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Tory leadership election: Meet the overseas voters picking the next PM
Conservatives who are not UK citizens explain why they’re voting in the party’s leadership ballot.www.bbc.co.uk
This is a new twist.Might explain how the tories always pick a real shit like Johnson. I wonder if foreigners pick leaders in other countries. Apart from the US where Putin chose trump.
I think that this is a new rule from 1999. For a brexit take back control party its a bad look.The 1980s called.
I think that this is a new rule from 1999. For a brexit take back control party its a bad look.
But in this case they are picking the PM. In theory they ccould be voting for a putin puppet like the US did in 16.One guy in the article put it right, I think:
"But I can see why, because it's not an election is it? It's an internal leadership decision. Whether you're a British citizen or not probably doesn't matter."
Strictly speaking, people choose not the prime minister, but a leader of their party. Don't they?
It is more about your quite specific way of choosing the prime minister. I don't get why this question isn't decided by the parliament.But in this case they are picking the PM. In theory they ccould be voting for a putin puppet like the US did in 16.
But I should admit that some Republicans have strange feature of almost admiring Putin and his regime.
I do not personally know any republican who thinks Putin is anything other than a dictator and kleptocrat who hates the US and NATO, and "KGB forever".But I should admit that some Republicans have strange feature of almost admiring Putin and his regime. And these Republicans voted for Trump. They somehow think that between American values and Putin some parallels exist. It is fucking pathetic, isn't it?
Josh hawley is a big Putin fan.I do not personally know any republican who thinks Putin is anything other than a dictator and kleptocrat who hates the US and NATO, and "KGB forever".
I do know there are thousands of Russian operatives online who pose as Trump supporters and talk nothing but shit about Ukraine. Don't believe they are all Americans, they are part of the info war.
There are some who just say "not our problem" and leave it at that. I happen to think that is short-sighted, and well yes- if we are to be a superpower it is our problem too. If we are absent, the vacuum be filled in a manner not to our liking.
Uts too hot to worry about and the tory membership is as crazy as fuck anyway. Whoever gets picked they will be shit.It is more about your quite specific way of choosing the prime minister. I don't get why this question isn't decided by the parliament.
About someone's puppet. I don't want to argue here whether Trump was a Putin's puppet or not. I think he was not. But I should admit that some Republicans have strange feature of almost admiring Putin and his regime. And these Republicans voted for Trump. They somehow think that between American values and Putin some parallels exist. It is fucking pathetic, isn't it?
Whatever. What my point was. Trump wasn't chosen thanks to some foreign voters. For the most part, some number of domestic loons will be quite enough.
No not the UK, the Tories. It all began when we stopped being a democracy because people could see that those they were offered did not offer what the people wanted - were not serving the people. Then first the Tories and later Labour started being bought, like in the US. Sure we, like in the US still get the occasional vote but we are not who the politicians answer to. They answer to the wealthiest few like in other Plutocracies. This guy who the thread is on just crept in on that.It is more about your quite specific way of choosing the prime minister. I don't get why this question isn't decided by the parliament.
About someone's puppet. I don't want to argue here whether Trump was a Putin's puppet or not. I think he was not. But I should admit that some Republicans have strange feature of almost admiring Putin and his regime. And these Republicans voted for Trump. They somehow think that between American values and Putin some parallels exist. It is fucking pathetic, isn't it?
Whatever. What my point was. Trump wasn't chosen thanks to some foreign voters. For the most part, some number of domestic loons will be quite enough.
Well this is what happens when the plutocracy is serving itself.I do not personally know any republican who thinks Putin is anything other than a dictator and kleptocrat who hates the US and NATO, and "KGB forever".
I do know there are thousands of Russian operatives online who pose as Trump supporters and talk nothing but shit about Ukraine. Don't believe they are all Americans, they are part of the info war.
There are some who just say "not our problem" and leave it at that. I happen to think that is short-sighted, and well yes- if we are to be a superpower it is our problem too. If we are absent, the vacuum be filled in a manner not to our liking.
I will tell you more. My personal feelings were that Biden was ready to be 'flexible' with Putin. Despite his sometimes tough rhetoric. I was almost sure that some kind of a deal would be reached about Ukraine and other post-Soviet states.Makes you wonder why Hillary wanted a reset and why Obama was so flexible.
I was almost sure that some kind of a deal would be reached about Ukraine and other post-Soviet states.
They reckon Truss will easily beat Starmer even though she will be taking the Tories once again into the never before reached UK right....but no wonder, Starmer stands for nothing except..... he seems to be beating Boris on lying - all those tasty lies he gave to be voted leader of labour coming out. Latest being about standing with Unions and strikers.Uts too hot to worry about and the tory membership is as crazy as fuck anyway. Whoever gets picked they will be shit.
Maybe. But I base my opinion on what I read on this forum. I don't exclude that there are some number of paid trolls here, but clearly they are in a vast minority.I do not personally know any republican who thinks Putin is anything other than a dictator and kleptocrat who hates the US and NATO, and "KGB forever".
I do know there are thousands of Russian operatives online who pose as Trump supporters and talk nothing but shit about Ukraine. Don't believe they are all Americans, they are part of the info war.
There are some who just say "not our problem" and leave it at that. I happen to think that is short-sighted, and well yes- if we are to be a superpower it is our problem too. If we are absent, the vacuum be filled in a manner not to our liking.
