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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Step in as party leader before the next GE? Gets to claim its a fresh brush and all that nonsense and despite it being bull shit people will buy it.
"I like Boris. He nearly died from Covid. He got all the big calls right. He was funny on the BBC 20 years ago. He knows Latin."
Ahh the good old days with Boris.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63080462
Incredible work force planning as usual. I wonder if the pitiful pay and work conditions have anything to do with it.
I bet they'll refuse to debate it and say "we've already responded directly to it" with this;
"The UK is a Parliamentary democracy and the Conservative Party remains the majority party. The Prime Minister has pledged to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and future generations."
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Bring Back Bastard Boris?
Bring Back Bastard Boris?
what are the odds of a real 'she's finished" moment at the conference? Could we see some actual theatrics to really try and kill her off? A Bojo ******* rushing the stage telling her to resign etc etc?
this is exactly what I think will happen - a couple more bad interviews or feck ups from Truss and I suspect he’ll be back as soon as Easter
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We have been living in a fool's paradise with our welfare state. It has to go.
Liz Truss 'needs a reset moment', admits insider
Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar report:
Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar report:
Liz Truss has been PM for 24 days.
This is the United Kingdom
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As much as I dislike the monarchy you have to say he is right.
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“Greeted by an individual who threatened me with a mugging”
Because people threaten each other with a good mugging all the time.
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I keep saying this like a broken record but we need to be on the streets and not stopping until these cnuts are gone!
It’s the last power grab of a corrupt leadership knowing their time dipping in to the nation’s proverbial cookie jar is up, so they’re going for every last red cent they can get their grubby little paws on.
It’s the last power grab of a corrupt leadership knowing their time dipping in to the nation’s proverbial cookie jar is up, so they’re going for every last red cent they can get their grubby little paws on.
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NIMBY!
King Chuck should throw her in the Tower of London for telling him what to do.
2 or 3 more media interviews will finish her off.
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I applaud them but annoyingly this group has a chance to be this election's Momentum, splitting the Labour vote, and resulting in the Tories dragging themselves over the finish line.
i don't think anyone in that group is going to vote tory. it's labour's job to put something down that appeals to them, which they should be able to manage easily enough without moving to the left of trotsky.
Even if the Labour candidate isn’t everything everyone on the left desires, why not just coalesce behind that person to ensure no more Tory rule for a while?
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Just so you know, Tories are going to be crying about Mark Hamilton all next week.
As has been said numerous times in response to this, why didn’t they the last 2 election cycles?
i think that's exactly what will happen but it won't be "free". starmer will have to give people on the left something even if it's going to be a vast compromise on what they want, or need. the tories are done. what makes that depressing is that it could be up to two years before the ge. i think there should be a clause in parliamentary democracies surrounding polling. assuming you have been in government for a long enough period of time, like more than 50% of your term, then if at any point over a given month of polling you demonstrate a >20% average deficit in popular support, then that should automatically trigger a general election. there's a scenario now where labour is polling 20-30% higher than the tory government which has had its leader selected, again, by a fraction of the population.
More prescient would be that a general election should be triggered whenever a prime minister steps down. It’s ludicrous that such a small voter base can choose the prime minister.
That sounds solidly common sensical enough, but who would be the final arbiter of the popular support average?
the lack of any real constitution, except in theory, is problematic. a lot of these rules have be codified over the years in ways which no longer make sense. i'd generally agree with this, with potential caveat on term limit. the earlier it happens in this scenario, the more emphasis there should be on returning to the public. i can see that being argued away as "not presidential system".
i'd set up an apolitical aggregator, funded by the state. a bbc type outfit linked to the electoral commission. the scenarios whereby it would happen are limited to examples like this really. don't see how it hurts a democracy, either. it couldn't be a factor for up to 2.5 years of a 5 year term in the first instance, and would have to be a monthy aggregate demonstrated by a bipartisan outfit. not without problems, but surely better than what we have now. but the gist is that to qualify you'd have to be so far beyond representing the public that a general election makes sense for the national interest, a principle which would extend to either party. i'm not without enormous criticisms of starmer's labour but i know it's in the national interest for the public to go to the polls.
I’m sure every question is going to pre written in advance by Truss’ team. Let’s see how many times she says “focusing on growth”.
Gove could be interesting (yuk) though. Wasn’t he backing Sunak?
Unless the chair of John Lewis is seriously Pro Liz then that show is going to be a bloodbath.