Nope she was president of the Oxford University LibDems in her final year at Uni, the same year she made the Republican speech at their conference. Then she left Uni and became a Tory (almost overnight it would seem)
Just think how absolutely stupid this process is
I can't think of any other election that is held this way and remember it's only an election to be a candidate in an election
They could easily have got the nominations phase out of the way. Right you lot have reached the threshold. Hold one round of hustings (somewhere in Westminster) and Single Transferable Vote to whittle it down to the final two. Put the final two down to the membership with one round of Hustings on say Russia Today for the membership to watch where the people who really support the MPs are coming from and thats it
Just remember, this is the way they want it but no-one else is allowed this luxury of perpetually whittling down the candidates one at a time and the dirty tricks and getting people to vote for different candidates is what they actually want. So Mordor complaining about the smears and the dirty tricks, should have raised those concerns with the 1922 committee at the start or before this processs began. It's what they and she wanted.
All these debates do is make the membership hate their elective representitives a bit more, sew a bit more division in the Tory Party and give the rest of us a laugh (or the horrors, if you're taking them too seriously)
All the candidates are Tory, they are all still words removed, just some of them are clearings in the wood too
Tories are still going to be Tory and do Tory things
Great band
EDIT: and after spotting you posting this I noticed their first album has been repressed and that got bought, plus, they are playing in Jerkinbed in August
Nah, these debates or hustings or whatever they are mean close to zero, the Tory Plebs will get the choice they are given and thats that
WordremovedHome.com has Truss currently in second place with the membership (Badenoch first) which is actually upward movement because they have seemingly dumped Mordor like a hot brick (she was clearly top by a long way before the first debate).
You can get 5/1 on Truss right now, I'm actually tempted. The bookies seem a little out of touch on this one, they still have Sunak favourite with Mordaunt second. Could be a nice little earner
Doubt it, she won't get presented to the Tory Plebs as a choice.
I really don't think these tv hustings are going to change the minds of many if any actual MPs
If anyone loses votes as a result of them it's most likely to be Mordor but I doubt she'll lose much
I think the most likely matchup is Truss vs Sunak but a lot depends on Tugendhats votes, logically they will go to Mordor but suspect some may actually go to Truss, they are highly unlikely to go to Badenoch which will be her getting knocked out in the following vote and her votes will most likely go to Truss
That was definitely The Morning Star. Owned and run by a workers collective in line with the polices of The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Started out life as the Daily Worker when it was actually owned by the CPGB. It currently follows the policies of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), yes another Life of Brian moment on the left when the Tankies and the Eurocommunists split. This lot are the Tankies as they were back then
Anyway, phew its slightly hot out
Nuclear winter maybe
My Grandfather was a member of the Communist Party, in fact he was one of a team that helped translate the Communist Manifesto into Welsh so I'm led to believe. It was the only daily paper that got delivered to his house.
My recollection of 1976 is that it was hotter than this and for a very sustained period, like weeks on end
The roads melted, we wrote our names in sticky tar
It started well before I finished junior school and ended sometime after I started comprehensive school
I think 2020 generally had nicer more sustained hot weather than this year
Genuine conversation from last night with a man who was at least 65
"This heatwave is dreadful isn't it, people are going to die"
"You've been stood in the local park all day at a festival, you appear to be still with us"
In other news everyones favourite crater that was formally an airport in Chernobaivka has seemingly gone Boom! for about the 4th time this week
Yes it's Groundorc Day
You could always try Vessel FInder the marine equivalent of flight radar to look for a carrier in the Med (don't bother, it's shit for military)
Sorry, no clue.