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Exactly that's Boris struggling then
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PMQ - Boris v Starmer - Spider And The Fly
- Thread starter Tom Hark Preston Park
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Exactly that's Boris struggling then
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That god for austerity if Corbyn had been in the past few years we would have been starting from a recession.
Now that would have been catastrophic for our economy.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,557
It would be hard for any Chancellor not to look good when they've been given licence to throw money around like confetti whilst standing alongside a cabinet full of f*cktards.
Let's see where the guy is in 9 month's time when he's dealing with the impact of paying for the aftermath of Covid-19 and fighting the Hard Brexit fires.
Jimmy Grimble
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Why do you expect this? Is there dirt on him that you know about?
We will soon find out.
The speed with which this was produced suggests that it had been prepared earlier. That suggests two things: first of all, Starmer (or his advisers) are thinking two steps ahead, something which augurs well for the long-term future. Second, they knew that Johnson would lie - the fact that it's accepted that the PM would lie to the house is not something that augurs well for the short term.
Advice given depends on the questions you ask. If your questions are centred around maximising personal freedoms, minimising restrictions, and prioritising getting people back to work, the advice you get will be about that.
If, on the other hand, you ask how to minimise cases, minimise deaths and restrict the spread of the virus, you will get advice on that.
Then you make a decision about what to do and when, noting that the advice given that informs your decision may well be in conflict.
This is how government works. The buck stops with the PM and the cabinet. The latter are equally culpable - if they don't agree they can make a stand (like Javid....) or resign.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Helen Whately is such a lightweight they probably have to nail her shoes to the floor. She is that certain sort of Home Counties posh Tory bird who looks mortally offended if you so much as hint that her government might be a tad incompetent or - heaven forfend! - just plain nasty. Mind you, put her next to some of her colleagues (Truss, Patel) and she looks like the next PM.
But presumably without the "interjections" from Dominic Cummings.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
- 5,964
Hypothesis. What IS catastrophic is that our struggle to recover from the economic effects of the virus will be made far harder by the huge weakening of the public finances caused by Brexit.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
If any needs a bloody good lawyer it's The UK...
...and Tony Blair.
I'm in!
I was always very impressed with Blair when being interviewed and in a corner how he managed to talk himself out of it. One very clever and intelligent man, whatever else he was! I never voted for him either, which makes it even more irritating to me.
Exactly. I'm not sure why other people don't see this, it seems obvious to me.
(It also doesn't help to have political advisers attending science conferences - that's going to skew advice too)
If you put a hatstand next to Truss or Patel, it would look more like the next PM
afters
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I'd appreciate your view, with one single example of the great work being done, cheers
Theatre of Trees
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Rubbish - a crisis sorts the men from the boys or those who can talk the talk but not walk the walk.
Chamberlain couldn't deal with the crisis in 1940 and was booted out.
Churchill stood firm during the year of defeats in 1942 and survived being incredibly unpopular
Eden failed to deal with the Suez crisis in 1956 and was removed.
Heath chickened out of dealing with the crisis of 1973 and was voted out.
Thatcher dealt with the Falkland Crisis and that was the making of her.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
- 7,902
Yes. If he didn't know, he should just say 'please show me the document'. Instead he simply denied it, and was wrong.
WilburySeagull
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That is absolutely true. I hope your relatives are ok.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
ringmerseagulltoo
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- Feb 16, 2012
- 439
Hunt was the Minister who accused Doctors of being greedy and underhand during the NHS dispute couple of years ago. He is not fit to be an MP, leave alone PM.