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Punters give Johnson a 7% chance of being CON general election leader – politicalbetting.com
Punters give Johnson a 7% chance of being CON general election leader – politicalbetting.com
One of the consistent stories since Boris Johnson stepped down from the Conservative leadership last year has been that he wants to return. In particular he wants to get his own back on Sunak whom he lays a lot of blame for him being forced out.
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That response and justification is just woeful. And distinctly implausible. I think given the media guy has gone they'd have been better off just admitting it was a lie.
Edit: I do love it though when someone quits but their people talk about how great they are or deny wrongdoing, leading to the obvious question of why they are leaving. Like when Cabinet Minister resign and are fulsome in praise of the PM, making it bemusing why they quit.
My tip if Sunak and Hunt lose the next general election is for Health Secretary Steve Barclay to be next Conservative leader and Leader of the Opposition to PM Starmer
Spoiler: he hasn't a cat in hell's chance.
Says man who has lost his job but acquired the reputation of being a clown in the process.
Hence why they need to be watchful of him at all times. If people wanted him to be PM then, they still would now.
I can't see that changing much, especially as the Conservatives voteshare is starting to rise again
(I'm not saying he won't, he has more lives than a cat. But he seems to be on his way down, and he wasn't nice to people on his ascent.)
Ok the first was self-inflicted but they do seem to be having a bad run of 'events'.
I say: time to elect lucky Labour and avoid future catastrophes.
And the wars were actually their fault.
Covid I will give you as a bit unusual.
But I guess you mean “learnt nothing / forgotten nothing”?
I wonder what he meant by that?
- The investigation is biased and unlawful
- I was stitched up by Red Sue and did nothing wrong, even though I apologised for doing some things wrong
- This is a gift to Labour
- Everyone was at it (except me)
I expect he will hammer home that he truly believed everything he said in the House, no matter how wrong he was, therefore he did not knowingly mislead, and it is unfair to hold him accountable for the lower threshold of still actually misleading, regardless of intent.If he can persuade of the latter maybe he can get a sanction below the trigger threshold. Only way Sunak might be able to hold off a massive rebellion.
So the Tories are not especially unlucky, just inept.
Ukraine has demoted a top battlefield commander after he admitted his unit had been decimated in fighting around the city of Bakhmut.
The battalion commander, known by his call sign Kupol, gave an unusually frank assessment of Ukrainian losses in an interview from the front lines earlier this week.
He revealed that all of the original 500 soldiers in his unit had either been killed or injured, a rare acknowledgement from inside the Ukrainian ranks, where losses are kept strictly confidential.
The Ukrainian high command is at pains to present a positive spin on the increasingly bloody defence of the east of the country. US officials have estimated that the Ukrainian army may have taken 120,000 casualties compared with 200,000 by the Russian army.
Kupol told the Washington Post this week that the Ukrainian army training was often poor and that some of the rookie replacements didn’t know how to throw a hand grenade or fire a rifle.
Others had abandoned their positions shortly after arriving at the front line, he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64959805
Which is rather a damning comment.
Edit - TBF, Blair may have been a bad Prime Minister in many ways but he was perhaps the most formidable politician Labour has ever produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–2008_financial_crisis#Timeline
Again, despised the man but he was definitely a product of the party and its traditions.
For good, in his desire to make public services work for everyone.
For ill in many other ways. Especially the one where all your opponents are not merely honourable people who disagree with you but devils incarnate who deserve opprobrium, legal sanctions and to be ruthlessly personally attacked at every turn.
They are also exhausting Russian shell supplies which is taking the pressure off everywhere else.
Meanwhile modern tanks and planes are coming. This war is not progressing to Russia’s advantage. Quite the opposite.
It could be called Executive Relief.
Could have been a Russian disinformation operation. Who knows.
I expect this post to have as many likes as the average post by a below average Russian troll.
… it's extremely disconcerting to have learned that
As usual, it goes back to a single issue - would ANY other Conservative leader poll better than Sunak? There's zero evidence Boris Johnson would be any better - ditto Truss - so, as in 1997, the Party has to jog on with a leader slightly more popular than it but not popular enough to prevent a heavy defeat.
So what?
Why should the "Natural Party of Government" be the perpetual Party of Government?
(Similarly, at least in the US, "ton" is often used to mean a large amount, and so you hear things like "We got a ton of snow in the mountains yesterday." Which always leaves me wondering just how many tons fell -- but not, so far, to the extent of trying to estimate the actual amount.)
Serious informations about bigger riots to come in France. Police is getting ready for much larger scale protests. This is what happens when elected officials work against people, when President don’t go trough referendum and uses executive decrees.
https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/status/1636614234342817792?s=20
I don't say that is what is going on - it's clearly very bloody for both sides, even if more so for the Russians - but neither side is exactly open with their casualties for any number of reasons.
Yet.
Sure, there'll be lots of protests, and I'm not fan of decree powers (I've not actually looked up the times the French President can use this one), but they've left that power on the books for a reason I guess.
grew up in a dictatorship, I came to England to live in a democracy, but what I am experiencing for quite sometime now in the UK is very close to China’s regime. What they are doing to my husband
@ABridgen
is appalling by any standard of Western democracy.
https://twitter.com/NevenaBridgen/status/1636831977411100675?s=20
He took the UK's alpha party by the throat and kicked its arse up and down the Main Street in full public view.
And then kicked it again just for fun.
And again just because he could.
If he'd joined the Tories he'd still have been PM.