UK General Discussion: Rishecession

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Damn, someone born in 1975 is becoming Prime Minister. I feel old.

She’s older than Blair and Cameron were at the time, and almost as old as Major was.

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With the danger to peace in Northern Ireland resulting from Brexit it seems fitting that the next heir apparent is named William.

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https://twitter.com/ed_miliband/status/1580931307185401856?s=46&t=YHSGup5mOz...

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What's the record shortest tenure ever for a PM?  Asking for a friend

George Canning with 119 days, followed by his successor Goderich with 144 days. Canning died in office, Goderich was just a miserable failure (like Truss).

The reign of George IV eh? How…fitting.

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Tory 5D Chess = pre-emptively making future Prime Minister Starmer's job impossible??

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lmao

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My dad texted me:

“Did you see that UK PM resigned? thats like William Henry Harrison!”

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https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/8853504115?s=46&t=GegtOJDmHYIO8MOwjXpBjw

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Looks a bit more like other pollsters this week (though the pollster claims this shows “widespread disillusionment with both parties” as Labour surge to 47%…).

https://twitter.com/electionmapsuk/status/1593952017449467905?s=61&t=vpAeKQg...

That’s great news for Keir Starmer.

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https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1594008567446544384?s=20&t=aepIeh3F...


"how could that nasty man Boris Johnson and the Tory scum have won so massively in 2019, must've been a conspiracy against us"

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What the hell happened to the Tories to make them so comically unserious?

Thatcher may have been evil, but she was deadly serious. It almost seems as if the UK Conservative Party looked across the pond at Tea Party/MAGA era Republicans and said to themselves, “we need more of that.”

Or is this simply the consequence of Cameron pandering to the Farage wing of the Tories, May relying on the DUP to “get Brexit done”, Johnson being PM (nuff’ said), and Truss going SubReaganomics Accelerationist on the British pound, all of which has made Sunak being effective at his job a very tall order indeed.

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https://twitter.com/redfieldwilton/status/1698732713287528748?s=46

IMO this will be a really close election guys what do you think

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It's even more open than George VI, who was "in his usual health" when he died of a coronary thrombosis in his sleep. He had one lung and terminal cancer; he'd skipped the State Opening in 1951, while his last King's Speech on the radio was pre-recorded in bits and edited together.

Well I suppose that’s more open than discreetly euthanizing the monarch so that his death would appear in The Times the next morning.

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The King has been diagnosed with cancer. Although not prostate cancer, it was discovered during his recent operation. It is rather more serious this time, but I note that, once again, he is being very open about a subject about which the Palace has tended to be rather closed and that, whatever one's constitutional position, this is to be commended.

For all his faults and his mother's strengths, I do think the country would have benefited from an earlier accession given his very 'landed' personability.

And I think the very fact that so many of his faults, including his messy and tragic family life and the obvious impact it has had on his sons—and the turmoil that that has led to in recent years—have played out so publicly, make him IMO, uniquely positioned to reconnect an increasingly unpopular monarchy with the public. More so than William.

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Doesn't help that a very different American Woman is still remembered.

Yes, very different, in that she was a horrible racist and was the partner of the actual heir/King (whose actions, it must be said, we cannot lay responsibility for on his wife even as she herself was also an odious traitor who colluded with the most evil regime in history).

Arguing the Sussexes are like that pair, as some have, is just disgusting. And I say that as someone who finds the Sussexes rather irritating these days.

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Apart from anything else, that was a whole week ago?

Sorry. Deleted.

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Well, that’s awful.