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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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Hearing some very disturbing rumours that Sunak’s D-Day debacle was planned to allow him to fall on his sword…..paving the way for David Cameron’s return to number 10. Apparently he’s the only Tory believed to be capable of preventing the total annihilation of the Tories we’ve been hoping for.
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Dave isnt an MP, or running to be one. Might make PMQs a bit tricky if he's not there?
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09-06-2024, 20:14
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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Dave isnt an MP, or running to be one. Might make PMQs a bit tricky if he's not there?
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A Lord can be PM. Not happened for about 130 years but constitutionally possible as well as an administrative nightmare but again given the Tories’ impending bloodbath they’d give anything a try.
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09-06-2024, 20:25
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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A Lord can be PM. Not happened for about 130 years but constitutionally possible as well as an administrative nightmare but again given the Tories’ impending bloodbath they’d give anything a try.
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I don't think this shower are particularly bothered about constitutional precedent or pesky legal technicalities anyhow, if needs must etc just do it.
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09-06-2024, 21:28
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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I don't think this shower are particularly bothered about constitutional precedent or pesky legal technicalities anyhow, if needs must etc just do it.
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Call-me-Dave’s elevation to the Lords and appointment as Foreign Secretary made him the first peer to hold one of the 4 great offices of state since Lord Carrington resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1982 for failing to take seriously the signs that Argentina was planning to invade the Falklands.
The convention that senior ministers should be members of the commons so they could be regularly questioned by elected MPs itself goes much further back. The last Lord Prime Minister retired from office in 1902. Alex Douglas-Home was a peer when asked to become PM in 1962 but by then it was understood that it just wouldn’t do for him to remain in the Lords and he immediately renounced his peerage.
Personally I think more than 40 years of there being no Lords in any of the senior cabinet posts should have been enough to end the idea for good and it therefore smacked of desperation to parachute Cameron in. An admission there was nobody good enough in the entire elected Tory party. Some of the recent commentary around Sunak and the D-Day debacle leads me to think on some level he wanted a former PM to be Foreign Sec because that way he could turf a lot of the foreign policy that was rightfully the PM’s onto him. It has become clear that Sunak finds international relations boring. Poor wee scrap.
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10-06-2024, 07:13
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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Originally Posted by Russ
Hearing some very disturbing rumours that Sunak’s D-Day debacle was planned to allow him to fall on his sword…..paving the way for David Cameron’s return to number 10. Apparently he’s the only Tory believed to be capable of preventing the total annihilation of the Tories we’ve been hoping for.
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Apparently the source is Nadine Dorries's Tweets so not reliable. Sounds like she's dreaming up a plot line for her next novel more than anything that's actually happening. I guess at least the protagonists get to keep their clothes on in this tale for a change!
https://news.sky.com/story/sunak-all...uture-13150285
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10-06-2024, 10:05
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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I think Rishi will last until the election, but maybe we should open a poll to guess what time he resigns as leader of the Conservatives on Friday 5th? I think he'll be gone by 6.30am.
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If KS loses the General Election will he resign?
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10-06-2024, 10:06
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
Sunak will jet off to California with his billions. He knows he’s lost this.
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10-06-2024, 10:17
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
In Scotland it’s the old red card for Douglas Ross (the branch office leader for the Conservatives for those currently asking “who?”. Expenses scandal claiming from the taxpayer for journeys undertaken relating to his work as a linesman.
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10-06-2024, 10:20
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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If KS loses the General Election will he resign?
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Most political leaders if they lose the election whatever their political party generally resign.
The betting odds suggest Rishi Sunak does not have much time to book his removal van.
https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics
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10-06-2024, 11:18
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
So what’s on the agenda this week? Is Rishi Sunak going to punch David Attenborough in the face? Will the Conservatives launch a policy of indentured servitude for second born children? Or maybe we could declare war on someone?
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10-06-2024, 11:28
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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So what’s on the agenda this week? Is Rishi Sunak going to punch David Attenborough in the face? Will the Conservatives launch a policy of indentured servitude for second born children? Or maybe we could declare war on someone?
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As JF Man suggested, Douglas Ross will resign as leader of Scottish Conservatives after the election.
https://news.sky.com/story/douglas-r...tives-13150604
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10-06-2024, 11:30
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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Sunak will jet off to California with his billions. He knows he’s lost this.
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So true. He has mentally checked out and is already choosing his meal selection for the first class flight to LA.
I wouldn't be surprised if some hack discovers his children's LA school reservations 
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10-06-2024, 13:31
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
Key thing this week are the manifestos:
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10-06-2024, 14:53
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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If KS loses the General Election will he resign?
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You mean if Labour lose ?
I dont think thats going to be an issue.
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10-06-2024, 15:54
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Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 3
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Key thing this week are the manifestos:
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Count Binface released his too, similar to what I voted for in the mayoral election, reintroduction of ceefax, naming bridges after famous people, Phoebe Waller, Wayne etc, caping the price of croissants (European surrender food) at a quid, banishing Peirs Corbyn (and hopefully Morgan) to the Phantom Zone, putting either David Attenborough or a statue off him on the fourth plinth and finishing crossrail
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Sunak will jet off to California with his billions. He knows he’s lost this.
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Such a patriot, milked the country dry before and after marriage and buggers off, good riddance
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