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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/...gan/short-cuts
I've only skimmed through this but it looks good.
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No mention of this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...other-lockdown
*Never mind, wrong thread, as usual.
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While there are undoubtedly bigger scandals going on, the refurbishment one is sticking. The Electoral Commission opens an investigation into the funding of the refurbishment, stating it has reasonable grounds to suspect an offence has been committed.
Johnson under pressure in PMQs and having a tantrum, but there was a very telling detail in what he spewed out which boiled down to "someone advised me it was OK".
Meanwhile the opposition seem confident that there is someone about to go on the record on the "bodies piled high" quote.
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- Mar 2008
- 20910
- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
- WasPlain Hobnobs
Given how he's fond of the Latin -
Quis ipsos custodiet cuntodiens?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...judge-23999078
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Blatant jobbery. Serving the Tory party well since the 18th Century.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 28-04-2021, 16:59.
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The Metro first out of the blocks, and well played.
https://twitter.com/MetroUKNews/status/1387496891957514244?s=19
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I wonder how skittish on the trigger the Tories will turn out to be. It may depend how much they believe their own line that Johnson's is an energetic new government rather than a decadent extension of their rule since 2010. Sacrificing the figurehead to draw attention away from how rotten the wider edifice is has always been their bottom line in the past. Johnson's self preservation strategy seems to be to corrupt and weaken the whole to the extent that nobody will want to take a chance on there being anything viable left in his wake.
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They could force him to fall on his sword on the grounds that he exercised extremely poor judgment and ignored the advice of Cummings et al on a matter that severely embarrasses the party. I doubt the electorate gives a fuck about the specifics but the aroma of sleaze does eventually create an impression of decadence that grows into a dominant theme over time.
There might be some yet-to-be-discovered political science law about how corrosive any party can allow corruption to go before it becomes dysfunctional to its own operations in a centralized polity.
A lot depends on whether Sunak has done enough to be the obvious successor, despite the Tories having an anti-Asian history and aging support base (I have not lived in the UK since 2006 so am having trouble getting my head around the fact that there are three people of Asian descent in the top 6 betting favourites to succeed Johnson).
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Sunak seems to have had his head turned by his own publicity. He and his backers might want to go quickly as his supposed popularity has already fallen from its peak and bringing the pain for the next few years is unlikely to help it to revive it.
A third mid-term change of leader in barely five years would be some going, even for them. It is a good job that instability and chaos are foreign traits only.
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