Great news

[ladymuck]

They won't be.

The Tories will get a new leader.

Starmer and Blackford are gunning for Sunak.

(And if Sunak gets in politics in the UK will go back to being boring like it will if Biden is president in the US. )

Politics being boring would be a good thing for a while. It would.be nice to have people doing their jobs, thinking respectfully and intelligently about the greater good and needs of the country overall.

Oh well. Never mind.

[xoggoth]

Totally agree with that.

[Old Greg]

Politics being boring would be a good thing for a while. It would.be nice to have people doing their jobs, thinking respectfully and intelligently about the greater good and needs of the country overall.

Oh well. Never mind.

Nonsense. People wanted a quirk PM with a bit of character about him.

[AtW]

Nonsense. People wanted a quirk PM with a bit of character about him.

Too right. Also people want to learn new things, such as new words that they otherwise would not because they did not have priviledge to study at Eton College and Classics at Balliol College, Oxford.

[vetran]

Politics being boring would be a good thing for a while. It would.be nice to have people doing their jobs, thinking respectfully and intelligently about the greater good and needs of the country overall.

Oh well. Never mind.

John Major is regularly suggested as one of our best Prime ministers.

[courtg9000]

How long till the next General Election?

I have heard people "in the know" suggesting a General Election at some point in 2021.

[AtW]

I have heard people "in the know" suggesting a General Election at some point in 2021.

Yeah, right after Rishi's first tax hiking budget

[Dark Black]

John Major is regularly suggested as one of our best Prime ministers.

Is that a different meaning of "best" to the usual one?

Perhaps where "best" actually means "useless cretin"?

[d000hg]

Eat Out to Help Out: Rishi Sunak hints at New Year return of scheme | Daily Mail Online


So a third even bigger Covid spike, and then another round of tax rises to pay for those on furlough to get fat eating down the pub again.

How long till the next General Election?

The spike was not caused by the scheme. Our runaway rise in cases didn't start until weeks after the scheme finished.

[d000hg]

I have heard people "in the know" suggesting a General Election at some point in 2021.

For the first time, they'll be campaigning to lose so they don't have to deal with it.