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Oh for Fox’s sake – politicalbetting.com
Oh for Fox’s sake – politicalbetting.com
EXC: Senior Tories mull long leadership election – even to December. Dowden under stewardship of Cameron as acting leader — but only if he holds seat If contest forced by what’s left of party then grandees DD and Liam Fox floated as caretaker leaderhttps://t.co/KoqqwNN9ZH
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And yes, the Tory drama will probably take a few years at least - they need to figure out what went wrong, and there won't be consensus on that right away.
Liam Fox or David Davis!
He used to work for Dave when Dave was leader, he was Lord High Executioner of those MPs he thought were bad 'uns over expenses, Dave nicknamed him The Undertaker.
I am a veteran of many disappointing general election nights. Lib Dems are certainly not glory supporters.
It might help if we did exit passport checks, but as we don't we really have little solid data on the number who have over-stayed.
More than half of voters — 52 per cent — already say they are dissatisfied with his performance.
Seems somewhat premature, though some on PB have reached the same judgement already on PM SKS.
Incidentally, on QT tonight Andrew Mitchell basically conceded defeat, and made no attempt to suggest we might be in for a surprise next week. The Tories have given up.
I'd expect his ratings to improve in the weeks/months after he wins the election/becomes PM.
When he worked in David Cameron’s office, Dowden advised the then prime minister on which Tory MPs could not survive the expenses scandal. For this Cameron called him the undertaker.
His other nickname, Olive, began as teasing in the Conservative research department in 2005 when a typo on the spelling of his first name led to many letters being address to Miss Dowden.
Osborne, one of those who calls him Olive, is a great admirer. The former chancellor told the BBC: “Part of the secret sauce of the Cameron government was Oliver Dowden beavering away sorting out problems. Sometimes the Cameron government looked a bit swan like, but there was furious paddling underneath and Oliver Dowden was one of the paddlers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/23/oliver-dowden-the-new-deputy-pm-who-is-more-hardline-than-his-image
Also, if we have a scenario where say it's the Lib Dems on 60, Tories on 57 and Reform on 5-10. Or anything similar to that. Farage will be able to say "Make me Tory leader and I'll do a merger - we can be the official opposition - otherwise Ed Davey will be LOTO and the Tories are finished." I just can't see how someone like Priti Patel or Oliver Dowden can make a more convincing argument than that.
Next thing you know they'll convince you Wednesday is ok, and then what, where will the madness end?!
Monday is never going to work.
I'm reminded of David Lidington being mooted as an interim PM during May's troubles - "I know nobody has ever and would never give me the time of day in normal circumstances, but I've got through as minister of whatever with no massive f*ck-ups, so why not give me my moment in the sun?"
Once everyone knows who has survived the election the value will quickly evaporate.
Oh am I too early for the debate?
You mean there are going to be two of them?
My money is on Sir Christopher Chope, the only cockroach guaranteed to survive the blast.
The prevalence (on the whole) of the two-party system has usually removed any uncertainty as to which party has the right to be called the ‘Official Opposition’; it is the largest minority party which is prepared, in the event of the resignation of the Government, to assume office
https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5986/the-official-opposition
Such as any rules exists it seems as though whichever is numerically higher at any one moment would be the LoTO, and if that changed so would the post holder.
would have been a much better headline. The fact that the story is about France is implicit from the illustration.
They can keep her….
Maybe slightly long for a headline, but the economist should assume most readers have some French.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/27/tractor-supply-co-backs-woke-policies-after-backla/
It wasn't so much the "woke" that did for them, as much as saying we hate our customers, they are so unsophisticated, yucky, fratty people. We don't want them as customers, we want to get the cool kids to drink our crap piss poor beer.
Oh the people who actually buy our beer have errhh stopped buying it, and the people we want to buy it, don't buy it.
If the Tories come out only a few tens of seats ahead of the Lib Dems, and then pick a leader who is strongly identified with either faction, there's a chance that defections (either to the Lib Dems or to Reform, depending on the leader pick) could cause them to lose the status of official opposition. Waiting until everyone has got used to the perks of shadow cabinet life before making a decision might help to hold the party together.
BTW, as you probably know the Washington Times was founded - and is still owned today - by the Reverend Moon.
Craft beer in the US however, vastly improved in quality and availability over the past 20 years.
https://corporate.tractorsupply.com/newsroom/news-releases/news-releases-details/2024/Tractor-Supply-Company-Statement/default.aspx
Much as I despise the moonies, in this case it's not misreporting what's happened.
As for TSC. They're a sort of B&Q/Go Outdoors hybrid with locations mainly outside of metro areas. Currying favour with their redneck customers by pivoting away from climate friendly behaviour may be a short term boost to their profits over long term keeping their local communities viable. Or maybe they see the way the wind is literally blowing across rural America and figure climate change will lead to more tornadoes/hurricanes and thus more replacement equipment and house building supplies to be sold to the morons.
Either way, I ain't shopping there no more.
Hunt losing as Chancellor in Godalming and Ash the most likely Portillo moment
Truly absurd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqG96G8YdcE
China must be watching this and pissing themselves. Winnie the pooh, I am supposed to be worried about these two tw@ts.
If this continues for the whole debate it is game over for him.
Trump is talking a lot of nonsense, but he sounds like he is alive and functioning. Biden just keeps freezing.
If Biden comes out with a draw though that would be better than the last 2 Presidents, both Bush and Obama lost their first debates to Kerry and Romney respectively
Oh dear.
What has happened with the campaign, well that's a different kettle of fish.