UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

Boris Johnson is going to be a Dad again, can someone please take him to the vet. :grin:

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No 8 on the way

Who is the mum?

It’s so tempting………

Priti

My bet is Nadine

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Someone should let him know that a vasectomy really isn’t anything to be scared of.

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The terms ethics and morality are not in their vocabulary

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She’ll apologise, say ā€œlessons have been learnedā€ and that’ll be the end of it. :+1::nerd_face:

I don’t think that will be the end of it. I make that her second breach of the ministerial code. Third if you believe the story that she originally tried to put the ticket on expenses.

Sunak has staked his leadership on bringing ethics and decency back into Government. If he doesn’t sack her, Labour will absolutely pulverise him.

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A minister on her third breach of the ministerial code simply cannot use the ā€˜lessons have been learned’ defence.

Mock all you like, but refusing to sack her at this point will make Sunak look like a weakling, incapable of delivering his core offer to the public, and hands Labour a bucketload of ammunition to attack him with.

I don’t think he’ll sack her, but that’s because he is a pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister with less backbone than a jellyfish.

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I think he’s going to have to come up with a pretty good excuse not to sack her.

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Exactly.

If he was honest his reason would be ā€˜I’m a piss weak prime minister and I can’t stand up to the lunatics in the ERG who really run the country’

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I suspect that he is sticking to the old LBJ quote, ā€œBetter to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.ā€

I’m not sure this actually works. John Major accommodated his S.H.1.T.s and they ripped his administration apart from the inside out. If he had simply sidelined them he had plenty of capable people that could have done a job in government - which is probably what Sunak lacks.

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Brexit true faith purity bullshit really thinned put the talent pool in the Tory ranks. There is very little he can form a government from.

But I think he knows he is in post at the whim of the ERG. They hold the power.

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I’m mocking the concept that Labour (Starmer) would do anything beyond a few shit questions at PMQ’s. Like being savaged by a toothless sausage dog. I’d have the whole chamber laughing at Rishi and his darling.

IF she did it, sack her now. It really isn’t difficult.

Well, there’s a very obvious one. Actually two.