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Thread #168430   Message #4132872
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Jan-22 - 05:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Me too, but you wouldn't know it... ;-)

Looks like the Tories are doing the only that the Tories do best - getting out the long knives and closing in on their leader. Remember the fall of Maggie Thatcher, largely brought about by quiet remarks from Geoffrey Howe (of whom it had previously been said by Denis Healey, somewhat mistakenly, that debating with him was like being savaged by a dead sheep). Is there a Sir Geoffrey in the house?

Mind you, just think of the awful people waiting in the shadows...Truss...Sunak...Gove... Maybe the modest Jeremy Hunt (slightly unfairly said by some to be the Cockney rhyming slang of what they regard as his more appropriate name, unfortunately exposed by Jim Naughtie's amusing slip of the tongue) will turn out to be the new John Major... Any bets?