Heseltine Sacked

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mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Sunday 31st December 2017
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rs1952 said:
With Brexit, those who oppose it are called remainers, remoaners, remainiacs, traitors, unpatriotic, enemies of the people and now, with your post, we have “heretics” I wonder if the population would endorse the reintroduction of burning at the stake for those that voted remain – once the party machine has rounded us all up.
Now you're talking...glad you've seen the light at last.

B'stard Child

28,405 posts

246 months

Sunday 31st December 2017
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rs1952 said:
With Brexit, those who oppose it are called remainers, remoaners, remainiacs, traitors, unpatriotic, enemies of the people and now, with your post, we have “heretics” I wonder if the population would endorse the reintroduction of burning at the stake for those that voted remain – once the party machine has rounded us all up. It’s not all that far from where we are already – death threats and one MP murdered by a Brexit nutter.
Do you have any alternative view to that or are all 17.1 million in that group

I ask because I don't feel that fits with me

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

123 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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Oh dear.

“Tory party suspends Michael Heseltine for backing Lib Dems”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/t...

biggbn

23,345 posts

220 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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Good for him, principled man

Burwood

18,709 posts

246 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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biggbn said:
Good for him, principled man
He looks like he’s lost his teeth along with his marbles.

wc98

10,401 posts

140 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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biggbn said:
Good for him, principled man
in certain ways yes, he isn't too keen on animals though. you certainly wouldn't want him dog sitting while you were on holiday wink

Down and out

2,700 posts

64 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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Oh what a shame. Hopefully he'll take Ken Clarke to live with him on some island in the middle of the ocean.

eldar

21,752 posts

196 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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Down and out said:
Oh what a shame. Hopefully he'll take Ken Clarke to live with him on some island in the middle of the ocean.
Europe? Just a few miles from Dover.

Down and out

2,700 posts

64 months

Monday 20th May 2019
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eldar said:
Europe? Just a few miles from Dover.
Too close, I was thinking way, way further.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

279 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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He is not yesterday’s man, he is last century’s man. Pompous and entitled.

He was a guest speaker at some function I was at years ago - he was clearly pissed as a lord and slurred his way through a speech about brilliant he was.

He will not be missed.

markjmd

553 posts

68 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Ayahuasca said:
He is not yesterday’s man, he is last century’s man. Pompous and entitled.

He was a guest speaker at some function I was at years ago - he was clearly pissed as a lord and slurred his way through a speech about brilliant he was.

He will not be missed.
Still probably has more b@lls and backbone than your good self and most of the current Tory front bench combined.

Norfolkit

2,394 posts

190 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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markjmd said:
Ayahuasca said:
He is not yesterday’s man, he is last century’s man. Pompous and entitled.

He was a guest speaker at some function I was at years ago - he was clearly pissed as a lord and slurred his way through a speech about brilliant he was.

He will not be missed.
Still probably has more b@lls and backbone than your good self and most of the current Tory front bench combined.
Really?
Seems like an embittered old tt who's never got over the fact he didn't get the top job after he stabbed Thatcher in the back, he's had a grudge against the Tory party from that day to this, he's no loss.

Ridgemont

6,574 posts

131 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Norfolkit said:
markjmd said:
Ayahuasca said:
He is not yesterday’s man, he is last century’s man. Pompous and entitled.

He was a guest speaker at some function I was at years ago - he was clearly pissed as a lord and slurred his way through a speech about brilliant he was.

He will not be missed.
Still probably has more b@lls and backbone than your good self and most of the current Tory front bench combined.
Really?
Seems like an embittered old tt who's never got over the fact he didn't get the top job after he stabbed Thatcher in the back, he's had a grudge against the Tory party from that day to this, he's no loss.
Quite: witness his take down of thatcher tonight:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/05/20/thatcher...

He’s like K Clarke is some ways. Formed opinions very early and has never evolved them. He and Clarke are literally stuck in the 50s and 60s.

Heseltine marked himself out for the premiership. That’s been done lots of times. If someone makes it (Disraeli) then it’s worth paying attention to them.

If they don’t? Grandeloquent gasbag.
My dad met him a number of times as he was a relatively senior civil servant. He was impressed. But it was quite clear he was continually on the make.

ATG

20,575 posts

272 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Quite right. When blokes like Heseltine feel they can no longer support the party it is clearly a good thing. Seriously???

To those thinking along these lines, please fk off to the Brexit party.

gooner1

10,223 posts

179 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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ATG said:
Quite right. When blokes like Heseltine feel they can no longer support the party it is clearly a good thing. Seriously???

To those thinking along these lines, please fk off to the Brexit party.
They probably have, in their droves. smile

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

159 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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eldar said:
Europe? Just a few miles from Dover.
When did we leave Europe???

PositronicRay

27,019 posts

183 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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I'd like to see the end of the party whip and have free votes.

Vanden Saab

14,089 posts

74 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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gooner1 said:
ATG said:
Quite right. When blokes like Heseltine feel they can no longer support the party it is clearly a good thing. Seriously???

To those thinking along these lines, please fk off to the Brexit party.
They probably have, in their droves. smile
yes four out of five according to most sources...

hyphen

26,262 posts

90 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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PositronicRay said:
I'd like to see the end of the party whip and have free votes.
Why not the end of parties themselves, and all independents in that case?

Murph7355

37,715 posts

256 months

Tuesday 21st May 2019
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PositronicRay said:
I'd like to see the end of the party whip and have free votes.
With our form of rule I can see why it's there in the HoC, even if I don't agree with it really. But it definitely has no place in the HoL.

Heseltine is so principled he had to have the whip taken off him... Just like people like Soubry are so principled that they won't stand for re-election on their new ticket. Aholes the lot of them.