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• #8002
from 2:24:00 in the same link as above
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• #8003
Total car crash interview with Gillian Keegan on the Today programme this morning. Starts at 2:34:30 ish
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001z6p6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Ha - I heard the first couple of minutes of that on the school run, and thought 'She's going to get away with this bullshit', but that's an absolute bodybag. Barnett must've skipped the 'always be deferential to Tories' module of BBC Today show training.
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• #8004
When are we having an election?
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• #8005
Latest rumour is bonfire night...
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• #8006
They've been more successful at blowing up parliament than Guy was so far.
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• #8007
That’s so far away. They could fuck up so much stuff they haven’t already fucked up til then
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• #8008
You would think MPs would get issued a laptop with some kind of privacy screen, and Johnny Mercer is that cunt who takes his socks off on a train.
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• #8009
"Speculation is rife in Westminster this morning that Mr Sunak could seize on the improving economic picture and trigger the election.
Numerous No 10 insiders this morning refused to give any guidance on the idea of a snap election being called. There is also speculation Mr Sunak could launch a Cabinet reshuffle.
Chris Mason, the BBC’s political editor, said that he had offered senior figures in the Government the chance to deny the prospect of a snap election being triggered but they had so far failed to do so."
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• #8010
Is a snap election just an election?
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• #8011
yes
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• #8012
If they announced it this week and dissolved parliament next week the timetable for the latest Thursday polling day would be 04/07/24 so would be earliest possible election in "second half of the year"
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9921/
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• #8013
Shame, thought it was like a 24hr deal and we could see them gone by the weekend.
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• #8014
Latest 1+1=3 is that Rishi has his 1:1 with King Chuck on Wednesday and there's a full cabinet meeting this PM too.
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• #8015
Interesting. I heard someone on the Today programme this morning saying the feeling was he'd try and hold out until Jan 2025
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• #8016
I heard someone on the Today programme this morning saying the feeling was he'd try and hold out until Jan 2025
He's just said in PMQ it'll be this year.
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• #8017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69037424
No mention of gratitude to the NHS, then went private for better prosthetics:
Like his new legs, his hands were originally provided by the NHS, but he has since gone outside the NHS for new hands, likening the original prosthetic hands he was given to "something out of medieval times".
"They're just blunt objects - I did look at them and think 'well I'm not sure what these are good for beyond breaking windows and pub fights'."https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25437/craig_mackinlay/south_thanet/
"Almost always voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability"
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• #8018
Fair enough
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• #8019
"Election SPECULATION latest
- Cabinet meeting this afternoon
- Cameron coming back early from Albania
- King is in London
- No.10 not “ruling anything in or out” but essentially refusing to comment
- Shapps delaying his trip to Lithuania in order to attend Cabinet
- Cabinet meeting this afternoon
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• #8020
Yes, because the result is "I got the power"
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• #8021
They're probably meeting to discuss Jonny Mercer going barefoot on the train whilst letting the cat out of the bag regarding trying to stop students voting by using their I.D. cards
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• #8022
At least one Tory who will think twice before crossing the floor to Labour
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• #8023
We are at the stage now where if he doesn't call it has has bottled it, and the rapid slide will continue.
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• #8024
No.10 not “ruling anything in or out"
shake it all about still an option then.
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• #8025
Quite funny that they have even managed to stuff up something as simple as calling a general election.
got a link ?