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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 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.

Aye, but Heaven's acquired an angel

I'm out to the Whamageddon version of a self-inflicted gunshot to the foot. The wean is super excited about Christmas, so I turned over to the music channel for them. 5 mins later, Wham come on and I was like "Oh yeah, forgot".

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…

I vaguely imagined Martine McCutcheon would have played somebody's girlfriend, but she played the teenage lead character's mother.

Put him back on suicide watch after this. Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules - BBC News

Maybe. Through in a by - election people are not voting on who the next government will be. And because Labour will need a even bigger poll lead to be able to govern without some form of cooperation with the SNP a repeat of the 2015 arguments could be a major factor come Election Day which is not a factor atm.

Well... damn. Already had 38 names up for consideration. This might take longer than expected.

Oh, just scroll past them, The Old Crem. I'm amazed there aren't more tattoo places in Ireland called ""Conas atá tú?"

The issue is can another leader win? Sunak and Truss are both economically more right wing and that might not go down well in the red wall seats. So they have to win solely on the culture war and that is always risky as that can be unpredictable in terms of its success.

1921    Elisabeth Kirkby / Sir Michael Anthony Epstein  1922    Rhoda Wurtele / Jean Malaurie 1923 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat / Jack Burke 1924 Carole Cook / Geoff Brown 1925 Cara Williams / Dick van Dyke  1926 Queen Elizabeth / Bob Falkenburg 1927 Rosemary Harris / Sidney Poitier 1928 Yvonne Furneaux / Joss Ackland 1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Tippi Hedren / Rolf Harris

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/16988699/pele-smiles-hospital-daughter-colon-tumour/ Posts a picture from his hospital bed

In for Lars Høgh: 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)

Some random and unoriginal suggestions: James Earl Jones (91- Darth Vader/Mufasa) Marion Ross (94- Happy Days' Marion Cunningham) Tom Lehrer (94- Singer/Inventor of Jell-O shot) Gene Shalit (96- Critic) Vin Scully (95- Sportscaster) Phil Collins (71- Singer) Pele (82- Football god) Buzz Aldrin (92- Moonwalker) Nichelle Nichols (90- Lt Uhura) Jiang Zemin (96- Ex-Chinese president/forum favorite) Michael Dukakis (89- Politician)- Bob Dole's replacement

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