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Pele is looking like a must for next year alas

Former PM of Georgia Otar Patsatsia dead at 92.

Carmen Salinas has now died at 82: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/famed-mexican-actress-carmen-salinas-dies-at-age-82/2776107/

Yep. This is how I see it going. Johnson will be turfed out by a pro-Sunak cabal around February ‘22. Prime Minister Sunak will enjoy being a shiny new face for the press to coo over but nothing will change, public confidence won’t recover and we’ll have a hung parliament in the election that’ll happen near Christmas in ‘23, held a few months early because it’ll be heralded as the first Christmas without any rona restrictions (which the deluded bunch of Tory fuckers will claim as a success). Starmer will refuse to coalesce with other parties for a progressive alliance govt, he’ll be fucked out of there quicker than you can sing “Woahhh Je-re-my Corrrrrr-byn” and the PM/Labour leader will be selected by the cunts at the SNP, obviously subject to agreeing Indyref 2. That’ll be a ‘no’ again. Meanwhile, the Labour PM will lose the confidence of Labour members within a year or so, a new one will be selected (I’m thinking maybe Rebecca Wrong-Daily or similar) and, crumbling under the pressure of a coalition that’s breaking up thanks to the aforementioned angry nationalist fuckers, we’ll have another GE in 2025. We’ll all do our best Brenda from Bristol impressions and it’ll be ANOTHER hung parliament. As a result of being caught in this infinite loop of misery caused by a heady cocktail of crippling, lasting Tory & Brexit damage, a fragmented Labour leadership and a deeply unintelligent electorate, half the population will decide the most blissful option would be to kill themselves, the other half will make rafts out of their cadavers and row either to a tax haven or to New Zealand, depending on how they voted. Apart, of course, from crackhead Gove and his new, recently-widowed partner-to-hide-the-homosexuality Carrie and her two young, stuttering, messy-haired kids. They’ll stay put and reign supreme on whatever is left of this putrid little piece of Atlantic flotsam. Put a fiver on it.

I doubt he is overly bothered about it.

I will be blunt. If they lose North Shropshire they are losing the next election. It's too big a swing needed, and there is no good news on the horizon, just winter, more covid and various own goals that linger in the press for weeks. I don't think they are going to lose North Shropshire, but yeah, when the public go fuck off to a government it can be sudden and painful but it never reverses, and this lot are on thin ice at the moment. (Also, I do note the sudden jump in Labour polling as soon as Starmer decided to, you know, do some opposing. If that doesn't teach them a lesson, nowt will!)

Ok thanks, I'll put the ones I pulled after SM's intervention back in then. I like picking ex-Tory cabinet ministers, allows you to mix business wth pleasure.

According to Helio Castroneves on Instagram, Al Unser Sr. has passed away.

Knighted business executive Sir Christopher Hogg death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/253983/hogg-sir-christopher Yeah, it's all blah blah blah, Chief Exec of Courtaulds, non-exec director of the Bank of England, former Chair of Reuters Group, YAWN!! What is important however is that his wife is Miriam Stoppard, or should I say Miriam, Lady Hogg, doctor, author, presenter and born 1937 so getting up there in possible selection.

Bottom line - the party are brutal in deposing leaders they think can't win an election and they've got to get the newbie in with enough time to set out a stall for the next election, and use the excuse that all the trouble is down to Bojo. He'll likely stagger into 2022 as PM, but he'll be gone in several weeks/a few months.

Sykes continues to be absent from Last Word. Given the larger amount of celeb deaths recently I don’t think that mention is coming at this point…

Updated for the death of Ralph Tavares. 2 days shy of his 80th birthday. Ouch.

I'm out. Went round Sainsburys happily enough to the strains of Wizzard, the Waitresses and Shakey, then got the single whammy at the checkout....another minute and I'd have been clear.

Don't panic! He's still with us but it is, for reasons I'm not clear on, #richardosullivanday on the twitter:

Boris is helped by the fact Parliament breaks for Christmas on Thursday and therefore by next Friday Tory Mp’s will scattered all over the country rather than all being together in the tea room plotting.

Photos from earlier today.

Team sent. Thanks for running!

Ah yes, that was an Abba hit, no? Boulez Deux (aha).

Susie Steiner to replace Lars Hogh

May I replace Lars Hogh with Pele please.

Lars Hogh out (RIP), Vic Elford in, thanks.

May I replace Lars Hogh with Russell Bishop please.

Those i've mentioned in ideas and possibilities recently/somewhere down the line: Janey Godley - Ovarian Cancer Tom Parker - Cancer June Spencer - Is 102 and a voice actress in The Archers James Lovelock - 102 Baronees Pamela Sharples - 98 Baroness Jill Knight - 98 Eva Marie Saint - 97 Mike Nussbaum - 97 Baron Henry Plumb - 96 Baron John Eden - 96 Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford - 94 Viscount William Lloyd George - 94 Baroness Betty Boothroyd - 92 Gene Hackman - 91 Katherine Jackson - 91 Warren Buffett - 91 Clint Eastwood - 91 Rolf Harris - 91 Barbara Eden - 90 Shirley MacLaine - 87 Jean Marsh - 87 Dame Maggie Smith - 86 Christina Pickles - 86 Barry Cryer - 86 Ursula Andress - 85 Lord John Prescott - 83 Wally Funk - 82 (oldest person in space) Paul Simon - 80 (recently sold all his music) Milos Zeman - 77 (Czech president who recently left hospital after being elected around October) Aung San Suu Kyi - 76 Ashraf Ghani - 72 (former Aghan president who fled from Taliban) Martin Bashir - 58 (ongoing health issues) Derek Draper - 54 (Kate Garraway's husband who seems to give daily upates on his health. Currently "in a terrible state") Eugenia Cooney - 27 (anorexic)

@Lafaucheuse Replace Bob Dole (#1 spot) with Jake Roberts (WWE) please.