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Unless Russia decides to land troops there or blockade or be a pain. Yes, I know article 5 but does NATO exist any more?

Anybody want to go on a see it before it's gone tour? I have been to Cuba so that's okay but what about Mount Rushore, Greenland and Taiwan? I clearly was too slow to visit Hong Kong when it had a bit of spice and democracy to it. Anything else we are missing?

Oh yeah in other news, Trump wants to intervene in Iran where they are shooting their citizens only for this in his own country

Who would have thunk it?

Chicago: Waiting for Godot.

I'm going to Taiwan in 6 weeks, hopefully they'll hold off until after my visit.

Keir Starmer goes with a Kama Sutra joke at PMQs.

Is he referring to new and innovative ways he's come up with to fuck with my company's NI bill?

Appears i no longer have a tory mp, which is nice. Although I'm probably about to have a reform mp, which isn't.

I’d put Jenrick as the biggest cunt on the right of British politics. And it’s a crowded field. He’s such a fucking charlatan, he has no principles or convictions, he’s just an an absolute whopper.

So I think it’s highly amusing Badenoch has stolen his thunder like this.

He will of course do the decent thing and call a by election. No, me neither. What a scumbag that man is.

To be fair to him, my vote was against him personally as well as against his party.

Jenrick is a dreadful human being. The sad truth is that he'll pop up at Reform, be given a platform to spout hate, and folk will vote for him in decent number. Cunt.

So Jenrick was a Traitor rather than a Faithful who got murdered?
I can't keep up. Hopefully Claudia will clear it up next episode.

You must live in a deeply unpleasant place to have him as your MP.

England?

Newark or Sherwood I beleive, so yup.

Why should he call a by election? I had this discussion recently because we had a couple of sitting MPs cross the floor from the Conservatives to the ruling Liberal party. People seem unable to understand that they voted for the individual, not the party, and it's that MP's right and arguably their responsibility to join the party that best represents the policy positions on which the constituency elected them. If the expectation is that he'll join Reform and get re-elected, then he's doing the right thing.

I’m pretty ambivalent on the issue, especially as everyone is very keen on by-elections when it’s someone they don’t like but keeps quiet when someone joins the party they support.

But when I didn’t vote for Jenrick, the ballot paper made it very clear he was representing the Conservative and Unionist party, so there clearly is an argument that he was elected on a basis that is no longer the case and, if he’s going to be representing a different party going forward, he should stand again.

It’s not the same as the party leader conversation, because my ballot paper didn’t mention Keir Starmer at all.