Britain is going to be Tory for at least 10 years.

[Clinton Huxley]

I thought Vince Cable was going to be the next PM.

[Brian Peacock]

I think the LibDems have been having a bit of trouble finding a care agency that's flexible enough.

[Animavore]

[Brian Peacock]

[Scot Dutchy]

Very good.

[Brian Peacock]

The ‘F’ on the slogan behind May -- "BUILDING A COUNTRY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE" -- fell of half way through.

[Svartalf]

What'sd a P45?

[Scot Dutchy]

It is your notice that your are fired in Britain.

[Animavore]

[rainbow]

It is your notice that your are fired in Britain.

Nice.

[Rum]

It is your notice that your are fired in Britain.

Nice.

It isn't quite. It is the document you get when you leave a job - fired or not. Evidence for benefit/tax and other purposes.

May seems to have royally messed up with this. Not her fault but people see a pattern, whether it is there or not.

She is lucky that nobody wants an election right now.

She seems to be having some bad luck. As Napoleon said - he'd rather have a lucky general than a good one.

[Scot Dutchy]

The phrase: "Go and pick up your P45" is saying you are fired? Anyway they were not there when I was in Britain.

[Brian Peacock]

On Thursday Brodkin caught May’s eye in the middle of her speech. She carried on speaking as he handed her the letter and told her: “Prime minister, Boris told me to give you this.” May stumbling over a word, and took the letter and had to bend to put it on the floor. Brodkin then approached the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and gave him a thumbs up, saying: “Boris, job done.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... e-security

A lot of ground is being covered today by OUTRAGED Tories who are calling the P45 skit a 'gross lapse in security' - with apparently one unnamed Minister asking, "What if it hadn't been a piece of paper? What if it had been a bottle of acid, or a knife, or a gun?"

I would suggest that this cowardly unnamed minister gets a grip and applies a bit of context. I'm pretty sure someone with acid, a knife or a gun, or even a pair of nail-clippers wouldn't have got withing 10 feet of the doors of the conference centre, let alone into the hall. It was just a piece of paper - the only danger, the only threat, is to the PMs credibility, not her person.

[Svartalf]

Yeah, she could have been murdered by the death of a thousand paper cuts...
As for credibility, hasn't she lost that already?

[Brian Peacock]

Another 'great rebranding' is nearly upon us...

Tory ministers privately agree Theresa May should go, says Grant Shapps

Former Conservative chairman emerges as ringleader of backbench plot to force prime minister to call leadership election

Some cabinet ministers privately agree Theresa May should step aside, a former Conservative party chairman has said, as pressure grows on the prime minister to call a leadership election.

Grant Shapps, who served as Tory chair for nearly three years, has emerged as the ringleader of a backbench plot to force May to step down. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the solution to the leadership crisis was not “to bury our heads in the sand”.

Shapps said he had the support of about 30 MPs, including five former cabinet ministers, and suggested some cabinet ministers privately agreed but would be reluctant to back him because they were on the “payroll”.

The environment secretary, Michael Gove, appeared on the programme to lend his support to May, saying she had “shown grace and grit” this week and a leadership election was not the correct way forward.

Charles Walker, the vice-chairman of the influential Tory backbench 1922 Committee, slapped down Shapps, saying: “No 10 must be delighted that it’s Grant Shapps leading this alleged coup. Grant has many talents but one thing he doesn’t have is a following in the party, so really I think this is going to fizzle out to be perfectly honest....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... nt-schapps

... At May's coronation she promised to 'make Britain work' for the JAMs (Just About Managing), then the silly bint thought that everyone who voted for Brexit was going to vote Tory and called a snap election that cut her party's majority in government, and her MPs majorities in their constituencies, to the bone. Michael Gove lending her support is a sure sign she's about to go - like the owner of a football team saying they've got every confidence in the manger after a string of poor performances. We all know what happens next.

Personally, I'd like to see Rees-Mogg at the helm.