Bibliogryphon

QEII is the only survivor from the Spitting Image Vincent Price's Human Chess set sketch Tried to find it on You Tube but no luck

One half of They Might Be Giants, John Flansburgh is injured in serious car accident - tour postponed - not believed to be life threatening

Not sure whether this should be here or in the Fringes thread but Timothy Cornwall (son of John Le Carre) has died suddenly. He had edited his father's letters which were due to be published later this tear

Maybe she is just cosplaying Chucky

Congrats Drol. Well played

John Major hung on until the last possible date

Yes they have to have called it by the election date I did see a discussion about this somewhere and the reckoned it could be as late as the last week in January 2025. Although they might opt for Summer 2024

I don't see the logic behind an early election at this stage unless the Conservative party are expecting things to get considerably worse and then it might be worth having someone else in charge I still think the election will be in January 2025

Gloria Hunniford has had a fall which meant she missed the Jubilee Pageant and is not on Loose Women

On our cul-de-sac there were four decorated houses. The leavers who have had Union Jacks in their window since the 75th anniversary of VE day celebrations. The one at the end who decorate for any excuse - they normally have a full nativity in their garden at Christmas and our Scottish neighbour (we live in the East Midlands) who put who a huge saltaire and saltaire bunting but put a massive Queen's head silhouette in his window. Our American neighbours on the other side just put a plastic flag in the window

Yes there is some confusion between all the different types of confidence votes that can go on In essence this is purely a Conservative Party matter in that if he loses he will have lost confidence of the Parliamentary Conservative Party and will need to step down but he will remain Prime Minister until his successor is elected In 1979 James Callaghan lost a parliamentary vote of confidence and was required to call an election this happened because he was leading a minority government like May was between 2017 & 2019 IDS only went so quickly because no-one stood against Michael Howard for the leadership

Updating the earliest ten entries on the Queen's Jubilee read following the death of George Lamming we are now up to 1985 J M G Le Clezio (b. 1940) Ngugi wa Thiang'o (b.1938) Ayi Kwei Armah (b.1939) Bepsi Sidhwa (b.1938) Alice Munro (b.1931) Athol Fugard (b.1932) Anita Desai (b.1937) Salman Rushdie (b.1947) Thomas Keneally (b.1935) Margaret Atwood (b.1939)

I just saw someone suggest that as many as 150 MPs might be planning to vote against Johnson That might mean that some of the Payroll vote might think that they may be best served jumping ship to the new regime although if there were some coordinated resignations during the day that could put the pressure on .Need 180 to reach the threshold but May was wounded on a two thirds majority I think anything over 140 could be fatal anyway

Tugenhadt was very quick to slap down Tobias Ellwood's comments about rejoining the single market this week which I took to indicate that he did not want the one Nation Tory vote to be split in any potential contest

Just commenting on a report in today's press

Read today that Sir Graham Brady may not count the letters until June 24th. Which could be taken one of two ways. These by-elections are do or die for Boris or that GB wants Boris gone and thinks two stonking defeats at either end of the political spectrum would remove the benefit of the doubt about electoral success

I would not put money on the Queen dying before May 2024

Not even worth thinking about until we have seen off Patricia Routledge, Judy Dench and Barbara Leigh-Hunt

I think that if she reached 100 years old there will be a huge celebration rather than wait for the 'Dubilee'

But we will be able to sate the royalist palette with plenty of funerals and coronations which will do just as well We once went into a house clearance shop and bought a load of commemorative books for the coronation of George VI and the funeral of George V which included information on the abdication of Edward VIII - big hard back books with colour plates which must have been given away with one of the papers at the time I was thinking that a royalist had died and all their stuff got dumped as there was more modern stuff there too

Just a bit concerned who Peter Bone is talking to on a working day morning at the embankment in Wellingborough which has a 'certain reputation' as some might say

To quote Cat from Red Dwarf "That question does not even deserve an answer" When asked which was more important his dinner or Lister's life

@maryportfuncity I see the Conservative MP for Carlisle has submitted a letter to the 1922 committee

It might just work - the entire county of Northamptonshire has no Labour MPs and is not really red wall territory Things will be going very badly indeed if she loses her seat However in 1997 Blair did turn most of the county red including Kettering where Phil Sawford won who was only really selected as the party did not expect to win the seat

On those figures Labour might be able to govern without the SNP but with the LDs/PC/Greens However they might do better on the night depending on the mood of the country