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Re: The Absolute State Of It - It's The UK Politics Thread!

Post by Mantis » Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:40 am

Liz Truss is our new overlord. God help us all.

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Post by Raid » Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:46 am

Not yet. Johnson may yet attempt to stay in power by murdering the Queen tomorrow. Can't resign if you need to have a coronation. It wouldn't be the first time he'd tried to cling unrealistically to power.

This is what, the fourth Tory PM since they took over? Christ, imagine the chaos we'd have had with Ed Milliband.

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Post by Sly Boots » Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:49 am

Maybe simply being a bit stupid is preferable to being actively corrupt? :/

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Post by eny » Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:50 am

Now begins a winter of great discontent, made glorious by the dupe of Europe... 8-)
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Post by Mantis » Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:01 pm

Sly Boots wrote:
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Maybe simply being a bit stupid is preferable to being actively corrupt? :/
That's very wishful thinking. More likely I think she just happens to be both.

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Post by eny » Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:05 pm

So, the strangulated inguinal hernia that is Boris De Pfeffel Johnson and the Liz Truss that will support and continue his mission TOOK SEPARATE JETS from London to Balmoral and back... ](*,)
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Post by Pew-Pew » Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:20 pm

Not really a surprise though is it? You don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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Post by Raid » Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:23 pm

You do if they're all rotten. It's called a bin.

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Post by Wrathbone » Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:30 pm

I note that despite being foreign secretary for quite some time, Truss pronounced Kiev as the Russian "key-ev" rather than the Ukrainian "keev" during her victory speech.

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Post by Raid » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:17 pm

Wrathbone wrote:
Tue Sep 06, 2022 12:30 pm
I note that despite being foreign secretary for quite some time, Truss pronounced Kiev as the Russian "key-ev" rather than the Ukrainian "keev" during her victory speech.
I can't even pretend to be surprised anymore. She's utterly fucking useless. She maybe doesn't have the air of complete buffoonery that Johnson cultivated for PR purposes (I'm not suggesting he wasn't entirely inept as a leader, just that he played it up to hide the fact), so I'm interested to see just how unpopular she manages to make herself with the public.

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Post by eny » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:23 pm

I hate to say it, but total societal collapse is our future. Every action points to it, the "survivors" have been hedging their hordes in preparation and insulating themselves from it, ready to pick over the wreckage. We will be like Argentina which went from being one of the richest countries in the world in the early 20th century to collapsing in the early 80's.
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Post by Wrathbone » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:38 pm

You could argue it's already well underway. If you consider the prosperity of a nation by its liberty, its wealth, its public services and the happiness of its citizens then we're nosediving on all fronts.

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Post by eny » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:42 pm

Oh, it is well underway, Brexit has put it into top gear. By next Summer we will know for sure.
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Post by Alan » Tue Sep 06, 2022 2:06 pm

Shite thing is shes poopoo'd another Scottish independence ref so you'll drag us down with you ¬_¬
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Re: The Absolute State Of It - It's The UK Politics Thread!

Post by Lenny Solidus » Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:58 pm

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

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