Quote: chipolata @ 19th July 2022, 11:38 AMTruss would be great for Labour, although I did like her sly jab at Rishi's education during the last debate.
She was a Lib Dem - then she's a Tory
She's a remainer- then she's a Brexiteer
I don't Trusssst her to know what time of day it is
I was a Labour voter once.
People change their minds depending on the situation
Churchill was a liberal for a bit, so changing her mind doesn't matter. Her problem is her lousy communication skills. Say what you like about Boris, Blair etc, but they could sell an idea. Truss is just a void.
Not sure she's changed her mind.
Just spotted a job opportunity.
She's an opportunist, all right. But most mainstream opoliticians will have to pretend to be Brexiteers for the next five or six years. Starmer gave a speach the other week saying there was no alternative to it, despite not believing a word.
It's called making the best of a bad job.
It's where we find ourselves.
You don't have to pretend it was a good idea, just try to mitigate against he worst elements of it.
It's the grown-up thing to do.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 19th July 2022, 10:10 AMTo new readers:
Welcome to the BCG (Labour division.)
Where fantasies and opinions will be written as facts.
Come join the muck-raking and character assassinations from glass houses.
The permanently wronged will be happy to accommodate you.
Not spotted any muck-raking or character assassinations here yet. Sorry to disappoint you!
No Stephen is quite correct
This magnificent government is doing an incredible job - everything in the country is working brilliantly
And it's an absolute outrage that one of the most intelligent and honourable and lovely prime ministers this country has ever had has been hounded out of office
Stephen also needs to wear a sun hat when he's sat in the garden (as he is clearly do-lally)
Case proved m'lord.
Dunno why any of the candidates want the job anyway. It's a poisoned chalice guaranteed to wreck the careers of anyone trying to do the job.
I think post-PM earning are pretty good - Think tanks, board positions, books, the after-dinner circuit...
Back to the contest....
Rishi Sunak announces (a couple of hours before the polls open) that he wants to maintain the moratorium on land-based wind farms, even though most Conservatives are all for them - pretty much in line with the rest of the country.
I guess he's after some of those anti-climate change backbencher votes floating around after Badenoch was dropped.
They really aren't on your side.
Its looking like The Mail & Telegraph have got their woman to the finishing line.
What a set up, fixed isn't in it.
So now it goes to the 160,000 members of the party for a vote on issues not even linked to their General Election manifesto and we have to live under their rule. I hope Truss wins as she is the bigger f**kwit so we will have General Election in a week but if its Sunak we will have to wait a fortnight.
Tories are really shooting themselves in the foot here.
Labour actually have a very good chance against Truss.
The General Election won't be this year whoever the PM is though.
Figures would suggest Truss beats Sunak - unless his backers can dig up dirt on Truss.
The Membership don't like him - and she's always had a higher following amongst the members than the voters.
They think he went all Socialist and gave too much money to poor people - plus he won't give them tax cuts.
It'll be close - fingers crossed for Truss.
Though it would fun repeatedly reminding Sunak that he got fined by the police over #Partygate
Literally, her first tweet.
This is going to be good.
