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Derek27
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If Tory members can select Johnson they could select anything!
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The Tory candidates have loaded up Starmer with ammunition. :D
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Vaz0202 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 11:28 am
Euler wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:36 am
Liz Truss seems an odd choice. I can't see the electorate buying into her at all. Party politics is really odd. I can't really work out what they are doing?
The old mantra of party before country
Out of the three of them Truss has by far the least broad appeal across the electorate so would be Labours best chance of a winning the next election
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Dallas wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 12:16 pm
Vaz0202 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 11:28 am
Euler wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:36 am
Liz Truss seems an odd choice. I can't see the electorate buying into her at all. Party politics is really odd. I can't really work out what they are doing?
The old mantra of party before country
Out of the three of them Truss has by far the least broad appeal across the electorate so would be Labours best chance of a winning the next election
But they don’t care about winning the next general election, sounds odd doesn’t it. They care about revenge. They see Sunak as a backstabber and Truss as the BJ loyalist. The nation might be sick of Boris but the party still hold him dear.
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Truss now odds on. Sunak and his team need to think very hard about this. Does he feel he can win the membership around? If not, for the sake of the country, step aside when Penny gets knocked out.

We can’t have this dragging on for another month whilst we have a government not functioning.


Dreading the Truss premiership. She is going to make BJ look statesmanlike
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Vaz0202 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:33 pm
Truss now odds on. Sunak and his team need to think very hard about this. Does he feel he can win the membership around? If not, for the sake of the country, step aside when Penny gets knocked out.

We can’t have this dragging on for another month whilst we have a government not functioning.


Dreading the Truss premiership. She is going to make BJ look statesmanlike
Been a remarkable turn around by her since that first disastrous TV debate

Just wish I'd held my lay position on Mordaunt just a little longer, until a day or so ago I thought she was ready to shorten up again.
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Membership goes with Truss hands down.

And I get to vote. :D
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It's odds how each Conservative government eventually seems to turn in on itself.
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Liz Truss is a poor communicator, she will be DEVOURED by media and Kier Starmer at PMQs. As for her tosspot trade deals with the likes of New Zealand that make us all worse off they will come back and haunt her.

https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/ ... 3012556800
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Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:13 pm
Membership goes with Truss hands down.

And I get to vote. :D
When did you join? You may be disappointed that new members don't have a vote.
3rd June cutoff. Did you make the cut? :-)
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greenmark wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:45 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:13 pm
Membership goes with Truss hands down.

And I get to vote. :D
When did you join? You may be disappointed that new members don't have a vote.
But the buff I got said I get to vote in leadership contests. There was no small print saying otherwise. I will sue them if i not allowed my say and ask for my £25 back. 🤠
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Does anyone else like the labour price?
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Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:47 pm
greenmark wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:45 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:13 pm
Membership goes with Truss hands down.

And I get to vote. :D
When did you join? You may be disappointed that new members don't have a vote.
But the buff I got said I get to vote in leadership contests. There was no small print saying otherwise. I will sue them if i not allowed my say and ask for my £25 back. 🤠
It will of meant future contests, both Tory and Labour parties decide on a cut off point for new members voting in a leadership contest, they usually choose a date that was somewhere around 5-8 weeks before the current leader announced they are resigning/stepped down just to head off individuals/groups joining solely to influence who the next leader might be.
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greenmark wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:45 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:13 pm
Membership goes with Truss hands down.

And I get to vote. :D
When did you join? You may be disappointed that new members don't have a vote.
3rd June cutoff. Did you make the cut? :-)
He's gonna turn up to a husting and poison Sunak's coffee. :D
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Derek27
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I heard Johnson uttered his final words so I was naturally disappointed the journalist was referring to his last words from the dispatch box. I bet his last ever words will all be lies. :)
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