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The situation with the UK's Conservative Party is really sad. Boris Johnson, a "small c" conservative, led them to a landslide victory in the last election. When a minor scandal erupted over Covid policies within the prime minister's residence, he seemed to be about to weather that storm when he was suddenly stabbed in the back by his number two in government, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and a couple of his allies, leading to Johnson's resignation. Sunak wanted the prime minister's job for himself. Under Conservative Party procedures, the Conservative members of parliament narrowed the choice for prime minister down to two and those two were submitted for vote by individual party members. Sunak was the top choice in parliament, but small "c" conservative Liz Truss easily defeated Sunak among the rank and file and became prime minister. Some big financial operators, who happened to be buddies of Sunak then went after the British pound financially, and the Bank of England, whose governor was a close Sunak ally refused to intervene. Truss resigned. This time in choosing a new prime minister, it was left just to parliament and the grassroots party members were not allowed to vote. "Fishy Rishi" Sunak then became the prime minister. Party polling under Sunak has been terrible, and backbenchers in parliament have been manuevering to try to replace Sunak with someone more electable, one possibility mentioned being a return of Boris Johnson. To protect his own flank, Sunak then called this election early.

This election is likely to be a low water mark of the Conservative Party, given the dislike of Sunak among grassroots Conservative voters, the strong appeal of Nigel Farage, and the fact that the right of center vote will be divided. Sunak has badly blown Johnson's landslide, and has set the stage for an almost certain Labour majority.

Commented: Monday, June 10th, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Steven P. Rader

This is nothing short of a coverup by Cheeseman, and he should be fired for it, and the $15,000 taken out of HIS paycheck. If these were graduating seniors, they were likely 18 and should be prosecuted as adults. If CHeeseman does not make a full public report, then the school board needs to force him to do so.

The 57 should have been called in and forced to clean it up and pay their share of damages at the very least, but none of that was done. So what they could not walk across the stage? That is no punishment.

They also need to get someone to fess up to providing the key and that person needs to be fired. Put all possible staff suspects on a polygraph if necessary.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By: John Steed

From the start, I refused to get the Covid-19 vaccination because I have never gotten a flu vaccination because I don't want to mess with my immune system. I was mocked and labeled a right wing MAGA conspiracy theorist and lost friends who shunned me.
I started to read everything I could get my hands on. I read medical and scientific journal reports, geopolitical articles, economic reports, policy reports, testimonials etc. I have always been a progressive liberal but I started to see that something had happened to the left where they had become compromised and became supporters of the establishment and supported restriction on free speech and in favor of censorship to supposedly protect us from misinformation that I just knew was not. And a whole new World had manifested that turned my world upside down. It was so disorienting and painful for me. I couldn't even get people to engage in discussion with me partly because people were totally unaware of what was happening.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 4:04 pm By: Marcia

Though I sometimes disagree with Uncle Hood on perception of politics, the old man brings up interesting points that, with a little discernment and critical thinking, opens up the floor for a whole 'nother discussion.

To cut to the chase; if the public is circulating "gossip" and law enforcement wasn't notified, somebody is trying to either stage a political maneuver to deflect attention from something else going on OR somebody's covering up an inside job.

I find it both alarming and highly unlikely that young'uns out at the High School were able to get access keys, enter and maneuver undetected.....unless they had help from certain members of staff OR certain parts of the building were left open.

When I attended school there 17-18 years ago, we knew how to slip in and cut corners, as all kids do, but we respected the Principal at the time, Mr. R. Holloman, and only pushed our shenaniganry but so far. We were smart enough to know that if we tried anything, we'd get our asses smoked.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 10:18 pm By: John Valley

Stan - Soros is NO "superman". What he is is super rich, and willing to spend that money to advance his radical globalist totalitarian ideology. A big pile of money can buy a lot of things, like DA races. Soros is the biggest contributor to the US Democrat Party and has been for some time. He sticks his crooked nose and his money into elections all over the world. In recent years he has also been trying to buy media to control the flow of information.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 3:04 pm By: Rino Hunter

Thanks Bubba
Whatever Bobbie

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 2:49 pm By: PK

Big Bob: George Soros is the "superman" of the Non Patriot Left, the shock troops of the Democratic Socialists, only because the core of the Democratic Socialists are so easily led by the non patriots, and other stupid people within our self-governed society.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 12:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Soros must be superman!

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 10:59 am By: Big Bob

When you think about the upcoming US debate, look at that picture with the British candidates all standing behind podiums, like all previous American presidential debates have been conducted. This year, however, the decrepid Joe Biden, who is falling apart, insists that the candidates sit at a table instead. If Biden can't function, why the heck is he even running?

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 12:11 pm By: Conservative Voter

biden is up to his eyeballs trying to stop President Trump's return to the White House and everyone knows it

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 9:19 am By: Marie

Biden's fake jobs report shows how his regime manipulates data for false claims. Most of his claimed "job increase" -231,000 out of a total of 272,000 claimed - came from one arbitrary adjustment to the calculation. That is the adjustment for "business births and deaths" (business start-ups and closures) and as the Bloomberg chief economist points out, they adjusted that in the wrong direction for what is actually happening in the economy. If that was adjusted the correct direction, the report would have undoubtedly showed an overall job loss.

To look at what is happening in just one industry in one state, it is estimated that 10,000 jobs have been lost in California last month as hundreds of fast food restaurants close and others cut staff in response to the new $20 an hour minimum wage in that state.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 8:19 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Careful, Bolshevik Bob. Your hero, Slow Joe Biden accepts similar vacations all the time, as did Obama.

The point is with speaking fees like the Clintons used for political payoffs involved unreasonably high fees as a way to launder money.

I am sure your far left talking point tell you to hammer this because it is part of the leftwing effort to intimidate the Surpeme Court with so many critical cases pending like the key First Amendment case of Missouri v. Biden. The justice that is scary on that one is radical Katanji Jackson-Brown who has stated that the "First Amendment should not hamstring the government".

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 7:30 am By: Conservative Voter