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

You know who should run?


Stephen Paul Barclay (born 3 May 1972)[1][2] is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from 2018 to 2020, Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2020 to 2021, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2021 to 2022, Downing Street Chief of Staff from February to July 2022, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from July to September 2022.

Do you remember him being Health Secretary or in any of those other jobs? Can you easily picture his face in your mind? Perfect for next PM. Will make Starmer look like a flesh and blood person.

thismpdoesnotexist.com

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/29/article-2225050-15C0229E000005DC-990_306x423.jpg

Now that you mention it, I am feeling very sleepy.

i remember him. theresa may had already run through a couple of “big beasts” (david davis istr?) and i guess in despair just closed her eyes and pointed wildly and it was this guy.

last chance saloon as big beast stalking horse throws hat in ring

just to get them all out of the way

For when you’ve tried the best, he’s the rest

He got the big calls right.

...on home decorations

One Sunak backer said:

"The next Conservative leader needs a team from the top of Cabinet right down that reflects the breadth of talent and of views in the Conservative Party.

Personally, I think that means that Rishi should offer both Penny Mordaunt and Boris positions in that team. Boris would be a great Home Secretary - able to finally deal with the issue of illegal cross-Channel migration he’s been talking about getting a grip on for years.”

I mean why not at this point

As a no borders sort of fella I would like to see that lazy twat 'getting a grip on' cross-Channel migration lol

heady days for the accelerationists

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/21/labour-mp-faces-suspension-unwanted-sexual-advances-chris-matheson?CMP=share_btn_tw

big opportunity for Kieth to show the country what he's made of

Flop sweat and brylcream

Lol

"2 hours ago
(Edited)
The Conservative Party selects its leaders by polling its members. This year, that group numbered several hundred thousand paid-up members. As with our Republican politics, the pro-Brexit anti-tax pro-Boris element right wing prevailed, and gave the nation Truss.

This is exactly the sort of thing that George Washington warned us about in his Farewell Speech - that political parties are not healthy for a true democracy."

courtesy of Kennebunkportindependent

This is how Americans are seeing England - from kennebunkport

The UK, not England.

So too is his evidently false claim that he was acting only in a ‘fatherly’ or ‘friendly’ way towards her

this guy, and he previously deleted a post on his web site referring to the Weinstein complaints as "tittle tattle".

xxp nobody cares, nobody asked

"political parties are not healthy for a true democracy"

Can I sign up to your newsletter?

Doubt hanle y posted that "in earnest" lads.

It's nice that George Washington is thinking about us mind.

Mordaunt is confirmed in the running now, BBC sez

"several hundred thousand members" lol no

Sorry but I'm laughing like a drain at this. What a ludicrous corrupt little island. What dire people rule us. How naked and tawdry their appetite for enrichment is. You can't not laugh. https://t.co/sFDlWlo3Es

— James B (@piercepenniless) October 21, 2022

IT'S WHAT SPENCER PERCIVAL WOULD HAVE WANTED

lying on the floor choking out a list of his mates as the blood filled his lungs

We're missing the big picture - if Boris comes back (he won't) and gets fucked out of it by the Standards review, does he get another resignation honours list?

And a second pension?

xp

That quote is not from me it is from a poster who refers to themself as
"Kennebunkportindependent"

We are a former colony after all so people of Kennebunkport are fired up I guess

Boris is still very popular with both a fishmonger from Birmingham and a cab driver from Bexleyheath, from two different Tories today.

Lol the gilts jumped up again as Boris's odds shortened and then fell when his chances fell behind Rishi.

Love a trolling vox pops roundup

'Bring back Boris, he's the man'

Voters from Uxbridge were asked if they would like to see Boris Johnson as the next prime minister, as reports suggest he is 'likely' to enter the race.

Today's top stories 👉 https://t.co/JpK7Gp91c4 pic.twitter.com/7MhkLfD1Lo

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 21, 2022

yeah, maybe this thread name should be changed to pre-Boris politics

Boris is on 44 so far. I refuse to call him Alex because it is a name I like.

Knock yourselves out lads, but I am not lifting a finger to help people who stridently prioritised fucking me over and telling the Murdoch papers that I am a piece of shit, that they hate my guts and they want me to fuck off, with catastrophic results we see around us. pic.twitter.com/z00xUtB1uK

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) October 21, 2022

he seems to be *labouring* under the delusion there is much of a difference between the two

i nearly posted Rodent's follow-up tweet earlier which sums up the "why i'm not voting Labour" argument quite succinctly

Being pro- or anti-GE seems entirely irrelevant since there's no way to force one, right? So you can cheer on Chief Kieth's performative demands for an election or you can boo them but it's more wasted energy than rooting for someone on a game show.

"If you reward people for treating you like shite on their boot, then they will always treat you like shit and you will deserve to be treated that way."

i don't think anybody on the Left is anti-GE milo just making the point that there is nothing to be gained by one

"If you reward people for treating you like shite on their boot, then they will always treat you like shit and you will deserve to be treated that way."

totally!

and yes there's no mechanism to force a GE which is why performative moral outrage is pretty funny

without even thinking about self-interest or other self-interest groups, vulnerable people, minorities who have been targeted by previous Tory and Labour governments. I hate the fucking Labour Part so much I'd rather see them fail than the Tories. It's not really a morally ambiguous position either, because they are both bigoted, racist austerity parties and at least Mordaunt is fit!

Fit or not Mordaunt has the look of someone who would happily declare martial law. Then again so does Starmer. Not sure where I'm going with this

I'm looking forward to when the polling levels out, because a lot could happen in the next 18 months. And Kieth is sweating because it's all going to be about small margins again and he's remembered that he fucked off millions of voters between 2020-22. Especially in 2022 when he totally went mask off Tory cunt.

Sky News reporter Mark Stone, who is on the flight with Boris Johnson back from the Dominican Republic to Gatwick, said that Johnson was booed by passengers as he boarded.

— Harry Taylor (@HarryTaylr) October 21, 2022

"There he is, seat 3F!"

It's not really a morally ambiguous position either, because they are both bigoted, racist austerity parties and at least Mordaunt is fit!

― calzino, Friday, October 21, 2022

Amusing.

I think I am pro-GE, not because I am pro-Labour (I wouldn't vote Labour and I believe Labour is led by bad people) but just on 'democratic' grounds -- it seems wrong for government to be repeatedly concocted in this current way.

A GE would also let people vote and campaign for other parties, beside the two large and corrupt ones.

Sky currently showing live footage of Boris Johnson's plane arriving at Gatwick Airport. If this country is not an international laughing stock it should be.