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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« Reply #1625 on: October 19, 2022, 02:32:26 PM »
Quote from: brucejoel99 on October 19, 2022, 02:18:04 PM


Maybe this is Americabrained of me, but I always had a soft spot for Farron, even though I absolutely get why people had serious issues with him.
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« Reply #1626 on: October 19, 2022, 02:33:58 PM »
BREAKING NEWS

A government has fallen into a river in Lego City!
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« Reply #1627 on: October 19, 2022, 02:35:20 PM »
Quote from: Ed Miliband Revenge Tour on October 19, 2022, 02:32:26 PM
Quote from: brucejoel99 on October 19, 2022, 02:18:04 PM


Maybe this is Americabrained of me, but I always had a soft spot for Farron, even though I absolutely get why people had serious issues with him.

He was very unsuited for that role but is still a very interesting parliamentarian and unique- which is increasingly rare.

He is also quite funny!
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« Reply #1628 on: October 19, 2022, 02:40:03 PM »
Lol:
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« Reply #1629 on: October 19, 2022, 02:41:38 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Miliband Revenge Tour on October 19, 2022, 02:32:26 PM
Maybe this is Americabrained of me, but I always had a soft spot for Farron, even though I absolutely get why people had serious issues with him.

He was very unsuited for that role but is still a very interesting parliamentarian and unique- which is increasingly rare.

He is also quite funny!

Yeah, he's a genuinely nice guy, just... not suited to any kind of leadership position. A well meaning crank. I've met a few active Evangelical Anglicans who are much the same.
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« Reply #1630 on: October 19, 2022, 02:42:21 PM »
At this point, is there any way for the UK to have a stable government that lasts more than a handful of months or is it just going to be this sort of chaos over and over until the election finally gets called?
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« Reply #1631 on: October 19, 2022, 02:43:25 PM »
Quote from: brucejoel99 on October 19, 2022, 02:40:03 PM
Lol:


You know your government is in a bad place when you are going to this level of nitpickyness.
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« Reply #1632 on: October 19, 2022, 02:45:29 PM »
Quote from: Discount $15 Crudité Darthpi on October 19, 2022, 02:42:21 PM
At this point, is there any way for the UK to have a stable government that lasts more than a handful of months or is it just going to be this sort of chaos over and over until the election finally gets called?

The rather brutal reality is that this is quite clearly the first Parliament with a secure majority out of which it is not possible to form a functional government since the 1900-06 Parliament after Chamberlain blew things up over tariffs. Quite remarkable really. Of course there are different levels of 'not functional': this is off the scale.
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« Reply #1633 on: October 19, 2022, 02:46:00 PM »
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« Reply #1634 on: October 19, 2022, 02:49:24 PM »
Yeah Truss is gone within days or even hours. No coming back from this level of parliamentary management.
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« Reply #1635 on: October 19, 2022, 02:51:19 PM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on October 19, 2022, 02:45:29 PM
Quote from: Discount $15 Crudité Darthpi on October 19, 2022, 02:42:21 PM
At this point, is there any way for the UK to have a stable government that lasts more than a handful of months or is it just going to be this sort of chaos over and over until the election finally gets called?

The rather brutal reality is that this is quite clearly the first Parliament with a secure majority out of which it is not possible to form a functional government since the 1900-06 Parliament after Chamberlain blew things up over tariffs. Quite remarkable really. Of course there are different levels of 'not functional': this is off the scale.

Could you also count the post 1918 Coupon government as another government elected to a huge majority that collapsed anyway?
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« Reply #1636 on: October 19, 2022, 02:52:13 PM »
Quote from: Statilius the Epicurean on October 19, 2022, 02:49:24 PM
Yeah Truss is gone within days or even hours. No coming back from this level of parliamentary management.

The Tories starting to hopefully go down the same way as the Liberals, & 100 years to the day no less, is just… exquisite.
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« Reply #1637 on: October 19, 2022, 02:53:42 PM »
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« Reply #1638 on: October 19, 2022, 02:55:36 PM »
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« Reply #1639 on: October 19, 2022, 02:58:52 PM »
Quote from: c r a b c a k e on October 19, 2022, 02:51:19 PM
Could you also count the post 1918 Coupon government as another government elected to a huge majority that collapsed anyway?

In that case it would have been possible for an entirely Conservative government to have been formed after the fall of Lloyd George (one hundred years ago today as it happens!) but the party was collectively set on getting a new mandate of its own and purely its own, independent of Lloyd George: this was the resolution of the famous Carlton Club meeting that was the genesis of the 1922 Committee.
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« Reply #1640 on: October 19, 2022, 03:04:09 PM »
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« Reply #1641 on: October 19, 2022, 03:06:15 PM »
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« Reply #1642 on: October 19, 2022, 03:12:40 PM »

Meanwhile, among MPs:


Reminder: 1/3rd of 357 Tory MPs, or 119, are needed for Brady to trigger a 1922 rule-change.
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« Reply #1643 on: October 19, 2022, 03:25:14 PM »
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« Reply #1644 on: October 19, 2022, 03:26:34 PM »
u-turn alert.

Looks like chief whip isn’t quitting…
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« Reply #1645 on: October 19, 2022, 03:27:37 PM »
Quote from: Blair on October 19, 2022, 03:26:34 PM
u-turn alert.

Looks like chief whip isn’t quitting…

First the mini-budget, then the taxes, now this...

This government is quite literally running in circles since it's u-turning so much.
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« Reply #1646 on: October 19, 2022, 03:28:35 PM »
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« Reply #1647 on: October 19, 2022, 03:28:40 PM »
Quote from: Blair on October 19, 2022, 03:26:34 PM
u-turn alert.

Looks like chief whip isn’t quitting…

PM's meeting with the whips still ongoing:


EDIT:

Nvm:
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« Reply #1648 on: October 19, 2022, 03:30:57 PM »
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« Reply #1649 on: October 19, 2022, 03:32:07 PM »
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