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New Thu 15 Jun 23 11:03   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - VxFan

Discussion continues 661912 Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 15 Jun 23 at 11:03 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 17:18   Dorries has Jumped. - Bromptonaut

Nadine D has stood down immediately as MP for her seat in Bedfordshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65860564 Fit of pique over not getting into the Lords?? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 17:38   Dorries has Jumped. - Duncan

>> Nadine D has stood down immediately as MP for her seat in Bedfordshire. >> Fit of pique over not getting into the Lords?? Could well be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65861936 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 17:59   Dorries has Jumped. - smokie

Most likely, but it crossed my mind that Boris's WhatsApps might embarrass her. Unlikely though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 18:04   Dorries has Jumped. - Zero

>> Fit of pique over not getting into the Lords?? Dear Lord, having seen BoJo the clowns honours list, I am utterly utterly disgusted,, Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 18:08   Dorries has Jumped. - tyrednemotional

....not on it then, Z....? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 18:35   Dorries has Jumped. - Zero

>> ....not on it then, Z....? Pity, I can see me at the urinals in the Lords wen JRM walks in Turns to face him, "Oh Hello Jay-cob". Whoopps Sorry about your shoes..... Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 18:28   Dorries has Jumped. - Bromptonaut

>> Dear Lord, having seen BoJo the clowns honours list, I am utterly utterly disgusted,, Another example of the Johnson premiership giving an impetus to change that we were too complacent to see the need for? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 18:31   Dorries has Jumped. - smokie

Surprised that Ben Houchen becomes a peer. From what I've read he should be the subject of a police investigation not appearing on an honours list!! Last edited by: smokie on Fri 9 Jun 23 at 18:32 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 9 Jun 23 20:21   Dorries has Jumped. - tyrednemotional

...and now the big one .. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 9 Jun 23 20:28   Dorries has Jumped. - Zero

There is a post on here some time ago where I explicitly stated Bojo would screw up the country, leave parliament and then sodd off to the states do earn big bucks on the pubic speaking tour. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 9 Jun 23 20:34   Dorries has Jumped. - tyrednemotional

>> ..... on the pubic speaking tour. >> ...he usually speaks from somewhere further back... Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 10 Jun 23 17:39   Dorries has Jumped. - smokie

And another... "Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty, has stood down but did not say why. " www.bbc.co.uk/news/65866187 I was going to say I hadn't heard of him but there are so many I haven't heard of since Boris's clear-out.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 14 Jun 23 16:41   Dorries has Jumped. - Zero

>> Nadine D has stood down immediately as MP for her seat in Bedfordshire. >> >> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65860564 >> >> Fit of pique over not getting into the Lords?? Well apparently she hasn't yet resigned, and hasn't said when she will. Its a real case of throwing her toys out the pram, but leaving them attached on a long string. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 14 Jun 23 17:32   Dorries has Jumped. - Robin O'Reliant

Boris may be a wrong un, but look at the bright side. The Yanks have Trump. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 14 Jun 23 21:39   Dorries has Jumped. - Bobby

twitter.com/nadinedorries/status/1669060242552811520?s=46&t=3x9zm3grA2b_uGbxWYtpIA Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 14 Jun 23 22:00   Dorries has Jumped. - Lygonos

>>twitter.com/nadinedorries/status/1669060242552811520?s=46&t=3x9zm3grA2b_uGbxWYtpIA An utterly self-serving piece of crap? Who'da thunk it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 11:21   Dorries has Jumped. - sooty123

news.sky.com/story/nadine-dorries-told-to-stand-down-by-robert-jenrick-as-shes-accused-of-taking-voters-for-a-ride-12936511 She's still loitering around. Her local council have said she should go, now her own party are telling her to go. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 15 Jun 23 09:43   Boom! Headshot! - Lygonos

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65876914 90 days. Good - hopefully enough to demolish him coming back and the start of de-normalising being an overt lying scumbag as a trait of leadership. Obviously covertly it will continue as it always has! Last edited by: Lygonos on Thu 15 Jun 23 at 09:44 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 15 Jun 23 10:40   Boom! Headshot! - Zero

All it needed was an admission of a breech of the rules, say it was a lapse, and apology to the house, and he would still have been where he was. The blatant lies, bluster, contempt shown to others and a belief he should be allowed to get away with anything has ballooned into this. What a dick Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 15 Jun 23 21:50   Boom! Headshot! - Boxsterboy

As if the tories weren’t already going to get totally stiffed at the next election, these developments will make things so much worse for them! The conservative party as was has been totally transformed, reflected in rags like the torygraph Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 16 Jun 23 11:44   Boom! Headshot! - Duncan

>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65876914 I really don't get the "apology" culture. Mind you, I don't get the "vigil" culture either. Then, I don't get so much of what goes on nowadays. Before the war, Rodney. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 16 Jun 23 14:28   Boom! Headshot! - smokie

I see BoJo has nabbed a job as a columnist for the DM. Not cleared by ACOBA but apparently they are less interested in journo jobs. Wasn't he on £800k+ at the DT before he became PM? I wonder what the DM has paid him. EDIT: Oops I think it was Gideon on £800k as editor at the Standard, Boris was only on £275k at the DT. Last edited by: smokie on Fri 16 Jun 23 at 14:30 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 17 Jun 23 22:52   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - R.P.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/17/david-warburton-conservative-mp-suspended-over-drugs-allegations-to-resign-seat And another. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jul 23 14:26   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - sooty123

news.sky.com/story/defence-secretary-ben-wallace-to-stand-down-at-next-election-12921562 Ben Wallace to leave the cabinet at the next reshuffle and then not contest any seat at the next GE. I think he was the longest serving Conservative Defence Secretary. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 16 Jul 23 14:43   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - smokie

His seat was disappearing too so I guess just felt he'd had enough. He had hopes of general sec of NATO or similar IIRC, which have been dashed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 11:56   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Zero

Nadine Dorris - She really is a nasty unprincipled self centred piece of work. Throws her toys out the pram because she had her honours taken away, refuses to full-fill her role both in parliament and locally. She needs to be tarred & feathered and dumped in the local pond like the witch she is. Last edited by: Zero on Wed 9 Aug 23 at 11:57 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 16:06   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Terry

You are just far too tolerant! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 16:32   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - legacylad

Zeddo has become a snowflake., Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 9 Aug 23 17:14   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Zero

Send her down to Manatees way, they know how to deal with witches down there. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 9 Aug 23 17:21   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Manatee

>> Send her down to Manatees way, they know how to deal with witches down there. Fancy you knowing that Zeddo! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 19:19   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Zero

>> >> Send her down to Manatees way, they know how to deal with witches down >> there. >> >> Fancy you knowing that Zeddo! The dog training group there is known as the coven Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 17:19   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Manatee

>> She needs to be tarred & feathered and dumped in the local pond like the witch she is. The last doing-in by dunking of an alleged witch in England took place a short stroll from here in 1751. The ringleader was executed and hung in chains nearby. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Osborne_(alleged_witch) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 18:58   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - zippy

>>The ringleader was executed and hung in chains nearby. Good. Witch-hunting - a excuse for murder. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 9 Aug 23 19:23   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Zero

>> Good. >> >> Witch-hunting - a excuse for murder. Get a grip zipster, it was 280 odd years ago, not that it would have mattered to you, in the intervening years you'd have been in a penal colony in Tasmania, Port Arthur probably. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 19:08   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - sooty123

Dorries has finally gone. www.itv.com/news/2023-08-26/nadine-dorries-resigns-as-tory-mp-with-scathing-attack-on-rishi-sunak No date for a by election so soon, however not sure if the area has voted for anyone other than Con regularly? I think she has a pretty big majority, mind so did other areas. This must be a pretty high number of by elections for any gov to have contested in such a short space of time. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 20:21   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Bromptonaut

In normal times her 20k+ majority would be unassailable. But we're not in normal times. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 21:03   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - sooty123

I quick nosey on wiki says the last non Con MP to win there was in 1929. I think it's safe to call it a safe seat, however like you say it's not normal times. I think 2 of the other by elections overturned 20k majority though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 21:14   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Bromptonaut

>> I quick nosey on wiki says the last non Con MP to win there was >> in 1929. I think it's safe to call it a safe seat, however like you >> say it's not normal times. I think 2 of the other by elections overturned 20k >> majority though. Losing a majority north of 10k at a GE is probably exceptional but picking a couple of 97 losers, both Michael Portillo and Tony Newton were 15k plus in 1992. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 22:28   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - bathtub tom

She was unpopular before this hiatus. Lib/dems have been doing a lot of door knocking recently. I'll await the result with interest! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 22:56   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Lygonos

An odious turd. She would have been perfect as a Director of Nursing in most NHS trusts. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 23:03   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - CGNorwich

She does write a good letter though. "Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. What exactly has been done or have you achieved? You hold the office of Prime Minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people and the Government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?" She's not wrong is she? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 26 Aug 23 23:48   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - smokie

So what was she expecting to be done? I was always taught to present the positives alongside the negatives. Unless I was just being a moaning minnie. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Aug 23 06:50   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - sooty123

I'm not sure she's the best person to judge what's happening in Parliament, she's probably forgotten where it is. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 7 Sep 23 09:26   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - sooty123

news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-chris-pincher-resigns-after-suspension-from-commons-over-groping-allegations-12956582 And another by election. Must be a record number. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 7 Sep 23 09:33   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Bromptonaut

>> And another by election. Must be a record number. Done a Boris and jumped before he was pushed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 7 Sep 23 11:00   Another One Bites the Dust - Volume 3 - Terry

There have been 16 by elections between 2019 and 2023 - this may exclude a few more recent ones so assume (say) 20. By comparison there have been many periods with a greater number 1945-1950 50 1951-1955 44 1955-1958 49 1959-1964 61 Rather than listing all of them - since the war, there have been 21 separate administrations due to general elections. In only 12 of those were there less than 20 by elections. By comparison Rishi could be renamed "Lucki Rishi"! researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf#page=45 Reply to this message | Report message