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HindleA wrote:Then again it could ,who would have thought I would ever be the Supreme leader of both the unknown and known World?

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NEW: Labour-turned-LibDem MP Angela Smith claims she is being "discriminated against" because she is missing out on a £22,000 taxpayer-funded golden goodbye

MPs who do a 'chicken run' to different seats lose the right to winding-up payments if they lose

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:It does have some of the hallmarks of a Johnson style distraction though, so let's not!

The greatest trick a government can play is convincing the electorate that their suffering is inevitable.
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Not that much of a surprise - don't think he's enjoying this version of the Tory Party.

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And history might have been a little different if the Tories had won a majority in 2010 and he'd taken his place as Chief Secretary to the Treasury instead of Laws.

Yesterday John Woodcock, the Labour-turned-independent MP, announced that he was standing down from parliament. Today Priti Patel, the home secretary, has appointed him as UK special envoy for countering violent extremism.

Woodcock, like his fellow former Labour MP John Mann, who was appointed independent adviser on antisemitism by Theresa May, has been highly critical of Jeremy Corbyn, particularly over antisemitism.

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Liam Byrne of course intended "that note" to be for him.

...Johnson has a tricky job selling his plan while also trying to insulate it from scrutiny. There is a flaw in the strategy that makes Brexit the central issue, while running on a platform that appeals to public weariness with the topic. That problem feeds back into the incumbency issue. There is something dissonant in a campaign that says vote for me so we can end this nightmare that I told you would be brilliant; vote for the Tories to move on from the only thing Tories seem to care about.
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With a sustained display of incompetence, cowardice, delusion and ideological mania, British politics has created a situation so monstrous and writhing with venom that the public cannot bear to look at it.

Tories unrepentant over misleadingly edited Keir Starmer TV footage
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tinyclanger2 wrote:Probably

tinyclanger2 wrote:I wouldn't listen to me to be honest. I may be over gloomy.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Having a touch of the (at this point imaginary) deja vus

tinyclanger2 wrote:I wouldn't listen to me to be honest. I may be over gloomy.

citizenJA wrote:I thought LibDem policy on Brexit would've made any part of a coalition with Tories unthinkable. I've gotten used to LibDems not voting with Tory government on a regular basis.

tinyclanger2 wrote:I see Johnson has reneged on something he said he'd do.

“I can be the next prime minister,” she insisted. “Why so ambitious? Because we can be and we have to be.” Sure, Jo. But there’s ambitious and delusional. There’s all sorts of things we’d all like to do that just aren’t going to happen. And wanging on about them as if they were genuine possibilities merely undermines every other message. Sure enough, Swinson went on to say this was a moment for seismic change. A once-in-a-lifetime election. The sort of once in a lifetime that comes round at every election for the Lib Dems.

tinyclanger2 wrote:I'm with Swinson. Am currently training to become an astronaut/gravy wrestler/winner of the Great British Bake Off.

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