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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 5:41:33 GMT
Strong suggestions Liz Trump has lost.
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Post by Rutlander on Jul 5, 2024 8:06:40 GMT
Now, I am not one to bear a grudge but ...
After the January 1910 general election, supporters of the defeated Conservative candidate rioted in the town centre of Downham Market. Prominent Liberals in the town had their windows and shop fronts smashed and homes were pelted with stones. The newly elected Liberal MP was burnt in effigy. Among the Liberals attacked by the Tory mob were my great-grandfather and other relatives.
So, the defeat of the Conservative here is personal and to be enjoyed.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 5, 2024 12:13:36 GMT
Now, I am not one to bear a grudge but ... After the January 1910 general election, supporters of the defeated Conservative candidate rioted in the town centre of Downham Market. Prominent Liberals in the town had their windows and shop fronts smashed and homes were pelted with stones. The newly elected Liberal MP was burnt in effigy. Among the Liberals attacked by the Tory mob were my great-grandfather and other relatives. So, the defeat of the Conservative here is personal and to be enjoyed. The dish of revenge must be deep frozen by now. Enjoy! (And a great personal story btw)
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Post by Ron Swanson on Jul 5, 2024 13:41:52 GMT
The greatest political moment of my life.
Shame I’d fallen asleep on the sofa.
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Post by andrea on Jul 5, 2024 15:12:57 GMT
Declaration
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Post by Khunanup on Jul 5, 2024 17:54:33 GMT
Now, I am not one to bear a grudge but ... After the January 1910 general election, supporters of the defeated Conservative candidate rioted in the town centre of Downham Market. Prominent Liberals in the town had their windows and shop fronts smashed and homes were pelted with stones. The newly elected Liberal MP was burnt in effigy. Among the Liberals attacked by the Tory mob were my great-grandfather and other relatives. So, the defeat of the Conservative here is personal and to be enjoyed. Even better that it was a deep cover Lib Dem agent that gave you the glorious conclusion...
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Post by right on Jul 14, 2024 12:14:50 GMT
Just coming on here to say that I called this very wrong by discounting Labour
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jul 14, 2024 14:09:32 GMT
No, the current one Baggy Shanker. A great name for a fictional criminal who goes around attacking retired Madchester musicians with improvised weaponry. With an affectation for plus-fours but is really bad at golf?
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 14, 2024 14:24:00 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 14, 2024 14:31:30 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. ”Even”?
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 14, 2024 15:30:40 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. She clearly has such total and unshakeable faith in her own brilliance.
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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 14, 2024 15:48:23 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. Her very long overdue concession speech? It's still hard to tell based on her and the returning officer's body language whether what she told Kwarteng is true (that runners-up don't do speeches here) or whether she decided to walk off which clearly hasn't been a good look at all compared to the valedictory speeches of others we saw. She takes a step forward, looks at the RO who has his hand out - whether he was gesturing to her to go to up the podium "would you like to speak", or show her the way out, is hard to tell, she says something and turns around and off... news.sky.com/video/share-13172197The lack of blue rosette on her and many other candidates also hasn't been mentioned enough. It is amusing to see she chose to wear the visitor's pass/lanyard however - not quite a "do you know who I am?".
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Post by Ron Swanson on Jul 14, 2024 16:24:12 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. It was an interesting brief interview. Truss was never in a department long enough to be seen to have made a complete hash of it or piss off the civil servants/workers in the way that someone like Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt did. That sort of contributed towards her being able to run for the leadership as a fairly ‘clean’ candidate, and her frankly mad policies - called out by Sunak during the leadership election - won favour with a membership feeling betrayed at removal of Boris Johnson. I just saw her as a fake, who’d change her mind on whatever if she felt it would get her to the desired position - No. 10 - I suppose lots of politicians are like that, but few are so transparent and easy to see through as she was, to me at least. I wonder if the markets knew it as well? Wasn’t long before she was forced to appoint Jeremy Hunt as CEO and she became non-executive chair. Burns is probably right, that she isn’t entirely well - going off to America to court the ‘I love guns and cousin marriage’ brigade in the deepest red areas isn’t the ‘rehab’ she needs.
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Post by heslingtonian on Jul 14, 2024 16:29:05 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. Her very long overdue concession speech? It's still hard to tell based on her and the returning officer's body language whether what she told Kwarteng is true (that runners-up don't do speeches here) or whether she decided to walk off which clearly hasn't been a good look at all compared to the valedictory speeches of others we saw. She takes a step forward, looks at the RO who has his hand out - whether he was gesturing to her to go to up the podium "would you like to speak", or show her the way out, is hard to tell, she says something and turns around and off... news.sky.com/video/share-13172197The lack of blue rosette on her and many other candidates also hasn't been mentioned enough. It is amusing to see she chose to wear the visitor's pass/lanyard however - not quite a "do you know who I am?". Worth remembering that Portillo didn't wear a rosette for the famous "Portillo moment".
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 16, 2024 8:19:05 GMT
As if to prove Burns's point, Truss has turned up in Milwaukee in her new role as a supplicant to Trump.
Well done, SW Norfolk. Burns was right- step one of the recovery of the Conservative Party started here in the early hours of the 5th July.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 16, 2024 13:36:59 GMT
A lot of defeated Conservative candidates speaking out strongly against Truss today after her latest diatribe in the Telegraph. Conor Burns has even questioned her mental health. Her very long overdue concession speech? It's still hard to tell based on her and the returning officer's body language whether what she told Kwarteng is true (that runners-up don't do speeches here) or whether she decided to walk off which clearly hasn't been a good look at all compared to the valedictory speeches of others we saw. She takes a step forward, looks at the RO who has his hand out - whether he was gesturing to her to go to up the podium "would you like to speak", or show her the way out, is hard to tell, she says something and turns around and off... news.sky.com/video/share-13172197The lack of blue rosette on her and many other candidates also hasn't been mentioned enough. It is amusing to see she chose to wear the visitor's pass/lanyard however - not quite a "do you know who I am?". There are a lot of places where runners-up don't do speeches, especially where the runner-up would usually be very distant, which is certainly the category SW Norfolk has usually fallen into. That's not to say that the returning officer would necessarily prevent a defeated candidate from speaking, but it would probably be something you would have to ask for rather than it being assumed that you would.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 16, 2024 13:40:40 GMT
As if to prove Burns's point, Truss has turned up in Milwaukee in her new role as a supplicant to Trump. Well done, SW Norfolk. Burns was right- step one of the recovery of the Conservative Party started here in the early hours of the 5th July. OK.. You and heslingtonian and Caroline Nokes are welcome to it
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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 17, 2024 20:42:53 GMT
x.com/Peston/status/1813598819348627921I hope this letter goes in the shredder where it belongs. Also, why is it 'the Office of...' - I thought her office in Norfolk (if there ever was one) would be shut down by now. Surely former PMs unlike Presidents don't have perpetual 'offices'?
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Post by stb12 on Jul 17, 2024 21:11:43 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 17, 2024 21:18:32 GMT
x.com/Peston/status/1813598819348627921I hope this letter goes in the shredder where it belongs. Also, why is it 'the Office of...' - I thought her office in Norfolk (if there ever was one) would be shut down by now. Surely former PMs unlike Presidents don't have perpetual 'offices'?
And although Peston is quite right to point out her hypocrisy about politicising the civil service, people should know better than to write something like this in government papers, even if they think it.
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