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Do we get a new Prime Minister today? looks like it. :roll:
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JimX wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 9:25 am Do we get a new Prime Minister today? looks like it. :roll:
Who is the "we?"

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Will she resign as many times as she has tried to get her exit deal through parliament. Or will she go back on any resignation as many times as she went back on her 'red lines'. For the country's sake, woman, ..................GO.
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Hopefully, we can move forward... But who will take the lead next?
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Hope it is not Boris the buffoon !
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All change on 7th June. 8-)
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Surely whoever takes over has the same problem as Mrs May - too many MP's with their own views and self interest and who cannot collectively agree. Best of luck to whoever takes the job
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Yes,i think with the snow flakes,political correctness,human rights,being petrified of saying or doing anything that may offend someone whether we like it or not the UK will never again have another Churchill or Thatcher.They would be classed as extremists left or right.So there we have it..Anyway there,s allways Jeremy or Boris...…..OMG!
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Did you see the programme on BBC 1 around 12-1pm? This broke the news of Teresa May’s resignation speech which seemed very sincere and was emotional at the end. Given outside No 10 earlier, Yes, she has resigned from 7th June, allowing her to deal with Mr Trumps visit first. Then there will be a leadership contest within the Conservatives. Apparently 17 MPs are interested! But the front runners are expected to be Jeremy and Boris...
Personally I don’t envy whoever takes over who will inherit an almost impossible situation in a very divided country.
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I agree with Chaddy about not finding another Churchill or Thatcher for a leader. The UK seems to be devoid of any potential great statesmen with leadership potential and charisma at the present. It has changed so much as Chaddy said, maybe the ball has swung too far the other way. In embracing so many minority groups we seem to have lost both good leadership, integrity and. good judgement. And our National pride in being British.
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Kili01 wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:12 pm I agree with Chaddy about not finding another Churchill or Thatcher for a leader. The UK seems to be devoid of any potential great statesmen with leadership potential and charisma at the present. It has changed so much as Chaddy said, maybe the ball has swung too far the other way. In embracing so many minority groups we seem to have lost both good leadership, integrity and. good judgement. And our National pride in being British.
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Yep your on the money there, Thatcher was that good that her own party dumped her. :roll:

as for Churchill, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
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WHL wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:17 pm
Yep your on the money there, Thatcher was that good that her own party dumped her. :roll:
The Conservative party do seem to be finding it much more difficult to dump May.
Meanwhile she goes on in the same old way, delaying, and delaying.
Read this in Euronews today -
Vote on May's Brexit bill delayed until early June .
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We Brian are you being pedantic...She the UK Prime Minister, Terassa May is leaving the post on the 7th June, I sincerely hope Boris is not voted in he is a buffoon.


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WHL wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:17 pm
Kili01 wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:12 pm I agree with Chaddy about not finding another Churchill or Thatcher for a leader. The UK seems to be devoid of any potential great statesmen with leadership potential and charisma at the present. It has changed so much as Chaddy said, maybe the ball has swung too far the other way. In embracing so many minority groups we seem to have lost both good leadership, integrity and. good judgement. And our National pride in being British.
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Yep your on the money there, Thatcher was that good that her own party dumped her. :roll:

as for Churchill, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
Blimey WHL quoting the Bolshevick Broadcasting Corperation about Churchill what would you expect :roll:
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I think that bufoon is much too endearing for that paper hat
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Chaddy wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 4:29 pm
WHL wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:17 pm
Kili01 wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:12 pm I agree with Chaddy about not finding another Churchill or Thatcher for a leader. The UK seems to be devoid of any potential great statesmen with leadership potential and charisma at the present. It has changed so much as Chaddy said, maybe the ball has swung too far the other way. In embracing so many minority groups we seem to have lost both good leadership, integrity and. good judgement. And our National pride in being British.
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Yep your on the money there, Thatcher was that good that her own party dumped her. :roll:

as for Churchill, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767
Blimey WHL quoting the Bolshevick Broadcasting Corperation about Churchill what would you expect :roll:
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lionelcyprus wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:40 pm
WHL wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:17 pm
Yep your on the money there, Thatcher was that good that her own party dumped her. :roll:
The Conservative party do seem to be finding it much more difficult to dump May.
Meanwhile she goes on in the same old way, delaying, and delaying.
Read this in Euronews today -
Vote on May's Brexit bill delayed until early June .
The reason they find it more difficult to get rid of May is because Thatcher had more dignity than May, and left when it was clear she was losing support.
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Boris, a Buffoon - but is he, really? It's something I've always wondered, even more so after seeing his father in the "jungle" TV series.

I came across this article from July last year and it seems to indicate otherwise too!

As a calculating buffoon, Boris Johnson fits perfectly into the post-Brexit Tory party
To Boris, politics is not about service but about survival, and the British people a tool to manipulate to settle internal party scores.

Writing about Boris Johnson sometimes feels like adding to a very long thesaurus entry. Buffoon, creep, liar, adulterer, reckless adventurer, lazy opportunist. He has spawned his own genre of articles, in which various authors tear their hair out in eloquence born of frustration that a man with such a long proven record of mendacity, duplicity, dishonesty and careerism can survive and indeed, thrive. The chorus of the castigation of the Boris became a protest song, comforting in its catharsis but plaintive in its despair that despite the blatant injustice of the occupation under his dysfunctional regime, we could not shake off his yoke.

And now he is gone, and the celebrations are muted, because he never got his comeuppance. He was not overthrown or punished: he merely saw another opening in his ophidian career and took it. We’ve seen this horror movie before, where the villain is vanquished only to rise again, bloodied and mortally wounded and yet still impossibly alive, racing towards you while gurgling in Latin.

He is not gone, merely resting, calculating. He is a man who survives by harnessing the fumes of others, the momentum of events, never knowingly taking a leap into the abyss. David Davis resigned, and Boris only saw cover for his own rat run out of the trap that he himself had laid by allying himself with a hard Brexit. Without even a consultation with Davis, who sighed with “regret” when informed of Boris’s resignation live on LBC radio, Johnson saw a political crisis looming against the backdrop of a poisoning death and Donald Trump’s arrival in the UK on Friday, and decided that this was the time to go.

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Interesting that Theresa May was in tears at her own loss, but never cried for Grenfell victims, the 4m kids under the poverty level, the handicapped who are worse off with cuts, the immigrants from the Caribbean she caused untold anguish to ...

Tears of self-sympathy
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Jimgward wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 5:32 pm Interesting that Theresa May was in tears at her own loss, but never cried for Grendel victims, the 4m kids under the poverty level, the handicapped who are worse off with cuts, the immigrants from the Caribbean she caused untold anguish to ...

Tears of self-sympathy
I think your being a bit unfair to her, as Primeminister she has to take a dignified stance, when crises occur, no matter how she feels inside,
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