[davidjay]

That's music to my ears.

Namely, in the form of The Beatles pleasing with the fifth one to stand in in a crisis, only to find out that he is doing backing vox for Kajagoogoo in Dunstable.

The Beatles did have a stand-in drummer. Jimmie Nicol replaced Ringo for two weeks in 1964; he later said it affected his mental health and didn't do his career much good.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Penny Mordaunt is quite a bit more popular with Tory voters, and did the debate the other night (I presume as recognition of that fact, even though it should have been Dowden). I reckon she'd take the job, not Cameron. She could easily lose her seat under Sunak's leadership, so she might as well if it she gets the chance.

[Bones McCoy]

Penny Mordaunt is quite a bit more popular with Tory voters, and did the debate the other night (I presume as recognition of that fact, even though it should have been Dowden). I reckon she'd take the job, not Cameron. She could easily lose her seat under Sunak's leadership, so she might as well if it she gets the chance.

Do you think she will hang on to Fabricant's syrup until after July 4th?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Portsmouth North?

[Bones McCoy]

Syrup = wig.

It was a cryptic hair gag.

[Dalem Lake]

Penny Mordaunt is quite a bit more popular with Tory voters, and did the debate the other night (I presume as recognition of that fact, even though it should have been Dowden). I reckon she'd take the job, not Cameron. She could easily lose her seat under Sunak's leadership, so she might as well if it she gets the chance.

But then she'd end up replacing Truss in the history books as the UK's shortest lasting PM. I wouldn't take it.

[davidjay]

Penny Mordaunt is quite a bit more popular with Tory voters, and did the debate the other night (I presume as recognition of that fact, even though it should have been Dowden). I reckon she'd take the job, not Cameron. She could easily lose her seat under Sunak's leadership, so she might as well if it she gets the chance.

But then she'd end up replacing Truss in the history books as the UK's shortest lasting PM. I wouldn't take it.

It could swing a few votes her way and help keep her seat.

[mattomac]

Has to stay as PM all this would do is replace the figurehead of the campaign.

[Youngian]

Has to stay as PM all this would do is replace the figurehead of the campaign.

Plenty of Tory antics in the past eight years are unheard off. Hopefully Tories have given up the will to live so Sunak stays.

[Andy McDandy]

Latest gossip is that the party are keeping him away from the media, or media away from him. Whatever. When your biggest liability is the guy you're trying to promote...

[Bones McCoy]

Has to stay as PM all this would do is replace the figurehead of the campaign.

Plenty of Tory antics in the past eight years are unheard off. Hopefully Tories have given up the will to live so Sunak stays.

It's the constant abuse of the "good chap" standards that have inspired some of my more outlandish speculation in this thread.

It's beginning to look as though Sunak's now being deployed in a "prince in the tower" strategy.

Yes, he's still here.
No you can't see him.
He chooses to remain within his walled garden.

What is a walled garden (software).

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecuri ... led-garden

[Nigredo]

Or, as a parent once told me at an open evening, Henry had 8 wives, which was why he was called Henry the VIII.

Never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

And it’s the ones who think they deserve a fucking medal for flaunting their patriotism (small minded nationalism to be accurate) that have a distinct lack of curiosity about their own country’s history.

When the National Trust try to convey history as it actually happened (oiled by the blood of the lower castes of society), it gets frothily dismissed as "woke".

[Crabcakes]

I wonder if his new ‘tactic’ is making it look like such a foregone conclusion that turnout is ultra-low, and that saves a few seats?

It might explain why everything he does is yet another inexplicably misorchestrated 360 degree bedshit-o-rama

[Oboogie]

If the turnout is low, it's likely to be due to despairing Tories staying at home.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Penny Mordaunt is quite a bit more popular with Tory voters, and did the debate the other night (I presume as recognition of that fact, even though it should have been Dowden). I reckon she'd take the job, not Cameron. She could easily lose her seat under Sunak's leadership, so she might as well if it she gets the chance.

But then she'd end up replacing Truss in the history books as the UK's shortest lasting PM. I wouldn't take it.

Would she have to take the PM job? When John Major invited the leadership challenge, he stayed as PM but remained as PM. Could Mordaunt be leader of the Conservative Party and de facto candidate for PM after the election, while Sunak remained as PM?

If Mordaunt was seen to have kept the score down, perhaps she'd be in a decent position to be LOTO. On the other hand, she might not fancy that, with Braverman and co instantly on her case.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak fights for crucial marginal. The Tories clearly think that the Lib Dem challenge in the South East is for real.

[Youngian]

Today, Little Rishi is Judge Dredd. ‘He’ll yeh, I’m tougher than, Nigel.’

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The quality of mercy is not 'strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Given that they just had to let a load of people out of prison early because there was no space, I don't think the Judge Jeffreys act is going to cut it.

[Youngian]

Oh well, back to writing for Spiked and Tufton Street press releases

‘D-day was the final straw’: Sunak’s blunders ignite Tory party fury

The spads and clown advisers who are making these decisions will never work on so much as a Tory councillor’s campaign again in their lifetime,” said one irate Conservative source.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... 019Qr43Ykm