Uk affairs, The Double Lizzie Crisis (Part 1)

You should monetise that so you no longer have to live on the State’s coin.

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The work I do is hell of a lot more valuable than what you do.

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I’m glad you think that way, we should all try and be happy in our working lives. :blush:

Cameron was utterly banal but a capable speaker. Against a fiery anti-establishment figure like Sanders or one with a Trumpian take on civility, he would be eviscerated, but Corbyn isn’t that sort of a character.

There were some very astute calls early in the campaign by British pundits that May ran a real risk of being exposed for the very mediocre political figure that she is. That has certainly come to pass. Regardless of what happens today the party will not let her lead them into any serious test in the years to come.

I just exercised my democratic right as a UK resident

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Did you vote for Siobhain McDonagh pal?

I did not

Is she a traveller?

You’d have to ask @Tassotti, she’s his local MP.

He’s hammering the point home.

Could be right after the polls close at 10. Think they delayed them a bit two years ago.

Always is.

Fuck off PepeRamirez you little bollox

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But if May goes, what’s coming after her is likely even worse.

Able, competent politicians are very thin on the ground in the current Tory party and the campaign has really exposed that.

Boris Johnson is obviously a joke.
Philip Hammond hasn’t featured on the campaign since being 20 billion out on the cost of high speed rail and word is he’s gone regardless of the result.
Michael Fallon has had a disastrous campaign.
Damian Green likewise.
Jeremy Hunt is absolutely hated.
Andrea Leadsom is a joke.
Michael Gove has too much baggage, has had a very poor campaign and would be destroyed as leader.
Liam Fox has barely featured on the campaign and will be tainted by Brexit.

Remainers like Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan are out in the cold.

Amber Rudd and David Davis are the only two leading Tories who haven’t had a complete meltdown on the campaign, and in Davis’s case that’s only because he comes across as somebody who might be alright to have a pint with rather than because he’s on top of his brief - he isn’t.

Rudd is the likely next Tory leader and while she might have a more formidable intellect than May, she comes across as a very forbidding, charisma-free figure who isn’t likely to be popular with the public.

Labour on the other hand actually do have a lot of formidable politicians, some already involved, like Barry Gardiner, Emily Thornberry, Keir Starmer. Angela Rayner and Rebecca Long-Bailey are young and talented. Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan will be out of the parliamentary party for the foreseeable future but will likely be major players when they return. Ed Miliband will probably return to a front bench position in the next parliament with or without Corbyn as leader. Yvette Cooper could too. Clive Lewis’s profile should hugely increase if he holds his seat.

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Where will @Tassotti go now when he leaves his bedsit? :slight_smile:

good one mate

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Can’t wait till this clown gets back from the building site. :joy:

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deary me