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Taking the piss out of politics
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Re: Taking the piss out of politics
I think that in 2016, or thereabouts we slipped into an alternate reality where Benny Hill had supplanted Big Brother in Airstrip One. I mean a deputy chief whip on more testosterone than a Tour de France winner called Pincher, with 'previous'. You have to be joking, what's the chief whip called - Mr Groper?
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Re: Taking the piss out of politics
Lost his chancellor and health secretary.
Oh dear boris. Oh dear.
Oh dear boris. Oh dear.
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Re: Taking the piss out of politics
Johnson is not going to resign. It is civil war now and the ones who will stand by him are those who know they have no future with him gone, Rees Mong and Nadine for two.
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Re: Taking the piss out of politics
Hopefully, no one will put another coin in the fuckwit that is Nadine Dorries...