The funniest political timeline

[andrewducker]

Dear Fate, I would like a pony, and also the following:

Johnson is made Prime Minister again, and then the investigation (due 26th of November) finds that he lied to The House Of Commons, he's excluded for 14 days, leading to a recall, and he loses his seat.

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[cmcmck]

One of his former advisers has just said that Johnson doesn't put the country first, he puts himself first and I'm boggled that 'they' can't see through him!

[andrewducker]

See https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/4207830.html?thread=29338070#cmt29338070 for an example of people not being able to see when they're being taken in!

[movingfinger]

A monkey's-paw wish if ever there was one.

[calimac]

This may be less unlikely than it seems.

I've been trying to find out how the Conservative Party is selecting its leader this time. If they're taking only a week, surely it's a MPs-only vote? But no, apparently they're still going to request postal votes from the party membership. Last time that required the election to take months, but this time they think they can do it in only a week. Color me dubious ...

But anyway, knowing that membership: if Boris is a candidate on the ballot, he'll win. Nobody else can stand him, but they love him. And there we are.

Sunak would surely be a better PM, but the party membership doesn't seem to like him, or he'd have won over Truss. The analyses of that outcome suggested he didn't pander to the insane right as much as Truss did, but there's another factor I fear played a role here among that constituency, which is: don't tell anybody, but Sunak is, y'know, ethnic.

[andrewducker]

I had heard electronic votes - I hadn't heard postal votes and I struggle to see how they'll manage that in any kind of reasonable timescale!

[calimac]

I said "apparently" because I hadn't heard anything specific. I hadn't even read a straightforward "the leader will be chosen by party members," it just sort of emerges as my guess from the discussion. Electronic - good lord, that has no security whatsoever.

[andrewducker]

There's a link about that tomorrow.

Have a preview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/63344131

[mair_in_grenderich]

... but where will you keep the pony?

[andrewducker]

In the pony room I shall have built as an extension.

[mair_in_grenderich]

ah, of course