UK General Election 2024 (or 25)

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And to continue my Toryist slant look at this quote.

"The Conservative Party is doomed from this day forward. How can a person that arranged a coup against a serving PM hope to unify a party. After having voted conservative for 60+ years I will not be voting again in my lifetime.
Ian Redfern"

[decomez6]

She's 30 on the exchange if you want a bit of her.

big bang ! Bang !

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Penny is looking good.PNG

She's reached 90. What would the betting be if she gets 100 and the vote goes to the members?

i am out !

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[Derek27]

We don’t want it going to a ballot. They will pick Penny. Somebody shoot her quick.

She's 30 on the exchange if you want a bit of her.

big bang ! Bang !

penny 's ready.gif

Penny is looking good.PNG

I hope you finished with her before it was too late?

[greenmark]

"Penny Mordaunt drops out of Tory leadership race and backs Sunak".

How about doing that a week ago? Idiot.

[jimibt]

"Penny Mordaunt drops out of Tory leadership race and backs Sunak".

How about doing that a week ago? Idiot.

the issue now is that she'll have bargained for a cabinet job. hopefully not culture secretary

[decomez6]

She's 30 on the exchange if you want a bit of her.

big bang ! Bang !

penny 's ready.gif

Penny is looking good.PNG

I hope you finished with her before it was too late?

yeah well before ! at around 12.30 ... i am testing other stuff.
thanks for the tip .

[Derek27]

Poor Archery won't get his vote.

[greenmark]

"Penny Mordaunt drops out of Tory leadership race and backs Sunak".

How about doing that a week ago? Idiot.

the issue now is that she'll have bargained for a cabinet job. hopefully not culture secretary

Is that an objection to the merits of a pie and a pint?

[decomez6]

And to continue my Toryist slant look at this quote.

"The Conservative Party is doomed from this day forward. How can a person that arranged a coup against a serving PM hope to unify a party. After having voted conservative for 60+ years I will not be voting again in my lifetime.
Ian Redfern"

Rishi is Kier's key to No.10 downing street.

for the current tory party to succeed , they will have to adopt labour policies . in essence the only way is labour or economic oblivion .

Rishi worked with kier to lock down the country , give out some handouts inform of farlough
and now he is inhereting a mini chaos caused by a tory oriented mini budget .

so expect more taxation for the rich , higher co-operation tax (windfall tax ) , Euro friendly policies with london as the focal point of growth .. all Labour !

In short , The conservative party is preparing a soft landing into the opposition lead by a Rishi's care taker government .

[greenmark]

And to continue my Toryist slant look at this quote.

"The Conservative Party is doomed from this day forward. How can a person that arranged a coup against a serving PM hope to unify a party. After having voted conservative for 60+ years I will not be voting again in my lifetime.
Ian Redfern"

Rishi is Kier's key to No.10 downing street.

for the current tory party to succeed , they will have to adopt labour policies . in essence the only way is labour or economic oblivion .

Rishi worked with kier to lock down the country , give out some handouts inform of farlough
and now he is inhereting a mini chaos caused by a tory oriented mini budget .

so expect more taxation for the rich , higher co-operation tax (windfall tax ) , Euro friendly policies with london as the focal point of growth .. all Labour !

In short , The conservative party is preparing a soft landing into the opposition lead by a Rishi's care taker government .

I disagree. I expect Rishi and Hunt (I assume Hunt will stay) to go for cuts and no tax cuts until we emerge from this mire.
Labour would continue to spend.
Which of those strategies is correct we'll never know. Only one can be tested at any point.
For sure Rishi has a flipping monumental task. Post-covid, Ukraine, Make brexit work, levelling up, eye-watering public deficit and a political party tearing itself apart. But he does at least have the option of buggering off to California if it all goes base over apex.

[jimibt]

And to continue my Toryist slant look at this quote.

"The Conservative Party is doomed from this day forward. How can a person that arranged a coup against a serving PM hope to unify a party. After having voted conservative for 60+ years I will not be voting again in my lifetime.
Ian Redfern"

Rishi is Kier's key to No.10 downing street.

for the current tory party to succeed , they will have to adopt labour policies . in essence the only way is labour or economic oblivion .

Rishi worked with kier to lock down the country , give out some handouts inform of farlough
and now he is inhereting a mini chaos caused by a tory oriented mini budget .

so expect more taxation for the rich , higher co-operation tax (windfall tax ) , Euro friendly policies with london as the focal point of growth .. all Labour !

In short , The conservative party is preparing a soft landing into the opposition lead by a Rishi's care taker government .

I disagree. I expect Rishi and Hunt (I assume Hunt will stay) to go for cuts and no tax cuts until we emerge from this mire.
Labour would continue to spend.
Which of those strategies is correct we'll never know. Only one can be tested at any point.
For sure Rishi has a flipping monumental task. Post-covid, Ukraine, Make brexit work, levelling up, eye-watering public deficit and a political party tearing itself apart. But he does at least have the option of buggering off to California if it all goes base over apex.

he (rishi) must have loved and loathed in equal measure the outcome of his *defeat* by the party faithful (old white men) ushering in the truss-i-nator. experiment over; let's see what unfolds now. just a shame that potentially no more daily faux pas' to cringe over!!

[Derek27]

just a shame that potentially no more daily faux pas' to cringe over!!

That's what worries me. He'll immediately put political satirists on the dole.

[Archangel]

Be interesting to see does he try to appoint a competant cabinet or will be follow the Boris/Truss approach of appointing sycophants

[greenmark]

just a shame that potentially no more daily faux pas' to cringe over!!

That's what worries me. He'll immediately put political satirists on the dole.

Let's hope the lack of satirical raw material helps all those up a creek without a paddle.

[greenmark]

Be interesting to see does he try to appoint a competant cabinet or will be follow the Boris/Truss approach of appointing sycophants

I'll bite on that. I think he will surround himself with competence.