Brexit supporter Rees-Mogg whose fund invests outside the UK to protect it from currency risk due to Brexit. Surely he has conflict of issue if he is appointed to any Government job?
Just wondering, Mr HY.... but how is it going down with the rank and file Conservative that three of the top political posts are held by two Indians and and an Israeli? While the top post of all is held by a person of Turkish descent?
Just wondering.........
I hadn't realised that Raab was [German origin] Jewish, but how does that make him Israeli?
Quite. Nor are Javid and Patel "Indians". I don't run around calling people racist, but I think that was a very weird comment.
I am very surprised and disappointed with Boris cabinet
Not at all happy at ditching Hunt and Penny
Also I do not see the unity he extolled in his choices
This must be a cabinet for an Autumn GE
I am always interested on how you view these things.
Are you one step closer to quitting the party today?
I am dismayed about the new Government. I cannot help but fear the worst for the country! Boris is going to gamble everything on his Brexit, the downside is too great and a lot of people will suffer. It is interesting the people who have worked with him, MPs and the like have grave misgivings about his judgement. He will sink us all with his deluded fantasy....
My position hasn't changed from supporting a deal but no deal results in my resignation
Just wondering, Mr HY.... but how is it going down with the rank and file Conservative that three of the top political posts are held by two Indians and and an Israeli? While the top post of all is held by a person of Turkish descent?
Just wondering.........
I hadn't realised that Raab was [German origin] Jewish, but how does that make him Israeli?
Quite. Nor are Javid and Patel "Indians". I don't run around calling people racist, but I think that was a very weird comment.
Not sure if it’s correct, but according to Wikipedia Gove’s post isn’t even in the Cabinet?
It can be, but doesn't have to be. For example, Milburn was, Mosley wasn't.
But I think only the First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State (which is usually held by several people concurrently now) Lord President of the Council and Lord Privy Seal actually have to be in the Cabinet. Others may or may not be as the PM dictates. In practice, for example, I don't think there's been a chancellor of the exchequer outside the cabinet since the 1860s.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
It's going to be DWP isn't it? Because we have a Foreign Sec who hates foreigners, a chancellor who hates economic forecasts and a Home Secretary who hates people. Might as well continue the trend.
It's going to be DWP isn't it? Because we have a Foreign Sec who hates foreigners, a chancellor who hates economic forecasts and a Home Secretary who hates people. Might as well continue the trend.
Just wondering, Mr HY.... but how is it going down with the rank and file Conservative that three of the top political posts are held by two Indians and and an Israeli? While the top post of all is held by a person of Turkish descent?
Just wondering.........
I hadn't realised that Raab was [German origin] Jewish, but how does that make him Israeli?
Quite. Nor are Javid and Patel "Indians". I don't run around calling people racist, but I think that was a very weird comment.
Just wondering, Mr HY.... but how is it going down with the rank and file Conservative that three of the top political posts are held by two Indians and and an Israeli? While the top post of all is held by a person of Turkish descent?
Just wondering.........
I hadn't realised that Raab was [German origin] Jewish, but how does that make him Israeli?
Quite. Nor are Javid and Patel "Indians". I don't run around calling people racist, but I think that was a very weird comment.
It's going to be DWP isn't it? Because we have a Foreign Sec who hates foreigners, a chancellor who hates economic forecasts and a Home Secretary who hates people. Might as well continue the trend.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
I see Jo Swinson had to correct her wrongful claim that Corbyn went on holiday for two weeks during the eu referendum. Surely she could have got her facts right before making the allegation.
Boris must have been in secret talks with Nigel, the agreement being that Nigel gets to choose the personnel of government in return for calling off TBP. Nothing else makes much sense.
Can the hard left entitled remoaners such as cyclefree stop whining and recognise what is good for Britain! I am surprised roger and Tyson arent on too.
Good news HYUFD and I are here to represent voice of reason
#priti
Hard left?! Me? I think you may have confused me with a member of the Labour party.
The last thing this government is concerned about is the interests of the country.
Still I am sure hard Brexiteers like you will be volunteering to be the first to lose your jobs and be last in the queue for medicines. After all you wouldn’t want us to think that you’re the sort of hypocrite who is happy for others to suffer but unwilling to endure the pain themselves, would you?
If one is far enough to the right, all of us seem hard left, rather in the way that people who have never left Kansas assume that everyone in Britain knows each other. (Welcome to the revolution, comrade Cyclefree.)
Hello Cyclefree I was in one of 'your' constituencies Copeland yesterday. They love your views there. Are you going to take the opportunity to vote labour there??
They will not love the damage a No Deal Brexit will do their area. The Tory MP has a very small majority. She’ll be out on her ear.
That Tory MP has ‘owned’ the retaining of maternity services at the west Cumberland hospital. She will be hard to budge. She’s liked. And if she can persuade the get to underwrite the nuclear development at sellafield she’ll be going nowhere.
Copeland, a labour council for decades now has an indie elected mayor. Who just got re elected, the constituency is now stomping Tory, it’s County council local committee of cllrs is now also Tory.
And finally, Cyclefree (by her own admission) does not live in Copeland and so should but be voting there.
Dear me. I explained this a while back. I do not have a vote in Trudy Harrison’s constituency but my husband and daughter do. Daughter will not vote Tory under any circumstances and husband now won’t. He did before. So that’s one vote lost. I am in the process of moving so, depending on when the election is held, I will have a vote. It will not be for the Tories.
I know and like Trudy. But her majority is ca. 2000. A No Deal Brexit will hit Cumbria hard. Whatever her good local work she cannot count on that saving her.
Does this Cabinet look like one which gives a damn about the people of West Cumbria? Do they even know where it is or what life is like there? I doubt it.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nice high horse you have there. Pity it's buried six feet in the mud with the Tory Party's integrity.
I see Jo Swinson had to correct her wrongful claim that Corbyn went on holiday for two weeks during the eu referendum. Surely she could have got her facts right before making the allegation.
Nobody is interested in facts anymore. This is post-modern politics where everyone's facts are valid.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nah, the people losing their minds today are mostly centrists. Most of those on the left already thought things were so bad that this isn't much of a change. Very similar situation with Trump in the US
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nah, the people losing their minds today are mostly centrists. Most of those on the left already thought things were so bad that this isn't much of a change. Very similar situation with Trump in the US
I love how those who lost the referendum are regarded as "centrists".
Johnson is the real centrist. He is the one who won.
Can the hard left entitled remoaners such as cyclefree stop whining and recognise what is good for Britain! I am surprised roger and Tyson arent on too.
Good news HYUFD and I are here to represent voice of reason
#priti
Hard left?! Me? I think you may have confused me with a member of the Labour party.
The last thing this government is concerned about is the interests of the country.
Still I am sure hard Brexiteers like you will be volunteering to be the first to lose your jobs and be last in the queue for medicines. After all you wouldn’t want us to think that you’re the sort of hypocrite who is happy for others to suffer but unwilling to endure the pain themselves, would you?
If one is far enough to the right, all of us seem hard left, rather in the way that people who have never left Kansas assume that everyone in Britain knows each other. (Welcome to the revolution, comrade Cyclefree.)
Hello Cyclefree I was in one of 'your' constituencies Copeland yesterday. They love your views there. Are you going to take the opportunity to vote labour there??
They will not love the damage a No Deal Brexit will do their area. The Tory MP has a very small majority. She’ll be out on her ear.
Copeland, a labour council for decades now has an indie elected mayor. Who just got re elected, the constituency is now stomping Tory, it’s County council local committee of cllrs is now also Tory.
And finally, Cyclefree (by her own admission) does not live in Copeland and so should but be voting there.
Dear me. I explained this a while back. I do not have a vote in Trudy Harrison’s constituency but my husband and daughter do. Daughter will not vote Tory under any circumstances and husband now won’t. He did before. So that’s one vote lost. I am in the process of moving so, depending on when the election is held, I will have a vote. It will not be for the Tories.
I know and like Trudy. But her majority is ca. 2000. A No Deal Brexit will hit Cumbria hard. Whatever her good local work she cannot count on that saving her.
Does this Cabinet look like one which gives a damn about the people of West Cumbria? Do they even know where it is or what life is like there? I doubt it.
This Cabinet if it understands anything, understands the problems of London, and the problems of the Southern Tory shires. Places where they either can’t win, or can’t lose. They’re obviously banking on huge swathes of Brexit favouring seats, but these aren’t areas they really understand at all.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nah, the people losing their minds today are mostly centrists. Most of those on the left already thought things were so bad that this isn't much of a change. Very similar situation with Trump in the US
I love how those who lost the referendum are regarded as "centrists".
Johnson is the real centrist. He is the one who won.
Whatever, let's not quibble terminology, you know the people I mean.
First Boris promise broken. No sign of a radical streamlining of government departments. If every Tory MP gets a government job, they can't vote against him. Right?
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nah, the people losing their minds today are mostly centrists. Most of those on the left already thought things were so bad that this isn't much of a change. Very similar situation with Trump in the US
I love how those who lost the referendum are regarded as "centrists".
Johnson is the real centrist. He is the one who won.
Whatever, let's not quibble terminology, you know the people I mean.
(Although if I were to go totally against character and engage in some good old-fashioned online pedantry, I'd say that you're applying a modal average where a median would be more sensible)
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Nah, the people losing their minds today are mostly centrists. Most of those on the left already thought things were so bad that this isn't much of a change. Very similar situation with Trump in the US
I love how those who lost the referendum are regarded as "centrists".
Johnson is the real centrist. He is the one who won.
Whatever, let's not quibble terminology, you know the people I mean.
Yes. Those left redfaced and angry at the idea we might actually cut our cords with the EU three years after we voted to do so.
Let them rant and rave from the backbenches and if they VONC their own party then lets have an election without them as candidates anymore. They have no right to veto what we voted to do years ago.
So far so good, looks like a really positive and optimistic reshuffle. Just the shake up the doctor ordered and not remotely what we would have got from Continuity May (Hunt).
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
I have never yet, despite my links to the left and my age, yet felt the need to deploy "gammon" in anger, but here we are. This is the cabinet for the gammonage. The red faced angry folk who get off on the pain of others and believe in fairytales of empire and trade. The people who would drop dead if it weren't for the ice touch of rage at the fact the world is leaving them behind in their veins. Desperate for their last hurrah and willing to destroy the future of their children and grandchildren for the last buzz of victory before the grave swallows them.
The red faced are left sputtering in outrage outside, from the permanently red faced and angry LOTO to those sputtering in disgust that a Brexiteer is now PM three years after the public democratically voted for Brexit and we might actually mean it this time.
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Two years on since the Tory Party “won” on a promise of an exit deal with the EU they have decided to spit in the face of the electorate. As per usual. Those spluttering in rage are the 50% of the population think he will be a poor/terrible prime minister and the 58% of the population who have an unfavourable view of him. This is the most negative, reactionary, backward looking, fearful, authoritarian cabinet in British history.
At a time like this we need, God how we need, a decent opposition.
And instead we have Corbyn’s Labour.
They plus 100 Libs, SNP, Green and PC would be OK. The SWP, sorry 'Corbyn's office' would be neutered. His 'C&S partners' would I hope insist on PR and a confirmatory referendum re whether to leave the EU on the terms offered.
This Cabinet if it understands anything, understands the problems of London, and the problems of the Southern Tory shires. Places where they either can’t win, or can’t lose. They’re obviously banking on huge swathes of Brexit favouring seats, but these aren’t areas they really understand at all.
The particular bit of the UK they really don't understand is Scotland. They're in deep, deep trouble up here. So are Labour of course but that ship has long sailed (and I accepted my fate in the bilges).
Yet the number of Tory Party voters to Brexit Party voters down 12%, mainly swapping some Tory Remainers to the LDs for Brexit Party Leavers to the Tories.
56% of 2017 Tories now voting Tory compared to 47% 5 days ago
Two points, Mr D.
1 - That's not what it says. It's the 19th of June that had them at 47%. May recovered them to 34% BXP, 9% LD, 55% Con as of a fortnight ago. Since then, you've recovered 9% from BXP and lost 5% to LDs.
2 - In constituencies where the LDs are second, that's not a good thing because a defector to a second place party is twice as painful as one to a formerly-nonexistent Party, for obvious reasons. It's only when BXP get to the point of actually taking constituencies from you that they become the danger.
However, mindful of Napoleon's maxim, please don't let me (or anyone else) dissuade you or the Pyramid of Pfeffel from this route.
Amber Rudd has come out of this without any honour. Nicky Morgan has been shifting for some months now.
I think Rudd knows this is her last term as an MP given her seat and majority. I am not sure how well connected she is for jobs afterwards or how wealthy she is already but imagine money/status from being in the cabinet is a bigger factor for her than many others who might be in safer seats, have independent wealth or be towards the end of their careers.
She's independently wealthy. There are plenty of Brexit votes available in Hastings. She has probably lost the council estates in the town whatever she does, but she has a sporting chance in the suburbs and out of town if she doesn't lose too many votes the Brexit Party. Being a hard leaver helps that. If I were her I'd probably do the same as she has done.
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I am losing track of the despairing texts I am getting.
https://twitter.com/Throctukes/status/1154112032188317696
Then the Liberals reunited and handed the Unionists' arses to them at the next election.
"All these moments will be lost in time, like...tears...in rain... Time to die."
I am sick to the very bottom of my stomach.
But I think only the First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State (which is usually held by several people concurrently now) Lord President of the Council and Lord Privy Seal actually have to be in the Cabinet. Others may or may not be as the PM dictates. In practice, for example, I don't think there's been a chancellor of the exchequer outside the cabinet since the 1860s.
We were given a choice between more-of-the-same from Hunt or genuine change from Johnson and change was elected by 2:1 and that looks like what we're going to get.
I'm very happy. Still only Penny Mordaunt that I think is a loss, hopefully like Gove for May she will be back before long. Other than that, cry no tears at Grayling etc being on the backbenches.
Now though we have dross like Grayling, Bradley, Fox, Hammond etc heading to backbenches and genuine talent like Patel etc coming forward.
Brandon Lewis sacked...or perhaps Chief Sec?
Yes.
JRM is "in" Downing St. anyway apparently...
The Lib Dems should be polling 30% plus within weeks...
I can't think of a job suitable for McVile that isn't being fired into the centre of the sun
All we're missing is a profanity-filled Tweet from Ian Dunt in the thread header and it will be complete.
Surely she could have got her facts right before making the allegation.
I know and like Trudy. But her majority is ca. 2000. A No Deal Brexit will hit Cumbria hard. Whatever her good local work she cannot count on that saving her.
Does this Cabinet look like one which gives a damn about the people of West Cumbria? Do they even know where it is or what life is like there? I doubt it.
I guess we can forget Gauke's idea of removing prison bars for the time being?
genuine talent like Patel
genuine talent like Patel
genuine talent like Patel
genuine talent like Patel
The joke doesn't wear off with repetition. Not one bit.
JFDI now.
Let us hope this God awful Parliament does not blink in the final moment.
Johnson is the real centrist. He is the one who won.
@Foxy - I give up. I'm off to Bedouin.
Have a good evening.
Leader in waiting when this shitfest explodes?
Let them rant and rave from the backbenches and if they VONC their own party then lets have an election without them as candidates anymore. They have no right to veto what we voted to do years ago.
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1154133550846873601?s=20
1 - That's not what it says. It's the 19th of June that had them at 47%. May recovered them to 34% BXP, 9% LD, 55% Con as of a fortnight ago.
Since then, you've recovered 9% from BXP and lost 5% to LDs.
2 - In constituencies where the LDs are second, that's not a good thing because a defector to a second place party is twice as painful as one to a formerly-nonexistent Party, for obvious reasons. It's only when BXP get to the point of actually taking constituencies from you that they become the danger.
However, mindful of Napoleon's maxim, please don't let me (or anyone else) dissuade you or the Pyramid of Pfeffel from this route.