Our next unelected PM?

Captain_Swoop said:
It's been flagged that Priti Patel is going to be Home Secretary.
That's a woman that was fired from her last cabinet post for colluding with a foreign State to finance its military, who has suggested starving Ireland to get Brexit and is an ardent supporter of the death penalty.
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This is all that needs to be known about this evil woman

She opposes prisoner voting. She has also opposed allowing Jeremy Bamber, who was convicted of murder in her constituency, access to media to protest his innocence.


No one believes Bamber did the crime after a glance at the evidence.
Johnson should study the case and sack her.
 
Boris Johnson has promised the "beginning of a new golden age", as he made his first Commons statement as PM.

Speaking to MPs, Mr Johnson said his government would throw itself into Brexit negotiations with energy.

He also assured EU citizens living in the UK they would have "absolute certainty" of their right to live and remain in the country.

On Brexit, he told MPs, minister Michael Gove would make planning for a no-deal Brexit a "top priority".

Despite emphasising the importance of preparing for a no deal, Mr Johnson said he would "much prefer" to leave the EU with a deal and added that he will work "flat out to make it happen".

However he told MPs the withdrawal agreement - negotiated by Theresa May with the EU - was "unacceptable to this Parliament and to this country".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49107417
 
JoeMorgue said:
Congratulations to the UK in pulling ahead in the "Pasty Old White Guy with Horrible Comb-over/Toupee" Competition. I honestly didn't think anyone would find anyone to beat our guy.

What's that? This isn't a "Pasty Old White Guy With Horrible Comb-over/Toupee" competition? It's the two most powerful Western Democracies elected Heads of State?

Oh well that's not good then...
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"Old"? He's 55. His hair is also natural.
 
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GlennB said:
There was a vote. Sturgeon could have lost but won it comfortably. This no more a 'rubber stamp' than any other vote that's won comfortably.

People are reduced to describing your posts as drivel simply because you don't argue honestly and are incapable of accepting that you're ever wrong about things.
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There was only one candidate, Sturgeon. So she was elected unopposed.

You really ought to try, you know, reading posts and thinking a little before responding with a reflex action of posting, 'drivel' to anything you don't agree with. It's much better to address the argument than attack the poster - that's what we're expected to do on this board that is supposed to promote critical thinking.
 
catsmate said:
And again no support for your claims...
:rolleyes:
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I spell it out when I make a 'claim'. On the one occasion I did recently, you were shown to be totally wrong with your usual and predictable reflex action of posting, 'liar'. The facts I posted that I claimed were facts, and you said weren't, were demonstrated to indeed be facts - only an irrational person could disagree. We can go over them again if you want to be proven wrong once more.

Now you don't usually make claims. You just post insults. You should try to do better.
 
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ceptimus said:
There was only one candidate, Sturgeon. So she was elected unopposed.

You really ought to try, you know, reading posts and thinking a little before responding with a reflex action of posting, 'drivel' to anything you don't agree with. It's much better to address the argument than attack the poster - that's what we're expected to do on this board that is supposed to promote critical thinking.
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In the 2014 election for First Minister her opponent was Ruth Davidson.

In the 2016 election for First Minister her opponent was Willie Rennie.

You are wrong.
 
ceptimus said:
There was only one candidate, Sturgeon. So she was elected unopposed.

You really ought to try, you know, reading posts and thinking a little before responding with a reflex action of posting, 'drivel' to anything you don't agree with. It's much better to address the argument than attack the poster - that's what we're expected to do on this board that is supposed to promote critical thinking.
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That's nonsense again. You were told the other candidate was Ruth Davidson!

What's the point of addressing the argument when the poster simply ignores what they are told and continues on with their nonsense?
 
Incidentally I notice the SNP have dubbed Bojo 'The last PM of the UK' not sure it will be accurate but the fact it even could be speaks volumes.
 
abaddon said:
In the 2014 election for First Minister her opponent was Ruth Davidson.

In the 2016 election for First Minister her opponent was Willie Rennie.

You are wrong.
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Archie Gemmill Goal said:
That's nonsense again. You were told the other candidate was Ruth Davidson!

What's the point of addressing the argument when the poster simply ignores what they are told and continues on with their nonsense?
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ceptimus has confused himself. The 'rubber stamp' he refers to is for the First Minister elections, contested and won twice by Sturgeon. I suspect he's confusing those with the SNP leadership election, where Sturgeon was the only candidate.
 
a_unique_person said:
You are just looking at it the wrong way. The head of state is the Queen for the UK (Monarchy) or the President of the USA (elected). The Prime Minister is the equivalent of the USA leader of the House. Since the head of state in the USA is elected, he has more power than the head of state of the UK, who, over time, has become more of a figure head than anything else. Just imagine if the President of the USA was like the head of state of other countries that also have an elected president who actually has very little power. Then the Leader of the House would be in effect the leader of the USA.
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You are very very badly mistaken about the US system of government. Both in how it compares to the UK system, and in and of itself.

Like, wake up tomorrow and wish you had deleted your post when you had the chance, mistaken.
 
I wonder if Boris picked Patel because she would make him look moderate …..
I wonder if Boris's going almost complelty to the Hard Right wing of the Conservatives
is going to alienats a lot of the less extreme conservatives.
 
Wikipedia said:
The First Minister is nominated by the Scottish Parliament from among its members at the beginning of each term, by means of an exhaustive ballot. They are then formally appointed by the monarch.[7]
In theory, any member of the Scottish Parliament can be nominated for First Minister. However, the government must maintain the confidence of the Scottish Parliament to in order to gain supply (access to exchequer funds). For this reason, the First Minister is almost always the leader of the largest party, or the leader of the senior partner in any majority coalition.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland

Wikipedia said:
Nominations for the SNP leadership closed on 15 October, with Sturgeon confirmed as the only candidate.[37] On this date, Sturgeon also came out on top in a trust rating opinion poll, conducted for the SNP, which indicated that 54% of the Scottish population trusted her to "stand up for Scotland's interests".[38] Sturgeon was formally acclaimed as the first female Leader of the SNP on 14 November 2014 at the Autumn Conference in Perth, with Hosie as her depute. This also effectively made her First Minister in waiting, given the SNP's absolute majority in the Scottish Parliament.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon

As I said, only candidate (of the largest party) and therefore duly rubber stamped by the Scottish Parliament, and formally appointed by the Queen.

It remains the fact that Boris got over ninety thousand more votes immediately before becoming PM than Sturgeon got before becoming First Minister.

Continue to quibble if you must. Maybe you should attempt to edit the Wikipedia entries too.
 
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Relations between the UK and the US are going to be "sensational" now Boris Johnson is in Downing Street, America's ambassador to the UK has said.

Woody Johnson told the BBC the two had a lot in common in their leadership style and desire to "get things done".

He played down the PM's criticism of Mr Trump when he was London mayor, when he called him "stupefyingly ignorant".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49125925
 
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.

Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job, he also bans colleagues from using various words in correspondence with other MPs and the public.

Among the list of bizarre rules, he asks staff not to use the words “got”, “very” or “equal”.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-26/itv-news-exclusive-jacob-rees-mogg-issues-style-guide-to-staff/
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.

Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job, he also bans colleagues from using various words in correspondence with other MPs and the public.

Among the list of bizarre rules, he asks staff not to use the words “got”, “very” or “equal”.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-26/itv-news-exclusive-jacob-rees-mogg-issues-style-guide-to-staff/
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It's a fake. He acknowledges the existence of 'Ms' as a form of address. As if the real Rees-Mogg would do that. :D
 
ceptimus said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sturgeon

As I said, only candidate (of the largest party) and therefore duly rubber stamped by the Scottish Parliament, and formally appointed by the Queen.

It remains the fact that Boris got over ninety thousand more votes immediately before becoming PM than Sturgeon got before becoming First Minister.

Continue to quibble if you must. Maybe you should attempt to edit the Wikipedia entries too.
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Why would anyone edit the Wiki entries? They already show that you are flat out wrong.
 
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