Blue Crab
benthivore
Bu-Bye Boris!
Britain replaces a PM - the process unfolds with considerable alacrity
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badlatitude
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SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
No corruption there - Maggie was the daughter of a shop keeper and the PM currently gets paid about 150K - easy to get a net worth of 8 Mil.
Heath was a carpenters son but somehow could afford a new, custom 40' race boat every couple of years. On a similar pay level.
Must have been very good with the housekeeping money.
Olsonist
Disgusting Liberal Elitist
In Boris Johnson's last speech he compares himself to Cincinnatus,
www.theguardian.com
and gets slaughtered by classicists.
He's even played the Cincinnatus card before.
www.theguardian.com
Johnson is in fact well educated and taught Latin before going into politics.
I found his debate with Mary Beard to be a lot of fun and his reading of the opening
passage of the Iliad to be pretty damned good. But he doesn't seem to have done anything as PM.
Boris Johnson likens himself to Roman who returned as dictator
Departing PM references Cincinnatus, who turned to farming after leaving Rome – but then returned to power
www.theguardian.com
and gets slaughtered by classicists.
He's even played the Cincinnatus card before.
Is Boris Johnson really a new Cincinnatus?
Charlotte Higgins: The London mayor is no match for the Roman Republican hero
www.theguardian.com
Johnson is in fact well educated and taught Latin before going into politics.
I found his debate with Mary Beard to be a lot of fun and his reading of the opening
passage of the Iliad to be pretty damned good. But he doesn't seem to have done anything as PM.
That was brilliant.
The quote that got me was something like "she has the social awkwardness of Theresa May, combined with the incompetence of Boris, and the hatred of the working class of Margaret Thatcher"
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
So you're saying he's always been useless?
mikewof
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I came to this thread to wonder about the new PM's possible efforts to undo Jorris Bohnson's violation of the NPT. I guess this answers that.
mikewof
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And hullo Ultra-Boris, apparently.
P_Wop
Super Anarchist
She's a shallow, mediocre numpty, saddled with insuperable problems left her by her three predecessors, and will go down in flames in six months.
Waynemarlow
Super Anarchist
So when Boris rides in on his chariot to rescue the middle classes at the next election, fronting a new party, there’s going to be an awful lot of you going WTF.
P_Wop have you spent anytime with the woman to actually make that statement, have you ever actually lived and paid taxes in the U.K. to enable an actual vote ? You know you are coming across as yet another fat American armchair critic who has spent too much time on his computer.
The shallow mediocrity of your statement, having never met you, I would suggest sums you up nicely.
Bristol-Cruiser
Super Anarchist
In Canada, if a PM changed like this (although to be fair we have never had a situation close to this) it would be incumbent on the new PM to call an election to get her own mandate. How likely is this is in the UK now?
The Q
Super Anarchist
No requirement at all and highly unlikely, as She'll need at least a couple of years to have any chance of sorting out the mess before she would risk it...
Bristol-Cruiser
Super Anarchist
Not suggesting it is a requirement, just normative behaviour in most parliamentary democracies after a leadership change. It is convenient to a crisis (multiple crises?) to fall back on to avoid seeking a mandate. Why "She'll"? Is she already important enough to have a capitalized pronoun?
dylan winter
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we shall not see his l;ike again
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
Models of buses?
Blue Crab
benthivore
Nope.
Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
No it's not - I can't think offhand of ANY case in Australian politics where this has happened. Usually the new leader clings on as long as possible before going to an election.
FKT
P_Wop
Super Anarchist
I love you too.
I'm actually British, presently in California. Yes, I have lived and paid taxes and voted in the UK for many years. No, I have not met Ms. Truss face-to-face. I very much doubt that you have either. I have seen and heard her via TV and internet for several months, and have read much about her in the UK press. Hence I have an opinion.
I did get to know Margaret Thatcher quite well personally in the 70s, and I have an opinion about her too.
I respect your right to hold your own opinions, but it appears that I don't share them.
Good day to you.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
P_Wop
Super Anarchist
You wait.....
