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John Byrne
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Without using the Internet, how many can you name?••• One. I’ll let you guess who.
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Matt Reed
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I think I can name four of six.
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Doug Centers
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I'm guessing it's the same one I can get!
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Peter Hicks
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“ With only two candidates tho…….”*********** The US has 5 candidates. Well at least 4, depending on whether you live in a swing state.
I understand the never ending argument of “you’re just throwing away your vote”, but are the Libertarian and Green leaders also unpalatable?
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Ben Stamer
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People love to rag on the two party system and whatnot. But having many parties is messier and makes it easier to elevate radical ideology when it's all coalitional.
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Brian ONeill
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CameronMay Johnson* Truss
Sunak Starmer *My 'JB guess'...Johnson's not exactly 'Dumpian', but, like the Dumpmeister, his cloying social media nonsense was rather uniquitous for a while, he said stupid things, had stupid 'hair', and lost his job in part due to Covid-related cluelessness. But he never told anybody to drink bleach, and if he ever had weird thoughts about Kim Jong Un, they have remained private.
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Bill Collins
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I have the idea that Johnson's bumbling persona is a
contrivance to make people underestimate him, and a handy
get-out clause when things go wrong. The endless pics of
him jogging in a mismatch of swim shorts, baggy old t-
shirt, almost knee length black socks, with white
trainers...nobody could be that scruffy by accident.
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Rich Johnston
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Well that would be David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer over six years,
And the six before Cameron, would be Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Jim Callaghan and Harold Wilson's second stint, which would cover 1974 to 2010, that's thirty-six years. So make it seven, including Ted Heath, and Wilson's first stint and that would be forty-six years between them.
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Rich Johnston
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Boris' appearance and mannerism was indeed an act. He would ruffle his hair, and unstraighten his tie before going on camera. He famously got stuck on a zip wire, waving two union flags. Given the effects of gravity, the only way to get stuck is to ask the zip wire operator to put the brakes on. It conicided with David Camerion, then-Prime Minister giving a big speech. And got knocked off all the front pages by Boris.
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James Woodcock
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Hard to believe that our most chaotic period
of PM changes followed a campaigning that
consisted of nothing more than the phrase
'strong and stable'
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Joseph Gauthier
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No insight or predictions here, but as an admirer of the office of the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (going back to Wilberforce), I'm beginning to worry about poor little Larry. Will he soon need to adjust to yet another group of humans stomping about his home?
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