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13 hours ago, BonScott said:


80 seat majority is a convincing win, especially as 2 years earlier May didn’t even get a majority, relied on a DUP coalition to govern, so there is no doubt that Boris was the main reason for the landslide v Corbyn, May never even got a majority against him

 

Never underestimate Boris’s popularity, when he visited my constituency even in height of Partygate he was mobbed like it was Brad Pitt or George Clooney

 

If tories want to win next election they need to reach out to him and bring him back into the fold, 

 

The numbers of seats is slightly misleading because they gamed the election (something the FPTP lets you do) he targeted specific Labour held seats with messages that were focused on a very specific demographic. Those Red Wall seats have now come to the conclusion they were used and the current Conservative party doesn't give a flying fuck about them.

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10 hours ago, Comped said:

How many decades until we find out what was in those letters? I have a feeling it might not be for another 50-plus years, by which point I will be certainly retired... And who knows if this site will exist by then.

 

Don't worry about it. What we don't know, folks like Lady Colin Campbell will make up. 

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17 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

My dad wants Robert Hardman punished for writing this book. 

 

No offence, but I think most of us think your family are reactionary cranks.

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4 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

 

The numbers of seats is slightly misleading because they gamed the election (something the FPTP lets you do) he targeted specific Labour held seats with messages that were focused on a very specific demographic. Those Red Wall seats have now come to the conclusion they were used and the current Conservative party doesn't give a flying fuck about them.

I live in one of those red wall seats and everything the newspapers were scaring people into thinking would happen under a Corbyn government (record tax burden, startled volatile markets, record high debt) has come true under the Tories instead, so people have now woken up. 

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Died only a few months older than the Queen did, impersonated her to the very end

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1 minute ago, Death Impends said:

Died only a few months older than the Queen did, impersonated her to the very end

Just one more impersonator of Her Majesty to go....

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22 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Just one more impersonator of Her Majesty to go....

How's Ella Slack doing? She's only in her 70's, so likely will be the last impersonator/body double for HMTLQ to die in a decade or two, barring health issues.

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6 minutes ago, Comped said:

How's Ella Slack doing? She's only in her 70's, so likely will be the last impersonator/body double for HMTLQ to die in a decade or two, barring health issues.

OK, two impersonators....

 

Hint: Hesnoraquinebyraway.

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28 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

OK, two impersonators....

 

Hint: Hesnoraquinebyraway.

 

Imelda Staunton?

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

OK, two impersonators....

She'll guarantee QO by that point.

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3 hours ago, Brad252 said:

Did Rolf Harris get a secret design contract for this before his death:

 

Rolf would have produced a better likeness.  This is his portrait of HMTLQ.

 

THEQUEENBYROLF_002.jpg

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4 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Rolf would have produced a better likeness.  This is his portrait of HMTLQ.

 

THEQUEENBYROLF_002.jpg

That's... Actually quite good!

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Whatever else Rolf was, he was a very good painter.

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Disagree with the above comments. If you blow the painting up and look at the face more closely she looks very sinister.

I'm led to believe she didn't like it, nor did she like him.

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40 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Disagree with the above comments. If you blow the painting up and look at the face more closely she looks very sinister.
I'm led to believe she didn't like it, nor did she like him.

 

Really? ISTR a TV programme which featured her sitting for this portrait, and she came over as enjoying it.  Perhaps she was a better actress that we realised.

No doubt that programme will never be shown again so we can't tell. Another case of history being obliterated so that they can pretend that people who did bad things never existed.

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2 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Really? ISTR a TV programme which featured her sitting for this portrait, and she came over as enjoying it.  Perhaps she was a better actress that we realised.

No doubt that programme will never be shown again so we can't tell. Another case of history being obliterated so that they can pretend that people who did bad things never existed.


No need for a repeat broadcast. It's all over YouTube.

Full programme:
 

 

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22 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


No need for a repeat broadcast. It's all over YouTube. Full programme:

 

 

Thanks, I'll take a look when I have time. Glad someone kept it.  My comment still stands though.

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In his memoir Boris Johnson has confirmed the Queen died from Bone Cancer and that he knew from when she was diagnosed.

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33 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

In his memoir Boris Johnson has confirmed the Queen died from Bone Cancer and that he knew from when she was diagnosed.

 

 

His usual level of discretion, then. Has he been clear about whether he tried to bone her during their intimate audiences? Askin' for a friend, like.

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1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

In his memoir Boris Johnson has confirmed the Queen died from Bone Cancer and that he knew from when she was diagnosed.

 

 

Would take with a massive pinch of salt given who's saying it. 

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