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“I’ll try again, who is ‘The Blob’?”
It’s out there, Richard.
I’ll give u another 48 hours.2019: Boris Johnson elected PM with a large majority from 44% of the vote.
2022 (September): Liz Truss elected PM by 81,000 Conservative party members (some of whom cannot vote in general elections due to being non-UK nationals or under 18, and in one case a tortoise).
2022 (October): Rishi Sunak crowned PM by 357 Conservative MPs.Democracy? To paraphrase Gandhi, I think it would be a good idea.
Richard this is an excellent summary; I’d like to tweet it, if that’s ok, tho don’t know how to give you the credit.
Sunak is obviously an improvement on Truss, who was overtly incompetent and unfit to be PM; the Tory press really got that one wrong. But not much of an improvement.
Wasn’t “The Blob” a film? I vaguely remember watching a horror film when I was a kid about a blob/piece of slime that went around swallowing up poor members of the general public, that thing reigned absolute terror amongst the masses, thank heavens it never reached my town, little 5 year old Ben was petrified for a good few months that his demise would be at the hands, or rather mass, of that evil Blob.
Tweet away, betfair. I neither want nor need any credit 👍
Just to prove I wasn’t joking about the tortoise:
I said yesterday:
“Sunak reminds me of George Osborne in many ways, (if peeps want to compare recent Chancellors).”Rupert Harrison, who was Osborne’s main economic adviser, when Osborne was chancellor, is reportedly at The Treasury in a new capacity as adviser to the Chancellor.
History about to repeat itself, with a tighter fiscal policy i.e. cuts.Wasn’t “The Blob” a film?
Steve McQueen’s first leading role.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysJust had a little watch of both the original and the remake and to be honest I can’t remember which one I saw, been about 25 years since then!
What’s clear to me is Sunak is the most intelligent Tory PM in my lifetime.
Admittedly, the likes of Johnson and Truss haven’t set a high bar in that department, but things just got a lot tougher for Starmer.
Labour still have to be favourites to win Most Seats, but a 1997 Blair-style landslide is less likely now, I think.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"A man of many talents, is our Rishi…
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Truss has done him a right favour.
By losing to her, but predicting the carnage her plans would cause, he’s actually in a much stronger position than he would have been had he simply won in the first place.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“A man of many talents, is our Rishi…”
Saw that vid a few months ago; a Rishi lookalike, so the twatter guy that twatted it today is months behind ‘the rest’.
“…predicting the carnage her plans would cause, he’s actually in a much stronger position”
Was thinking much the same this lunchtime, backed up by comments i saw from a cafe in Brum, with the ITV reporter. Anecdotal, i know, but the comments from the owner and some customers were actually quite cautiously optimistic about Sunak. Summed up the sentiment was – He’s obviously clever, good with finances; he might be able to improve the country’s position over next 2 years. Peeps seemed to want to give him a chance.
I think his message today was refreshingly blunt and honest. No frills, no triumphant approach – just “I’ve got a job to do”.
Whether the various factions in the parliamentary Tory party will keep their traps shut and just get on with, at least, representing their constituents is another matter.
I expect the anti-Tory media to be relentless in digging up disaffected Tory MPs, to appear on their TV progs to stir the sh#t.
Overall, though, it’ll be the state of the economy in 2 years time that will decide the GE result imho.
I think bringing Suella Braverman back as Home Secretary is his first mistake.
She’s VERY right-wing, divisively so, in fact, and it’s less than a week since she resigned for breaching the ministerial code.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"‘he might be able to improve the country’s position over next 2 years’
Again it comes back to if the country needs improving (and it sure as hell does), why does it need improving? Who has made such a mess?
All he’s done is reshuffle the talentless drones he has at his disposal. They’ve set the bar so low that people see Sunak and Hunt as a major improvement.
Ian, the reappointment of Braverman is staggering. If I made such a major mistake as she did at work, I very much doubt I’d be rehired a week later. It’s like they think that if you quit and come back, the slate is wiped clean (see also Johnson who, in public at least, they entertained the idea of bringing back).
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