Next Tory Leader & May's Exit Date (2019)

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Naffman
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Hunt got no chance, portraying himself more like Rory Stewart and not even Theresa now :?
dragontrades
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layed Boris again at 1.17 after getting out yesterday at 1.29
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Naffman
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dragontrades wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2019 5:00 pm
layed Boris again at 1.17 after getting out yesterday at 1.29
He made comments about Farage and the milkshake incident, the Con. members won't like that one bit
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Archangel
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I wonder is there any level of integrity left in politics. Here is Boris, who has lost two jobs in his career already for lying, and is odds on favourite to be the Prime Minister of the UK.

Maybe its a case of if he gets the job done, does it matter if he tells porkies
greenmark
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Johnson to lay at 1.18. It's not hard to see that being a decent call. We're only days into the campaign and his enemies are feeding stuff to the media. He is a bull in a China shop. Definitely is not a 'politician'. Thatcher was a politician par exellence (even though I disagreed with her idealogy and how she implemented it). But Boris just blunders around being Boris.
You could point to his London Mayor, but that's a fiefdom.
He doesn't impress me with his intellect.
I think I might go for a lay on him.
Emmson
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Archangel wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:23 pm
I wonder is there any level of integrity left in politics. Here is Boris, who has lost two jobs in his career already for lying, and is odds on favourite to be the Prime Minister of the UK.

Maybe its a case of if he gets the job done, does it matter if he tells porkies
It bothers me greatly, goes beyond a left right divide or brexit/bremain divide. A complete charlatan with no moral character like him should not come anywhere near the most important job in the country.
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Black Ice
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“He’s lied his way through life, he’s lied his way through politics, he’s a huckster with a degree of charm to which I am immune. As well as being mendacious he’s incompetent.”
Conservative former minister & final Governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten in May interview with Bloomberg


A fit summing up of Johnson's character by one who knows him


How the hell did we end up in this mess?
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superfrank
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I don't know what you're all worrying about.

Everybody lies. All politicians lie. May said 108 times that "no deal is better than a bad deal" then dropped it, later claiming she was "speaking in the abstract".

Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell are compulsive liars who took us to WAR on completely fabricated evidence.

Boris will at the very least be an entertaining PM.
greenmark
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No deal? No problem.
"Mick Chalmers, regional officer for the Unite union, said: "PSA have made it very clear that no deal means no deal for Ellesmere Port."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-48790657
sa7med
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Have to say im loving theresa may's devil may care (no pun intended) attitude now that she's on borrowed time :lol: also she scored a very much needed goal for the environment, perhaps we can have her back?
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UK - Party Leaders - Exit Dates has been settled for June.... Wasn't expecting that but a nice surprise )
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