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Who are you and what have you done with the real Boris Johnson? “Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race”, the BBC reported a few minutes ago. Yes, there has been time for several thousand people to make the joke about this being the first time Boris has pulled out of anything.
Turning to media news, “David Tennant returns to Doctor Who after 12 years as Jodie Whittaker regenerates”.
I watched a bit of the show. It was certainly full of dramatic twists and turns, but it was all so loud and fast-moving that I lost the will to try and keep up. Dr Who was also rather confusing.
I think Rishi Sunak will be the Master tomorrow.
Of course, he has experience in the job.
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For how long?
Until his next regeneration, of course.
Boris realised it has to be Larry, he’s the only one with a proven track record of staying in Downing Street.
I’m quite relieved to hear that. I thought there was nothing in it for Boris to stage a comeback and was afraid I had missed something.
Perhaps the UK is up for a bloodless version of the Year of the Four Emperors?
Well if the tory party membership are not allowed a say in the party leadership I hope they all do the decent thing and resign.
Not sure what they (or the membership of any party really) are for, other than as milch cows and as a collection of nodding donkeys at the stage managed partei rallies.
They don’t regenerate, they degenerate.
Now we can look forward to the bond markets settling down and a lengthy period of stability for the pound.
At least until November.
I wonder if a ‘deal’ has been struck, that Sunak closes off the Parliamentary inquiry into Johnson by a three-line whip against it, so he can sail off into the sunset with his ‘reputation’ ‘untarnished’.
We all remember how well the last Conservative Coronation turned out with Mrs May, don’t we? However, the Conservatives are so PC that they think that the Left will not dare attack them with Sunk (autocorrect) as Leader. They will be wrong of course, the Labour-controlled London police (Metropolitan) will continue to allow eco-loons to cause disruption, the unions will strike and the general air of chaos will grow even without the government messing things up.
Mr Johnson was told that “The Markets” did not want him as Prime Minister.
“The Markets” being dominated by a few vast corporate entities which are backed by the endless Credit Money of the Central Banks.
One can hate this international credit money and credit bubble finance system, and I do hate it, but it is hard (very hard) to think of anything that can be done about it.
They have the power and we do not.
I don’t have much time to watch British politics, but I am wondering what has happened regarding Kemi Badenoch? Is she jumping into the ring again? Or is it all a bit too toxic?
FWIW, I think people should get their jobs based on their capability to do the job, but there would be some irony were she selected that the supposedly “anti diversity” Tories would have had the first four women prime ministers and the first black one… Of course she also might save the country from the 1970s style destruction much as the first woman prime minister did.
Quite simple, a ‘White Leninist’ would pass laws requiring large businesses to be solvent and trading whilst insolvent is a criminal offence of directors, and would introduce civil forfeiture (via Peoples’ Tribunals) for individuals involved in running them whilst insolvent, piercing the veil.
A White Leninist would repudiate the National Debt and freeze the monetary base, and bankrupt the businesses that hold the debt and charge the boards with fraud for trading whilst insolvent (even for a scintilla temporum), and proceed to sequestrate their assets, with imprisonment for debt. And then let a new, honest business class emerge once the emergency has passed. It might also be necessary introduce ‘public health’ measures requiring businesses that are too PC to cease trading in case they discriminate against anyone.
The monetary base being frozen, economic growth allows for the value of the currency to rise as more goods and services chase the same amount of money.
Kemi (and Steve Baker) backed Rishi this second time round. Niall ever-optimistic Kilmartin is hoping this means she extracted some undertakings from Rishi re her next job, the culture war, immigration or something.
The Grauniad is explaining away the Tories’ being the first to select a minority prime minister by calling it “trickle-down anti-racism’. They must be relieved it was not Kemi; at least Rishi is seriously wealthy.