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[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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- Oct 17, 2008
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Johnny Mercer’s conduct has been appalling too. The self-proclaimed voice of the armed forces desperately clinging to his job.
What an absolute shitshow. Get them out NOW.
What an absolute shitshow. Get them out NOW.
I wonder if he even sees this? It's as if he just has to want it more than the other guy and sheer determination will be enough. As he said he had already attended stuff in Portsmouth and in France nad hanging around with a load of foreign dignatories who don't even get to vote was one distraction too many. Someone needs to take him aside and let him know it isn't The Apprentice.
During the ITV debate he was asked a couple of times about empathy and his response was judge me on how well I looked after people during Covid!
If he continues in this vein he is going to face a humilating defeat, which will be compounded by the Tory party placing all the blame at his door. He chose to go early, he chose to fight a presidential style election, despite never having been chosen by his own party. He chose to make up policy on the fly, imagine trying to sell this stuff on doorsteps.
I am not going to lie there are a number I will happily watch lose thier seats next month, but at the end of the day we need both a strong government and an effective opposition to keep them honest.
KZNSeagull
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I have no idea why he is in politics at all to be honest, he seems totally unsuited to it.
Really?
Take a look at the Sunak family wealth since he has been in office. Infosys have been grabbing millions and millions of pounds worth of government contracts. It’s hard not to imagine him not influencing this.
He has got what he wanted out of Politics now.
I don’t but this. They were already loaded and before politics no one knew who he was. Surely being a little bit richer but lots of people hating you is not better?
Maybe he just has people telling him he will be great?
Sunak will leave to America, I reckon
Truss is already flirting with American nutters
Boris makes loads being Boris
At least Theresa May stuck about and carried on as an mp as she seems to care about public service (who turned up so different to truss).
Brown and Blair get criticised for things they have done, as did major, but they clearly valued public service.
There's your answer. They won't care if some miserable brits don't like them when they are in their sunny Californian pad.
Machiavelli
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Repository Party is alive and well.
medwayseagull reborn
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- Oct 12, 2022
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More like the suppository party.
Machiavelli
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Think I might have meant that
- Jul 10, 2003
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HalfaSeatOn
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Listening to this on the radio earlier thought he can’t even get the tone of his apology right. The interviewer in this clip says ‘you sound more exasperated than apologetic’. The more exposure Sunak is getting the more he comes over that there may be something not quite right with his personality.
He’s in a tight race against an ex-Royal Marine in Plymouth, so I think this is just him throwing in the towel
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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That's the spirit!
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Motogull
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- Sep 16, 2005
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Then she foolishly repeated the £2K bollocks.
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FFS, let’s hope he hasn’t leaked anything of any importance to an enemy of Ukraine.
Mind you, expecting a Tory minister to understand their brief is like expecting a chimpanzee to be able to explain the finer points of particle physics.
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
Mercer would be referred to as a ‘pig’ when I was in.