148 Responses to The EX PM Thread 20 October 2022

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  1. Beltane says:
    October 21, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    Our BBC are more than happy to promote Skier and his frequent demands for a General Election.

    But surely the Leader of the Opposition, and indeed our Centenarian News Source, should know that proposing and winning a vote of no confidence in the government is one of the only two constitutionally acceptable means of achieving this goal?

    Strange that he seems keen to keep this fact to himself.

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    • Up2snuff says:
      October 21, 2022 at 2:31 pm

      Either that Beltane, or street riots, constant demos and noise from everyone, including the BBC and the rest of the media, so that in time the new Conservative Party leader and PM is owrn down, gives in and offers the House a vote to overturn, yet again, the Fixed Term Parliament Act. I was thinking about whether such a vote might get through the YES lobby.

      I thought that the LibDems, facing possible extinction might say ‘No’ but I see that Ed Davey has called for a GE this morning. The next cadidates for a possible ‘N’o might be ‘er oop nawth and himm .. outt .. Wessstt. The Wee Krankie has already lost her majority in Holyrood and might see a GE with her call for a new Independence Referendum on the table as muddying the waters and possibly losing a few SNP MPs at Westminster as well. Plaid are in trouble over their running of the NHS in Wales and may also be concerned about the possible loss of control.

      Labour will be up for it, of course, despite losing another MP today or will they change their minds? If the Conservatives win a GE with a 15 to 30 seat majority, that will condemn the Labour Party to five years without another chance of power. Will the possibility of Labour in-fighting and leadership-fidgeting (yes Ange, I mean you) for five more years be enough to make Labour make it a free (unwhipped) vote for their Party?

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  2. Terminal Moraine says:
    October 21, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    Second most important ‘Guardian View’ piece (after Truss) is on the independent CSE report released yesterday.

    It’s taken 7 years and the churches don’t get off lightly. Guardian says “Greater public awareness is needed of a problem that the report says is still prone to be dismissed as a “moral panic”. Above all, authority figures across society must be persuaded, whether by new laws, training or other methods, not to turn a blind eye.”

    Just a reminder that the day after the Telford report into decades-long CSE (different religion) in July I counted 55 stories on their Opinion page… and not one about Telford. The BBC put this up on the home page as a “Must See”. Hypocrisy and deceit is off the scale.

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    • Zephir says:
      October 21, 2022 at 3:16 pm

      If that is a rooftop then she is probably a lezza, superglued to one way skateboard, just saying.

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  3. Sluff says:
    October 21, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    Littlejohn in the Mail points out that Shapps has given succour to the ER mob by sending hundreds of millions to left wing councils so they can virtue-signal by closing roads and opening up cycle lanes that nobody uses.

    I’d not thought about him like that before but it certainly hits the nail on the head.

    Perhaps he’ll be giving free bikes to all the vulnerable refugees escaping from France.

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  4. Guest Who says:
    October 21, 2022 at 5:28 pm

    Still searching for audio of who on Today asked who of Labour if it was time to kick off, as I take a dim view of that.

    This is up:

    I also notice how many in the country actually pay much attention to the sorry cabal of string juveniles.

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  5. StewGreen says:
    October 21, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    ITV local NewsPR prog
    Opening item on Tories election was 12 mins long
    #1 “Here we are in Grimsby the town voted Tory for the first time, now we found a lot of people who hate the Tories
    Store owner ‘Oh evil Tories mean we are living in Dickensian times’
    Rubbish ..and of course the country has to be quite a bit poorer due to Covid costs and the sudden world blip in energy prices.

    Then they had a reporter speculating Boris
    Then a recorded item ‘Here we are with Tory activists who would welcome the return of Boris’

    As ever I dislike speculation stories, cos they are NOT news.

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  6. StewGreen says:
    October 21, 2022 at 6:28 pm

    New on BBC website “*Far-right* Meloni accepts job as Italian PM”

    People the BBC don’t like are given such monstering labels.

    They use this line
    “Only six of her government’s 24 ministers are women”

    FFS the leader is a woman, and then the BBC puts a line like that.

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  7. StewGreen says:
    October 21, 2022 at 6:36 pm

    BBC local news PR
    opening “people like Boris”
    Then into a crafted hone election montage item with plinky plonk brainwashing background music “Here we go again” says the words.
    Surely that is an advert not news.

    Are the media talking about Boris, cos that gives them an opportunity to repeat negatives about Boris

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  8. taffman says:
    October 21, 2022 at 6:56 pm

    In the June of 2016, the people of this nation voted to leave the European Union. Despite this democratic decision six years ago, the BBC continues to keep the topic on the boil. I see that the page ‘Brexit’ still hangs upon the top of the “Politics Page” of their news website.
    Are they still trying to “Nudge” us back in to the EU? During the Brexit vote there were claims that the broadcaster was biased against the UK leaving. Were these claims justified?
    Bias …………….. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/uk_leaves_the_eu

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  9. Up2snuff says:
    October 21, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – well obviously not ….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63033110
    This young woman in the header photo is said by the BBC to be affected by ‘the-falling-pound-crisis’ as well as ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’ but amazingly not only does she appear to have the latest smartphone but she is wheeling a large, please note, supermarket trolley stuffed to the gunnels with shopping around a store somewhere.

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    • StewGreen says:
      October 21, 2022 at 7:28 pm

      No the photo is nothing to do with a story
      It’s just the lazy BBC using Getty images
      There is zero indication that she has the latest smartphone, she has a hidden device in her hand, it could be any phone.
      The pic is probably from a few years ago in Berlin.

      However the article has this line
      “California-based Apple recently raised the launch price of its new iPhone 14 Pro range by up to £150 in Britain in comparison with the iPhone 13 Pro, thought by experts to be partly due to the weak pound.”
      FFS who cares Apple devices are super luxury products, they are not for normal people.

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    October 21, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    Trying to think things through – whoever is the new PM will not want a General Election – so Labour / SNP / green crap will use every means they can think of to drive the blue tories to their demise in a General Election and get a full on one party socialist state –
    Deposing a ‘moderate ‘ like Starmer will be easy – and a proper Far left type will be ready to roll

    We can expect all sort of shinanigans if the blue labour lot fight until 2024 … and it the next PM is nut nut – even more so – with such shinanigans fully endorsed / encouraged by the effing BBC …

    I might put up the weekend thread a bit early because the kettle is boiling …

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    October 21, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    For my shame – I forgot – Happy Trafalgar Day …

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