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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    Was thinking the same. Seems fairly obvious that Boris is likely to make a gaffe - possibly a major one - at some point.

    Assuming that he he does do that, it gives May the perfect chance to kick him into the long grass and send him back to the back benches without the uproar and disharmony that doing it yesterday might have provoked.
     
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  2. ChilcoSaint

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    As long as it doesn't involve us entering a war as a result!
     
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  3. ImpSaint

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    I think May is playing a dangerous game leaving both Osborne and Gove out of the cabinet!!! Two very big beasts that could cause problems.
     
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  4. ImpSaint

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  5. Whiteley Saint

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    Yes I did wonder this. If he makes a mess of it she can legitimately get rid of him. She will have kept the Boris lovers happy therefore helping to unifying the party.
     
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  6. Whiteley Saint

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    Gove, John Whittingdale and Nicky Morgan all gone.
     
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  7. - Doing The Lambert Walk

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    Michael Gove removed from government office and put on the backbench.
     
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  8. ImpSaint

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    Nicky Morgan was a vacuous character devoid of her own ideas anyway. She was purely a "repeater." One of those that did what she was told.
     
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    bbc page this morning;

    Southampton's Les Reed for Chancellor of the Exchequer - will end up selling Scotland and buying a better country, like Iceland.

    <laugh>
     
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  10. greensaint

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    Hunt out :emoticon-0137-clapp
     
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    Gove, another political career finished because of Brexit. However, it could be argued, by his own doing.
     
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  13. I Sorry I Ruined The Party

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  14. Beef

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    Disgraced MP Liam Fox.
     
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  15. Beef

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    Nope.
     
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    He's being moved not sacked.
     
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  19. Beef

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    According to this he isn't even being moved now.


    Nurses/docs are going to be pissed.
     
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