So it's Boris

By heck GGM3 you’re going back a bit?
The consequences will be greater for Johnson though, if it doesn’t pay off, and for the Conservative Party.
I always thought ‘the little people’ were leprechauns btw.

I imagine those around at the time said to each other that the Charge of the Light Brigade was a "bold gamble" too Lemongrove. Some people never learn do they? And of course consequences are for the little people aren't they.

I like that too Lessismore

" if you are tired of politics , you are normal" a very famous quote.

Haha! Thanks for explanation Elegran and for the giggle suziewoozie
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I expect that London was quite a contrast to Lichfield!

Samuel Johnson was just so metropolitan elite wasn’t he? ☹️

I think it was Samuel Johnson who said "Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life", but I suspect that in the last few days a lot of people have become tired of London

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-lehman-trilogy

In answer to Whitewave (I think) this was an absolute tour de force!
Quite stunning in every respect -unmissable! (And so good not to be anything about politics!)

MaizieD Boris will be threatening them with de-selection next if they don't toe the line - taking lessons from Jeremy!

I think that's up to the constituency party, not the party leader, isn't it? Party leader can withdraw the whip but I don't think they can order deselection.

If there are wholesale deselections it could be interesting as mass deselection is not a particularly common process.

Constituency parties usually comprise a very small percentage of the constituency electorate and are packed with activists who may not represent the general views of the constituency voters. If the deselected one stood as an independent or for another party would local voters stick with their (deselected) MP or would they stick with the party they usually voted for? In the current state of politics can one be sure of anything happening 'as normal'?

Just musing...

Who was it that said something about ‘if you’re tired of politics you’re tired of life’ or some such?

We are behind Boris, he is going to be a great leader, just look at the Commons today, cheering to the rafters, duplicitous and appeasing May could only dream of such a reception!

Nope, not at all, politics is very interesting, and no more so than right now.

MawBroonsback Thu 25-Jul-19 17:11:20

"It seems that some people have had little else to interest them today than watching the Hof C on TV!"
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That's me told then.

Actually I do watch a lot of BBC Parliament ' Live ' on free view as some posters probably have noted. I like to hear from the horses mouth to make my decisions and follow politics and to be honest I find nothing wrong in that.

Others like to get their information from believing some very dubious blogs and post links to them etc.

Horses for courses I guess.

PS, Yep health issues too and politics ' is my interest'.

Just saying, not annoyed. Accept I am a sad b----r.

Yep, of course I realise the numbers in the HoC don’t stack up! Boris won’t back down. If the EU won’t try to negotiate a new deal (the old one was thrown out like a dead cat 3 times) then Boris & team are preparing for No Deal - with details to be open and transparent - not secretively as Mrs May and Eeyore Hammond did - keeping everything under wraps.

He’ll do his best. Which quite probably won’t be good enough as our own MP’s will vote his ideas down I bet.

General election then. Boris & Nigel will make a pact not to pinch votes off each other then Brexit can steam ahead.

Labour doesn’t have a clear side to back so will lose votes - either to Farage for Leavers or Lib Dem’s if they are Remainers.

Boris can then say ‘look I tried. I gave it my best shot. I’m on your side to get this done’.

That’s my take, for what it’s worth.

Still MaizieD you have agree it’s a bold gamble by Johnson to do what he did with the Cabinet sackings.Time will tell whether it was the right thing ( for him) though, if he makes enemies.

Perhaps it wasn't quite as hot on the coast lemongrove.

*it's my way or the highway^
MaizieD Boris will be threatening them with de-selection next if they don't toe the line - taking lessons from Jeremy!

Then you were very brave Callistemon ?
We cowered inside sucking ice cubes, watched tv and did crosswords.......it’s still hot even now!

And the message to every Tory MP in the HoC is

its my way or the Highway

Does it occur to you, UG' that he has a majority of one and that alienating tory MPs is not the way to retain it. It won't take many defections of MPs too honourable to hold their noses, for him to be left with no majority at all. And thus, unable to pass any legislation.

They do say that mad dogs and Englishmen (and women) go out in the midday sun, lemongrove!

That would be DH and me, but no dog now, alas.
We were not alone, there were many others

Sometimes the posts on GN are just so wonderfully nutty.

lemon ain't going on any course any time soon.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here we are,,,,,,,,

Nothing to be done but make the best of it, and always hit the polling stations, it's the only way to make a change. The worst of it is are any of them any good?

No lemongrove. Just because someone isn't singing your song does not make what they say "utter tosh". I appreciate you have no argument (yet again) against your rather cruel tendency to "other" people but I have a right to a view on that tendency.

I wonder if you could get a place on the current inclusiveness courses the infant an junior schools are running where you might learn that we are all equal - not less than because our race, religion or different political views.

growstuff suggested some posters can’t get out ( true enough) but also as today was predicted to be the hottest July day on record, a lot of us were staying in and keeping cool....which accounted for all the HOC tv watching.
Now, you have had it all explained to you.?

Utter tosh!