Has UK politics ever been this interesting?

By : Administrator
Published 29th June 2016 |
Read latest comment - 14th July 2016

Whatever your political persuasion, you can't deny things aren't a little bit interesting at the moment 

The normal dull boring drudgery of UK politics has been replaced with an hour by hour, day by day soap opera.

Political comrades at war with each other, parties on all sides falling apart at the scenes, Scottish Nationalism rising again, and somewhere in the middle, Farage making a total arse of himself and trying to speak for us all.

Watched Prime Ministers Questions today to watch the pantomime unfold in real time. Booing, heckling, the speaker having to repeatedly intervene to let people speak, but done in his own humorous way.  Then the icing on the cake, not even UKIPs MP getting shouted at, but Cameron looking at Corbyn and saying

"It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go," 

Not very often you have a serving Prime Minister telling the leader of the opposition to quit 

So in, out, shake it all about, whatever happens in the weeks and months, I suspect this Westminster reality show has a few more interesting and comedy moments before it goes back to the hum drum of boring politics 

Lets hope the country doesn't fall apart before normality is restored.


Steve Richardson
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It's all gone a bit crazy!!! 

I can't quite believe the behaviour of all the MPs and as for Farage....what an embarrassment of a human being! 

I can only hope that an increased interest in politics will encourage some more young people to engage at a grassroots level and we can gradually get less corrupt leaders. It is probably a pipe dream though!!

I personally think that Corbyn didn't handle the campaign well for the referendum but that he actually has some integrity and I hope he stays. I think is disliked by a lot of the MPs for this very reason. He still seems rather popular with labour members from what I can gather. The voting record against harsh Welfare reforms of most of the quitting shadow cabinet makes for very poor reading that's for sure. I know many of you totally disagree with me here.

 

I wonder if BoJo the clown will really be the next Prime Minister....GULP.

 


I wonder if BoJo the clown will really be the next Prime Minister....GULP.

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Boris as PM, and Trumpton as president. What was a bit of humour could now be a terrifying reality!


Steve Richardson
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Please please no more , I am fed up with it all + as you say how up and down it's been G*d forbid they don't end up making a movie about it


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Andy-C | Pewter World

What surprises me more is the lack of noise from the Liberal Democrat party....... They seem to have all but vanished, UKIP having done what was needed can dissolve now.... Leaving the other 2 main parties  to take the country forward... I cannot see Labour gaining overall control for years because of their recent history in government... Leaving us with the Conservatives, cannot say I'm in favor of Boris, but he didn't do a bad job as London Mayor, wasn't particularly brilliant either, Theresa May, I find quite scary.... So would like to see some new blood, preferably someone young mid 30s to 40s.....


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Barney

So BoJo has bottled it!!! Made a big mess (in my opinion) and run away rather than help clean it up, like a big baby!!! Shocking. Not that I wanted him as Prime Minister.  Can't really abide any of them though!


Well what a day, it really is turning into a soap opera!

So Boris is knifed in the back by Gove, who after years of proclaiming he never wants to be the PM, has had a sudden change of heart because a few friends reckon he would do all right!

Boris's position was untenable after he lost the support of Gove, and I suspect there will be years of bitterness in the Tory ranks due to the last couple if weeks!

Personally glad Boris is out of the race, but I think he took a huge political gamble supporting and leading a cause he never really believed in, just to get a shot at the top job which is now out of reach. Get him back on Have I got news for you where he belongs

Think Teresa May has it in the bag looking at the other contenders, and there's no love lost between her and Gove. She seems a strong character, and seems the best of the bunch.

Good point about the Lib Dems, where are they? Radio Silence. And does it mean UKIP will now dispand, or just revert back to BNP

As for Labour, they won't be in government for decades at this rate, or worse it fracture and split into 2 parties as members seem to be at odds with the majority of its MP's.

Any predictions for tomorrow? Neil Kinnock coming out of retirement, Lib Dems merging with the Greens? 


Steve Richardson
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Sometimes you cannot help but ask was Guy Fawkes idea / plan so wrong in blowing up parliament It looks like we're going to spend the entire summer without any kind of political leadership / direction. And it would seem that all of them are jostling in it for themselves rather than serving the the people who elected them..... But at least the public has the right to get rid of any or all of them should they desire....


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Barney

So now Farage has left. the only leader who hasnt quit is the one everyones to wants to quit. Its all very odd, the soap opera rolls on....


Steve Richardson
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I guessed Farage was going to leave.... not much else for him to do now...... Apart from take his seat in the House of Lords..... Oh wouldn't that be a laugh? Whatever people's views are, the UK needs people like him to challenge and take on the establishment.... And I'm glad that currently politics in the UK are up in the air, because it makes people participate and it makes them think.... 


Thanks,
Barney

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