I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
That said, it would be an absolute, inexcusable dereliction of duty if Corbyn and McDonnell and Starmer weren't promising the DUP a moon on a stick right now to peel them off.
Imagine, nailing May with a VONC on the last day of term before Christmas.
At two of those three want a United Ireland and they are so ideologically driven, it won’t occur to them to offer the DUP an olive branch and the DUP wouldn’t believe them if they did.
I have no doubt Labour are perfectly willing to meet the DUP's demands. It's mostly a question of tactics. Would they give up their vice-like grasp on Mrs May's short and curlies in exchange for a promise of no backstop? A promise they surely know Mr Corbyn cannot meaningfully deliver?
The only way I can see the DUP backing Labour is to sabotage May’s backstop and make it a straight choice between no deal or no Brexit.
A Labour government, especially one in hock to the LibDems, Plaid, and the SNP, is not going to go for No Deal under any circumstances, so it would be the current Withdrawal Agreement or Revoke, neither of which the DUP wants. In fact, I don't really see what they do want.
Ummm, I'm not so sure about that.
May's deal crosses the DUP's only serious red line. Remain, by default, does not. They want to leave, sure, but not if it involves any kind of customs or regulatory border in the Irish Sea.
Yeah, they might go for Revoke, although they've repeatedly said they want Brexit.
Yes, but why? What purpose does leaving serve them other than departing catholic countries like France and Italy.
I agree, most of the ERG were in that 117 and should get Boris on the final ballot even if a Dealer gets most MPs and he likely wins that final ballot as like Corbyn and unlike May he is much more popular with the party membership than his party's MPs.
Notice May today said she would step down for a new Tory leader by the 2022 general election if Parliament lasts the course but did not rule out leading the party at a snap general election if she loses a VONC in the Commons
Which is why the Tories should have deposed her when they had the chance. 2019 remains the hot favourite for a GE on Betfair and if it happens, they are going into the next GE with a proven voter repellent at the helm.
BoJo may be unpopular amongst his colleagues and the PB cognoscenti, but I think he has a better chance of beating Corbyn in a GE.
Have the odds on an early general election shortened in the last 48 hours? They should have,
All it takes now is for - the DUP to fail to support the Government in a VONC, in the hope that (despite her comments today) May will then be persuaded to fall on her sword and be replaced by a new Tory leader they can back to form a new government in the hope of a change of direction - May to confound them by preferring to lead the Conservatives into an avoidable GE. The DUP could hardly come back with the tail between their legs and back May in a second vote of confidence within the 14 days period of grace.
Before last night, May could have been forced out by Tory MPs and that scenario averted. Now she is her own master (or mistress). This is what you get when a politician treats her own personal political career as being synonymous with the national interest.
The Lib Dems could offer a temporary confidence and supply agreement in return for a Deal/Remain referendum.
I do love how Brexiteers are utterly impervious to external reality. Absolutely *nothing* that has happened has had any impact on IDS's understanding of political reality.
I agree, most of the ERG were in that 117 and should get Boris on the final ballot even if a Dealer gets most MPs and he likely wins that final ballot as like Corbyn and unlike May he is much more popular with the party membership than his party's MPs.
Notice May today said she would step down for a new Tory leader by the 2022 general election if Parliament lasts the course but did not rule out leading the party at a snap general election if she loses a VONC in the Commons
Which is why the Tories should have deposed her when they had the chance. 2019 remains the hot favourite for a GE on Betfair and if it happens, they are going into the next GE with a proven voter repellent at the helm.
BoJo may be unpopular amongst his colleagues and the PB cognoscenti, but I think he has a better chance of beating Corbyn in a GE.
I think May v Corbyn next time could be a repeat of February 1974 but Boris v Corbyn a repeat of 2015
Yes I agree that would be my best assessment.
If May went early , it would be similar to Heath. Who governs ?
The answer not you,
In contrast Boris could beat Corbyn , with an up beat message, even if parts of it are drivel.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
I know that people working for Vote Leave said the biggest shift to Remain in the last week of the campaign was Farage's Breaking Point poster and Farage's media performances thereafter.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
I mean, I'd bang Dom Raab (as long as he promised not to speak) but I'd never vote for him.
I agree, most of the ERG were in that 117 and should get Boris on the final ballot even if a Dealer gets most MPs and he likely wins that final ballot as like Corbyn and unlike May he is much more popular with the party membership than his party's MPs.
Notice May today said she would step down for a new Tory leader by the 2022 general election if Parliament lasts the course but did not rule out leading the party at a snap general election if she loses a VONC in the Commons
Which is why the Tories should have deposed her when they had the chance. 2019 remains the hot favourite for a GE on Betfair and if it happens, they are going into the next GE with a proven voter repellent at the helm.
BoJo may be unpopular amongst his colleagues and the PB cognoscenti, but I think he has a better chance of beating Corbyn in a GE.
I think May v Corbyn next time could be a repeat of February 1974 but Boris v Corbyn a repeat of 2015
Yes I agree that would be my best assessment.
If May went early , it would be similar to Heath. Who governs ?
The answer not you,
In contrast Boris could beat Corbyn , with an up beat message, even if parts of it are drivel.
I agree, Boris is the only Tory I can see winning a majority against Corbyn but then again I do not think Corbyn could win a majority against any Tory either bar Gove or maybe Hunt
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
Thatch seemed to give a certain type of bloke the horn, eg Alan Clark & Kingsley Amis (& possibly my dad).
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
I mean, I'd bang Dom Raab (as long as he promised not to speak) but I'd never vote for him.
Sounds like your name is not too far from the mark then!
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
Thatch seemed to give a certain type of bloke the horn, eg Alan Clark & Kingsley Amis (& possibly my dad).
Alan Clark got the horn for every female between the ages of fourteen and fifty. I don't think he's a good example.
I know that people working for Vote Leave said the biggest shift to Remain in the last week of the campaign was Farage's Breaking Point poster and Farage's media performances thereafter.
I always felt (though with no evidence) that having forced the referendum, Farage should have fucked off for the duration of the campaign and the margin would have been considerably greater. His acolytes are true believers, so it wouldn't have mattered, but everytime he opens his gob he alienates swing voters.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
Thatch seemed to give a certain type of bloke the horn, eg Alan Clark & Kingsley Amis (& possibly my dad).
I know that people working for Vote Leave said the biggest shift to Remain in the last week of the campaign was Farage's Breaking Point poster and Farage's media performances thereafter.
If that’s true then that would have been exacerbated by the murder as well.
I think there was probably a small effect but mainly it was swingback to the status quo.
I know that people working for Vote Leave said the biggest shift to Remain in the last week of the campaign was Farage's Breaking Point poster and Farage's media performances thereafter.
I always felt (though with no evidence) that having forced the referendum, Farage should have fucked off for the duration of the campaign and the margin would have been considerably greater. His acolytes are true believers, so it wouldn't have mattered, but everytime he opens his gob he alienates swing voters.
To play devils advocate, he probably helped his cause because he provoked some Remainers into hysterics. That picture of Geldof on a boat was worth a few votes I am sure.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
Though that was a very niche taste, Corbyn was apparently once called 'the sexpot Trot' as Diane Abbott clearly discovered
Utterly deranged. No matter how stark raving bonkers one fears they are, they turn out to be even worse.
Andrew Lilico is a very loosely grouped collection of opinions. I once sat next to him on a bus, and this is what struck me about him. They're all just blurry semi-opinions. A stream of half-formed, disconnected ideas.
There's nothing approaching coherent thought, principle, ideology, guiding philosophy or unifying ethic. It's just a stream of consciousness masquerading as opinions.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
It's not that implausible: Major is 6 foot tall. People bang on about sexual attractiveness but the truth is a good haircut, good skincare, good clothing, good teeth and a trim body are usually enough. And if you're in a powerful job, so much the better. I usually advance Nancy Dell'Olio's relationship with football manager and dormouse impersonator Sven-Göran Eriksson as proof of this.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
I do love how Brexiteers are utterly impervious to external reality. Absolutely *nothing* that has happened has had any impact on IDS's understanding of political reality.
Utterly deranged. No matter how stark raving bonkers one fears they are, they turn out to be even worse.
Andrew Lilico is a very loosely grouped collection of opinions. I once sat next to him on a bus, and this is what struck me about him. They're all just blurry semi-opinions. A stream of half-formed, disconnected ideas.
There's nothing approaching coherent thought, principle, ideology, guiding philosophy or unifying ethic. It's just a stream of consciousness masquerading as opinions.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
Ed Miliband has a sense of humour. Men underestimate its appeal.
Tony Blair: just no. Too many teeth. Reminds one of a weasel.
Cameron: the sort of boy your mother likes. But I'm allergic to smooth public school City types.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Corbyn can probably be charming.
With most of the rest of them you wonder how they managed to persuade anyone to have sex with them once let alone marry and procreate.
Utterly deranged. No matter how stark raving bonkers one fears they are, they turn out to be even worse.
Andrew Lilico is a very loosely grouped collection of opinions. I once sat next to him on a bus, and this is what struck me about him. They're all just blurry semi-opinions. A stream of half-formed, disconnected ideas.
There's nothing approaching coherent thought, principle, ideology, guiding philosophy or unifying ethic. It's just a stream of consciousness masquerading as opinions.
Big Red Bus slogan on the side? Something you want to tell us? Are you a 5th columnist planted by leave acting as a totally demented remainer to further the leave cause?
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
Mrs Thatcher was a raging beauty in her youth.
And she knew it. And flirted. There's an early interview of her - she may have been Leader of the Opposition - when she was blatantly flirting with the interviewer, all fluttering eyelids and the rest and he was falling for it.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Something happened to Osborne. He was never good looking, and then one day, he just... was.
And that's a disadvantage in the age of Corbyn, Trump, Selmayr, Orban, Putin...how exactly?
On the contrary: I “trust” Corbyn and Trump to do precisely what they say.
I wouldn’t trust Boris with a shopping bag.
The hard Brexiteers who are dealing with him would be sold out by him in second if he felt it might further his career.
I can remember watching This Week and Andrew Neil asked the sofa guests one word to describe various politicians. Portillo's answer to Boris was "Betrayal. He will stab you in the back with a blink of the eye."
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
Ed Miliband has a sense of humour. Men underestimate its appeal.
Tony Blair: just no. Too many teeth. Reminds one of a weasel.
Cameron: the sort of boy your mother likes. But I'm allergic to smooth public school City types.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Corbyn can probably be charming.
With most of the rest of them you wonder how they managed to persuade anyone to have sex with them once let alone marry and procreate.
I see many people daily who have kids or are clearly married where I struggle to understand why (and how) anyone would ever get excited enough to have sex with them.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
Mrs Thatcher was a raging beauty in her youth.
And she knew it. And flirted. There's an early interview of her - she may have been Leader of the Opposition - when she was blatantly flirting with the interviewer, all fluttering eyelids and the rest and he was falling for it.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Both Tony Blair and David Cameron had sex appeal at the start.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
Ed Miliband has a sense of humour. Men underestimate its appeal.
Tony Blair: just no. Too many teeth. Reminds one of a weasel.
Cameron: the sort of boy your mother likes. But I'm allergic to smooth public school City types.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Corbyn can probably be charming.
With most of the rest of them you wonder how they managed to persuade anyone to have sex with them once let alone marry and procreate.
I see many people daily who have kids or are clearly married where I struggle to understand why (and how) anyone would ever get excited enough to have sex with them.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
Problem is, it doesn't scale. Some of the beautiful women and handsome men have very ugly opinions, and some of the plain and ugly are kindly and wise.
I was at this point going to compile a list of attractive politicians and crossreferenece against sanity of thought, but it'd take me all night...
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
Mrs Thatcher was a raging beauty in her youth.
And she knew it. And flirted. There's an early interview of her - she may have been Leader of the Opposition - when she was blatantly flirting with the interviewer, all fluttering eyelids and the rest and he was falling for it.
What was that Mitterrand quote about Thatcher?
Mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula?
Yes. "She has the eyes of Caligula but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe".
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
Problem is, it doesn't scale. Some of the beautiful women and handsome men have very ugly opinions, and some of the plain and ugly are kindly and wise.
I was at this point going to compile a list of attractive politicians and crossreferenece against sanity of thought, but it'd take me all night...
Given how few attractive ones there are, about half an hour should do it, I'd have thought.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
Well, they don't appear to have any brains or common-sense or knowledge of history or strategy or ability to persuade.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
I see our wonderful OGH has chosen a photo of Johnson which reinforces my remark from yesterday evening about Boris looking like - and having all the sex appeal - of an overboiled potato.
Do politicians need sex appeal? The last truly sexy PM was, according to Edwina Curie, John Major.
You do not need it as much as charisma or gravitas though some have it e.g. Kurz, Trudeau, JFK, Thatcher and Blair on a good day
Thatch seemed to give a certain type of bloke the horn, eg Alan Clark & Kingsley Amis (& possibly my dad).
Was there ever a woman, 8 to 80, who didn't give Alan Clark the horn, the priapic old goat?
Ed Miliband has a sense of humour. Men underestimate its appeal.
Tony Blair: just no. Too many teeth. Reminds one of a weasel.
Cameron: the sort of boy your mother likes. But I'm allergic to smooth public school City types.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Corbyn can probably be charming.
With most of the rest of them you wonder how they managed to persuade anyone to have sex with them once let alone marry and procreate.
Blair always struck me as sweaty and there is nothing appealing about that.
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No, none, never no more?
If May had proposed a 2nd vote a week ago, she would have been brought down by her own MPs.
Now, she cannot be for 12 months.*
Will she surprise us all, at the 11th hour, and roll the dice?
* NB: obviously if most of the Cabinet tell her she is done, then she might still have to go. But she is stubborn (to say the least).
Some Leavers are such cretins.
https://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1073200950272294912
If you get Boris, you'll get a pillock as leader.
In fact, that must be it.
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1073126345432027136
On a related note, why exactly is Brexit now being driven almost entirely by baseball analogies?
If May went early , it would be similar to Heath.
Who governs ?
The answer not you,
In contrast Boris could beat Corbyn , with an up beat message, even if parts of it are drivel.
https://twitter.com/samcoatestimes/status/1073144208956030978?s=21
https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1073271138376126465
I'm glad EUCO has something important to talk about, not just rustle paper paper clips for Mrs May's amusement.
He uses to great effect I hear on Surrey Council.
They want a good PM and winner first. It isn’t all about Brexit.
Even if it was Boris is totally untrustworthy.
I think there was probably a small effect but mainly it was swingback to the status quo.
Bizarrely, for reasons I’ve never quite understood, so did Ed Miliband.
So we may as well judge them on their f***ability.
There's nothing approaching coherent thought, principle, ideology, guiding philosophy or unifying ethic. It's just a stream of consciousness masquerading as opinions.
I’ve just got the dreadful pun (I may possess a lithe, sumptuous body, but not so well endowed in the cerebral department - I blame Balliol.)
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1073126345432027136
Pause.
#accidentalpartridge
https://twitter.com/MrKenShabby/status/882516715283918848
Except less funny and, sadly, less bankrupt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml
I wouldn’t trust Boris with a shopping bag.
The hard Brexiteers who are dealing with him would be sold out by him in second if he felt it might further his career.
Tony Blair: just no. Too many teeth. Reminds one of a weasel.
Cameron: the sort of boy your mother likes. But I'm allergic to smooth public school City types.
Osborne, I am told, is much nicer in private than his public image would suggest. I'd take an evening with him (talking - no sniggering at the back, please) over Cameron.
Corbyn can probably be charming.
With most of the rest of them you wonder how they managed to persuade anyone to have sex with them once let alone marry and procreate.
I wouldn’t trust Boris with a shopping bag.
The hard Brexiteers who are dealing with him would be sold out by him in second if he felt it might further his career.
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Esher good
Eben-Esher-Good!
But, they exist. And they do.
Mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula?
I was at this point going to compile a list of attractive politicians and crossreferenece against sanity of thought, but it'd take me all night...
Thatcher had a soft spot for him too.
You may stand upon a red hill of infamy, although you may need to Kew.
Most of us have been worried for some time!
Blair always struck me as sweaty and there is nothing appealing about that.