UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Cyoti

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They probably also have an exit plan to emigrate to some other anglophone country or to the European Union.
 

Anonymous X

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So how long until your next election?
December 2024 is the latest it can be held. So a while off. Unless enough rebellious Tories collapse their own government. Hopefully staring oblivion in the face so long before a scheduled election will convince enough Tories to sharply change direction or replace the leadership (again) with someone who isn’t completely insane.
 

Ironbite4

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Does...does she realize that given a chance, they'd deport her to Rwanda?

Ironbite-these idiots.
 

wonko the sane?

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Panthers, eating faces, blah blah blah. Because at the EXACT same time that there's no exceptions to the rule, everybody is the exception to the rule. Hypocrisy apparently uses a stealthboy.
 

Anonymous X

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You guys aren't even a third world country these days.

Ironbite-jesus.
The insane thing is that a minister (and one who is a right-wing Tory) had set aside money for a public information campaign encouraging the public to save energy this winter, but the prime minister refused on “ideological” grounds:
 

wonko the sane?

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She meant religious grounds: she can only pray when people are openly suffering around her.
 

Anonymous X

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This is hilarious. Basically, as a former prime minister, Boris Johnson gets to nominate sitting MPs to get kicked upstairs to the House of Lords (Britain’s unelected equivalent of a senate). Those MPs will have to vacate their seats in the House of Commons, which means by-elections – when the Conservative Party is polling dreadfully, and very likely to lose all those seats.
 

Pocket

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Especially if the media covers the by-elections as extensively as ours covered all those special elections we had back in 2017. I still think we learned a valuable lesson from that, which is that downticket elections should be staggered rather than taking place on a single day every two years so they can always get that kind of attention.
 

Rhinox

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Full on points to the UK journalists. My favorite question was, "So why do YOU get to stay on then?"

Absolutely correct. Why the hell are you even still there?
 


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