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    IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,268
    I reckon that’s two defections from the Tories nailed on.
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    FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,285
    Cripes.....as one famous person might say.
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    SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 20,604
    Crossover!!!
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    TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 114,387



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    I'd expect so.
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    El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 3,870



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    I expect he wrote BREXIT on the ballot in large letters.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited June 2019



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    Clarke and Grieve, no doubt. 😊
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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    Ken and Rory or May I reckon.
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    RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 27,206
    edited June 2019
    Govey govey govey govey. Ooh ohh e ooh ooh ooh
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    Gove getting his votes lined up.....
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    TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 41,286

    TOPPING said:

    Love or loathe him Andrew Neil is brilliant. He has just utterly destroyed a BJ supporter on PL.

    where can I watch it?
    iplayer around 12.30 +/-
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287
    Johnson - 157
    Gove - 61
    Hunt - 59
    Javid – 34 (out)

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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    I expect he wrote BREXIT on the ballot in large letters.
    Bollx
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    DavidLDavidL Posts: 51,242
    So which one of the 2 is going to offer Sajid Chancellor? Or has Boris got in first?
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    SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 20,604



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    Hammond the other?
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    TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 114,387



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    Maybe, Grieve, Greening, or Lee.
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    El_CapitanoEl_Capitano Posts: 3,870

    The TV Tower https://www.fernsehturm-stuttgart.de/ revolving restaurant at the top was a good place to take young ladies.

    You used to take young ladies up the revolving restaurant? That's a new one on me.
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    viewcodeviewcode Posts: 18,735
    HYUFD said:

    Gove 61

    Hunt 59

    Javid 34

    Johnson 157

    Javid eliminated

    Gove overtakes Hunt for 2nd

    Oh damn. I am not liking this. A sentence I am saying all too often... :)
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    MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    Well the key thing now is whether Johnson's lot tactically vote for Hunt.

    Not really sure why Sajid bothered, but I suppose that's easy to say in hindsight.
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    I expect he wrote BREXIT on the ballot in large letters.
    Bollocks 2 boris
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    TheValiantTheValiant Posts: 1,708
    IanB2 said:


    Talking of which:

    Two spoiled papers!

    Those dicks won't draw themselves on the ballot paper.

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    IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,268
    Lee and Greening are the two most likely to defect IMO
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    Reporter on SKY saying she expects Javid's votes to go to Johnson - "but not today...."


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    FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,285
    When you think about it, quite a few suspects for those drawing a massive cock on their ballot paper.
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    MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    IanB2 said:

    I reckon that’s two defections from the Tories nailed on.


    In which case, the new leader has no working majority in the House of Commons even with the DUP.
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    kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    Boris over 50% now
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    Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 60,284
    IanB2 said:

    I reckon that’s two defections from the Tories nailed on.

    To be honest if they are that unhappy best they resign the whip
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    isamisam Posts: 40,919
    dr_spyn said:

    Johnson - 157
    Gove - 61
    Hunt - 59
    Javid – 34 (out)

    Boris majority? Why not just stop now?
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    OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    Johnson with >50% of the MPs now.
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    FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    So where do Javid's votes break?
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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204
    Hunt coming in to 16.5

    Thinking is most Javid's will go to him?
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    nichomarnichomar Posts: 7,483

    viewcode said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Imagine the most Bavarian scene possible, Alpen foothills; locals out in traditional garb, houses with flowered wooden balconies. Sound of a brass band ..
    That's where I am right now.

    Mittenwald ?
    https://twitter.com/Pulpstar/status/1141641463601815552?s=19
    Schutzenfest - theyll all be getting hammered for the next 5 days :smiley:
    More than at Oktoberfest?
    Oktoberfest is for tourists

    The real hammerings happen in the towns and villages over the summer and the big Rhineland Cities in the run up to Lent.
    Well as a good Muslim boy Oktoberfest was wasted on me.

    I'm off to Stuttgart next month, any places I should visit?
    Stuttgart would seem a good place to start... :)
    There is a big tower you can go up. Good view from the top (unsurprisingly).

    Otherwise it was all beer and schnitzel when I was there.
    Is there a large country in the world with worse cuisine than Germany? Canada, maybe?
    The UK.
    Nowt wrong with British food. Birthplace of the balti!
    Not quite it first appeared in the UK in Birmingham but it is believed to have originated in Baltistan according to Wikipedia
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    FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 76,285

    Reporter on SKY saying she expects Javid's votes to go to Johnson - "but not today...."


    To be honest, watching Sky the past hour or so, they have been wrong on basically everything.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
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    TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 114,387

    NEW THREAD

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    kjohnwkjohnw Posts: 1,456
    Boris will lend votes to hunt now to kill off Gove
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    TheWhiteRabbitTheWhiteRabbit Posts: 12,387
    Johnson gets half of the parliamentary party
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395

    Reporter on SKY saying she expects Javid's votes to go to Johnson - "but not today...."


    To be honest, watching Sky the past hour or so, they have been wrong on basically everything.
    At least they're enthusiastic about the whole thing.
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    Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 12,994

    viewcode said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Imagine the most Bavarian scene possible, Alpen foothills; locals out in traditional garb, houses with flowered wooden balconies. Sound of a brass band ..
    That's where I am right now.

    Mittenwald ?
    https://twitter.com/Pulpstar/status/1141641463601815552?s=19
    Schutzenfest - theyll all be getting hammered for the next 5 days :smiley:
    More than at Oktoberfest?
    Oktoberfest is for tourists

    The real hammerings happen in the towns and villages over the summer and the big Rhineland Cities in the run up to Lent.
    Well as a good Muslim boy Oktoberfest was wasted on me.

    I'm off to Stuttgart next month, any places I should visit?
    Stuttgart would seem a good place to start... :)
    There is a big tower you can go up. Good view from the top (unsurprisingly).

    Otherwise it was all beer and schnitzel when I was there.
    Is there a large country in the world with worse cuisine than Germany? Canada, maybe?
    Russia.
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    viewcodeviewcode Posts: 18,735
    Ishmael_Z said:

    viewcode said:

    Cyclefree said:

    The law has nothing to do with morals. Morals are a matter for individuals not the law.

    Of course the law is shaped on our morals as a society. Unless you're advocating a Ron Paul type society, which wouldn't be a completely bad thing, then it is a battle to define what those morals are.

    And TSE, in the closet? Quite the opposite.

    Presumably you also think adultery is immoral, what with it being against one of the Ten Commandments.

    Would you make that illegal / criminal as well?
    Also suicide. Which actually was illegal until the Suicide Act 1961. Prior to that unsuccessful suicides were convicted and imprisoned. We think that modern mores are typical of history, whereas they are quite exceptional
    Even worse, it used to carry the death penalty. There is an appalling story in I think Alvarez' The Savage God about a bloke who cut his throat, and was very difficult to hang because the wound kept opening up.
    Good grief, that's terrible.
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    RogerRoger Posts: 18,891
    edited June 2019
    The Dream Team! They're now voting for people who can beat Johnson. Only Gove can do that because no one else could be as unscrupulous. Four weeks for Mrs Vine to work her magic.
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287
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    Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 60,284
    isam said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Johnson - 157
    Gove - 61
    Hunt - 59
    Javid – 34 (out)

    Boris majority? Why not just stop now?
    No - needs to go through the hustings and not have a coronation
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    eekeek Posts: 24,971
    Boris has 47 votes to play with - that's going to be fun...
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    If Hunt gets knocked out tonight, I wonder if we'll get any Tory MP resigning from the party?
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    TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 40,052
    Ishmael_Z said:

    viewcode said:

    Cyclefree said:

    The law has nothing to do with morals. Morals are a matter for individuals not the law.

    Of course the law is shaped on our morals as a society. Unless you're advocating a Ron Paul type society, which wouldn't be a completely bad thing, then it is a battle to define what those morals are.

    And TSE, in the closet? Quite the opposite.

    Presumably you also think adultery is immoral, what with it being against one of the Ten Commandments.

    Would you make that illegal / criminal as well?
    Also suicide. Which actually was illegal until the Suicide Act 1961. Prior to that unsuccessful suicides were convicted and imprisoned. We think that modern mores are typical of history, whereas they are quite exceptional
    Even worse, it used to carry the death penalty. There is an appalling story in I think Alvarez' The Savage God about a bloke who cut his throat, and was very difficult to hang because the wound kept opening up.
    Something I've mentioned previously, but when William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) was hanged, the deep razor cut on his face, a souvenir of 1930s street fighting, burst open.
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    SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,704



    Two spoilt ballot papers

    Ken Clarke one of them?
    Hammond the other?
    Greening maybe.
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287
    @Scott_P thanks for that link to the Brookes' cartoon. makes me think of that Douglas Bader 3 Fokkers joke.
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    AndyJS said:

    Result:

    Johnson 160
    Hunt 77
    Gove 75

    I hereby declare, with complete lack of logic, that we can count all non Boris votes together, and therefore it is effectively Johnson 160, Hunt 152. See, very close.

    If Boris runs the country as well as he has run this contest, we will be fine......


    He has a lot less control over relevant factors when running the country. Even of the factors he has controlled during the contest, they will be far more unreliable when it comes to actually governing. So it seems a faint hope.

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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    I hope the petition succeeds. 10% does not seem a high barm even with the Tories not contributing and the physical element to signing.
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