Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Of course he resigned under pressure.
But makes a laughing stock of Boris
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Nobody is interested! The caravan moves on!
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Let’s see if they can resist the temptation of slinging him in the Lords....
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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The lord's
Do we really need it?
Isn't there a better way than the way this body is set up?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:Let’s see if they can resist the temptation of slinging him in the Lords....
I think it might be possible that Boris elicited his resignation on the basis of a peerage in the not too distant future. No, of course not. He wouldn't do that, would he?
He's got far too much respect for the democratic process. Ask Zac Goldsmith or Claire Fox or even Ian Botham for that matter.
Guest 4310- Registered: 21 May 2021
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Typical Tory (at least with this lot) response. Plenty of people care that we are governed by charlatans and spivs. You may have moved on but people with moral standards, who actually give a damn about how we are governed, haven't "moved on". If Tory wishes were horses....
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I wonder Iñ reality if this will make any difference to future voting?
I suspect not
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
We all do stupid things at times but some do it more than others. Boris seems to fall into this category of politicians or is it just the way the media portray him.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Today's Metro reports [the Right Honourable] George Eustice as explaining Boris "doesn't believe in throwing people under a bus for what you might judge to be, sort of, minor errors of judgement".
Given that the article also cites Paterson as receiving £500,000 from businesses, I guess it's a question of scale - how much would have to be in the cookie jar before the offender went under a bus, rather than telling your gang of MPs to redraw the bus route?
For that matter, how nauseating does a stench of MP behaviour have to be before it does affect how the public votes to be represented?
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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Interesting that the Civil Service (who do the actual work of Government) have to abide by the Civil Service Code, main points copied below:
‘integrity’ is putting the obligations of public service above your own personal interests
‘honesty’ is being truthful and open
‘objectivity’ is basing your advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence
‘impartiality’ is acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving equally well governments of different political persuasions
What a shame our politicians can't follow a code......
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I don't think it will change much on the voting
There is no effective opposition so let's just look at Dover , with all the publicity surrounding the outgoing Mr Elphicke , and parachuted in Mrs Elphicke, it should have been a real close contest ,
But how was the result affected?
Mrs Elphicke doubled her ex husband's majority
.you couldnt make it up .
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Starmer was brilliant yesterday, the best I've seen so far. And what's more, for all their apologies (not the PM, you'll note), they still haven't managed to close the issue down as we now have a rogue amendment that was passed and now needs to be unpassed somehow. Chris Bryant offered a way out....but government didn't seem to have anyone empowered to make a decision in the Chamber yesterday. So it'll run and run and he'll have to go to more hospitals not wearing a mask. Corruption - always cuts through in the end.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Neil
You are not looking out .
Most people around here don't trust your leader any more than the present govt.
We saw at last general election the likes of Bryant not wanting a labour govt
So not really I would stand behind .
This is becoming an incompetent govt yet nothing much changing .
People's opinions not changed
Your leader not cutting it
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
we will wait and see kieth, but not holding my breath thoigh
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Some would say hood your breath Brian lol
But I couldnt be like that lol
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