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indica
07/07/22 6:39:20 AM
#201:


CableZL posted...
Anyone keeping a spreadsheet of all the resignations?

TomClark posted...
52


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TomClark
07/07/22 6:40:40 AM
#202:


Ended up at 55 I think, not counting Boris.

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indica
07/07/22 6:42:57 AM
#203:


TomClark posted...
Ended up at 55 I think, not counting Boris.
Damn...I heard the education minister resigned after 36 hours, supposedly a new record

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TomClark
07/07/22 6:44:44 AM
#204:


indica posted...
Damn...I heard the education minister resigned after 36 hours, supposedly a new record

Yeah.

She found out this morning that she's entitled to 16k severance for that, but she said she would donate it to charity.

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SgtBash
07/07/22 7:22:52 AM
#205:


12:30 for his resignation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62072419

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Doom_Art
07/07/22 7:30:00 AM
#206:


Canuck here

so hes just resigning as the leader of the conservative party but is staying on board as PM til the autumn? is that allowed lol

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teep_
07/07/22 7:33:08 AM
#207:


Doom_Art posted...
Canuck here

so hes just resigning as the leader of the conservative party but is staying on board as PM til the autumn? is that allowed lol
He'll be a caretaker PM until the new leader of the conservative party is elected. At that point, they'll take over as PM

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Funkydog
07/07/22 7:35:18 AM
#208:


teep_ posted...
He'll be a caretaker PM until the new leader of the conservative party is elected. At that point, they'll take over as PM
Yup. Many expect him to appoint someone else as the caretaker, but given he's not once done what he's meant to he'd need to be forced to do so. Which the Tories might well do to try and disassociate themselves with him so we vote them back in at the General Election as a new leader means everything is immediately forgiven. Plus Corbyn, can you imagine!

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DeadBankerDream
07/07/22 7:39:02 AM
#209:


What about Corbyn?

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spikethedevil
07/07/22 7:44:28 AM
#210:


DeadBankerDream posted...
What about Corbyn?

Hes irrelevant.

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UnholyMudcrab
07/07/22 7:46:26 AM
#211:


Look at all this chaos. Cameron did try to warn you that this is what you'd get with Ed Miliband.

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teep_
07/07/22 7:46:53 AM
#212:


DeadBankerDream posted...
What about Corbyn?
What about him? He's a Labour politician, so he couldn't take over if that's what you're getting at

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Trelve
07/07/22 7:51:25 AM
#213:


teep_ posted...
What about him? He's a Labour politician, so he couldn't take over if that's what you're getting at
He's not part of Labour any more. Starmer kicked him out. He sits as an independent. Corbyn should have resigned before 2019, he's the reason we got Boris as PM.
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teep_
07/07/22 7:52:12 AM
#214:


Trelve posted...
He's not part of Labour any more. Starmer kicked him out. He sits as an independent. Corbyn should have resigned before 2019, he's the reason we got Boris as PM.
Oh TIL. I didn't know he'd been kicked out

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DeadBankerDream
07/07/22 8:05:28 AM
#215:


I just didn't get what was meant by reference to Corbyn Funky made.

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Sunhawk
07/07/22 8:09:58 AM
#216:


Who is the frontrunner for prime minister? Is there one?

IMHO there's nobody particularly obvious. Priti Patel? Jacob Rees-Mogg?

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Trelve
07/07/22 8:13:35 AM
#218:


Sunhawk posted...
Who is the frontrunner for prime minister? Is there one?

IMHO there's nobody particularly obvious. Priti Patel? Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Names being thrown around are Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Ben Wallace and Liz Truss.

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FunkyCat
07/07/22 8:15:19 AM
#219:


DeadBankerDream posted...
What about Corbyn?
I was just memeing about how many Tories deflect to irrelevant things.

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FunkyCat
07/07/22 8:22:20 AM
#220:


https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1545001330183479300?t=1ZKOzyB6M8PH2gKTvEee4w&s=19

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TomClark
07/07/22 8:32:29 AM
#221:


FunkyCat is Larry confirmed.

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SHRlKE
07/07/22 9:07:59 AM
#223:


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They did. Apparently Boris made a joke. Something along the lines of pincher by name pincher by nature
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Alucard188
07/07/22 9:13:49 AM
#224:


You mean if your own cabinet holds you accountable, you have to resign the post? Amazing what happens when you have some people with moral integrity to hold you in check.

Tories are still knobs though.

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spikethedevil
07/07/22 9:22:19 AM
#225:


Alucard188 posted...
You mean if your own cabinet holds you accountable, you have to resign the post? Amazing what happens when you have some people with moral integrity to hold you in check.

Tories are still knobs though.

None of the Tories have moral integrity.


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UnholyMudcrab
07/07/22 9:23:15 AM
#226:


Alucard188 posted...
some people with moral integrity to hold you in check.
Who would those be, though?

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PatrickMahomes
07/07/22 9:37:24 AM
#227:


PatrickMahomes posted...
So do we know what is triggering all this or not yet

scar the 1 posted...
Yeah it's been discussed several times in this ITT
Can I get a tl;dr? My first post ITT was 164 and it's up to the 200s now and I don't wanna read that many posts

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UnholyMudcrab
07/07/22 10:05:12 AM
#228:


PatrickMahomes posted...
Can I get a tl;dr? My first post ITT was 164 and it's up to the 200s now and I don't wanna read that many posts
The immediate cause is that an MP resigned from his position as Whip a week or so ago after a series of allegations of sexual assault. Johnson was accused of having known about these allegations, but also having ignored or covered them up to keep that MP in the government as an ally.

Arguably, though, the real cause might be that the Tories recently lost two by-elections with historically huge margin swings. It's a really bad look for Johnson and the Tories, and the resignations after the Pincher scandal are just people finding a convenient excuse to offload themselves from a government already going down in flames.

That's just my interpretation as an American outsider, at least.

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spikethedevil
07/07/22 10:06:57 AM
#229:


He flat out he admitted he knew about the allegations and that he knew he was found guilty by an internal investigation that hid it after the fact.

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Bio1590
07/07/22 10:12:19 AM
#230:


Now watch Priti Patel win

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TomClark
07/07/22 10:39:36 AM
#231:


Will be interesting to see if the party force Johnson out earlier.

Starmer has said that if they don't he will introduce a formal vote of no confidence in the government, which would could well trigger a full GE unless all the people who have spent the last days clamouring for Johnson to go vote that he should stay as PM for now (which, mad as it sounds, isn't necessarily unlikely).

Only... Starmer and Raynor may need to step down depending on if they get fined by the police (which we will probably come out soon), so we could have both parties having a leadership contest while also campaigning in a General Election.

Would be carnage, haha.

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Alucard188
07/07/22 10:46:38 AM
#233:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
Who would those be, though?

No idea. I heard on the radio that he had 40 ethics violations, so ministers were resigning in protest.

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TomClark
07/07/22 10:51:05 AM
#234:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Yeah, his admitting yesterday to meeting Lebedev kinda got buried, haha.

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Funkydog
07/07/22 11:19:00 AM
#235:


Bio1590 posted...
Now watch Priti Patel win
Literally the worst outcome. Evil doesn't come close to what empty vessel occupies what should be a heart in that creature.

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TomClark
07/07/22 11:31:48 AM
#236:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/0/AAABqgAADbNY.jpg

Here's the current preference amongst Tory Party members.

It's important to note that not all of these people are running (and the only person to thus far say that they are running isn't even on this list)

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Bio1590
07/07/22 11:44:59 AM
#237:


lmao "None of the Above" with that strong second-place showing

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FunkyCat
07/07/22 12:04:02 PM
#238:


TomClark posted...
Yeah, his admitting yesterday to meeting Lebedev kinda got buried, haha.
Yeah, this is a big thing that needs to be properly addressed and I hope it isn't just ignored.

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TomClark
07/07/22 12:04:43 PM
#239:


The fact that 3% would go for Patel is genuinely terrifying.

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Maze_
07/07/22 12:15:25 PM
#240:


TomClark posted...
The fact that 3% would go for Patel is genuinely terrifying.
some men just want to watch the world burn

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FunkyCat
07/07/22 12:42:10 PM
#241:


TomClark posted...
The fact that 3% would go for Patel is genuinely terrifying.
Were they asked when she was suspiciously nearby?

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Maze_
07/07/22 1:12:57 PM
#243:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


https://mobile.twitter.com/noirorion/status/1545079965728784385l

lol

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masterpug53
07/07/22 1:22:40 PM
#244:


Maze_ posted...
https://mobile.twitter.com/noirorion/status/1545079965728784385l

lol

lmao, perfect. "Oliver's dead, but he's not necessarily out of it" might be one of my all-time favorite MP lines.

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TomClark
07/07/22 4:19:33 PM
#245:


In case you ever mistakenly think that the people who resigned found some sort of morals rather than acting in self-interest, Will Quince, who quit yesterday, has just accepted a job in the new Cabinet.

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Xavier_On_High
07/07/22 4:24:46 PM
#246:


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Daaaamn. If anyone has reason to be mad a newspaper owners, it's Hugh Grant.

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FunkyCat
07/07/22 4:31:45 PM
#247:


TomClark posted...
In case you ever mistakenly think that the people who resigned found some sort of morals rather than acting in self-interest, Will Quince, who quit yesterday, has just accepted a job in the new Cabinet.
Lmao. I expect many of them will take positions tbh.

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spikethedevil
07/07/22 5:34:29 PM
#248:


Xavier_On_High posted...
Daaaamn. If anyone has reason to be mad a newspaper owners, it's Hugh Grant.

Home come?

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TomClark
07/07/22 5:39:16 PM
#249:


spikethedevil posted...
Home come?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20820485

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spikethedevil
07/07/22 5:45:01 PM
#250:


Ah yeah forgot about all that.

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