Boris at it again and the contest to replace the lying c***

[Keef]

If anyone is bothered,there are three British owned car companies,
Bristol,
Caterham
McLaren,
Bikes wise you've got
Triumph
And possibly Norton,though they're a bit vague about where the money comes from

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

TVR are Welsh-owned these days aren't they?

 

[Johnny75]

Westfield?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Apparently the Welsh government own a 3% stake in TVR, and the rest is a consortium of "British businessmen".

Looking into it - they are British and bought the company from a Russian called Smolensky. So back to British I guess.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Interestingly, there are strong rumours abounding that Boris might be moving from his Uxbridge constituency. He lost over half of an 11,000 majority last time, and it is a pretty remain-y area. Strangely the Chairman of the Brexit party wants to contest Uxbridge, but I could easily see a labour / liberal pact in that one seat. The Libs got almost as many votes as the majority over labour last time, so that is the threat to Boris if he doesn't move to somewhere super-super safe.

There was some talk of East Yorks (always a massive Tory majority there, they even won in 1997) but it's been quashed, Greg Knight is staying on.

Sevenoaks was the other one mentioned (63% Tory share there in 2017, they last lost there in 1923) and Michael Fallon is stepping down (no candidate announced yet).

I mean it would look awful to have the actual Prime Minister running away from a seat that they should really win, but it doesn't seem to matter. He should be in his fabled ditch by now after all.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

If the sitting prime minister turns what was an 11k majority into a struggle that should tell you how popular his policies really are. But like you say, running away is fucking shameful if he does it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Guido believes Johnson is staying as is because Labour have put up a token weak candidate

 

[Keef]

Westfield?

Pensnett based sports car maker,cars look a lot like caterhams and they're doing well with driverless electric golf cart type things for getting about on campus' big factories that type of thing

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Oh, by the way election night is the same night we play Besiktas.

That could be one gloomy post-match pint (irrespective of whether we've gone through or not, you'd like to think we will have)

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Or possibly, a rather up-beat one!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Exit polls are normally 10pm or so aren't they...so we'll know (or at least, have a very good idea) by the time we hit whichever bar it is.

Gah. Imagine if we need a point or something as well and it's 1-1 for the whole second half with us on the back foot!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

10pm is always the end of purdah and they always open the programme with the exit poll.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Anyone else pig fucking sick of the term “dither and delay”?

Get a new soundbite for crying out loud.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That's all they've done all decade. Pick 3-5 slogans and repeat them over and over.

Incidentally Corbyn is wearing a green tie today at PMQs as some kind of Grenfell tribute. Cue Tory backbenchers behaving like a pack of animals, because lol, a green tie (no, me neither). It took Theresa May - Theresa May, who openly put together racist policies as Home Secretary and failed to deal with the tragedy herself as PM - to put them right. Sums it up, awful people.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

She looked somewhat pissed off apparently.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

So that is the battleground laid out

“We will spend loads on the NHS” vs “Bright times next year or darkness of two referendums”.

Hancock dropped a nice bollock earlier (always good to try and be first). Asked what was different to the Maybot election (where their poll lead was a lot bigger) he said “this time we have a message full of positivity”. Asked what said message was he said “a vote for any other party helps put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street”. I think he needs to look up the definition of positive campaigning.

 

[Papper]

So Clown Boris and the Trot are competing to have the best sweetie bags to hang out. Shame none of them can actively cost any of this.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That does rather seem to be the conundrum.

Is it just me, or do there seem to be greater numbers of MPs choosing to stand down? Been quite a stream of them today.

 

[Papper]

That does rather seem to be the conundrum.

Is it just me, or do there seem to be greater numbers of MPs choosing to stand down? Been quite a stream of them today.

They jump before pushed because they are toxic.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

On both sides of the House. I think a large number are actually just rather pissed off.