VHS is just sneery.

Fred had good taste in films.

Lol VHS this is how hated you are, we are now trotting out some of Fred's good points!

Fred definitely had his good points!

in co-op this morning at least 4 of the papers had pics of boris on the front.

Fred did a brilliant post about an imagined Oasis biopic which made me lol irl, VHS never even raised a performative chuckle

yeah so Boris has the backing of 120 MPs, that puts him in the final two, members still love him, sounds almost like a done deal?

Is 120 confirmed? That's fantastic.

it was quoted on Radio 4 this morning, still in the realm of rumour though

certainly Peston from last night looks way off

To get on ballot, candidates have to get 100 nominations by 2pm Monday. I am told that @BorisJohnson will struggle to get to that threshold

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 20, 2022

It’s not remotely confirmed according to the Guido spreadsheet he has 52.

Also, as ever

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.)
Posted: 21 October 2022 at 07:51:15
Van Horn Street is also a worthless trolling arsehole who hasn't been permabanned from ILX yet.

would be hilarious if he wins, then the privileges committee finds him guilty, then he says "I have already resigned once over this, that's the matter closed"

Boris as britain's berlusconi

Borislusconi

Lmao I was just coming to post this

Privileges committee insider tells The Sun that No 10’s *own evidence* handed to the privileges committee is so damning it is likely to lead to a Commons suspension of the person leading the leadership race by some counts: Boris Johnson

— Josiah Mortimer (@josiahmortimer) October 21, 2022

I doubt he'll get over a 100 tbh.

Yeah that was my understanding. Tory backbenchers are VHS level dumb but even then!

Lol, lmao, and similar sentiments. pic.twitter.com/c73V3uNtQi

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 21, 2022

neil lennon’s looking for work

Slightly stunned to find out this guy's a year younger than me, maybe he's just growing into his looks (if not his senses)

pic.twitter.com/nki9lbeEQ9

— Jacob Rees-Mogg (@Jacob_Rees_Mogg) October 21, 2022

This is quite right. You'd think the polling would narrow a bit if Boris came back, but again they are all faced with the housing market.

Key line here is ‘closest was 17% in spring 2019’, in other words the same year Tories won a landslide GE. Polls atm are not meaningless, but they do have to be put in context of our hyperreal, morbid-symptoms new normal, which produces wild volatility in mid term public opinion https://t.co/1GWWMsbEiU

— Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) October 21, 2022

(xp) JRM's been in his mid 50s since he was 12.

the members want Boris, the country wants Boris, the liberal grifting community desperately needs Boris. stop fucking about Brady and give the people what they want

it's not often you find someone who resembles two comic characters, but JRM manages to be Walter the Softy *and* Lord Snooty!

I thought exactly the same when that story about him manhandling hapless Northern MPs emerged

the substantial difference, the ONE substantial difference, between Johnson now and Johnson in 2021 isn't the economy, isn't a waivering in the general public's attitude toward him, it is simply that the political media class has decided he no longer services his purpose and will call him on the shit that they ignored for 3 years. if it's a case of reducing the electoral process to personality then Johnson's popular support and brand recognition is still massively higher than Kieth's or anybody else the "Labour Party" could stand against him