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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #50 on: November 06, 2017, 02:13:39 PM »
No better prospect than May, maybe even worse! :o
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #51 on: November 06, 2017, 05:33:07 PM »
So rather than retract his remark, Boris is happy to play with this woman"s freedom. He really is a repulsive slugslurper



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41890885
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« Reply #52 on: November 06, 2017, 05:43:06 PM »
Yes he is, but there is no point in retracting it anyway, the damage is done. What an utter wanker.
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #53 on: November 06, 2017, 05:45:08 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on November 06, 2017, 05:43:06 PM
Yes he is, but there is no point in retracting it anyway, the damage is done. What an utter wanker.
It's unlikely to help but he should still retract the comment. Sticking to it makes it worse and appears to only be about saving face.
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #54 on: November 06, 2017, 05:56:47 PM »
Apparently he is calling his Iranian counterpart!!! to ensure his remarks are not misrepresented. Take the numpty's spade away now!
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« Reply #55 on: November 07, 2017, 06:14:40 AM »
Anyone who thinks that Johnson may be "a safe pair of hands" now has evidence against which to evaluate that opinion.

If this is how the Foreign Secretary protects the interests of British citizens then heaven help us. There is also the situation of the imprisoned woman's baby daughter to consider.
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« Reply #56 on: November 07, 2017, 03:02:59 PM »
Boris is apparently going to Iran to try to rectify the situation, let's hope his buffoonery won't make it a heck of a lot worse.
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« Reply #57 on: November 07, 2017, 07:15:33 PM »
I don't think that his bufoonery will be the problem, Floo. I watched his performance in the House of Commons today when he made his "apology". My impression was that he was (at least) semi-detached from the problem he has created and lacking sincerity.
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« Reply #58 on: November 07, 2017, 08:28:59 PM »
Saw something on MSN ''most powerful women in the world-where does May rank?
First thought: Below Priti Patel.
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« Reply #59 on: November 13, 2017, 05:03:17 PM »
So after saying there was nothing to apologise for, he eventually apologises. Incompetent or playing a dangerous game with the future of a British citizen or possibly both. Is there another alternative?  If not surely time to resign?



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41972704
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floo

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« Reply #60 on: November 14, 2017, 12:05:59 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41976749

A woman claims to have been groped by an official at No 10!
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« Reply #61 on: January 23, 2018, 03:16:25 PM »
The days since Boris Johnson did something sackable for which he didn't get sacked been reset to 0 yet again.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42783247
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Walt Zingmatilder

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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #62 on: January 28, 2018, 11:32:51 AM »
Lidington calling for party unity since the Tories are Neck and neck with labour in the polls. What?, party unity behind a lame duck PM, neck and neck(are people just being kind pre-election like they were to Ed Milliband?) after being 20 points ahead, and neck and neck with someone we are being led to believe is an extreme, loony left, fringe leadership........what optimism.
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Walt Zingmatilder

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« Reply #63 on: January 29, 2018, 08:51:31 AM »
There is a lack of leadership in the Tory party.....source the Tory party for demonstrating and acknowledging that T May is the best on offer.

Consider though Jeremy Corbyn. After the Brexit vote the shutters could have been pulled down on the labour party. The party largely abandoned the leader. Labour was in complete disarray it was days from destruction. A year on Corbyn had managed to pull the machine back together and a 20 point lead was overturned, Labour is making in roads to the agenda of Government and less than two years later it is now the conservatives on the brink.

The Corbyn story is more Churchillian than even Jacob Rees Mogg or Boris can spin for themselves.
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« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2018, 11:11:33 AM »
Rees Mogg off the blocks finally with a massive attack on the civil service and getting stuck into a fight which can't be bad for his credentials on the estates.
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« Reply #65 on: February 04, 2018, 02:06:42 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42936613

Gerry Adams is backing Corbyn as next PM!!! A person, who was an active member of the IRA, backing Corbyn, who apparently had some sympathy with that cause, isn't a good omen, imo.
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #66 on: February 04, 2018, 02:18:39 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on February 04, 2018, 02:06:42 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42936613

Gerry Adams is backing Corbyn as next PM!!! A person, who was an active member of the IRA, backing Corbyn, who apparently had some sympathy with that cause, isn't a good omen, imo.
The guilt by low degree of separation was tried by the press at the last election and found wanting.
Even less people will remember Mr Adams at the next
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« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2018, 02:30:53 PM »
Quote from: Private Frazer on February 04, 2018, 02:18:39 PM
The guilt by low degree of separation was tried by the press at the last election and found wanting.
Even less people will remember Mr Adams at the next

I doubt that!
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« Reply #68 on: February 04, 2018, 04:27:33 PM »
And yet one time supporters of the loyalist paramilitary sit at Mays right hand and do her bidding at a price to the rest of us. Its almost like youve swallowed the daily mail in one big gulp.
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« Reply #69 on: February 04, 2018, 04:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on February 04, 2018, 04:27:33 PM
And yet one time supporters of the loyalist paramilitary sit at Mays right hand and do her bidding at a price to the rest of us. Its almost like youve swallowed the daily mail in one big gulp.

I never read that ghastly tabloid. :o
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #70 on: February 04, 2018, 05:33:30 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on February 04, 2018, 04:42:19 PM
I never read that ghastly tabloid. :o

Ok - but what about the point that so many people have blood on their hands in N.Ireland that picking one person out (Adams, and by extension,Corbyn) is just a form of confirmation bias on your part.
That is, you've decided you don't like Corbyn and you will use any fact that fits loosely into vilifying him to prove your point of his unacceptability.

I would suggest that if you dig deep enough, the most sainted of politicians will not measure up by these standards, so why pick out this one?

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floo

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« Reply #71 on: February 04, 2018, 06:21:42 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on February 04, 2018, 05:33:30 PM
Ok - but what about the point that so many people have blood on their hands in N.Ireland that picking one person out (Adams, and by extension,Corbyn) is just a form of confirmation bias on your part.
That is, you've decided you don't like Corbyn and you will use any fact that fits loosely into vilifying him to prove your point of his unacceptability.

I would suggest that if you dig deep enough, the most sainted of politicians will not measure up by these standards, so why pick out this one?

Because he seems rather pathetic to me, but each to their own.
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #72 on: February 04, 2018, 07:38:17 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on February 04, 2018, 06:21:42 PM
Because he seems rather pathetic to me, but each to their own.

Yes but you weren't dicussing how pathetic he was. You brought up the issue of Gerry Adams support for Corbyn, not how pathetic he was. Or is support from Adams a signifier of patheticness?
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Re: The Road to Downing St
« Reply #73 on: February 04, 2018, 07:43:46 PM »
I don't believe Gerry Adams support of Jeremy Corbyn will count for much but neither do I see anything wrong with it. Nor was it wrong for Corbyn to have at one time been sympathetic to the IRA. He wasn't the only one, didn't mean they supported the terrorist activities, just the ideal.

Article about Rees-Mogg. Interesting, not entirely unbiased:-
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jacob-rees-mogg-lies-brexit-theresa-may-dream-team-boris-johnson-michael-gove-deceitful-bully-18th-a8194011.html

Another one:-
https://www.ft.com/content/68f02dfc-099d-11e8-8eb7-42f857ea9f09
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« Reply #74 on: February 05, 2018, 07:04:06 AM »
Quote from: Littleroses on February 04, 2018, 02:06:42 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42936613

Gerry Adams is backing Corbyn as next PM!!! A person, who was an active member of the IRA, backing Corbyn, who apparently had some sympathy with that cause, isn't a good omen, imo.

Adams should not be as toxic as other members of the hard left.
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