Brad252

There are 101 reasons why a May election has been ruled out, I doubt the King potentially dying in the next 8 months is one of them.

The tell tale sign will be how he looks come the Christmas speech, assuming a) he makes it that far, and b) he's well enough to do it. The amount of time between now and then is similar to the Queen's last Christmas speech and her death, and the photos showed a notable decline, so if Charles' could too if he is terminal.

If something will bring down Truss, the history of ironic scandals in the Tory party means her downfall will be due to a bondage bombshell.

From the FT describing Truss: "Unfortunately, her approach worked a bit like this: imagine a bunch of people are stuck in a warm, stuffy room together. Everyone wants the windows to be opened, but they are fastened shut by complicated locks. While people try to work out how the locks operate, one of them, Liz, attempts to throw a chair through the window. The chair bounces off and hits her in the face."

Vegetable endorses vegetable:

What's the top dance track in an underground disco in Tehran? "Iranian men, Hallelujah!"

One of my favourite book covers:

The biggest shock to me here is Channel 5 is still being watched.

Not the mention another ironic name scandal in that an MP called Willy exposed his...you know.

If Braverman and/or Badenoch lost their seat that would definitely meet it, both in terms of scale of shock and them each being leadership contenders after Sunak's departure.

Labour's poll lead is so high, Gove asked for their dealer's no.

There is an irony that the leader of the political party that doesn't back the Good Friday Agreement has been booted on Good Friday.

The narcissism meter must have completely exploded on seeing this:

This reminds me of this book cover regarding OJ Simpson:

Pincher stepped down for pinching, Peter Bone stepped down for, well you know, now Scott Benton has resigned for being bent. I look forward to Greg Hands having to step down due to giving dodgy hand jobs.

Scott Benton resigns, so the by-election in Blackpool South is on (unless the GE is called before it can happen). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68658896

Something I mentioned recently was that I wouldn't be surprised if this year end's up being Charles' annus horriblis (or as a couple of other users suggested, anus horriblis"). I remember seeing a post somewhere saying that Kate's planned return after Easter is the most anticipated Easter comeback since Jesus Christ.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is what led her to speaking out, given it's very difficult for a high profile figure to hide hair loss, should it occur as a consequence.

A sign of how mad the world is that the Daily Star is now more reasonable with its reporting than every other tabloid. I remember last year the Telegraph did the below front page that even The Daily Star editor could have considered a bit much:

Reminds me of this quote: "If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true." -Sally Claire

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Farage will not be available to campaign for Reform if the election is in the autumn: he'll be too busy grifting for Trump in the US, which is much more lucrative. If however the election is May/June, Farage could well get involved, as there would be time to do both.

If Andrew had said "we can't be sure that's my hand" regarding this "picture", I'd believe him for once.

This is my favourite take from the news today:

Is it too soon to call this year Charles' "annus horriblis"?