#687

:eyes:

#688

1 all after the gibraltar seizure.

Don’t think there’s any chance of war with Iran. Their proxies are too strong and strategically positioned

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#689

His hand in marriage

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#690

fair play to the lads.

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#691

They’ve seized another one :grinning::grinning:

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#692

Nothing should be seized with that much oil to hand.

(Is that the joke? If not, does this work? I’ll take it to the workshop.)

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Jokes workshop
#693

Would genuinely love to be hijacked by Iranians.

GBOL

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#694

Jesus christ

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#695

Fucking yikes

Every day I’m more and more glad to not be a proper journalist :grimacing:

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#697

Being less shite than Boris Johnson isn’t much of a legacy, mind.

(Had a little chuckle at the survey in the Guardian this morning where over 95% of those questioned considered him “repellently dishonest”).

#698

As home secretary and then prime minister, she was convinced the British public wanted fewer people coming here and instigated a “hostile environment”.

But this had many cruel consequences, as experienced by the Windrush generation.

Despite this, net immigration did not drop significantly over her period in power.

The fuck even is this passage. How is this something to respect her for, even if you’re a rabid nativist? This as well

Her first day as prime minister may well have been her best day.

Her “Burning Injustices” speech on the doorstep of Number 10 was widely applauded.

She pledged to “make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us” - including black people caught in the criminal justice system, white working class boys, the state school educated, women, and young would-be home owners.

Those campaigning for these groups report “nothing has changed” significantly for them, as Mrs May might put it.

It’s like the writer gave up defending her halfway through because he couldn’t be arsed with it anymore.

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#699

‘This is an attempt to get the bar for acceptible competence levels as low as possible before Johnson starts his epic clusterfuck isn’t it?’

That is the intention of this article, yes. However it is my belief that, despite predictions that Johnson’s premiership will be a disaster, it is likely that, upon being declared Tory leader, Johnson will call a snap General Election, which he will win on the basis of going to the electorate on the ticket of ‘give me a majority to deliver Brexit’, coupled with a complete lack of opposition. Johnson will then have the numbers to push through an amended May deal through Parliament - talk of ‘no deal’ is no more than political grandstanding. Far from a clusterfuck, that would, I believe, be considered a success by many.

#700

Er what?

#701

That sounds like an effective strategy that absolutely has not been tried before.

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#702

But this time he’ll he facing a divided Labour Party doing badly in the po-

#703

Reads like sarcasm!

#704

tbqh i think people underestimate johnson’s appeal to broad swathes of the country and i could see him bullshitting his way thru a GE and winning a majority not because of brexit but because people like how he is an avatar for them to vent all their resentment and hatred etc

#705

But he has funny hair and says funny things.

Theresa May just looked weird and said weird things.

#706

why would Johnson call an election to try and get May’s deal through?

he’ll call an election so that a) he can get no deal through and b) so that he has as long as possible to clean up the the mess that it will cause

#707

True, although we’re a long way past peak-Corbyn being a threat to a Tory majority, and the electorate will believe Johnson when he says he wants to deliver Brexit as he was a staunch Leaver and projects a hardline with the EU, as opposed to May.

Hate to say it but he will call a GE and he will win it.