The Bid for Leadership Race....

[thomas michael]

hi rodney mills #133
good evening, thanks for your comments, i unlike your good self am only a observer and any opinion i have is purely on that basis,
also my beliefs are totally different from yours and others on this site, and why not, I can though agree one thing and that is from a distance it looks to me that desantos will run with trump,and im sure if your honest with yourself you will know they are on winner, other than that im not going to spoil it for anybody as we all have different hopes or ambitions.
tom

[thomas michael]

hi graham #142

good evening, i have just heard that the figure now calling for boris johnson to be included in the running for prime minister is six thousand, as momentum builds behind the scenes, a dispicable lord finklstien i believe is his title, together with theresa may and others of the same ilk are trying to stop a vote going to the conservative membership, i believe this will only antagonise those members whom will come out in larger numbers,
from small acorns come giant oaks.
tom

[Rodney Mills]

#134

It is very hard if not impossible to run against a sitting president who has done nothing illegal and represents your own party. How could Kamilla Harris give speeches stating that Joe Biden is unfit for office due to his age. Should Biden decide to run and lose the Democratic nomination at the Democratic convention and Harris win the nomination then she would resign as V.P. and run full time as the party's candidate. If others come out and seek the nomination, she would have to resign and actively campaign for the nomination before the convention. Just a lot of ifs at the moment.

As for your last sentence. I sincerely hope that does not come about, however, the "nutter" would have to be a left wing nutter, all the right wing nutters are voting for him.

As for Biden running again. I don't think he will. His legacy is a good one, serving 36 years in the senate winning 6 terms, he was well respected by both parties. the clock has passed him. He can not publicly say that at this time as he would be considered a lame duck, much as any president in the last 2 years of their second term are. Nothing gets done, and his legacy would be shot. I think he will announce he is not a candidate just before the Democratic convention and close his career out with a big celebration at the convention, honoring his career. I think it would be sad if that doesn't happen and he runs.

#135

Trump must first win the nomination of the Republican party at their convention. He is the favorite of the far right of the Republican party, but that alone is not enough to guarantee him success. It's a tough one to call, for example Romney is making sounds of running, however he is viewed as a left-wing Republican and with Trump having (currently but falling) 40 odd % of the Republican vote and others suggesting running too, it doesn't leave much of an opening for Romney, rights won't vote for him and lefts won't vote for Trump.

A President is only allowed two 4-year terms and Obama served his 2 terms, so he can't run again. However, if a president dies in office, the V.P takes over and finishes the late presidents term thay are allowed, should they win, 2 full terms, 8 years plus the fill-in time.

#136

We may say that Trump lied and cheated and should be in prison, but just like in the UK and most of the world, first comes a trial and if found guilty next comes a sentence.

As for his son and the scandals around him. All of you (and me) sit back and imagine, your dad or mom is running for high Publick office.

Doing well in the polls. Your parent's rivals are having a brainstorm and asking "Have we got any dirt on him (or her)." Nope is the answer "He's as clean as new snow. One staff member puts up his hands..."What about his kids"? someone answers "He has a son who was in the Merchant Navy, look him up". There's much activity on laptops.15 minutes later..."Holy Cow, I found his posts on "Friends". Shacked-up with ladies of the night at different ports, staggered back drunk as a skunk from the dockside bar to his ship, throwing up and laughing in his post about it"..."My god, what sort of father did he have that brought him up to behave like that. He he!" We got him, adds in every paper and get on TV and radio, sink the sucker."

Perhaps when we talk about loose cannon sons of parents, we should remember we were someone's son too and I know my dad was not responsible for my actions. He'd have whooped me if he knew half of it.

Cheers, Rodney

[Keith Tindell]

Good points Rodney, if my old man had known ?, i shudder with the thought.

[Graham Shaw]

Tom # 149- Re Theresa May" When BoJo did his final Weds.PM Questions this week he bowed out with his usual good humour -how I shall miss that !
How noticeable that his predecessor Theresa May did not stand and clap him-hell hath no fury like an ousted woman PM scorned. It was captured on the ITV television cameras-indeed the broadcaster told us to ''watch out for Theresa May NOT clapping Boris out' after his Commons valedictory speech.

Now,like everything on the internet,that will be there for eternity.

Oh Theresa-you are the worst PM we have had in history.... thank goodness Boris rescued Brexit for us.

Anyway,I am no longer looking forward to my PM's question time when Richkid SoonTax gets in,as regrettably he will.It is very much going to be the SoonTax Look at Me-I've got my own Peter Perfect Show-:"look,make sure you get all sides of me on camera" sort of thing-delivered in a mildly fruity Winchester College-ish-I have so much to say," sort of way.His delivery sounds so remarkably like Tony Blair,doesn't it?...I wonder if Spitting Image will latch onto that and have a little Tony Blair sitting in Richkid's pocket as he makes his speeches-in very much the way they had the Two Davids of the SDP,with 'little David 'Steele sat in David Owen's pocket-do you remember that sketch?

Still,Liz Truss is gaining support amongst those who dislike Mr.SoonTax,but as I said at the beginning of this thread a long time ago-it has been masterminded through this coup that he will become the next PM of the United Kingdom....Good Night.jpg

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Graham.
A bit of reverse history there, maybe when Richkid Son tax get's in, he will offer the Queen Britain's freedom from India and they will all go home, reveres History.
Des

[cappy]

♫ " There are more Questions than Answers " ♫-- Johnny Nash,1972

(Whenever a song is mentioned,it'll be in my head all day now...Attachment 35027

[thomas michael]

hi des #153
good morning, your missive only rings hollow in my ears, as warnings often start as a gentle chide or joke, ( note how everything your wife warns you against doing becomes true ) well if you where to travel to some parts of this country you would be shocked too see no other than those we speak of.
i recently read about the uprising in FIJI because of the prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry ( obviously not from fiji, i think he was born in luton ) anyway the indiginous population rose up on the 29th may 2000 and a civillian coup detat was in progress when the previous president a fine fiji gentleman called Sir Kamisese tatu mara organised his own coup detat and on the 27th of may 2000 and then the millitary on the the 29th of may 2000 took over and removed the goverment.
a story of alarm and possibly a premonition of things to come, But in this present time with the new religion for the left being the Green agenda and calling for jihad or global war on oil and fossil fuels, it is easy to imagine how a spark could ignite citizens around this country or others to bring the establishment down,
so in future des always listen to the wife, she knows best,
ps i better go i hear her shouting again.
tom

ps i do know that the chappie Mahendra Chaudhry was born in fiji, it was part of the joke

[James Curry]

#156 Indo-Fijians are mostly descended from indentured labourers, girmitiyas or girmit, brought to the islands by Fiji's British colonial rulers between 1879 and 1916 to work on Fiji's sugar cane plantations. After existing indenture was cancelled on 1 January 1920 they were given the choice of returning to India at their own expense, or remain in Fiji. The great majority opted to stay because they could not afford to return under the low pay (even in many instances they were denied paid wages) of the British government or were refused to be sent back. After the expiry of their girmits, many leased small plots of land from Fijians and developed their own sugarcane fields or cattle farmlets. Others went into business in the towns that were beginning to spring up.

The Caribbean Islands exactly the same the Colonial Plantation owners did not want to live there so they put in place Indians to run the plantations for them. Reason being the Indians have a good head for business.

[Mo Docherty]

Truss wanted to abolish monarchy fellas.
Truss is applauded in footage showing her talking about 'abolishing the Monarchy'