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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by PCTNN View Post

    So what? The uk has a ton of short term problems to fix asap so who cares about anyone's long term intentions...
    because fixing the long term problems may well be a way to fix the short term problems.

    1. Only give planning permission for new net zero homes and retrofits on 'significant' extensions rising to most in a few years (permitted development will need to include significant green improvements in 5 years).
    2. Build 3-4 times more homes. Make social homes only for the needy when they are needy.
    3. Move health service to prevention so curing is easier.
    4. Frack it!
    5. Kill the cones and recent spate of roadworks,
    6. Move jobs away from London to the outlying areas.
    7. Trim the civil service.
    8. Prepare for automation.
    9. Make it worthwhile working.
    10. Any ideas?

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  • PCTNN
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post

    I don't think so either. But it doesn't demonstrate a long term intention to stay in the UK.
    So what? The uk has a ton of short term problems to fix asap so who cares about anyone's long term intentions...

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  • WTFH
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    2 minutes after Johnson announced he wasn't standing, this was published on the Telegraph website. It has since been taken down...

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post
    But it doesn't demonstrate a long term intention to stay in the UK.
    The very definition of non-dom status...

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Does the UK state you can't hold any other citizenship or visa if you stand for public office?

    I don't think so thanks to history. (Northern Ireland, Ireland, and armed forces personnel spring to mind.)
    I don't think so either. But it doesn't demonstrate a long term intention to stay in the UK.

    I know it's rubbish, but it's the kind of questions our left wing media would sensationalise.

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  • SueEllen
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    Does the UK state you can't hold any other citizenship or visa if you stand for public office?

    I don't think so thanks to history. (Northern Ireland, Ireland, and armed forces personnel spring to mind.)

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post
    Way more nuanced than that. "Why do you still have a Green Card". "Why were you absent from Cabinet when lockdown was being discussed - twice?" "Why have you raised taxes to their highest level for 20 years?" , etc., etc...
    1) No
    2) Some easy lie here
    3) We are fiscally responsible blah blah blah

    Better be direct without any nuances

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post

    First question should be - "Is your wife still a self-claimed non-dom or did she finally make this country her permanent place of residence?"

    Second question - "Exactly how much in UK taxes did your wife evade using clearly bogus non-dom status?"
    Way more nuanced than that. "Why do you still have a Green Card". "Why were you absent from Cabinet when lockdown was being discussed - twice?" "Why have you raised taxes to their highest level for 20 years?" , etc., etc...

    Labour to win the next GE, then to screw it up, Boris to bring the Tories at the one after that.

    Or of course, Ed Davey gets appointed dictator by Wee Burney. Seriously, with the current shower, who the hell knows.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I'm asking for e.g. R!sh! Sunak against Keir Starmer in PMQs
    First question should be - "Is your wife still a self-claimed non-dom or did she finally make this country her permanent place of residence?"

    Second question - "Exactly how much in UK taxes did your wife evade using clearly bogus non-dom status?"

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  • SueEllen
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    Boris Johnson tried to use the Tory trick of blame someone else e.g. smearing R!sh! in his talks with MPs but it didn't work.

    I'm finally getting the boring politics I'm asking for e.g. R!sh! Sunak against Keir Starmer in PMQs ,but the country is an absolute frigging mess.

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  • AtW
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    Inside story of the high-stakes late night meeting where Rishi said ‘no deal’ to Boris

    Pair talk face-to-face for the first time since former PM’s fall from power, but reach no deal about who should succeed Liz Truss in No 10

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...meeting-ended/

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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    That's all
    Noooo, he must be. The great like JRM and the clever Boris fan-boys say he definitely will. And those Tories are a clever lot, why would they lie to us?

    Saying that .... for once Boris does the right thing. He may have just saved the Tory's asses, shame 100+ MPs in his party couldn't see the common sense that he can't be the PM again (at least not this side of the next GE).

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  • SueEllen
    started a topic Boris not standing

    Boris not standing

    That's all
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ership-contest

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