Two tory female PMs to nil. Your move, Labour.
May’s speech this morning before the superannuated Palin that is Leadsom stepped aside was interesting. May made a big thing about excessive corporate greed, putting workers on governing boards of companies and the government being more proactive in blocking asset-stripping takeovers.
It was a very calculated move: May firmly planted her tanks on the New Labour lawn; large parts of it came straight from Ed Miliband’s general election manifesto or were those originally laid out by Will Hutton around 1997. Labour either has to fight hard in that territory - and come up with a credible industrial strategy - or retreat to Corbyn’s preferred politics which just won’t succeed in the most populous parts of the country and will doom them to eternal opposition.
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A whole lot of her mortal enemies in the Conservative Party have just had unfortunate ‘accidents’.
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Agree, but in the UK “Palin” means Michael Palin, who is a national treasure ™.
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I saw Leadsom described as “Iain Duncan Smith with more hair and less charm”, by a “cabinet source” apparently.
I’d vote for Michael Palin. But not Cleese.
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On the bright side I’m feeling much better about voting for Clinton now.
what would happen if E2 does not accept the resignation? afaik it’s her job to select a prime minister, and something like “fuck off, clean up the house and come back when you have a plan for the future” could be not the worst idea.
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That might be satisfying on a personal level, but I am not sure it is in anyone’s interest to rely on that hollow shell of a man any longer than necessary. Painful or not, stuff has to happen soon.
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the question was less about the outcome. mostly I’m curious about the legal situation and the actual power the queen has
Oh boy, more great strides for women in British politics like Margaret Thatcher made.
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Female? She is a servant of the Old Ones and is clearly wearing a class 5 glamour. And not a very good one at that. Gove’s malfunctioned just the other day…
God help us all.
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The debates would be illuminating, though…
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Ah. Since the Glorious Revolution AKA formalising of Dutch takeover in 1688, the monarch only governs with the consent of Parliament. It was a neat formula that allowed Parliament to get shot of James the Awful and replace him with William (and Mary) of Orange.
(The Dutch/East Anglian connection is an example of why “leaving the EU” is a bit of a joke. East Anglia has an amazing water control system that compares with those of the Netherlands and Dutch and East Anglian engineers collaborated on both sides of the sea. If you like that sort of thing and visit the UK, visit Denver to see the sluice system which can throw water around the region from the Wash to beyond Bedford - at one time it boasted the three biggest steam driven water pumps in the world.)
Anyway, digression as a glance at the Dutch side of my own ancestry over, if Brenda gets stroppy Parliament can diplomatically remind her that there’s plenty of Saxe-Coburg-Gothas out of a job right now including her own son, and a lot of people seem to be losing their jobs in politics right at the moment.
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Monty Python anticipated 2008 with the Banker sketch - “No, I don’t give you money, you give me money.”
Cleese’s character in Fawlty Towers is basically a taller Nigel Farage.
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I translate that as Rätsel ohne Rahmen (?). Like a lot of things it sounds even better in German.
fine as translation, but in both languages more a half-assed fragment of an idea and not really thought and written out : )
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That’s how you get ants.
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Supposing a person hadn’t been following this story for very long, and supposing they weren’t familiar with the names and the politics of the various British political parties. Worse still, supposing one had only paid attention to U.S.ian politics in the last 20 years, is there a quick orientation one might read to catch up, and track all these players? I’m particularly curious to see if Bernie Sanders has any sort of British counterpart.
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