Who's next?
- Little waster
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Re: Who's next?
Here's one looking the other way. I'll leave spotting the horrifying eye-sore wind turbine in this one as an exercise for the reader.
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
- bob sterman
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The published stories may be nonsense - but one thing we know for sure is that dirty tricks / skullduggery / backstabbing are par for the course for the Tories. So the specific theories may be wrong - but they are definitely all up to something!!! Particularly Gove.
Re: Who's next?
Given both Truss and Mourdaunt apparently poll better than Sunak with the membership I figure that whomever grabs that second spot today is our future PM.
Either way - we're f.cked.
Either way - we're f.cked.
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
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Yup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
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Re: Who's next?
Apples .......... [uncomfortable pause] .............. APPLES! .................. *weird smile*.......................... ApPlEs! .......... PEARS!bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:17 pm
Yup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
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She does pick some weird things to get upset about...Little waster wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:27 pmApples .......... [uncomfortable pause] .............. APPLES! .................. *weird smile*.......................... ApPlEs! .......... PEARS!bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:17 pm
Yup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
Re: Who's next?
In Liz we Truss...
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
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Re: Who's next?
Mordor is out. So now we're down to The Gruesome Twosome.
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If you delete your avatar maybe this will all end and we will find it was all a dream?
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three
now I sin till ten past three
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Re: Who's next?
Rishi Sunak - 137 (up 19)shpalman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:07 pm“Nearly there.”
Rishi Sunak - 118 (up 3)
Penny Mordaunt - 92 (up 10)
Liz Truss - 86 (up 15)
Kemi Badenoch - 59 (up 1)
This runoff devil-take-the-losingest style obviously hasn't done anything to change the order of the candidates or the final result at any point.
Liz Truss - 113 (up 27)
Penny Mordaunt - 105 (up 13)
So this is the first time that the order changed, in case anyone thinks Rishi was propping up Mordaunt until now or maybe Rishi lent some votes to Truss now to eliminate Mordaunt.
If Badenoch's votes would have been distributed to these three in proportion to how they did in the previous round you'd have had Rishi on 142, Mordaunt on 110, and Truss on 103. But it's the previous round which was anomalous, with Rishi only getting 3 more votes out of Tugendhat's 31.
Oh and it turned out that Truss and Mordaunt didn't team up to get rid of Sunak after all. And why would they have?
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Who's next?
Already being discussed as choice between two 'continuity Boris' candidates...
Truss was described by someone as 'Boris, but without the charisma'
Truss was described by someone as 'Boris, but without the charisma'
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
- El Pollo Diablo
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Broadly speaking, we've had (ignoring policy, morals, or impact, and obviously this is all relative and from a general perspective):
- David Cameron - Competent, honorable, likeable
- Theresa May - Halfway competent, honorable, unlikeable
- Boris Johnson - Incompetent, dishonorable, likeable
- Liz Truss - Incompetent, dishonorable, unlikeable
How the f.ck do they do this. On this trend the next Tory leader will be Erdogan.
- David Cameron - Competent, honorable, likeable
- Theresa May - Halfway competent, honorable, unlikeable
- Boris Johnson - Incompetent, dishonorable, likeable
- Liz Truss - Incompetent, dishonorable, unlikeable
How the f.ck do they do this. On this trend the next Tory leader will be Erdogan.
If truth is many-sided, mendacity is many-tongued
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Why have you so long had such a horrified fascination for her for?
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If truth is many-sided, mendacity is many-tongued
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She at least has a bit of insight. She promised to "hit the ground from day one".
Time for a big fat one.
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I've seen this meme a few times. What's it actually based on? I note this because I've mostly seen it from people like Cummings, who has some pretty awful views re: conflict at present.bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:17 pmYup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
Re: Who's next?
Thistom p wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:52 amLPM's right. Sunak isn't some incredible Machiavellian mastermind.
He's nothing but a spawny a rich boy who is moderately good at maths (hence a job in banking rather than PR like Cameron), who got lucky in marrying a very rich girl. That's why he's insanely wealthy, that's why he's a tory MP ('cos he doesn't need to work, so he can pursue power as a hobby) &, because he's an idiot who believed that Brexit was somehow good for the UK, that's why he was in the cabinet.
To suggest that this adds up to some scheming genius is to fall into the tories' trap of believing their hype. They want you to think that they are rightly the natural power of government and that what you perceive as chaos and rats fighting in a sack is actually 4-d chess being played out by geniuses - it's like god's ineffable plan, and you just can't eff it 'cos you're not effing good enough, so best leave them to run every effing thing.
I bet ha'penny Mordred is regretting pulling out of the debate now: I'd have thought the more time Truss had in front of the camera, the better for PM's chances of being PM.
Do they have anyone left to whom the adjective "competent" could honestly & accurately be applied?El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:33 pmBroadly speaking, we've had (ignoring policy, morals, or impact, and obviously this is all relative and from a general perspective):
- David Cameron - Competent, honorable, likeable
- Theresa May - Halfway competent, honorable, unlikeable
- Boris Johnson - Incompetent, dishonorable, likeable
- Liz Truss - Incompetent, dishonorable, unlikeable
How the f.ck do they do this. On this trend the next Tory leader will be Erdogan.
Next Tory leader (possibly even before the next election, if Truss ends up making the very best of her abilities) heading down that sinkhole of a path would have to be JRM
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Yes, you gave us a link to that recently. I watched it. It was painful and I don't want to watch it again. It's like cringe comedy - I can't watch Fleabag either.
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In Liz we are trussed.
I might refer to her as Pork Markets from now on if she makes it through.
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It's based on her very famous speech in which she ranted about cheese imports, and the dangerous and inflammatory public comments she made that could have unnecessarily escalated the conflict with Russia.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:09 pmI've seen this meme a few times. What's it actually based on? I note this because I've mostly seen it from people like Cummings, who has some pretty awful views re: conflict at present.bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:17 pmYup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
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But what did she actually say?bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:27 pmIt's based on her very famous speech in which she ranted about cheese imports, and the dangerous and inflammatory public comments she made that could have unnecessarily escalated the conflict with Russia.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:09 pmI've seen this meme a few times. What's it actually based on? I note this because I've mostly seen it from people like Cummings, who has some pretty awful views re: conflict at present.bob sterman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:17 pmYup. At least with Mordaunt it's just the UK that's f*cked. With Truss it could be global - what with her desire to import less cheese and more RS-28 Sarmats.
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It’s like the superpower of Tory PMs to make “the previous one” look not too bad in comparison, going all the way back to Thatcher at least.El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:33 pmBroadly speaking, we've had (ignoring policy, morals, or impact, and obviously this is all relative and from a general perspective):
- David Cameron - Competent, honorable, likeable
- Theresa May - Halfway competent, honorable, unlikeable
- Boris Johnson - Incompetent, dishonorable, likeable
- Liz Truss - Incompetent, dishonorable, unlikeable
How the f.ck do they do this. On this trend the next Tory leader will be Erdogan.
Extrapolating from that, I wonder exactly how bad Truss is going to be that at some point in the near future people will begin to miss The Sofa Spaffer.
I’m not sure how, as a society, we would even survive that horrifying prospect.
We are going to have to be wandering around the burnt-out ruins of our cities saying to the other survivors things like “well Johnson might have had his flaws but at least he didn’t order the RN to hit the UK mainland with Trident just because somebody once bought a punnet of French strawberries.”
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
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I can't remember, who did Theresa May beat in the final round?