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Sunak back to 1.91 after he and Johnson briefly went joint favourites at 2.14.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Briefly took soundings from some members of regional parties today; Sinn Fein and DUP don’t really care if Johnson gets back in, as all Tories are toxic in N Ireland (the nationalists tend to be socialist, the Tories have stabbed unionists in the back too many times). On the other hand, the SNP would love to see Johnson in power again, as further evidence how toxic, undemocratic, and unrepresentative Westminster has become.
Thought the Tories might persuade Hunt to to take over, as he does seem like the adult in the room, but Sunak might the least worst option, and the least likely to destroy ordinary people’s livesMordaunt confirmed entry and immediately halves in price – you’ve got to be in it to win it.
Sunak 1.91
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“Hunt … does seem like the adult in the room”
Says it all about the current state of the Conservative Party.
Sunak-Hunt is the grown-up No 10/No 11 CSF.
Mordaunt-Hunt might just about work too.
Johnson-Hunt (if Hunt is even kept on/stays)?
Another “Disruptor Disaster” until January 2025, and all that economic grief just to try and keep Starmer’s majority under 100 seats.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Funny how people say they like (or at least don’t mind) Hunt now. When he was Health Secretary, the same people hated him.
The media are a bit more honest. Robert Peston has become the latest person to mispronounce his surname. By accident, of course.
If you don’t mind, I will not join in the praise for someone who openly admires the Chinese system of government and thinks we should have copied their military enforced lockdowns.
It’s all relative, CAS.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I don’t want a Tory government at all but, given I’m lumbered with one (possibly until January 2025), I’d rather see Hunt as Chancellor than his predecessor.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Yes, CAS, it’s all relative. No admirer of Sunak, but Truss was blatantly unfit for office.
“I’d rather see him as Chancellor than his predecessor.”
Who was his predecessor? I have forgotten.
I saw a tweet yesterday which said something like:
“My son has lived through four Chancellors, three Home Secretaries, two Prime Ministers and two monarchs.
My son is four months old.”
Rightly or wrongly, I regard Sky News as a less biased source than Guido Fawkes and they say the number of verbally-intended nominations so far are as follows:
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Johnson 37
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Significant market move:
Sunak 1.61
Johnson 4.3
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I realise there is little doubt as to whom Johnson cares about most of all but the fact that he’s managed to jet off to Slovenia, Greece and the Caribbean since leaving office and the only thing that’s brought him back is the possibility of personal gain really says it all. Crisis after crisis and he doesn’t care.
“The only thing that’s brought him back is the possibility of personal gain really says it all. Crisis after crisis and he doesn’t care.”
That is why I am still not convinced he is going to run.
I believe he has just bought a large house for a few million in Herne Hill. Those can be afforded on the money he is making on speaking engagements. They are not affordable on a Prime Minister’s salary, which he often complained was not enough to support his lifestyle (that alimony and child support cannot be cheap).
Prime Ministers make far more money out of office nowadays. Look at Blair. A multimillionaire by making speeches to all sorts of dubious people with large enough chequebooks.
I doubt we’ll know for sure until Monday becuase he’ll sure as hell enjoy being front page news for a few days.
Having Johnson back as PM would be like having another leadership election in two months time and people supporting Truss as a candidate because they’ve forgotten why she lost the job. Which, in the current political climate, is not beyond the realms of possibility. To be honest I feel as though I’m living in a parallel universe of some kind.
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